TCTTS said:
Man, I'm the complete opposite on some of these points. It seems totally believable to me that Ralph (or anyone, really) still wouldn't have jumped to a "Welp, I guess the Boogieman is real" conclusion yet.
Ok, but even if Ralph doesn't believe it's the boogeyman and he wants to ignore all of the "weird" stuff going on (doppelganger on video tapes, unidentifiable residue on the clothes in the barn, wife stepping on broken glass and not waking up, etc...)
* Ralph is looking for the other murderer (he acknowledges it wasn't Bateman's character so there must be someone else).
* One of his only real leads draws a picture of a hooded guy with a "sagging" face that was near the van used during the murder.
* His wife says she was warned by a hooded guy with a "sagging face" and draws almost the same exact picture.
Throw the supernatural aspect out the window -- it's just an indefensible plot device that a detective would ignore that. It's being ignored because on the one hand we need to create a sense of danger, but on the other hand we've got 5 hours of show we're slotted for...