Jordan “Detune” DiSorbo has discovered a very special niche on Twitch: He visits haunted houses and other spooky places, allowing his viewers to participate live. How this works, we reveal to you on MeinMMO:
What type of streamer is he? Jordan “Detune” DiSorbo is a musician and streamer from the USA. He has been regularly streaming on Twitch since May 2018. Initially showing various games, particularly Overwatch, he quickly shifted to a specific genre: horror.
By now, Detune has played countless horror games on Twitch: from Dead by Daylight to lesser-known indie titles to cult classics like Doki Doki Literature Club! However, in 2022, 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 ghost hunting about? In 2022, Detune began a series of IRL streams called Paranormal Detour. In these, he travels across the country and visits places where it is said to be haunted. Some of his most popular videos on YouTube include visits to a creepy mansion in New Jersey, a prison in Colorado, and a hospital in Pittsburgh.
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Unlike similar series like the Netflix show 28 Days Haunted, viewers can join Detune live. As the streamer reveals in an interview with Polygon, he is in a relationship with someone who works in wedding photography. His partner has 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 gameplay streams from home: with a camera capturing the happenings around him, as well as a facecam capturing his reactions.
To stream, he uses a backpack that houses the technical equipment. From there, he transmits the material to a server and then to his PC at home. He controls all of this with his phone. “It’s held together with duct tape, but it works,” says Detune.
He has a total of four streams running simultaneously, between which he can switch. This creates particularly impressive moments, explains the streamer. When he reviews the footage later, he can precisely recall where each sound came from.
You can see what that looks like in this clip:
While IRL streams on Twitch are extremely popular – and even without supernatural encounters are considered not entirely safe – ghost hunts like his are quite rare there. Especially not with the production quality that he offers, according to Detune.
For him, the streaming platform is just the right place to offer his content. Because on Twitch, it’s all about community, which is basically built-in, the streamer explains.
So if technical problems occur during his paranormal explorations that bring the whole stream to a standstill – the ultimate worst-case scenario for a live program – everyone in the chat would talk to each other and keep themselves occupied, according to Detune. He also values this kind of family atmosphere highly.
And somehow, sudden outages also contribute to the creepy atmosphere. After all, who knows what’s messing with the signal right now.
“That was a terrible idea”
This is how it goes down: With his paranormal content, Detune has built a community of more than 33,000 followers. On average, he reaches several hundred to over a thousand viewers (via sullygnome).
Since 2019, he has pursued streaming seriously as a career. Especially now, around Halloween, he is ramping up.
In just 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 center from 1917.
What was the scariest place? Although the streamer claims to visit these places to debunk the supposed hauntings, he says he keeps experiencing phenomena that he cannot explain. Right at the youth center YMCA (the American version of CVJM), he had concerns in advance.
His fears allegedly came true: That was one of the very few places where he thought, “I’ll leave my equipment behind. I’ll come back tomorrow. And if it’s not there, I’ll write it off as a loss. We need to get out of here. That was a terrible idea.”
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