If you are a fan of Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International, there is some good news for you. Sci-Fi Channel is planning to bring you more of both in the year ahead. New episodes of Ghost Hunters International will start airing on January 7th, and the fifth season of Ghost Hunters will premiere some time in March.
The network is also premiering a new series called Ghost Hunters: New Generation. This six episode series will show college aged ghost hunters learning the ropes as they investigate haunted locations with more experienced investigators at their side. By 2010, we might even have more ghost hunting on the network with the people behind these programs striking a deal with the network for one more new series.
I am a fan of both Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International, so I’m glad to hear they are keeping both series around. The New Generation also sounds interesting. Who will we see take this series on? Will Jay and Grant be at the helm? We’ll have to wait and see once the series premieres!
The Wednesday night episode put an end to this season of Ghost Hunters. With all their season ending episodes, they try to end things with some kind of big band, and this time was no exception to that. This investigation took them to New Hampshire to visit the Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse. This location had three sites of interest that all had paranormal happenings - the light house, the fort and the keeper’s quarters. All three locations were in close enough proximity to each other, so this made it quite easy to investigate all three locations in one night.
The investigate itself seemed to bring a lot of personal experiences out. This place definitely has something going on. The team was trying to make contact with a deceased worker from the lighthouse - Joshua Carr. Most of the experiences seemed to happen in the lighthouse. Two of the three teams heard strange noises in the lighthouse. They were even able to communicate with whatever entity was making the noises by using knocks. The entity responded back with both teams, and there was evidence of this caught on video.
In other areas, the team heard voices and experienced a slamming door. These were also heard on tape, but the best evidence from the investigation was in the lighthouse. This historical landmark goes back to before the Revolutionary War. Before that time, it was known as Fort William & Mary, but after the war - the fort was renamed Fort Constitution. While not many died tragically on the property itself, the river surrounding the fort and lighthouse was known to have several shipwrecks. The victims of these shipwrecks were brought to the fort where they were treated, and some also died.The lighthouse dates back to the 1770’s, and it is still used as a station for Coast Guard today.
This ends the season of Ghost Hunters, but Ghost Hunters International will premiere its new season on January 7th. I will cover those episodes here when the season begins. Over at Clique Clack TV , there is also some talk about this episode. A more behind the scenes look. Apparently, the episode and investigation took place over two nights, and not just the one that is mentioned in the episode. The episode was shot back in October, but only aired this week. What did you think of this episode of Ghost Hunters?
I have been a fan of Ghost Hunters for a couple of years now. Watching TAPS on their investigations has been something I do weekly. I even watch repeat episodes, and I also watch Ghost Hunters International. This week, we had a new episode, and the TAPS team headed to San Diego to investigate at the San Diego Maritime Musuem. Their task was to investigate two of the historical ships housed there - The Berkeley and The Star Of India.
Paranormal experiences had been had on both ships. Everything from footsteps, odd feelings and apparitions sighted. The first night the team investigated The Berkeley. They had a few personal experiences. Mostly the hearing of footsteps. Tango also at one point became ill during the investigation. This was a calm night with not much happening though. When the footage from the night was checked, there was nothing paranormal sighted in any of the footage. This lead Jason and Grant to declare that the ship wasn’t haunted.
They couldn’t do the same with the second ship, The Star Of India. The team had many more experiences on this ship, and these experiences were partly caught on film. Both Jason and another team member saw shadowy figures on the upper decks, and there also a piece of audio from the ship of someone telling them to get off his ship. This was the best evidence of the night, and this is something they presented to the man who called them in to investigate.
Both ships are rich in history, and it is no surprise that at least one of them could be haunted. It didn’t surprise me that the Star of India had some strange behavior. I did my own research on the ship just now, and I found one Surgeon’s report talking about deaths on board during the 1870s.
I regret to state that we have had eight deaths on the voyage, all children (three of whom were prematurely born). - Also five births have taken place. The Mothers in all cases have done well.
I also found some videos taken on board the ship that show some things. You can check out the videos for yourself below.
What did you think of this week’s episode of Ghost Hunters?
