ANCHOR: Finally tonight, the success of the X-Files is just one of the growing indications in the growth of the paranormal. And one Ontario entrepreneur is cashing in on the trend. Jane Antoniac reports.

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JANE ANTONIAC: 'X' ZONE... 'X' FILES... the unknown and the strange are all part of everyday life for London's master of the paranormal. McConnell lives and works THE 'X' ZONE. He has his own company called THE 'X' CHRONICLES, INC and through it he does a weekly radio show, TV commentaries, and he sells his own monthly newspaper to nearly 8,000 subscribers. It all started back in 1957 when 5-year-old Rob saw a UFO out his bedroom window in Montreal.

ROB McCONNELL: There were round port-holes... with light coming out from inside... and I knew that what I was watching, right then and there... was going to change my life forever, and it has.

JANE ANTONIAC:  Chasing ghosts, alien sightings, and UFOs are his life's pursuits... and business.

JANE ANTONIAC: Now the McConnell is taking on the competitive board game business. He's launched his own entry called, logically enough, THE 'X' GAME, with trivia questions on the occult, paranormal, science and religion.

INTERVIEWEE: I like everything about sci-fi or what ever's like, really in right now, so it's good, it's probably going to sell a lot, 'cause a lot of kids are into this stuff right now.

JANE ANTONIAC: McConnell scoffs at suggestions that UFOs and aliens don't exist he says that he's researched and heard enough to be a believer.

ROB McCONNELL: Are we crazy? No! All we do is that we accept people for what they believe they have seen. Just because you're in the middle of the woods, and you see something that you can't understand, does not mean it did not happen.

ROB McCONNELL: ...tell me Art (Bell), do you see lights flying over area 51?

ART BELL: Constantly.

JANE ANTONIAC: And people keep contacting London's X-Man.... at least we think they are people. Jan Antoniac, Global News, London.