Eckstrom also used Hawes's name to send e-mails to some female members of TAPS, in which he threatened to rape and murder them. Bush, the Secret Service became involved. When the e-mails began to include threats against then President George W. Clair, Pennsylvania, began to send threatening e-mails to Jason Hawes, founder of TAPS. In March 2005, Barry Clinton Eckstrom, 51, of Upper St. Hawes has used public ghost hunting events and personal appearances to raise money for various charities, such as the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Cure Kids Cancer. They finally sold the Inn in the summer of 2014. The two are former co-owners of the Spalding Inn, based in Whitefield, New Hampshire. Jason has mentioned on several occasions he has a fondness for beanie hats with brims. It was Hawes who brought Wilson into the plumbing business. He and fellow TAPS founder Grant Wilson are longtime co-workers at their day job as plumbers for Roto-Rooter. Hawes has written two books on the paranormal and four sci-fi/ thriller screenplays. By that time, Hawes had opted to create his own show, Ghost Nation, with Ghost Hunters alumni Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango, which has been airing on the Travel Channel since October 2019.

The show's initial run ended in 2016, although it was eventually revived for a 12th season in 2019. When Hawes was twenty-two, he went on to found TAPS/The Atlantic Paranormal Society and co-create the major television hit Ghost Hunters, which became the flagship show of the Syfy Channel and made it one of the top watched channels on cable. Hawes founded the Rhode Island Paranormal Society (RIPS) in 1990 as a support group for people who had paranormal experiences. Paranormal researcher John Zaffis told Hawes that he was becoming sensitive to paranormal phenomena.

According to his own account, Hawes began to see apparitions at the age of twenty after a girlfriend who practiced Reiki manipulated his life force energy. Hawes was born in Canandaigua, New York and moved to Warwick, Rhode Island in 1979. TAPS co-founder and former lead investigator Grant Wilson returned to lead a brand new team, while Hawes moved on to lead his own show with Ghost Hunters alumni Dave Tango and Steve Gonsalves in Ghost Nation, which has been airing on the Travel Channel since October 2019. Several years later, the show was renewed and revived for a 12th season at A&E, with new episodes premiering in August 2019 without Hawes's participation. He is also one of the stars and co-producers of Syfy's Ghost Hunters, which ended its initial run after its eleventh season on October 26, 2016. Jason Conrad Hawes (born December 27, 1971) is an American plumber and the co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island.

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