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Blake Smith
Blake Smith is a writer and researcher of matters cryptozoological and paranormal. He has been interested in the mysterious for decades and has been a “formal” skeptic of such claims since 1997. His conversion from believer to casual doubter to formal doubter was a lengthy process, the first steps of which were reading the works of Jan Harold Brunvand and his highly entertaining works on urban legends. You can find Smith’s articles on MonsterScience.org, DoctorAtlantis.com, and on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Contact Blake at blake@monstertalk.org.
Karen Stollznow
Dr. Karen Stollznow is an academic, author and paranormal investigator (of the skeptical kind). She a linguist with a background in history and anthropology, who has spent many years researching and road-testing beliefs and practices, including ghosts, psychics and alternative therapies. One of her specialties is fringe linguistic phenomena, such as glossolalia (speaking in tongues), automatic writing, graphology, alien and monster languages and writing systems, electronic voice phenomena and cold reading. Karen is the author of the Naked Skeptic column for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and the upcoming Bad Language column for Skeptic magazine. She a director of the Bay Area Skeptics and an insatiable writer for Skeptical Inquirer, Bad Language, the James Randi Educational Foundation’s Swift, Skepbitch, and Skepchick. Find her on Facebook and Twitter.
Contact Karen at karen@monstertalk.org.
Ben Radford
Ben Radford is an investigator with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. He has written over 500 articles on various scientific and skeptical subjects and is the author of three books; the most recent is Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures (with Joe Nickell). Cryptozoology is one of his areas of expertise, and he has done dozens of first-hand field investigations on four continents into lake monsters, Bigfoot, chupacabra, the African bat demon Popobawa, and other mysterious creatures. Ben has also written and directed two short films and created the world’s first satirical board game of religious warfare, Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination. His next book, on the chupacabra, will be published in 2010.
Contact Ben at ben@monstertalk.org.
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