Jason Hawes

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Jason Hawes

Hawes (right) interviewed on KAPS Paranormal Radio
Born Jason Conrad Hawes
(1971-12-27) December 27, 1971
Canandaigua, New York, United States[1]
Occupation Plumber, television host and producer,[2] author
Paranormal investigator
Organization The Atlantic Paranormal Society

Jason Conrad Hawes (born on December 27, 1971)[1] is the founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is also one of the stars and co-producers of Syfy's Ghost Hunters, which is in its ninth season.[3]

Personal life

Background

Hawes was born in Canandaigua, New York and moved to Warwick, Rhode Island in 1979.[1] According to his own account, Hawes began to see apparitions at the age of twenty after a girlfriend who practiced Reiki manipulated his life force energy. Paranormal researcher John Zaffis told Hawes that he was becoming sensitive to paranormal phenomena. Hawes founded the Rhode Island Paranormal Society (RIPS) in 1990 as a support group for people who had paranormal experiences. When Hawes was twenty-two, he first met Grant Wilson after Wilson offered to redesign the RIPS website. Wilson subsequently admitted that the real reason he wanted to meet Hawes was that he had undergone an intense, recurring paranormal experience between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Hawes and Wilson went on to found TAPS together.[4][5]

Interests and hobbies

Hawes has varied interests outside of TAPS, including the fine arts,[citation needed] deep-sea fishing, competing in martial arts, camping and hiking, and cooking. He has written two books on the paranormal and four sci-fi/thriller screenplays.[6] He and fellow TAPS founder Grant Wilson are longtime co-workers at their day job as plumbers for Roto-Rooter. It was Hawes who brought Wilson into the plumbing business.[7] The two are also co-owners of the Spalding Inn, based in Whitefield, New Hampshire.[8][9]

Charity work

Hawes and Wilson have used their public ghost hunting events and personal appearances to raise money for various charities, such as the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Cure Kids Cancer.[10]

Threatening e-mail

In March 2005, Barry Clinton Eckstrom, 51, of Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, began to send threatening e-mails to Jason Hawes, founder of TAPS. Hawes alerted the FBI in Providence. When the e-mails began to include threats against then President George W. Bush, the Secret Service became involved. Eckstrom also used Hawes's name to send e-mails to some female members of TAPS, in which he threatened to rape and murder them. While under surveillance by federal agents, Eckstrom used a Bethel Park, Pennsylvania library computer to send an e-mail in Hawes' name to Roto Rooter's Cincinnati headquarters, threatening to shoot employees there. Next, Eckstrom typed a message threatening to kill President Bush, again in Hawes' name, using the Department of Homeland Security's website. Before he could send the message, he was arrested. Because of these activities, Eckstrom was sentenced to two years in federal prison in January 2006.[11][12]

Criticism

Investigator and author Benjamin Radford reviewing Hawes's book "Ghost Hunting" writes "Hawes allots a grand total of four paragraphs (within 273 pages) to a chapter titled 'The Scientific Approach'. He doesn't have much to say about science or scientific methods, and in fact it's the shortest chapter in the book."[13]

Bibliography

  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Friedman, Michael Jan (2007). Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1-4165-4113-4. LCCN 2007016062. [14]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Friedman, Michael Jan (2009). Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1-4391-0115-5. LCCN 2009025000. [15]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Dokey, Cameron (2010). Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 0316099597. [16]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Dokey, Cameron (2011). Ghost Hunt 2: MORE Chilling Tales of the Unknown. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-0316099585. [17]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Waggoner, Tim (2011). Ghost Trackers: A Novel. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1451613810. [18]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Friedman, Michael Jan (2011). Ghost Files: The Collected Cases from Ghost Hunting and Seeking Spirits. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1451633108. [19]
  • Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Waggoner, Tim (2012). Ghost Town: A Novel. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1451613827. [20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Biography Meet Jason Hawes". Retrieved October 24, 2013. 
  2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739931/
  3. ↑ TV: 'Ghost Hunters' Suit Up for Seventh SyFy Season
  4. ↑ Rohrbach, Jill M. (July 26, 2005). "On Sci Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters Episode". Eureka! Historic Hotels. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Friedman, Michael Jan (2007). Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 2–6. ISBN 978-1-4165-4113-4. LCCN 2007016062. 
  6. ↑ http://www.dragoncon.org/dc_guest_detail.php?id=1442 Hawes bio on DragonCon.org
  7. ↑ Ghost Hunting (Hawes, Wilson and Friedman), p. 12.
  8. ↑ Hawes, Jason; Wilson, Grant; Friedman, Michael Jan (2009). "Jason: The Haunted Hotel". Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society. New York: Pocket Books. pp. 254–263. ISBN 978-1-4391-0115-5. LCCN 2009025000. 
  9. ↑ "The Spalding Inn" (commercial site). spaldinginn.com. Retrieved 2009-09-07. 
  10. ↑ http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/forums/other-reality-shows/72333-interview-jason-grant-ghost-hunters.html
  11. ↑ "Pittsburgh man indicted for allegedly threatening President Bush". Pittsburgh Business Times. 2005-06-09. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
  12. ↑ Ove, Torsten (2006-01-11). "Man gets 2 years in jail for threats against Bush, Roto-Rooter workers". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2007-03-22. 
  13. ↑ Radford, Benjamin (November/December 2010). "Ghost-Hunting Mistakes: Science and Pseudoscience in Ghost Investigations". Skeptical Inquirer (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) 34 (5): 44–46. 
  14. ↑ "Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hunting-Unexplained-Phenomena-Paranormal/dp/1416541136/
  15. ↑ "Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society" http://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Spirits-Atlantic-Paranormal-Society/dp/1439101159
  16. ↑ "Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hunt-Chilling-Jason-Hawes/dp/B006CDDVBY
  17. ↑ "Ghost Hunt 2: MORE Chilling Tales of the Unknown" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hunt-MORE-Chilling-Tales/dp/0316099589
  18. ↑ "Ghost Trackers" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Trackers-Jason-Hawes/dp/1451613814
  19. ↑ "Ghost Files: The Collected Cases from Ghost Hunting and Seeking Spirits" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Files-Collected-Hunting-Seeking/dp/1451633106
  20. ↑ "Ghost Town" http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Town-Jason-Hawes/dp/1451613822

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