The Tennessee Wraith Chasers are back with a new season on Destination America and tonight at 9p they Ghost Asylum to Rolling Hills Asylum in Upstate NY. The asylum has seen over 1,700 people die within its walls and not everyone has moved on. There is a mean doctor, an evil nurse and a gentle giant who are known to still inhabit the halls and TWC wants to make contact with them. Alone at night they will make contact with more than one soul when they make their voices heard. TWC will try different techniques to communicate with residents and the staff and they will do something I’ve never seen done on any other paranormal show. When they find out that Nurse Edna is about to celebrate her 135th birthday, they buy her cake and sing Happy Birthday to her. Will it work? You just have to tune in to see who blows out the candles to find out.
Josh Groban parents are both only children, so he doesn’t know too much about his family tree. Tonight at 10p on TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, he learns a lot about his ancestors going back to the late 1600’s. The singer’s search focuses on his 8X great grandfather, Johann Jacob Zimmerman, who lived in Germany, and the two family members have a lot in common.
Even though Zimmerman’s father was a craftsman, Johann did not follow in his father’s footsteps. Instead, he want to University and became a music teacher. Besides teaching music and singing, he was a Deacon at his Lutheran Church. If that is not enough, he also studied astronomy and mathematics, and wrote 12 books on the topic.
In 1680, Johann saw something great in the sky from his Church that changed his whole life and his family’s lives. Something so astronomical that Isaac Newton wrote about him in his book, Book 3 of Isaac Newton’s Principia.
What is it? How did it change everything for Groban’s lineage? You just have to watch this extremely compelling episode of Who Do You Think You Are? to find out.
Groban will discover the answers to these questions when he travels to Germany. When arrives there, he visits the archives. From there he goes to the University that his 8X great grandfather was a student. His next stop is to the church that Johann worked a Deacon and made the discovery that changed everything. A discovery that revolutionized his way of thinking so much so that he had to beg the local Duke to keep his job at the Church. This revelation leads Groban to his final stop, the archives of the Lutheran Church. There he learns about all the sacrifices Zimmerman made for his new beliefs. With the book almost closed on Groban’s research, there is one more astonishing fact that he finds out about Zimmerman that will blow him and you away.
When Groban’s search is concluded, he gets to reflect on his 8X Great Grandfather and how much they have in common. In some ways. It is almost like they are connected even though they lived almost three and a half centuries apart.
Maybe it is because I was a Religious Studies major, but I was completely enthralled with this episode of Who Do You Think You Are? Although I really think that I was so captivated by the show because his history is so unbelievable and interesting that you just want to know more and more. In fact, after the episode I concluded, I had to research Johann Jacob Zimmerman and I learned some more incredible facts about the impact he had on his time and ours.
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and people will spend roughly $5 million buying the precious metal for their loved ones. We know what it looks it and where to buy it, but do you know where it comes from?
Discovery’s Gold Rush follows the men who find it and there is reason why it is so expensive. It is a lot of hard grueling work to find the metal and tonight at 9p you can see arduous task it is to unearth it.
The show follows two crews in north-western Canada as they use different types of machinery to dig up the gold. Working in freezing temperatures, long days and in the elements leads to things going wrong. Things you can anticipate. Just because you get the machinery working, doesn’t mean you have found gold. They think they literally have struck gold, but they come up with payless dirt.
On tonight’s episodes, they are weeks away from concluding their season. The pressure is on the crews to reach their goals. The Hoffmans are hoping to find 1,000 ounces (which is worth $1.2 million dollars) of it before it’s over, but they haven’t even discovered 800 ounces yet. Then there is 20-year-old Parker who wants to double what the Hoffman’s goal is. So far he has found over 1,500 ounces worth $1.8 million, and with 25% of goal left he has his work cut out for him.
The Hoffmans depend on Big Red to sort the gold out from the elements, but when a boulder accidentally gets stuck in the machine, their work comes to a grinding halt. They need to figure out a way to get the jammed rock out before everything is a complete wash. Will they be able to get it out in time so they can get closer to their goal? Or will their goal be stuck inside the monster machine with that huge rock?
Parker keeps coming up empty with his searches, and he is more determined than ever to find the gold. There’s only one problem, his bulldozer needs serious repair and it will be out of commission. One of his employees thinks he found a place that has a lot of gold, only problem it is under a river. Will they be up the creek? Or will they find a way to move the water to get to the gold? Then if they do move the water, will they be fools because there is no gold there?
At the end of the day, one crew will find $40,000 worth of gold, while the other one will find almost 6X that. Want to see $250,000 worth of beautiful gold looks like, then you will have to tune in tonight at 9p to find out.
While us women love wearing gold, men love watching this show that is in its fifth season. It has been the #1 show on television among all men for the last five weeks. In fact, it is also Discovery’s #1 show. When you check it out, you will see why. Even though it is called Gold Rush, it is a true adrenaline rush. These men are up against the clock. They don’t know if they are going to find any gold in the dirt. If they do find it, will the machinery work so they can separate it? If the machinery does work, does that mean they found a lot? There is so much that can go wrong and so much that can go right at the end of the day. It is all of those things that leads to a very thrilling ride in a bulldozer. A ride you want to be on every Friday at 9p.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_co38EksI My Strange Addiction is back on TLC tonight at 10p and it is strangely fascinating.
Tonight’s season premiere is all about Masking. Several men around the world dress up as living female dolls via Latex and Silicone masks and body suits. Most of them keep their persona a secret. They are afraid to go out in public dressed like that because they don’t know how or if strangers will accept them. Thankfully, there is a convention in Minnesota they can go to, to be themselves. Not only are they free to be who they are, they get to meet other people like them. This helps them to get the courage to tell others about their secret identity.
Not only do we get to go into their private lives and their convention, we also get to see one of the manufacturers of their female outerselves. They explain why they do it and what their customers are looking for.
At first when you see these people as Maskers, you think they are strange. But by the end of the hour, you understand why they do it. They aren’t hurting anyone, so I say let them do it.
If you are like me, then you probably never heard of Masking before My Strange Addiction. So tonight tune in to learn something new and to be interested in something you never thought would interest you. Who doesn’t need that every now and again, and you can get that every Wednesday night at 10p on TLC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6b16okbAA My Strange Addiction is coming back to TLC next Wednesday at 10p and the addictions are still strange. Coming up this season they have a woman who drinks air freshener up to 50 times a day. Then there is a 31 year old man who likes to play bedroom Bingo (o-o-o) with much older women. A woman who has been eating brick since she was 17, and I have to wonder what her poop is like. Be prepared to take a ride with a woman who is married to a Carnie. What’s so weird about that? Bruce in a carnival ride. Finally, there is 70 year old Robert, who dresses up in latex from head to as a female doll.
You got to give it to TLC, they always find the most interesting people to be part of their educational shows. I have learned so much from this show and Sex Sent Me to the ER, and no other network has taught me as many important lessons as they have.
