Alice Grist is a practicing Intuitive Tarot Card Advisor, Reiki Master and the author of The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment.” Her intuitive skills and creativity sees her contributing to a number of online and glossy magazines. She is a freelance wirter who has contributed to Chic today, Kindred Spirit, Sharnanigans, and others. Alice Grist has been featured on BBC radio in Leicester, The Linnda Durre Show, the Betsy Belaga show, Demon FM, Passion for the Planet, and BBC Radio Manchester.

She lives happily with her musician husband, James, their two cats and two chickens and is partial to a spot of gardening, giggles with the girls and indulgent hot baths! Alice says, “The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment’ is a deeply personal book for me that charts my own life and my journey from a low point to spiritual happiness. But it is more than that too, it is informative beyond me and my life, it depicts some fascinating concepts from my perspective and, in a way, that allows modern folk to see it from their perspective too.” Tonight she joins us to discuss her new book: The High Heeled Guide to Enlightenment.

Elizabeth Eagan-Cox, a resident of California, is a former columnist for the Old California Gazette and she is also a former librarian. She loves digging up intriguing stories about history and incorporating such facts into her writing. She has authored A Ghost of a Chance, A Ghost From the Shadows, and A Ghost Meets and Angel. As an author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime: an industry professionals organization for women who write mysteries and crime fiction. Tonight she will join us to talk about her writing. She will also speak about free website resources to help anyone discover genealogical information to conduct paranormal historical investigations. The information she will share will show you how to find out when and where a real person died, information on the modern-day equivalent to old diseases to determine the cause of someone’s death, ways of determining what a person’s former occupation really was, old real estate information and more.

Rachel Brooks Posadas is a freelance writer and author of Chicago Ghosts and Ghosts of Springfield and Southern Illinois. Prior to writing full-time, Rachel previously worked in the Criminal Justice field for several years, first providing case management to Federal Bureau of Prisons’ inmates and then providing pre-release planning services to mentally ill inmates in California’s state correctional system. She has also worked in the field of education teaching Criminal Justice and Sociology courses as an adjunct professor at Chapman University, San Diego, as well as teaching at-risk youth in an alternative education program in Illinois. Rachel earned a Master's degree in Criminal Justice Sciences from Illinois State University in 1997 and a Bachelor's degree in both Psychology and English from Augustana College in 1995.

Ron and Lori Coffey are certified paranormal investigators and the founders of the Gateway Paranormal Society, in Mount Sterling Kentucky. They are also Paranormal Researchers and Investigators of Rowan, in Salisbury North Carolina. Ron is a well known Cryptozoologist, in his home state of Kentucky and he is considered the foremost authority on Bigfoot and Werewolves in the state. Ron Coffey is the author of KENTUCKY CRYPTIDS: The Search for Kentucky’s Hidden Animals and co-author of GATEWAY GHOSTS AND LOCAL LEGENDS: a book he wrote with his wife Lori Coffey. Lori has done extensive research into animal spirits and is the author of ANIMAL GHOSTS. Both Ron and Lori Coffey have been featured in several area newspapers and they have conducted several radio interviews with KAPS Paranormal, and Beyond Ghosts. Ron was a guest speaker at Scarefest 2009, and the couple will be guest speakers at the following shows: the Ohio Paranormal Convention 2010, the Haunted Horrors Convention 2010, and Scarefest 2011. Tonight, they join us to discuss their writing and their experiences.

Marcy Italiano is a native of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada now residing in Waterloo. She is the mother of twin boys. She is also the founder and owner of Web Lizard, a web design company. Marcy is the author of Katrina and the Frenchman: A Journal from the Street; the Pain Machine,, and the short stories, “They All Shrugged,” “I Bought,” “Beneath the 3,” “Cat Got Your Tongue, Devil Got Your Feet,” “Rigged,” and “Witch’s Gift,” along with several poems and works of non-fiction. Tonight she will join us to discuss Spirits and Death in Niagara, published by Schiffer Books.

E. A. Koetting is the author of several books on the occult and practical spirituality. His books have sold in record numbers internationally and he has been featured on the X Zone Radio show, the Truth Frequency Radio show, and the Mystic Journey Radio show among others. Tonight, E.A. Koetting joins us to discuss the possibility of transdimensional travel and his new book: Questing After Visions: Making Conscious Contact. The book focuses on that one particular subject: the ability of an individual to cause transdimensional shifts which would allow him or her to see through the veil between the worlds, or sometimes to step entirely through that veil. The magnificient value of the thing, however, is that anyone and everyone is capable of beholding visions, gaining revelation, and travelling beyond the world of flesh and substance into realms of pure spirit, and further!

The folklore of Massachusetts, contains fascinating legends and untold stories of the supernatural. Some of these stories descended from the original settlers; many came from the time of the American Revolution; others came from those who lived the following centuries. Author and ghost story writer, Ashley Rooney, will tell us some ghost stories and legends to help us celebrate Halloween/Samhain. Before she turned full time to writing, Rooney worked with youth in Lexington and Winchester. She is the author of books like New York Legends and Lore, Berkshire Ghosts, Legends, and Lore, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ghosts, Legends, & Lore.

Tom Baker is the author of Haunted Indianapolis and Other Indiana Ghost Stories with Jonathan Tichenal, as well as numerous other books. He has long been interested in the paranormal and the occult topics and folklore. He presently resides in Indiana. Tonight he will join us to discuss his book: Indiana Ghost Folklore. The latter book allows the reader to explore Indiana through stories about local legends and lore. Tom shares stories about werewolves, ghosts, monsters, and more.