Death Walker With Nick Groff: The Others Review

Nick posed another strong and interesting question in this episode, which he set up well at the start of the investigation, but sadly the locations he'd chosen to investigate were't appropriate places for collecting the evidence he needed. However, he did capture some interesting evidence along the way, even if it didn't help his cause.

Nick aimed to compare the two locations, one of which is undergoing renovation, the other isn't. What he really needs is an accurate measure of the level of activity at Willis House Inn before the renovation, otherwise he has no way of knowing if the activity has increased, decreased or remained the same as a result of the building work. Since Nick can't go back in time to investigate this for himself, he can only go off of anecdotal evidence from the time, the things like levitation, non-human creatures and disembodied voices.

The problem with this is that this reported evidence isn't really comparable with the evidence Nick obtained through the methods he used, mostly using the GeoBox. It's also impossible to draw a conclusion by comparing evidence from the two locations as no two haunted places are the same, one house could naturally be more or less haunted than the other regardless of any renovation work.

Nick didn't come to a conclusion himself, but if anything his evidence didn't support the theory that renovation effects levels of paranormal activity. This is based purely on the fact that Orson Starr House, which wasn't undergoing restoration, seemed to have a lot more paranormal activity than Willis House Inn. This is based on Nick's investigation and what the witnesses tell us at the start of the episode, but still it's impossible to attribute this increase in activity to anything to do with renovation by comparing it to the lesser activity at Willis House Inn. After all, for all we know Orson Starr House could have been more active because of the added energy of Nick investigating it with a second person, John, where as he investigated Willis House Inn alone.

Although not talking about Nick's renovation theory specifically, John did say something that highlighted the flaw in Nick's methodology. He told Nick, "there are an infinite number of possibilities, there doesn't have to be one type of ghost, there doesn't have to be one thing that happens after you die. Every location doesn't have to have the same type of ghost in it. Each location can have a different experience, because each location is different."

It's because, as John rightly says, every location is different that Nick should really have just compared activity from one location, but before renovation work began and then return during the works to collect more data - perhaps even repeat this over two locations to solidify the results. This would have enabled Nick to better test the theory he set out to address.