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The Haunt Jaunts Skeleton Crew, along with our para partners Haunted Magazine and the Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre, cordially invites you to social distance in a spirited way on May 3 during the Paranormal Day Paracon!

Click on any of the following for event specifics.

When

May 3, 2020

Where

Facebook. Specifically via the Facebook event.

Note: If you’re an Instagrammer or blogger and would like to participate with an Insta Live or a post, reach out via HauntJaunts@gmail.com. We’ll gather all your details so we know when to share them on Paranormal Day on the Facebook event page as well as our other socials!

Cost

None! It’s totally free!

How to Attend

  1. Stay home!
  2. Visit the “Paranormal Day Quarantine-acon” Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3898144730226053/.
  3. Follow the day’s schedule in the Facebook Event’s “About” section, refer to this site, OR visit any of the hosts’ Facebook pages: Haunted Magazine, Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre, or Haunt Jaunts.
  4. Watch for shares of speaker live feeds, as well as Lives from the event with various guests.

Just like a regular paracon, you can choose which sessions to attend, or you can mix mingle in the discussion area of the event with other para peeps.

We’ll be posting fun things there like polls and games to keep you entertained too!

You’ll also be able to see events from each of the paracon hosts’ Facebook pages:

  • Haunt Jaunts
  • Haunted Magazine
  • Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre

Schedule

Note: Because the Paranormal Day Paracon is a collaboration of US/UK para folks, con times are listed in CT and GMT. Ooops. We had it as GMT, but it’s BST there. If you are British and see the GMT, please know the time is meant to be BST.

If you’re in ET, add an hour to the CT times. If you’re PT, you’ll deduct two hours. Ex. 10 am CT = 11 am ET and 8 am PT.

Guests

Courtney from Haunt Jaunts will be either chatting live with the following guests or airing pre-recorded interviews with the following guests. To watch any of them visit HJ’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HauntJaunts/

  • 10 am CT/ 4 pm BST: Richard Estep, Paranormal Author and as seen on Haunted Hospitals and Paranormal 911
  • 12 pm CT / 6 BST: Alex Matsuo from Singing & Spooky Stuff
  • 2:30 pm CT / 8:30 BST: Kitsie Duncan of Oddity Files
  • 3 pm CT / 9 BST: Mike Ricksecker of Haunted Road Media 
  • 6 pm CT / 12 am BST: Are You Haunted…? After-Show Chat with Sara and Phil Whyman
  • 7 pm CT / 1 am BST: Rick McCallum of Hollywood Ghost Hunters
  • 8:45 CT/ 2:45 BST: Paul Stevenson and Andy Soar of Haunted Magazine (or very close. He will follow the screening of their HLive episode)
  • 9:30 pm CT/ 3:30 am BST: An interview with producers Kendall Whelpton and Steve Gonsalves about The House in Between
Speakers/Presentations
  • 10:30 am CT / 4:30 BST: “Who Put Bella in the Wych-Elm?” with Jayne Harris – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/550219302585859/
  • 11 am CT /5 BST: “Virtual Cemetery Tour: Tombstone Symbolism, Urban Legends, Haunted Lore” with Tui Snider
  • 11:30 am CT/ 5:30 pm BST: “5 Haunted Locations from Help! My House is Haunted” with Barri Ghai FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2601275550091390/
  • 12 pm CT / 6 BST:  “The Ghosts of Kassel” with Penny Griffiths-Morgan
  • 12:30 CT / 6:30 BST: “When Hauntings Reveal Unknown History” with Ben Goldman of Afterlife Road
  • 12:30 CT / 6:30 BST: “Pandemic and the Paranormal” with Pamela K. Kinney
  • 1 pm CT / 7 pm BST: “Top Spook-Eats Places in the USA” with Amanda Woomer of Spook-Eats – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/687657761797394/
  • 1:30 pm CT/ 7:30 BST:Bye Bye Blackbird Reading from the Shadow People and Cursed Objects anthology” with Emerian Rich
  • 3 pm CT / 8 BST: “The Haunted President: Lincoln Among the Spirits” with Troy Taylor of American Hauntings Ink – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/236655984221628/
  • 3:30 pm CT / 9:30 BST: “The Soul Sisters Paranormal Style” with Kris Sumner of Soul Sisters Paranormal – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/244453643576584/
  • 6:30 pm CT / 12:30 am BST: “The Importance of Photo Preservation” with Jessica Krutell and Hillary Stone of Mystic Mitten Paranormal
  • 7:30 pm CT / 1:30 am BST: “Haunts & History: Partners in Time” with Steve Dills of Transcend Paranormal
  • 8:30 pm CT / 2:30 am BST: “My Time Behind Bars” with Miranda Young of Ghost Biker Explorations – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1821086544713477/
Screenings
  • 5 pm CT/ 11 pm BST: Watch Party of an Are You Haunted…? episode “Is anybody there?” season 2, episode 1 – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/3199455030098856/
Shows
  • 1:30 pm CT / 7:30 BST: “Haunted Advisor” presented by Neil Packer of the Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre – FB Page Link: https://www.facebook.com/hauntedresearch/
  • 4 pm CT/ 10 pm BST: “Confessions of a Paranormal Investigator” presented by Neil Packer of the Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre – FB Page Link: https://www.facebook.com/hauntedresearch/
  • 7:30 pm CT / 1:30 pm BST: “What Not to Do in the Paranormal” A Haunt Mess in their first-ever live stream – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/228744098191862/
  • 8 pm CT / 2 am BST: Haunted Magazine presents an HauntedLIVE Highlights Reel! – FB Page Link: https://www.facebook.com/HauntedDigitalMagazine/
  • 8 pm CT / 2 am BST: “Live from the Cabin on 360” The Orion Effect – FB Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2591453504516049/
Games & Giveaways

Keep your eye out even day. There could be some giveaways and special offerings from both the speakers and the event hosts…

The Hill and the Hole

The Hill and the Hole is a film based on a short story of the same name by Fritz Leiber. Its producer, Bright Rectangle Films have generously provided a link for all Paranormal Day Paracon attendees to view their movie for FREE for a limited time. Basically, the weekend of the con.

Here’s the trailer. Give it a watch. If your interest is piqued, see the info under the trailer for the like and password you’ll need to watch the full movie.

To watch the whole movie follow use the password “digby” and click this link: https://vimeo.com/406387205

Guests & Speakers

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1 day. 12 hours. 25 speakers. Paranormal Day may never be the same again…
Alex Matsuo
Alex Matsuo paranormal investigator, author and singer
Alex Matsuo / Singing & Spooky Stuff

Alex Matsuo is a paranormal researcher, singer, and author. She is the founder of the Association of Paranormal Study and runs the blog and YouTube channel, “Singing & Spooky Stuff.” She was recently seen on Travel Channel’s “Most Terrifying Places in America” as well as “Truth or Legends in Your Hometown.” In addition, she is the host of the podcast, “Informal Paranormal.” Alex has written several books about the paranormal including, “The Brave Mortal’s Guide to Ghost Hunting”, “The Haunting of the Tenth Avenue Theatre”, “More than Ghosts: A Guide to Working Residential Cases in the Paranormal Field”, and “The Haunted Actor.” She holds an MA in theatre from San Diego State University and currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Website: https://alexmatsuo.com/

Amanda Woomer
Amanda Woomer of Spook-Eats
Amanda Woomer / Spook-Eats

My name is Amanda and I am a huge travel buff, foodie (who isn’t?), and lover of all things strange and unusual.

I’ve been visiting haunted locations ever since my first visit to Gettysburg, PA in 2004 and since then I’ve traveled to dozens of haunted places in the United States from the Stanley Hotel in Colorado to the home of Robert the Doll in Key West.

I’m continuing my journey around the country, visiting bars, cafes, restaurants, and hotels, searching for delicious food and spirits of all kinds. We’ll visit the Lemp Mansion, the Farnsworth House, the Lizzie Borden bed and breakfast, and maybe even some locales you haven’t heard of yet!

Come along with me (if you dare), it’s going to be a spooky ride.

Website: https://spookeats.com/

Barri Ghai
Barri Ghai
Barri Ghai / Help! My House is Haunted

Barri Ghai is a TV presenter and professional paranormal investigator. He has appeared on various television programmes worldwide including Paranormal Investigation: Live, Weird or What with William Shatner, Ghost Adventures, This Morning, ITV’s Daybreak and My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera.

More recently Barri has appeared as a paranormal expert on ‘Unexplained Caught on Camera’ which aired on Really Channel, part of the Discovery TV Network.

Barri is best known for presenting the 12 part Help! My House is Haunted TV show which first aired on UKTV’s Really Channel in 2018. Season 2 of this hit UK paranormal TV show aired in November 2019 with co-hosts Jayne Harris and Chris Fleming.

Barri was born in Croydon, South London in 1979, but grew up in Chiswick, West London. He studied Media and American History at the University of Sunderland before moving back to London. He is married to Lucy Ghai and has seven daughters.

Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman / Afterlife Road

“Afterlife Road” is a Michigan-based paranormal web-series. With nearly 100 unique episodes under their belt, from Eloise Asylum to The Whitney, Stimson Hospital to the Belding Library, investigating Michigan’s iconic hauntings can lead to incredible historical discoveries.

Website: https://www.hauntedmichigan.net/

Courtney Mroch
Courtney Mroch with Smalls
Courtney Mroch / Haunt Jaunts

Courtney Mroch is the Ambassador of Dark & Paranormal Tourism for Haunt Jaunts, a site she started as her “get off the couch” project while she battled cancer in 2009. She’s the author of The Ghost of Laurie Floyd and edited the anthology, Shadow People and Cursed Objects: 13 Tales of Terror Based on True Stories..or are they? When she’s not traveling to haunted places and events, investigating the strange and macabre, or writing about them, she’s usually wrangling cats or skeletons –sometimes both at the same time. And if she’s not doing any of the above, she’s likely plotting episode shenanigans with her A Haunt Mess podcast co-hosts/ghoulfriends.

Website: https://www.hauntjaunts.net/

Deedee Jebrail
Deedee Jebrail
Deedee Jebrail / A Haunt Mess Podcast

Deedee has been a Paranormal Hostess for Twitter’s #HauntedHour (Wednesdays 9 pm ET)  since 2015. She became interested in the paranormal after living in a house with unexplained occurrences in her 20’s. This opened the door to paranormal investigations and research as well as the love for hearing others’ experiences and helping them figure out what is going on paranormal or otherwise.

You can also find her hanging with her ghoulfriends from A Haunt Mess podcast, where they spit the straight truth and having a good time doing it!

Website: https://ahauntmess.blogspot.com/

Emerian Rich
Emerian Rich
Emerian Rich / HorrorAddicts.net

Emerian is an author of multiple books and the Horror Hostess for HorrorAddicts.net, which publishes books and produces a podcast for horror addicts, by horror addicts.

Website: http://horroraddicts.net/

Howie Odell and Cat Cagnon
The Orion Effect with Cat and Howie logo
Cat and Howie / The Orion Effect

Cat and Howie are the Hosts of the blogtalkradio podcast, The Orion Effect. Howie is the President of The R.I.F.T. Radio Network run by John Covey. Both Cat and Howie are active paranormal researchers who apply their skills to find reason, communication, and understanding of the multiverse as we know it.

Catrina Gagnon, known to most as Cat  has honed her paranormal skills over the past years. Prior to moving to Virginia Cat lived in the New England states and remains active with her research team Paranormal Reactions. During her time in New England she established many versions of public investigations as well as overnights for the public. Paranormal Reactions and Cat really aimed their efforts in educating the public about the paranormal. Cat is also a jewelry maker as well as a writer. Her insight into life sees others as they truly are and doesn’t look at the shell but rather the whole. Cat is also a location researcher, applying her ability to gather the truth about a location. She keeps to the truth of what she finds and refuses to deviate from false truth. Cat is that one person you would want doing the research of your location or helping a team. Her humor is abroad while being somewhat introverted. She views all the same, unless they give her a reason to really look at one’s intent.

Howie is a Paralogian, one who educates the public in all areas of what we call the paranormal and the spiritual with most of his focus being scientific based. He grows his skills in history, the knowledge, the understanding of all para-research as well as in psychology and sociology. He has a huge amount of knowledge with in the spiritual, being mentored by Han Who, as well as spiritual leader Jean Kromm, who’s father worked directly with Edgar Cayce. He has found how to educate others with the use of both science and spiritualism, making him a truly unique individual to match his eccentric personality.

Website: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/therift

Jayne Harris
Jayne Harris
Jayne Harris / Help! My House is Haunted
Described as “Britains Foremost Female Paranormal Investigator” by VICE Magazine in 2016 and nominated in the ‘Best Female Ghost Hunter’ category at the 2019 Higgypop Paranormal Entertainment Awards, Jayne is considered one of the most credible and well respected investigators on the scene.
She is a Presenter & Investigator on the Discovery Networks ‘Help! My House is Haunted’, and was one of the resident experts on UKTV’s ‘Unexplained Caught on Camera’ and Skys ‘Paranormal Captured’. She regularly works as a media consultant behind the scenes with networks including the BBC, Travel Channel, CBS Reality and Canal+.
In 2016 Jayne appeared alongside Zak Bagans in an episode of ‘Deadly Possessions’ in which she handed over the infamous Peggy the Doll to the care of Zaks Haunted Museum, and is still involved with the case.
Despite being passionate about the unexplained since she was 13 years old it wasn’t until 2012 that Jayne left her steady career as a Psychologist to form her first Ltd company, HD Paranormal. Today, along with her team she organises and host a wide range of unique public events and ‘Eerie Escapes’ throughout the year.
Jayne can usually be found tutoring students on her accredited online courses and running Paranormal workshops at Worcester University, alongside producing her ‘By Candlelight’ podcast…when she’s not running around after her 2 daughters that is!
Jessica Krutell and Hillary Stone 
Hillary Stone & Jessica Krutell 3.Mystic Mitten Paranormal
Hillary Stone & Jessica Krutell / Mystic Mitten Paranormal

Co-founded by Hillary Stone and Jessica Krutell in 2017, Mystic Mitten Paranormal group is a female lead paranormal investigation team based out of St. Clair Shores, Michigan. We provide investigation and consultation services free of charge to Michigan residents.

Website: https://www.mysticmitten.org/

Kitsie Duncan
Kitsie Duncan in a Weirdos Friends shirt
Kitsie Duncan / Oddity Files

Kitsie Duncan has been investigating the paranormal for 12 years now.

She’s the producer and lead investigator for the TV Oddity Files on Amazon Prime. The co-Jost of Oddity Files the podcast. And hosts the Get Scared Podcast.

Kitsie investigates different than most, she goes in with love, light, peace and positivity and helps the spirits tell their stories.

Website: https://oddityfiles.com/

Dr. Kristy Sumner
Dr. Kristy Sumner
Dr. Kristy Sumner / Soul Sisters Paranormal

In 2014, Dr. Kristy Sumner coupled her passion for travel, history and the paranormal when she formed Soul Sisters Paranormal, an all-female team, made up of Sumner, her two sisters and two friends. The investigators of Soul Sisters Paranormal travel to some of the most historic, and reportedly haunted, locations in the U.S. in an attempt to determine for themselves if spirit activity does exist and to highlight the rich history of each location. Individually, each member of the team is an accomplished professional in her respective field, and each holds a Masters, PhD or JD degree.

Prior to forming Soul Sister Paranormal, Kristy, who holds a PhD in Public Affairs with an emphasis on Criminal Justice, was a senior director for a Registered Traveler company focused on biometric clearances for the traveling public, she was a senior consultant for a biometric credentialing company, and she was a college professor at Metro State College of Denver and the University of Central Florida. Currently, she owns and operates a wedding and event venue with her family.

Website: https://www.soulsistersparanormal.com/

Maria Schmidt
Maria Schmidt
Maria Schmidt / Haunted Journeys

As Founder and President of Haunted Journeys, Maria is inspired in community collaboration within the paranormal field, to enhance public awareness for the science of the paranormal investigation within the realm of para-psychology studies. High in Maria’s focus with the work she applies is historical preservation, declaring “A Haunting is History seeking to be Heard.”

As a Registered Nurse, her experiences with the after-life were heightened working with gerontology and the death & dying stages of life. Later as an operator of one of the most haunted inns in Florida, her curiosity for scientifically approaches were further intensified.

With enthusiasm and relentless drive to collaboration between stakeholders within the Supernatural/Paranormal field, in 2016, she commissioned the formal proclamation for National Ghost Hunting Day™ and its associated World’s Largest Ghost Hunt™ Event.

Held on the last week of September, this year it is scheduled to be launched on September 28th, commemorating its fourth consecutive year.

Website: https://www.hauntedjourneys.com/

Mike Ricksecker
Ghostorian and Author Mike Ricksecker
Mike Ricksecker / Haunted Road Media

Mike Ricksecker is the author of the best-selling A Walk In The Shadows: A Complete Guide To Shadow People and the historic paranormal books Ghosts of Maryland, Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma, Campfire Tales: Midwest, Ghostorian Case Files, and the Encounters With The Paranormal series. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs as a paranormal historian, including Travel Channel’s The Alaska Triangle, Animal Planet’s The Haunted, Bio Channel’s My Ghost Story, and RenTV’s (Russia) Mysteries of Mankind, Fox 5 News (Washington DC), Fox 25 News (Oklahoma City), ABC 3 News (Virginia Beach), Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, and he produces his own Internet paranormal shows Ghosts and Legends, Paranormal Roads, and Friday Night Ghost Frights. On Tuesday nights, he hosts The Edge of the Rabbit Hole Livestream Show and Beyond The Shadows on the Haunted Road Media YouTube channel. Haunted Road Media is also his own paranormal and supernatural book publishing and video production company representing a number of paranormal authors, winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival.

Mike’s historic paranormal articles have been published in The Baltimore Sun, Paranormal Underground Magazine, and he previously wrote an Oklahoma City paranormal column for Examiner.com (2010 – 2014). His work has also been featured in The Oklahoman, The Frederick News Post, Marshall University’s The Parthenon, and Louisiana State University’s Civil War Book Review.

Additionally, Mike is an Amazon best-selling mystery author with two entries to his Chase Michael DeBarlo private detective series, Deadly Heirs and System of the Dead. With nearly 30 years of involvement in the paranormal, Mike serves as a paranormal investigator and “Ghostorian” with Society of the Haunted and regularly travels to speak about supernatural phenomenon.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike is a father of four and is an avid baseball fan.

Website: https://www.mikericksecker.com/

Miranda Young
Miranda Young Ghost Biker Explorations
Miranda Young / Ghost Biker Explorations

Miranda Young, creator and star of the hit web series Ghost Biker Explorations, is an experienced paranormal investigator, who has turned her passion for photography, history, URBEX, and motorcycles into a unique and popular show that highlights history, legends, mysteries and the unexplained. 

Since 2018, Ghost Biker Explorations has amassed a large fan base over various social media outlets. GBE is unique among other paranormal web series because it has a scheduled release date and time for each episode during the month of October; a full-scale marketing blitz for these releases, which starts in September, including: teasers, trailers, episode countdowns, and promotional podcasts and media events. While Miranda’s passion for travel, history, motorcycles and the paranormal are emphasized in each episode, the ultimate goal of GBE is to tell the history and stories of small-town locations, that might otherwise be lost among the popularity of other “commercialized” paranormal sites. Miranda’s ability to highlight the history, legends, and possible paranormal activity at these locations has endeared herself to her fans and has allowed her and GBE to emerge as a fresh and unique concept within the paranormal community.

Currently, you can follow along with Miranda and Ghost Biker Explorations on the Ghost Biker Explorations Facebook page, YouTube channel and the GBE website. Miranda is also active on Instagram (Runaway_Vixen) and on Twitter. 

Website: https://ghostbikerexp.wixsite.com/ghostbiker

Neil Packer
Neil Packer
Neil Packer / Haunted Antiques Paranormal Research Centre

Haunted antiques began when Neil had the idea of antiques possibly holding onto spiritual energy. To research this idea he contacted dozens of antique centres in the Midlands. Only one replied. Phil Sims returned Neil’s message, and it was the telephone conversation that followed that has led to HAPRC becoming what it is today.

Neil’s collection of haunted antiques began in his carport, which is where the Monday night item of the week live feeds originated. It soon became evident, as the collection grew and lots of people in the paranormal field asking if they could go and see the items, that a proper location was needed. So, the search began to find a building which would become the Haunted antiques paranormal research centre. Neil viewed quite a few possible locations but he kept being drawn to 11A Regent Street. One of the oldest streets in the thirteenth century town. Papers were signed in February 2018 and 11A Regent Street became the home to the first ever paranormal research centre in the UK. HAPRC is not like other museums that now seem to be popping up. The antiques and items are not kept behind glass. Everyone that comes into the centre are encouraged to hold or to sit in the exhibits, to see what they sense or feel.

Website: https://hauntedresearchcentre.com/

Pamela K. Kinney
Pamela K. Kinney
Pamela K. Kinney / Author

Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago trying not to listen to the voices in her head and has written award-winning, bestselling horror, fantasy. science fiction, and nonfiction ghost books ever since. Her horror short story, “Bottled Spirits,” was runner-up for the 2013 WSFA Small Press Award and is considered one of the seven best genre short fiction for that year. She has short stories published in fiction and nonfiction anthologies and magazines, a science fiction novella, Maverick Heart, the urban fantasy novel, How the Vortex Changed My Life, and six nonfiction ghost books, with the latest being Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Tales Along Routes 10 and 460 South, published by Anubis Press.

Pamela and her husband live with one crazy black cat (who believes she should take precedence over her mistress’s writing most days). Along with writing, Pamela has acted on stage and film, and investigates the paranormal for episodes of Paranormal World Seekers for AVA Productions. She is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and Virginia Writers Club.

Website: http://www.PamelaKKinney.com

Paul Stevenson
Paul Stevenson
Paul Stevenson / Haunted Magazine

Paul Stevenson and Andy Soar are the driving force behind Haunted Magazine, backed up by some fantastic writers and photographers along the way. Both with different skill-sets they work hand in hand to make Haunted Magazine the best it can be. Their modus operandi is simple; Paul creates a paranormal jigsaw and gives it to Andy to finish, adding his design stamp all over it. They normally finish their jigsaw every other month, which is no mean feat considering it normally says 4-6 years on the box.

Website: https://www.haunteddigitalmagazine.com/

Penny Griffiths-Morgan
Penny Morgan
Penny Griffiths-Morgan / Haunted Histories

Penny has had an interest in all things unusual from a young age after experiencing seeing a light anomaly in an old barn in the village that she grew up in.

Her love of history has led her to visit as many museums, old buildings and ruins as humanly possible and fast forward some years and she was given the chance to embrace both her loves by presenting the Haunted Histories podcast, current through Paranormal UK Radio.  A show where she gets to talk investigating and history with pretty much anyone who is anyone in the paranormal world including people like Lee Roberts, Chris Smith of Tennessee Wraith Chasers, writer Richard Estep and the Lacey to her Cagney, Jayne Harris.

She was also featured in a women in the paranormal article for the Daily Mail at the beginning of 2019, and also writes a regular feature for Haunted Magazine called “Not so ‘orrible histories”, has appeared on Paul Ross’ radio show and was even a special guest at the October 2019 Usborne book launch for Ghosts.

If that was not enough, she is also a published author, her first book “My Haunted History” is available on Amazon and her new book, “A Haunted Experiment” was released early in 2020.  She is now working on writing about the British School in Hitchin, with their full encouragement and access to all their records.

Somehow she also finds time to be a wife, mum of two young boys, lift weights at that gym and belt out the odd hard rock classic when opportunity allows – it’s true what they say, if you want something doing, give it to a busy person.

Website: https://www.hauntedhistories.co.uk/

Richard Estep
Richard Estep
Richard Estep / TV Investigator, Author

Richard Estep, author, paranormal investigator, and D-list TV personality. You might have seen me on TV’s Haunted Case Files (Paranormal Investigators in the UK) Haunted Hospitals, and Paranormal 911. 

Website: https://www.richardestep.net/

Rick McCallum
Hollywood Ghost Hunters Founder Rick McCallum at The Scarefest, 2017

Rick McCallum began his stunt career in 1982, performing a fight scene with Chuck Norris on the film Lone Wolf McQuade, and has more than 70 credits to his name. Rick has performed in numerous action and horror movies, and also has doubled for Daniel Baldwin, Barry Bostwick, Greg Evigan, Oliver Platt, Chris Noth, and  many horror icons, including Kane Hodder, Ra Mihailoff and Sid Haig, as well as playing the monster in Deepstar Six, and the title character in the film Darkwolf.

Rick has trained actors and actresses in fights, falls, and weapons, including the Comic Con Star Wars Challenge winning short, Saber, which won Best Film and Best Action, and also coordinated the Walking Dead webisode Cold Storage, which won the Streamy Award.

Recently, he has worked on features in Australia, the Hamptons, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana. Rick has also acted in many films, including Naked Gun 33 and 1/3, Hatchet 2, where he played the silent hunter John, and recently in Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar. He has also stunt coordinated the Friday the 13th video game.

Rick is the writer and editor of Hollywood Ghost Hunter Magazine, and has just completed his book, Ghosts Believe in Me, the story of his hunts at many of the most historic haunted locations.

Rick, along with Kane Hodder, are the founders of the Hollywood Ghost Hunters.

Hollywood Ghost Hunters Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Hollywood-Ghost-Hunters-189700967713699/

Sara and Phil Whyman
Collage of Are You Haunted cover with Sara Whyman and Phil Whyman
Sara Whyman (left), Phil Whyman (right) / Are You Haunted…?

A paranormal reality TV show unlike any other; Are You Haunted..? was devised by Sara Whyman who wanted to create a realistic view of paranormal investigation to the screen. Joined by husband Phil – known for his previous TV appearances and many years of investigation – their teenage son Ben and two of their good friends, Jane & Dale. The team take on the task of finding reputedly haunted locations across the UK to put forward for a vote on which will be investigated. Using a back to basics approach style with no gadgets or equipment used, relying only on their own senses and experiences on the night.

Website: https://www.doubleyewproductions.co.uk/

Sara Villani
Sara Villani
Sara Villani / A Haunt Mess Podcast

Sara V. is co-founder of the 3 sister team, VP Paranormal. While investigating oddities tied to the unexplainable experiences, she became interested in the psychology behind the investigators, experiencers and followers of the phenomena. She began to educate not only herself, but those interested in digging deeper into the existence of continued life after death and other possibilities of contact behind the veil.

When she’s not investigating with her sisters, she’s hanging with her ghouls from A Haunt Mess podcast spitting the straight truth and having a good time doing it!

Website: https://ahauntmess.blogspot.com/

Steve Dills
Paranormal Investigator Steve Dills
Steve Dills / Transcend Paranormal

Steve Dills is a paranormal investigator with over a decade of experience investigating the Paranormal. His passion for the paranormal stems from experiences at a very young age. Waking up to your name being whispered into your ear at night, and watching the doors to your bedroom open and close repeatedly are not the things that make up a normal childhood. After years of privately investigating the paranormal on his own, Steve teamed up with a number of other paranormal investigators with the same focus and passion, and founded Transcend Paranormal in 2010, where he remains as the Director of the team.

Since that time, Steve, and Transcend Paranormal, has worked with numerous historical sites to not only research and investigate the Paranormal, but to also support those sites. Since its’ establishment, Transcend Paranormal has helped to raise funds for over 15 locations & organizations through public investigations, lectures, events, and lending a hand at those sites through volunteer efforts. Transcend continues these efforts today to ensure that the historical sites and locations we investigate continue to be community centers for education and learning. Transcend also offers services to all of those in need – both public and private locations. Transcend operates out of central Virginia and travels when necessary to assist clients.

Most recently, Steve has partnered with RVA Paranormal for RVA Live, a Facebook Live stream show on Facebook that airs Tuesday nights at 8PM Eastern. The show focuses on discussing the paranormal activity surrounding the haunted locations in the area, as well as interviewing prominent and respected figures in the paranormal field.

Steve continues to investigate the paranormal in determination to unveil some of the mysteries around the paranormal by partnering and working with some of the most prominent investigators and figures in the field.

Transcend Paranormal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TranscendParanormal/

RVA Paranormal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RVAParanormal

Troy Taylor
American Hauntings Ink Troy Taylorr
Troy Taylor / American Hauntings Ink

Troy Taylor is an author of books on ghosts, hauntings, true crime, the unexplained, and the supernatural in America. He is also the founder of American Hauntings Ink, which offers books, ghost tours, events, and weekend excursions. He was born and raised in the Midwest and currently divides his time between Illinois and the far-flung reaches of America.

Website: http://americanhauntingsink.com

Tui Snider
Author Tui Snider
Tui Snider / Author

Tui Snider is an author, speaker, photographer, podcast host, and musician specializing in: Historic Cemetery Symbolism, Overlooked History, and Haunted Lore. As she puts it, “I used to write fiction – but then, I moved to Texas!” Today she will take us to some burial grounds where we will see tombstone symbols for secret societies, sudden death, and even the grave of an alleged space alien!

Website: https://tuisnider.com/

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