A bizarre illness affecting nearly 20 students at a Western New York Junior-Senior High school now has an official diagnosis: mass hysteria.The students, almost all of them girls, and mostly friends, began experiencing involuntary jerks and tics. Sometimes their...
Media Appearances
‘Tracking the Chupacabra’ Nominated for Book of the Year
My book Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore (UNM Press 2011), which was nominated earlier this year for the New Mexico Book Awards, has also been nominated for Book of the Year in the Social Science category. The winners will be...
My Research on the ‘Baltic Sea UFO’ Featured on HuffPo & Daily Mail
Huffington Post's Lee Speigel did a nice piece about the so-called sunken UFO in the Baltic Sea, a story I wrote about and did follow-ups on. I'm quoted in his piece, which you can read HERE.
A (Real) History of Zombies!
For Discovery News I wrote a piece about the history of 'real' zombies, derived from Haitian Voodoo belief and folklore. You can read it HERE.
Launching Tomorrow: FallingDownFilm.com tribute Web site
Tomorrow I will launch my awesome new Web site, a tribute to one of my favorite films, Falling Down. The movie was filmed 20 years ago, and was released in 1993. The movie stars Michael Douglas as a laid-off defense worker in Los Angeles: "The adventures of an...
My Investigation of an ‘Angel’ videotaped at an Indonesian Mall
My investigation of a mysterious video allegedly of an angel seen in an Indonesian shopping mall was carried by several news outlets last week; you can read one story HERE.
New Review of my book “Tracking the Chupacabra”
Sharon Hill of Doubtful News reviews my multiple award-nominated book Tracking the Chupacabra for eSkeptic; you can read the review HERE. Check it out!
Special Manhattan Appearance 5/21, 7 PM: The Truth about Psychic Detectives
I will be in New York City giving a talk on Monday May 21, at 7 PM on psychic detectives: Psychic detectives seem to be everywhere: on TV, in the news, on cable shows. TV hosts such as Larry King and Montel Williams regularly promote psychic detectives, and many of...
‘Vogue’ Magazine Bans Anorexic Models- But Will it Help?
The editors of nearly 20 international editions of Vogue magazine agreed last week to ban from their pages all fashion models younger than 16 or "who appear to have an eating disorder." The move comes at a time when thin models are increasingly being accused of...
Appearance at Pet Loss and Bereavement conference in New Jersey
This weekend I will be in New Jersey speaking to members of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement at their annual conference, talking about pet psychics and trying to protect people grieving over the loss of a pet from being scammed and exploited.