| 词条 | Jeff Belanger |
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| image = JeffBelanger2 by Philippa Lehar.jpg | name = Jeff Belanger | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|8|8}} | birth_place = Southbridge, Massachusetts | occupation = Paranormal investigator | salary = | networth = | spouse = Megan | children = Sophie | website = Jeff Belanger, exploring the unexplained | footnotes = }}Jeff Belanger (born August 8, 1974) is an American author, public speaker and paranormal investigator.[1][2] He has served as the host of New England Legends and has appeared on Ghost Adventures.[3][4] Paranormal researcher Ben Radford has called Belanger a "ghost storyteller" not a "ghost investigator".[5] Education and careerJeff Belanger graduated from Hofstra University with a B.A. in English. After college Jeff served as Editor-in-Chief of Main Street - a biweekly arts and entertainment newspaper in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, he worked in marketing and public relations for both private and public companies, and he's currently a full-time writer living in Massachusetts with his wife, Megan, daughter, Sophie, and parakeet, Mambo. Paranormal investigatorParanormal researcher Ben Radford discusses issues he has with Belanger's research skills. In Belanger's book Communicating with the Dead he states that he uses Ouija boards, tarot cards, casting runes, mirror gazing, dowsing and EVP's to investigate the paranormal, all of which have never been proven to work. Radford calls attention to Belanger mentioning the Fox sisters '"spirit rapping"' in the introduction of his book, "he seems unaware of the fact that the sisters admitted that they had faked these ghostly communications. This is a curious oversight for such a self-professed expert... ." In Radford's book Investigating Ghosts he details the case of "Sara Ann" who is claimed to haunt the Fort George, Ontario barracks and grounds. Belanger writes of the story of Sara Ann stating conflicting details. The conclusion was that a anonymous "very likely a self-claimed psychic" told the story of seeing Sara Ann to someone, who later recounted that story to Belanger. Radford asked Belanger about the contradictions, his responses was "'I don't offer these accounts up as proof of anything. I'm simply passing on what I've learned and heard along the way and I'm trying to do it in an entertaining way'". In the notes section of Radford's book, he states that he was told by Belanger that he (Radford) is the first to "call his attention to the contradictions and ambiguities in his account of Sarah Ann" calling Radford to write, "scientific investigation requires that information about hauntings and ghost reports be taken literally - not metaphorically, figuratively, or in any other way".[5] Bibliography
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110122/ARTICLES/110129894|title=Ghost hunter Jeff Belanger from the Travel Channel show|website=The Gainesville Sun|access-date=2016-04-16}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.valleyadvocate.com/2013/11/05/living-legends-of-the-dead/|title=Living Legends of the Dead|website=Valley Advocate|access-date=2016-04-16}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/berkshiresweek/ci_28939214/take-five-five-questions-author-jeff-belanger|title=Five questions with author Jeff Belanger|website=Berkshire Eagle|access-date=2016-04-16}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesunchronicle.com/devices/features/stories/local-ghost-stories-haunt-cumberland-this-weekend/article_a8fb5f56-a2a0-5c57-816c-1e4a79dc87df.html|title=Local ghost stories haunt Cumberland this weekend|website=The Sun Chronicle|access-date=2016-04-16}} 5. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Radford |first1=Ben |authorlink=Ben Radford|title=Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits |date=2017 |publisher=Rhombus Publishing Company |location=Corrales, New Mexico |isbn=978-0-936455-16-7 |pages=108, 287, 298-300}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://horrornews.net/22253/book-review-encylopedia-of-haunted-places-author-jeff-belanger/|title=Book Review: Encylopedia {{sic|nolink=y}} of Haunted Places|website=Horrornews.net|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-16}} External links
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