Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal. Nickell is senior research fellow for the Committee for...
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(CSICOP), including stage magicians such as Milbourne Christopher and Joe Nickell, criticized paranormal investigators for being credulous whilst also...
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coverage on CNN, ABC News, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. James Randi and Joe Nickell exposed his healing procedures as nothing more than carnival tricks,...
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property. According to Joe Nickell, fanciful claims later arose that it was used to "summon spirits". According to Joe Nickell, claims that local residents...
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politician Joe Nickell, paranormal investigator Matt Nickell, American soccer player Nick Nickell, American bridge player Stella Nickell, American criminal...
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Warrens' evidence and described it as "blarney". Skeptical investigators Joe Nickell and Benjamin Radford concluded that the better-known hauntings, Amityville...
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reportedly was taken is no deeper than 14 feet (4.3 m). According to Joe Nickell, it is unlikely that a giant creature could swim, let alone hide, in...
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purportedly endorsing Spiritualism posthumously. Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell who conducted a detailed examination of the "spirit" writing, concluded...
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ISBN 978-1-108-02748-9 Joe Nickell. (2001). Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal. The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 260–61. Also see Joe Nickell. (2005)...
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cases of alleged SHC, was conducted in 1984 by science investigator Joe Nickell and forensic analyst John F. Fischer. Their lengthy, two-part report...
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and their related story by Joe Nickell, using historical records that cast doubt on the existence of Thomas J. Beale. Nickell also presents linguistic evidence...
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stories about his specimen in particular. In his Secrets of the Sideshows, Joe Nickell documents several modern-day claimants to the title of Barnum's "true"...
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ISBN 978-0736350402 The Joe Nickell Files: The Shroud of Turin Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, interview with Joe Nickell, August 2000 E.g. Peevish...
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the object. A 2005 investigation conducted by Benjamin Radford with Joe Nickell and John Kirk for the National Geographic Channel TV show Is It Real...
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meet the requirement of "95% confidence". In 1998, shroud researcher Joe Nickell wrote that no examples of herringbone weave are known from the time of...
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Myrtles Plantation Bed and Breakfast, St. Francisville, Louisiana" by Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer, September–October 2003, retrieved July 18, 2006...
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investigator Joe Nickell wrote that Hickson's behavior was "questionable" and that Hickson later altered or embellished his claims. Nickell speculated that...
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Playfair, who later wrote the book This House is Haunted (1980). Sceptic Joe Nickell criticised Grosse and Playfair's investigations as "credulous". When...
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Sanderson arrived to investigate. After investigating the case in 2000, Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry concluded that the bright light...
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Threshold. p. 201. Raymond Moody. 1975. Life After Life. Mockingbird. Joe Nickell (3 July 2012), The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead...
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show evidence of mysterious energy she terms "visible light phenomena". Joe Nickell described Howe as a "credulous journalist" in a 2002 article in Skeptical...
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testing, and critical thinking. Biddle also has co-written articles with Joe Nickell about ghost and miraculous photography. Biddle was a speaker at CSICon...
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the forger would surely have remained faithful to the biblical text. Joe Nickell refers to this argument as "trying to psychoanalyze the dead," saying...
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tried to convince him the sound came from somewhere else. According to Joe Nickell researchers have suspected Voirrey used ventriloquism and other tricks...
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"Paranormal Investigator Joe Nickell Reveals the Truth Behind Modern Cryptozoological Myths". gizmodo.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018. Nickell, Joe (December 2004)....
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biographical account has been greeted with some scepticism. Sceptic Joe Nickell also was not convinced and offered alternative explanations. In the July...
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Investigations of the Paranormal, edited by Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, and Tom Genoni, CSICOP, 1996. Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer, The Crashed Saucer Forgeries...
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Joe Nickell says that claimed poltergeist incidents typically originate from "an individual who is motivated to cause mischief". According to Nickell:...
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in the Mullion church yard during the year 2000. According to author Joe Nickell, church towers are common nesting places for barn owls, which were likely...
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events in the house. However, investigator of claims of the paranormal Joe Nickell reports that these claims are based upon either unverifiable personal...
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