NEWPORT – Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson agree that there are similarities between being a plumber and a paranormal investigator.

NEWPORT – Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson agree that there are similarities between being a plumber and a paranormal investigator.

Goose Sorensen , left, and Tyler Wiard cooked up a winning recipe at the Wine Festival.

Thousands of fans waited in line for hours to catch a glimpse of the Roto Rooter/Sci-Fi Channel stars, shake their hands, snap a photo or two and to get a copy of their newest book signed … their bathroom-reader that is.

Loren Coleman on August 6th, 2009 As alerted by MSNBC and other outlets, Forbes Traveler reporter Judy McGuire’s new feature on “monster vacations” has been published.

The book, Chilling Tales from the Porcelain Seat is a vignette-style bathroom reader, and features commentary by the Ghost Hunters and experts from Cincinnati-based Roto-Rooter. Hawes and Wilson also happen to be real-life Roto-Rooter plumbers by day and paranormal investigators by night.

Of the questions that have troubled great thinkers these last few thousand years, the question of which TV science show is the best has proved among the hardest to resolve.

This year they will mark their third visit to Lily Dale Assembly, and once again their workshops promise to be sell-outs. Television’s Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of SciFi Channel’s “Ghost Hunters,” will return to the Lily Dale auditorium Saturday and Sunday.