Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown

People need to look into this book before giving it 2 stars or less

Okay, for one, this is written for children. In a story form for children that is why Jason and Grant isn't the main characters. Take a preview through the book, look into it you will see. I love the book and I love the fact that they wrote a book for children it was very interesting actually that they want to get children involved into the ghost hunting! It's not like "Ghost Hunting" or "Seeking Spirits" so if you think its gonna be like that don't buy it. It is for children! I'm a big fan of Jason and Grants work so if you love TAPS and a good ol ghost story this book is great for all ages!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Highly Recommended - Great for Kids Who Believe in Ghosts

This is a great book for your teenagers or even pre-teens who believe that ghosts are real. Other than Stories it teaches your kids how to conduct their own ghost hunt. It is a good learning tool. I would recommend this books to other parents.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

I LOVE GHOST HUNTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JASON AND GRANT ARE AWSOME !!!!
i cant wait to read all their books

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Awesomeness

This book is the besr book i have ever read

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Question

I am ten years old should I get this book?

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Total fan

I loved it soooo much. The one thing i didnt like though was none of the orginal team members except for jay and grant were in therw, although that may have been because in case someone left, someone wouldnt come and read the book three years lajter and w onder qho the heck that person is.

Hi i'm 7 years old and my teacher is mrs.Kilian.

best book ever.but i still do think wrestaling is better.

Kyle

I read the sample and i loved it so the books gotta be better

Many dfferent storys

I recamend if you like scary or tragec endings also happy and sad endings!

Grat Great book

I love this book beacause i watch their show all the time!!!

I love Ghost Hunter

I love the show and just loves all the books. I have never miss the shows unless i am out of town or sick. I recommend to read all of their books if u are interestes in ghost hunter and their stories.

Scary

Everything is super scary. The ghost on water and fort mifflin was scary. I felt like i was at all of these spooky places

spine-tingling

Reviewed by Rita V for Readers Favorite

Ghost Hunt, Chilling Tales of the Unknown is a spine-tingling novel written by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, with Cameron Dokey. This book is the first in a collection of case files from The Atlanta Paranormal Society, TAPS. Contained in this novel are eight individual chilling ghost stories based on real life experiences and true events that sent the TAPS team to investigate. These intriguing stories include: pennies that appear out of nowhere repeatedly on a young man's bedroom floor; a dark haunted figure that hovers over the water; a 12-year-old boy asks the team to investigate three ghosts in his home and none of them appear to have legs; a case that involves TAPS exploring Fort Mifflin where 150 soldiers had lost their lives; a house haunted by loud knocking noises that actually tie in to a familiar tune; a jealous ghost that acts out against the living; a teenager who disturbs a grave site brings an angry spirit back home with him; and a little girl who can see and talk to her grandmother who had passed away three months earlier. There is also a chapter at the end of the book entitled, "The Ghost Hunt Guide," which tells you precisely how to setup your own paranormal investigation.

Ghost Hunt is written specifically for children in grades 4-9, but even the adults will enjoy these thrilling stories! The cover is captivating and mysterious with the graveyard setting and really captures the reader's attention immediately. The plot of each story is easy for older children to comprehend; and while it is a thriller, it is written delicately so children will be on their edge of their seat, but without the blood, guts and gore. It is written very tastefully, and I loved the build-up of suspense and found that I could not put this book down! What is most fascinating about these stories is that they are based on true events. Almost everyone has had some type of paranormal experience in their life that they cannot explain and can truly relate to these stories, myself included. Jason and Grant really hit it out of the ballpark with this mysterious and fun read for all ages. I absolutely enjoyed each story and found the Ghost Hunt Guide to be very informational and helpful.

Low quality.

I have read some of these stories before but now they are fictionalized and are not that interesting of a read. They have even changed the story to add ghost hunters who had no mention in the original stories of these events. I enjoyed their first two books but this one was not of that quality.

Ghost Hunters Jason and Grant only have a supporting role in their own book

The guys from T.A.P.S. are delving into the scariest territory of all - adolescence. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson's first foray into the realm of young adult fiction is Ghost Hunt: Chilling Tales of the Unknown, a collection of imaginary stories based on real-life cases investigated by the Ghost Hunters of the SyFy Network. The familiar T.A.P.S. logo adorns hats, shirts, converted Roto Rooter vans - now it graces the cover of a book aimed at a young audience. Tweens love to shiver between the pages from R.L. Stine's Goosebumps to the writings of Christopher Pike, and this particular installment is much like the T.V. show - more technical than emotional. The focus is on electromagnetic field detectors and electronic voice phenomena rather than blood-curdling screams and heart-racing panic. By employing a female point-of-view through new team member, Lyssa Frye, the book attempts to target both genders, but with more terminology than horror it is a better fit for a boy's bookshelf.

The publisher's sampler includes two chapters. The first is "Pennies from a Ghost," where two brothers keep finding seven pennies in their room arranged in the shape of a flower. The spare change appears in different locations next to the bed, under the window, etc. Lyssa fields the distress call on her first day at The Atlantic Paranormal Society office. The reader experiences the investigation through her eyes as the new chief interviewer. She has a panic attack investigating a dark basement with Jason. This is harder than it looks! Lyssa realized suddenly. She was talking to the dark. She was asking a ghost to show itself. Most people would be running the other way. But I'm not most people. I'm a T.A.P.S. investigator. Or at least she was trying to be one. The end result has shades of the plot from Zac Efron's Charlie St. Cloud.

Chapter two entitled "The Ghost of Grandma Helen" explores an area not often addressed on the show - psychic mediums. The goal of any T.A.P.S. investigation is to debunk paranormal claims. They rarely, if ever, turn to those with the ability to converse with the dead. However, the team turns to a psychic to commune with the spirit of a deceased grandmother who is appearing to her 4-year-old granddaughter. This paranormal dialogue is not on the level of Kate Hudson's terrorizing ordeal in The Skeleton Key, but it is a departure for T.A.P.S. It concludes with a poignant ceremony at the family grave site.

The end section is a Cliff-Notes/Wikipedia introductory guide to ghost hunting. Told in the narrative voice of Jason and Grant, the appendix adheres in tone to the T.A.P.S. philosophy - "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 those things you can't explain away." It's a junior high entry course to Ghost Hunters Academy. The seven steps of the T.A.P.S. method are explained; a test case measures ghost hunting skills with a multiple choice quiz; and a back-of-the-book glossary defines terms of the trade.

For Ghost Hunters fans, the book feels like Jason and Grant just slapped their names onto the project. Only the introductory pages to the fictional stories and ghost hunting guide are attributed to the guys from T.A.P.S. When they appear as characters, their actions ring false. The producers of the book are more interested in creating formulated drama than depicting the reality behind the series.

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