They are the ordinary nine to five employees by day, but paranormal activity trackers by nightfall. Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Amy Bruni, Adam Berry, along with their team star in the Syfy haunting hit Ghost Hunters.

As leaders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), these inquisitive individuals have made it their life's mission to help anyone with questions pertaining to paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people- office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus- moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.

According to the official Syfy Web site, Amy Bruni is a good example of what happens when a hobby, turns into a passion, which in turn becomes a way of life. Like many in the paranormal field, Amy grew up in a haunted house. Yet, unlike most in that situation, Amy's family embraced it. At a young age, she was reading and absorbing everything paranormal related she could get her hands on - and as she grew to adulthood, that didn't change.

Adam Berry; however, is an actor, singer, and paranormal investigator. He had experienced ghostly encounters as a child but having these encounters as an adult turned Adam's slight interest in paranormal investigating into a passion. He started off by co-founding the Provincetown Paranormal Research Society (PPRS), which began as a forum to discuss paranormal activity and soon grew to small investigations.

PCM participated in a conference call with these two investigative masterminds to go behind-the-scenes of this shrilling and thrilling TV series.



Question: What's your favorite place you've ever been to, or case you've ever done?

Amy Bruni: I did investigate Waverly on my own, and Waverly Hills is always up there for me. We're going back there this season. It was part of our live show last year. People voted on where they wanted the TAPS team to return to the most, and Waverly Hills won. So we will be going back and investigating there again, which I think we're all very excited about.

Adam Berry: Yes. I mean, I really liked Sloss Furnaces. That was something way up there on my list. And especially because Meatloaf was involved and he was there, and he's so passionate about the field itself. I think it made it even more special.

Question: And let me ask you. You both talked about places you've been that you'd like to go back to or they're you're favorites. Where have you not been that you would most likely go to?

Amy Bruni: I have a theory that if we go to Graceland and we find Elvis Presley's ghost, we'd like kill two birds with one stone, because one we found his ghost, and two, at that point we know that he's dead.

Question: You've both been with TAPS for a little while. What would you say is the most important thing that you've learned since you started with them?

Adam Berry: For me, everything. I mean, I learned a lot on Academy, but I still learn from Amy every time we go out. And every time we investigate something somewhere I've never been, I'm always learning, especially from the people that I work with, and I work with Amy the most. She keeps me on my toes. She calls me out when need be. And we have a good time doing it. I mean, I think that's the biggest thing I've learned from TAPS in general is to work as a team.

Amy Bruni: Yes. I think the biggest - I think the - I've learned a lot obviously in regard to paranormal investigations since I've started with the show. But I think that I've learned some lessons too, and one of them is that investigating - a paranormal investigation that is put on television is not necessarily how the paranormal investigation always happens, but not everything can always be included.

And I know when I first started, it was really hard for me to read reviews or people critiquing our investigation style, or saying, "Why didn't you do this? Or why did you do that?" When there's 40 minutes of footage they're seeing, and 23 minutes of that is really the investigation if we're lucky -- if it's an hour episode -- out of an investigation that spans sometimes 12 to 16 hours. So that's been my biggest lesson, is kind of trying not to respond to every single thing. It's just maintain my integrity and keep the investigation as the first priority, not how it's always received.

Question: Are you ever going to have an episode where it's strictly based on what the fans want? Like a fan's choice of where they want you to investigate?

Amy Bruni: Yes. I know we have done that in the past. They're usually given a choice obviously to vote on. We did Beardslee Castle or the Thousand Islands investigation when Meatloaf came out with us. That was a fan choice. It's the most haunted place in the United States or something. And us going back to Waverly Hills this season was a fan choice as well.
So Syfy regularly runs these great promotions and chances for fans to vote on where they want us to go. So yes, it's always fun to do that.

Question: And my other question is have you ever considered collaborating with other unsolved - other shows that have unsolved ghost cases such as Unsolved Mysteries or something along those lines?

Amy Bruni: I'm always up for a crossover.

Adam Berry: Yes. I mean that's not a bad idea. We watch each other's shows. We're good friends with Ben Hansen at Fact or Faked, and stuff like that. So we always see things that they're doing, and they see things that we're doing. And - like I'll be online and I'll see a crazy ghost video or something out of the ordinary, and I'm like "Ben, you know check - take a look at this." Because, it's not really our genre, but I think we all have to work together as a team and a group, no matter what we're doing just so we can further the field in any way we can.

Question: Where did your interest in the paranormal first stem from would you say?

Amy Bruni: Mine started when I was just a little girl. I was - I lived in a haunted house with my family and I saw a full-bodied apparition. And from there, I just had this really intense interest in it. And my dad and I used to ghost hunt together when I was little, so it's a definitely a different bonding experience, but it got me here. So...

Adam Berry: I mean, it's funny because when I was a kid I had things - I thought I lived in a - kind of a creepy house and things would happen, and I wasn't very scared of them. Of course, my parents would brush them off and whatever. That kind of got me started. I really didn't know you could actually investigate the paranormal until I actually saw the show Ghost Hunters. I figured we could all just talk about it and sit around and be scared about it or whatnot, and then I was like, "Oh. Wait a minute. You can actually like sort of scientifically figure out what's going on? This is crazy." So that's really how it started for me.

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