Did you know that wet dreams, morning erections and arousal itself are caused by ghosts?
Forget what biology tells us, or what you learnt in the schoolyard; Dr Narek Helms will re-educate you in his peer-reviewed Supernatural Sex.
However, the dashing Dr Narek Helms is actually me. Yes, I submitted a patently ridiculous article to the believer site Haunted America Tours and they published it, uncritically.
Dr Narek Helms is a Deepak Chopra on Viagra, and waxes academic about sex and the afterlife.
It all began when I wrote a review of an article about rectal ghosts for the Skepbitch blog, and a reader implied that the joke might be on us instead. I still think that the article was legitimate, and sadly indicative of existing beliefs.
At any rate, the joke is indeed now on Haunted America Tours…
You are so awesome. *laughing my ass off*
I believe the proper term is “Epic Win”?
Niiice… the ghosts are pwned, totally sokaled. Nice work.
This is incredible. And hilariously wonderful on so many levels. It crossed my mind quite some time ago that someone should try pulling a stunt like on the wooish ones. To to my knowledge you are the first to do so, at least successfully.
Therefore, by the powers vested in me by my cat Loki, I hereby grant the first ever Knurl Knarlssen Award for Excellence in Skeptical Action.
This is so awesome. You definitely rock!
I have to go show this to everyone now.
@Jodi: Yes! I’ll be going with this for quite some time. I feel so good now that I might even get a Gravitar.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at your success.
I was thinking that it’s not possible that there are people who can’t see through the idiocy, lack of logic, dubiousness of the photos, and sheer outrageousness of the claims.
But then I read (skimmed, actually), “THE VERY REAL AND HAUNTED ZOMBIE DOLL” article on the site, and realized that you have nothing on your competition.
If only they allowed reader comments…
What I also like about this, is how poor the writing is. “I am a specialist expert in this area of supernatural sex.” BAHAHA!!!
Not only did they publish it uncritically, but also, apparently, without an editor or quality control.
“genital leg”
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..! *falls off chair*
I wake up with ghosts in my pants almost every morning……
so that’s where those stains come from… it all makes sense now… my genital leg has a ghost….
First off, kudos for such a great hoax.
If you weren’t concerned about journalistic ethics, you could create false letterheads, fake web sites, even use Google Voice or Skype to create a fake phone line.
Think about it for next time.
That is amazing. You have to wonder if Haunted America Tours actually are believers, or just cashing in on anything that sounds like it might sell to the gullible public.
As a grammar pedant, I feel the need to correct the following sentence:
It should be corrected as follows:
Thank you.
For the anal ghost: “A quicker form of the dry enema ghost removal utilizes the injection of a small amount of water-based lubricant such as K-Y that is blessed and administered directly into the rectum via a non-hypodermic syringe, such as an oral syringe, or from some other source. My husband usually does this for 5 days after any ghost encounter he has as a precaution. ”
Soooooo funny!
Wet dreams and ghosts? Why does “I’ve been slimed!” come immediately to mind?
Also, props for the “It doesn’t work, but when it does…” line! And I love that Dr Narek Helms *almost* has his PhD in naturopathy! Fantastisch!
Narek:
You are my hero! Great piece of work! Loved the bad grammer and unfocused sentences.
Thanks for many belly laughs.
Nairb Trah
You owe me a new monitor – Mine is covered in coffee now! :-D
Absolutely hysterical! How can I get some of that “supernatural sex?” LOL
Did you find the pictures somewhere or make them yourself? How did you get the orbs where you wanted?
Hysterical! And it reads so true to form.
After your “Sex While Ghosthunting” article, I’ve been poking around the internet trying to see what less skeptical opinions are out there. (For entertainment purposes, only.) Another few days, I would have discovered this and forwarded the link here. Awkward!
wait wait, your ghosts have to get in line.
My aliens are the sex fiends!!
I TOLD you that site was freaking me out. The high contrast and excessive blinking just screams credibility.
My non-supernatural browser seems incapable of properly displaying that link … ?
Karen, I’m a bit late to comment but this post is made of win. WIN. Hilarious.
Argh! They took the article down!
Anyway, I saved the web page for posterity, and the whole article appears on Skepbitch:
http://skepbitch.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/paranormal-punkd/
Fantastic! LMAO But yeah, it looks like they caught on at last. Good on ya.
Excellent! I was laughing until my sides hurt. Then I went to the website in question and looked at their disclaimer and found this (in tiny print):
“This site is for entertainment value only.â€
That’s all they need to get away with posting articles like yours without any consequences. Interesting that they removed your article after finding out about the “hoax” (I guess). Another priceless quote from their disclaimer is:
“Haunted American Tours.com is a ghost tour information site; our information is only as reliable as readers’ contributed ghost and haunted reports. We assume no credit for your adventures, and accept no liability for your misadventures. Use common sense.â€
I especially love the inclusion of “use common sense.” Priceless! Clearly the credulous folks reading this sight and accepting this bullshit have very little common sense to begin with, so they need to be reminded.
Good on ya, Karen!