Meet Hampton Bays’ Ghost Hunter Joe Giaquinto

Joe Giaquinto, a regular Hampton Bays guy, grew up in the area, graduated from Mercy High School and ran a thriving computer business, Teach Me PC.net.  That is, until the market crash of 2008. 

Regular customers started pulling out; they couldn’t afford my services, Giaquinto said.  And with bills to pay, Giaquinto said he needed to change things up.

He turned to college hobby — ghost hunting.

“Ghost hunting was becoming hotter and hotter,” he said.

He started by taking a few select people out on weekend and evening ghost investigations, but he soon found himself booked.

“I was getting more and more calls from people wanting to take them on investigations or to investigate a spirit,” he said.

Business started to boom. And since, he has worked on a series of books with Kerriann Flanagan Brosky under the title of Ghosts of Long Island; he speaks on blogtalkradio weekly on a show called, The Spirit Connection, and has collected numerous spirit photos and Electronic Voice Phenomena. 

Part of his success, he said, is having the ability to understand and communicate with the dead — He is, he said, a medium.

“I hear the spirits in my brain,” he said.

Giaquinto says he has one spirit who follows him just about everywhere he goes, warning him of danger.

“She once warned me to slow down because there was a jack-knifed tractor trailer ahead.  A few miles up the road, there it was,” said Giaquinto.

Giaquinto says he has also spoken with spirits whose lives ended too soon.

A few years back, a Smithtown couple called Giaquinto to speak with their son who passed away.

Entering the house, Giaquinto said he felt the boy’s presence and spoke to him about moving on.

Giaqunito says spirits need to be respected — they possess an energy that can make things happen.

“It’s not like Chucky; they don’t become alive,” he said, but they can use their energy to mess with light so it appears as though they are making, say, a doll’s eyes blink.

At one time, Giaquinto said he had a collection of dolls that spirits attached themselves too.  He has since auctioned many of them off on E-bay, including a toy monkey that would bang its cymbals.

Giaqunito says sprits are everywhere.

“You don’t need to go to a haunted house to get a ghost,” he said noting that his hometown of Hampton Bays is alive with spirits.

 He says he has witnessed first-hand spirit phenomenon at the , The , , and at the historic and .

To hear some of the EVPs that Giaquinto has gathered, click here.