Lol! /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':blink:' /> You notice how badly written the book was. I'm still reading the cases. Was reading about the Toronto case. Have to do something while riding the rails to and from NYC (2 hrs. each way). There's a wedding were preparing for.

I'll be finish. In between reading "Lovely Bones". And, of course my brother-in-law's book. Which I'm reading first. It's a bad habit of mine reading about 5 books at the same time.

I like the bullet points, Crouty. I had thought about reading the book, but not seriously enough to go find a copy! /rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

I can't wait for the next installment. Can we do this like the old radio serials? "Stay tuned to see if Jason turns green from eating a jar of olives a day!"

(btw, I like green olives too! They're great on pizza!)

Yup! That's my plan.

So, another tidbit.

"RIPS" it's the name of J's group before TAPS "also visited some homes, responding to residents who wanted to know if they were living with supernatural entities. I remember one Connecticut case in particular--not because of any significant paranormal activity but because while I was there I ran into the woman I had met in the Mystic aquarium. Like us, she was checking out the house for signs of haunting.

It was a strange moment. But then, she had said we would meet again. I made sure to thank her for the olive idea."

I still wonder if he still pops those things.

"About the same time, I got a call from a guy who had seen our rinky-dink RIPS website and said he could improve on it, make it nicer-looking and more functional. In fact, he was willing to redesign it for free. He just wanted to add it to his portfolio so he could get other work in the future."

Guess who this was?

"It was outside the doughnut place, as we were talking alongside my Subaru, that the guy finally came clean. He had had an experience of his own--a recurring one, from the time he was fifteen until he turned seventeen and went to college."

So, what I see from this, it stopped. It could have been his hormones at the time.

"Finally I said, "Screw the rest of what's out there," referring to other ghost hunters and their methods. "Let's do it our way". "

So, that was the start of what we see now. What he was saying about the other groups is that they would say everything is haunted. That they don't collect evidence.

"Grant said it best: "If you set out to prove a haunting, anything will seem like evidence. If you set out to disprove it, you'll end up with only things you can't explain away".

Now, I know what your thinking. Which comes first the chicken or the egg? So, does this means. When you can't explain it away. The place is haunted?

Very true. He's totally a believer. But, like the old saying going, "Do as I say. Not as I do".

But here's the thing, he can be a believer AND a debunker. On the show, he presents his team as debunking first and foremost before going to that next step of claiming "paranormal" activity. He looks for a normal explanation first.

Like I said about myself. I'm a believer. But, love skeptics. They point out and discuss that it can be something else or created. I don't believe every knock, or shadow, smell, voices are paranormal. So, I would say I'm a believer and a debunker.

But, the book is very interesting. Because he's more than a debunker. And, in the past he didn't run his cases like he does on the show. He believes in things that know one ever discuss in any forum. I'll get into that later. It's an eyeopener.

"Other groups looked for publicity, seeking out the media on Halloween and so on. We never did that."

That changed.

"Grant and I decided that in order to extend our contact network, we first had to separate the people who saw things our way from those who didn't, and the best way to do that was by being controversial."

This is true. That's how they built their empire.

"So we put up an article on our website that essentially said orbs were trash." "The paranormal field was polarized almost overnight."

So this is the basis of how they got started.

"Grant and I cut a deal. He would take care of the creative and technical facets of our organization, areas where he's the undisputed king. I would handle the management and business aspects."

I wonder how strict they are in this idea. I would find it hard not to have any input in the total running of the group. If I am one of the founders.