I just got back from attending PARA-CON 2024. Let me tell you about the event, the wonderful paraunity community that I met, and the spooky merch that I brought home.
Reflecting on PARA-CON 2024
Phew,
what a busy day that was! I am so glad it was local to me, although I am
excited to travel around the UK with upcoming author events. This one was in
Northwich, just a fifteen-minute drive from home and a town where I do most of
my weekend shopping with the family. The venue was cosy and traditional, and
I’m told that PARA-CON 2025 will be bigger and better so that’s exciting. I
have already confirmed attendance for the next event so keep checking my blog
for updates.
Anyway,
back to the weekend. PARA-CON was organised by BiB Paranormal who offer a comprehensive paraunity community platform for ghost
hunters, historians, paranormal investigators and anyone interested in the
paranormal world to meet and share stories. They brought together a fantastic
line-up of speakers for the main stage including Richard Felix (I totally did
not 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 to
be the fangirl), and many more.
Meeting
The Occult Family
My
girls and I had a lovely chat with The Occult Family and were invited to look
inside their haunted museum at the venue. It was a tent set up inside the main
hall where they displayed a selection of haunted artifacts from their personal
collection. I was fascinated with a prom dress on a mannequin and my daughters
loved the haunted dolls. The energy inside that tent was intense and I couldn’t
look at one of the dolls, reportedly the most haunted doll in the UK, because
she gave me a very strange energetic sensation in the pit of my stomach, and I
knew that she didn’t like me. I can’t explain it, but I could feel it. So, I
left the tent and retreated to the safety of my book table.
Meeting the Paraunity Community
I was
very happy to meet my fellow paraunity community members and share stories. We
had a lovely mix of ghost hunters, UFO chasers, movie merch traders,
historians, mediums and many more diverse people to speak with. And we met the
ghostbusters who were raising money for charity. We had to hide Gary the Ghost
on my table so he wasn’t hit by the proton packs!
I
discovered groups where I can take my children ghost hunting, so we shall be
busy next year once I book us onto some events. I was interviewed on video and
live stream throughout the day so I’m excited to see what comes of those. You
can already see me and my fellow PARA-CON attendees on the usual social media
channels.
I’m a Happy Spooky Lady
This event was a great way to start the Halloween season and get me out of my daytime routine of work and parenting. It will be great to see reviews of my books from the fans that I met at the event, I am happily playing with the ghost equipment that we bought from Polter Gear, and I got my PARA-CON T-shirt that I will wear with pride in Benidorm at the end of October.
My
next event is Romance in the North on 12th October. See you there!
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