America's Most Haunted

Loyd Auerbach, M.S., Director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations, is one of the world's leading experts on psychic experiences and ghosts, and has been investigating and researching the paranormal for over 30 years.
He has authored 8 books including ESP, HAUNTINGS AND POLTERGEISTS: A Parapsychologist's Handbook (Warner Books, 1986) and GHOST HUNTING: How to Investigate the Paranormal (Ronin, 2004).
Loyd co-authored THE GHOST DETECTIVE'S GUIDE TO HAUNTED SAN FRANCISCO with the late renowned psychic Annette Martin (Craven Street Books/Linden Publishing, 2011.)
He has a graduate degree in parapsychology and has been teaching courses on the subject since 1983. He is a professor at both Atlantic University and JFK University. He is on the board of directors of the Rhine Research Center and is the president of the Forever Family Foundation.
His media appearances on TV, radio, and print number in the thousands, including national programs such as Larry King Live, Ghost Adventures, Ghost Stories, Sightings, Unsolved Mysteries, and specials on A&E, History, Travel and Discovery Channels.
Loyd is a professional mentalist and psychic entertainer, performing as Professor Paranormal. He is also a public speaking and media skills coach.
As of 2010, he is also a professional chocolatier, producing and selling his chocolate under the business name Haunted By Chocolate , with a book on the subject coming in 2013.
He has inspired many to study the field of hauntings and parapsychology. It is a great honor to welcome Loyd Auerbach to the show!

Zach McCormick and Adam Bonnett view the paranormal from very different perspectives, literally.
Zach's interest in the paranormal began at an early age. As a child, he reveled in hearing stories that made him sleep with his bedroom light on. His interest in the paranormal took hold in his twenties when he began tracking down local urban legends, taking photographs along the way. A few decent pictures later and his photography career began as well.
After a few years of legend tripping, he stumbled upon the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. He soon found himself working at TALA and immersed in the paranormal. Zach branched out, picking up gigs at Pennhurst State School and numerous residential investigations. He combined his passion for photography with his love of the paranormal.. A creative person by nature, Zach is also an accomplished musician.
Adam Bonnett is a man unlike any other in the paranormal field. Despite being wheelchair bound, Adam has never let his condition hinder him. Adam started working at TALA four years ago, first in the Halloween haunted attraction and later on the ghost hunts. Now an assistant manager, he is as famous at TALA as its resident ghosts! Throughout the years he has experienced a bounty of paranormal phenomenon.
Adam's nickname (and his alter-ego) is Glider. Glider, a wheelchair bound ghost, is a character he created and copyrighted to represent him and others who may be in a similar situation, bringing awareness and spreading the message that "if you set your mind to it; there are no limits."

Karen Rontowski and Sonya King bring comedy and paranormal insight to audiences through television, film, radio, print media and live performances.
Sonya is an animal communicator and a Reiki master; Karen provides tarot card readings, is also a Reiki master, and sets up and guides ghost hunting events.
Karen's upbeat, optimistic and clean sense of humor has earned her headlining spots all over the world. She has also opened for such show biz legends as Bob Hope, Ray Charles and the Monkees. Often described as a "New Age Hippie" Rontowski says "there is no time like the present to be living in the past."
Karen has over 20 years of experience as a reader in the art of the tarot, and is an expert in tarot history, archetypes and symbolism.  More than just making predictions, the cards have many spiritual lessons that can help people navigate through life’s problems.
Animals are wise, and when we listen to what they have to say, we learn how to live differently.  They communicate using images, emotions, and feelings, and Sonya connects with an animal and puts words to those expressions in a way that’s easily understood.
Sonya has done voice over work, written for radio, and even has her own weekly radio segment for Cumulus Media.  Sonya won the Carnival Cruise Competition which led to a great deal of work for various cruise lines.  She can be seen in the independent film Two Days Back, and appeared on Good Morning America on ABC, but really stirred things up with her appearance on ABC’s The View with Barbara Walters and Joy Behar.  That led to an appearance with Joy at famed Caroline’s Comedy Club in New York City.

Gloria Loring's Coincidence is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous: Reflections on Daytime Dramas and Divine Intervention, is a celebrity autobiography detailing a series of extraordinary coincidences that transformed her life.
Although coincidence appears to come out of the blue, Gloria Loring knows that it’s possible to experience divine intervention in our everyday lives. Combining scientific observation, spiritual wisdom, and what Loring calls “EBL,” evidence-based living, this memoir offers a prescriptive in-depth look at the spiritual dimension of coincidence: where it comes from, how we attract it, and how we use it for the betterment of ourselves and those we love.
In addition to insight and revelation, Coincidence has the unique feature of its own original soundtrack co-written by Loring. Each chapter begins with a song lyric written out of the experiences and principles presented therein. The songs are featured on her CD Turn the Page.
Gloria Loring is the recording artist of the #1 hit “Friends and Lovers”; co-composer and singer of TV theme song Facts of Life; a Days of Our Lives audience favorite as “Liz Chandler”; author of six books benefitting people living with diabetes; and mother of R&B singing sensation and Duets superstar Robin Thicke.
We continue the spiritual journey begun in our earlier talk with Gloria.

Reporter Brian Bethel's harrowing encounter with Black Eyed Kids in a movie theater parking lot brought the phenomenon to the Internet and global attention:
"Both boys stared at me with coal-black eyes. The sort of eyes one sees these days on aliens or bargain-basement vampires on late night television. Soulless orbs like two great swathes of starless night."
What WERE these things? Where did they come from? What was their intent?
Brian and his tale recently appeared on the BADLANDS episode of Destination America's MONSTERS AND MYSTERIES IN AMERICA.
Jason Offutt has written extensively about Black Eyed Kidsencounters:
"The children approach quietly, yet forcefully. They insist on coming inside your house to use the telephone or to get a drink of water. For some reason these children frighten you, and as your hand reaches up to open the door you see why. Their eyes are black. No iris, no whites, just an empty, soulless void."
His books include “Paranormal Missouri,” “What Lurks Beyond,” “Darkness Walks: Shadow People Among us,” “Haunted Missouri,” “On Being Dad;” the upcoming “Through a Corn-Swept Land” “The Dead Earth.” Jason’s work on the paranormal can be seen at from-the-shadows.blogspot.com, and mysteriousuniverse.org. He lives with his family in Northwest Missouri where he teaches college journalism, and keeps humanity safe from the forces of evil.

Syfy's DEEP SOUTH PARANORMAL (Wednesdays at 10pE) follows a bayou-based investigative team on a mission, taking on anything from swamp apparitions to haunted plantation houses and Southern voodoo legends. These larger-than-life characters become deadly serious when it comes to their investigations, which deal not only with the hazards of paranormal phenomenon, but with swampy natural dangers like gators, snakes, spiders, wild hogs, and mosquitos.
Jonathan Hodges was born and raised deep in the country outside of Huntsville, Alabama, where he currently resides on the same land his great grandparents first owned. Hodges is known as the "man with the plan" as he applies science and inventive tactics to the group's investigations. Jon graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a degree in business, and even though he has a white collar desk job by day, his real passion is the outdoors and everything paranormal.
By day, Benny Reed works as an electronics technician for a government contractor. Benny got into paranormal investigation after experiencing a number of strange ghost sightings and poltergeist occurrences while growing up in Elora, Tennessee.
Benny spent eight years in the U.S. Army National Guard and served two separate tours of duty. After his last deployment to Iraq, he joined Deep South Paranormal to get some answers about why spirits are still hanging around and if there is some way to help them move on.
Investigations this season include Alabama’s Bear Creek Swamp, the Old Cahawba ghost town, Florida’s Manntown Cemetery and the Mont Helena Plantation in the Mississippi Delta, to name just a few.

Aaron Goodwin joined the Ghost Adventures team as reluctant cameraman and equipment tech for ghost hunting sessions of historic Nevada mining towns that resulted in an award winning documentary, and eventurally the triumphant GHOST ADVENTURES series on Travel Channel, now in its sixth season (Fridays 9pE/P).
Early on, Aaron was the comic relief, the shambling EVERYMAN wearing his fear on his sleeve, paired with the steely spirit stalkers Zak Bagans and Nick Groff.
But we have seen Aaron transformed into a lean, mean ghost hunting soldier over the course of the show.
An Oregon native, Goodwin didn't believe in ghosts until he had a personal experience in the GHOST ADVENTURES documentary – forever changing him. Goodwin first fell in love with film in high school. He moved to Las Vegas when he turned 21, where he taught himself how to edit and operate a camera.
Aaron's only formal film education is from the times h sneaked into classes and film seminars at UNLV to gauge if his technique was correct.
Goodwin continued to work in production and gained experience as cameraman on numerous television and film productions over the past fifteen years. Filming is a passion for Goodwin, and he is always armed with a camera. It was in Las Vegas that Goodwin met Bagans and Groff.
In addition, his Aaron Goodwin Collections site offers artwork from and selected by Goodwin, as well as his Big Steppin clothing line, video, audio, and philosophy.

John Zaffis is THE eminent paranormal researcher and world-renowned demonologist, sought out by frightened families and clergymen alike for nearly four decades. Zaffis and his team of paranormal investigators recently returned for a third season of Syfy’s popular series Haunted Collector, Wednesdays at 9pE/P.
Zaffis has been consulted on countless hauntings around the globe, witnesed nearly 100 exorcisms, and has amassed thousands of possessed objects that reside in his Museum of the Paranormal  in Stratford, Conn. His work has also been documented in his book Shadows of the Dark.
On Haunted Collector, Zaffis and team, including his son Chris, daughter Aimee, and noted investigator Brian Cano, travel across America helping people terrorized by items containing paranormal spirits or energy.
When they encounter a ghostly problem, Zaffis and company work with the owner of the object to find the best solution, either returning the item, burying it on site, or bringing it to the museum, where objects are specially stored to keep their powers at bay.
Zaffis spent his first years studying under his uncle and aunt, renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. which led into his involvement with cases of spirit possession and exorcism and working with prominent exorcists. He has studied the work of Roman Catholic priests, monks, Buddhists, rabbis, and Protestant ministers.

Where do urban legends, conspiracy theories, and old wives’ tales originate, and are any of them true? Have you heard the one about Walt Disney's frozen body? Does Coca-Cola own Santa Claus? Do alligators live in NYC sewers?
More than just a collection of folklore, PHANTOM HITCHHIKERS & OTHER URBAN LEGENDS is also a detective story, exploring the real events behind modern myths, proving that truth is often stranger than fiction.
English writer and historian Albert Jack became a publishing phenomenon in 2004 when his first book Red Herrings and White Elephants, which explored the origins of well-known phrases in the English language, became a huge international best-seller, staying in the top ten of the UK Sunday Times best-seller list for sixteen months.
His follow up book Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep was also a best seller and has sold over 150,000 copies since publication in October 2005. It became Penguin Book's Christmas best-seller - he has now published 12 books in the U.S.
Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world's great stories, Jack has become an expert in explaining the unexplained. The success of his books has a lot to do with Albert's invention of what he calls the "ten minute read," enabling readers to open his books at any point and be fully entertained for ten minutes at a time before "going off to do something more productive with their time."
Currently hosting a series of Writer's Workshops in England and South Africa, Albert has plans for another ten hard backs that look set to continue his success for many years to come.

Psychic-Medium Sloan Bella's many TV appearances include the NBC show The Other Side showcasing her work with missing and exploited children, America's Psychic Challenge, Montel Williams, Rockstrology, Entertainment Tonight, and Inside Edition regarding her communication with the late Anna Nicole Smith.
As a playful adopted 4-year old in her hometown of Toronto, Sloan learned to articulate nightly visits by otherworldly beings and the spirits of people who had crossed over. Rebellious and restless, she ran away from home at 14 and ended up homeless, an incredibly painful and life-changing experience that led to an understanding of how the soul can become confused and experience repetitive patterns until we release the energy connected to them.
By age 17, Sloan was a professional Intuitive-Medium, reading for everyone from Iggy Pop, Gregory Hines, Don Adams, Congressmen and athletes, to street kids and and strippers. Her mediumship abilities kicked into high gear during otherside communication with the late Jimi Hendrix!
At 20, Sloan headed from Canada to Hollywood and began working on the streets as a sort of “psychic street angel” to runaways and homeless kids. She was hired in a one-of-a-kind shelter program, communicating “purpose guidance” to these endangered children.
“On earth our vibrational rate is physical, spiritual and emotional," she explains, "which have slowed down to accompany the human form we have taken. This is the beauty of being human: we are dense, textured, and sensual. As the soul leaves the body during the transition called 'death,' the vibrational rate increases tremendously to accommodate this new experience."