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Highlights from UNIV-CON, Part 2

Thursday October 25, 2007 8:09 AM

Penn State PRS teamRead Part 1 here.
On Saturday at UNIV-CON, audience members were given a special sneak peek of the upcoming A&E television show "Paranormal State," becoming the first audience in the country to seen an entire episode of the show. Cast members answered questions from the audience afterward where Buell jokingly remarked that "I seem much more serious on TV."

Following A&E's "Paranormal State" presentation, Dave Schrader of Darkness Radio hosted "The Darkness Debate," which featured a number of well-known paranormal experts. Panel members included psychic Chip Coffey, Professor Lloyd Auerbach, Chris Flemming of "Dead Famous," demonologist Keith Johnson, author Michelle Belanger, psychic and hypnotherapist Tiffany of ReadingsbyTiffany.com, and "Ghost Hunters" Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes. Several times the debates between experts became intense, covering such topics as competition within the paranormal field, the pros and cons of charging for investigations and the dangers of exposing demonology via paranormal television shows. Coffey remarked that "you don't pick up a book and become a demonologist." According to Coffey, there are only two or three real demonologists in the world. Concerning competition within the field, which proved a heated topic among panel members, Wilson joked that "There are enough ghosts in the world for everybody."

Sunday night was truly "Ghost Hunters" night — after a hilarious performance of "Ghost Hunters, The Musical" hundreds of people lined the sidewalks outside of Schwab Auditorium for an evening with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of The Atlantic Paranormal Society. Hawes and Wilson entertained the audience for an hour and half with some of their best evidence of supernatural phenomenon on both video and sound recordings.

Over the past three years, I have been able to watch the evolution of the Penn State Paranormal Research Society's UNIV-CON convention and can honestly say that this year's events outdid everything in its past. The excitement for "Paranormal State" among PRS members, the various paranormal celebrities and fans of UNIV-CON was remarkable. This year's UNIV-CON brought some of the greatest paranormal personalities and over one thousand paranormal enthusiasts together for four fantastic days of learning, entertainment and new friendships.

 

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