Ghost Hosts To Open Inn
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, hosts of SCI FI Channel's Ghost Hunters, told reporters that they are going into the bed-and-breakfast business--but in a well-known haunted inn, natch.
"We have a place that's near to our hearts that we're trying to actually purchase," Hawes told reporters during a press weekend in Estes Park, Colo., over the weekend. (The news conference took place in another haunted locale made famous in a Ghost Hunters episode: The Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining.)
Hawes and Grant--who founded the Atlantic Paranormal Society, or TAPS--said they are in the process of acquiring the Spalding Inn in Whitefield, New Hampshire.
"[It] is a haunted inn, and we're just getting ready to finalize everything on it," Hawes said, adding, "We're going to open it back up. It was a very well-known inn; it just needs some work, and we're going to have to fix it up and open it back up and go from there."
Will the well-known ghostbusters turn the inn into a theme park?
"No," they answer in unison.
"It's already got its own reputation," Hawes said, adding: "We spend so much time in New Hampshire as it is. We're always up there camping and staying there with our families. ... This opportunity opened up, and I stayed there years and years in the past, the wife and I both had personal experiences. saw a child run down the hall, and, there were no children there, so it was just very interesting what happened that we're able to acquire it."
Ghost Hunters returns with 25 new episodes in early 2009.