Paranormal and Psychic Convention.

Today we wanted to get out of the house and do something awesome.  I never expected the day would lead us to a The Mystical Paranormal Fair....but it did.  Turns out that in Lexington there are a group of ghost hunters called the Ghost Chasers.  No joke. it's awesome.

We got to meet Patti Star, who is a world renowned paranormal investigator and the owner of the Ghost Hunter Shop.  She even let us take some pictures for le blog.

We ended up sticking around for some of the seminars because we were super curious.  The first one was about Mediumship.  A psychic medium named Serena Gordon held the seminar and used an EVP to reach some of the seminar members' family members that had passed away.

For you nerds who don't know what EVP is:  go back to school.  Ghoul school.   EVP is short for electronic voice phenomenon, which is when a "medium" (someone who can communicate with spirits) uses an electronic sound recording device to capture the voices of spirits on tape.

Anyway so in the seminar she would ask her technician (a helpful ghost that assists her in contacting specific people on THE OTHER SIDE) to find the spirit of the loved one at hand and then they would talk in a robotic-hard-to-hear voice.  It was creepy a little, but cool too.  She also shared some stories of her past and things she has seen and figured out using her talent. She was very nice and it was a pretty interesting seminar.  She talked a little about assisting with police investigations and such.  Kind of silly, but kind of fun.

The next seminar we went to was 'Are you a psychic'.  Tina Michelle ran this one and gave us a 50 question quiz to fill out yes or no to. Some questions were 'Do you know when your phone is about to ring' or 'do you often hear radio voices in the other room'. You get it. Then we went over all the questions and found that Kellen has zero chance of being a psychic and I was above normal, but didn't want to stick around to 'see how I could train this muscle to become better with it' so we took off after.  We thought it was funny that one would find out that he or she has supernatural powers from a xeroxed 'yes' or 'no' test, but we are not here to judge.  We are here to wish we could predict the fucking future.

All in all, it was pretty awesome. They have one of these every month and I think I will be going to the next one. I want to go to more of the ghost hunting seminars because they seem totally cool and you get to learn how to use all the tools. AND we learned that every year they have Scarefest which is a horror and paranormal convention that has horror film actors and people in the business. I am excited for next September because, let's face it, our interest in the supernatural is pretty connected to (and mostly limited to) horror movies.  Sorry, psychics.  Y'all need to be less like hippies and more like this guy.