MJ Wayland

MJ Wayland is a writer, researcher, and historian specializing in ghosts, supernatural belief, and fringe history. His research has appeared in dozens of publications and he has consulted and appeared in over one hundred television programs and documentaries. During the last ten years he has lectured internationally as well as appearing at the Sunday Times Literature Festival and various festivals and universities across the United Kingdom. MJ Wayland's interest in the paranormal, especially ghosts, began at an early age after experiencing a number of unusual incidents that his peers could not explain. In his early teens he joined various research societies and began to study the multiple facets to the paranormal with a scientific and historical viewpoint. His research has taken him from dark haunted castles of Britain to the haunted graveyards of New Orleans, investigating his primary love of ghosts to sightings of black panthers. Since the mid-1990s, MJ Wayland has provided consultancy for TV, film, and theatre as well as appearing in local, national, international newspapers, radio and TV. He is the author of eight bestselling books, 50 Real Ghost Stories holding the Amazon top 10 bestselling Paranormal book for the second consecutive Halloween in 2013. More recently he provided consultancy for the forthcoming Hammer film The Quiet Ones.