Ghost hunters haunted by new terror: competition

By John Blake, CNN

Updated 1024 GMT (1824 HKT) September 7, 2013

"The Conjuring" is a Hollywood hit movie that looks at the most revered paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warrens began investigating paranormal activity in 1952, long before it was accepted.
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Chasing Ghosts – "The Conjuring" is a Hollywood hit movie that looks at the most revered paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warrens began investigating paranormal activity in 1952, long before it was accepted.
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"Ghost Hunters" -- Syfy Channel pioneered many of the traits of the contemporary paranormal show: The hand-held digital cameras following investigators, the sober investigators, the fetish devotion to ghost-hunting gadgets.
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Chasing Ghosts – "Ghost Hunters" -- Syfy Channel pioneered many of the traits of the contemporary paranormal show: The hand-held digital cameras following investigators, the sober investigators, the fetish devotion to ghost-hunting gadgets.
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"Poltergeist" -- "Poltergeist" is the German word for "noisy ghost." For many it's something else: A chilling 1982 film produced Steven Spielberg that introduced the public to professional paranormal investigators.
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Chasing Ghosts – "Poltergeist" -- "Poltergeist" is the German word for "noisy ghost." For many it's something else: A chilling 1982 film produced Steven Spielberg that introduced the public to professional paranormal investigators.
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South Park takes on "The Ghost Hunters." The show parodied the hit paranormal show in a season 13 episode called "Dead Celebrities." You know paranormal has moved mainstream when South Park takes it on.
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Chasing Ghosts – South Park takes on "The Ghost Hunters." The show parodied the hit paranormal show in a season 13 episode called "Dead Celebrities." You know paranormal has moved mainstream when South Park takes it on.
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"Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" is billed as mythbusters of the paranormal. The shows looks at spooky videos and pictures online to determine if they are real.
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Chasing Ghosts – "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" is billed as mythbusters of the paranormal. The shows looks at spooky videos and pictures online to determine if they are real.
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A&E's "Psychic Kids" is a show in which a psychotherapist helps children with psychic abilities come to terms with being a child of the paranormal.
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Chasing Ghosts – A&E's "Psychic Kids" is a show in which a psychotherapist helps children with psychic abilities come to terms with being a child of the paranormal.
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Ordinary people share their brushes with the paranormal in the Syfy Channel show "Paranormal Witness."
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Chasing Ghosts – Ordinary people share their brushes with the paranormal in the Syfy Channel show "Paranormal Witness."
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