Description: This one-hour weekly docu-soap follows a group of real-life paranormal researchers as they investigate haunted places throughout the country, encountering every type of imaginable haunting. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, plumbers by trade, head up TAPS -- The Atlantic Paranormal Society -- a group of ordinary, everyday people with an interest in getting to the bottom of your otherworldly disturbances.

TAPS' most controversial paranormal investigation of took place at Eastern State Penitentiary. During this episode (#105), a camera a stationery, unmanned camera positioned on the second floor of Cellblock 12 picked up an image of a small, cloaked figure that seemingly appeared out of nowhere and ran down the catwalk. This piece of footage has been one of the most hotly debated topics on the official TAPS message board.

Description: Are you intrigued by true ghost stories? Author Joan Upton Hall has put together a collection of spooky tales that will be thoroughly enjoyed by fans of the paranormal, especially by those readers with a particular interest in old jails and prisons.

The stories, forty in all, take place in different times and locations across the United States, bringing in the flavor of each individual setting – from an old Salem Witch Jail from the 1600’s to a Charleston Civil War prison for pirates to Philadelphia’s own Eastern State Penitenitiary. These haunting stories written by a group of versatile authors from various backgrounds, appeal to the reader’s imagination and capture the dark mood of these jails, bringing to life the misery and violence that once took place there. The fact that many of the jails and prisons are now restaurants, inns, offices, shops and museums is interesting.

The chapters are arranged in chronological order from the oldest to the newest haunting, and each story is accompanied by an author photo and bio. Authors include ghost hunters, psychics, and correctional officers.