Special Guests and Speakers for the 2025 Whitehill Paranormal Expo
Katrina Weidman from Portals to Hell, Paranormal Lockdown and Paranormal State
From Her Full Bio Here: “I transferred to Penn State, and during my studies, my passion for the paranormal grew even more. As luck would have it, there was a paranormal club on campus, the world-renown Paranormal Research Society (PRS). I trained with them and later worked as their case manager, interviewing thousands of eyewitnesses to the unknown. This led to the opportunity to co-host A&E’s hit doc-series “Paranormal State” (2007-2011), which chronicled the work of PRS.
After “Paranormal State” I became the host for Chiller’s “Real Fear: The Truth Behind the Movies” and “Real Fear: The Truth Behind More Movies”, which explores the real-life terror behind some of the world’s most iconic horror films.
I took my curiosity further on the series “Paranormal Lockdown” with my co-host, Nick Groff. In an effort to learn more about the unknown, we spent 72 hours confined to dark, haunted locations.
Currently, I can be found with my friend and fellow co-host, Jack Osbourne, on “Portals To Hell”. Jack and I teamed up to investigate the world’s most sinister haunted locations and you can catch us now on Discovery+.”
Heather Taddy from Paranormal State, Alien Highway and Mysteries Decoded
Paranormal Researcher and Investigator Heather Taddy is known for her work as Team Documentarian on A&E’s hit television series Paranormal State, which is based on real-life investigations from the world-renowned Penn State Paranormal Research Society (PRS). While studying Film and French at Penn State University, Taddy trained as a Field Investigator for PRS while also traveling the country helping families living in haunted houses. She’s known for isolating herself in the most active locations during investigations, all the while documenting her experiences. Intrigued by the Spiritualism Movement and the thrill of the unknown, she spent her early teens playing Ouija Boards and investigating haunted and abandoned locations in PA. Taddy has worked alongside the legendary Lorraine Warren and was inspired to join PRS after attending one of her lectures. By working with clients in a diverse variety of cases, Taddy has gained extensive knowledge of all things paranormal.
Due to her background in all aspects of unexplainable phenomena, Taddy starred on Travel Channel’s Alien Highway, based on of a New York Times best-selling book The 37th Parallel, beside acclaimed UFO researcher Chuck Zukowski. Together they successfully pursued UFO cases which authorities ignored and obtained definitive proof along America’s alien highway.
Taddy has guest-starred on Travel Channel’s Portals to Hell with Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman and currently guest-stars on the CW’s Mysteries Decoded with Jennifer Marshall. Currently, she produces and films a YouTube series with Weidman called Travel the Dead. She is also featured in an upcoming docuseries by Chad Calek called A House in theHarbinger Kingdom. When she isn’t exploring or researching historically haunted locations and looking to the skies for the unknown, Taddy is a musician, roller-skater, lover of vintage clothing, costume design, photography and horror films.
April Busset
April Busset, The Psychic Housewife of New Jersey, is a renowned Celebrity Psychic Medium and a natural-born clairvoyant. She is the visionary creator, founder, and CEO of Ghosted Magazine, a remarkable success that inspires and captivates the world of the paranormal. Her work has been featured on the Travel Channel’s “The Holzer Files” in the Lambert Castle episode and Haunted Hotels. April has collaborated with well-known TV paranormal celebrities to investigate the most notoriously haunted locations. April’s unique abilities to connect with spirits have been instrumental in resolving intense hauntings and possessions throughout the United States, providing comfort and closure to her clients. She has also named a killer live on her show “Cocktails & Readings With April, The Psychic Housewife of New Jersey”. April’s journey into the world of spirits began at the age of four when her deceased father visited her two years after his passing. Her remarkable accuracy in relaying messages from spirits in the most haunted locations in the United States is a testament to her unique connection with the spirit world. April is on an exhilarating journey across the United States, captivating thousands with her uplifting gallery readings as they seek to reconnect with loved ones from the other side. She is currently filming a new show that will soon air on a major network. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting project. April currently does private readings for thousands of clients worldwide. She resides in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. To learn more about her, visit her website at IntuitiveApril.com.
Dave Juliano
For over 39 years, Dave has been investigating haunted locations, consulting on cases and helping people. He was the center of a haunting in his childhood home and spent those years terrified of what was occurring there. With the help of people experienced with the paranormal, he was able to better understand what he had lived through. As a result, he began to focus on helping and educating others who were experiencing hauntings or spirit activity. In 1994, he founded the very first paranormal website: The Shadowlands, as a safe haven for people to share their experiences and to seek comfort and advice. Dave has trained thousands of people how to safely conduct paranormal investigations, investigated hundreds of places and has consulted on thousands of cases. Dave has been a Director of South Jersey Ghost Research and Sanctuary Paranormal for over 24 years. Now he focuses on helping people who report negative activity in their homes or businesses. He specializes in problematic, intense and demonic hauntings that include blessings, deliverances, and exorcisms. He is what is commonly referred to as a “demonologist” and is also a member of the clergy. He does consultations and offers assistance to independent researchers and paranormal groups concerning negative cases. dave-juliano.com
Mary Jo Chudley
Mary Jo Chudley is the co founder of Penn Paranormal, she has been into the supernatural since she was a child, living across the street from a cemetery. She would have a lot of paranormal experiences. Then bought her first house in 1998. Little did she know the property her house was on, and the surrounding area was haunted, Mary spent most of her time as a young adult learning about the paranormal to help her community out that was having so many issues with the paranormal. She still does private homes / business cases. She loves to help people who want to learn more about the paranormal and how paranormal equipment works. Threw out the years she has collected extraordinary evidence and worked with the biggest paranormal investigators and the most haunted places in America. Mary jo was the headliner of the first ever paracon in Latin America in Costa Rica last October and will be returning again this October. She was featured on Travel Channel’s paranormal TV show “A Haunting “with haunted objects she obtained. She was on destination Fear, Paranormal Caught on Camera, America’s most terrifying, and haunted hospitals. All from her evidence she has captured in the paranormal. She will also be on a new tv show repossessed about her haunted objects. Mary jo has more than 20 confirmed haunted objects inside her house. She obtained these objects from cases, and keeps the extreme ones locked up and blessed. She has showcased some of her haunted objects worldwide. USA Today had a big article on her haunted objects. 6 of her haunted objects in the Pinebush UFO museum in New York. Mary Jo and her husband on their free time make customize rempods and paranormal equipment and learn as much as they can about the paranormal to keep helping families.
Medium Bianca Rose
Medium Bianca Rose is an evidential medium and channel. Growing up on Long Island is where her story begins, since the young age of five she learns quickly that she could communicate with the other side. Spirits would come to her and speak through her. Through automatic writing and her body, Medium Bianca Rose allows souls to step into her being and speak through her. Bridging the world of the living, the departed and everything in between, Bianca Rose has always had her feet planted between both worlds. Medium Bianca Rose assists families near, far and wide, connecting with people all over Long Island, the United States & internationally. Through evidential information, validations and the comfort and confirmation that we do indeed go on, Medium Bianca Rose validates that there is more than just what we see here in the living. Performing private house calls for families, house clearings, parties, venues, gallery readings, events and assisting both the living and the departed in the Paranormal field.
Vanessa Salazar
Hello, my name is Vanessa Salazar, and I am a Psychic Medium, Holistic Practitioner and Paranormal Investigator. I am a channel and I connect and communicate with the spirit world. As a channel, I connect with the energy of archangels, spirit guides, your higher self, saints, light beings, energies from sacred sites, people, animals, the deceased, objects, crystals, homes, land, situations, etc. during readings, energy bodywork, and paranormal investigations. I am also certified in numerous holistic therapies such as Usui Reiki, Kundalini Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, Jourei, and Metatronia Therapy.
My intention is for you to be more Soul Aligned and live a Fulfilled Life because you’re in agreement with your Soul’s Plan and Life Purpose.
My services are available to support you energetically on many levels; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in a space that is confidential and non-judgmental to promote healing, growth, balance, insight, peace, empowerment, and confidence that will lead to a more Soul Aligned life. psychicmediumvanessasalazar.com
Bobby Gallo
Bobby J. Gallo’s interest in the paranormal began when having strange dreams and premonitions at a very young age. As the years went on, he studied the paranormal by such luminaries as Hans Holtzer, and conducted his first investigations in 1989 well before the paranormal phenomenon at the historic Palace Theater in Netcong NJ with the Psy-Guys. A landmark investigation recently featured in Weird NJ Magazine.
Decades later his family joined him in his supernatural pursuits. His wife Renee, and two daughters Nicky G. and Courtnee formed Gallo Family Ghost Hunters and produced the original paranormal web-series which gained world-wide acclaim as they investigated some of the most haunted locations in America.
After relentless fan requests, Bobby authored “Family Spirits” The Adventures and Evidence of Gallo Family Ghost Hunters which hit #3 on Amazon in the adventure/travel category. Followed by Family Spirits II, an exclusive Barnes and Noble release.
Bobby has appeared on numerous television programs as a professional magician, and is a Featured Researcher for American Paranormal Magazine. He’s currently working on a textbook for magicians, an audio book version of Family Spirits, and tours the country with his family, signing books at paracons and meeting fans of Gallo Family Ghost Hunters.
Rob Stachowicz
Rob Stachowicz has been interested in and exploring the paranormal for 15 years. His interest was solidified in 2008 after he experienced some odd occurrences in his home after the loss of a loved one.
Rob has travelled the country investigating some of the most haunted locations in America. From the Queen Mary to the “Conjuring House”, he has hundreds of investigations under his belt.
Rob is the founder of Get Haunted, a paranormal events and services company where their mission is to lift everyone in the paranormal community, give them a voice, and to give back to those that choose to explore the paranormal. From the novice to the most seasoned investigators, and to locations owners. Get Haunted’s services and events are designed to give back to the community. Rob, along with his business partner, Sara V. from PARANORMALLY blonde, are working tirelessly to bring the best events and services out there to the paranormal community.
Nikki Steward
Nikki Steward is New Jersey’s Premier Evidential Psychic Medium and Owner of Within Spirit. A lifelong Jersey Girl, she began having premonitions and contact with spirits as a child. In 2003, she became a paranormal investigator and utilized her experiences in that field to begin her journey of fully understanding and accepting her intuitive gifts. In addition to her psychic/medium skills, Nikki is a certified Reiki Master and educator, Oracle Card Reader, Past Life Reader, Sound and Crystal Healer and Chakra Therapist. Nikki has connected with spirit through hundreds of readings and mediumship sessions; both in private individual readings as well as group galleries. Nikki strives to provide evidential readings to help her clients make meaningful connections with loved ones, receive guidance that empowers them and create an overall sense of positive wellbeing. She teaches seminars on all of the aforementioned subjects and guest speaks across the U.S. Nikki has also appeared as a guest on The Ghosts of Somerville Series, the History Channel’s Weird US and on the television show Ghost Detectives.
Lauren Hellekson
Lauren has been traversing the realms of spirituality for over 15 years. An endeavor that has taken her to places all over the world including Israel, Ireland, Spain, and India. Her technical interests in how things work in the physical world, on the other hand, developed at a very young age; from dismantling old IMB computers with her dad, to rebuilding the carburetor in her first motorcycle, to improving the equipment we use in the paranormal field, she is always observing and creating in some capacity.
Also, a published author and speaker, Lauren has held educational workshops and lectures on witchcraft, meditation, metaphysical exploration, and more recently, improving understanding and applications of equipment in the paranormal through informative presentations and equipment build workshops. She sells her modernized Victorian occult inspired equipment that uses theoretical methods of energy documentation related to the electromagnetic spectrum and static electricity, often used in paranormal investigation in person at vendor shows throughout the east coast and Midwest United States. Her wears also including the Crystal Pod, in which the amethyst version sells worldwide on the Dave Juliano’s GhostHunter Store.
Greg O’Brien
Greg has been involved with the paranormal for over 25 years prior to becoming the paranormal host of Fort Mifflin for the last 6 years, involved with paranormal and resolution groups. He has appeared on Travel Channels Portals to Hell with Katrina Weidman and Jack Osbourne, worked with Katrina Weidman and Heather Taddy on Travel the Dead YouTube series, was a guest of Amy Bruni on her Haunted Road podcast, and appeared on multiple YouTube videos and podcasts.
Shannon Collins
The Queen of Darkness: A Dream Within A Scream, is an automatic writer, medium, poet, author, and gothic model. She is also a paranormal investigator with the Long Island Paranormal Investigators. Her work bridges the worlds of the living and the dead, blending haunting verse and gothic beauty with a fearless spirit of exploration into the unknown. Through her eyes, she sees the beauty in death, finding solace and fascination in the mysteries that lie beyond the veil of mortality.
Laurissa Rex
Laurissa Rex is the CEO of Third Eye Event Productions, LLC, The Haunted Mafia, LLC and the founder at PARA, Palmerton Area Research Alliance. She is a Retired US Army Signal Corps Officer . Laurissa enlisted in 1998 and served as a Civil Affairs Specialist under the Special Operations Command of the US Army until she received her commission at the University of West Florida in 2004 at which time she transitioned into the Signal Corps as an Officer. Laurissa has a Masters in Business Administration as well as a B.A. in Public Relations, Philosophy and the German Language. She served as a German Linguist from 2000 to 2003. Laurissa is married to Allen Rex Jr., her co-founder at PARA. They have 4 children together; Austin (19), Samara (18), Michael (14) and Maryssa (7).
Laurissa is a natural born psychic medium with all 5 “clares.” She is adept at automatic writing, remote viewing and psychometry. In 2012, while serving at Fort Gordon, Laurissa answered an online advertisement seeking investigators for a paranormal investigation team based in Augusta, Georgia. She was selected as a team member but only investigated a handful of times before quitting the team due to the untimely death of her younger brother in December of 2012. Although initially the shock of her brother’s death turned her away from the paranormal field, something profound that was said to her at the time of his burial always stuck with her; her child repeated to her that someone had relayed that her brother had simply returned to dirt and there was nothing more beyond death. This revelation really hit her to the core and Laurissa sought to show not only her children that the world did not cease in the physical realm but also others. It became apparent that a lack of faith in a higher power could give no incentive for others to live life positively or with faith and that was a lonely and dark way for anyone to live. Therefore, in June of 2020, during the Covid epidemic, Laurissa and her husband, Allen, began investigating around their tiny town of Palmerton, Pennsylvania. Armed with a K2 and EVP recorder, her new paranormal journey began in cemeteries around Carbon County. After a few months the two sought out other like-minded, local friends and created the team High Spirits of Palmerton Paranormal. HSPP was founded on August 14, 2020 with a community focus on home investigations. Laurissa rebranded her flagship team HSPP, High Spirits of Palmerton Paranormal, in 2022 to PARA.
Tony DiGerolamo
Tony DiGerolamo is a New Jersey screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, game designer and comedian. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books. He has also been a joke writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, a scriptwriter for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and a blogger for Comedy Central’s Indecision website. He has written the screenplays including Mafioso: The Father, The Son starring Leo Rossi. His novels, Fix in Overtime and The Undercover Dragon are available through Padwolf Publishing. After publishing his own comic books (Jersey Devil, The Travelers and The Fix) with SJRP, he eventually got a publishing deal with Kenzer & Company. Kenzer published The Travelers. Tony also wrote Everknights (another Kenzer comic book), as well as the Hacklopedia of Beasts (Volumes 1 thru 8) and Slaughterhouse Indigo (an adventure for the Hackmaster RPG). He also adapted Mark Twain’s Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc for Campfire. Performing in the Philly comedy scene for over ten years, Tony performed and directed such improv groups as Next Line Improv, The Cabal, The Ninjas and Bulletproof Giraffe.
Besides writing for various comedy websites, he had a long running comics review column in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. He was the marketing director for comics publisher, Silent Devil. He is creator of Tony DiGerolamo’s Complete Mafia for d20, creator/biographer for the online webcomic, Super Frat at http://www.superfrat.com, the co-creator of the Webcomic Factory http://www.webcomicfactory.com
Morgan Fezza
The Ghoulfriend Hour
Sara Jane Villani
Barry Ruggiero
Barry is the founder of New Jersey Paranormal Investigations. Formally cofounder of New Jersey Paranormal and the first two per unit expose He has appeared twice in the Asbury Park Press and the New Jersey Store Ledger as a paranormal investigator. TV appeared on my Philly 17 morning show, where he investigated Fort Mifflin. He has been in the field for 23 years. Dave Juliano mentored him shortly after his first paranormal experience in Gettysburg. “I still follow the same method that Dave taught me. My specialty now is how our feelings transcend into energy, but then we experienced them again in a haunting as feelings. I’ve been conducting various studies on this after my own personal experience with the passing of my mother. Leaving at the energy that never dies is pure emotion converted to its natural form, electromagnetic energy.”
Danielle Taverna
Danielle Taverna is a well-known psychic medium and astrologer who does groups, galleries, workshops, classes, parties and events all around the northeast. She is able to hear, see and feel Spirit. She loves sharing messages from the other side to provide hope, healing and inspiration. In addition to providing people with their astrological blueprint and forecast!
Ryan Dayton and Nick Hoffman
Paranormal Theory are content creators who can be found on YouTube and most recently Paraflixx. Ryan and Nick film in a vlog style that intends to make you feel like you are with them as they spend the night in the most haunted locations in the country. What’s your theory?
The Ghostbusters of New Jersey
