Upcoming 'Ghost Hunt' Signing In New Jersey with Jason & Grant

Here's an upcoming event that fans in New Jersey will definitely want to look into. Book Ends in Ridgewood, New Jersey will be hosting a special book signing with Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson on September 8th at 7:00 PM. They will be signing copies of their new young adult book, Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown (which will be released the day before on the 7th). If you can't make it to New Jersey and still would like a signed copy of the book, you can call the Book Ends store via their number and ask to order a book that will be signed and sent to you. For more details about the event and information about how to obtain a book, visit their website at http://www.book-ends.com/.

TAPS Testing Medical Technology

The Business Wire has posted an interesting news article today which discusses the use of KB Port's ETC Technology on the show Ghost Hunters. The technology was originally intended to be used by medical students to simulate training situations, but has proved to be an invaluable addition to TAPS's vast array of equipment. The TAPS team is even testing new additions to the eqipment so that KB Port can expand upon their technology and open into new markets. The ETC is also used in physchology and counseling and has even seen interest by the Department of Defense.

Kb Port’s involvement with these two groups is no accident. In fact, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, and Britt Griffith of TAPS have performed extensive field testing with the ETC. In their time with the product, they’ve thoroughly familiarized themselves with the equipment to provide KB Port with valuable feedback concerning the strengths of the ETC.

While the technology was originally designed for medical training simulations, its feature set suits it perfectly for use in the realm of paranormal investigation. Specifically, temperature, barometric pressure, humidity and EMF readings can be tagged to individual audio and video recordings—allowing the ETC to log large amounts of data while remaining synchronized. Additionally, the ETC allows users to manually flag an event during live recordings or during post process—especially useful for paranormal investigators who wish to mark a specific moment in a recording for future reference.

Academy Recruits Visit Mark Twain House, New Info

Thanks to Twitter, we have learned a few nuggets of new information about the upcoming season of Ghost Hunters Academy, set to premiere in June. Two tweets from Jason reveal that yesterday, one recruit was sent home and that the cadets are ages 18 to 40 this time, not just in college. Today the Mark Twain house posted a photo on their account that showed the GHA RV and the message 'Look who came to visit this week!'. We knew previously that Jason would have a larger involvement in Academy and these new developments seem to indicate that this is the case. TAPS investigated the Twain house in Season 4, but lost a lot of evidence due to a hard drive failure. Hopefully the recruits have had better luck.

And if you're on Twitter, why not follow us? When we reach 1,000 followers, we'll give some cool stuff away!

Image above property of The Mark Twain House.

Tomorrow Is The 100th Episode Live Show!

Looking at the calendar today we are reminded that the Ghost Hunters' Live 100th Episode Season Premiere (their most wordy event to date) is just one day away! The event begins at 9/8c on SyFy tomorrow night. Plus, don't forget that there is going to be a live aftershow "Alcatraz Live Extra" on SyFy.com right after the show concludes on the east coast. So if you are on the west coast, you will need to visit the site before the show actually airs on your SyFy channel (11 PM EST, 8 PM PST). Josh Gates has promised some exciting news about the franchise and the TAPS will be taking your questions from SyFy.com, so don't miss a moment of it! See you at the live show! (Well, probably in spirit!)

TAPS, GHI, GHA, Nominated for 2009 Spooktalkular Awards

Spooktalkular, a weekly paranormal centric podcast, is hosting their first annual Spooktalkular Parawards and some TAPS members, GHI members, and the Ghost Hunters show are in the running. Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, and Barry FitzGerald have all been nominated for Paranormal Reality Series Best Male and Kris Williams and Amy Bruni have been nominated for Paranormal Reality Series Best Female. Ghost Hunters has been nominated for Best Paranormal Reality Series along with the new spin off Ghost Hunters Academy in the Best New Paranormal Reality Series category. Voting is open now until March 1, 2010 at this link.

Josh Gates to Host Live 100th Episode Investigation

The Season 6 premiere of Ghost Hunters will be a special one, since the premiere also is the 100th episode of the series. For the milestone event, TAPS is headed to Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, CA to do "a LIVE, 2-hour interactive fan event" hosted by Destination Truth's Josh Gates. GHI's Barry FitzGerald and Dustin Pari will also join TAPS for the 100th episode live investigation.

Kris Williams will be a guest investigator on Destination Truth during its season premiere on March 17.

This March, Syfy’s winning reality duo, Ghost Hunters and Destination Truth, will return with all new episodes! First, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 9pm, celebrate a milestone as America’s favorite paranormal investigators, the Ghost Hunters, kick off their triumphant sixth season with episode 100! For this epic investigation, Jason, Grant and the rest of the team – plus guest investigators Barry FitzGerald and Dustin Pari from Ghost Hunters International – will take on their biggest case yet: Alcatraz, the former military prison known world-wide for the countless claims of paranormal activity witnessed within its walls.

The Alcatraz case will be presented on March 3rd within a LIVE, 2-hour interactive fan event hosted by Destination Truth’s Josh Gates.