Event Overview

Welcome to Morgantown, West Virginia's premire Paranormal Conference. To be held at the Historic Hotel Morgan in downtown Morgantown. Doors will open at 10AM and the first speaker will begin to lecture at 10:30. Lunch is schedule to be 12:30. The event will consist of 12 speakers, all to lecture in various areas of paranormal, and metaphysical aspects of our everyday lives. Two hands-on workshops will also be incorporated into the lectures. You will get to choose which lectures best interest you. Towards the end of the event, speakers will engage in an open forum for questions and discussion. A vendor expo will proceed the speakers. Giveaways will occur throughout the event.

Limited Seating! This conference will fill up quickly. Order your tickets early to guarentee your spot at our conference! Due to an overwhelming response we highly suggest you order tickets as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide any refunds. Any information is subject to change. Speakers and presentation times are subject to change. Views expressed by APG Conferences LLC are not necessarily those of The Historic Clarion Hotel Morgan, Speakers, or Event Sponsors.

Sponsors/Vendors

We encourage your participation in our event. For all matters concerning sponsorship, renting a vendor space, free publicity information, or advertisement, please contact Jess Kopyta at mpcjess@gmail.com. She will be able to answer any questions related to these topics. Jess will be able to provide a detailed list of our sponsorship oppurtunities.

Vendor tables will be selling for $100 at the conference

Participation

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Speakers

Susan Sheppard- Psychic Medium

Not only is Susan Sheppard the creator of the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours, she is also well respected for her abilities as a psychic medium. She has worked as psychic and a spiritualist medium since age fourteen and as a paranormal investigator for the last decade. This came about when her friends overheard a well-known psychic tell Susan that she, too, had "the gift" and should use her special abilities to help others. This was no surprise to Susan's family who had witnessed her uncanny abilities since early childhood.

Her West Virginia childhood might have some bearing on her interest in the paranormal. Sheppard is "Black Dutch," meaning she is descended from the less than 850 Shawnee Indians who remained east of the Mississippi River after the other Shawnee (during the "Trial of Tears" removal) were forced onto reservations out west in the 1830s. Susan, along with others in the Friend family, is a direct descendent of Shawnee Chief Big Thunder through his daughter, Bright Lightning, whose name was anglicized to "Anna Friend."

Susan grew up just a few hills away from the first sighting of the famous West Virginia Mothman. It was during this time that Sheppard’s family home underwent a great deal of paranormal activity sparking her interest in the unknown while tapping into her natural psychic talents. However, Sheppard has had direct communications with spirits of her Native American ancestors since around age four when she met the ghosts of two Indian braves on the hillside above her grandparent's house in broad daylight. Though very small, she understood the braves to be both her ancestors and her guides. Ms. Sheppard’s adolescence was spent partly doing psychic readings along with school work and sometimes working with local law enforcement on missing person cases. She later grew up with the aspirations of becoming a published author and an artist, both of which she achieved. Sheppard has authored a number of popular books which are sold worldwide and has continued with her art in many venues. Her poetry alone has won many prestigious awards.

Susan has never strayed from her interests in the spirit world and has continued to work in the field as a medium, as well as a practicing astrologer. In the last few years she has worked primarily as a psychic medium and a paranormal investigator on various ghost hunts and investigations. She also leads séances, does clearings and performs platform style readings before the public for which she is the most famous in her area.

Last year, Susan was featured on the ABC Family Channel’s popular show “Scariest Places on Earth” as a psychic medium at the Shawnee Amusement Park in Bluefield, West Virginia. She has previously taught “Be Your Own Psychic” classes at the Self-Health & Awareness Center and continues appear before audiences and live television as a psychic medium.

Not only is Susan an exceptional psychic, she is knowledgeable in the field of the unknown. She remains up-to-date on the latest developments in research concerning the paranormal. Contact her at sheppard@wirefire.com

Vince Wilson-Author of Ghost Tech & Ghost Science

Vince Wilson has always been interested in science, history, and the unexplained since as far back as he can remember. Together with a long-time high school friend, he founded the Baltimore Society for Paranormal Research. He soon set his sites higher and formed the Maryland Paranormal Investigators Coalition -- a collection of groups dedicated to serious paranormal research and scientific observation. Wilson is the author of Ghost Tech and Ghost Science. He has lectured on ghost hunting technology and has also appeared on all the major local TV stations in the Baltimore area and on numerous radio stations in regards to his work in paranormal research. He has also been featured on Creepy Canada in 2005 aboard the USS Constellation and the Discovery Channel in 2006 for an investigation he did at the Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore. He lives in a possibly haunted location in Southeast Baltimore (he refuses to investigate his own place).

John Sabol

www.ghostexcavator.com and http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeoqapc/ghostexcavator.

John Sabol is a cultural anthropologist, historical archaeologist, actor, and ghost excavator. He has been participating in, and supervising, field investigations since high school. He has conducted archaeological research in England, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Chiapas State, and in the Yucatan, Mexico. He has appeared in more than 25 films, including “Dune”, “Conan the Destroyer”, “Rambo II”, “Falcon and the Snowman”, and the James Bond classic, “License to Kill”. He has also appeared in numerous TV series, documentaries, and educational TV. He has taught cultural anthropology in the Graduate School of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, and in various colleges in Mexico City. He has conducted ghost excavations in Winchester, England, and in the United States at Gettysburg, Eastern State in Philadelphia, Rolling Hills in New York, throughout Pennsylvania, and at various locations in the cities of Knoxville (Tennessee), New Orleans, San Antonio, Santa Fe, and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He is the author of six books: “Ghost Excavator”, “Ghost Culture”, “Gettysburg Unearthed”, “Battlefield Hauntscape”, the “Anthracite Coal Region: An Archaeology of its Haunting Presence”, and “The Politics of Presence: Haunting Performances on the Gettysburg Battlefield” . He is currently writing three books: “Bodies of Substance, Fragments of Memories: An Archaeological Sensitivity to Ghostly Presence”; “Phantom Gettysburg: Alternative Histories on a Civil War Battlefield”; and “Ghost-Speak: Communicating with a Haunting Presence”. His approach to hauntings is participant-observation, based on the application of peripatetic video surveys and overlays, supplemented by positional archaeological surveys, ethnographic research, and soundscape analysis. For more information, visit his web sites at

Russ Noratel- BSPR

Joab Corey
Joab is currently finishing his Ph.D in Economics at West Virginia University. He teaches economics at the college level and has recently developed a class in behavioral economics at West Virginia University which focuses on the interaction of psychological phenomena with traditional economic theory. As an economist, Joab specializes in formulating and testing theories designed to explain how the world works.

Joab has always been very interested in the paranormal and he recently has used the economic way of thinking to develop a theory regarding the behavior of ghosts and their impact on living entities.

Rie Sadler

is not only an author, but she is also a founding member of EPR, Eastern Paranormal Research, in Accokeek, Maryland, as well as the case manager for PRISMd, Paranormal Research and Investigation Society of Maryland, in Catonsville, Maryland. In addition to a number of private residences & businesses, Rie has investigated such places as the Lizzie Borden House, the Dr. Samuel Mudd House, Waverly Hills Sanatorium, various locations in Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia, the former West Virginia State Penitentiary, Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, as well as locations in Gettysburg, just to name a few. She volunteers her time at Point Lookout Lighthouse, one of the most haunted lighthouses in America, several times throughout the year in hosting other groups that wish to conduct investigations of the premises. A native Annapolitan, Rie’s first book, Anne Arundel County Ghosts, is due out in early 2009 with a second currently untitled book to follow shortly thereafter. Her first book covers stories and legends of the supernatural from the Annapolis area up to the Baltimore City line. A former features writer for Capital-Gazette Newspapers, Rie has wanted to capture the tales of the supernatural that lie in her own backyard in book form for as long as she can remember. These stories, combined with her love of history, fueled her passion for paranormal research and she feels fortunate to have worked with a number of fellow investigators from across the country.

Visit her web sites at: www.easternparanormalresearch.com, www.freewebs.com/prismd, www.myspace.com/rie_sadler

Kury McCoy- Author of White Things

Kurt McCoy a life resident of West Virginia has spent all his life exploring things out of the norm. He holds a Masters in English From West Virginia University. Kurt is also currently working for West Virginia University as a Program Assistant. Recently completing his book "White Things", Kurt enjoy spreading the word of legends and stories retold. He will be engaging in a open panel discussion at the conference and presenting his book.

Dana Wingerd

Dana Wingerd has been having paranormal experiences since she was two. In 2003, because of her experiences and the desire to help those in need, Dana and her husband founded NorthEastern Paranormal Investigations. Dana is currently writing a book about all of her paranormal experiences. She has been on numerous cases that have been resolved and have changed peoples' lives for the better. Her expertise is counseling the client to help them deal with the phenomena. Dana is also a member of BSPR. Dana is accustomed to addressing cases with an open but skeptical mind.

Jess Kopyta- Co-Founder of Atha Paranormal Group, Medium, Pyschic Intuitive

Jess is a medium and psychic intuitive/sensitive. She has been experiencing spiritual interactions since she was a child. Over the past 6 years she has learned how to use her abilities to contact and communicate with spirits. She has lead several investigations in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, including an investigation of the famous Antietam Battlefield.
Jess has spent the last two years in a private university studying psychology and recently change her life path and is now a full time cosmology student. With a background in the psychology Jess stresses the importance of dreams in the spiritual world and the strong bridge between the two.

Anthony Atha- Conference Director

a young age that others did not. He accepted early on that paranormal beings and thing existed in this realm. Since then he has done extensive research on communication with spirits. He has led various paranormal investigations in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Currently, Anthony is enrolled at West Virginia University as senior management student. He plans to persue and MBA after his graduation in 2009.

Anthony likes to stress methodology of communication with spirits and explore different methods of handling unwanted spirits. He also enjoys researching different types of divination. His choice method of divination is tarot, which he will be offering at the conference.

*All Information on this page is subject to change. All ticket are non-refundable under any circumstance due to the sensitive seating nature of the event.

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