Speakers

IN-PERSON AND ONLINE SPEAKERS (NOVEMBER 1-3)

Steve Berg is an actor and improviser who just finished work on Olivia Wilde’s new film Don’t Worry Darling, and is currently working on the feature Snack Shack. He can also be seen in New Line’s comedy feature Tag starring Jon Hamm and Rashida Jones. His credits also include recurring roles on NBC's The Good Place, ABC's The Goldbergs, Comedy Central's Idiotsitter, and BET's The Comedy Get Down. He has appeared in two features for director Joe Swanberg -- the Netflix Original Win It All and the indie Digging For Fire which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Other credits include Mike White's directorial debut Year of the Dog, Jared Hess’ Gentlemen Broncos, and Joss Whedon's digital series Dr. Horrible's Sing Along-Along Blog. Berg has been a drunk narrator multiple times on Comedy Central's Drunk History and was a series regular in the Fox Television pilot WTF America produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. He performed live sketch and improv for over a decade in Los Angeles at The Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade and Improv Olympic. He is originally from Omaha, Nebraska.89

Tim Binnall is the news editor for Coast to Coast AM as well as the host of the pioneering paranormal podcast Binnall of America. For more than a decade and over the course of hundreds of BoA programs, he has interviewed a vast array of researchers, spanning a wide spectrum of paranormal genres and ranging from bonafide esoteric icons to up-and-coming future players in 'the field.' A graduate of Syracuse University, Binnall aims to maintain an outsider's perspective on the paranormal world with a distinct appreciation for its absurdities and a keen interest in the personalities and sociology of esoteric studies.

Nathan Paul Isaac is a writer, filmmaker, and host/creator of the Penny Royal podcast. A native of Kentucky, he has been researching the folklore, mystery, and high strangeness of the Bluegrass State for over two decades. In addition to the Penny Royal podcast, Nathan films and produces the music series SomerSessions.

S. William Snider, aka Recluse, is the longtime curator of the VISUP blog (visupview.blogspot.com), where he has explored high strangeness and parapolitics in all their many forms for over a decade. More recently, he has branched out into books and podcasts. He is the co-author of Strange Tales of the Parapolitical: Postwar Nazis, Mercenaries, and Other Secret History and the host of The Farm podcast (thefarmpodcast.com). He is also a reoccurring guest on the Penny Royal podcast. Most recently, he has issued the 30,000 word essay More Strange Tales: Hellier, the Lovecraft Gnosis, and Psychological Warfare in conjunction with the first Penny Royal release. The first installment of a three part trilogy exploring the origins of Jeffrey Epstein's network, A Special Relationship: Epstein, Trump, and the Secret History of the Anglo-American Establishment, is set to drop this October.

Wren Collier is an occultist and Thelemite living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a frequent contributor on the "Where Did The Road Go?" podcast, as well as contributing to projects like NAEQ.IO and the Lunar Cry occult community. He also sells fine occult goods at his Etsy store, Atelier Argent, and is working on his first book, CTHONIA, an exploration of katabasis narratives, underground kingdoms, pulp scifi, and the Hollow Earth. He can be found at liminalroom.com

Joshua Cutchin is the author of seven books about the supernatural. He has appeared on dozens of programs including Coast to Coast AM, and is regularly invited to speak at paranormal conferences. He recently released his first novel, THEM OLD WAYS NEVER DIED.

Brent Raynes has been immersed in the field of ufology and it's many components of high strangeness going back 57 years this coming January. He is the editor of the monthly online journal Alternate Perceptions, and the author of Visitors from Hidden Realms, On The Edge of Reality, and John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and the Ongoing Mysteries.

Micah Hanks is a longtime advocate for scientific research into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). He is a contributing member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) and a frequent commentator on the subject on his weekly podcast, The Micah Hanks Program. He is Editor and Co-founder of The Debrief, a science, technology, and defense news site that has closely followed developments related to the U.S. government’s collection and evaluation of information related to UAP. Hanks is also the director of the UAP Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS) and is an affiliate member of the New Mexico-based National UFO Historical Records Center (NUFOHRC).

Since 2002, M. Kyndyll Lackey has provided professional intuitive consultations, transformational coaching, Reiki treatments and attunements, tarot and occult classes, and ministerial services to clients across the country. She works in the Crowley-Harris Thoth Tarot tradition, augmenting her claircognizance with a background in human development, trauma-informed care, social justice, socialservices, and psychology, as well as more than two decades of practice in tarot, astrology, Qabalah, Reiki, and practical chaos magick.

Kyndyll is the Founder of The Scarlet Temple, a private, invitation-only community exploring the intersection of sex and religion; she is also ordained as a Minister by the Universal Life Church and the Mercy Junction Justice and Peace Center, and is a Reiki Master Teacher. She holds Masters degrees in Social Work and Creative Writing/Women’s Studies, and spent over a decade working with survivors of abuse and trauma as a professional social worker. Her first book, Beyond As Above, So Below: Understanding Hermetic Tarot Through the Music of Maynard James Keenan is available via Amazon in the U.S. and Canada.

www.mkyndylllackey.com

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Nevaeh is a girl with a taste for the strange and unusual. Nevaeh has a Youtube channel called “Nevaeh’s Nightmare” where she talks about some of her peculiar interests. Nevaeh is currently enrolled in mortuary school studying to be an embalmer and funeral director. Her goal in life is to spread and gather information while also helping people along the way. She's got a vast knowledge of medical and death history. Along with some of her own paranormal experiences.

ONLINE-ONLY SPEAKERS (SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3)

Seriah Azkath is the host of Where Did the Road Go?, which he began in Jan of 2013. He is in the process of working on two books, one on his own personal experiences, and one on new ways of looking at reality and the strange phenomena within. He is a True skeptic in the true sense of the word, asking questions instead of pushing beliefs. His talk will be about time, and how it's odd connection to unexplained phenomena, as well as different ways of looking at experiences people have. Throwing out new ideas, even as thought experiments, to try and make connections we have missed.

Timothy Renner is an illustrator, author, and folk musician living in Pennsylvania. His illustrations have appeared in the pages of various books, magazines, fanzines and comics as well as on many record and CD covers. Since 1995, Timothy has been making music both solo and with his band, Stone Breath. Timothy is the creator of "Strange Familiars", a podcast concerning the paranormal, weird history, folklore and the occult. He makes regular appearances on the paranormal radio show, "Where Did the Road Go?", and has appeared as a guest on many other podcasts and radio programs, including "Coast to Coast AM".

By day, Katie works in the field of student affairs, advising fraternities and sororities. She began making YouTube videos in 2016, covering a variety of subjects, but the channel’s content has since settled into the realms of cult cinema and extreme metal. She’s been invited to appear on many YouTube channels and podcasts including “Where Did the Road Go?” She and her husband, Zach, also create short films. Their film Devil’s Tree was screened at the 2024 George Lindsey Film Festival.

Katie also enjoys writing and blogging on an assortment of topics. As a paranormal enthusiast, her paranormal interests lie in the possibilities of magic, manifestation, and the occult, as well as contactee experiences, hauntings, cryptids, consciousness, and general high strangeness. Katie lives in the mysterious state of Alabama with her husband and 2 cats. Her YouTube can be found at @KatieoftheNight, and her filmmaking channel is @LaughingWindowsProductions.

Robert Guffey is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University – Long Beach. His most recent books are Cryptopolis & Other Stories, the Rondo Award-nominated novel Dead Monkey Rum, and Operation Mindfuck, which Alan Moore described as "jaw-dropping and essential." His previous books include the Wonderland Award-nominated collection Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes, the Rondo Award-nominated novel Bela Lugosi’s Dead, the darkly satirical, apocalyptic novel Until the Last Dog Dies, which award-winning novelist Adam-Troy Castro called "one of the great books of the year," the journalistic memoir Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security, which Flavorwire called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of [the year],” the novella collection Spies & Saucers, and Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form.

A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he's written for numerous publications, among them The Believer, The Evergreen Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Rosebud, Salon, and TOR.com. Forthcoming from Madness Heart Press is his fourth novel, The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook, while forthcoming from Headpress is his nonfiction cinema book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos, which covers one hundred years of cinema (from 1921 to 2021). His website is Cryptoscatology.com.

In 1991, Greg Bishop co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, conspiracy research, psychedelia and new science. Wake Up Down There!, a collection from the magazine, was published in 2000. Greg’s second book was Project Beta, which documented a government campaign of disinformation around the UFO issue. Weird California, a portrait of strange and eerie history and places in the Golden State, was released in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, Greg blogged for the UFO and paranormal site Ufomystic. His 2017 book It Defies Language anthologized entries from that blog along with new material. In 2017, he contributed an essay entitled “The Co-Creation Hypothesis” for the anthology UFOs: Reframing the Debate. In 2019, he co-authored A Is For Adamski, an encyclopedic overview of the UFO contact movement. His long-running podcast can be heard at radiomisterioso.com.

His latest project is entitled the “Ufology Tarot,” a deck based on the history of UFO research. He has appeared in many documentaries, such as Fields of Fear (about the cattle mutilation phenomenon) and Mirage Men (based on his book Project Beta), and in the Travel Channel series Mysteries at the National Parks and the History Channel series Unidentified. He also served as guest and subject consultant for the TNN series The Conspiracy Zone with Kevin Nealon. For over two decades, he has lectured extensively at conferences, conventions and colleges and universities. Greg holds a private pilot license as well as an advanced certification in paragliding and is licensed by the FAA to fly drones for commercial clients.