Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester began the International Ghost Hunters Society in 1996. They are the authors of 23 books. Their most recent, Ghosts of Gettysburg: Walking on Hallowed Ground, describes 50 of the most haunted sites on the famous Civil War battlefield. Dave and Sharon travel full time in their RV coach as they investigate the most haunted places in America. The Oesters’ website is www.ghostweb.com. Their email address is [email protected].
Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester
Eric Altman
Eric Altman’s journey into researching the paranormal began at the young age of 10, when he watched the 1970s docudramas Legend of Boggy Creek and Creature from Black Lake, allegedly based on events that took place in the deep south of Arkansas and Texas. The two films inspired Eric to begin 27 years of research into the paranormal. His main interest is studying hominid creatures such as Bigfoot. Eric currently heads the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society, a group of dedicated researchers who investigate encounters and sightings of Bigfoot in the “Keystone State.” His official website is www.beyondtheedgeradio.com.
Eric Altman
Leslie Danielle Ferrymen
Leslie Danielle Ferrymen is a paranormal investigator from Franklin, Tennessee, who heads up The Franklin Ghost and Paranormal Investigation Team. Ms. Ferryman is very active in pursuing real urban legends and finding out what truth lies hidden in the stories told. Her 15-member group has investigated many haunted locations all over the United States since its founding in 2006.
Timothy Green Beckley
There always remains an audience eager to know the mysteries about the Hollow Earth. Timothy Green Beckley of Global Communications has made a sort of cottage industry out of his interest in the Inner and Hollow Earth theories, saving some old and rare books from obscurity and publishing up-to-date compendiums written by more recent researchers. His most popular titles dealing with this subject include: Twilight, Hidden Chambers beneath the Earth by T. Lobsang Rampa; Underground Alien Bio Lab At Dulce: The Bennewitz UFO Papers; Admiral Byrd’s Secret Journey Beyond the Poles by Tim Swartz; Best of the Hollow Earth Hassle by Mary J. Martin; and Finding Lost Atlantis Inside the Hollow Earth by the late British writer Brinsely Le Poer Trench, the Earl of Clancarty. Beckley is also the publisher of The Conspiracy Journal: www.conspiracyjournal.com.
Timothy Green Beckley
Micah Hanks
Micah A. Hanks is a lifelong researcher of the unexplained who in his articles and written work has covered bizarre reports of Fortean oddities, including strange creatures, UFOs, historical mysteries, conspiracies, and mysticism from cultures around the world. He posts daily updated paranormal news on his website The Gralien Report (www.gralienreport.com), and is producer of the regional radio program Speaking of Strange with Joshua P. Warren. You can learn more about Micah at www.micahahanks.com.
Micah Hanks
Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Loren Coleman
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries Coleman began writing to share his experiences soon after his first expeditions. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983 (which was inspired by one of his books), and in subsequent years that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other global organizations. He was also a life member and benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Obtaining an undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Coleman majored in anthropology, minored in zoology, and did some summer work in archaeology. He received a graduate degree in psychiatric social work from Simmons College in Boston. Coleman was admitted to the Ph.D. programs, and took doctoral coursework in social anthropology at Brandies University and in sociology at the University of New Hampshire’s anthropology/sociology department. His dedication to fatherhood made his decision to first raise his sons, teach, and write, an easy one.
Coleman’s first cryptozoology magazine article was published in 1969, when he was 21 years old. His first book was published in 1975.
Today, Coleman has written more than 6,000 columns and articles, as well as over 30 books. He has appeared frequently on radio and television programs, and has lectured throughout North America, as well as in London and at Loch Ness. Coleman’s cryptozoology columns, since the 1970s, have included “On the Trail” in the London-based Fortean Times; “Coleman’s CryptoCorner” in TAPS Paramagazine; and “Mysterious World” in Fate Magazine, as well as regular contributions to The Anomalist, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Magazine, and Fortean Studies. His unique signature column, “The Cryptozoo News,” was published in Strange Magazine and Mysteries Magazine, and now appears as Coleman’s blog at Cryptomundo.com.
Coleman has been both an on-and off-camera consultant to the Travel Channel’s Weird Travels, the History Channel’s Deepsea Mysteries, NBCTV’s Unsolved Mysteries, A & E’s Ancient Mysteries, the History Channel’s In Search of History, the Discovery Channel’s In the Unknown, Discovery Science Channel’s Critical Eye, the History Channel’s Deep Sea Detectives, Animal Planet’s Animal X, Discovery Kids’ Mystery Hunters, Animal Planet’s Twisted Tales, and other reality-based programs, such as Current Affairs and Evening Magazine. In 2000, he served as the senior series consultant to the new In Search Of … program that was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Network. Read more at http://www.cryptomundo.com/lorencoleman.
Richard Senate
Richard Senate has been hunting ghosts since 1978 and has established a solid reputation for sense and sensibility in the field. He has visited over 200 haunted sites in northern California and the Southwest and authored many bestselling books on the subject of psychic research. He stresses that he is a normal person, but one with an obscure hobby. In the real world, Senate works for the city of Verona, California, where he manages three different historic sites as well as giving lectures at a local college His wife, Debbie, a gifted psychic, often joins him in his ghost hunts. You can email him at [email protected].
Mary Croft
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