Austin Basis teases what's to come in the "Ghostfacers" web series

For the past two years, actor Austin Basis has been working on independent films and other television projects (he currently co-stars in the CW's Life Unexpected). However, in his "spare" time, he and fellow Supernatural guest stars AJ Buckley, Travis Wester, and Brittany Ishibashi have been taking to YouTube to give the fans what they want. 

The young actors appeared together in a stand-out episode of the cult favorite drama as a ragtag team of ghost hunters (to avoid infringing upon a cable show of the same name, however, they deemed themselves the Ghostfacers).

"Since we did the episode back in I guess 2008 now-- it's been almost two years since we did the [Ghostfacers] episode-- we've been bouncing around ideas and doing these web videos and working on our character bios and stuff," Basis explained in a phone interview earlier this week. 

"We weren't really getting paid to do the Ghostfacers stuff; it's just really fun to do, and we were having a good time doing it, so it was always something we'd do when we all had the opportunity and weren't working on other projects."

Warner Brothers and the executive producers behind Supernatural took notice of the online success of these characters, though, and earlier this week it was announced that a spin-off web series for the show has been filming in Los Angeles.

Basis promised lots of the comic relief one has come to expect from these "bumbling idiots running around not knowing what they're doing," but points out that at the center of what they do there is real horror.

"In the first episode that we did for Supernatural, you know, one of our interns [played by Dustin Milligan] gets brutally murdered with a rebar shoved through his throat. We wanted to keep that. We wanted to keep the dynamic between the members of the team. There's comical elements to everything that we do, but there's also the drama of the life or death situations or the horror of facing ghosts and dealing with this other world of spirits. It's a constant balance of not going too far over the top but going committedly so that when we come back and have a poignant moment, it's believable."

And since the team specializes in tracking down ghosts, just what are the chances of getting a little help from their good and loyal who is now sadly on the other side? Basis played coy, saying simply that it "isn't outside the realm of possibility." However, he did point out that one of the big arcs for the ten-episode, thirty minute series would be trying to find a new intern.