New T.A.P.S. Ramily Radio season

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just in case anyone is interested in tuning in. Starts May 17th at 12 midnight GMT



Ramily??

Riamfada

Just a quick little query I always meant to ask. How are they bringing "unity" to the paranormal community? Is it a case of unity but under their banner? Not having a go I just dont get the TAPS thing..

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Lots of people dont get the TAPS Family thing, and Im not surprised as its a bit closed off.

Basically the community they are referring to isnt the overall world paranormal community, but to the TAPS Family community. They look for serious minded research groups the world over, those who genuinely want to know what the paranormal is about, and not bent on making money off it nor necessarily believing that 'ghosts' etc exist. They look for even headed skeptical research groups basically, and then all these groups work together (ourselves and PRAOFI for example have access to a private TAPS server) in discussing ideas on what the paranormal may be, sharing procedures and ways of doing things etrc - basically networking and learning. As well as this, TAPS also takes in a lot of case requests from their main site and sends them out to the appropriate teams in the appropriate countries.

Plus it's growing every day. Im actually part of the TFM International Recruiment team which means we involve more teams from countries that currently aren't represented. There's quite a bit of interworking that goes on between various TFMs spread throughout the world. Next year, for example all the TFMs have been invited to Germany for an investigation with one of the German TFMs.

That is a paranormal community that is unified.

Basically it's all about research on one hand, and helping people deal with apparent paranormal activity on the other. That 'helping', for the vast majority, is simply encouraging those who request help to think logically by suggesting alternate solutions to their otherwise 'paranormal' experiences.

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Just a quick little query I always meant to ask. How are they bringing "unity" to the paranormal community? Is it a case of unity but under their banner? Not having a go I just dont get the TAPS thing..

bigeasyeah

Read the thread title in a Scooby-Doo voice.

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i can pretend I done that on purpose!

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tonights guest is Grant Wilson from SyFy's GhostHunters. 12 midnight gmt from http://para-x.com

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http://www.radiocrackle.com/v2/index.php?id=572

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show two is online with interview with John Zaffis:

http://www.radiocrackle.com/v2/index.php?cat=TapsFamilyRadio

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Show three, with Paul from GHI, is up at the TAPS Family Facebook page

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check out the TAPS Family facebook page. We've had almost 1300 'likes' in the past week since Jason Hawes from Ghost Hunters has been tweeting about TF Radio.

In the next few shows we're going to have author Marie Jones and Dr. Ciaran O'Keeffe from Most Haunted

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all up on itunes now as well:

http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/taps-family-radio/id381311490

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What's better than cool gear? FREE cool gear!

On Monday's (TONIGHT July 12) show, we will be giving away a very cool IR Illuminator from Paul Bradford's Creepy Hollow Gear store!

Tune in at 12 midnight gmt tonight to find out how to win!

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Last night's show featured Marie Davis, author of "PSIence," and co-author of "The Dejavu Enigma," written with Larry Flaxman. Join Kris, Jeff and guest presenter, Dave not only for the genuinely eye opening interview with Marie, but also as they discuss George Cloony's Pet Pig and introduce our amazing competition to win some Creepy Hollow Gear from GHI's Paul Bradford.

The interview is really good in this one.

http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com/index.php?id=7

iTunes podcast is now updated

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Last nights show with Ciaran O'Keeffe:

http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com/index.php?id=9

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these shows are going fantastically.

So far we've had :
TAPS Founder Grant Wilson (17 May 2010)
The legendary John Zaffis (31 May 2010)
GHI's Paul Bradford (28th June 2010)
Author Marie Jones (12th July 2010)
Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe (26th July 2010) and Mel Meter creator Gary Galka (August 9th 2010)

Tomorrow night (the show has been moved to very other Wednesday night - http://para-x.com) we have none other than Alexandra Holzer.

Heres some info on the next batch of guests:

August 25th. 2010 - Alexandra Holzer

Alexandra Holzer, the daughter of Dr Hans Holzer the original ghost hunter and pioneer in the field of the paranormal, she has followed in her fathers footsteps and taken the reign as a paranormal expert as well as author, columnist, broadcaster and a mother with four children.

As with her Father, Alexandra developed her own talent for writing including writing columns, screenplays, poetry, children's short stories. Alexandra also has a novel a sci-fi epic trilogy “Lady Ambrosia Secret Pasts Revealed” Her first non-fiction title entitled “Growing Up Haunted” has also hit the bookshops and is well received.

Other than her work on projects Alexandra is a keen supporter of local animal rescue services and is a promoter of adoption and rescue verses breeding and selling. Another cause very close to her heart is Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for children’s diabetes.

Alex is an excellent speaker and very entertaining.

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September 8th. 2010 - Patrick Burns

Patrick Burns is best known as the paranormal investigator star of TruTV’s (formerly CourtTV)Haunting Evidence. For three seasons, Burns was called to apply his vast knowledge of electronics and computer systems toward the goal of documenting paranormal activity.

He is one of the most respected and in-demand paranormal researchers today, receiving requests to conduct investigations and lectures from coast to coast

He is the founder and director of Ghost Hounds, one of the largest paranormal communities in the USA, and is the organizer and host of GhoStock: a paranormal enthusiast’s convention held annually at famously haunted locations across the country.

Patrick currently has several ambitious media projects in the works, including a “how-to” instructional video on ghost hunting and a series of DVD’s profiling allegedly haunted locations around the country. Somewhere in between, he’s managed to find the time to pen his first book: The Other Side: A Teenager’s Guide to Ghost Hunting with Marley Gibson and Dave Schrader.

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September 22nd. 2010 - Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading light on the paranormal and supernatural. With more than 40 books – including 9 encyclopedias – and hundreds of articles in print on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual and mystical topics, she possesses an exceptional knowledge of the field. She has approximately one million copies in print.

Her work has been translated into 14 languages and has been selected by major book clubs around the world. She appears in television programs, documentaries and docudramas with paranormal themes, and makes numerous media and lecture appearances, including colleges and universities. She conducts original field investigations of haunted and mysterious sites.

Guiley is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, the leading nighttime syndicated talk radio show, and has c-authored a book with Noory on spirit communications (Tor Books).

Too many accomplishments to list, one of which is she's a columnist for TAPS Paramagazine.

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So - every other Wed night on http://para-x.com at midnight ... including tomorrow night.

The shows are proving pretty popular so far. From May until July we had around 5000 itunes downloads and when I checked Augusts stats yesterday, we've had voer another 5000 odd downloads this month alone - half of those being the last show on August 9th. The average listenership to each broadcast is (according to Para-X.com) somewhere around the 20,000 mark so join in tomorrow night at midnight!

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show starts in 20 mins at http://para-x.com ... tonight guest is Alexandra Holzer, the daughter of Dr Hans Holzer.

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For those of you into Cryptozoology, the latest TAPS Family Radio show from the other night has a great interview with Loren Coleman.

The show is now two hours long, broadcast live every other Wednesday at 12 midnight, and the other twelve shows we've done since May 2010 have totalled over 26,000 podcast downloads at this stage.

It's a good listen. Check out any of the shows at http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com.

KeithAFC

Isn't TAPS the team which does Ghost Hunters? I have a slight problem with TAPS in that they claim to be skeptics (open minded etc) and yet iv seen the way the team investigates and some of them seriously think they have communicated with spirit. Perhaps im getting this wrong but is TAPS not that same group?

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the two boys from taps do the whole ghost hunter show thing, but ghost hunters is a paranormal TV show first and foremost if you ask me. If anyone thinks any different then they're being a tad naive.

Just though, because Ghost Hunters has TAPS people in it, that doesn't really have anything to really do with TAPs as an organisation nor the TAPS family. Taps Family is basically a network of groups working together.

As I say, GH is a tv show so Im sure theres a lot of makey uppy marketing going on - though I would argue that theres been a lot of **** talked when it comes to taps actually ever faking anything. So far I havent seen any definitive proof of that. If anyone has, plus let me see it. ('definitive' is the key word there)

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they claim to be skeptics (open minded etc) and yet iv seen the way the team investigates and some of them seriously think they have communicated with spirit

and if they're skeptical then even if it looks like there maybe a paranormal angle to something, that means they automatically shouldn't believe it? Can't say I understand that reasoning especially if they're meant to be open minded to the idea. Again though, it is TV we're talking about here.

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We've just moved TAPS Family Radio to Jackalope Radio, which not only has a pretty decent web network with four seperate web streams, but also broadcasts on FM in the states.

The first Show on the new network was Tuesday night with Hester Eby, from the Myrtles Plantation and Jason Hawes, TAPS founder and Ghost Hunters crew member.

You can listen to the podcast either at http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com/index.php?id=20, http://tapsfamilyradio.net/?p=120 or by searching the podcast section of iTunes.

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Latest show now online - interview with NightWatch host and horror director Todd Sheets, with Taps Family team Ghost Hunters of the South.

Tune in either http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com/index.php?id=21 , http://tapsfamilyradio.radiocrackle.com/index.php?id=21 or search for Taps Family Radio in the iTunes podcast section.

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theres tons more paranormal interviews since the last time this thread was updated, including Steve Psrsons, Ben Hanson, Grant Wilson etc.

In July we have Paul Bradford and Scot Tepperman from Ghost Hunters International (tonight - tune in from tapsfamilyradio.net at 11pm gmt), on the 17th it's Bill Murphy from Fact or Faked Paranormal Files and July 31st Alexandra Holzer, daughter of paranormal legend Hans Holzer.

Plus theres always the iPhone app which streams the live show plus has all the podcasts.

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Bill Murphy is on tonights show at 11pm GMT - you can read about the show and tune in from http://tapsfamilyradio.net/?p=444

You'll also find Paul and Scott's interview as well as all the rest on the site. July 31st we have Alex Holzer, the daughter of world renowned paranormal researcher Hans Holzer and Im currently talking to Erin Ryder from Chasing UFOs about coming on the show in August, as well as Steve Gonsalves from Ghost Hunters.

I have no idea if any of you bother yer arses listening to the show, but people are. We're averaging approx one podcast download every hour over the past 6 months and one app download (an app I made) per hour over the past 3 months. Plus average live listenership is around 800 - 1500 per show.

If you want to leave a question for any of our guests, skype call_tfradio and leave the name of the guest the question is for and the question itself._

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http://tapsfamilyradio.net/?p=444 - have a listen to Bill Murphys interview online through the site, on itunes on through the iphone app. Bill actually talks about that UFO video thats in another thread on here somewhere (handy since he was one of the main witnesses in that vid).