Talking Ghost Hunters Season 2 with Steve Gonsalves

Private residences, a library, a jail, a coliseum…the TAPS team investigates an array of locations in Ghost Hunters season 2. And after speaking with Steve Gonsalves about the new season, it sounds like, in addition to incredible places, some great guest investigators join them this season too.

But why did Steve keep circling back to the Pensacola Lighthouse for many of his answers? “Keeper of the Light,” a.k.a. episode 1 of season 2, seemed to have really made an impact on him. Was it because he had such a blast there? Or was it because, as he pointed out, lighthouses have always been good to the TAPS team? Maybe a combo of all of that?

Here are some highlights from my conversation with him about Ghost Hunters season 2. Which, by the way, premieres on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel. It also starts streaming the same day on discovery+.

To hear more, you’ll find an audio-only version of our entire conversion on YouTube, which is also embedded below.  

What was your favorite place to investigate during Ghost Hunters season 2 and why?

So far there has been one place that we actually just recently finished that has been a bucket list place for all of us for quite some time, but sadly I haven’t been given the green light to release the name of that particular location.

But I will tell you this. Out of the places that we have done, it would honestly be quite hard to pick an absolute favorite. But the episode that does air on Saturday is the Pensacola Lighthouse in Pensacola, Florida, and that was actually quite special for a lot of different reasons. Had a great investigation. Had a tremendous amount of fun. But I was able to really confront some things and have some experiences there that were quite profound.

Special guest investigators in this episode include former Ghost Hunters alum Amy Bruni, Adam Berry, and Kris Williams. As Steve put it, “It’s always great when they join us.”

Which location surprised you the most this season?

We did a location just in the beginning of the summer and not much was happening. It was part a jailhouse and part reformed…it became a restaurant and a pub at one point. But it started as the old jailhouse, the town’s jailhouse, and it’s from the turn of the century. But not much was happening, and we were sort of like, okay, this place has such a history, and the reports were literally coming from when it was still open as a jail at the turn of the century.

We found newspaper articles where they’re actually talking about the ghosts and the apparitions and all of this. So we said there’s no way we’re here for such a long period of time. But as you know, in this field, it’s never long enough.

But for us, we were there for quite some time, and so we decided to turn up the heat a little bit. And when I say “turn up the heat,” I don’t mean we started provoking and going crazy. We really started to implement a lot of different techniques and really decided to dig into the history and see if there’s anything we missed. Because a lot of times, there are clues in the history that ends up working as a trigger that you didn’t realize was [a trigger] in the first place.

And I think we found all of the things we needed because right away, or not right away but soon after, we started implementing these other techniques. Our last few days at this location were some of the most active we’d ever had.

So that was really cool, and sort of took me by surprise because I thought we were going to leave that one…and you know from watching our show that there are times when we go in and we don’t find anything. You know, we really don’t. But it does, because we’re paranormal investigators, it does bum us out. And we leave there kind of, “Aw man.” 

Luckily we didn’t leave there feeling that way. That was a pretty cool investigation for us.

This season you all get to investigate with former Ghost Hunters, like Amy Bruni and Adam Berry, as well as other stars like The Ghost Brothers and Steve Shippy, but there’s a sort of surprising guest star joining you this season, Johnny Weir. Did you ever think you’d ghost hunt with an Olympic ice skater?

I don’t think any of us going into what we do, for…or think that Olympians or Olympic skaters are really going to be much interested in what we do, but apparently, there is quite a connection. We’ve had quite a lot of athletes on our show in the past. You know, notoriously, we’ve had wrestlers on our live shows and that sort of thing.

But when he came, yeah, he has a deep interest in what we do and in the paranormal world, and we were able to make it work.

And quite honestly, he was great. So much fun to be around. He really was there to learn and expand his horizons in terms of his spirituality. I think he had some questions that he wanted answered for himself in terms of spirituality. But it was great fun having him there. And he actually implemented a few techniques of his own that took me by surprise.

Was there anything new you learned from any of the locations this season or that you’ve never had happen before?

Um, yeah, we were able to communicate with…something, someone, an energy. And this happened more than once.

We’re just implementing a technique. We’re able to actually locate a specific spot in a house, or in a location.

For instance,  we weren’t able to figure out where this gentleman’s office was, and through some direct communication, we ended up in this room, kind of like just hidden on its own, just really didn’t, you know, not a standout room. It certainly didn’t look like an office. But we did find some paperwork in that room that led us to believe it probably was the office where if we…and what’s important about that is that’s where we wanted to spend a good chunk of time investigating and we just didn’t know which room it was. We didn’t know where to focus our energy at that point. And so our technique leading us to that room, and then finding that there were a few documents, and actually, I think it was an old check or something, but we were able to actually investigate that area as we wanted to because we were pretty sure at that point that it was the office. 

Besides all of them, in your opinion, what’s the must-watch Ghost Hunters season 2 episode?

It’s hard because we’re still actively filming season 2 and so, we’re still filming right now. So to say we have, we have maybe four or five left to do this season. So to know exactly…but I would say, so far, the coliseum was really something else. We did a coliseum with Steve Shippy. That was a lot of fun. And the lighthouse. That one really, I think, is a standout.

Ghost Hunters Season 2 Chat with Steve Gonsalves

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Do any of Steve’s answers make you even more curious to check out the new season of Ghost Hunters?