Mike Hallowell was born in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, in 1957. He has been married to his wife Jackie for over thirty 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 over a decade, and it is the longest-running paranormal column in a provincial newspaper in the UK.
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, James van Praagh, Tony Stockwell, Cliff Crook, Larry Warren ,Richard Freeman, Stephen Holbrook, Jonathan Downes, Philip Solomon, Derek Acorah, Billy Roberts, Darren W. Ritson, Philip Mantle and Nick Redfern.
Mike was a regular columnist with VISION magazine before its demise, and contributes to other periodicals such as BEYOND, THE FORTEAN TIMES, PARANORMAL and UFO MATRIX.
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 and co-founded WraithScape with his colleague Darren W. Ritson.
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Football Club, Ringtons Tea, Wright’s Coal
Tar Soap, Euthymol toothpaste, Coca Cola,
volcanic curries, good science fiction,
anarchic comedy, the Ramones,
Peacock’s the clothes store, The
Sheckies, The Sheenas, Marmite, Juliette
and the Licks...
Virgin Trains, classical music, ballet,
opera, designer labels on clothes,
Pepsi, noisy kids, “gentle” comedies or
“rom-coms”, racism, greed, elitism,
materialism and Vegemite.
His wife’s lasagne.
Extremists of all kinds; “They’re all
bonkers”.
Quentin Letts, the late Keith Waterhouse
and Colin Wilson.
Gary Sinise, Vincent D’Onofrio, Pauley
Perrette, the late Gerry Orbach
and the late, great Jeremy Brett.
Robin Tilbrook, Bobby Jindal, Boris
Johnson.
South Tyneside and Louisiana.
People who are tactful and tolerant.
Don’t get me started! Well, basically I have
a hard time coping with neurotically fussy
people who fidget all the time, continually
glance around the room when you’re
talking to them, interrupt you every few
seconds, complain about the amount of
milk you’ve put in their tea, the
temperature, the fact that you haven’t got
any windows open, the light being too dim
or too bright...blah bloody blah. You know
the sort.
I also have a problem with people who
suck up to you and pretend to be your
friend and then, when they’ve bled you
of whatever they were after, stab you in
the back and discard you like a dirty rag.
At one time I used to make friends easily,
but not now. I have a small circle of
trusted friends and a larger number of
people whom I’m friendly with - there’s a
difference. I’m very wary of people who
very quickly want to be my friend. In fact,
the more people call me their friend, the
less inclined I am to believe them.
“Its always darkest just before it goes
completely black”.
“When one door shuts, another one
slams in your face”.
“Every silver lining has a bloody big
cloud”.
“A stitch in time stops you bleeding to
death”.
