Paranormal Research Symposium - August 2026

 

Para events happen like mad from August to November. If you're in the Pennsylvania area and want a cool event, I highly recommend Paranormal Research Symposium August 21 and 22, 2026 in Gettysburg, PA

APR Cases: Feng Shui in Action in Haunted Locations

I am lucky to work with the most curious and amazing minds in the field of paranormal research, both my paranormal investigation team and the Bigfoot research team. We have an ongoing case with APR (Arizona Paranormal Research) that has me thinking about feng shui and the potential to work with this concept at an ongoing study at a mining town.

Pan-Para Research

(Humvee mesh vest with billions of pockets for ghost investigations and Bigfooting)

Multi-paranormal disciplines: Pan-Para Research as I like to call it. 

This is my concept of not just researching what you were sent out for, i.e. a Bigfoot in the woods, but to cover all the para bases in your research to truly capture any correlations or contributors. You might be sent out to check on strange forest lights, but you need to look at what else is happening in that location to get a greater understanding of the dynamics and possible contributing factors. 

Start looking into; missing people, cattle mutilations, missing animals, murders, strange lights, seismic and geologic layout, UFOs, battle history, hauntings, ancient Native grounds, Native legends, mounds, ancient giant remains, and more. 

This documenting is so you can get a grip on the context in which something is occurring, if a land is prone to a wide array of issues. 

How you handle a single BF sighting is different than if you find there is a clan in an area where there are other strange things occurring. Then, you might have to start creating concepts that include an interdependence among the phenomena or an earth understanding that all these para things share. When you get to the commonality, you may be opening a key to the phenomena and making true research strides, or you might be able to predict areas that are "hot beds" or "portals" of weirdness. 

Once you've archived this amount of info, you now become better able to approach a site and an event/sighting with a foreknowledge that this area is known to have multiple para events and to be on the lookout for accompanying events. 

You can often times correlate Bigfoot sightings with a UFO sighting on the same night in the same area. This is likely why people believe the two might be related. The question is; is this land itself, this particular area, a magnet for intuitive creatures, unusual comings and goings and therefore they all congregate there? Or are these findings incidental, like going to a McDonalds on a night of a meteorite entering the atmosphere and thinking they might be related? These are the puzzling factors we need to consider.

We have all been very isolated in our research and my goal is to see everyone go pan-para to be truly well informed and to make gains in understanding and even predicting active areas.

This kind of research would mean a team made up of people interested in all aspects of the para realm or with expertise in certain arenas could be called upon to archive and correlate with others on the team any findings. This also gives people who may not be in good health or busy situations and can't go into the field, to be home researchers to add to the archives of understanding of an area by researching or even running the website. There is a place for everyone to contribute.

Mapping with colored dots is a good way to show what kinds of activities were found in certain areas, perhaps blue is UFO, red is ghost, green is Bigfoot... you get the idea.

Julie Ferguson and I wrote Paranormal Geeks book to help unify all the fields and show that there is no one arena of research worth more than others and that all para geeks are across the board curious. 

The longer you research your field of study, the more you realize that there is something unifying all the para happenings.

Pan-Para Research - this is the future and this is how we make faster strides in our understanding. 

After all, imagine if chemists and physicists never shared notes? 

Staying Up-To-Date In the Field of Paranormal

Staying up-to-date on research, being a part of an ongoing conversation about the paranormal world, getting new points of view and perspectives, are critical if we want to grow the field and if you want to grow as an investigator.

I and two of my team members from POE, as well as two members of API (my favorite AZ ghost hunting team) are going to attend a very interesting talk in October. I will be reporting about it on the blog, duh! We are even going to the dessert social afterward to be able to mingle with the speakers and others who are interested in the field of all things paranormal. Just look at the plans for this lecture--isn't it grand? We'd also like to thank Jeremy at Herberger Theater for accommodating our group and finding us such awesome seats! That guy went the extra mile!

Join Dr. Barry Taff and Loyd Auerbach, M.S. at the entertaining crossroads where thought-provoking research meets the truly spine-tingling.

In this presentation by two of the world's most respected parapsychologists, we'll hear about breakthrough, science-based research into ghosts, psychic abilities and other elements of what we call 'supernatural' and hear some of their most chilling personal experiences.

Among the many topics:
What is there really to be afraid of when it comes to the paranormal?

Just what IS a ghost? What do we know and what do we THINK we know about things that go bump in the night?

What is the connection between UFO-related events and other paranormal phenomena?

Where is scientific study of Psi heading and who is using this research? Can you spot a true psychic vs. someone practicing mentalism?

Is there research that can help us understand and use paranormal phenomena in our daily lives?

An optional dessert reception with the speakers after the presentation is also offered (limited availability).

More information, including speaker bios can be found at www.CauseWorthyProductions.com

Between great blogs and websites, books and documentaries, a person can stay up-to-date in the field. I also suggest you look for paranormal lectures in your town and consider look on www.meetup.com to find a meetup group for paranormal, ESP, UFOs and other subjects of interest.