Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
(1859 - 1930)

Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of the famous detective you may have heard of named Sherlock Holmes. In 1893 Conan Doyle joined the British Society for Psychical Research. In 1894 Colonel Elmore asked the organization to investigate mysterious sounds coming from his home in Dorset. At night Elmore, his wife and daughter could hear moaning and chains being dragged across a wooden floor. The family dog refused to enter certain parts of the home and most of Elmore’s staff had left. Conan Doyle, Dr. Sydney Scott and Frank Podmore were sent to investigate the possible haunting. They spent several evenings in the home. One night the investigators were disturbed by a "fearsome uproar" but no damage or cause for the noise could be discovered. Conan Doyle left the Dorset home unsure if it was genuinely haunted or if the haunting had been a hoax. Later the body of a child, approximately ten years old, was discovered buried in the garden. Conan Doyle became convinced that he really had witnessed psychic phenomena that was caused by the spirit of the dead child. 

Hans Holzer

Hans Holzer's interest in parapsychology started early in life-at age three! As a nine year old in Vienna, Austria, he began writing poems and dramas on the subject of ghosts and performed experiments in "raising the dead." Holzer went on to college and earned a Ph.D. Today Dr. Holzer is the author of ninety-six books dealing mainly with ghosts and hauntings. He has taught parapsychology for eight years at the New York Institute of Technology and lectures all over the world.. Holzer also writes and produces television and feature films, and is a regular guest on television and radio talk shows.

Ed and Lorraine Warren

Ed and Lorraine Warren have been investigating hauntings for over 40 years and claim to have mountains of proof for the existence of ghosts. The New England Society for Psychic Research is a theological society founded by Ed and Lorraine Warren in 1952. The Warrens have investigated almost 10,000 hauntings and paranormal phenomena in the United States and Europe over the last fifty years. Ed and Lorraine Warren hunt ghosts - ghosts, apparitions, demons, possessed people, places and things. They live in Connecticut and are world renowned. Lorraine Warren can best be described as a clairvoyant. The definition of the word clairvoyant actually means clear seeing. A clairvoyant sees things, sometime in "snapshot" type form, and sometimes like viewing slow motion video. Sometimes people who are clairvoyant can see ghosts. The Warrens have been the nations top psychic researchers for over 3 decades, and have lectured extensively at colleges and universities through out the country. They were 2 of only a handful of investigators ever allowed into the famous "Amityville Horror" home and have the only pictures ever taken inside the house. The Warrens have had 2 movies made of their cases, one "The Haunted" from their book, and the other "The Demon Murder Case'' also from their book "The Devil in Connecticut." 

Price, Harry
(1881 - 1948)

Perhaps the best-known British popular "ghost hunter" and investigator of the supernatural is Harry Price. His most famous investigation was of Borley Rectory, a house which stood in a small village in England. Price called Borley Rectory "the most haunted house in England," though nobody has proven that there are really any ghosts there. Price died in 1948, after writing two books about Borley. Seven years after his death, three other researchers produced a report on his Borley Rectory investigation. It contained some proof Harry Price had actually faked much of the haunting himself. The psychic researchers tracked down a reporter who claimed that one night at the rectory he witnessed pebbles flying through the air. He grabbed hold of Harry Price only to find that his pockets were full of pebbles! Another researcher, for the American magazine Life, criticized Price for publishing a photograph of a brick in midair as evidence of poltergeist activity. She had been with him when the photograph was taken and both had clearly seen a builder demolishing a nearby wall, throwing bricks around as he did so. Even without the flying pebbles and floating bricks, so many of the tales have no natural explanation that it seems Borley Rectory deserved its title as one of the most haunted houses in England.

Loyd Auerbach

Loyd Auerbach is Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and author of the book. For over 22 years, he has been investigating cases of reported paranormal phenomena, helping people understand what may (or may not) be going on in their lives. In 1989, he founded the Office of Paranormal Investigations, a group for people to call when they believe they have a psychic or paranormal experience or disturbance.

TAPS

Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, plumbers by trade, head up TAPS — The Atlantic Paranormal Society — a group of intrepid souls who are far from the usual collection of bespectacled Ph.D.s. They're ordinary, everyday people — office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus — with an interest in getting to the bottom of your otherworldly disturbances. Jason, Grant and their team of moonlighting ghost hunters are our first and last defense against uninvited paranormal visitations. .

Anne Palagruto

Well, I'm not really famous at all. I thought you may like to see the person who will me answering your email! I have lived in a haunted house for about 17 years now. I was with South Jersey Ghost research for about 7 years, the Co-Director for part of that time. I gave that position up to concentrate helping kids. I now have my own group called  the Philadelphia Institute for Paranormal Research. Our website is www.pipr.org Feel free to email me anytime with questions. Apalagruto@pipr.org