Dusty Smith is the chief researcher and founder of the Daytona Beach Paranormal Research Group, Inc. She holds certifications as a ghost hunter and paranormal investigator, as well degrees in biology, psychology, and theology that aid her in her scientific approach to the field of the paranormal. Dusty has worked cases all over the Southeast and her work has been featured regional publications, as well as the books Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places, Ghost Hunters of America, Ghost Stories of Florida, Haunted Places, The Encyclopedia of Haunted Places, and Ghost Hunters of the South. The work of DBPRG has also appeared on A Haunting in Florida (The Discovery Channel), A Haunting (Village Films), and Nitido (Telemundo). Dusty is a storyteller and lecturer and is currently a staff writer & photographer for Epitaphs, a magazine for fans of cemetery and graveyard history, lore, legend and arts. She is the author of Haunted Daytona Beach (The History Press).