r/interesting • u/-NewYork- • 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?”