JASON HAWES: Well firstly we were never casted. So, you made the decision to go ahead with the show. I sat down with Grant (Wilson) and Steve (Gonsalves) and we decided to give it a go with serious reservations, particularly as we all had good day jobs and Steve had the added pressure of being a police officer at the time.

They pointed out that if we didn’t do it someone else would because of the attention we had brought. The article took off as we were not afraid to debunk an alleged haunting and it showed that we were serious about our work.Ī small company called Pilgrim contacted us (now a major production company) and said they wanted us to be ourselves and they would just follow us with cameras. In this case it turned out to be a problem created by mixed prescriptions. We told him from the outset the odds were well against finding something supernatural. Things changed when a guy called John Leland wrote an article based on an investigation with us for the New York Times. I’m not scared of being judged, I don’t give a damn if people like me or not, I am who I am and I’ll always be that person. What if we ended up harming the field of the paranormal? We did not want to become a mockery and not seem professional. It was a real fear of people not understanding what we were doing and trying to accomplish. We were offered our own show numerous times and turned them down as we were hugely concerned with whether the viewers would really understand what we did and would our passion translate on camera. It was the unknown 20% ‘what if’ mentality that led to production companies asking us to work with them behind the scenes on such programmes as ‘Scariest Places on Earth.’ adventures never told before now, this funny, fascinating, frightening collection will challenge everything you thought you knew about the spirit world.JASON HAWES: Well first I am a firm believer in the paranormal, although at least some 80% of claims can be disproved. Featuring both cases depicted on Ghost Hunters and earlier T.A.P.S. pursue ghosts and other supernatural phenomena with the most sophisticated scientific equipment available - from thermal-imaging cameras to electromagnetic-field recorders to digital thermometers - and the results may surprise you. Now their experiences are in print for the first time, as Jason and Grant recount for us, with the help of veteran author Michael Jan Friedman, the stories of some of their most memorable investigations. Their hair-raising investigations, fueled by their unique abilities and a healthy dose of scientific method, have made them the subject of a hit TV show: the SCI FI Channel's Ghost Hunters. The Atlantic Paranormal Society, also known as T.A.P.S., is the brainchild of two plumbers by day, paranormal investigators by night: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

Ghost Hunting by Jason Hawes