About the author
Ever since he was a young boy growing up in the Park Extension area of Montreal, Rob McConnell has always had a keen interest in the world of broadcasting. As a youth, Rob was a guest on The Magic Tom Show (Tom Auburn) and on The Johnny JellyBean (Ted Zeigler who went on to be a regular on the Sonny and Cher TV Show) at the studios of CFCF TV Channel 12 on Ogilvy Avenue also in the Park Extension neighborhood. In his late teens, Rob could be seen sitting and chatting with Leonard Cohen, having lunch with Cliff Edwards from the great Canadian group, "The Bells", teaching First-Aid Senior and Preliminary for the St. John Ambulance Association where, he was the youngest certified senior first-aid instructor. Rob even worked the home/security protective detail for then Commissioner Brian Mulroney and Quebec Minister of Justice, Jerome Choquette. In the late 60s' Rob played Montreal's British Pubs, the French Bistro's in historic Old Montreal, church and high school dances, to playing the Coffee Houses of Montreal's McGill University's Aylmer Street area where he met and played with a little known but up and coming Canadian artist, Gordon Lightfoot at The Yellow Door. In his later years, Rob worked with such international artists such as B.J. Thomas, Bobby Curtola, Linda Gentille, Brighton Rock and Peter Noone. Rob McConnell has quite a career to his credit... musician, police officer, director, producer, publisher, author, board game creator, researcher, syndicated columnist and still, after 21 years, hosting the very popular internationally syndicated radio show which he created, The 'X' Zone Radio & TV Show. When it comes to the world of the paranormal or the science of parapsychology, Rob's expertise is ranked in the Top 10 in his field. Since 1992, Rob McConnell has been publishing The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper, North America's only Paranormal/ Parapsychology / New Age Newspaper. Rob McConnell was featured by the BBC in C*O*N*T*A*C*T in 1997, and was the consultant to the producers of the Canadian hit TV Show, Creepy Canada for three years. In 1997 Rob invented the very popular 'X' Game. Rob's broadcast experience includes 1220 CHSC in St. Catharines, 1290 CJBK in London and Rob was also the Executive Producer of Talk Programming for NewsTalk 610 CKTB.
