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The MidSouth ParaCon recap post!

by Kat on August 5, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Posted In: Events, The Paranormal View

Man, this weekend flew by quickly! It is already Monday evening, and since I am needing a break from today’s illustration work, I thought that a change of gears and writing would be a good thing to do!

I would say that there were an estimated 300-500 people at this weekend’s MidSouth Paranormal Convention. It is a cozy convention, purely devoted to the topic of the paranormal! In my previous post I had a photo with all the guests who were invited to speak or run panels this year, 32 in all, and even Henry and I attempted to broadcast the Paranormal View live from the convention- something local WiFi failed to let us do.

Henry and I recording interviews with guests during Saturday's events at MidSouth 2013.

Henry and I recording interviews with guests during Saturday’s events at MidSouth 2013.

We arrived Friday afternoon to an already buzzing MidSouth convention, although there weren’t any guest speakers that night. It was a time to browse around and meet the guests and other attendees. Starting at 8PM going until whenever (I ducked out at 11PM) there was a party in the ballroom where the paranormal rock group the Orb Tones played. Members of the Orb Tones are all involved in the paranormal field somehow, Keith Age the founder of Louisville Ghost Hunters Society, is also the leader of the band that has featured Bill Bean, Jeff Belanger, Patrick Burns, and Trish Yancy in the past.

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(Above) photos from Friday night’s paranormal party.  (Below) Saturday shenanigans from MidSouth 2013.

 

 

 

 

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Saturday morning Henry and I had an mini adventure visiting Wickland Home, a mansion built in 1825 where the convention’s official ghost hunt was to be held later that night. Henry and I traveled over there, about a half an hour drive, to check the connection for the wireless air card that Henry had to broadcast the show remotely. Unfortunately, the connection was too slow, so we had to return to Cincinnati to do the show (the hotel’s connection was even worse, if none at all).

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(Above) Wickland Home, (below) the paranormal cake contest featureing (top) Weaverly Hills Sanitorium, (lower left) a ghost hunter’s investigation kit (lower right) a zombie.

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Henry and I’s plan B for not doing the show live was instead recording 5 minute interviews with a variety of guests. (Below from top to bottom) Van Reiner the owner of Whispers Estates, Darrel Whismen the caretaker of Poasttown Elementary School, and Rosalyn Bown former cast member of Ghost Hunters Academy (and a good friend of mine!)

Note: Henry is the dude to the right.

intervies part 1

 

(From top to bottom) John Zaffis, current star of the TV show Haunted Collector on the SyFy Channel, Rick Hayes who is a psychic-medium and fellow Para-X Radio Network show host, and “Spooky” Scotty Rorek a psychic-medium, radio show host, and medium in the Spooked documentary series.

interviews part 2

I wish I could have gone to many of the lectures being done during the convention, but doing the recordings kind of killed that.

In the end, MidSouth ParaCon 2013 was a blast! Hope to see it continue to grow in the coming years. One thing that myself and the guests could agree on was that MidSouth always feels like a large high school reunion, meeting friends that you usually don’t get to see but once a year besides keeping up with Facebook posts.

Cheers,

Kat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

└ Tags: 2013, convention, events, Midsouth, paranormal, radio, show, view

T-minus 3 days

by Kat on July 31, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Posted In: Events, The Paranormal View

Are you a fan of the paranormal and have no plans for this weekend? Do you live in the Midwest and are in paranormal reality show withdrawal? Then may I suggest that you venture to Louisville, Kentucky THIS WEEKEND for the MidSouth Paranormal Convention!

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Many guests that we have had on the Paranormal View, such as Rosalyn Bown, Jim O’Rear, and past Paranormal View host Beth Brown, will be attending this three day event. Paranormal View listeners can even meet Henry and I at our booth in the vendors room Friday and Saturday!

This will be my second year attending MidSouth, and it is really a lot of fun. If you are a fan of the paranormal, this is a great opportunity to speak to personalities you’ve seen on TV or with other paranormal enthusiasts!

Naturally, next week I’ll have a full write-up recap of MidSouth!

Cheers,

Kat

 

Paranormal Exploration: Spring Grove Cemetery

by Kat on July 27, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Posted In: Paranormal Exploration

Every once and a while when watching one of Cincinnati’s local television stations, a commercial would come up about Spring Grove Cemetery, reminding me that even though I’ve lived in the Queen City for a little over five years- that I still haven’t visited this historic cemetery.

Today I changed that!

Spring Grove's famous places: C.C. Breuer's Headstone, Dexter Family Crypt, headstones in section 16.

Spring Grove’s famous places: C.C. Breuer’s Headstone, Dexter Family Crypt, headstones in section 16.

At noon I pulled into the gates of America’s second largest cemetery, Spring Grove. Formally charted on January 21, 1845 by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society as a garden cemetery inspired by Mount auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it became the place where many historic people from around the United States and Cincinnati used as their final resting place. Adolph Strauch, a man renowned for his work as a landscape architect in the mid-1800s, was hired in 1855 to beautify Spring Grove even further, resulting in the lakes and trees we see today when visiting the grounds. Strauch also worked on other parks around Cincinnati, such as Eden Park (which is another fine park to stroll through and also said to be haunted) and Burnet Woods. On March 29, 2007 Spring Grove was officially designated as a National Historic Landmark.

What I will first note as disappointing is that pets are not allowed on the grounds. Usually paranormal pup Wheatley will accompany me on such photography missions and he would have especially loved to have wondered around the 700+ acres of cemetery grounds with me. On another blog, somewhere on the internets, someone mentioned that you can walk through the grounds without ever running into another (physical) being. I found this to be quite false. If you go there expecting to do a little ghost hunting you may be disappointed to find out that there are four walking trails laid out in the cemetery that are very well populated by the living and that they, plus general city noise from homes around the cemetery and sounds from nature may pollute any audio recorded.

Like any good cemetery, there are stories of ghostly phenomena at Spring Grove although caretakers will be quick to dismiss these claims. The first well known legend is that C.C. Breuer’s family headstone is haunted (Section 100, lot 9). Noted at “Glass Eyes” on the Spring Grove Cemetery map, Charles C. Breuer in life was an optometrist. According to legend, before his death Breuer requested that his real eyes be placed in a bust at his grave site. However, that never came to pass; his bust uses glass eyes that I will wager match the color of his real ones in life. The bust is said to watch you wherever you move around the cemetery. However I only found this true if you happen to in the busts’ line of sight- since he is quite clearly looking east. If you happen to standing to the West, well I guess you are free from the eternal staring contest?

 

I'm looking at you, kid!
I’m looking at you, kid!

However, I will mention I did have a spooky moment right after finishing taking photos of the Breuer family headstone. At the time I was the only person in the area (that I could see) when I heard an adult male moan from about 10 feet away! Knowing that it was a possibility it could have been a person walking or jogging the trails, I followed the sound, which lead me into the middle of section 100- to find no one present. Will I write this down as an experience with the paranormal? No, because it is quite possible someone’s voice had traveled from another section of the cemetery. I trotted on taking pictures of the head stones.

 

Collection of headstones from around the cemetery.

Collection of headstones from around the cemetery.

Section 53 and 16 are quite notable for having ghostly activity reported, and they are in the older parts of the cemetery. The common ghost lore to come out of section 53 is the sensation that your ankles are being grabbed by unseen hands. According to online urban legend, a caretaker was doing maintenance in the area when he saw a ghostly set of hands reach out of the ground at him! Visitors have reported seeing “wispy” apparitions out of the corner of their eye or hearing phantom voices; this is particularly true for Section 16. Statues are also said to move around to watch cemetery visitors, especially at night (hey, the cemetery is closed at night you trespassers!)

I will admit, the entire time I was walking around Section 22 around the Burnet crypt, I felt as if I was being watched. The Burnet family crypt also seemed to give off this weird vibe from it, I don’t know if it was something “there” or perhaps the overcast clouds above threatening rain at me.

The Burnet family crypt and other headstones.

The Burnet family crypt and other headstones.

Sometime in the future I plan on visiting Spring Grove again, maybe for a historical walking tour.

Cheers, Kat

View in the central lakes section of Spring Grove, plus other headstones.
There is a Spinx in Spring Grove! No where near the pyramid though.
Kat (me) in front of Dexter family crypt- the only building in cincinnati with two flying buttresses (or any flying buttresses for that matter)

Procter & Gamble (Procter is on the East side of the cemetery, Gamble on the West)

 

└ Tags: 2013, Cemetery, crypt, family, Gamble, ghost, Grove, July, P&G, paranormal, Procter, Spring

the Paranormal View 7-27-2013 show

by Kat on July 26, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Posted In: The Paranormal View

Join us tomorrow night on the Paranormal View for another exciting show! This week’s topic is Ghosts, Ghouls, and Cemeteries! Participate in the live chat during the show to ask Henry, Geoff, Barbara, or I questions about the show at http://para-x.com/

8-10PM Eastern, 5-7PM Pacific

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Hello world!

by Kat on July 25, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized

Welcome to my new website www.katklockow.com! Here you can find all the information you need about me, Kat, and my work in the paranormal and illustration fields. If you are interested in reading my ongoing graphic novel series, Miss Grey, please pop on over to http://www.huntforghosts.com/ and enjoy!

Naturally over time this site will expand beyond just being a blog, but we’ve got to start somewhere!

Cheers,

Kat

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