October 28th & 29th, 2023
Watch for Updates!
The Arkansas Paranormal Expo is proud to have
Heather Burton Amaro as
our host for the 11th year!
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Ken Gerhard
Crytozoologist, Researcher, Author
Presentations: Bigfoot
Saturday & Sunday
  
Ken Gerhard
is a widely-recognized
cryptozoologist, author and lecturer who frequently
appears on television. Ken has traveled the world
searching for evidence of mysterious creatures including
Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabra, Mothman
and The Beast of Gevaudan. In addition, he's written six
books on the subject of unknown animals. His research
has been featured on numerous TV shows including -
Missing in Alaska, Monster Quest, Ancient Aliens,
America Unearthed, The UnXplained and Legend Hunters.
Ken has appeared on major networks including History
Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, SyFy
and National Geographic.
www.kengerhard.com
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Joe Chin
Former Cast Member of SyFy's
Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International
Presentations:
Just Joe, Adventures with the Ghost Hunter Team &
Open Gallery Discussion
Saturday & Sunday
Joe Chin
is known for being on the SYFY TV
series Ghost Hunters International and Paranormal After
Party.
Joe is a self-described "happy go lucky guy," who grew up in
a close-knit family of 11 and worked primarily with the
family's businesses. His interests in the paranormal dates
to his teenage years. Growing up, Joe remembers that the
third floor of his tenement house was always lively with
instances of unexplained paranormal activity, and although
he experienced the supernatural as a youngster, he had know
idea that people looked for the paranormal until he met
Jason Hawes. A few months after meeting Jason, he was
asked to join the group.
Joe has cultivated what he refers to as a "skeptical curious
side," that spurs him to want to get to the bottom of
things. He also relates this innate curiosity to being
a computer technician, a trade he delves into in his spare
time. When working with computers he always must
figure out what the problem is and how to resolve it quickly
as possible similar to the work that he does as a ghost
hunter.
Joining Ghost Hunters International gave him the opportunity
to travel the world and push his passion for the paranormal
to new levels.
When he isn't investigating, Joe enjoys computer gaming,
movies, outdoor activities, learning about cryptozoology and
spending time with his family.
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Debbie Ziegelmeyer
MUFON Business Board of
Directors, Functional Director of Underwater Research and Recovery,
MUFON Missouri State Director, MUFON Star Team Investigator, Benefactor
and
Inner Circle Member, MUFON Archivist & Author
Presentations:
50th Anniversary of the Piedmont Missouri UFO Flap
Visitors or Colonist in our Waterways, Updated Information
Saturday & Sunday
 
Debbie Ziegelmeyer
has been an amateur astronomer
since childhood and has a 10" Schmidt Cassegrain telescope
housed in an astronomical dome in her back yard. Her
other interests have been as a volunteer archaeologist on
two of NBC's projects, "Roswell Crash Starling New
Evidence", who published her personal "Dig Dairies"
experiences in a book entitled "Roswell Dig Diaries",
and on the episode of UFO Hunters entitled
"Roswell Revisited". She has been an independent
Investigator form over 25 years, spent over 18 years
partnered with her brother Chuck Zukowski reinvestigating
the Roswell New Mexico incident of 1947, worked with Ted
Phillip's CSI group for 2 years investigating and
researching Marley woods, and has been a MUFON
Field Investigator for 20 years investigating over 1000 UFO
sighting reports. Debbie has made several personal
appearances over the past 15 years as a public speaker on
the UFO topic. She was MUFON Symposium
speaker in 2013 and 2017, is a yearly guest speaker at the
Roswell, NM July Festival and was a guest speaker at
the Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous 2017.
Most recently, Debbie was a guest speaker at the "Alien
Cosmic Expo" in Toronto, Canada.
In 2017 she was awarded the "Roswell Incident Excellence
Award" by the Roswell Daily Record and was
given MUFON's "2017 Field Investigator of the
Year" award. Currently Debbie is featured in Ben
Mezrich's best-selling book, "The 37th Parallel"
which outlines the "UFO Highway" across the United
States and her brother Chuck Zukowski's Investigations.
Debbie's new book "The Alien Colonization of Earths
Waterways; A Reference Guide to UFO/USO Water Related
Activity was released in the fall of 2021 and available on
Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Alien-Colonization-Earths-Waterways
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Carol Pate
Psychic
Saturday & Sunday
Presentation: My life as a Psychic
& Open Gallery Discussion
Carol Pate
was born with psychic abilities. By the age of
12, she was working with law enforcement agencies in helping
them solve cases of embezzlement,
homicide and missing persons. She is now a licensed minister, a teacher
and a
practicing psychic counselor. Ms.
Pate was chosen in 1991 as the top female psychic in the U.S. by Unicorn
World Coordination and Tokyo Broadcast
System in Japan. She has been featured in three international television
documentaries and has worked with all facets of the media at local,
state and national levels, as well as internationally. She has appeared
as a guest
expert on "The Geraldo Rivera Show" and has also appeared
on "The Other Side", "Sightings", "Unsolved
Mysteries"
and "Beyond Chance". Most recent on MSNBC Abrahams Report",
"Psychic Detectives" and "Larry
King Live."
Through the University of Arkansas continuing education program, Ms.
Pate taught her "ESP and the Paranormal" course for 5 years. She
continues to conduct private workshops and seminars on a regularly
scheduled basis. As time permits, she is available for speaking
engagements at schools, colleges, churches and civic organizations.
Her private practice includes working with the public on multiple
levels. She has given thousands of personal readings utilizing her
psychometric talent and other psychic abilities to offer counsel and
advice in all areas of personal concern. She has also worked with
thousands of missing persons and murder cases with great success.
www.carolpate.com
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Robert Swain
Bigfoot Field Researcher
Co-Founder of Arkansas
Primates Evidence Society and Laughsquatch Cartoons
Director of Alliance
of Independent Bigfoot Researchers
Presentations: Saturday & Sunday
Bigfoot In
Arkansas &
Open Gallery Discussion
Robert Swain
has had a life -long interest in the
Sasquatch mystery. He has been a field researcher since 2006,
looking for Bigfoot primarily in the hills of Arkansas. Robert is
the artist of the Laughsquatch cartoons and is the author of,
"Laughsquatch: Is In The Bag!" He is a regular speaker at Bigfoot
conferences across the country and serves on the board of AIBR -
Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers and is co-founder of APES -
Arkansas Primate Evidence Society.
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Adrian & Tina Scalf
Sponsor
Founders of River Valley
Paranormal Research & Investigations (RVPRI)
Saturday
Presentation - Hidden -
Dangers of Paranormal Investigating From A Personal
Perspective.
A paranormal survivor
shining a light on the darker aspect of ghost hunting.
Monsters can walk among you...
Sunday
Presentation: Update coming soon!
In 2006 Adrian and his wife,
Tina, formed River Valley Paranormal Research &
Investigations (RVPRI) in Ft. Smith, Arkansas after
experiencing paranormal activity in two of their homes.
As a lifelong non-believer in anything described as
"paranormal', Adrian was convinced that he was wrong when he
experienced an undeniable paranormal encounter in 1999.
With a firm Biblical perspective on the world, and a
foundation rooted in common sense, Adrian has made it his
mission to help those who have no one else to turn to.
As someone who did not receive any support from his own
church when he was in crisis, he knows the importance of
offering a spiritual perspective on paranormal experiences
for those who place their faith in God. Adrian and
Tina specialize in home investigations, and since they've
started done over 400 investigations in which they have
helped hundreds of families through dark times, even when faced
with personal risk. They and their RVPRI team have
been featured on Ghost Adventures when the show
investigated Fort Chaffee Arkansas. Adrian and Tina
were also seen in the movies Soul Catcher and
The Unseen, produced and directed for SyFy by the Booth
Brothers and one of their encounters has been features in
"Seekers," directed by Alan Lowe. They have also been
featured in several books.
www.facebook.com/RVPRI
www.facebook.com/rvpriadrian
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Martha
Hazzard Decker
East Texas Paranormal, Author,
Retired Police Detective &
Assistant Chief of Police
Presentation: Saturday
Haunted Hill House, Where Spirits Speak
Presentation: Sunday
Paranormal Profiling 2
  
Martha Hazzard Decker
spent most of her adult life exploring a variety of
locations, including historical locations. A couple
favorites are Ft. Sumter, N.C. and Myrtles Plantation in LA.
Decker tends to look at locations with a different eye that
than most because of her photography, law enforcement and
journalist background. She lectures around the country, has
been on numerous radio shows, is a published author and
received a first place award from Associated Press in
specialty reporting for an investigative article while
working at the Cedar Creek Pilot. She has written two books,
Paranormal Profiling and Healing Waters,
Brothels and Murders -
The History and Legends of Haunted Hill House
which will be released in 2020.
Decker has been involved in
investigating the paranormal since 1999 and
founded East Texas
Paranormal in 2007. She was with the law enforcement
in Texas for over 20 years as detective, negotiator,
instructor and assistant chief of police when she retired.
www.etxhaunted.com
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Margie Kay
Director of the OZ
Inter-Dimensional Communication Institute, President of Un -
X Media and the KUNX Digital Broadcasting Network,
MUFON Star Team,
Assistant State Director and Education Coordinator
for Missouri MUFON, CEO and President of a forensic
investigation company,
Author, Remote Viewer, Psychic, Paranormal Investigator
Presentation: Saturday
Winged Aliens
Aliens
or Inter-Dimensional Beings?
Presentation: Sunday
Remote Viewing with Margie Kay
Live demonstrations with audience
participation.
  
Margie Kay
is a trained psychic and
paranormal investigator. She is a clairsentient
(feels), clairaudient (hears) clairvoyant (sees), and is
known as an extreme psychic and accurate remote viewer.
She is a MUFON Star Team Investigator and has completed over
550 investigations for MUFON and over 1,200 UFO and
paranormal investigations on her own. Margie has been
instrumental in solving over 60 homicides, missing person,
and theft cases using her unique remore viewing abilities.
She is the founder and director of Quest Paranormal
Investigation Group, which investigates all types of
paranormal phenomena.
Margie was featured in the pilot TV show, "Strange" and in
the "Hanger One" show "UFO Hotspots." She has been a regular
guest on many radio talk shows including Coast to Coast AM
and Jimmy Church. Margie Hosts Un-X News, which is
available on YouTube under Margie Kay UnX News.
www.margiekay.com
www.unxnetwork.com
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Pat Fitzhugh
Author, Researcher & Paranormal
Adventurer
Presentations:
The Bell Witch
Haunting
Saturday & Sunday
Author of, "The Bell Witch
Haunting" the most terrifying legend in American history
that happened 200 years ago..
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Pat Fitzhugh
became interested in the
paranormal as a child. He was seriously researching the
paranormal by the age of 13, and went on his first ghost
hunt 2 years later. Along the way, he developed a keen
interest in Tennessee's local legends, including the Bell
Witch. As an adult, he has investigated some of America's
most haunted locations. A self-described "skeptical
believer," Fitzhugh bases his investigations on scientific
methods and harsh scrutiny of evidence. In addition to
conducting more than thirty investigations each year, he
writes books, lectures at paranormal events and occasionally
appears on paranormal-themed TV shows.
www.patfitzhugh.wordpress.com
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Alan Lowe
Co-Founder of The Spirit
Seekers, Paranormal Investigator, Historian, Author &
Director
Presentation: Exorcism of
Lillie Townsend
Alan Lowe
at an early age had expereinces
that defied explanation and compelled him to discover what
lurked in the dark recesses of his home. As a result,
he has devoted himself to the pursuit of ghosts and an
understanding of the paranormal. Alan is a lifelong native
of Little Rock, and lives in Arkansas with his wife, Angela,
co-founder of The Spirit Seekers, and a menagerie of pets.
www.facebook.com/thespiritseekers
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Erik Rintamakii
Founder of
Yooperlites, Michigan
Presentations: Discovering
Yooperlites & 2019 UFO Experience
Saturday & Sunday -
MacArthur Tower Theater
11:00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.
 
Erik Rintamaki
is a life long rock hound from
Brimley, Michigan. In 2017
he was picking the shores of Lake Superior at night using
longwave UV Lights and made the discovery of a lifetime.
Every rock pickers dream is to find something new and Erik
did just that. What Erik found was later tested and
verified to be Syenites rich in flourescent Sodalite, which
he branded
Yooperlites.
Testing was the first
verified occurence of flourescent Sodalite in Michigan.
In May of 2018 Erik was credited with the discovery in The
Mineral News of flourescent Sodalite in Michigan.
In May of 2018 Erik was credited with the discovery in The
Mineral News.
Yooperlites have now become a worldwide phenomena with
thousands of articles and news stories written about them.
In 2018 Yooperlites were features in articles by CBS, NBC,
ABC, Forbes Magazine, The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit
News. In 2019 Erik and Yooperlites were featured in both
the April and May issues of Rock & Gem magazine, and PBS did
a documentary as well.
*While
doing a tour one night on Lake Superior, he had his UFO
experience that changed his life and beliefs.*
In 2020 Erik was featured on Travel Channels,
Paranormal Caught on Camera.
His UFO video was #16 of the top 100 and made it to the
shows finale.
In 2021 Erik was featured on History Channels, The
Proof Is Out There.
www.yooperlites.com
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