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Do You Believe in Ghosts?

The vote is in for the 2007-2008 Top 10 Ghost Hunters Paranormal Investigators in America. Before we meet America's Top 10 Ghost Hunters, you may be interested to know that a recent AARP poll shows that 64% of Baby Boomers believe in ghosts. Interestingly, only 51% of people in their 60's believe in ghosts and 38% of those in their 70's believe in ghosts. However, 38% of those polled at all ages said they have felt a presence or seen something that they thought might be a ghost or a spirit.

America's Top 10 Ghost Hunters

Ed and Lorraine Warren

Before Ed Warren passed away in 2006, the Warrens headed up the New England Society for Psychic Research and were two of only a handful that were allowed into the "Amityville Horror" home. The Warrens have the only pictures taken in that home. The Warrens have published 9 nine books, lectured extensively in colleges on the supernatural, assisted in police investigations, and had 2 movies made from their cases: The Haunted and The Demon Murder Case.

Mark Nesbitt

Author of The Ghosts of Gettysburg series, Mark began gathering supernatural stories when he was a National Park Service Ranger in Gettysburg in the 1970's. Mark's home during that time was one of the historic buildings on the battlefield that was once used as a hospital. Mark teamed up with Investigative Medium Laine Crosby, to host the talk show Ghost Talkers produced by their own Ghost TV Dead On Productions. Laine Crosby is marketing strategist and former director of marketing for high-tech ventures, including the launch of The Weather Channel New Media and weather.com.

John Zaffis, Jr.

John is the nephew of Ed and Lorraine Warren. John has published books, lectures on the supernatural and founded the Paranormal and Demonology Research Society of New England. The John Zaffis Paranormal Museum opened in 2004 with hundreds of artifacts displayed from John's 30+ years as a paranormal researcher and investigator.

Dale David Kaczmarek

Dale founded Ghost Research Society to provide a clearinghouse for reports on ghosts, paranormal, poltergeist, hauntings and life after death encounters. Dale is former editor of Ghost Trackers Newsletter, currently the editor of The Journal, and has published several books.

Patti Starr
Patti is a Certified Ghost Hunter and teaches two classes at the Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, Kentucky: "Introductory to Ghost Hunting" and "Advanced Ghost Hunting". Patti is president and owner of Ghost Chasers International, Inc., and performs on the college circuit with Medium Chip Coffey. Patti has appeared on local and national TV shows.

Keith Age

Keith is the "Rock & Roll Ghost Hunter" who founded The Louisville Ghost Hunters Society. Keith is also the host of the Sci-Fi Channel's documentry Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Keith Age has published one of the most chilling, collective descriptions of the experimental treatments for tuberculosis conducted in the 1900's at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. His stories about Room 502 and The Death Tunnel will haunt you forever. (click here to read)

Stacey Allen McGee

Stacey is a Certified Ghost Hunter and Tour Director for Appalachian Ghost Walks. Stacey founded the Alternate Realities Center (ARC) that was featured on the Emmy Award winning television documentary Liars and Legends hosted by Grammy Award winner Bubba Knight.

Vince Wilson

Vince co-founded the Baltimore Society for Paranormal Research. Vince has published books and is a tour guide for The Mysterious Maryland Tour Company. Vince will lead you to sites where battles were fought, where Edgar Allen Poe died and is buried, and where the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 occurred.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Rosemary holds a PhD from the International Institute for Integral Human Sciences in Montreal. She formed Visionary Living, Inc. as a media company to showcase her extensive work that has been featured in hundreds of books, encyclopedias, and presentations. She is the acclaimed author of the popular books, An Angel in Your Pocket and The Alchemical Tarot.

Larry Montz

Larry founded the International Society For Paranormal Research in 1972 and shook the world of Parapsychology with new concepts of fieldwork. Larry's extraordinary clairvoyant skills allowed him to be the first to develop studies of Psi in the field and incorporate those abilities into data collection. Dr. Montz holds degrees in the field of Parapsychology, is a former personal bodyguard to Hugh Heffner, and has published a book about the ghosts of New Orleans.

Sources:

Top Ten Ghost Hunters Paranormal Investigators in America, 2007-2008
http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/toptenhaunted/2007/ghosthunters/

Ghost Hunters Season Premiere
http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/about/

AARP Exclusive Poll: Life After Death
AARP Magazine, September/October 2007, pp. 68-73