page_title: Deborah Hyde
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caption_attribution_description: English: Deborah Hyde CSICon 2018 Interview with the Vampire Expert
context_page_description: Deborah Hyde is a British sceptic, folklorist, cultural anthropologist, fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 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, and has been introduced as a "vampire expert". Hyde has also worked in the motion picture industry.
context_section_description: Deborah Hyde (/ˈdɛbərə haɪd/; born 1965) is a British sceptic, folklorist, cultural anthropologist, fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, 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, and has been introduced as a "vampire expert". Hyde has also worked in the motion picture industry.
caption: Deborah Hyde presenting at CSICon 2018
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