Jason Conrad Hawes (born December 27, 1971)[1] is an American plumber and the co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island.

[1] According to his own account, Hawes began to see apparitions at the age of twenty after a girlfriend who practiced Reiki manipulated his life force energy.

[10][11] Hawes has used public ghost hunting events and personal appearances to raise money for various charities, such as the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Cure Kids Cancer.

In March 2005, Barry Clinton Eckstrom, 51, of Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, began to send threatening e-mails to Jason Hawes, founder of TAPS.

While under surveillance by federal agents, Eckstrom used a Bethel Park, Pennsylvania library computer to send an e-mail in Hawes' name to Roto Rooter's Cincinnati headquarters, threatening to shoot employees there.