Anthony J. Hoos

September 28, 2008

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Anthony J. Hoos is a programming/traffic coordinator for two local access cable channels in Howard County and an adjunct professor at Howard Community College. But on weekend evenings, he can be found leading ghost tours in Ellicott City - a place that he calls "a spirit repository" and where, most of the time, the visitors who take his tour encounter the inexplicable, he says. Hoos lives in Oella with his wife and three small children.

A genuine shrunken head

"Not only did my cousin Bobby amass a great quantity of J.F. Kennedy memorabilia, he also had at least 20 shrunken heads stuffed into a showcase in his mom's basement. I coveted the one with the handlebar mustache."

A Teleporter

"This technology will unlock not only temporal displacement, but how orbital fragments and particles of energy are associated with time and space. In other words, I'd just really like to be able to explain in scientific terms what's in the pictures people take on 99 percent of my ghost tours."

A landscape painting from one of the Hudson River School guys

"I'd prefer a Frederick E. Church, but any Bierstadt will do. I took a summer course at Penn State called 'On the Trail of the American Artist' and discovered an intense attraction for their photo realism."

My own junkyard (full of muscle cars)

"Wandering amid the Torinos and Cyclones would keep my mind occupied for hours at a time."

One of WFBR's velocity microphones

"It's a piece of 1940s nostalgia that would put me in the same studio where my grandfather worked for decades."

Liz Atwood