Schedule for the Convention (Subject to change)

SATURDAY May 10th

10 am              Doors open for shopping

10:30 am         Opening Ceremony

11:00 am         Stacy Brown Jr.
SPONSORED BY: Northwoods Bricks, & Beyond the Veil Expos

Hailing from the swamps of North Florida is filmmaker and Skunk Ape researcher Stacy Brown Jr. While watching “Unsolved Mysteries” in the early 90’s Stacy came across a segment on the Florida Skunk Ape and immediately became fascinated with the thought of a hairy monster running around the woods in his neighborhood. Over the next thirty-one years, he would dig through the libraries for information, speak with hundreds of eyewitnesses and even spend countless hours in the swamp in search of the creature. On November 6th, 2011 his work would finally pay off. That night he had his very first sighting of a Skunk Ape along the Apalachicola River. Months later his father Stacy Sr would capture what is to be considered the best piece of footage of a Skunk Ape or Bigfoot-type creature on thermal in northern Florida with a FLIR camera while camping one night with his son. Since then you may have seen Stacy Brown Jr. on Finding Bigfoot, Strange Evidence, the Travel Channel, and Spike TV's 10 million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, in which he was awarded the $100,000 research grant. In 2019, Stacy released a film documenting the best evidence and stories from his years of research titled "The Skunk Ape Lives" which is available on YouTube now.

12:00 pm         "My Haunted Hometown" Panel with the CAPS Team
SPONSORED BY: Soul & Synergy LLC & Kristina Bloom Spiritual Advisor
Rick and Barbara Post live in a very active haunted home in Menomoniee Michigan, and have experienced the full spectrum of high strangeness. Hearing footsteps, lights turning on and off, hearing and seeing spirits of children, objects disappearing without a trace, including a Coffee mug full of hot coco.
Keg Gurske is the manager of Beansnappers Gentlemen’s club on the edge of Appleton in the small town of Mackville, for years he and his staff and entertainers have encounter strange apparitions, doors opening and closing, lights flashing, dark shadowy figures and more.
Barnaby Jones, is the founder of Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society and along with the CAPS team was tasked with investigating these Haunted locations, both were featured on the T+E Television Series “My Haunted Hometown” today they are here to share more stories and evidence from these locations.  

1-2 PM             Break for Shopping

2 pm               Chad Lewis
SPONSORED BY: Dark Woods Paranormal Podcast & Entity Ventures Paranormal

Chad Lewis is a researcher, author, and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual. His background is in the field of Psychology and he did both his Bachelor and Master degree work in the field- but for nearly 30 years He has traveled the globe in search of unique and bizarre stories and history.

3 pm               Miranda Young     Ghost Biker Explorations
SPONSORED BY: Phantasm Paranormal & Fear Itself Paranormal Investigations

Miranda Young grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee in the very rural town of Robbins. She holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Journalism & Advertising. Her professional background includes 21 years as a director in marketing, graphic design, and public relations professional. She is also a professional photographer and artist, specializing in drawing historic buildings and monuments. Miranda is the founder, host, producer and marketing executive behind Ghost Biker Explorations, a world recognized web-series which highlights her travels on her motorcycle to historic and haunted locations around the country. She has been featured in numerous magazines and local newspapers, and she has been a guest speaker at events and on podcasts and radio shows across the country. While available on multiple social media platforms, Ghost Biker Explorations is also a popular series on the Mixl04.l ( Mix TV) web-tv platform. In 2021, Miranda co-founded the company History, Highways and Haunts, LLC and co-owns the Historic Scott County Jail true crime museum and paranormal research center in Huntsville, TN. In May of 2023, the business expanded with a partnership with the Village of Historic Rugby. Through this partnership, Historic Rugby After Dark was formed offering all of the historic village's after dark programming.
 

4 pm               Squatch America   Scot and Hannah Violette
SPONSORED BY: The Hodag Store, Sasquatch’s Variety Shop
Squatch America is the Bigfoot-researching, husband and wife team, Scot and Hannah Violette, combining Scot’s and Hannah’s expertise in anthropology and sociology research and communication. They are "investigating the unexplained, not explaining the uninvestigated." Their mission is to construct a cultural-behavioral narrative of the hominid species known as "Bigfoot." Scot, a Native American cultural anthropologist, was led into Bigfoot research through his pictograph-analysis work with the Miwok tribe of Northern California. Hannah, a master social worker and human behavioral researcher, supports this research by identifying behavior patterns common to both Bigfoot and humans. Together they've made unique discoveries, had sightings, and are actively teaching the broader community to conduct field research. They travel nationwide and host community town hall meetings to collect encounter reports which are building their pursued cultural-behavioral narrative.

5 pm to 7pm    Hairyman of Dairyland Documentary

7 PM to ?         Angela Zabel  Psychic Gallery Reading.