Ghost Hunters Academy Sneak Peek!

Thanks to SyFy Video fans can now watch a sneak peek of the season premiere of Ghost Hunters Academy! New episodes premiere this Wednesday, June 2. Plus, don't miss out on your chance to win a GHA t-shirt!

Win A Ghost Hunters Academy T-Shirt!

The time has come for another giveaway! Now you can win a Ghost Hunters Academy t-shirt from Top Heavy Clothing! Just follow us on Twitter and tweet the message (before June 2, 2010) provided to win. Full details at www.ghosthuntersfans.net/contest

New Ghost Hunters Academy Cadet Speaks

Adam Berry, who will be joining the cast of Ghost Hunters Academy next Wednesday, was recently featured on a local news website. In the article, Berry talks about his life changing paranormal experience at the Gettysburg battlefield and his run in with residual hauntings as a child. Adam has also founded the Provincetown Paranormal Research Society in Mass. and although he applied for Academy in fall of 2008, the producers wanted him to appear in a later season. He describes himself as " level-headed and not easily frightened " and is willing to sit in the dark, hunting for ghosts for "as long as it takes". Here's a list of all the locations the cadets will be visiting this season.

• Mark Twain House
• Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
• Fort Delaware
• Stanley Hotel
• Mansfield Reformatory

Jason & Grant's Tween Book "Ghost Hunt" Due in September

Jason Hawes & Grant Wilson recently attended the Book Expo of America, a large publishing event in order to promote their new children's novel. Jason & Grant have both tweeted about and during the event on Twitter, saying that the book is due out in September of this year. Upon searching the Book Expo of America website, you can find this book ,whose authors are listed as Jason & Grant, Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Search for the Unseen. A short description follows: Paranormal stories from the actual ghost hunts on the TV show Ghost Hunters. Amazon is already offering the book for pre-order at the price of $11.55 and lists the reading level as ages 9 -12. From Amazon:

An exciting new middle grade collection of spooky paranormal investigations based on REAL ghost hunts from stars of the TV show Ghost Hunters, the number one reality show on cable television!

In a lush, thick volume, Ghost Hunt will feature multiple stories dramatized with cliff hangers and red herrings to heighten suspense and character interaction. Through the investigations, the reader will learn the ins and outs of ghost hunting, how to spot a hoax, and how to face their fear of the paranormal.

The book will also have tips for ghost hunting at the end of the book, including guides to the technical equipment and how to set up your own traps for ghosts. Though presented as fiction, these stories are based on real cases, and the GHOSTS ARE REAL!

Ghost Hunters to Investigate Wrestling Hall of Fame in NY

Some of the most unusual and unexpected places have claims of paranormal activity, for example the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam, New York that will be featured on an upcoming episode of Ghost Hunters. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that SyFy has plans to shoot an episode at the location " soon" and that paranormal activity has occured near "the displays of former WWE stars".

Check Out Our First Featured Fan!

We have our first Featured Fan, Dena Dixon of Virginia Beach, VA. Check out our first ever featured TAPS fan! If you want to become a featured fan in the future, you can find out more info on applying here.

Ghost Hunters Visit Illinois School

Finally we have little bit of news to send your way! According to the Telegraph,TAPS recently spent two nights investigating the Milton School in Alton, Illinois in search of paranormal activity. Legend has it that a girl who was murdered continues to haunt the location and people have reportdly come running out the location in fear. Confederate soliders are said to march through the night. Antoinette's Haunted History Tours offers ghost tours of the school and their tour guides have had several unexplained experiences, which they shared with the Ghost Hunters crew through interviews.

Meat Loaf Talks Ghost Hunters

Meat Loaf, who previously made a guest appearance on Ghost Hunters, recently spoke in an interview about how he got onto the show and discussed how he would like to return in the future. He mentions that although he was asked to investigate Alcatraz with TAPS, he was unable to do so and that he speaks frequently with Jason. You can listen to the interview in the video below, they start discussing the show at 6:28.

We Want To Feature YOU! Be Our Next Featured Fan!

We always want to say thank you to all of our great visitors, and here's a new way that we're going to show our appreciation for you! Introducing our Featured Fans section, a place where we will feature some of the best Ghost Hunters fans by posting a small interview with them along with (if desired) a photo. We'll update the section with a new fan about every two weeks or so, depending upon the number of entries we receive. So are you ready to become our first featured fan? If so, all you have to do is e-mail us at ghfwebmaster@gmail.com with 'Featured Fan Application' as the subject and tell us why you should be the next featured fan!

GHA's Chris Smith is Chasing Wraiths in the South

Ghost Hunters Academy's Chris Smith along with his Tennessee based paranormal group called TN Wraith Chasers (started in November) has been hunting for ghosts in the South. The Jackson Sun caught up with Smith, who spoke about his first paranormal experience, the origin of their group name, and the opinion of the paranormal that is held in the South.

Smith said talking about ghosts is controversial in the South. Even the team on "Ghost Hunters" rarely comes to the South, Smith said.

"We want to branch this out," he said. "With Wraith Chasers, that is why I chose to call it that. We use our graphic design skills to make it look cool and cause people to come and ask questions. We want to say 'Come and look at what we do,' draw them in and have them become more open to it."

CNN Thinks You Should Watch GHI This Summer

Ghost Hunters International has been included on CNN Entertainment's list of "What to Watch on TV this Summer". The articles notes that Season 3, which will premiere July 14, "promises more supernatural shenanigans across the globe that are sure to thrill, and spook, fans." Other shows that made the list include America's Got Talent and So You Think You Can Dance among others.

"Ghost Hunters International" -- July 14

Paranormal activity continues its round-the-world spin-off when "Ghost Hunters International" returns for a new season.

Season three promises more supernatural shenanigans across the globe that are sure to thrill, and spook, fans.

PSI-FI Interviews GHI's Dustin Pari

Paranormal Studies and Investigation of Oregon Radio recently interviewed Ghost Hunters International's Dustin Pari. In the interview, Dustin dicusses the new season of GHI, his upcoming book set to be published in 2011 (co-authored with Barry FitzGerald), and much more. Read the whole interview on the PSI-FI Radio website.

PSI-FI: If your children wanted to pursue paranormal research, what advice would you give them?

DUSTIN:

1. Be sure you are in a solid place emotionally, spiritually, mentally and physically- with these things in balance you can proceed without much concern.

2. Do it for the right reasons. Reality television isn't what everyone thinks it is. Sure signing autographs at Target is okay, and the look on a child's face when they meet you can be priceless, but if you are thinking of getting into this field to get a show- you are not doing it for the right reasons and in the end you will be discrediting the field more than helping it. Just go on a game show if you need 15 minutes of fame.

3. Wear comfortable shoes- this is pretty much always good advice regardless of what you want to be. Unless your hearts desire is to do something barefoot.

Kristyn Gartland to Host Ghost Hunting 101 in Detroit

Kristyn Gartland of Ghost Hunters will be hosting the instructive Ghost Hunting 101 course during a paranormal event put on by the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society and Kewadin Casino in Detroit. The lecture will take place on August 27 from 5-7 PM and will be followed with more appearances from Lisa J. Smith & Chip Coffey over the course of the two day event. Tickets are priced from $45 to $200 depending upon whether you want VIP or day passes. For more information visit http://www.kewadin.com/

The Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society and Kewadin Casino will host the largest paranormal event in the Midwest Aug. 27-28.

Guest speakers include Lisa J. Smith of CBS Psychic Radio, Kristyn Gartland of SyFy channel's "Ghost Hunters" and Chip Coffey, paranormal investigator seen on the A&E series "Paranormal State" and "Psychic Kids."

Gartland's Ghost Hunting 101 class (no cameras or recorders allowed) will
kick off activities at 5-7 p.m. Aug. 27.

Shippen Manor Museum in NJ Gets a Visit from TAPS

NJ.Com published an article today about a college student that volunteered as an intern at the Shippen Manor Museum in Oxford, New Jersey and was involved in the the taping of an episode of Ghost Hunters. Colleen Eastmen got the chance to assist the museum currator during TAPS' visit (presumably during the tour of the museum). According to the article, the episode featuring the location will air later this summer.

Eastman also had the unique experience of assisting Shippen Manor Museum Curator Andy Drysdale, during an episode of Sy Fy’s television show “Ghost Hunters,” which focuses on the paranormal activity at the Shippen Manor Museum. The show is scheduled to air later this summer.

August 24 Date Set for GHI Part 2 DVD

With the Ghost Hunters International Part 1 DVD set for release next month on June 1, 2010, Image Entertainment has announced that Part 2 will be released just a few weeks later on August 24. The three disc set will run 524 minutes long and will include bonus features such as deleted scenes. The cost will be $24.98.

This spin-off of the popular Ghost Hunters series features a new team of all-real paranormal investigators - Robb Demarest, Dustin Pari, Barry FitzGerald, and Brandy Green - who use scientific techniques to explore the world's most famous supernatural locations. Follow the team, if you dare, into the Romanian castle of a countess said to have murdered and bathed in the blood of her victims; then deep underground into the labyrinths beneath the streets of Paris; even inside the infamous castle of Vlad the Impaler, inspiration for Dracula; and many more hair-raising, ghostly adventures worldwide.

Robb & Brandy Media Guests at Flordia Supercon

Ghost Hunters International's Robb Demarest and Brandy Green are among the several media guests that will be speaking at the Florida Supercon this June 18-20 in Miami, Florida. The Florida Supercon is " a 3 day festival dedicated to Comic Books, Anime, Animation, Video Games, Fantasy and Sci-Fi featuring celebrity guests, comic book creators, voice actors, industry guests, cosplayers, artists, writers, panels, Q&A's, films & shorts, costume & cosplay contests, vendors, parties, anime, workshops, video gaming and more!" For more information about the event, including how to purchase tickets, you can visit the event's website at www.supercon.tv

EDIT: Scott Tepperman, set to appear this summer on GHI, has let us know that he and his team will also be lecturing at Supercon this June.