Patrick Lynn Burns (born September 29, 1968) is an American photographer and paranormal investigator, best known as star of the TruTV (formerly Court TV) series Haunting Evidence.
He began to get media recognition after he was featured in an Emmy award-winning Turner documentary "Interact Atlanta – 'Ghost Hounds' ".
Burns says that he had an uneventful childhood, with no exposure to paranormal activities, aside from what he read in books, until he was 18, at which time he began observing unusual phenomena.
[citation needed] Several years later, while living in northern Wisconsin, he heard from some friends speak about the Paulding Spook Light that appears nightly on a desolate road near the town of Watersmeet, Michigan, in the upper peninsula region.
In 2008, he appeared in a bonus material excerpt "The Science of the Spirits" on the 25th anniversary DVD release of Poltergeist In October 2010, his first book was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt entitled, The Other Side: A Teen's Guide To Ghost Hunting And The Paranormal, co-authored with his wife - young adult author, Marley Gibson.