Loyd Auerbach is a chocolatier offering chocolate tasting classes and products through his website Haunted By Chocolate.
16 Facts About Loyd Auerbach
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Loyd Auerbach helped start a parapsychology club at his high school and did an informal internship with a parapsychologist who lived close to him in Westchester County, NY before moving to California.
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Loyd Auerbach believes in the parapsychological world because he has experienced what he says are two out-of-body experiences in which he dreamed he was in another place and his image was seen in that place by friends.
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Loyd Auerbach was on the Core Faculty of the Graduate Parapsychology Program at John F Kennedy University where he received a Master's Degree in parapsychology.
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Loyd Auerbach says he gained attention in 1984 due to the popularity of the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
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Loyd Auerbach has been the owner and director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations since 1989, investigating ghost sightings, demon possessions, hauntings and other unexplained phenomena.
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Loyd Auerbach has described himself akin to a psychiatrist who deals with psychic phenomena, stating that most ghosts and poltergeists are not real entities, but rather psychic phenomena.
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Loyd Auerbach has expressed irritation that more money has been spent for psychics than serious parapsychological research, such as extrasensory perception, telekinesis, and the mind surviving physical death.
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Loyd Auerbach believes that if spirits are stuck between worlds, they should be helped.
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Some better-known paranormal cases Loyd Auerbach has investigated include a ghost of a little girl haunting The Brookdale Lodge in Felton, California, the legend of a ghostly Blue Lady at the Moss Beach Distillery in California, The USS Hornet with apparitions of dead sailors, and the Toys R Us in Sunnyvale, California where Loyd Auerbach found that toys that moved and fell on their own were due to trucks driven on the street.
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Loyd Auerbach is the Coordinator for the annual Meeting of the Minds convention for the Psychic Entertainment Association, an international organization with a serious interest in the ethical performance of psychic entertainment, in which he was past President and former member of the Board of Directors.
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Loyd Auerbach has appeared in numerous radio, podcast and print interviews pertaining to parapsychology and ghost hunting.
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Loyd Auerbach was a columnist and consulting editor for Fate Magazine.
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Loyd Auerbach has written several books on paranormal subjects including parapsychology, psychic abilities, ghost hunting and out-of-body experiences and is the co-author of the Rayne Day Investigation novels.
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Loyd Auerbach is a professional mentalist and magician doing sleight-of-hand tricks performing as Professor Paranormal, touring on the club circuit under his act Professor Paranormal's Psychic Mind Theater.
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Loyd Auerbach's other occupations include chocolatier, offering guided chocolate tasting sessions through his website Haunted by Chocolate and is a research consultant for LexisNexis.