Michelle Belanger

Michelle Belanger Best known as the author of the Psychic Vampire Codex (Weiser, 2004), Michelle Belanger is a skilled energy worker and the founder of House Kheperu. An arresting figure of six foot one, Michelle is a dynamic speaker as well as a gifted writer. Creative and driven, she does not limit herself to magick and psychic phenomenon alone but engages in a variety of creative outlets from fiction to music to the visual arts.  Michelle is a frequent guest spirit medium on A&E’s hit series Paranormal State, and has appeared on a number of documentaries on the History Channel, WE!, and HBO.  A skilled energy worker, Michelle teaches classes around the country on dreamwalking, energy exchange, spirit communication, and many other fascinating topics. http://www.michellebelanger.com

Robin Pyatt Bellamy

Robin Pyatt Bellamy is a paranormal investigator and member of the Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society and a consultant for PSICAN.  Robin teaches a ghost research course for the Toronto District School Board and  speaks yearly at the MOTHMAN FESTIVAL in Point Pleasant, WV.  She has appeared on SciFi Investigates. Robin has been a guest on a number of radio talk shows including Ghostly Talk Radio and Darkness Radio.  For more information www.robinbellamy.com/rbparanormal.html

Fiona Broome

Fiona Broome is from New England - an author, publisher of New Forest Books and founder of Hollow Hill, a website dealing with Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal.  Fiona is also a popular public speaker and a third-generation psychic and medium and when she’s not conducting research, writing or speaking to audiences — Fiona is an award-winning fine artist.  A member of Mensa, her range of expertise and her wit often take people by surprise.  For over 30 years, she has been a psychic medium, and specializes in historical insights and research.  Fiona works on-site detecting spiritual energy, and — as a paragenealogist.  She’s one of the world’s leading paragenealogists, researching the histories of ghosts and haunted places and works with leading psychics to document the names and events that they sense intuitively.

Fiona is the author of “The Ghosts of Austin, Texas” and she’s completing “The Ghosts of New Orleans’ French Quarter.”  Her next book about haunted sites will be “The Ghosts of Salem, Massachusetts.”

Her stories have appeared in “Weird Hauntings” (in the Weird USA series) and “Armchair Reader: Weird, Strange and Unusual.” Her stories are also featured in the upcoming book, “Weird Encounters.”  Fiona was the inspiration for the lead character — also called Fiona — in the Charmed novel, “Trickery Treat” by Diana Gallagher. Fiona Broome is fascinated with paranormal patterns and the history of paranormal sites.

Fiona appears regularly at events such as Dragon*Con, and conferences related to paranormal topics. She is equally respected as a paranormal researcher and Celtic historian with an emphasis on faerie lore and alternative history.  Fiona has co-hosted radio talk shows in New England and Texas.   www.NewForestBooks.com or www.hollowhill.com   

Patrick Cross

Patrick Cross   “Canada’s Well Credited Ghost Researcher “  Has been investigating and researching Ghosts and Hauntings for the last 17 years. He is considered to be one of Canada's Top Authorities, an expert on the subject of ghosts, hauntings, paranormal activity and the supernatural. He grew up in a haunted home with as many as 12 ghosts and spirits!

Patrick currently lectures on ghosts and is called upon by the media for paranormal information, ghost investigations, advice and psychic help in "clearing ghosts and spirits". Patrick has worked with famous ghost investigators, psychics and mediums including: ED Warren, Larry Montz, Brad Steiger, Eugena Macer-Story, Terry Boyle, Dorothy Maclean, John Robert Columbo, Madame Miki-Toronto and many others in Canada and the USA.

 Patrick has contributed and been consulted for advice and his investigative expertise in documenting ghosts for stories appearing in newspapers, TV and radio, magazines, books including: Brad Steiger’s Popular book- Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places, Muskoka Traditions-Boston Mills Press, Midnight Hour-John Robert Columbo and Terry Boyles, Marilyn on the French River.

Patrick was a hired consultant for the popular YTV TV Show – Ghost Trackers in which he trained kids on qualities of ghosts, proper investigation techniques and equipment used for serious ghost research. Patrick is also a Sensitive who can pick up on ghost

energy, a clairvoyant who can hear and talk to ghosts and spirits and can communicate with spirits of the dead. Patrick has been around the paranormal since he was a child at age 6 when he could easily see and talk to ghosts and hear what they were saying.

 “I grew up in a home in which we had continual paranormal manifestations-ranging from knockings, rapping’s, voices, screams, whispers, loud repeated banging’s, sounds of footsteps, screams, breathing, scratching and claw marks on and inside the walls, something being dragged across the basement floor, wings flapping, doors opening and closing and images of people fading in and out of rooms.

There would appear drops of blood on the basement floor and in the kitchen cupboards only to appear again after being wiped up"-quotes Patrick.

Patrick is also Director of Burlington Ghost Walks and Tours, which he conducts a 2 hour walking tour with Michelle Desrochers –Co-Director ,with local History and Ghostly Folklore of Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

  http://burlingtonghostwalks.ca

Matthew James Didier

Matthew James Didier - Regrets to inform us that he is unable to attend the conference.  Matthew is the founder and director The Toronto Ghosts and
Hauntings Research Society, Canada's oldest established and still active
website and group devoted to the study of ghosts and hauntings. He is also
a founder and director of The Ontario Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society
(a province wide group,) and PSICAN or Paranormal Studies and
Investigations Canada, a national group and site which looks into all types
of paranormal phenomena.  Matthew is also active in the historical
re-enactment community being involved with War of 1812 groups such as The
Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada and The Norfolk Militia.  With
paranormal studies, history, and a love of old British buses as his
hobbies, Matthew is, by trade, a medical instrument technician specializing
in computerized digital imaging. With his partner, Sue Darroch, they have a
combined quarter-century's "full time" experience looking into paranormal
cases and studies and have done work with everyone from The Virtually
Strange Network to Skeptics Canada.  Matthew has lectured at several
Canadian universities and other educational groups on his work and the
paranormal in general and considers himself a true sceptic who will always
require empirical evidence on any claim... including those who claim
there's no truth to paranormal occurrences.  www.torontoghosts.org  and www.psican.org

Gordon Ellison

Gordon Ellison is a gifted psychic medium and deep trance channellor, ghost hunter and meditation facilitator from Ft. Erie, Ontario.  He communicates with spirits and provides spiritual guidance and counselling.  When in deep trance, he communicates with his spirit guides/Angles known as Samuel and Sacreah among others.  Gordon is of Native descent, Ojibwe of the Temiskaming reservation in Quebec, Notre dam du Nord.  He now lives and works in southern Ontario in the Niagara Region.  Along with his wife, Lezlie, Gordon teaches meditation and psychic development classes in his home. He has been a guest on The River, 105.1 FM radio on numerous occasions. 

http://www.theguidancewithin.com

Ron Jendry

Carl L. Johnson

Carl L. Johnson  WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE & TRADE

Rob McConnell

Rob McConnell WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT DUE TO FAMILY OBLIGATIONS, ROB WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND 

www.xzone-radio.com 

Christopher Moon

Christopher Moon had his first paranormal experience at the age of seven. Daily occurrences from that time on included objects disappearing and reappearing; doors opening and closing on their own fruition, strange shadows and light anomalies, and nightly haunted sonnets on the family’s one hundred year old grand piano. He also discovered that he had a definite psychic/medium sense, and began doing remedial paranormal investigations at a mere 12 years of age.

A musician by trade, Moon spent many years playing in and touring with Rock and Metal bands. Eventually his interest in the paranormal overtook his passion for music, and Moon chose to become a full-time professional investigator. Wanting the paranormal community and general public to become aware of what he had known for years, that the paranormal existed and could be documented, Christopher partnered with his father, a devout skeptic, in developing a magazine that would represent a truly balanced view of the subject. Consequently, Haunted Times Magazine was born in 2004.

Prior to publishing the first issue of Haunted Times Magazine, Christopher, seeing a true need for formal paranormal education, opened the first public educational event entitled Ghost Hunter University. These one of a kind events are held at various haunted locations around the United States. It includes fully interactive seminars titled “Ghost Hunting 101” and “Ghost Hunting 102”. His popular Ghost Hunting 101 seminar covers the basics of ghost hunting, from ghost hunting protocol, to equipment used in the field, to definitions and examples of positive and negative evidence. Following this seminar, the venue provides attendees with dinner and a haunted history presentation. The highlight of the evening is the interactive paranormal investigation of the property, led by Christopher, which follows. The night is completed with an evidence sharing and wrap-up session after the investigation. Christopher’s more in-depth Ghost Hunting 102 seminar allows attendees to learn more about the paranormal, delving deeper into its realm. Shadow People, demons, and elementals are discussed, and how to interpret EVP is also a focus during this seminar. As with the Ghost Hunting 101 event, dinner follows the seminar. Following dinner, guests embark on a second night of paranormal investigating, this time though, breaking up into groups led by one or two seminar attendees, per group. Groups conduct their own paranormal investigation of the property, using what knowledge they already had prior to the seminars, and what knowledge they have gained during the seminars. Another evidence sharing and a wrap-up session conclude the event, and guests will receive certificates of completion for their hard work. Some of the more notable locations Christopher’s events have been held, include Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island; Hotel San Carlos, in Phoenix, Arizona; the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, in Fall River, Massachusetts; The Whaley House, in San Diego, California; The Carolina Inn, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Maison de Ville, in New Orleans, Louisiana; The Villisca Axe Murder House, in Villisca, Iowa; the historic Oxford Hotel, in Denver, Colorado; the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, in Staten Island, New York; Waverly Hills Sanatorium, in Louisville, Kentucky; Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Bellevue Biltmore, in Clearwater, Florida.

While searching for magazine staff in 2004, Christopher was contacted by an engineer by trade, Frank Sumption, who claimed to have a device that allowed two-way audio communication with the dead. Skeptical, Christopher met with Mr. Sumption at his workshop for a demonstration. Christopher was astounded to find that the device that Frank Sumption had built was actually designed through the E.V.P. (Electronic Voice Phenomena) of deceased scientists. It quickly became obvious to Christopher what Frank Sumption had done; he had completed the infamous Thomas Edison Telephone to the Dead. Frank graciously offered to give Christopher one of the machines to use in the field. He accepted, and first used the device while investigating the famous Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas. The machine worked flawlessly, and Christopher and his team collected real time E.V.P. evidence directly from the spirits in the house. The Telephone to the Dead, which Christopher refers to this device as, formally referred to as “Frank’s Box”, has become an invaluable tool in Christopher’s paranormal research.

In March 2007, Christopher was invited to lecture about his research at the Ghost Chasers Weekend Conference in Savannah, Georgia. It was at this conference, where Christopher realized his talents using the Telephone to the Dead, would be needed in more than a paranormal research capacity. His presentation quickly turned into a public demonstration of the Telephone to the Dead. One by one, attendees asked to speak with loved ones who had passed. Surprisingly, even to Christopher, these requests were met with comforting, and sometimes vital messages.

Since that conference, Christopher has been asked repeatedly to use the Telephone to the Dead to perform personal, private readings for people worldwide. Although reluctant at first, Christopher realized the impact he had on the attendees at the Savannah conference, and decided to begin using his psychic and medium abilities, as well as the Telephone to the Dead, to perform private readings to the public.

Christopher tours college campuses around the country, lecturing on his ghost hunting techniques and providing positive evidence, as well as interactive investigations using the Telephone to the Dead to many excited students, eager to learn more about the paranormal. His television appearances and interviews include, most notably, truTv Network’s “Door to the Dead”, NBC’s “Today Show”, and A & E Network’s “Paranormal State”, as well as numerous ABC, CBS, NBC, CW (formally the WB), and FOX affiliate stations around the country. He has appeared on many nationwide radio programs, such as Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Coast to Coast AM with Ian Punnit, Kiss FM’s nationally syndicated morning show with Johnjay and Rich, Providence’s WPRO FM morning show with Giovanni and Kim, Long Island’s WRCN morning show with Dave and Glenn, TAPS Radio Beyond Reality, KHOW Radio, Denver, with Peter Boyles, Canada’s Richard Syrett Show, BBS Radio – Beyond Two Worlds Radio Show, Clear Channel Radio’s Real Paranormal Talk, A.P.S.R. Paranormal Talk Radio, Ghostology Radio Show, Shadows in the Dark Radio Show, X-Zone, BUFO, Spooky Southcoast Radio Program, Late Night Live Radio Program, and many more.   www.hauntedtimes.com

Benjamin Radford

Benjamin Radford is managing editor of the science magazine The Skeptical Inquirer. He has written hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics, including urban legends, the paranormal, critical thinking, and media literacy. He is author of three books: Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking (with sociologist Robert E. Bartholomew); Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us,; and Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures (with Joe Nickell), Radford has also contributed chapters to a half-dozen other books, and has recently completed a book on scientific paranormal investigation.  

Radford is also a columnist for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and the Skeptical Briefs newsletter, as well as the weekly “Bad Science” columnist for LiveScience.com. He has also made two short films.

In his work with the non-profit educational organization the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Radford is one of the world’s few science-based paranormal investigators, and has done first-hand research into mysterious phenomena including psychics, ghosts and haunted houses; exorcisms, miracles, Bigfoot, stigmata, lake monsters, UFO sightings, reincarnation, and crop circles, and many other topics.

 Radford has appeared on CNN, The History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Learning Channel, CBC, BBC, and other networks with three letters. He also served as a consultant for the MTV series The Big Urban Myth Show and one episode of the CBS series CSI: NY.  Radford also created and produced a board game, Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination. www.RadfordBooks.com.  

John Sabol

John Sabol is an archaeologist, cultural anthropologist, actor, and “ghost excavator”. He has many years of experience in all of these fields. In each, he has unearthed and engaged the manifestations of past presence that still continue to percolate in the contemporary environment of archaeological sites, in the belief systems of non-Western cultures, in his characters portrayed in film and on TV, and at haunted locations he has investigated.

As an archaeologist, he has unearthed past material remains in excavations and site surveys in England, Mexico, and at various sites in the United States (including Eastern South Dakota, the Tennessee River Valleys, and in Pennsylvania). His anthropological fieldwork includes the studies of “ghosts” and native cultural beliefs in the afterlife among various groups in Mexico (Mixtec, Zapotec, Lacandon, Nahuatl, and Otomi). His acting career includes “ghosting” performances of various characters and scenarios in more than 35 movies, TV shows, and documentaries. He has conducted “ghost excavations” (an archaeological-ethnographic-theatrical approach embodied in the P.O.P. Theory) in England (Winchester), Germany (Frankfort), Mexico (Mexico City), at various sites throughout Pennsylvania (including Gettysburg, Ft. Mifflin, and Eastern State Penitentiary), New York, Virginia, Maryland, and in the cities of Knoxville (Tennessee), San Antonio (Texas), Santa Fe (New Mexico), New Orleans (Louisiana), and at abandoned sites in eastern South Dakota. He has appeared in the A&E TV series, Paranormal State as an investigative consultant.

He has written nine books. These include: Ghost Excavator (2007), Ghost Culture (2007), Gettysburg Unearthed (2007), Battlefield Hauntscape (2008), The Anthracite Coal Region: The Archaeology of its Haunting Presence (2008), The Politics of Presence:Haunting Performances on the Gettysburg Battlefield (2008), Bodies of Substance,Fragments of Memories:An Archaeological Sensitivity to Ghostly Presence (2009), Phantom Gettysburg (2009), and Digging Deep: An Archaeologist Unearths a Haunted Life (2009). He is currently writing two other books: “The Re-Haunting(s) of Gettysburg”, and “Digging-Deeper: Stories and Experiences of a Life in Ruins”.

He has a M.A. in Anthropology/Archaeology (University of Tennessee), and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology (Bloomsburg University). He has also attended Penn State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of the Americas (Cholula, Puebla, Mexico), and has studied theatre and method acting in Mexico City.

He can be reached via this web site or at cuicospirit@hotmail.com. His other websites include: C.A.S.P.E.R. Research Center is http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeoqapc/ghostexcavator , and  www.theghostexcavator.com www.myspace.com/ghostexcavator , and on Facebook:  T.H.A.T. (The Haunted Archaeological/Anthropological Theatre) Methodology: Manifesting Presence.

Kyle Upton

Kyle Upton, founder of Ghost Tours of Niagara. Ghost Tours are in their 16th season at Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and have been well attended by both the living and the dead. Kyle has appeared on a number of radio and television programs including Ghostly Encounters, Creepy Canada, Girly Ghost Busters, Ghost Trackers and was featured in Cogeco's biography, In Their Shoes. His books, Niagara's Ghosts At Fort George, and Niagara's Ghosts II both still top the "most likely to be stolen from your library" list. Kyle holds a degree in Physics which proves useful in both his evening and daytime careers. During the day, this spooky guy trades in his black cape and dons a white lab coat as the Director of Mad Science of Niagara, an international company that brings fun-filled, fact-packed, high-energy science shows to children’s birthday parties, schools, corporate events, fairs and festivals and other special events. www.niagaraghosts.com www.madscience.org/Niagara

Joe Wetterling

Please note that our speakers list is subject to change without notice.