Mike Hallowell was born in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, in 1957. He has been married
to his wife Jackie for twenty-nine years and has three sons and two grandsons.
Mike is a freelance writer and specialises in penning books newspaper columns
and articles about the paranormal. He also writes extensively about Native American
culture and spirituality, and has Indian heritage in his family.
Mike’s first book - Herbal Healing - was published in 1985.
Mike contributes regularly to a number of journals and newspapers. He has penned his
WraithScape column for the Shields Gazette for nearly a decade, and it is the longest-
Mike has starred in as number of documentaries about the paranormal, including
The Ghost Detectives with Tom Baker, filmmaker Gary Wilkinson’s Anatomy of a
Haunting and G. P. Taylor’s Uninvited Guests. He regularly appears on the BBC and
other channels both here and abroad.
During his decades of investigation into the paranormal and alternative spirituality,
Mike has interviewed most of the main players in the field including Colin Fry, Uri
Geller, Tony Stockwell, Cliff Crook, Larry Warren ,Richard Freeman, Stephen
Holbrook, Jonathan Downes, Derek Acorah, Billy Roberts and Nick Redfern.
Mike is a regular columnist with VISION magazine, and contributes to other periodicals
such as BEYOND, PARANORMAL and MAGONIA.
Mike was the founder of the Twilight Worlds Paranormal Research Society, but left
the organisation after a number of years due to disagreements regarding how it was
being ran. He is currently the patron of the North East Ghost Research Team.
to his wife Jackie for twenty-
Mike is a freelance writer and specialises in penning books newspaper columns
and articles about the paranormal. He also writes extensively about Native American
culture and spirituality, and has Indian heritage in his family.
Mike’s first book -
Mike contributes regularly to a number of journals and newspapers. He has penned his
WraithScape column for the Shields Gazette for nearly a decade, and it is the longest-
Mike has starred in as number of documentaries about the paranormal, including
The Ghost Detectives with Tom Baker, filmmaker Gary Wilkinson’s Anatomy of a
Haunting and G. P. Taylor’s Uninvited Guests. He regularly appears on the BBC and
other channels both here and abroad.
During his decades of investigation into the paranormal and alternative spirituality,
Mike has interviewed most of the main players in the field including Colin Fry, Uri
Geller, Tony Stockwell, Cliff Crook, Larry Warren ,Richard Freeman, Stephen
Holbrook, Jonathan Downes, Derek Acorah, Billy Roberts and Nick Redfern.
Mike is a regular columnist with VISION magazine, and contributes to other periodicals
such as BEYOND, PARANORMAL and MAGONIA.
Mike was the founder of the Twilight Worlds Paranormal Research Society, but left
the organisation after a number of years due to disagreements regarding how it was
being ran. He is currently the patron of the North East Ghost Research Team.
