April Showers Bring...Bigfoot? A Look at April's Paracons

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Are you a Bigfoot fan? April is one of the months you’ll find a bunch of Bigfoot cons — five in fact. And April 13 is the most popular day for them.

In fact, April 13 is the most popular day no matter what kind of spooky event, be it Ghost Tours and Ghost Hunting Events or Paracons and Horror Fests (which this post will focus on). There’s even some Halloween-ish Spring and Easter events happening the weekend of April 13. (Don’t believe me? Just check the April listings on the Halloween Cons & Halloween Haunted House Events page and see for yourself.)

But for the purposes of this post, let’s first highlight the Bigfoot cons happening in April, followed by the rest of the paracons and horror fests, which I’ve listed first by state, then by date.

Bigfoot Con Highlights

April 12-13, 2019: 2nd Annual Southeast Texas Bigfoot Conference – Huntsville, TX
April 12-13, 2019: Estes Park Bigfoot Days – Estes Park, CO
April 13, 2019: Bigfoot Discovery Days – West Branch, MI
April 20, 2019: Crypto Paranormal Festival – Littleton, North Carolina
April 26, 2019: Georgia Bigfoot Conference – Clayton, GA

The Rest of April 2019’s Paracons & Horror Fests

Arkansas

April 12-14, 2019: Ozark Mountain UFO Conference – Eureka Springs, AR

Illinois

April 19-21, 2019: Walker Stalker Con: Chicago – Rosemont, IL

Massachusetts

April 5-6, 2019: Salem Con – Salem, MA

Michigan

April 26-28, 2019: Motor City Nightmares – Novi, MI

Missouri

April 12-14, 2019: Danse Macabre: A Paranormal Prom and Ghost Hunting Retreat – Liberty, MO
April 12-14, 2019: Spirits and Spectres – A Haunted Weekend at the Oddfellows Asylum and Belvoir Winery – Liberty, MO

Note: The above are both the same events put on by Strange Escapes, but they have slightly tweaked names so I included them both.

New York

April 13, 2019: Salt City Horror Fest – Syracuse, NY

Virginia

April 5-7, 2019: RavenCon – Williamsburg, VA
April 27, 2019: Enigmacons – Radford, VA

Canada

April 26-28, 2019: Shock Stock – London, Ontario, Canada

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Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.

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