Our reviews of Websites are based on a number of factors:

• Believability - If it is a site based on reality, is it believable?  If it is a show based on pure fiction or speculation, does it say so and could it happen?
• Originality - Is this an original concept, or does it seem like I've seen it before?
• Entertainment - Is the website entertaining enough to keep my attention or did I lose interest before clicking through to the next page?
• Content - Is the content of the site pertinent or do they just advertise it to be paranormal based to catch our attention?
• Production - Is the site well put together in a way to allow the viewer to easily navigate and absorb all of the intended information?
• Follow up/Preview - Did I find the site easily in a simple search or click through from another related site?  Does the content change enough for me to want to return to this site?
• Viewer opinion - Cast your votes, they do have an impact on our ratings.

1 BONE

  The owner was one of the first to put up webcams in her home (certainly the first and only one on the Isle of Wight). Her home is haunted and I’ve seen many caps that are definitely paranormal in nature and not easily explained away as a camera glitch of some kind. The site is entertaining and the owner has set up night vision cams and cams with motion sensors as well. The only issue I don’t like is the password protection on the cams, but as the owner has been experiencing bandwidth theft as of late, it was a necessary thing to do.

Overall great site and great job in setting it up!

5 bones- WOW- don’t miss it! 

  For my first website review I feel a bit obligated to review the one I spend the most time at, Ghosts Among Us.  I'm not sure how I came across this site, probably from a portal site or voting site somewhere, but it's been a long time and I just simply refuse to leave! 

  Ghosts Among Us has everything a paranormal website needs, and then some.  They offer current news and often updated paranormal articles, which are very well written by not only the site's staff, but also by the members of the site!  The forum at this site is one to be reckoned with, there are just too many paranormal topics to get through in one evening - or even a week.  There's truly something for everybody.  The staff and members are like a family at Thanksgiving dinner - they will argue their points of view till they're blue in the face, and you can just feel the love come through during each and every spat!  Actually, there aren't too many spats, just a refreshing dose of honesty!  The members range from mediums and ghost hunters to skeptics and just plain non-believers, all of whom are treated with the individual respect they deserve.

  This site offers a coppermine of photos ranging from personal photos to members' paranormal pictures to web cam captures (which are also debated in the forums to great extent).  The thing that impresses me the most about this site is the fact that they can, and do, debunk a great many of the submissions.  Not in a bad way, but in a respectful and often scientific way.  This line of thinking is not shared by many paranormal sites - there are far too many that will oooh and aaah over every speck of dust or piece of hair that got on the way of the lens and assure its members that it's paranormal. 

  If that's not enough, ghostsamongus has plenty of armchair ghosthunter entertainment to keep us busy with a total of 13 hosted live web cams from three reported haunted locations, and the promise of more to come! 

  This is one of those websites that you will want to visit each and every day and become one of the family.  I'm giving this site the ultimate WOW - 5 Bones!

http://mysterial.co.uk/

  In short, lots to read and lots to do on the site. I really do encourage people to check in on them and register if they can!

  5 bones – WOW - Don’t miss it!

  The owner of this site is Steve Gonsalves, TAPS tech manager. The site has an attractive flash intro but when we clicked enter, it took us back to the flash intro, glitch in the intro perhaps? The site is really a good one. There is a lot of paranormal information to learn about here. The bummer is that they have been announcing a forum for quite some time now, but never manage to set it up. A real pity, as a forum would make the site unbeatable!

4 bones – Good-I really like it.

  Keep up the good work! 

  A very good UK paranormal website to visit. Lots of photographs where you can leave a comment on what you think you see in the picture. I especially enjoyed the Articles section where you can read about what they think of ghost hunting and ouija boards as well as dowsing. Ghost hunts and events are well-organized. The upcoming events were sold out!  There is a lot to read and learn about on this site and it is very easy to navigate around it.

http://www.researchwebcam.net/

  Oh, yeah, they also have a message board, gallery and chat.  I was so busy with the cams I didn’t even get to them, but I’m sure I’ll make my way there soon enough. 

  Of note, they also link to something called A.R.C.A.D.I.A. which is an in depth, scientific approach to ghost hunting, complete with tips for the beginner to the advanced.  Good tips at that.  I spent as much time at A.R.C.A.D.I.A. as I did at the cams.  I’m unclear if this is part of the same site or something different that they felt was so good they wanted to share, so I’m not going to review A.R.C.A.D.I.A. separately.  I suspect it is part of the research webcam site and am including it in this review.  Please correct me if I’m wrong.  Great job guys - you get 4 Bones from me!

http://www.ufowatchdog.com/

  The site has a lot to offer and just like we do here at Paranormal Watchdog, attempts to advise people on what to look for if you want good evidence of UFO’s. A great site in my opinion and I give it 4 bones.

  Boasting the title of ‘the Internet’s most popular paranormal community’, this website is designed for the armchair ghost hunter. Yes, we did find a great variety of ghost cams to watch (owner has several set up at his home). We also discovered that a lot of caps are due to motion blur of people who live in the home as well as cam distortion due to heavily pixilated areas in the dark. Many of the new members are told to cap when in doubt. Consequently, no serious capping is done and when debunking begins, the more serious members are usually told to keep quiet. Lots of people on chat and playing games. Where are the ghost hunters then?

  Recently an attempt to turn the site into a more paranormal one has been made and lots of articles are put up on the home page. However, most of the articles are from other websites and not many are written by the asylumcam members or moderators.

  It is a real shame that this website is more of a social gathering than anything else.

  Pages not put together well, everything looks messy.

  We think that this is an amateur ghost hunter who should do some researching before setting up a website. 

  Webcam Portal is a good addition to an otherwise boring site with not much to offer. 

http://www.haunteddiary.com

  This site simply looks choppy and cheesy.  The paragraphs are chopped up and unintelligible and the link buttons consist of large graphics with difficult to read fonts.  I clicked on several links from the home page, the first being a graphic that says to “navigate here”, which led absolutely nowhere.  There are a few navigation buttons below, one of which suggests it takes you to things that are “in the news”.  This button simply takes you to a list of links to articles in the owner’s local newspapers where the owners’ names are mentioned, not the current paranormal news articles I was hoping for.  As a matter of fact, there are a total of five links from the home page that takes you to media coverage of the owners and/or their site.  Are we a bit proud of ourselves?  On one page I found a banner advertising the 5^th Paranormal Get Together in Gettysburg – in August of 2006.  I’m writing this review in February of 2008.  I was also a bit peeved by the “paranormal search bar” where you type in a keyword and it searches for it within their own site!  I fully expected a web search, but was once again misled.

  The site does offer a message forum and a live chat room.  I was going to register because I could see that there were five or six people in the chatroom and I wanted to say hi and see if I could get any information about the site or its owners.  However, after about 20 minutes of reading their terms and conditions I got to the part that if I agreed to the terms, then I couldn’t post anything about the site anywhere else on the web without written permission.  I gather that they would want to actually see this review before approving me to talk about their site, so I decided it best to not agree to the terms and review them anyway.  Sorry girls, but I was quite disappointed with your site and give you only 2 Bones.  Let me know if you ever update it and want me to re-review you.

  The site has 133 members and looks deserted most of the time. A real shame as I would be sharing all my evidence as a ghost hunter and writing out articles to make the site more appealing!

  I give the site 2 bones (Bad – Needs Improvement)

www.tucsonparanormal.com