Previously, I interviewed cryptozoologist Robin Bellamy. This time around, I'm interviewing one of my favorite researchers, Nick Redfern. I asked Nick for candid answers to controversial questions, and he delivered. I think you'll find his responses entertaining, intelligent, and thought provoking.

Nick may be the most prolific chronicler of the paranormal. He wrote the foreword for my book Backyard Bigfoot, as well as a foreword for Linda Godfrey's Hunting the American Werewolf, and has written numerous books of his own—including Celebrity Secrets, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, and Three Men Seeking Monsters. He writes a column for UFO Magazine, plus he maintains more blogs than any human being I know—Celebrity Secrets (companion to his book), There's Something in the Woods (cryptozoology), UFO Mystic (with Greg Bishop). Okay, so maybe you know a human being who has more blogs, but do they also write columns and books and appear on radio shows regularly?

Enjoy Nick's answers. I sure did!

One question I forgot to ask: what does he eat to find the energy for writing all those books and blogs?

I would have to say a beast that became known as the "Man-Monkey." This was a Bigfoot-style creature seen in Central England in 1879. The location was the thick woods and canals near an old village called Woodseaves. This all occurred not far from where I used to live; and so the case fascinated me and it was the first real "thing" of a cryptozoological nature that I delved into, in the late 1980s. Although the beast was described as hairy and monkey-like, it was actually spectral too, and according to several witnesses it vanished—literally—into thin air, rather than racing off into the safety of the woods. I have a new book out later this year on my investigations of this creature and it's a weird story that has as much to do with paranormal issues as it does with real, flesh-and blood man-beasts.

I've had a couple. The most recent was when me and Texan cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard and his wife Lori went on an expedition in 2005 to Lake Worth, Texas, to investigate the legend of the Goat-Man, a strange creature seen on and off since the late 1960s. We didn't really expect to find anything; but while searching Greer Island (an island on the lake where some of the old encounters occurred), we found what we could only describe as a kind of classic "tepee" style formation that are often found in areas of Bigfoot activity, and that are sometimes perceived as being boundary markers, perhaps created by the creatures. These are structures created by bending the branches of trees into specific patterns to create a tepee-like design. And it was eerie to stumble across one of these on a remote island noted for weird experiences with unidentified man-beasts.