Special Guests and Speakers for the 2026 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.
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.
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.