Ben Hansen

A former FBI agent turned television investigator. Ben Hansen served as host and lead investigator on the Syfy series Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. In 2011 he travelled to DeWitt County with Chi-Lan Lieu and Devin Marble to test the dashcam chupacabra clip, collecting DNA from a rancher's carcass and trying to recreate the footage. May 2012. He led a crew to Hrafnkelsstaðir in Iceland, chasing the Lagarfljót Worm. That same year he weighed in on the Popocatépetl cigar video. He suspected editing, and a dubbed rumble.

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The DeWitt County Dashcam Chupacabra

August 8, 2008 · Rural back roads near Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

23Thinly documented

Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files investigator

Hjörtur Kjerúlf's Lagarfljót Worm video

February 2, 2012 · Hrafnkelsstaðir, Fljótsdalur, East Iceland (Jökulsá í Fljótsdal where it enters Lagarfljót)

Iceland

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources

22Thinly documented

Host of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, led the May 2012 crew to Hrafnkelsstaðir

The Popocatépetl Cigar: A Glowing Object Falls Into the Volcano

October 25, 2012 · Popocatépetl volcano (Don Goyo), on the border of Puebla, México state and Morelos

Mexico

UAP · Cigar · 20 sources

19Thinly documented

Former FBI agent, lead investigator on Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files