Ghost Hunters set to haunt discovery+ in January 2022
By Carla Davis
The popular Ghost Hunters series is returning with a new reboot on discovery+. The series joins the other paranormal and true crime shows on the streaming app.
The TAPS team, consisting of Paranormal Investigators Jason Hawes, Dave Tango and Steve Gonsalves, are back. Several special guests are joining them for the first episode. The series will begin airing on discovery+ January 1, where the group will investigate the Old Joliet Prison in Joliet, Illinois.
The Old Joliet Prison has been home to such renowned criminals as Baby Face Nelson, serial killer John Wayne Gacy and mass murderer Richard Speck, so one can only imagine what kind of dark energy the prison contains. Ghost Nation‘s Shari DeBenedetti is joining the team alongside Dakota Laden, Alex Schroeder and Tanner Wiseman of Destination Fear.
Consisting of 12 new one-hour episodes, the discovery+ reboot will follow the Ghost Hunters as they traverse the country, visiting notoriously haunted locations. They will use technology and their well-earned knowledge of the supernatural in an attempt to prove or disprove the haunting claims.
In addition to the Old Joliet Prison, Ghost Hunters will investigate a hotel in Nebraska, a brewery in Pittsburgh, Virginia’s Bacon’s Castle, a Kentucky Tavern, a winery in Virginia, farmhouses in both Tennessee and Kansas, the Phillip Williams House in Virginia, Hill Mansion in New Jersey, Collingwood Arts Center in Ohio and Cresson Sanitorium in Pennsylvania.
Ghost Hunters set to haunt Discovery+ beginning January 1
Other guest stars include The Ghost Brothers, rock star Meat Loaf, UFO expert Ben Hansen, and several former Ghost Hunters, like Dustin Pari, Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Kris Williams. It looks to be a season full of notorious haunts and interesting guests.
Ghost Hunters’ Steve Gonsalves said that the team found themselves “in some truly frightening situations this season that helped us capture some of our best evidence to date.”
For those unfamiliar, Ghost Hunters initially aired on Syfy from October 2004 to October 2016. The series was hugely popular, featuring the founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), along with a handful of their investigating team members. The TAPS members traveled across the U.S. and beyond, performing overnight investigations in such haunted locations as the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida and The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
Ghost Hunters was rebooted in 2019 without founder Jason Hawes, but co-founder Grant Wilson was on board. Along with Gonsalves and Tango, Hawes began work on a new series titled Ghost Nation, which aired on Travel Channel. Head spinning yet? Because, yes, the new discovery+ version of Ghost Hunters includes Hawes and his team, with Wilson nowhere to be found.
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