Ghost Adventures Aftershocks: Bobby Mackey's Music World Update

Ghost Adventures Aftershocks: 

Bobby Mackeys Music World

Early in the month of April Ghost Adventures Aftershocks aired on Travel Channel. The show is about revisiting places that the Ghost Adventures Crew had previously investigated. Their first episode that aired April 26th of 2014, was revisiting the infamous Bobby Mackeys and the Brookdale Lodge. Brookdale Lodge might get it's own article, but this is a conflicting update/response to my rant on TAPS investigation of Bobby Mackeys...

Bobby Mackey's Music World, last time I wrote about it, it was 2011-2012. And the last time I talked about it, I was calling out Ghost Hunters and a staff member of Bobby Mackey's Wanda Kay. Two or so years later, we've all changed out tunes... sort of. I don't understand what, how, or why, but Wanda seems like she fears the place now. When she was on Ghost Hunters, she acted very disrespectful of everything. She didn't seem to care about the demonic activity. She got on my nerves and I disliked her for it. And I almost want to be angry with her for even having the nerve to talk to Zak face to face on this show. And part of me always will be, because as much details that fade over the years I still remember it was Wanda and TAPS together that infuriated me to a point where I stopped liking a show. I stopped being a fan of something. I didn't just lose interest, I made the decision to stop. Because they spit in the face of Ghost Adventures horrific experiences, the late Carl Larsen, and anyone who had a negative experience at Bobby Mackeys.

Well Wanda's changed. She believes the terror that takes place in the basement. And I am left with a bitter taste in my mouth. She works there, she's experienced being punched in the chest, I have never been there, I could never go into the basement of Bobby Mackeys, and the icing on the cake is that Zak, Nick, and Aaron, refuse to ever go back there. They can't go back there due to the negativity. Zak's name is a form of taunting at Bobby Mackeys. I can't blame Wanda for not having her own experiences before Aftershocks but I can and still will hold her accountable for acting the way she did on Ghost Hunters. It was rude, and I don't think it was allowed to be brought up on Aftershocks. Apparently the general gist of paranormal teams is they don't talk trash about other teams. There is no hostility towards other teams. Then again they have to answer to someone, they have a PR team to clean up messes when they happen, GAC has travel channel and GH has Syfy (no matter what Jason Hawes says if you're on a network you have someone to answer to at some point. There are rules to follow and you have contracts to oblige to.) So that would one if not the only acceptable answer to why Wanda was never called out on her complete ignorance in Ghost Hunters, despite working at the place for a little over 10 years now. 

 

Without this turning into what the other article was, a Ghost Hunters rant session, I am going to say this. I am glad that GAC did this show. It is very important to paranormal television to include statements, segments, etc, to the clients they've helped in any way shape or form. Ghost Adventures is still going strong, stronger that TAPS ever has been. TAPS seems to be on break but with fallout from various team members I believe Syfy will be dropping them soon.

So Aftershocks made me realized how everyone involved with this show has 'grown up.' The members of Ghost Adventures have grown up. The staff at Mackey's have 'grown up,' and as a writer and occasional reviewer of paranormal shows, I have grown up. The latter mentioned have grown in their paranormal experiences and knowledge. I have grown up in how I review the shows. While having to backtrack and refresh on the episodes of GAC and TAPS brought back the anger I felt for the TAPS episode keeping on task was hard. It is always hard. Writing anything when your thoughts are always scattered and all you can focus on are things already discussed. I wasn't even sure what I wanted to say with this, I just knew something HAD to be said. Since all I have on the internet is a harsh criticism of a woman who has recently changed her tone but had no need to do so since she worked with Bobby Mackey's for ten years and she was not new to them when TAPS came around. She knew what was up and I almost felt bad for what I wrote. I no longer feel that way. I believe she is two-faced she put on a show for either TAPS or GAC. I have no desire to spend another second of my time on her, TAPS or the botched investigation of Bobby Mackeys.