TurboTax Commercial Featuring Jason Now Online

If you missed Jason Hawes' TurboTax commercial debut on television last week, you can now see it online via YouTube. If you are wondering what happened to Grant, Jason mentioned last week on his Twitter account that "[Grant] had prior commitments and could not make it" .

SPIRIT FOR HAITI

Introducing Spirit for Haiti, our humble attempt to do what we can to raise awareness and provide help for the people of Haiti. Our goal is to unite paranormal related media (notably websites and blogs) to come together and make a difference in the world. With as many people interested in the strange and unexplained, we're bound to do something right? We encourage you add a link to Spirit to your website, blog, profile, etc. and to tweet our message all via this page. If you add three links to your website, you can become a "paranormal friend" and a link will be added to your site. Please do what you can to make a difference.

Thank you!

Did Ghost Hunters Change the Ghost Hunting World?

A new post on the Autumn Forest Ghost Hunter blog explores the effect that Ghost Hunters has had on the paranormal community and predicts what may happen when the show is finished.

Prior to Ghost Hunters or BGH (“before Ghost Hunters”), ghost hunting was something people giggled about as frivolous and born of the spiritualists movement involving hoaxes such as ectoplasm, Ouija boards, and (dare we say) séances. People who believed in ghosts were in with the ranks of UFO witnesses and Bigfoot peepers; all of them taken as overzealous nerd fantasies.

But, after Ghost Hunters (AGH), Americans who had believed in ghosts and would not readily admit such a predisposition, were now turning to their friends and admitting their “affliction.” I had been hunting a few years before the show came to be, but when I heard a show about ghost hunters was going to be on national TV, I thought “times are changing! I might finally come out of the closet.”

New Dustin & Barry Interview Mentions GHA Recruits

MediaBlvd Magazine has just posted a new interview with Ghost Hunters International's Dustin Pari & Barry FitzGerald. The interview is similar to the previous Deadbolt interview, but contains new questions and information about when Karl Pfeiffer and Susan Slaughter (GHA recruits) will be joining the GHI team. Also mentioned are funny experiences at the locations and the most compelling evidence the team has found.

Question> The other companion show to your show is Ghost Hunters Academy. And I had watched all six episodes of that. And it looks like two people have graduated from the academy and will be joining you in their investigations. But I didn't know if they’re coming on board the end of this season or next season; do you guys know when?

Dustin> No I was just saying that we haven't filmed with them as of yet. The episodes that are airing currently are the ones we had just finished up while those guys were actually in the academy.

The News - Now Better Than Ever

Today finally brings a long needed update to this site. Just look around and you will see the changes that have been made. Now the news is easier to read, easier to post, easier to monitor, and just much better in general. Plus, you can find all of it on this external blog which has been integrated into this page.

If you are looking for older news, you will still be able to find that in our News Archives.

As this feature is new, we welcome your comments and suggestions about it.

Thanks for the support!

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.

Shop Our New Store: GHF ParaGear!

2010 is still bringing exciting changes to our site and today we are proud to present our new store, GHFParagear! You can find a whole array of shirts, buttons, clocks, magnets, bumper stickers, and much more when you visit our new shop, all designed for fans of Ghost Hunters, paranormal enthusiasts, and ghost hunters. We offer customization of products for ghost hunting groups and teams (see store for details). All profits from the store go directly toward future expansions and updates on this site. More designs and new products are to come, so keep checking back to see what new inventory we have. Go ahead and check it out, what are you waiting for?

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.

The Deadbolt Interviews Dustin & Barry

The Deadbolt Online recently conducted an interview with Ghost Hunters International team members Dustin Pari & Barry FitzGerald. Barry & Dustin talk about new equipment, scary mannequins, whether prisons or castles are scarier, and more! Don't forget to watch the new episode tonight!

THE DEADBOLT: Barry, how hard or easy is it to spook you?
BARRY
FITZGERALD: [laughs] My biggest nemesis has to be mannequins. I have to say that those truly frighten the living hell out of me, because I have my mind set on I'm there to do a job, I'm there to look for ghosts, and all of a sudden this
dummy will be leaning against somewhere, maybe where it shouldn't have been
before, and it truly frightens the hell out of me.

In Argentina, in the case that's coming up, that they had the death images that were taken back in Victorian times, where people would be propped up with different things around them and a photograph was taken. So I was in a dark room with my own camera taking photographs of these photographs, because I've never actually seen them before, and the only thing light-wise I had was the auto focus on the camera.

So, as you can imagine, as I turned around there was a small dummy of a child leaning against the wall and I screamed louder than Brandy Green ever could and all of them grabbed their stomachs laughing at me. I get spooked by those
things, I really do.