I'm getting off track here but I wanted to do the Ghost Adventures thing. I did some research and realized one of the most famous haunted houses in America was pretty close to Bloomington. "One of the most famous haunted houses in America" is of course relative in that it's actually a pretty niche term that only has significance to a handful of really dedicated weirdos, like "most jack-offable-in Dairy Queen."
So I emailed the owner of Whispers Estate, the haunted house, got my crew together, and a few weeks later we arrived for an overnight stay with the best film equipment a nonprofit affiliate station in rural Indiana could buy. My crew was myself, my camera op, and my grip. We got there just before sunset to film b-roll of the outside of the house and shoot the interview, then at night we followed around a crew of amateur ghost hunters, which is another weird term because I don't see how anyone can be better than anyone else at pretending signal noise is actually your dead grandma trying to make your swear a blood oath to avenge her from across the grave.Â