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This time round, it is going to be a big show with the man who you suggested we have on.

Now, I have to say I've never heard his name and that's my fault because I just haven't come across it over these years, but I certainly have now.

His name is Dr. Barry Taff.

And this guy is a kind of one stop shop researcher in all things paranormal, and I'm talking about poltergeists and ghosts and UFOs and abductions and aliens and telepathy and psychokinesis and goodness knows what else.

I don't normally read biographies on the show like this.

I normally just give you my own little snapshot, but I will. It's just a quick one.

Dr. Barry Taff earned a doctorate in psychophysiology from UCLA. He's got six medical patents and from 1969 to 1978, he worked in the Parapsychology Lab at UCLA's Neurocyciatric Institute as a research associate where he studied telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, poltergeist, doppelgangers and UFOs.

His research has been published in numerous journals, periodicals, magazines and books over the last 25 years. He's got a book out right now, by the way.

He's been the principal investigator on more than three and a half thousand cases of poltergeists and hauntings, one of which, and you'll know this, became the best selling book and picture, the entity.

This is one of the people behind that. Dr. Barry Taff, our guest here at the unexplained from the United States. Like I say, please keep your feet back coming utterly vital for what we do here and thank you so much for your support and the nice things you say about the show.

This show needs to be improved. Let me know by email and I can do something about it. Okay, let's cross to the United States now. Dr. Barry Taff, a first time guest on the unexplained and Barry, thank you very much for coming on.

It's my pleasure to be here. Barry, whereabouts are you? I believe you're in California, is that correct? Yes, I'm in Los Angeles just literally about two blocks south of Beverly Hills.

Okay, and that is where most of your career certainly going back to the 1960s. That's where you've kind of been based, isn't it?

Yes, I've lived in Los Angeles. My parents and I came out here from Chicago in 1957 and I've been here ever since and I can't imagine what my life would have been like had I stayed in Chicago because, you know, being the Midwest that the more conservative environment, I don't think they would have been as tolerant as this environment was to what I've been doing.

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