Reflecting on PARA-CON 2024
Phew,what a busy day that was! I am so glad it was local to me, although I amexcited to travel around the UK with upcoming author events. This one was inNorthwich, just a fifteen-minute drive from home and a town where I do most ofmy weekend shopping with the family. The venue was cosy and traditional, andI’m told that PARA-CON 2025 will be bigger and better so that’s exciting. Ihave already confirmed attendance for the next event so keep checking my blogfor updates.
Anyway,back to the weekend. PARA-CON was organised by BiB Paranormal who offer a comprehensive paraunity community platform for ghosthunters, historians, paranormal investigators and anyone interested in theparanormal world to meet and share stories. They brought together a fantasticline-up of speakers for the main stage including Richard Felix (I totally didnot go all fangirl when I saw him in the same room as me!), The Occult Family,Paranormal Penny Pinchers, Jack O’Lantern (where it was my daughter’s turn tobe the fangirl), and many more.
MeetingThe Occult Family
Mygirls and I had a lovely chat with The Occult Family and were invited to lookinside their haunted museum at the venue. It was a tent set up inside the mainhall where they displayed a selection of haunted artifacts from their personalcollection. I was fascinated with a prom dress on a mannequin and my daughtersloved the haunted dolls. The energy inside that tent was intense and I couldn’tlook at one of the dolls, reportedly the most haunted doll in the UK, becauseshe gave me a very strange energetic sensation in the pit of my stomach, and Iknew that she didn’t like me. I can’t explain it, but I could feel it. So, Ileft the tent and retreated to the safety of my book table.
Meetingthe Paraunity Community
I wasvery happy to meet my fellow paraunity community members and share stories. Wehad a lovely mix of ghost hunters, UFO chasers, movie merch traders,historians, mediums and many more diverse people to speak with. And we met theghostbusters who were raising money for charity. We had to hide Gary the Ghoston my table so he wasn’t hit by the proton packs!
Idiscovered groups where I can take my children ghost hunting, so we shall bebusy next year once I book us onto some events. I was interviewed on video andlive stream throughout the day so I’m excited to see what comes of those. Youcan already see me and my fellow PARA-CON attendees on the usual social mediachannels.
I’ma Happy Spooky Lady
Thisevent was a great way to start the Halloween season and get me out of mydaytime routine of work and parenting. It will be great to see reviews of mybooks from the fans that I met at the event, I am happily playing with the ghostequipment that we bought from Polter Gear, and I got my PARA-CON T-shirt that Iwill wear with pride in Benidorm at the end of October.
Mynext event is Romance in the North on 12th October. See you there!
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