ParAmeriCon

\\Speaker #1 - Pamela Barry  & Michele Snow - 9am

 

Pamela Barry is also the 2017 Guest of Honor (see Bio below)

 

Michele is a tree hugging, nature loving Eclectic Witch.  Walking her path alone, she follows only her heart and soul, spreading kindness, peace and love to all.  Michele is lead investigator for Haunted Gettysburg Paranormal Society and is Co-Founder of Snow Family Paranormal.  She is a published author and contributed to The Spellery Magazine's Oct. 2015 edition.  Michele has been featured on T.V. and various paranormal radio shows.  She has lectured at Paranormal Conferences around the United States.  Unexplained childhood experiences propelled Michele into her research of the paranormal, where her ability to connect with the spirit world has led to startling evidence of the world that lies beyond our own.

 

 

\\Speaker #2 - Jennifer Anderson & Nicole Novelle - 10am

 

Jennifer Anderson is also Ms. ParAmeriCon 2017 (see Bio below)

 

 

\\Speaker #3 - Lisa Terio & Dawn Marie Marano - 11am

 

P.U.P.S. investigates historic locations, not only for the history but for the paranormal as well.  We do not provoke and do not believe in provoking.  We keep in mind that if we are dealing with spirits that have passed, they are still on a human level.  No disrespect will be given to any spirits ever!  We are also active volunteers at Selma Mansion in Norristown, and are on the Board of Directors for the Norristown Preservation Society.  N.P.S. and the P.U.P.S. paranormal program in place at Selma Mansion in Norristown provides funding for the restoration and upkeep of Selma Mansion.  PUPS Lisa Terio and Dawn Marie Marano also have a bi-weekly show on Tuesday nights at 8pm called "Scanning The Frequencies" that you can listen to live at LiveParanormal.com.

 

 

\\Speaker #4 - Real Life Paranormal Group - Brian & Donna Riggs & Gail Cox - Noon

 

Donna Riggs is also the 2017 Meri the Mascot (see Bio below)

 

 

\\Speaker #5 - Marti Haines & Marcia Moore - 1pm

 

To be announced.

 

 

\\Speaker #6 - Karissa Fleck & Kristin Lee - 2pm

 

Karissa Fleck is a Paranormal Investigator and a Psychic Medium.  She is Co-Founder of Survivors of the Dark (Tony and Debra Pickman, The Sallie House).  She has been asked to stay in and document some of the most known haunted locations traveling all over the USA documenting the strange, the paranormal, and the taboo.

 

 

\\Speaker #7 - Pat O'Keefe - 3pm

 

Pat Bussard O'Keefe is a writer, photographer, Spirit-led psychic & medium, and paranormal investigator.  These artistic and psychic-oriented pursuits give her a unique and personal perspective on the paranormal.  She travels regularly into the dark landscape of the supernatural to record and preserve stories of the otherworld through photographs and words (pat-okeefe.com).  As a former journalist, as well as an author, her published works have woven words between the covers and across the pages of publications as diverse as Ghost Voices Magazine, Phenomena, and The Literary Hatchet.  Her photography has appeared in and on covers of a number of dark non-fiction, fiction and literary magazines such as The Pedestal, Haunted:  After Dark Magazine, Haunted Magazine, and Haunted Times Magazine.  She is currently working on a publication that features images of St. Albans Sanatorium from other photographers, as well as her own work.  She will also be publishing her first chapbook of poetry later this year, "Boneyard Voice:  Poems and Photographs from the Edge of Darkness."  The chapbook is an homage to the great, dark romanticists and the earlier "graveyard poets."  As others mourn the fading summer sun, she celebrates the fact that Halloween is right around the corner.  She lives with two black cats, two black dogs, and one amazing Irishman.  She wishes that others were just as lucky.

 

 

\\Speaker #8 - Dana & Julia Wingerd - 4pm

 

\\Suzanne Sorrell,  ParAmeriCon, Founder & Promoter

 

After a lifetime of paranormal-related experiences and a battle with cancer, Suzanne established Evermore Paranormal as a licensed business in 2011.  Upon the passing of her Mother in 2013, she was inspired to become a singer, songwriter, and indie recording artist known as 'The Evermore Effect' whereby she communicates with the other side through song.  She has released eleven music CDs thus far, eight of which are available digitally worldwide.  In 2014, she founded ParAmeriCon which was the first convention focusing on women in the paranormal field.  She just completed Season One as Host of a LIVE streamed and filmed variety talk show called, 'The Evermore Paranormal Show' which can be seen on YouTube via the channel, Stairway East.  Furthermore, she is about to release her first book in a series detailing her haunted life.  Currently, she is The Frontier Ambassador for National Ghost Hunting Day and the World's Largest Ghost Hunt.

 

 

\\Pamela Barry, ParAmeriCon 2017, Guest of Honor

 

Pam is a Co-Owner of the Gettysburg Ghost Exchange and has been involved in the paranormal field in one way or another since childhood.  She had her first paranormal experience at the age of six.  She began to look for spirits and answers around every corner.  She began dedicated paranormal investigating in her thirties, moved to the Gettysburg area and started investigating seeking out the unknown.  Pam is also an empath, a Certified Reiki Master, and a trained Spiritualist Healer.  She has been educated in Lily Dale, and considers it her second home.  She enjoys speaking at Metaphysical gatherings and lectures, and providing healing to all those in need.  She likes to say "I was Paranormal before Paranormal was cool".  Pam has been featured in Celebrate Gettysburg Magazine.

 

Pam is looking forward to continued investigations and working in the metaphysical field to not only bring healings to people in need but also healing to spaces and places, on a soul level, to help those cross over and to bring closure to those in need.  To cleanse, and return those in need and spaces to a higher vibration.  Pam is a cast member of the Paranormal After Party and she can be seen on Fox 43, Fox 56, CW, and My Net.  

 

 

\\Kendra Belgrad, ParAmeriCon 2017, Mistress of Ceremonies

 

Kendra enjoys her life as an eclectic pagan intuitive, paranormal investigator and ordained minister.  Paranormal phenomena has surrounded her since early childhood and has sculpted her life in amazing ways.  All the while her experiences have led her to a path that best incorporates her abilities to teach, comfort and assist others in navigating the amazing psychical world around us.  At night she lives to "scare people the right way!".  And she does this by leading tours, spinning tales for Ghostly Images, in the Haunted Orphanage and Jennie Wade House.

 

 

\\Jennifer Anderson, ParAmeriCon 2017, Ms. ParAmeriCon

 

I guess I should start by saying I didn't always hunt spirits or ghosts, but I was always a little different than the rest of the family. When you are the youngest of five and pretty much an only child in a large family because of the age difference, you tend to find things to do on your own.  Me I always had a connection with God, or the great spirit, whatever you call it in your belief, and I have always accepted people for who they are, even the peculiar ones.  In saying that I think the more peculiar you were as a person the more they peeked my interest.  I've always believed in something beyond this place, beyond our physical self but was always plagued with scarey, crazy devil dreams and until about fifteen years ago when I finally wasn't afraid of him in those dreams, I would have never seeked out spirit.  Being different from the "norm" kept me from following my inner self and seeking out answers but I won't deny that the show GhostHunters came on television and showed that it might just be socially acceptable allowing others to know you believe in the beyond, and that is when I decided to pursue what I have pretty much known my whole life.  I found a team that took me in and showed me the technical and ways of investigating, of course I have tweeked some of the ways and continue to find better ways of investigating.  And then I joined LiveParanormal at which I do a bi-weekly podcast and participate in several events and investigations throughout the year.  I continue to learn as much as I can and although Paranormal investigating spirits is my interest, I am also open to all the genre of the paranormal, and in doing so have met some of the smartest, nicest and genuinely great people who inspire me more and more everyday.

 

 

\\Donna Riggs, ParAmeriCon 2017, Meri the Mascot

 

Donna is Co-Founder of Real Life Paranormal Group which is located in West Virginia.  It is a family team comprised of Donna, her husband Brian Riggs Sr, and her sister-in-law, Gail Cox.

 

 

\\Hall of Famers - ParAmeriCon 2014

 

Dana Wingerd, Guest of Honor

Brooke Haramija, Mistress of Ceremonies

Julia Wingerd, Miss ParAmeriCon

Kate Gammage, Meri the Mascot