They destroyed this show

I loved the first couple of season of this show—The Mansfield Mansion episode from Season 1 was probably the greatest episode of any "supernatural encounters" TV series I've ever seen. It was reasonably believable and the the reenactments were terrifying.

I'm now watching S5, I can't believe how terrible it has gotten. I suppose they aren't all bad (The Hotel episode was good, and "They Are Mine" and "The Pit," though questionable, were at least unnerving). But it seems like so many of these episodes have been lifted from an "Amityville Horror" crash course. The devil targeting some kid in Kentucky through his computer? A bunch of girls playing with a ouija board, and suddenly everybody is possessed and crucifixes are flying off the wall? What is the production team smoking?

The bulk of the stories over the last couple of season feel like they've been written to death and are not actual, legitimate experiential stories, which is what made the first couple of seasons so compelling—although some of it seemed dramatized, the stories and the participants were believable.