America's Most Haunted

Nick Groff is co-founder of the wildly successful Ghost Adventures Crew with Zak Bagans and Aaron Goodwin. Entering its seventh season, Travel Channel's Ghost Adventuresshow has a rabid following that transcends mere fandom and Nick's calm strength and humanity are vital components of that dynamic.
Nick's new book, Chasing Spirits: The Building of the Ghost Adventures Crew is a fascinating inside look behind the scenes at the team and the show and is one no fan should be without.
How did Nick become a paranormal investigator? A childhood near-death experience, his courageous and curious nature, and a love of movies fired his imagination and spurred him to action.
When can two seconds change your life forever? When you make eye contact with a ghost. Tune in 9/24 at high noon Eastern as Eric Olsen and Theresa Argie talk with one of the great stars of the paranormal field - Nick Groff!

It's time for season two of Travel Channel's Making Monsters featuring Distortions Unlimited, the Colorado-based “haunt industry” animatronic and prop-making company run by Ed and Marsha Edmunds.
Ed Edmunds created a revolutionary, rock style haunted house called Brutal Planet, lauded by Alice Cooper, creating such a buzz that Six Flags had Distortions duplicate it for 16 theme park locations across the country. He also invented an Electric Chair animatronic which has become a centerpiece for haunted houses from coast to coast.
Edmund’s fascination with sci-fi flicks and television began as a teenager while living in rural Illinois. He studied Art Education at the University of Northern Colorado. Edmunds used his artistic abilities to make and sell high-quality masks, which eventually led to the creation of his company, Distortions Unlimited.
Marsha Taub-Edmunds began working for Ed Edmunds in 1981 - she became intrigued by the creations and took it upon herself to learn the business inside and out. Marsha and Ed connected through their shared artistic passion and wed in 1992; they have been running Distortions Unlimited as a team ever since. 
This season on Making Monsters, we'll see a red-eyed, smoke-breathing tiki for a haunt on the Hawaiian island of Oahu; a creepy, spitting, twisting centipede for Atlanta’s Netherworld; an iconic stage mask for Megadeth, and much more!

Steven A. LaChance is a writer, broadcaster, speaker, producer. and director. His foray into the paranormal came unexpectedly, after moving his family into a haunted house, and set him off on journey to discover more and help others who face similar circumstances. 
"Fear House" is the account of his harrowing experience that premiered on Discovery Channel's A Haunting in 2006. This story of the Union Screaming House became one of the highest rated episodes of the popular series. The terrifying ordeal that Steven and his children lived through propelled him into the fascinating world of the paranormal. Steven's book The Uninvited is a documented account of what he and his children survived.
His experience led to a deeper understanding of ghosts and hauntings. His quest for knowledge of the field gained the respect of his peers and he became a sought after contributor for other paranormal media projects. Steven has been a part of numerous documentaries, including the Booth Brothers highly acclaimed films Children of the Grave and The Possessed. 
Comfortable in front or behind the camera, he has appeared on both network and cable news and talk shows, interviewed such people as Gerardo Rivera, and produced his own documentary film for Warner Brothers Home Videos.
Steven is currently working on a sequel to his critically acclaimed The Uninvited. His upcoming book Blessed are the Wicked delves deeper into the mystery of The Union House Haunting.
America's Most Haunted welcomes Steven A. LaChance to the show Tuesday, September 11th, at 10pm.

As Syfy's epically successful Ghost Hunters series returns Sept 5 at 9/8c for its Season 8 midseason premiere, seismic changes are afoot, namely co-founder Grant Wilson has left the show.
Once the engenue, Amy Bruni now finds herself a veteran mainstay and the only woman on the TAPS team. Amy is a good example of what happens when a hobby turns into a passion, which in turn becomes a way of life.
Like many paranormal invetigators Amy grew up in a haunted house, but unlike most in that situation, her family embraced it.Bruni's father was an amateur paranormal investigator and routinely he and Amy investigated haunted sites. From a young age she read and absorbed everything paranormal related she could, and as she grew to adulthood that didn't change.
Amy began investigating with a paranormal team in Sacramento, California. As soon as she stepped foot in the field professionally, her pursuits took off.
Her lifetime of supernatural knowledge drew the attention of Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of The Atlantic Paranormal Society. As a TAPS team member, Amy’s quest to spread knowledge of the paranormal nationwide has led her to organizing paranormal conferences.
She also started the company, Beyond Reality Events with Hawes and Wilson. More recently, Bruni has been using her connections in the field to conduct important research on the nature of group dynamics in the paranormal and she's begun lecturing on ghosts and the supernatural.

SyFy has done it again, putting a new twist on paranormal reality television with the hit show Haunted Collector. The cast includes renowned demonologist John Zaffis and his right hand man, tech specialist Brian Cano.
Brian is responsible for all the equipment and wide variety of gear used during the teams investigations, including some cutting edge gadgets as well as "old stand by's"
Mixing the old with the new is a technique that works for Brian and the team, as they search for the one elusive item that may be causing or contributing to the paranormal activity in each case.
Brian is no stranger the the field having been involved in urban exploration and spontaneous ghost hunts since childhood. His curiosity drove him to delve deeper into the mysteries of the unknown and his paranormal career was born!
With his extensive background of fearless forging into the unknown, Brian has had a blossoming and respectable career even before Haunted Collector. He is a video editor and a producer as well. Brian, an award wining documentary film maker, has chronicled several of his investigations in an independent film series entitled SCARED!
America's Most Haunted welcomes Brian J Cano on Tuesday August 28th at 10pm on blogtalk radio.

Paranormal researcher and physical medium Amy Allan works with retired NYC homicide detective Steve Di Schiavi on Travel Channel's The Dead Files, which returned for Season 3 on Aug 10, to solve unexplained paranormal phenomena in haunted locations across America.

In this series, Amy uses her abilities to communicate with the dead, often assuming their role and reliving their death; while Steve uses his years of detective experience to search for physical evidence. When the two investigators come together to share their findings, the parallels between their discoveries are powerfully revealed.

Amy's interest in paranormal phenomena began at age four when she was tormented by “shadow people” in her Arvada, CO home. Since then, she's been on a journey to unravel the mysteries of death and the beyond.
Steve relies on his police training and experience to explore each property, questioning the owners about the building’s past before gathering more facts from local historians, police investigators and by tracking down past owners of the property.
Those suffering under presumed paranormal oppression can request help from Amy and Steve here.
This is going to be amazing - my discussion with Amy and Steve last year was fascinating!

Shannon and Elliot have joined forces to take on the paranormal with a strong focus in history.  As children, both lived through the stress and confusion of a haunting, and those incidents shaped the adults they have become today.
Shannon, a Bowling Green graduate who majored in popular culture with a focus in museum studies, is currently volunteering as curator and archivist at the Ohio State Reformatory,
Her passion for history, the paranormal, and English made her the perfect choice for editor of author and haunted survivor Steven LaChance for his upcoming book Blessed are the Wicked, the sequel to the bestselling book The Uninvited.
Elliot LaChance lived through one of the most violent hauntings of our time. This heinous story was the focus of "Fear House," which is one of the most popular episodes of the Discovery Channel's series, A Haunting. His experience was documented in his father Steven LaChance's book The Uninvited. This event led him to seek a better understanding of ghosts and hauntings, with a desire to help other children who are dealing with similar trauma.
Elliot seeks to intertwine child psychology and the paranormal in an enlightening, educational, and entertaining way. He has worked along side his father as well as Children of the Grave producers, the Booth Brothers, in every aspect of documentary and video production.
Shannon and Elliot are currently working to bring their love of history and hauntings together in a smart, edgy, entertaining manner as Natural Born Historians.

AMH talks with Paranormal Witness Producer Mark Lewis, who oversees the production "the scariest show on TV," which returns for its second season to Syfy on August 8. 
Lewis joined London-based Raw TV three years ago to direct two action drama-documentaries, "The Real Goodfellas" (the season premiere of Raw TV’s award-winning Locked Up Abroad), and Somali Pirate Attack for Discovery.
He has worked in the TV industry for over 20 years and is writer and director of factual dramas and documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Five, ABC Australia, Network Nine Australia, PBS, the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, as well as Syfy.  
Mark's films have won an Emmy, the New York Television Festival, and the American Film and TV Awards.
Also joining us is Paranormal Witness episode star "witness" Jason Haxton, owner of the famed Dibbuk Box and Director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, MO.
Haxton has studied American antiques and ancient artifacts for 26 years; collects and researches Mayan pottery; is a lecturer on art history, paranormal and ancient art; works with the Smithsonian Institute Museums; has received federal grants for curriculum development for schools across the nation; and was the keynote speaker for a recent Edgar Cayce Conference - whew!

A key member of Syfy's Fact or Faked AND Haunted Highway teams, charismatic tech wiz Devin Marble has been fascinated with technology ever since he was a child, always having a natural understanding of "how the cogs work."
His curiosity and tenacity as a youngster led him to many instances of dismembering the household electronics. To save the house, his mother put him in front of a computer and his father taught him to build.
As he grew older, his fascination with how things worked led him into construction, prop-building, and videography.
Now, as a self-made producer with over a decade of experience in filmmaking and special FX, he has become highly proficient at deciphering video, photographic, and practical paranormal evidence.
Legendary blogger/journalist Eric Olsen (Blogcritics, Technorati, The Morton Report) and paranormal investigator and famed "Haunted Housewife" Theresa Argie have paired for upcoming blockbuster book and multimedia brand uncovering the truth behind America's most iconic paranormal hotspots. Tuesdays at 10pm on BTR!

Ryder - Erin Ryder - has bounded her way to co-starring status on Syfy's globetrotting paranormal investigation show Destination Truth, and NatGeo's zippy new Chasing UFOs.
But she is far from just another pretty face and lean bod. Lara Croft. Amelia Earhart. Dana Scully. Whether in fiction or non-fiction, few females are as tough-as-nails as Erin Ryder.
Ryder's unique perspective and determination have taken her around the globe to research claims of the strange and mysterious, all while traversing some of the deadliest environments on earth.
Her impressive resume includes rafting the world's largest waterfall, rappelling the Great Wall of China, and scaling glaciers in Antarctica, while only occasionally sustaining injuries!
Ryder considers herself a 'skeliever,' as she falls somewhere between a skeptic and a believer. Deep down she wants to be convinced, but will need to see the hard evidence first.
As a tech-minded investigator, if its data collecting that you're looking for, she's got the gear for that. Ryder 'geeks out' over thermal cameras and night vision scopes and can't wait to use the latest technology to investigate new and old UFO cases alike.