Aaron Sagers is an American entertainment journalist, syndicated columnist

Columnist

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, author

Author

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, paranormal

Paranormal

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 personality/pundit and founder of ParanormalPopCulture.com, a popular culture

Popular culture

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 Website which covers the "entertainment of the unexplained." He has appeared with Zak Bagans as a celebrity guest judge on the Travel Channel

Travel Channel

The Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...

 show Paranormal Challenge, worked alongside Ghost Hunters

Ghost Hunters

Ghost Hunters is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 6, 2004, on Syfy . The program features paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson who investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The two originally worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter as...

 and Ghost Adventures

Ghost Adventures

Ghost Adventures is a weekly American paranormal television series that premiered on October 17, 2008 on the Travel Channel. Currently produced by MY-Tupelo Entertainment , the program follows and stars ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, as they investigate locations that are...

 as a lecturer at paranormal tourism events, and has appeared as a guest on Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM is a North American late-night syndicated radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics, but most frequently ones that relate to either the paranormal or conspiracy theories. It was created by Art Bell and is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks. The program currently...

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Sagers began his career in travel journalism with Budget Travel and MSNBC

MSNBC

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 and working freelance before eventually accepting a position with the Tribune Company

Tribune Company

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. His work has appeared in Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

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, The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun

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, The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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, The Miami Herald

The Miami Herald

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, Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Sentinel

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, Orlando Weekly

Orlando Weekly

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,The Morning Call

The Morning Call

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 and Playboy

Playboy

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 among other publications.

He has been a contributing author for Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet

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 travel guides for Costa Rica

Costa Rica

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, ABC-CLIO

ABC-CLIO

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 reference guide on pirates in pop culture, and the H.W. Wilson Company reference guide on the paranormal. Sagers was also a guest editor

Editor

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 for the TAPS Magazine, the magazine for the Syfy

Syfy

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 channel's Ghost Hunters, in March/April and May/June 2011. His book Paranormal Pop Culture: Notes from the Entertainment of the Unexplained is slated to be released in 2011.

Sagers began ParanormalPopCulture.com in 2009 to cover "all forms of paranormal popular culture in mass media - and to have fun while doing it" without "proving or debunking the existence of anything beyond the entertainment factor." He takes credit for coining the phrase "paranormal pop culture" and has said in interviews he was motivated to create the site after writing multiple well-received articles on Paranormal television

Paranormal television

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, but also because of his childhood love for ghost stories around the campfire, monsters and a love of zombies. His main goal is to examine the "cross section of mainstream pop culture and the paranormal." He has interviewed a variety of celebrities on both paranormal and mainstream topics, including Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.-Early...

, Rob Zombie

Rob Zombie

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, Stan Lee

Stan Lee

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, George A. Romero

George A. Romero

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, Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics, and Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt...

 and Max Brooks

Max Brooks

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, the cast of Being Human, Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola

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, Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...

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He remains active as a columnist (of the weekly syndicated "Pop Pundit" column)and generalist features writer on entertainment topics that range from The Office (U.S. TV Series) to character profiles to celebrity profiles such as Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

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Sagers also contributes as an entertainment pundit to several outlets, including ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, Liveparanormal.com, Para-X Radio and TAPS Magazine Radio on CNY Talk Radio. His gives lectures on various topics connected to paranormal pop culture at conventions such as Dragon Con

Dragon Con

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 and New York Comic Con. Sagers serves as an adjunct faculty of New York University

New York University

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 and the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Institute of Technology

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 teaching journalism and writing. He resides in New York City

New York City

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 and is active on Twitter

Twitter

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External links

• ParanormalPopCulture.com