A paranormal researcher known as the “Scully of real life” who died last month was remembered as “an icon and hero within the skeptical community” accredited for breaking hundreds of mysteries.
Joe Nickell called himself “the only full -time professional paranormal researcher in the world”, and was known to deepen some of the world’s largest myths before dying on March 4 at the age of 80 for an unrelated cause to inform.
The skeptical inquirer, where Nickell had worked as a columnist for decades, written last month that proude several soils, including the historical, forensic and paranormal.
“Joe was a practical researcher who could be found aboard the queen looking for alleged ghosts, or in the field crops circles of a farmer, or wandering around the coasts of Loch Ness in search of Nession, or touring the claims and Qamins Medical and Qamins Medical and Qamins and Qamins Medical Medical and Qamins Medicine and Qaminers Medical and Qamins and Qamins and Qamins and Qamins and Qamins and Qamins and Qamins. As soon as the surface scratches, ”said Barry Karr, executive director of the Skeptic Research Committee, which, together with the publication, is owned by the Research Center.
“Joe was a true polymata that left you astonished or in his depth of knowledge, apparently, an unlimited number of subjects. Karr continued in a statement at the exit.
“What a tremendous loss. It can never be replaced.”
Karr called him an “icon and hero within the skeptical community.”
Nickell, also known as the “Sherlock Holmes” of real life, “told the New Yorker in 2002 that his goal was to conduct research with a” friendlier and more soft skepticism. “
“I am tired that discreditors come next to my office and say:” Hey, Nickell, did I see any ghost lately? Make your Harr, “he said.
“I am not saying that there is a 50-50 possibility that is a ghost in that haunted house. I think the Chans are closer to 99.9 percent that there is not.
He said on his website that, in contrast to the “mysterious traffickers” on one side of the spectrum and the “called discreditors” on the other side, he believed “that the mysteries should be invested real in order to solve them.”
Hello, he also listed more than 1,000 characters that helped him with his work, including magician, private researcher, federal fugitive, food server, master beer and bigfot hunter.
Nickell was born on December. 1, 1944 and died at his home in Buffalo, New York, his daughter told the New York Times in an Obit published this weekend.
“He did not deal with a ghosts such as a ghost story or a story of UFOs as a story of UFOs,” Kenny Biddle, head of the Committee for the Skeptic Research, told The Times.
“Everything was a mystery. Hello, I loved examining the evidence, like” Ok, what happened real here? “