Jordan “Detune” DiSorbo has discovered a very special niche for himself on Twitch: He visits haunted houses and other spooky places and lets his viewers take part in them live. We’ll tell you how this works on MeinMMO:
What kind of streamer is this? Jordan “Detune” DiSorbo is a musician and streamer from the USA. He has been streaming regularly on Twitch since May 2018. While he initially showed various games, most notably Overwatch, he quickly shifted his focus to a specific genre: horror.
Detune has now played countless scary games on Twitch: from Dead by Daylight to lesser-known indie titles to cult classics like Doki Doki Literature Club! In 2022, however, the streamer came up with something special – he moved ghost hunting into real life.
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From gamer to ghost hunter
What’s this about ghost hunting? In 2022, Detune began a series of IRL streams he calls Paranormal Detour. In it he travels through the country and visits places that are said to be haunted. His most popular videos on YouTube include visits to a spooky mansion in New Jersey, a prison in Colorado and a hospital in Pittsburg.
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In contrast to comparable series such as the Netflix show 28 Days Haunted, viewers can watch Detune live. As the streamer reveals in an interview with Polygon, he is in a relationship with a person who works in wedding photography. His partner therefore helped him with the equipment. He also produces videos for YouTube.
“It’s held together with duct tape, but it works.”
This is how the streams work: Detune wanted the IRL spook to feel like streaming gameplay from home: with a camera to capture what’s happening around him, as well as a facecam to capture his reactions.
For streaming he uses a backpack that houses the technical devices. From there he transfers the material to a server and then to his PC at home. He controls all of this with his cell phone. “It’s held together with duct tape, but it works,” Detune said.
In total, he has four streams running at the same time that he can switch between. This would create particularly impressive moments, explains the streamer. When he looks at the recordings afterwards, he can understand exactly what came from where.
You can see what this can look like in this clip:
While IRL streams on Twitch are extremely popular – and are not considered entirely safe even without supernatural encounters – such ghost hunts are rarely seen there. Especially not in the production quality he offers, says Detune.
For him, however, the streaming platform is exactly the right place to offer his content. Because on Twitch everything revolves around community, that’s basically built in there, explains the streamer.
So if there are technical problems during his paranormal explorations that bring the entire stream to a standstill – actually the worst case scenario on a live program – everyone would talk to each other in the chat and pass the time, says Detune. This kind of family atmosphere is also very important to him.
And somehow sudden failures also contribute to the scary atmosphere. After all, who knows what is confusing the signal.
“That was a terrible idea”
This is how it works: With his paranormal content, Detune has built a community of more than 33,000 followers. On average it reaches several hundred to over a thousand viewers (via sullygnome).
Since 2019, he has been seriously pursuing streaming as a career. Especially now, around Halloween, he goes all out.
Within five or six days he visited four different locations for his Paranormal Detours, including a “clown motel” – despite his fear of clowns – a prison and a youth club from 1917.
What was the scariest place? Although the streamer says he visits these places to uncover the supposed haunting, he says that he continues to experience phenomena that he cannot explain. He had already had fears in advance, especially with the YMCA youth club (the American version of the CVJM here).
His worries are said to have come true: This was one of the very few places where he thought: “I’m leaving my equipment behind. I will come back tomorrow. And if she’s not there, I count it as a loss. We have to get out of here. That was a terrible idea.”
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