Patrick Burns (paranormal investigator)

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Paranormal Researcher
Patrick Burns, c. 2003
Biography
Name: Patrick Burns
Born: September 29, 1968 (1968-09-29) (age 39)
Highland Park, Illinois
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Field: Television presenter
Paranormal Area: Paranormal Investigator
Affiliates: Ghosthounds.com,
Ghostock

Patrick Burns (b. 1968) is an American paranormal investigator, best known as star of the TruTV (formerly Court TV) series Haunting Evidence. He is the founder of the popular website Ghost Hounds, which in 2001 was featured in an Emmy award-winning Turner documentary "Interact Atlanta - 'Ghost Hounds'". Burns is also the organizer and director of Ghostock, a paranormal investigators convention held twice annually in Savannah, Georgia and is a professional photographer through Patrick Burns Photography.

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Burns was born September 29, 1968, the youngest of four boys, in Highland Park, Illinois and grew up in Cary, Illinois, where he graduated Cary-Grove Community High School in 1987.

Burns says that he had an uneventful childhood, with no exposure to paranormal activities, aside from what he read in books, until he was 18, at which time he began observing unusual phenomena. Several years later, while living in northern Wisconsin, he heard from some friends about the Paulding Spook Light that appears nightly on a desolate road near the town of Watersmeet, Michigan in the upper peninsula region. Burns states that he briefly investigated, and quickly determined that it was being caused by distant car headlights and tail lights - the highway wrapped around and was exposed through the trees where it crossed a hill about 5 miles away, however the encounter was inspiration to pursue a career as a paranormal investigator.

Burns is a frequent speaker at Dragon*Con, and goes by the handle Ghostgeek in the paranormal community. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife Pam and their two sons.

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