The paranormal investigator discusses the psychology of fear, ethical casework, collaboration with Neil D’Silva, and the responsibility of turning the unexplained into stories. Paranormal investigator Jay Alani has spent more than fifteen years examining experiences that people often struggle to describe. With over1,500 investigations, a widely heard podcast, a paranormal awareness helpline, filmmaking projects, and the development of a largerParanormal Universe through The Paranormal Company, his work moves between evidence, psychology, folklore, technology, andstorytelling. In The Haunted Doorway: Stories of a Paranormal Investigator, Alani collaborates with author Neil D’Silva to transform theatmosphere and questions of paranormal casework into ten fictional stories. The following interview answers are editorially drafted fromthe biographical and book information supplied for this project. They should be reviewed and approved by Jay Alani before publication. Q1. What made you want to turn paranormal investigation into a collection of fictional stories? After years of investigation, I realised that a case is never only about an unusual sound, an apparition, or an allegedlyhaunted object. Every case contains human emotion, family history, cultural belief, fear, grief, and sometimes apsychological or physical explanation that people have not considered.…
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