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.