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Troy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of 73 books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour companies. Taylor shares a birthday with one of his favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but instead of living in New York and Paris like Fitzgerald, Taylor grew up in Illinois. Raised on the prairies of the state, he developed an interest in "things that go bump in the night" at an early age and as a young man, developing ghost tours and writing about haunts in Chicago and Central Illinois. He began his first book in 1989, which delved into the history and hauntings of Decatur, Illinois, and in 1994, it spawned the Haunted Decatur Tour -- and eventually led to the founding of his Illinois Hauntings Tours (with current tours in Alton, Chicago, Decatur, Lebanon & Jacksonville) and the American Hauntings Tours, which travel all over the country in search of haunted places. In 1996,
Taylor organized a group of ghost enthusiasts into an
investigation team and the
American Ghost Society was launched, gained over
600 members in the years that followed. The organization
continues today as one of America’s largest and most
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In addition to the tour companies and Haunted America Conference, Taylor is also the founder of Whitechapel Press, a publishing company for books about the supernatural that he started in 1993, and Dark Haven Entertainment.
Along
with writing about the unusual and
hosting tours, Taylor is also a
public speaker on the subject of
ghosts and hauntings. has appeared
in scores of newspaper and magazine
articles about the subject and in
hundreds of radio and television
broadcasts about the supernatural.
Troy has
appeared in documentary productions for TLC, The History
Channel, A & E, Discovery Channel, PBS, CMT and in various
network programs and syndicated news shows. These programs
have included America's Ghost Hunters, Ghost Waters,
Night Visitors, Beyond Human Senses, Scariest Places on
Earth, Children of the Grave, and others. He has also
appeared in
one feature film about the
paranormal (see sidebar)
Troy and his wife, Haven, currently reside in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.
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HISTORY PRESS
Wicked Washington (2007) Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown (2009) Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's West Side (2009) Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's North Side (2009) Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's South Side (2009) Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts (2009)
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