Sci-Fi Channel's TAPS Ghost Hunters
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The new Sci-Fi TV show, "Ghost Hunters" featuring TAPS (The Atlantic
Paranormal Society) has been receiving a huge audience. People who
are interested in the paranormal and perhaps just the "spirit world" in
general, have been excitedly interested in watching the TAPS team
bring credible ghost hunters to light. The show had been worth tuning
in, as the TAPS Ghost Hunters sought not to hide from the TV show's
audience their fears, doubts, experiences and differences with each
other. What was most impressive was the balance that was brought by
the TAPS team's two "head honchos," Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
These guys are open to the paranormal as ghost hunters should be, but
also look for rational explanations to some of the ghostly phenomena
they encounter. They originally would rather disprove a purported
haunting, than create it into another ghastly legend. If the TAPS team
cannot disprove the evidence they have collected, they present their
findings to their audience (such as an intriguing TAPS ghost video) and
let them decide as to what the Ghost Hunters have found. Unfortunately,
the TAPS ghost hunters seem to have taken a new attitude that if they
didn't capture the evidence, then it might not be authentic.
UPDATE: What has changed these ordinary guys which double as plumbers...just guys trying to figure out the spirit world and having fun doing it? Our bet is the money that the show's producers have generated. The show Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi has gone more commercial with the team now travelling the countryside to investigate haunted locations. It is only a matter of time before they end up overseas investigating hauntings (Update: November 2006 their first show aired of a TAPS investigation in Ireland - guess we called that one!). Apparently, their hit show has now given them an influx of monies, as they are well equipped with the latest gadgetry, new expensive vehicles and have moved out of their trailer into an office building. However, what is really concerning is how the show is now interviewing other paranormal investigators, showing their evidence to get viewers to the program and then later making them look bad by discrediting the same pictures and video without the knowledge of those they interviewed on the TV show.
Recently in October 2005, a show aired of an investigation at the
Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia. Jason and Grant reproduced
a shadow on a door and claimed to have debunked the famous
"Shadow Man" photograph that they looked at in the beginning of the
show. What was most troubling was how these supposedly
professional TAPS ghost hunters duplicated the original photograph so
unprofessionally. Had they looked at the photograph and listened to the
lady's account of how it was captured, they would have realized that the
shadow on the door was in no way created the way they proposed.
Angels & Ghosts has done a Shadow Man story on this picture, so you
can decide for yourself.
Due to the show's (and most likely the producers') shameless way of editing the series without regard to their guests, we suggest that you do not provide TAPS with your paranormal evidence for the TV show, or you too may be hung out to dry. We do think the boys have good hearts and are mostly well respected in the paranormal community, but mix big Hollywood in, and the best of intentions can be twisted and tangled by the powers that be.
Back to Ghosts On Television
The new Sci-Fi TV show, "Ghost Hunters" featuring TAPS (The Atlantic
Paranormal Society) has been receiving a huge audience. People who
are interested in the paranormal and perhaps just the "spirit world" in
general, have been excitedly interested in watching the TAPS team
bring credible ghost hunters to light. The show had been worth tuning
in, as the TAPS Ghost Hunters sought not to hide from the TV show's
audience their fears, doubts, experiences and differences with each
other. What was most impressive was the balance that was brought by
the TAPS team's two "head honchos," Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.
These guys are open to the paranormal as ghost hunters should be, but
also look for rational explanations to some of the ghostly phenomena
they encounter. They originally would rather disprove a purported
haunting, than create it into another ghastly legend. If the TAPS team
cannot disprove the evidence they have collected, they present their
findings to their audience (such as an intriguing TAPS ghost video) and
let them decide as to what the Ghost Hunters have found. Unfortunately,
the TAPS ghost hunters seem to have taken a new attitude that if they
didn't capture the evidence, then it might not be authentic.
UPDATE: What has changed these ordinary guys which double as plumbers...just guys trying to figure out the spirit world and having fun doing it? Our bet is the money that the show's producers have generated. The show Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi has gone more commercial with the team now travelling the countryside to investigate haunted locations. It is only a matter of time before they end up overseas investigating hauntings (Update: November 2006 their first show aired of a TAPS investigation in Ireland - guess we called that one!). Apparently, their hit show has now given them an influx of monies, as they are well equipped with the latest gadgetry, new expensive vehicles and have moved out of their trailer into an office building. However, what is really concerning is how the show is now interviewing other paranormal investigators, showing their evidence to get viewers to the program and then later making them look bad by discrediting the same pictures and video without the knowledge of those they interviewed on the TV show.
Recently in October 2005, a show aired of an investigation at the
Moundsville Penitentiary in West Virginia. Jason and Grant reproduced
a shadow on a door and claimed to have debunked the famous
"Shadow Man" photograph that they looked at in the beginning of the
show. What was most troubling was how these supposedly
professional TAPS ghost hunters duplicated the original photograph so
unprofessionally. Had they looked at the photograph and listened to the
lady's account of how it was captured, they would have realized that the
shadow on the door was in no way created the way they proposed.
Angels & Ghosts has done a Shadow Man story on this picture, so you
can decide for yourself.
Due to the show's (and most likely the producers') shameless way of editing the series without regard to their guests, we suggest that you do not provide TAPS with your paranormal evidence for the TV show, or you too may be hung out to dry. We do think the boys have good hearts and are mostly well respected in the paranormal community, but mix big Hollywood in, and the best of intentions can be twisted and tangled by the powers that be.
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