John G. Sabol

John Sabol is a cultural anthropologist, field archaeologist, actor, and "ghost excavator". He has worked among the Zapotec and Mixtec Indians of the central highlands of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Nahuatl-speaking groups of the Central Plateau. He has also worked as an anthropologist in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the state of Chiapas in Mexico.

He has participated in archaeological excavations in Winchester, England, and in Cholula, Mexico. He has also done archaeological survey work in South Dakota, Tennessee, and the Central Plateau of Mexico, including the massive archaeological site of Teotihuacan. His M.A. thesis was a study of the trading patterns and social-economic organization of the Dallas Culture, a 15th c. Indian culture of Eastern Tennessee.

He has appeared in more than 30 films, TV shows, and commercials as an actor. Some of the films that he has appeared in include Dune, Conan the Destroyer,Falcon and the Snowman, Rambo 2, License to Kill, Miracles, Old Gringo, and Remo Williams. He has also appeared in a number of Mexican films, a Mexican "Soap", and a TV series in Spain. He has also filmed a commercial for Port Royal Beer in Hondurus. He worked on post-production special effects for Dune, and dubbing and looping for Conan the Destroyer.

He is a paranormal investigator, and has conducted ghost excavations in England, Germany, Mexico, and throughout the United States at haunted locations in Philadelphia, Gettysburg, the anthracite coal region in Northeast Pennsylvania, and in the cities of San Antonio, Texas, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has appeared in two episodes of the A&E TV series, Paranormal State ("Family Ties"; "Ghosts of Gettysburg"). He has lectured at various paranormal conferences, local historical societies, and at various tourist sites.

He was a professor at various colleges in Mexico City, and in the Graduate Department at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. For 11 years, he taught courses in the Anthropology and Sociology of Tourism, Regional Tourist Development, and English as a Second Language. He was Department Chair for three years. He was awarded a grant by the Mexican Government to investigate regional tourist development in Oaxaca, Mexico.

He currently lives in Mahanoy City, in the heart of the anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania. He lives with his dog (Lacy) and his Cat (Tazia). His daughter, Melissa, is studying visual effects and motion graphics at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.