“Ghost Hunt: Paranormal Encounters At Burlington County Prison” is a documentary that follows a group of amateur investigators on their first research mission to the Burlington County Prison in New Jersey. The documentary is an attempt to record the presence of ghosts at the institution that remained open until the 1960’s. It has been reported that several spirits of executed inmates as well as some who where killed during more unsettling times in the prison’s history still roam the place. The team is headed by director and lead researcher Dan Marro who gathers several of his friends, packs up some gear and goes in search of the supernatural for the very first time. This documentary has a few moments of intrigue when it comes to actually recording possible paranormal activity. Plus the site is an interesting location to ghost hunt. It is now a museum and in the summer they have a movie series where they show horror films which quite frankly would have made this documentary a bit more interesting had they added that in as some current biography for the place. For me this was only interesting in the way watching a basic film of historical buildings history. The set up felt a bit disorganized and felt a little rushed. However it is an amateur team and this was their first experience so I am sure they have worked out the few issues that got in the way of this ghost hunt. For starters they didn’t really secure the areas surrounding the hot spots to make sure that no man made contaminations got into the evidence. There was no base of operations for some one to gracefully guide the crew through the facility so that everyone could be accounted for so as not to create any questionable interference with the objective. It just felt a bit too amateurish to me.
Even though I was not completely overwhelmed by this documentary as I was with other paranormal investigations that I have seen there was an element of interest held as I watched the team explore this very old and somewhat creepy location with complete enthusiasm and passion. They had all the right components for a good ghost hunt but they just didn’t seem to be organized. Something was recorded during the filming that does make you wonder whether or not paranormal activity is present at the prison but not as much as one would like to see. Ghosts do what they want not what we want. Just seemed like a place with the hype of being as haunted as Burlington suggests you would think the paranormal would have been more active. However I have watched several series from start to finish that do this same ghost hunting and was less in pressed than I was with this documentary. Really it is all down to the individual, if the paranormal is your favorite obsession then this documentary will go well in your collection, but if you need the thrills and suspense then you will be disappointed. However keep an eye out for Dan Marro’s paranormal team in the future for I am sure that with his passion and love for the paranormal his abilities to find more convincing evidence is inevitable.
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