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Chad Lewis
As a paranormal investigator, Chad Lewis has, over the years, tracked the elusive chupacabra, toured the infamous Loch Ness, hunted vampires in Transylvania, and visited the standard haunted house. He organizes the Unexplained Conferences and is the host of The Unexplained TV and radio shows. He found a moment in this busy Halloween season to talk to City Pages.
CP: Do you use your Master's Degree in applied psychology (from the University of Wisconsin-Stout)?
CL: Yeah, I think I use it quite a bit, and probably more than a lot of my colleagues that were in the same program, because the paranormal really is dealing with people. A lot of the cases that we get, whether it's UFO, whether it's Bigfoot, whether it's haunted locations, what you get are eyewitness reports from people. So dealing with people, knowing how to interview people, looking for people who might be trying to pull a hoax or might not be telling the absolute truth, or just learning how to ask a question without it being a leading question. So I think I use psychology in every case. Even though I didn't plan to set out doing this, I think psychology is one of the best backgrounds you can have for this type of work.
CP: Are you funded by private people or mostly from grants?