About MJ

MJ Wayland is an author, researcher and historian specialising in paranormal and alternative subjects. His research has appeared in dozens of publications and he has consulted and appeared in over one hundred television programmes. Over the last ten years he has lectured internationally as well as lecturing at The Sunday Times Literature Festival, College of Psychic Studies and many Universities across the UK.

MJ Wayland’s interest in the paranormal began at an early age after experiencing a number of unusual incidents that his peers could not explain. In his early teens he joined various paranormal research societies and began to study the multiple facets to the paranormal with a scientific viewpoint.

As a member of various UFO groups in the 1980’s, he began investigating UFO sightings in and around South Yorkshire. In 1987, the Mansfield UFO incident occurred, thrusting him and his local UFO group in to the media and world-wide publicity. Although the event was later proven to be a “freak thunderbolt”, MJ had proven his investigation had been fair and level-headed.

For the last twenty years MJ has investigated and researched hundreds of paranormal incidents and experiences. He has been interviewed by local and national newspapers and radio stations on regular occasions, as well as regularly consulting on television and film projects across the globe. MJ is an active member and patron for a number of paranormal and occult related societies as well as holding membership with the Cockburn Association and the Pugin Society.

His investigations have appeared in popular and best-selling books including “The Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Sheffield” (1985), Timothy Good’s “UFO Report 1991/1992”, “Pit Ghosts, Padfeet and Poltergeists” (1994), “The Howden Moor Incident” (1999 – with Dr David Clarke), “The UFO’s that never were” (2000) and “Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology” by George M. Eberhart (2002) and many more.

MJ’s other interests include writing, gothic architecture, art and the occult. He has been involved in the magickal exploration since the early 1990s and was one of the founders of the Lodge of the Dark Moon and a ritual performance collective by the name of “The Theatre of Ophidia”.

MJ has delivered lectures and workshops on a variety of subjects ranging from Tarot, archetypes, ghost hunting, right through to Lost Treasures of Yorkshire. Available lectures and workshops can be found be clicking here

Aside from countless media appearances in both national and international newspapers and magazines, he has appeared and/or consulted in the following television programmes:

BBC “Mysteries” 1997-1998
BBC “Esther” 1999 – 2000
BBC “Born in the Seventies” 2001 -2002
BBC “Airport” 2002
BBC “Exclusive” 2002
BBC “Inside Out” 2002 – 2008
BBC “The Culture Show” 2009

ITV “The Time, The Place” 1992 – 1997
ITV “This Morning” 2003 – 2011
ITV “The James Whale Show” 1996
ITV “Ghost Hunting with The Dingles”
ITV “Calendar” 2003 – 2010
LWT/Media Lab – “London’s Scariest Mysteries” 2002

Channel 4 “Richard and Judy” 2002 – 2004
Channel 4 “First Edition” 2000
Channel 4 “Strange Holidays” 2004
Channel 4 “Four Rooms” 2011

Channel 5 “Do You Believe In…” 1999
Channel 5 “Swapheads” 2002

Living TV “Scream Team” 2002
Living TV “World’s Biggest Ghost Hunt” – 2003
Living TV “Most Haunted” and “Most Haunted Live”
Living TV “Ghost Hunter’s International” (USA) 2009 – 2011

Travel Channel “Ghost Adventures” – 2011/2012
Yesterday “Great British Ghosts” – 2011/2012
FOX/ABC “Scariest Places on Earth” (USA) 1998
BskyB “Sky News” 1999 – 2003
Carlton TV 1999 – 2001
Carton TV “The Last Word” 2002