Larry Flaxman has been actively involved in paranormal research and hands-on field investigation for over ten years, and melds his technical, scientific, and investigative backgrounds together for no-nonsense, scientifically objective explanations regarding a variety of anomalous phenomena. He is the President and Senior Researcher of ARPAST, the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team, which he founded in February of 2007. Under his leadership, ARPAST has become one of the nation's largest and most active paranormal research organizations, with over 150 members worldwide dedicated to conducting research into the paranormal using the most stringent scientific methodology. ARPAST is also now a proud member of the TAPS family (The Atlantic Paranormal Society). Larry supervises a staff of fully trained researchers and over $250,000 worth of top-of-the-line equipment. Widely respected for his expertise on the proper use of equipment and techniques for conducting a solid investigation, Larry also serves as technical advisor to several paranormal research groups throughout the country.

Larry has appeared in numerous print interviews, including features in local and regional newspapers, magazines and online publications such as The Anomalist, Times Herald News, Jacksonville Patriot, ParaWeb, Current Affairs Herald, Unexplained Magazine, The Petit Jean County Headlight and The Pine Bluff Commercial. He has been interviewed for several local and regional news television outlets such as "Ozarks First," as well as national cable television, most recently appearing in a two-part special on ARPAST for MudTruck TV, and he has been interviewed on dozens of radio programs, including "X-Zone," "Ghostly Talk," "Eerie Radio," "Crossroads Paranormal," "Binall of America," "Encounters Radio" and "Haunted Voices."

Larry has authored several published articles regarding science and the paranormal and is a regular columnist for The Paranormal Awareness Society Newsletter. Currently, he is the co-author (with Marie D. Jones) of the upcoming books "11:11 - The Time Prompt Phenomena: The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences and Synchronicities," and "The Resonance Key:Exploring the Links Between Vibration, Consciousness and the Zero Point Grid" for New Page Books. He is also co-creator of an organization called ParaExplorers.com, an organization that is devoted to the exploration of ancient and modern unknown mysteries, and isdeveloping a line of related books and products.

In addition, Larry is co-creator of the popular new ParaTracker software program for documenting data from paranormal investigations. His own ARPAST online research database system, SOCIUS, is considered one of the most comprehensive in the field. His enthusiasm for education and training in the paranormal field has also garnered many requests for special events and seminars, including popular charity investigations at haunted locations across the South, lectures on paranormal awareness for the Breckenridge Movie Theatre chain, and Teen Technology Night at the Nixon Library.

Larry also currently works in law enforcement/information technology. He is married and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

An internationally known polygrapher, Jack Trimarco, is one of the most respected polygraphers in the business. Mr. Trimarco is a forensic psycho-physiologist, and served as an F.B.I. Special Agent for 21 years. He earned his Bachelor’s in Science at Montana State University in Billings where he graduated with high honors, and from there, Jack attended Montana State University at Billings Graduate School. He also attended Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Alabama in 1990.

He has managed the F.B.I. Polygraph Unit in Los Angeles, has been an Inspector General for the United States Department of Energy Polygraph Program, and he has previously conducted polygraph tests in areas all over the globe. Mr. Trimarco served four years in the U.S. Air Force, seven years as a Yellowstone County Deputy Sheriff detective in Billings, Montana, and has done work involving psychological profiling in the past. He has worked with the author John Douglas on high profile cases. His area of expertise include F.B.I. Polygraph Examination, Hostage Negotiation, Psychological Profiling, Defense Tactics, Firearms, Interrogation, and Homicide Investigation. Jack has been involved with the investigations involving numerous high profile cases including the Unabomber, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the World Trade Center Bombing, and the Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, among others.

Mr. Trimarco is also the active member of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Trimarco is currently a Board Member of the California Association of Polygraph Examiners (CAPE) as well as the Chairman of the Ethics Committee. He founded a private practice in 1998, and has conducted more than 60 seminars/presentations on interviewing and interrogation and polygraph related matters throughout the United States.

Jack Trimarco is the former host of the show Fake Out™, a television production where contestants would try to trick opponents about their identity and what they know, while their competition attempted to use lie detection methods as well as instincts to figure out who was telling the truth and who was lying. In the final round of Fake Out™ the winner of the first three rounds faced off with Mr. Trimarco for a chance to win the prize of $20,000. Mr. Trimarco has appeared on television shows like Dr. Phil, The O’Reilley Factor, CNN.com Court TV, the CBS Morning Show, 20/20 ABC News, ABC Line of Fire, Entertainment Tonight, Fox News, Dateline NBC, and CBS Sunday Morning News. Finally, Jack Trimarco has had write-ups and interviews appear in publications like the US Weekly Magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News, and US Today.

Marie D. Jones, is a single mother to one son, Max, is a prolific author, and she currently lives in Northern San Diego County, California. She has written a number of books including 2013: End of Days or a New Beginning – Envisioning the World After the Events of 2012; PSIences – How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena; Looking For God in All The Wrong Places, and she co-authored Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event that Changed the Course of Human History, with her father, geophysicist Dr. John M. Savino. Her work and writing includes over 50 inspirational books for PIL/New Seasons, articles, essays, stories, ezines, newspapers, and anthologies, and she has written for five Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Marie D. Jones is a book reviewer for CurledUp.com, BookIdeas.com, and AbsoluteWrite.com, and she has produced a line of videos which have been nationally distributed, including an award-winning children’s storybook-style video.

Jones is a New Thought – Metaphysics minister, she has an intense background in metaphysics, spiritual studies, and the field of the paranormal, and she was a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network in Los Angeles and San Diego for 15 years. She has written for many paranormal magazines, and has retained an interest in science and the paranormal since she was a child. Jones is a Consultant to the Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team (ARPAST), and she has an extensive background in the entertainment field. Marie D. Jones has worked at Warner Bros. Records, UAA Films, Omega Entertainment, and a number of other film companies in L.A. She has written film reviews, as well as script coverage for a number of motion picture companies. Jones has also competed in the National Novel Writing Month Competition and won.

Marie serves as President of Progressive Democrats of San Diego, a chapter of Progressive Democrats of America; she is an alternate delegate for the California 74th state assembly district, and she was President of the Animal Welfare Coalition for five years. Marie has been a guest on hundreds of radio shows, and has been interview by myriad magazines, newspapers, and websites. Currently, Marie is working on two books with Larry Flaxman, President and Senior Researcher of ARPAST, for a partnership called ParaExplorers; the two forthcoming books are 11:11 – The Time Prompt Phenomenon – The Meaning Behind Mysterious Signs, Sequences, and Synchronicities, and “The Resonance Key: Exploring the Link Between Vibration, Consciousness, and the Zero Point Grid.”

Dana D. Eilers is a 1978 graduate of Smith College and a 1981 cum laude graduate of the New England School of Law, where she was published in the Law Review and served as one of its editors. She is a licensed attorney in the states of Illinois, Massachusetts, and Missouri . From 1982-1998, Dana practiced as a civil litigator with active trial firms in St. Louis, Missouri where the bulk of her practice was in the states of Illinois and Missouri. She is currently retired from the active practice of law and lives in Chatham, Massachusetts where she writes and consults on various matters, both material and ephemeral. She is the author of The Practical Pagan and Pagans and The Law: Understand Your Rights. Her legal commentary in the Pagan community is widely quoted and recently, her work has appeared in a collection of legal essays addressing religious rights. Other authors in the collection included United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Presently, she writes a column for Green Egg On Lifeentitled "Brief Bits: Legal Topics for Pagans."

Dana has been a practicing, eclectic Witch for over twenty years. She has lived out of the broom closet for most of those years. Her personal spiritual tradition is inspired by Egyptian, Mayan, and Western European sources. She writes, teaches, and speaks on the topics of Witchcraft, Magic, Ritual, and Paganism. Her written works have appeared in Green Egg, Pangaia, Sage Woman, Circle Sanctuary News, and Goodwitch StoriesMore of her work can be found on The Witches' Voice (witchvox.com). She is a member of AREN’s legal resource pool and of the OurFreedom list online where she serves as a resource and active voice for Pagan civil rights. She assisted the joint project of WyrdWeavers Collective, the Pagan Educational Network, and the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans in the creation of the online pamphlet: Pagan Leaders Denounce Religious Intolerance and Uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. She was a member of the Papal Apology Committee and aided in the drafting of the Petition to the Pope to include Witches and Pagans in the Vatican speech given in January, 2000. She was a member of the BOILERPLATE committee, which formulated the letters and forms found at the Boilerplate Web site. This site is for Pagans who wish to write coherent letters regarding their faith to newspapers, congressional leaders, etc.

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dana addressed the public there through radio, television, and print regarding Witchcraft and Paganism. She created and facilitated Conversations with Pagans, a forum where the Pagan curious, the Pagan friendly, and the Pagan folk discussed all topics of interest. Dana has presented this forum at many different events and in different places all over the country. For years, she has taught classes regarding Wicca, magick, and ritual. For many years, she served on the Ritual Committee for both the Pagan Picnic and Magickal Weekend. As such, she helped to create and perform public ritual for groups ranging in size from less than a dozen to approximately 250. She was a co-founder of The Occasional Coven in St. Louis.

In the St. Louis area, Dana worked to create a large, thriving and public Pagan community. She was a founding member of the Omnistic Fellowship, a religious fellowship with a particular focus on alternative spirituality and a founding member of the Council for Alternative Spiritual Traditions (CAST), which is an influential Pagan leadership council which, unfortunately, has been disbanded. She served for four years as the Chair of the Steering Committee for WildHaven, a four-day Pagan Festival celebrating the Autumnal Equinox and was one of the founders of WildHaven. She has worked and practiced both in coven and as a Solitary.

In Massachusetts, she has appeared on several radio programs on WOMR Outermost Radio in Provincetown, and she has been featured in articles in The Cape Cod Chronicle and The Cape Cod Times. She was a regular panelist on the radio program Radio Omnibus’ "Cabin in the Pines Roundtable of the Air," hosted by Christopher Hawley, and airing on WOMR Outermost Radio, FM 92.1, in Provincetown, Massachusetts for several years. Her other radio appearances have also included an interview with Duke Skorich on the Duke Skorich show, NPR, 91.3 FM; 102.9 FM, web site at KUWS.FM; and several podcasts for Lance and Graal. In October of 2000, she presented and facilitated a public ritual for Womens’ Week in Provincetown, Massachusetts and gave a seminar in Goddess-centered spirituality. She has presented The Ritual of Wands as a healing ritual on several occasions for the Cape Cod Pagan community and continues to facilitate Conversations with Pagans in her community upon request. Although she worked with various Circles and Covens for years, she currently, she works as a Solitary. She continues to create and to perform public rituals.

John Quinn, otherwise known as the Ghostman of McDonough, Georgia, or the Ghostman of Henry County, has been a student of the paranormal since 1965, and started his own paranormal research group in 1979. John eventually moved to McDonough where he met up with Roy Swann after joining the Clayton-Henry County Historical Society at the Brown House in McDonough. After researching several areas of interest, John Quinn created the McDonough Ghost Hunter’s Society. The group has since undergone a name change and is now called the Georgia Historical Paranormal Society.

Shortly after moving to McDonough, John and his wife Holly began to notice supernatural and unexplained events. Deciding to keep an active journal of his experiences, John has documented numerous, unexplained and disturbing events. John and his wife have experienced everything from physical attacks to levitations, and John also reports having witnessed strange lights, and fleeting shadows. He and his wife report having heard the sound of voices from unexplained origins while living in their Georgia home as well. According to John’s research, his home is currently situated on a former cemetery; in fact John asserts that he has found evidence indicating precisely who is buried in his front yard.

John has previously appeared on Alabama ParaSpiritual Radio, the X-Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell, and Night Search Radio with Eddie Middleton. Stories about John Quinn and his wife Holly’s experiences have appeared in the book Weird Georgia and his story is set to appear in another book Weird Encounters sometime next year. John is the recent recipient of the Volunteer Of The Year Award From McDonough, Georgia’s Tourism Bureau which was earned for outstanding service and dedication.

Rena Reese is a professional speaker, a trained counselor, (Johns Hopkins University), and a Life Coach (Coaches Training Institute). Reese has been named the 2004 Energy, Athletics, Strength (EAS) Body-for-Life Grand Champion. After meeting many people, Rena had come to believe that everyone is looking for the same things and have very similar life desires, which inspired her to write The Soul Salon. Reese firmly believes that everyone is seeking happiness, fulfillment, and the ability to contribute something worthwhile in this lifetime to society and the world. Reese also asserts that people share similar challenges when we are attempting to achieve our goals, and she authored The Soul Salon so that people can rely on the text as a resource that can be used to implement change through soul awareness.

Rena Reese is the author of a number of inspirational texts and CDs including The Soul Salon: A Tiara for the Soul, The Soul Salon Companion Journal: For Use with the Soul Journal, The Little Book of Pink: Affirmations for Healing and High Vibrations!, Streaking for the Soul, and Journey Like A Shaman! Meditation Journal: A place to record and gain meaning from your Shamanic Journeys. Finally, she is the Host of her very own radio show,the Soul Salon radio show, on blogtalkradio.com which airs every Tuesday afternoon.