Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. This is your host,

Ivan Nevela, president of the New England Skeptical Society. Today is October 26th, 2005.

And with me again tonight, our parody angelus. Hello. Bob Nevela. Hello. And Evan Bernstein.

Salutations. This week we have a very special guest with us, Joe Nicol. Joe,

welcome to the Skeptics Guide. Hi. Joe, it is a paranormal investigator, one of the,

I think the only full-time professional paranormal investigator that I know of. He's the author

of the investigative files, which is a column in the Skeptical Inquirer. He is a senior research

fellow for the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal,

or what we call psychop for short, and an associate dean for the Center for Inquiry Institute

which just says background, Joe has worked professionally as a stage musician, a private

investigator, a journalist, a document analyzer, and a university instructor. And you've

authored or co-authored, I believe it's over 20 books now including some of my favorites

in quest on the Shroud of Turin, Secrets of the Supernatural, looking for a miracle,

missing pieces, I think is my single favorite book of yours. And your latest book that's

just coming out is Secret of the Side Shows. It is out in, at Barnes & Noble stores

everywhere. And I think I found it on Amazon.com. And you can check out Joe's website,

joenickel.com. Who maintains that website for you, Joe? Tim Bingo, who's a friend and

happens to be the library in it, psychop. It's a pretty site. He does his own time.

So this being October 26th, Halloween is just around the corner. And this is the time

of year when any skeptics who have done any ghost investigation or articles get called

by all of the reporters and papers looking to do their fluff piece on Halloween for the

season. So you must be inundated around this time of year.

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