Dustin Pari Appears As Ghost Hunters Live On SciFi

For its first live Halloween special in 2006, Sci Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" -- led by Rhode Island Roto-Rooter plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who moonlight as paranormal investigators -- chose the 138- guest-room Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., an hour from Denver, which was the inspiration for the Stephen King novel "The Shining." Among those confirmed to be joining Hawes and Wilson are their regular investigators -- Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Kris Williams -- along with familiar face Donna LaCroix and Robb Demarest and Dustin Pari from the spinoff series "Ghost Hunters International." Also on hand is Amanda Tapping, star of the new Sci Fi Channel series "Sanctuary."

Last year, Hawes and Wilson and their organization, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, chose to revisit the rambling Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Ky. Built in the 1920s, the huge Gothic structure could accommodate more than 400 patients.

This Friday, Oct. 31, Hawes and Wilson take T. A. P. S. on a ferry ride to Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River to do a second, now live investigation of Fort Delaware, an early 19th-century battlement that became a POW camp during the Civil War.T. A. P. S. doesn't just show up at a location with a few psychics, a couple of dowsing rods and a crystal ball.

Its investigative technique is based more in hard evidence, so there are cameras (regular, night vision and thermal imaging -- in addition to those that record the show for broadcast), digital recorders and a variety of devices to measure electromagnetic fields, temperature and so on.