S. Patrick Feeney

Raised in poverty in the city of Covington, Kentucky, S. Patrick Feeney graduated with honors from Holmes High School and went on to earn a Bachelor's of Science in Software Engineering from the nation's top undergraduate engineering university, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He writes, speaks, and produces videos on a variety of topics from new media to the paranormal. Find his videos online at http://www.youtube.com/SeanFromIT.

His lifelong interest in the paranormal led him to join the Kentucky Mutual UFO Network (KYMUFON) in 2000. After joining MUFON, Feeney began to notice a disturbing trend in paranormal organizations: the overt denial of the value of youth participation in paranormal investigations. MUFON, for example, would not allow him to be classified as a Field Investigator even though he successfully completed the written test. They only gave him the option of turning in the test and having them hold it until he was 18 years old. The trend was not exclusive to UFO groups: several ghost groups in Ohio (the closest being in Xenia, OH at the time) also had age restrictions on investigators. In response to this denial, Feeney founded NKYPYG as an unofficial after-school club at his high school in the fall of 2001. Meeting in Owen Huff's English classroom, Feeney led a group of students in discussions about various paranormal topics. On weekends the group would have outings to haunted sites or UFO hotspots to practice field investigation techniques.

Feeney began mentoring under UFO investigator Kenny Young in 2001, and continued to assist Kenny in his investigations until his death in 2005. Sean has investigated numerous claims of the paranormal in public and private sites around the tri-state and beyond. He has served as the Youth Programs Director for KYMUFON, Kentucky State Director for the now defunct US UFO Information and Reporting Center (USUFOIRC), and Director of NKYPYG and ARN.