The Cryptic Files Podcast - Belief, Psychology & the Paranormal with Peter Secco

Peter Secco, a retired psychology professor and former criminal psychology instructor trained by FBI profilers, spent the first half of his career teaching students and consulting on police cases before a personal crisis—two car accidents twelve days apart that triggered PTSD and vertigo—forced him out of the lecture hall. That experience of becoming the patient instead of the healer gave him a different kind of credibility when he later turned his attention to the paranormal. Since 1999, he has investigated haunted historical sites around Niagara, Canada, eventually creating The Paranormal Profilers, a streaming show that assembles historians, psychic mediums, and equipment-based investigators to independently examine the same location and then compares their findings. The show has become the number one paranormal TV show on platforms like Paraplex and Roku, but Secco insists its success comes from a deliberate lack of agenda: nobody is paid, nobody has to prove anything, and the goal is simply to report what happened.

The Investigator's Own Mind as the Primary Variable