Christopher Balzano

Christopher Balzano is a writer, researcher, folklorist, and current host of the podcast Tripping on Legends. He has been documenting the unexplained since 1994 and has been a figure in the paranormal world through his book, articles, and his work as the director of Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads and now Tripping on Legends.

Balzano is the author of several books about regional hauntings, Dark Woods, Cults Crime and the Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest and Ghosts of the Bridgewater Triangle, as well as the collections of true ghost stories Ghostly Adventures and Haunted Objects: Stories of Ghosts on Your Shelf and the how-to paranormal books Picture Yourself Ghost Hunting and Picture Yourself Capturing Ghosts on Film.

He has been a contributor to Jeff Belanger's Encyclopedia of Haunted Places and Weird Massachusetts and was one of the writers behind Weird Hauntings. He has appeared in more than two dozen other books, often called in to offer insight into the paranormal or perspective on a certain case.

He has published four titles about haunting in Florida for Arcadia/History Press: Haunted Florida Love Stories, Haunted Ocala National Forest, and The Ghostly Tales of Ocala National Forest, and the new Haunted Southwest Florida.

He has appeared on radio stations across the country and throughout the Internet, as well as being called upon by television shows to comment on ghosts and urban legends, including the British television series Conversations with a Serial Killer. He has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM and been asked in as a consultant on televisions shows like Paranormal State and Ghost Adventures. He formerly ran the Paranormal News at Ghostvillage and headed up Ghostvillage for Kids.