GHOST-FACERS
Membership: Harold "Harry" Spangler, Edward Zeddmore (founders), Margaret "Maggie" Zeddmore, Kenneth Spruce, Alan Corbett (deceased), Dave (last name unrevealed) (former), Ambyr (last name unrevealed) (former),
Purpose: Entertainment
Base Of Operations: Green Bay, Wisconsin
First Appearance: Supernatural TV Series (Episode: Hell House")
History: The Ghost-Facers are an amateur team of paranormal enthusiasts who visit and research locations with reputed paranormal activities. The team was founded by Harry Spangler and Ed Zeddmore, two computer programmers who created the Hell Hounds Lair website dedicated to blogging about ghosts and haunted houses, but at some point, the two started created video blogs about the locations they read about and soon graduated to investigating locations for themselves, eventually encountering Sam and Dean Winchester, who they considered as rivals against their hopeful popularity.
Self-proclaimed fearless ghost hunters, Harry and Ed's training often seems unorthodox and unprofessional, taking information they have gleaned from paranormal TV shows and their personal mastery of paranormal research equipment. Instead of a scientific approach or documentation of the field as per other groups, Harry and Ed's devotion to the field is in the hope of fame and glory, most likely due to the success of such TV programs as "Ghost Hunters," "Ghost Adventures" and "Haunted Encounters." At some point, they were joined by three more members to the group including Kenny Spruce, a cameraman with photographic expertise with cameras and Maggie Zeddmore, Ed's adopted sister with whom Harry developed a relationship. To help them with their gear, they hired Alan J. Corbett as an intern, who had a one-sided secret infatuation with Ed, which no one was aware of at the time.
Although the full list of of the Ghost-Facers's investigation are largely unrevealed, their method of researchology is less than professional, often sneaking into locations and structures without the permission or the knowledge of the owners, often getting caught by the police. They first encountered Sam and Dean Winchester at the Murdoch Cabin in Richardson, Texas following rumors of a girl's tragic death in looking for the ghosts of the location. Ed and Harry picked up many details from the Winchesters, such as the anathema of salt and iron to spirits, but the cabin was accidentally burned down during their investigation. Sam Winchester eventually sent Harry and Ed on a wild goose chase to pitch their proposed television pilot to a Hollywood producers which only added to the rivalry between the Ghost-Facers and the brothers.
Over time, the Ghost-Facers continued to investigate locations of reputed paranormal activity along with Maggie, Spruce and Corbett and eventually met up with them again at the Morton House in Appleton, Wisconsin and a so-called Leap-Year Ghost that appeared every February 29. During the case, the Winchesters realized the house was haunted by the ghost of Freeman Daggett, who had taken his life in the house, and the mislocated place memories ("death echoes") of three bodies that Daggett had stolen from the local morgue. However, Corbett vanished into the house to try to contact the ghosts by himself and was apparently killed in an accident in the house. It is uncertain as to how Ed and Harry explained his death to the authorities, but Ed believes he saw Corbett's spirit in the house after his death.
Following Corbett's death, Harry and Ed refrained from investigations for a while, creating "instructional video" and selling paranormal research through their website. Their videos and electronic files accidentally erased after playing with an industrial electromagnet which the Winchesters left behind, they started from scratch to re-start their pursuits into the paranormal and hired another paranormal enthusiast named Dave to replace Corbett, but Dave eventually left the group and was replaced by a girl named Ambyr, who was hired for her looks.
Two years after the Morton House, the Ghost-Facers struggled to find another real ghost since Freeman Daggett, their frustrations coming out in their videos as they maligned the Winchesters, who they consider their rivals. Despite their overzealous pursuit in the field, Harry and Ed still have the potential to become serious paranormal investigators. At the Grand Showcase Theater in Illinois, Ambyr unwittingly made herself the focus of a female spirit's wrath by offending her. The experience and his past with the Winchesters eventually had Ed doubting his effectiveness in the field and he briefly disbanded the Ghost-Facers group, leaving himself uncertain where to move on with his life, but Harry, believing they had laid the theater's ghost to rest, managed to convince him to re-form the group.
Although their first agenda was in getting a replacement for Ambyr, the Ghost-Facers's activities have largely remained unconfirmed and unrevealed, but it is believed they are improving upon their research methods and becoming considered more professional in their research.
Case Files: (known so far) Murdock Cabin (03-20-06), Old Tuttleville Mental Hospital (03-18-07), Morton House (02-29-08), Milford State Forest (07-13-08), Old Byron Plantation (07-11-09), Vannacutt Sanitarium (05-22-09), Old Kirtland Methodist Church (07-13-09), Old Guignol Theater (01-18-10), Grand Showcase Theater (04-15-10), et al.
Source/Comments: The Ghost Facers are a fictional paranormal group, recurring characters on the television series, "Supernatural." Harry Spangler and Ed Zeddmore were played by actors Travis Wester and AJ Buckley. The cast includes Brittany Ishibashi (Maggie Zeddmore), Austin Bass (Kenny Spruce), Dustin Mulligan (Alan J. Corbett), Jake Burn (Dave) and Mircea Monroe (Ambyr).
The names of Harry Spangler and Ed Zeddmore were based on Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddmore from Ghostbusters.
Updated: 10/16/2013