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. Web sites containing material on the characters and related subjects can be found listed in the Links section. There is also a full Bibliography, which lists specific books / articles about the characters on the site, and also more general books related the subject of supposedly paranormal and unusual people. This has my own brief comments on each book and links to get hold of many of the books listed. 

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 what seems to be a mysterious person. In the main 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 imposters, 'poltergeist girls' with feral children, alleged mediums with eccentric travellers and mystical writers, the king of the gypsies with a princess from Javasu.

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.

Comments / questions about the site are  welcome. Just e-mail me.

Brian Haughton, Patras, Greece, November 2002.

About the author

Author and researcher Brian Haughton is a qualified archaeologist, with an interest in the strange and unusual. 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 latest book Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries was published in January 2007, and has already been translated into six languages.

He 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 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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