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a what if question & yes I know I'm putting this on 2 boards but the answers would be vastly different
what if the anscentors of the real ghostbuster made a similar company in gothic earth?

There's actually one episode of the Real Ghostbusters that has an ancestor of Egon Spengler as a witchhunter in colonial America.

RGB also had an episode featuring the Eiffel Tower as a containment unit.
Incidentally, the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

In real life, there were certainly quasi-scientific societies being created in the 1880s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_fo ... l_Research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_S ... l_Research

William James was a big supporter of the latter society (according to Wikipedia.) Perhaps a precursor to the Ghostbusters could belong one of these groups (or be on the fringes of even these societies)