Thanks Stephen.

Interesting that the "original" article, picked up from the CT paper, is different than what the Indiana paper quoted.  Talk about freedom of the press!  You can see the original article, complete with a picture of the duo, here.  Check out the last 4-5 paragraphs one of which is edited and the others not even included.  I think those paragraphs alone tell the story as to why GH/TAPS went to yet another commercial location.  Sorry, I think we all know what that means.

Red flags:

Grant says "We can't touch anything".

"And seeing a trend, the Mark Twain House & Museum is opening its doors this month to point out the spooky doings for a series of special “Graveyard Shift” nighttime tours."

"New management meant an opening for investigators."

"Twain officials say they hope any interest they get from ghost hunters on their Friday-night tours might spill out into general interest into the Twain House; studies have found that most local people have visited once, usually back in grade school, but haven't found a reason to return."

"Then came the most famous amateur investigators, in another all-night investigation late last month." yet then the article says "Because the show usually spends two weeks in each place, the ghost hunters spent a week at the Mark Twain House with some after-hours investigations this past week at Hartford's Old State House."  First they say "all-night" then "two weeks in each place" and then "spent a week"?  Huh?

"But staffers also stayed around all night to assist them."?  Interesting the original article ended this sentence with "and to keep an eye out".

The article also states they are from Westerly, RI.  Okay.  How do we tell a reporter that obviously has never seen the show, read the PR or even looked at the website, that in every opening of every show, we see a photo of the Warwick water tower and their offices in Warwick, RI which is an hour away from Westerly?  By the way, Hartford is less than 2 hours away from Warwick.

I have one question, where is Andy?  I think we may need that hairdryer for the cigar smoke in the pool room.

And, Is it a bad sign for the place when Grant says "“I'm more interested in the history of the place than paranormal activity”?

I agree with your comments Oubliette.

I have to say I couldn't figure out exactly what the Smoking Gun Research Agency was getting at either but then I realized they were leaving the door open for others since they were the first to be allowed in to investigate.

EDIT:  Interestingly, the Smoking Gun Research Agency claims they have been subject to hacking and their website is currently unavailable.  Hmmm….

"This was, after all, an august literary landmark, not some spooky spectacle" as the article stated.  Hmmm…. what happened to change all that?  Could it be "studies have found that most local people have visited once, usually back in grade school, but haven't found a reason to return."?  Could it be ?

I've always had a problem with the fact that Grant states he's a co-founder.  How exactly do you become a co-founder 2 years after Jason claims he founded the group (originally called RIPS) and specifically states he is the "founder"?  Was it just because they changed the names?  If so, wasn't that many years afterwards?  I guess if you say it enough, people will believe it, much the way they do with their investigations.

Plumbing the last 5 years?  Please don't get me started on that again!  lol

Nosfer,

From what I remember someone saying, he was operating with a few investigators from a 2 bedroom apartment and connected with Grant because he was a computer tech who was doing websites for others.

P.S. I didn't want to read it either.

phillyk48 said:

 After this was when he started "RIPS", the Rhode Island Paranormal Society, which started out as a support group. 

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Interesting that here it is claimed that Brian founded RIPS -

"This veteran ghost-hunter has gained expertise throughout his home state of Rhode Island, first as founder of The Rhode Island Paranormal Society and then as a member of TAPS."

http://www.univcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38:

distinguished-speaker-brian-harnois&catid=2:list-of-speakers-presenters&Itemid=5

Nice place, no activity, brought to you as an outreach for your tourism dollars.  Did they see anything at all that was reported?  No.  Did the picture the guy showed look even remotely like two figures in the window?  No.  If this had been any other older house, they wouldn't have even considered investigating it let alone film it for this show.

Dustin's comment to Brit about the place smelling like a haunted house?  I'm sure the curator was thrilled to hear that Dustin.

I will give them this, at least the not missing Steve and Tango comment was funny.

Looks like Dustin had some quick 'splaining to do after the comment I mentioned above regarding the place smelling like a haunted house.  From his Twitter page today:

"For those who've asked regarding Twain episode- A Haunted house smells a little musty, w/ a whiff of cigar smoke & flowers to cover up death about 21 hours ago from web"

And the location has now turned into another profit making opportunity…..

"Looking fwd to lecturing at the Mark Twain house in CT on Dec16th with John Zaffis- tix and info http://www.idealeventmanage.com/twainlecture.html about 19 hours ago from web"

and the beat goes on ……