JOE NICKELL
Areas of expertise: Sideshows, Historical Research, Crime Science
His latest book is ADVENTURES IN PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION
Published November 2007 by The University Press of Kentucky
Media contact: Mack McCormick
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Read the Adventures in Paranormal Investigation press release
JOE NICKELL is a Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, an international scientific organization. Nickell, who has been called the country's most accomplished investigator of the paranormal, serves on the committee's executive council and on the editorial board of its magazine, The Skeptical Inquirer, for whom he also writes the column "Investigative Files." He is widely recognized as an investigator of myths and mysteries, frauds, forgeries, and hoaxes.
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Former professional stage magician—resident magician at the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame—and private investigator for a world-famous detective agency only begins the list of Nickell's diverse careers. He has worked as a carnival pitchman—including on the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition—advertising writer, armed guard, movie extra, forensic writer, blackjack dealer, riverboat manager, forklift driver, sign painter, and university writing instructor. |
Before moving to New York and taking a position at the Committee for Skeptical
Inquiry, Nickell was a resident of Kentucky where he became an honorary Kentucky
Colonel. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1987 and is
the author and/or co-author of several books, including Inquest on the Shroud
of Turin; Pen, Ink & Evidence; Detecting
Forgery; Camera
Clues; Unsolved
History; Real-Life X-Files;
Crime
Science; The
Kentucky Mint Julep; and More
Real-Life X-Files.
A frequent guest expert, Nickell has appeared on such television programs as "Dateline NBC," "20/20," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and "Larry King Live." His document work was featured in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s edition of The Bondswoman's Narrative, and Nickell himself was the subject of lengthy profile in The New Yorker by Burkhard Bilger in December 2002.
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