Tonight on Fireside Paranormal Podcast, Jordan Cline welcomes Christopher Balzano. Chris is a writer, researcher, folklorist, and the current host of the podcast Tripping on Legends (http://triplegend.hipcast.com/rss/tol1.xml). He has been documenting the unexplained since 1994 and has been a figure in the paranormal world through his book, articles, and his work as the director of Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads and now Tripping on Legends (www.trippingonlegends.com).

Balzano is the author of two books about regional hauntings in Massachusetts’ Bridgewater Triangle, several collections of true ghost stories and a pair of how-to paranormal books. He has been a featured contributor in more than three dozen other books, often called in to offer insight into the paranormal or perspective on a certain case. His most recent book, Haunted Florida Love Stories focuses on ghostly legend across the state that all love as part of their backstory.

He has appeared on radio stations across the country and throughout the Internet, as well as being called upon by television shows to comment on ghosts and urban legends. He has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM and been asked in as a consultant on televisions shows like Paranormal State and Ghost Adventures. He formerly ran the Paranormal News at Ghostvillage and headed up Ghostvillage for Kids.