Deborah Hyde
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Deborah Hyde giving a talk about belief in vampires at QEDcon 2014.
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| Born | 1965 London |
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| Residence | London | ||
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| Occupation | Film-industry makeup effects coordinator Managing Editor of The Skeptic |
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| Website | www |
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Deborah Hyde (/ˈdɛbərə haɪd/; born 1965) is a British skeptic, folklorist, cultural anthropologist and Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic. She writes and lectures extensively about superstition,cryptozoology, religion and belief in the paranormal, with special regard to the folklore, psychology and sociology behind these phenomena. In everyday life, she is a film-industry makeup effects coordinator. She has even been introduced as a "vampire expert".
Deborah Hyde's interest in the supernatural stems from her childhood and she attributes it to "having spent too much time with mad aunties". While other girls are usually interested in fairies and angels, she has always been fascinated by "dark stuff". She started out believing, but that changed with her discovering 'The Black Arts' by occult writer Richard Cavendish, which made her apply a more analytic approach to these phenomena.
For years she was in the business of distributing collectibles, during which time she spent a few years in New York City. That period was followed in the '90s by her activities as a makeup and creature effects coordinator and production manager for film and TV. This is also her current occupation (mainly in set-construction).
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