Rob Gandy Author

Rob Gandy is a retired professional statistician and senior healthcare manager. He was involved with a number of universities during his career, including a stint of 13 years as Visiting Professor at Liverpool John Moores University, and published more than 140 papers for various journals and conferences. He has a lifelong eclectic interest in strange and weird phenomena and is a regular contributor to the Fortean Times and The Ghost Club Journal.

Jan Harold Brunvand is a retired American folklorist, researcher, writer, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. He is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend through books such as The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (1981) and Too Good To Be True (1999). His books became so popular that he was dubbed 'Mr Urban Legend'.