The TAPS team is called in by the "US Coast Guard" to investigate the "Race Rock Lighthouse" located in "Long Island Sound". This lighthouse has been renovated, to the point of being almost completely automated by itself so that their wouldn't any need to have a local resident living their, But still their are frequent maintenance and inspection to be done in the lighthouse, and so the Coast Guard officers must go and do their jobs their. These officers have reported several times of strange unexpected behavior in this lighthouse, that have caused them to be afraid of even going to the lighthouse, let alone work in it. The leading officers in the coast guard wants to disprove this haunting for obvious reasons.
During the investigation, the team records several flying orbs and a weird fogy mist, which could indicate a haunting. but their was some problems as to what time they recorded these events. Also Andy follows an Electro Magnetic Field (or also known as EMF) reading that seems to be moving on a vertical motion on a stairway; it was suggested that the old caretaker of the lighthouse before it was renovated use to go in the same motion as the recorded phenomena. In a related incident, TAPS ables to record a chair spontaneously moving by itself in a very short distance, with know one in the room at the time. This investigation was granted as being haunted or at least having some paranormal activity in it.
Ghost Hunters is an hour documentary-type show that follows a team of Paranormal investigators in the field of researching ghostly activities. The show follows a group of paranormal investigators from a well known organization/society known as TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society), whose founding members, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are also plumbers by day, working for Roto-Rooter in New England.
The show's/TAPS format goes as follows: The team either gets contacted or are drawn to investigate a location. They then go to that location and gather information about the location's history and past claims of hauntings, and try to debunk and/or recreate most/all of the claims, they also record all types of situations in all types of ways, from thermal imaging, EMF detection, still pictures, to EVP recordings. Then TAPS members analyze what they recorded and what they found, and then reveal their findings to Jason and Grant. Jason and Grant then meet with the client and go over any evidence that TAPS managed to find. Grant and Jason then tell them whether they believe the location is haunted or not, and if the location is haunted they try to help them anyway they can, from blessing the house to bringing a demonologist to exorcise the location'.