AMERICAN HAUNTINGS’ DEAD OF WINTER 2024

SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS FOR THIS YEAR’S EVENT

TROY TAYLOR | CODY BECK AND THE AMERICAN HAUNTINGS PODCAST
In addition to serving as host for this year’s event, Troy and his podcast partner, Cody Beck, will be recording their annual LIVE show for Dead of Winter. Be sure to have your questions ready for this year’s show, and stay tuned for the topic for 2024’s special topic, which will be outside the topic for Season 8 of the show.

TOBIAS WAYLAND | SINGULAR FORTEAN SOCIETY
Tobias Wayland is a passionate Fortean who has been actively investigating the unusual for over a decade. The first several years of his investigative career were spent as a MUFON field investigator, and following that, he investigated independently prior to becoming the head writer and editor for The Singular Fortean Society. Tobias is a frequent guest on various podcasts and radio shows, has contributed to several books and periodicals on the paranormal, and is often invited to speak at paranormal conferences and events.

He was featured in the series premiere of Expedition X, and the Small Town Monsters documentaries Terror in the Skies and On the Trail of the Lake Michigan Mothman for his work investigating Mothman sightings around Lake Michigan. He and his wife, Emily, have been involved with the Lake Michigan Mothman investigation since its advent in the spring of 2017, and published a book chronicling the experience, The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest. His second book about unusual phenomena, Strange Tales of the Impossible, continues their work in investigating a variety of seemingly impossible events.

His years as an investigator have served him best by illustrating that when it comes to the anomalous, the preternatural, and the paranormal, any answers he's found are still hopelessly outnumbered by questions.

SYLVIA SHULTS
Sylvia Shults has been a paranormal investigator for several years and a fan of the supernatural all her life. She has worked as a librarian for the past twenty years, slowly smuggling out enough words in her pockets day by day to build a book of her own. She sits in dark, spooky places, so you don't have to. She lives in Illinois with her husband, a certifiably insane Huskey, and far too many books.

NICOLE TITO
Nicole Tito is a paranormal investigator, author, and creator of Ghostly-Voices.com website. She holds a DPT from Northwestern University and an MBA from Missouri State University. Nicole grew up on the Southside of Chicago, surrounded by many infamous ghost tales. Nicole resides in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two children.

THE THREE APPALACHIAN WITCHES
Ashley Conner, Misty Conner, and Pat Bussard O’Keefe are descendants of the mystics of the mountains, Appalachian granny women, also known as granny witches. Each is a talented psychic, medium, and Reiki Master/natural healer. This popular witchy trio are authors, and their latest books are: Three Appalachian Witches: Moon Magick, Mirror Magick, and the Witches Ladder, Appalachian Granny Witch Magick, and Appalachian Conjuring. They also host a bi-monthly podcast, Appalachian Cauldron, answering with insight and humor, magickal and personal questions posed by their audience. These busy conjurers were featured in the documentary Season of the Witch, which can be found on many streaming services. Pat, Ashley and Misty are currently working on their own documentary about Appalachian granny women titled, There’s Magick in Them Mountains. The film is set to premiere in the fall of 2025. These Three Appalachian Witches have traveled the country conducting seances, gallery readings, energy healing sessions, classes, and workshops on a plethora of spiritual and paranormal topics.