The author has always loved pop culture and the paranormal, growing up on the likes of Calvin and Hobbes, the Loch Ness Monster, ghost stories, and fantasy and science fiction novels. He graduated with a degree in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and studied Professional Counseling in graduate school, all of which required a familiarity of statistics and critical thinking skills. Haunted Family History - A Mixed Methods Approach to Paranormal Research is his attempt to use his accumulated knowledge and interests to make sense of the ghost stories shared with him by his family, and explain them through the lens of an academic with traditional qualitative and quantitative research methods. He's a sucker for ghost hunting television shows, YouTube channels, podcasts, and has a deep yearning to lay down on the floor and pet all dogs and cats he meets.