In late 2003, on the heels of two aspiring careers in both the music/video entertainment and electronics R&D industries, Michael Baker’s interests took a mysterious twist when he began to research historical and popular accounts of paranormal activity, an interest spawned from his own personal, and unexplainable experiences as child growing up in Arlington, Massachusetts.
By 2005, having developed a successful wedding and commercial videography business, (Digital 3 Media), Michael developed the urge to utilize the video medium in a more creative and less commercial way, that would also be separate from his already growing business. By 2006 Michael co-founded New Gravity Media a privately funded independent film company and began writing; directing and producing the full length feature film "14 Degrees - A Paranormal Documentary". Since its release in October 2007, 14 Degrees has sold successfully in every state in the U.S as well as 16 countries world wide and has won the 2008 Aegis Video production award. T he two years of extensive research that went into preparing for his film took Michael over 6000 miles across the northeastern United States to document and participate in dozens of paranormal investigations as well as interview and learn from some of the most popular and respected names in the paranormal field such as:
(Dr. Kerry Gaynor, John Zaffis, Steve Gonsalves, an d Keith Johnson)
Over recent years, Michael’s expertise and involvement in the paranormal field has flourished. He has worked with, instructed and consulted for dozens of paranormal teams and investigators across the U.S. and has become a nationally recognized authority on the technology used in paranormal research, evidence analysis and scientific investigation techniques.
Since 2006 Michael has been a member in good standing of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena. He is founder of The New England Center for Advancement of Paranormal Science (necaps.org.) as - well as The National Registry of Paranormal
.Investigators (naropi.org - the first official paranormal investigator census).
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Michael has appeared as a paranormal researcher on the SyFy’s Channel's hit TV show "Ghost Hunters" as well as FearNet's on demand miniseries "Streets of Fear". He has been a featured guest on CBS Radio's The Jordan Rich Show, as well as a guest speaker at numerous colleges and universities throughout New England, such as Boston University, University of Massachusetts, and The University of Connecticut. He has invented and developed several pieces of specialized paranormal equipment as well as launched several significant
studies geared toward the collection and analysis of paranormal data.
Michael is currently authoring the upcoming book "The E-Factor - Theoretical Considerations in Paranormal Equipment " (Due to be released mid 2011 ) His latest film release “Museum of the Paranormal” is currently available at www.museumoftheparanormalmovie.com.
