About the site
Mysterious People is a
website written and designed by author and researcher
Brian Haughton. The site is devoted to the
lives of mysterious, strange and allegedly paranormal people. It consists of a series of
critical biographies with sources
and further reading listed at the end of each piece. The biography sections are Strange
Powers,
Psychics & Mediums,
Occult
Personalities, Poltergeist
Stories, Feral
Children, Weird
People.
The
choice of people for the site is entirely personal, and reflects the author's own interests
and preferences, rather than following any strict criteria which make
up a unusual person. In the main on Mysterious People I have tried to write
about people who were unique or claimed to experience unexplainable or unique
things. I have also included a number of characters whose exploits are not
as widely known as perhaps they should be. So you will find shadowy occultists
rubbing shoulders with enigmatic impostors, 'poltergeist girls' with feral
children, alleged mediums with eccentric travellers and mystical writers, the
king of the gypsies with a princess from Javasu.
This is not a site devoted to
evidence for paranormal powers. Personally, I do not think such
evidence exists, but in a way this is irrelevant. The lives of a number of those
claiming 'psychic' powers or strange talents, like that of 19th century 'medium' Florence Cook for
example, are often fascinating in their own right, and can be revealing of
contemporary society, its beliefs and values.
Notices of additions to the site, updates, and site news are featured in the
What's
New section. You
can also join the Mysterious People mailing list
to be kept up to date with the site and my writing in general.
Comments
/ questions about the site are welcome. Just
e-mail
me.
Brian
Haughton, Patras, Greece,
November
2002 / July 2008.
 About
the author
Haughton is an author and researcher
on the subjects of prehistoric megalithic sites, ancient sacred places and
supernatural folklore. He also writes fiction influenced by the supernatural and
the uncanny.
He is a graduate of Nottingham (B.A. in Archaeology) and Birmingham (M. Phil in Greek Archaeology) Universities, and has worked on
archaeological projects in England and Greece.
Haughton's
first book Hidden History: Lost Civilizations,
Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries was published in January 2007, and
has already been translated into nine languages. His second, Haunted Spaces, Sacred Places,
was published by New Page in July
2008.
His third and latest offering,
Lore of the Ghost, was released on 15 September, 2008. Visit Brian's
website for details of the books -
www.Brian-Haughton.com
Haughton has
written on the subjects of ancient mysteries and unusual people in history for various print and
internet publications and his research into the Princess Caraboo hoax has been
used by the B.B.C. on a number of occasions. Haughton's work has been published
on various websites including the B.B.Cs Legacies website, World
Mysteries and the Book of Thoth. His articles have appeared in
magazines across the world including New Dawn Magazine, Awareness, All Destiny and the UKs Paranormal
Magazine, and he has also appeared on a number of radio shows. He also serves as a consultant for U.K-based research and
investigative organization Parasearch. Haughton long ago fell for the lure of the
ancient and supernatural, initially inspired by
the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and M.R. James and TV programmes like
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
and Leonard Nimoy's In Search of series. He
currently lives and writes in Patras, Greece.
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