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F RIDAY 3:00 PM - Convention Open; vendors available. 4:00 PM - Troy Hudson Troy has more than 30 years of combined military, law enforcement, and emergency management experience. Troy has worked in the US Navy as an underwater mine warfare specialist, uniformed police officer, federal law enforcement officer, federal emergency management with involvement in Weapons of Mass Destruction response, Director of emergency management at the county level, and now serves as Director of Operations for a non-profit disaster response organization. Founder of native Oklahoma Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and often guest speaker on various radio/blog talk shows (Coast to Coast AM, etc). 5:30 PM - Jeff Belanger Belanger is one of the most visible and prolific researchers of folklore and legends today. He’s the award-winning, Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime and is the author of over a dozen books on the paranormal (published in six languages). He also hosts the New England Legends weekly podcast. 6:30 PM - Linda Godfrey Godfrey, nationally known researcher and investigator of wolfmen, Bigfoot and other cryptids for 27 years, is the author of 18 published books on strange phenomena and people such as The Beast of Bray Road; Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf, Real Wolfmen; True Encounters in Modern America, Monsters Among Us and American Monsters. She’s had her own field encounters with cryptids and is a frequent guest on national TV and radio shows such as SyFy’s Paranormal Witness, Monsters and Mysteries, Monsterquest, Inside Edition, Hannity’s America, America’s Scariest Places, CoasttoCoastAM Radio, Lost Tapes, Fox News Red Eye, the Jenny McCarthy Show, and many more. 7:00 PM - Dinner break 9:30 PM - Pine Hills, Eyes in the Sky Join us and our UFO experts to glance up to the sky and discuss UFO sightings that have happened locally. This presentation will be outdoors so dress appropriately. S ATURDAY 9:00 AM - Tobias Wayland 6:00 PM - Dinner Break Tobias is a passionate fortean and outspoken paranormal agnostic who has spent the last nine years actively investigating the unusual; for the first five years as a MUFON field investigator, 7:30 PM - Grant S. Wilson and the last four as a freelance writer and then the head writer and editor for The Singular Grant has been actively involved in all types of paranormal investigation since his first intense Fortean Society. His years as an investigator have served him best by illustrating that when it encounter with the paranormal at age 15. He has paved the way for much of the modern field comes to the anomalous, the preternatural, and the paranormal, any answers he’s found are still through his work with the group The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S) which he co-founded hopelessly outnumbered by questions. many years ago. His unique level-headed approach to the field caught the attention of the world through the top-watched cable show Ghost Hunters, which he produced along with Ghost Hunters 10:30 AM - Ty Gowen International. He has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people and affected millions more Adept at interpreting and utilizing the metaphysical techniques used by his teammates, Ty worldwide with his big heart, extensive knowledge, and down-to-earth technique. prefers to corroborate this type of evidence with traditional technical tools. While proficient in tech, he is quickly gaining experience in the world of magic, as he actively studies and provides 9:00 PM - Social with a cash bar and free hors d’oeuvres readings with Elder Runes for those who prefer their divination to have a Viking bite. For events, Ty has experience lecturing and guiding teams through some of America’s more famous 9:30 PM - Live Investigation at the Novitiate (extra fee) hauntings via Amy Bruni’s Strange Escapes. While touring and lecturing, his approach to investigation may seem a bit left of center, so Ty appreciates opportunities to share his strange knowledge with eager investigators and to explore all that the world of weird has to offer. 12:00 PM - Lunch Break 1:00 PM - Allison Jornlin Recipient of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference's 2016 Wisconsin Researcher of the Year Award, Allison Jornlin has been investigating hauntings and other strange phenomena for more than 20 years. Inspired by Chicago’s Richard Crowe, who kickstarted U.S. ghost tourism in 1973, she developed Milwaukee’s first haunted history tour in 2008. Since then Allison has led numerous haunted history tours and presented talks on a variety of Fortean topics — poltergeists, UFOs, cryptids, demonic possession, etc. Allison has been featured on TV, radio, and in print and has contributed research to books, articles, and podcasts. She frequently works with paranormal teams to investigate historic buildings, providing witness interviews and archival research to facilitate their efforts. 2:30 PM - Dave Schrader Dave has been one of the leading voices of the paranormal since 2006 when he launched his wildly popular talk show, Darkness on the Edge of Town on Twin Cities News Talk – Minneapolis’s top-rated AM talk station. The show grew to become one of the station’s most successful shows and most-downloaded podcasts, expanding Schrader’s reach globally. Seeing an opportunity, Schrader moved his show to Chris Jericho’s network of shows on PodcastOne, where he further expanded his worldwide audience. Add this to his duties as a recurring fill-in host for the internationally-syndicated Coast to Coast AM talk show, and you get the picture of a serious paranormal insider. 4:00 PM - Chad Lewis Wisconsin has a rich history of UFO and Alien encounters. Each year hundreds of people witness something in the sky that they can't explain. Even more bizarre are those who believe they have come face to face with extraterrestrial beings. Paranormal Research Chad Lewis explores some of the most bizarre UFO encounters Wisconsin has to offer. Filled with eyewitness encounters, historical sightings, and on-site investigations, this presentation presents the audience with: UFOs buzzing over crop circles, Aliens shaped like small birds, A Sheriff's bizarre run in with a hovering craft, A family being abducted against their will,, Many many more... 5:00 PM - A panel discussion with the Experts S ATURDAY (CONT.) 9:00 AM - Tobias Wayland 6:00 PM - Dinner Break Tobias is a passionate fortean and outspoken paranormal agnostic who has spent the last nine years actively investigating the unusual; for the first five years as a MUFON field investigator, 7:30 PM - Grant S. Wilson and the last four as a freelance writer and then the head writer and editor for The Singular Grant has been actively involved in all types of paranormal investigation since his first intense Fortean Society. His years as an investigator have served him best by illustrating that when it encounter with the paranormal at age 15. He has paved the way for much of the modern field comes to the anomalous, the preternatural, and the paranormal, any answers he’s found are still through his work with the group The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S) which he co-founded hopelessly outnumbered by questions. many years ago. His unique level-headed approach to the field caught the attention of the world through the top-watched cable show Ghost Hunters, which he produced along with Ghost Hunters 10:30 AM - Ty Gowen International. He has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people and affected millions more Adept at interpreting and utilizing the metaphysical techniques used by his teammates, Ty worldwide with his big heart, extensive knowledge, and down-to-earth technique. prefers to corroborate this type of evidence with traditional technical tools. While proficient in tech, he is quickly gaining experience in the world of magic, as he actively studies and provides 9:00 PM - Social with a cash bar and free hors d’oeuvres readings with Elder Runes for those who prefer their divination to have a Viking bite. For events, Ty has experience lecturing and guiding teams through some of America’s more famous 9:30 PM - Live Investigation at the Novitiate (extra fee) hauntings via Amy Bruni’s Strange Escapes. While touring and lecturing, his approach to investigation may seem a bit left of center, so Ty appreciates opportunities to share his strange knowledge with eager investigators and to explore UNDAY all that the world of weird has to offer. S 9:00 AM - Craig Nehring Author/ Writer of Wisconsin's Most Haunted Vol 1 & 2 and Archives Of A Ghost Hunter that 12:00 PM - Lunch Break should be out in September or October of 2018. I have been on radio shows around the world from Coast to Coast, Fade to Black, Late Night In The Midlands, and Beyond Reality with Jason 1:00 PM - Allison Jornlin Hawes. I was in the U.S. Cellular Commercials back in 2017 featuring three haunted locations Recipient of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference's 2016 Wisconsin Researcher of the Year around the Midwest. Craig is the founder of Fox Valley Ghost Hunters since 2011 and investigate Award, Allison Jornlin has been investigating hauntings and other strange phenomena for more all over Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan. than 20 years. Inspired by Chicago’s Richard Crowe, who kickstarted U.S. ghost tourism in 1973, she developed Milwaukee’s first haunted history tour in 2008. Since then Allison has led 10:30 AM - Dana and Greg Newkirk & the Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & the Occult. numerous haunted history tours and presented talks on a variety of Fortean topics — Often referred to as the real-life Mulder and Scully, Dana and Greg Newkirk are two of the world’s poltergeists, UFOs, cryptids, demonic possession, etc.