Education
According to his own website, he completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman and Julia Buckroyd.
According to his own website, he completed his PhD at the University of Hertfordshire under the supervision of Richard Wiseman and Julia Buckroyd.
He is currently employed at Bucks New University. O'Keeffe became known in the United Kingdom following his appearances on Living TV's paranormal television series Most Haunted and Jane Goldman Investigates, where he performs the role of parapsychologist and paranormal investigator. He also featured in National Geographic Channel's 2005 series Paranormal?.
O'Keeffe is an open-minded skeptic on most paranormal phenomena. Also appeared on ghost adventures in the Hellfire Caves
O'Keeffe attended Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where he double majored in music and psychology. He then completed a MSc in investigative psychology at the University of Liverpool and an MA in Sculpture from Goldsmiths before studying for his PhD at University of Hertfordshire.
His father is Irish, his mother is Swedish. He is an avid tennis player and currently plays for a county league team.
Previously employed at Liverpool Hope University, lecturing in psychology with a parapsychology component, O'Keeffe is a member of the Society for Psychical Research and a senior advisor to The Ghost Club.