- Ghost Hunting
"Ghost hunting" is the process of investigating locations said to be haunted. Typically, a ghost "hunting party" will involve 4-8 individuals who work as a team to collect evidence of paranormal activity. Ghost hunters usually record data in a scientific manner, making observation using electronic equipment of various types, such as; EMF Meters, digital thermometers, infrared and night vision cameras, handheld video cameras, digital audio recorders, and computers.
- James Randi
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF).
- Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for his claimed psychic powers. Geller rose to fame after performing a series of televised performances which he said were paranormal demonstrations of psychokinesis, dowsing and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches appear to stop or run faster. Geller says he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind.
- Art Bell
Arthur "Art" W. Bell, III (born June 17, 1945) is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as the founder and longtime host of the paranormal-themed radio program "Coast to Coast AM". He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, "Dreamland". Semiretired from "Coast to Coast AM" since 2003, he hosted the show on many weekends for the next 4 years. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007, …
- Christine Feehan
Christine King Feehan, née Christine King is an American romance-paranormal writer. She has published more than 26 novels, including five series, and numerous novellas since 1999.
- Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell was born December 1, 1944. He is a former stage magician and is a prominent skeptical investigator of the paranormal. He also works as an historical document consultant and has examined such famous forgeries as the purported Jack the Ripper Diary. Nickell holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky.
- Brad Steiger
Brad Steiger is an American writer and paranormal researcher. He has sold who has sold over 19 million books including the biography of Rudolf Valentino, later made into a feature film by British directorKen Russell. Steiger began writing when he was a school teacher in his native Iowa when he had writings published in Fate Magazine and other publications. Throughout the 1960s Steiger co-wrote 22 books with other writers.
- Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born July 29, 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book "The Meme Machine".
- Troy Taylor
Troy Taylor is a prolific American non-fiction writer who specializes in books about the paranormal. He is the president of the 600-member American Ghost Society and the host of several popular ghost tours throughout the American Midwest.
- Asia Paranormal Investigators
Asia Paranormal Investigators (API) is a paranormal research based group based in Singapore that strives to systematically analyze any strange occurrences happening in Singapore and around the region. It was founded in 2005 by Charles Goh.
- David Wilcock
David Wilcock is a professional intuitive consultant, clairvoyant, visionary, channeller, and popular speaker. He has appeared on television interviews and a large number of radio talk shows (like Coast to Coast AM), lectured in the United States and Japan, and is author of a number of magazine articles, an online book, and co-author of "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce", …
- John Zaffis
John Zaffis (b. 1955) is a paranormal researcher based in Connecticut. He runs the Paranormal and Demonology Research Society of New England which he founded in 1998. Zaffis has over thirty years experience as a paranormal investigator. He spent his first years studying under his uncle and aunt Ed and Lorraine Warren, both world famous demonologists. What he learned from his aunt and uncle went far beyond his original interests in ghosts and haunted houses.
- Robert Monroe
Robert Allan Monroe was a psychic researcher and author of "Journeys Out of the Body", a 1971 book that popularized the expression "out-of-body experience" (also called astral projection). Monroe was a conservative Virginia businessman who had his first out-of-body experiences in 1958. After much experimentation, he founded The Monroe Institute, …
- Hans Holzer
Hans Holzer (b. January 26, 1920 in Vienna) is a popular parapsychologist.
- William Hope
William Hope, was a supposed pioneer of spirit photography. Based in Crewe, Cheshire, he was a member of the well known spiritualists group, the Crewe Circle and died in Salford hospital on March 8 1933.
- Jenny Randles
Jenny Randles (October 30, 1951-) is a British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA).
- Victor Zammit
Victor James Zammit is an Australian writer and researcher into the paranormal. Formerly a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia, he is the author of "A Lawyer Presents The Case For The Afterlife". His website presents an analysis of at least eleven different areas of proposed evidence for the afterlife, including mediumship, near-death experiences and reincarnation.
- Chris French
Christopher C. French BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS FRSA is a psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is currently Professor of psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is head of their Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit which he founded in the year 2000 and is the co-editor of "The Skeptic" (UK) magazine with Victoria Hamilton.
- Brian Harnois
Brian Joseph Harnois is one of the stars of the Sci-Fi Channel's hit reality show "Ghost Hunters". Harnois originated the catch phrase "Dude, Run!" for Ghost Hunters when he and a camera man ran out of the Eastern State Penitentiary after witnessing an apparition. Brian was born and raised an only child in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and is a former Security Police Officer for the United States Air Force. He became interested in the paranormal at the age of 11, …
- Kelly Maher
Kelly Maher is an author of erotica and erotic romance fiction. Her stories tend to have paranormal elements to them, but will sometimes be straight contemporaries or historicals. She is also a PRO member of the Romance Writers of America.
- Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas is a physicist and mathematician, mostly known for his writings and research on the paranormal (such as UFO sightings in Roswell, New Mexico and Aztec, New Mexico, as well as finding codings in other texts that dispute the credibility of the Bible Code). Thomas is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and a masters degree in mathematics.
- Direct Voice
Direct voice is a physical phenomenon of a voice reportedly originating in space without visible source or agency, under the control of a spiritual medium. Historically, such voices were said to be produced by special, which would sail about the séance room in the dark and approach a person for whom a message was intended. In later years the trumpets were dispensed with and the voices could be heard coming from all directions.
- David Clarke
Dr. David Clarke is a British university lecturer. He obtained his Ph.D in "Folklore and Cultural Tradition" in 1999, and now teaches Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He also lectures on the subjects of supernatural belief and urban legends at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (part of the University of Sheffield). David Clarke is also a freelance journalist and author, …
- Joseph McMoneagle
Joseph McMoneagle (Born January 10, 1946, Miami, Florida) is known for his involvement in the development of Remote Viewing by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was one of the original Officers recruited for the top-secret army program now known as Project Star Gate. He was recruited due to his claim of unusual paranormal experiences in his early life, including out-of-body experiences, or OBEs, and a UFO sighting.
- Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones (born 1953 in Pimlico, London) is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning horror anthologies, as well as the author of fiction of his own. Jones has edited anthologies such as the "Best New Horror" series, "Dark Terrors", "The Mammoth Book of Vampires", "The Mammoth Book of Zombies", "The Mammoth Book of Dracula", "The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein", "The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women", …
- Ian Rowland
Ian Rowland is a mentalist who lives in London, England. He is the author of "The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading", a book that explains how magicians or some people who claim to be psychic can fake uncanny "fortune telling" readings using the technique of Cold Reading. He regularly gives lectures where he debunks paranormal phenomena. On the ABC TV magazine Primetime, Rowland fooled a volunteer audience into thinking he could communicate with the dead.
- Ivan T. Sanderson
Ivan Terrance Sanderson was a naturalist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sanderson is remembered for his nature writing and his interest in paranormal events. Sanderson published three classics of nature writing: "Animal Treasure" (a report of an expedition to the jungles of then-British West Africa); "Caribbean Treasure" (an account of an expedition to Trinidad, Haiti, …
- Gerina Dunwich
Gerina Dunwich (b. December 27 1959, Illinois) is a professional astrologer, occult historian, and New Age author, best known for her books on Wicca and various occult subjects. She is also involved in paranormal research and is the founder of the Paranormal Animal Research Group, which investigates cases of alleged hauntings by animal spirits. Her first newspaper article was published in October 1976.
- Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins (b. 1957) is an author with an interest in the paranormal. After an uneventful school career, in which he was banned from taking the English O-level exam because of his poor writing ability, Collins eagerly accepted a position working as an export shipping clerk in London. His childhood interest in the mysteries of life eventually led to him becoming a UFO investigator, …
- Íker Jiménez
Íker Jiménez Elizari is a Spanish journalist. He's a bachelor in Journalism in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the European University. He has been conductor of mystery programs and published some articles about paranormal activity. He started in 1990 in small radios from Madrid until he went to some of the most important Spanish radios: Onda Madrid, Radio Voz, Radio Intercontinental, Antena 3, Onda Cero, Cadena SER or Radio Nacional de España.
- Don Elkins
Donald Tully Elkins, nicknamed Lieutenant Phineas T. Pinkham (February 27, 1930-November 7, 1984), was an American engineer, professor, ufologist, independent filmmaker, pilot, and metaphysician. He was born and died in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the youngest Master Sergeant in the history of the U.S. Army during the Korean War, serving in Germany.
- George P. Hansen
George P. Hansen is a writer and parapsychologist. One of his known works include "The Trickster and the Paranormal", which mostly deals with liminality and the paranormal. Hansen worked with parapsychology during eight years before finishing "The Trickster".
- Mayra Calvani
Mayra Calvani (born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a writer of dark fantasy stories. Mayra was born and raised in the Capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan where she received her primary and secondary education. She started writing stories when she was eleven years old. Mayra attended a Catholic convent school, where she tended to be shy. The stories she wrote, however, were passed around between classes and made her popular.
- Clyde Lewis
Clyde Lewis (born Louis Clyde Holder, 22 February 1964, Murray, Utah) is a talk radio personality and actor. He is the creator and host of "Ground Zero", a talk radio show dealing with paranormal and parapolitical topics. His writings have been featured in UFO Magazine and Chris Fleming's "Unknown Magazine", and he has appeared on "Sightings" and "Strange Universe". He has appeared in the movies "Nightfall" (1988), …
- Thomas Karlsson
Thomas Karlsson is a scholar, an M.A. in the History of Ideas at the University of Stockholm, an occultist with many years of experience, and an esoteric writer. Founder and head of magical order of Dragon Rouge, a Left-Hand Path initiatory organization. As a book author he concentrates on occult and paranormal topics. He is also associated with heavy metal bands, Therion and Shadowseeds.
- Robert Bigelow
Robert T. Bigelow is a hotel entrepreneur with a keen interest in space flight. He made his fortune through the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow Aerospace launched Genesis I, an experimental inflatable spacecraft, in July 2006. Mr. Bigelow hopes the watermelon-shaped craft could form the basis of a future space hotel.
- Brian Inglis
Brian Inglis (31 July1916-11 February1993) was a British journalist, historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and retained an interest in Irish history and politics. He was best known to people in Britain as the presenter of "All Our Yesterdays", a television review of events exactly 25 years previously, as seen in newsreels, newspaper articles etc. He also presented the weekly review of newspapers known as "What the Papers Say".
- Natasha Mostert
Natasha Mostert is a South African author and writer. Born in Johannesburg, Mostert was educated in South Africa and then Columbia University, New York. She also worked as a teacher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and at the WNET television station in New York City before taking up writing. As a political op-ed writer, she has written for the "New York Times", "Newsweek", "The Independent" and "The Times".
- Tom Slemen
Thomas Slemen, better known as Tom Slemen, is a Liverpool-based writer, columnist and broadcaster, known foremostly as the author of the best-selling Haunted Liverpool series of books (Bluecoat Press 1996-2007) which document paranormal goings-on in his home town of Livepool, and also chronicles strange and Fortean stories from Liverpool's past
- David Marks
David Marks is a psychologist and professor at City University in London, UK. After completing his PhD at Sheffield University he migrated to New Zealand where he taught at the University of Otago. In 1986 he returned to the UK as Head of the School of Psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic before moving to City University in 2000. He founded and edits the Journal of Health Psychology (Who's Who, 2007).