Brent Dolan

Hosts: Garrett Husveth & Brent Dolan. We discuss the recent trip and investigation in New Orleans. Haunted New Jersey Vidcast #1 is out. An interview with Adam Toht, director of our upcoming "Afterlife" documentary. http://www.hauntednewjersey.com/ get it at http://hauntednj.libsyn.com/ Next week: Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach.

Hosts: Garrett Husveth and Brent Dolan. This week we play part two of a two-part interview with John Berkenbush of Vestigia. Topics include a Mass. Stigmata case we worked and a Gettysburg trip we took. Plus much more!

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Everytime I look at this photos and remember the time that my life flashed before my eyes. Still to this day checking this photo out brings back the exact memories that went through my head during this incident.

This surf spot is a stone throw (if you have a strong arm) away from the famous break called Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii.

It was a pretty crazy senario for waves. It was about head high when we paddled out then pretty much tripled in size because of an upcoming swell.

The break is called "off the wall" and is a very shallow reef break. It is a very dangerous surf spot especially when the swell is on the rise. You can be sitting in the line up surfing head high waves then all of a sudden a swell of waves coming in twice or three times the size bigger and breaking about 50 yards out further. As in the case in this photo.

Sak and I where surfing "off the wall" while Chenzo was filming on the beach for our What Exit 2 DVD. The waves where breaking really fast and you had to really muscle it into the wave to get into it early. The waves where fast rights breaking towards a sandbar that would basicly depcharge the wave at the end of your ride and have you eating sand. Ocasionally there was a left coming in that was a bit more open but as a regular footed surfer and in a spot i have never surfed before I felt more comfortable pushing right.

Well anyways Sak and I where caught inside after catching a smaller set of waves. As we paddled back out we saw this macking set on the horizon. We where already about 10 yards deeper than we should of been but we both paddled our asses off so not to get caught with this wave crashing down on us.

At the time I didn't even know Sak was on the left of me as I paddled for my life (more on that part later in the story)

It felt like my arms had dried concrete on them because I felt like I just couldn't paddle and more and at the point of when the wave started to break is when I tried to take my last breath for the next 25 seconds of me getting bounced around, thrown around and held underwater by this wave. As I was on my stomach with the board underneath me I looked up at this wave and it looked like a monster to me. Nothing like I was use to or ever saw in NJ. I have surfed waves with good size in NJ but this wave had more juice than any wave I surfed In Dirty Jersey.

With that said I didn't make the duck dive to well seeing i was completely out of juice and the lip of this wave crashed right on my neck and lower back. It actually felt like I got hit by a bus going about 30mph. It sent me right down to the reef where the bottom of my board and my fingers smashed against the reef. I remember one guy in hawaii telling me "whatever you do brah don't let go of your board" with that in mind. I held onto my board so hard i actually put indentations of my fingers and hands in the board. After hitting the bottom I got sucked back up and thrown over the falls and back to the bottom of the reef again. I didn't know what was up or what was down at that point.

As I was underneath that wave it seemed like forever. The first things that went through my head was this was it. It is over I will never see my family again. It is almost amazing how when life flashes before your eyes you always thing about the people you love and will miss the most.

I am guessing it was about 25 second or more but around there because we have it on video tape. The board that I had clinched in my two hands and held it like a lifesaver brought me to the top of the water. There was actually two more waves behind it in a three wave set but i was thrown so far in towards the beach that I turned around and took the white water in to choke up some water on the beach.

The funniest part of the whole story was when the wave finally released me Sak was then on the right side of me. That is right started on the left side and ended up on the right side. That means we where being tossed around so much we probably crossed paths at one point.

I mean if you think about it we are probably really luck not to have landed on top of each other or hit by one another's board. I guess that hawaiin guys advice was right after all.

More on hawaii for another time.

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Hosts: Garrett Husveth & Brent Dolan. This week we discuss our upcoming documentary "Afterlife" and Garrett's trip to New Orleans to investigate a haunted inn with psychic Jackie Barrett.

We play the first part of a two-part interview with paranormal investigator John Berkenbush of Vestigia. Topics include the "Hookerman Lights" and Brown Mountain lights. http://www.hauntednewjersey.com

or direct feed at http://hauntednj.libsyn.com/

More on Haunted New Jersey soon...

Surfer Magazine (the #1 most respected surfing magazing in the world) gives my 2nd surf and skate a 4 0ut of 5 waves (that means good like 4 out of 5 stars for those who don't surf). I have to say it isn't all my video. Chenzo my partner split all the editing duties and I got great video footage from great surf filmers Mike Nelson, Pat Stublin and many others to be named soon. It was a great DVD and is still for sale at http://www.wavejammer.com or a cheaper vhs combo version at http://eastcoastsurfer.com

I am still being told that it is hands down still the best northeast surfing video out there. I beg to differ but I always thank a fan when they are pumped with all the work that I have done.

If you haven't seen it. Chenzo and I where maybe thinking about putting a few segments on google video download for a low price but yet again not sure about that yet.

More on this soon. Comments are always welcome.

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This is a photo of me surfing the west side of Hawaii. I don't know what the name of this place was but all I know was it was a creepy left wave. Lots of dark deep tunnels underneath the water. There was a lot very unusual activity underneath the water as well. I don't know if they where sharks or whatever it was but it must of been the reason why there was no body but my freind Sak and I surfing this spot.

Might be a lesson learned if no one is out and the waves look good there must be a reason why no one is surfing those waves. Oh well as dumbest smart people we are Sak and I went and paddled out. It was getting dark so the photo had to be altered a bit so it didn't look like such a black mess.

I can't lie to you when I sitting in the line up with just Sak and I. I was pretty freaked out but as a good friend I wouldn't let him know what I was looking at moving under neath the water. At the time I took off on this thick juicy left Sak had already took his last wave of the day in and I was out there all alone for a good 7 minutes or so. The swell was rising and daylight had almost deminished.

So seeing the waves where getting bigger and bigger by the minute I figure i would take one of the larger ones of the set and just say the hell with it. I took off on this wave pretty deep. I wasn't sure if I was going to make it to the shoulder of this wave for a second but I felt like i was going at mach 2 speed and made the shoulder with ease. I was going so fast when I was dropping into the wave all I was thinking was to dig the rail of my board and my fins as far as I could when I was making my bottom turn. It all worked out for the best and I made it to the shoulder and the top of the wave. Did a simple cut back to the curl of the wave and then raced again back to the shoulder. I didn't want to do anything stupid and fall and find out what was underneath the water.

I was very lucky to not even fall off my board once at this spot. I tried so hard to surf very careful and it actually turned out more like survival then the fun I usually have surfing.

After this trip I figured I will leave the bigger wave surfing to the more in shape pros that do it for a living. For now I will surf the knee slapping slop we get in NJ with my timebomb zippy fish and have fun.

Photo was taking by Chenzo at http://timebombsurf.com

More on my surfing at another time....

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Check out the New Haunted New Jersey Tee Shirts. Designed by Brent Dolan (myself). The Design looks very cool and if you are up for supporting HNJ please buy one or two. I am thinking about buying the beer stein for myself along with a tee shirt just to represent.
go to http://www.cafepress.com/hauntednj or http://hauntednewjersey.com for more details

I am also working on some new designs if you don't like the ones that are on there so far. So keep checking back.

So I will be working on some custom designs for my other website http://eastcoastsurfer.com

I will post about it soon so keep checking back.

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Haunted New Jersey Investigates the Famous Historical landmark the Eastern State Penitentiary for Fangoria TV. It was 12/3/05 and the temperature of the prison was well below freezing. The investigation was led by Al Rauber, Garrett Husveth of http://www.hauntednewjersey.com with special guest Dave Maganelli from http://www.shadowsofmoundsville.com/ Brent Dolan was there as well to document the investigation with digital photos and digital video.

Check out all the photos taken by me at http://www.hauntednewjersey.com/easternstatepenitentiary/

More on Haunted New Jersey investigations soon....

Garrett Husveth writes:

This week a combo podcast with Gene and Bryan from Hometown Tales. We discuss ghosts, poltergeists, Bigfoot, Loch Ness, Hookerman lights anf the Uncle Miltie's eat-off. Brent gets drunk on Guinness. Check out the Hometown Tales podcast at http://www.hometowntales.com . http://www.hauntednewjersey.com

We have already received emails claiming it is one of the funniest podcasts we have ever done. So you have been warned.

Haunted New Jersey Crew (found at http://hauntednewjersey.com) Films Episode 8 for Fangoria TV found at fangoriatv.com Garrett Husveth and I (brent dolan) on 1-28-06 ventured into the city to find a town called Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was a stone throw away from Manhattan. We crossed over from Manhattan to Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the Williamsburg bridge (photo shown above) .

It was a nice area with a lot more parking then I expected (driving a huge SUV parking is always a concern of mine when going into NYC).

We investigated a privite residence with the crew of Fangoria TV. I can not disclose the haunting case but if you want to see some of the photos I took of the investigation please check them out here at http://www.hauntednewjersey.com/episode8brooklyn/

More on HNJ investigation at another time....