Multi-talented Mark Rose-Christie, is academically a sociologist, metaphysician, psychologist, a professional TV/film-maker, theatrical producer/director/actor, South Africa's leading magician & illusionist (hailed by the media as "The David Copperfield of South Africa"), and as far as is known, the country's only university-degreed parapsychologist (paranormal scientist), although he is also a sceptic regarding certain aspects of the paranormal. He also is interested in Near Death Experiences and "The Hard Problem Of Consciousness".

His work appears in several books on the topic of ghosts in South Africa, and him acting as an expert for the country's paranormal Websites & Facebook groups, Paranormal Investigation Teams, Book Authors, Television Programmes, Films, and the Media.

Mark also deals with the world's leading parapsychologists such as Dean Radin, Bruce Greyson, Rupert Sheldrake, Kenneth Ring and Loyd Auerbach, to name a few.

As a sociologist he lectured at the University of Port Elizabeth (today NMU), and continued studying at Rhodes University towards a Master of Arts degree, whilst also producing the shark movie “White Death” (a parody of the movie “Jaws”), as well as producing magazine programmes for the launch of the SATV-2 Xhosa-Zulu channel back in its day (1982) in South Africa, under the mentorship of the late Bill Faure, who was one of South Africa's leading film/TV directors..

In the theatre, having been grounded in classical theatrical productions such as Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" from an early age, he went on to stage rock opera’s, where he produced, directed & starred in the singing role of 'Judas' in his award-winning and national media-acclaimed South African National Premiere of “Jesus Christ Superstar”. Mark is also an accomplished pianist, singer, choreographer & dancer.

As an illusionist he launched the first-ever illusion spectaculars for South Africa of the same epic scale as those of David Copperfield overseas, having been invited to perform for presidents such as George Bush Sr. overseas, and Thabo Mbeki in South Africa. The media hailed Mark's illusion spectaculars as "Sheer Las Vegas", and that his new illusions surpassed those of David Copperfield for the most part, stating that Mark had gone beyong the rabbit-out-of-hat era of magic and illusions, where industry experts stated that Mark could do more than Copperfield (see his video cited below).

When Mark was at the early age of 24 he had already won international acclaim with his autographed photograph being hung in 'The Hall of Fame' at Hollywood's "Magic Castle" (the international home to magicians), and his name being entered into the world's original magic circle's - The London Magic Circle's, book "Who's Who of Magic in the World".

Mark brought about many changes to the art of magic, making him the only illusionist worldwide to date to be able to claim the title “Illusionist of the 21^st Century”, him giving the art a long-awaited 'facelift' with his multi-dimensional shows, and entirely new illusions (which he invented), both of which appealed to a more broad & modern audience than David Copperfield. A video clip of his last illusion spectacular “Magic Of The Future” can be viewed here

The famous international ghost hunter of his day, Peter Underwood, said that to properly investigate the paranormal, one has to be a "detective" (with a knowledge of science), a "magicianr" (to detect hoaxes), and a degreed "psychologist" (in order to tell the difference between hallucinations and any possible real psi phenomena). Mark happens to be all three, and more. In fact in his early days, Mark also ran a pro-am private detective unit, which in August 2025 allowed him to develop the "Murder & Crime Bus" (with some added ghost stories) as an off-shoot of "SA's Mystery Ghost Tours". As stated above he is also an entertainer (allowing for dramatic story-telling), and a quantum physics enthusiast (which has greatly assisted his understanding of the many different types of ghosts, and other aspects of parapsychology).

During a near-fatal road traffic accident in 1999, Mark suffered some spinal and other injuries, which prevented him from pursuing his mainstay career of illusion, but the injuries don't affect his ghostly productions. Mark came up with the concept of ghost tours for South Africa ever since he and his cousin boarded the London Ghost Bus in 1988. Ten years later, in early 1998, Mark began talks with an historian (Brian Jackson) about launching the concept. His road accident interupted the launch, and so the ghost tours were launched in 2001 at the National Arts Festival in the then town of Grahamstown.

Today the tours run nationwide in eight (8) cities under the title "SA's Mystery Ghost Tours", plus spin-off productions, but all of which are ghost related. Mark's company is the only national ghost tour company in the world.

Due to Mark's early pioneering efforts dating back years ago, he has inspired many magicians & illusionists to perform professionally, whilst his work in parapsychology has seen many paranormal investigator groups, paranormal social media groups, and ghost tours spring up around the country over the years - and he tries to assist all of them.

Mark has contributed to several books regarding ghosts in South Africa (e.g.: "Ghosts of South Africa" by Pat Hopkins), and the Mystery Ghost Tours have become such a household name that they have featured in SATV soap operas like "7de Laan" long ago already in South Africa.

The ghost tours have also received international awards, such as the Luxury Global Travel Award on several occasions. Mark has also been featured in over 50 TV programmes in SA and overseas, clocked up over 200 radio hours, and been featured in nearly all of SA's major newspapers, and several major magazines (including overseas).

Mark also still engages with the world's leading para-psychologists and sceptics alike, regarding several aspects of the paranormal, where his view is that what is today still classified as certain aspects of the supernatural will one day be classified as natural.According to reports in The Skeptic, even the atheist, Richard Dawkins, used a term like ‘perinormal’ to describe phenomena that lie beyond current scientific knowledge - not necessarily ‘supernatural,’ but temporarily unexplained, perhaps awaiting future scientific discoveries.

"There is more in heaven and on earth than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio" - Hamlet to Horatio in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"