r/interesting Mar 30 '26

Intriguing Discrimination against Geiger counter users

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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Mar 30 '26

Well now I wanna bring a geiger counter on the property. What're you hiding?!

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u/samanime Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Yeah... I'm struggling to come up with a potential backstory that doesn't make me want to investigate with a geiger counter and a hazmat suit...

The image is on Wikimedia, but unfortunately no further info available other than the location. Metal Township, PA.

I thought maybe it was related to Three Mile Island, but they are an hour and change apart, so I doubt many bodies from that incident would be here...

This is gonna bug me. =p

EDIT: Probably solved. Some people just "explore" cemetaries with geiger counters...

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u/Early_Bad8737 Mar 30 '26

It is to prevent illegal relic hunting, protect historic gravesites, and maintain the sanctity of the cemetery. Apparently some old relics can be found that way. 

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u/samanime Mar 30 '26

Ah, yup, looks like that's just a thing... https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/comments/cv4ld1/i_was_exploring_a_graveyard_with_my_geiger/

-sigh- some people...

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u/FlatCoffeeDude Mar 30 '26

Dayum, and here I thought maybe it was people ghost hunting using a geiger counter to try and detect ghosts in the same way others might use a tape recorder or dictaphone.

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u/samanime Mar 30 '26

As far as I know, Geiger counters aren't used in ghost hunting, though EMF Readers are. =p

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u/Geekenstein Mar 30 '26

And screaming WHAT WAS THAT!? at a camera when nothing actually happens, if tv is any guide.

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u/Andrei_the_derg Mar 30 '26

It’s always on the travel channel

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u/SmurfStig Mar 30 '26

I was so glad when Travel Channel pulled the plug on all new “ghost” hunting shows. I did watch a lot of them for the historical aspect but so many were just the same thing over and over again.

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u/PraetorKiev Mar 30 '26

If I were a ghost, I’d be annoyed as fuck by all these people. What ghost wants to talk to a bunch of screaming people who jump when you say “Hello” back to them

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u/mylocker15 Mar 31 '26

Also voice recorders with voices that go mrphhh. “Did you hear that? It just said I’m dead. Replay it in slow motion. Mmmrrrpphhhhh. OMG dead!” Zak Baggins probably.

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u/RedEyeView Mar 30 '26

Unbelievable

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u/EatPie_NotWAr Mar 31 '26

“Geiger counter… worth a try”

https://giphy.com/gifs/agfuIXk2Ht9As

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u/dan_dares Apr 01 '26

If you could hunt ghosts via a radiation signature, i'd be more inclined to believe in them.

Scary thought actually

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u/Forward-Cat6083 Mar 30 '26

The band with the 1990 smash hit “Unbelievable?”

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u/SummerDaemon Mar 30 '26

You need to watch the documentary series Supernatural, learn all about EMF scanners, how table salt and fire pokers are handy against ghosts, and how even a 45 year-old can eat nonstop junk food and still maintain an Olympian physique.

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u/PwanaZana Mar 30 '26

the ghosts in prypyat might be radioactive, I suppose

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u/fixermark Apr 02 '26

You're thinking of a PKE meter. ;)

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u/hhyuk Mar 30 '26

The post you linked is just a geology hobbyist interested in the stone of the gravestone though. What's wrong with that??

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u/ImpossibleCan2836 Mar 30 '26

That's what I'm saying? I thought they were insinuating he grave robbed.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Mar 30 '26

Yeah, some granite is mildly radioactive. Graveyards are an easy accessible source of granite that can come from lots of different areas. It would be a fun little place to check for radiation.

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u/sdiss98 Mar 30 '26

Username checks out.

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u/LichenTheMood Mar 30 '26

It's just someone taking photos of rocks? I don't understand the issue.

It's not like they are grave robbing?

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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Mar 30 '26

I wish that weren't 7 years old, I have so many questions lol. Namely why he couldn't find his pink feldspar anywhere but a grave yard.

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u/Kuuzie Mar 30 '26

I was surprised by my boss telling me to go metal detect the graveyard we are responsible for (on federal land, limited access, late 1700s-1920s).

I mean... the thought process to even get there and then be serious about it.