Dr. Barry Taff
Are you familiar with the parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff? If you're reading a website called The Arcane Hour then you probably should be -- so we'll help you out a little here. Yes, he actually has his doctorate in parapsychology. When he was at UCLA he investigated the case that was eventually retold in the movie The Entity (a great and very creepy movie if you haven't seen it). We're also suspicious, even though we can't find anything to prove it, that Dan Aykroyd based quite a bit of the serious parts of the Ghost Busters characters on Taff. So what has Dr. Barry Taff been up to lately? It looks like he's (sort of) set up a website at barrytaff.net . There isn't much there yet but it does point us to the book that he's released this year: Aliens Above, Ghosts Below . Dr. Taff is also involved in the American Institute of Parapsychology , which was founded in 1992 as the Center for Paranormal Studies. He is listed as a director and faculty memb
