

Afterwards, the team spends several days analyzing all of the data for evidence of possible paranormal activity.Ī few days after reviewing the information, Hawes and Wilson discuss their findings with the location site owners, offer suggestions for dealing with any apparent activity, and answer any questions the owners may have. Many times, they will even try to verbally coax the ghosts into responding, while recording. The TAPS team then spends several hours taking electromagnetic field and temperature readings, recording audio for EVPs, and filming with digital video cameras. Next, the team sets up electronic equipment in the apparent paranormal hotspots. When investigating a location, TAPS team members first visit and survey the property with its owners, who describe their experiences at the site.

The two originally worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter as a day job while investigating locations at night. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, along with other team members who belong to the group they founded, The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), investigate locations of interest by using various electronic equipment, which they believe is capable of detecting paranormal activity. 2.2 Celebrity guest investigators (2008–16).The series popularized paranormal reality television and ghost hunting, and some members of the show have moved on to feature in their own television programs. Additionally, annual Halloween specials were broadcast live from 2005 to 2011 and featured celebrity guests and interactivity.

A second spin-off, Ghost Hunters Academy (2009–10), had TAPS members Dave Tango and Steve Gonsalves training prospective investigators in a competitive format. The latter concept led to the show's first spin-off, Ghost Hunters International, in 2008, which often featured Ghost Hunters investigators in lead and guest roles, including Hawes and Wilson. Ghost Hunters episodes feature the team going to reportedly haunted locations across the United States, with some investigations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Canada in earlier seasons. The series, initially produced for 10 episodes as a docu-soap, had later episodes shift to a more documentary focus. For the fourteenth season, Hawes and the previous TAPS incarnation from 2016 returned, while Wilson and the new team were not featured. For the 12th and 13th seasons, the revived show featured Wilson and a new investigatory team that had no discernible connection to TAPS, although the series still maintained the same format and producers and referenced past episodes. The two worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter while moonlighting as paranormal investigators at night. The program featured Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who founded The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) team of paranormal investigators to investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The series was revived in early 2019 and aired its twelfth and thirteenth seasons from August 21, 2019, to May 27, 2020, on A&E, after which it was cancelled and then revived for its fourteenth season only months later on Discovery+, which started airing on October 31, 2021.

The original program spanned eleven seasons with 230 episodes, not including 10 specials. The original series aired from Octountil Octoon Syfy. Ghost Hunters is an American paranormal and reality television series.
