Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson

From a young age, Ryan and Evan Lawson followed their father’s footsteps in investigating the paranormal.

Ryan’s Interest peaked at age 11 with a significant experience while visiting the Lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. This led to the creation of the Florida Bureau of Paranormal Investigation. As Ryan’s interest in the field grew, he became one of the more skeptical voices of the FBPI, ensuring that evidence was always critically examined. Now 21 years old and in college, he continues to be an integral part of the organization.

Evan became part of the Organization when he reached 11 years and his free spirit and open-minded view of the world allowed him to always be able to think outside of the box. It was in his early years as a member of the FBPI he began to discover his ability to see and experience things about the paranormal that others could not. Now at age 19 Evan continues to hone his abilities and provides an important insight during investigations.

Together with their father, Larry Lawson, they form part of one of the most active teams in the State of Florida, the Florida Bureau of Paranormal Investigation.

Ike Ensey is the founder of IDKPARANORMAL.

A career law enforcement officer who began his career working in corrections. while in corrections, he attained the rank of Lieutenant and became the Special Operations Team Commander for a 1000 bed facility.

He later joined the Sheriff’s Department located where he lives and became a road patrol deputy later being promoted to Sergeant. After some years, Ike accepted a position with the 7th Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office of New Mexico as a Senior Investigator where he spent approximately 6 years. He then accepted a position as Lieutenant with Moriarty, New Mexico Police Department where he later was promoted to Captain and is currently the Chief of Police for the City. Ike will be retiring in December 2019 with 26 years of service.

During his time, he has witnessed many unusual events. As a child he lived in a haunted 200-year-old farmhouse in Bavaria, German and that helped fuel his interest in the paranormal. This interest continued as he lived in a haunted house in New Mexico and having strange experiences as a logger working in the mountains of the southwest.

As a Deputy Sheriff, he has twice taken calls regarding animal mutilations and was ordered by higher authorities to not conduct further investigations into these calls, which he did anyway. During his career as a law enforcement officer, Ike has responded to calls, regarding UFO’s, Tree People, disembodied voices at death scenes, satanic, pagan and occult rituals and reports of haunted places.

McKenna’s passion for the past has taken her to various locations throughout the United States with historical significance. From a very young age, she walked battlefields with her father trying to connect with those who came before them. This inspired Mckenna to study for a degree in History. She soon learned that items and places can hold tremendous energy and the history she loves so much can truly come alive. She experienced her first haunting at the age of 12 and made it her goal to not only preserve a bygone era but communicate with it. She joined the paranormal group ORBS in 2017 and have been active with investigations, cleansings and blessings as well as group lectures.

Mark Muncy is the creator of Hellview Cemetery, a charity haunted house in central Florida that was so infamous it was banned by the City of St. Petersburg. An author of horror and science fiction, he has spent over three decades collecting ghostly tales and reports of legendary beasts. “Eerie Florida” is his first work for The History Press. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, on the remains of an ancient Indian midden with his fiancée and illustrator, Kari Schultz. Occasionally, he is visited by his daughters when they remember he is still there.

Eric Vanderlaan was born on the Island of Oahu Hawaii and has lived in South Florida since the age of 8 years old. Eric has been investigating the paranormal for the past 8 years. He has always been interested in the paranormal and South Florida history. It started on a ghost tour when he caught odd anomalies that he could not explain. He continue to investigate on his own until he joined a PRISM Paranormal 5 years ago. During his 5 years, Eric has learned from some of the best paranormal investigators in the business. He has experience in finding haunted locations and help operating ghosthunting events.

Donald Molnar MD is an internal medicine physician by day and a paranormal investigator by night. Don is the founder of the Haunted M.D. project which allows him to combine his passion of ghost investigating with being a practicing physician. Since 2001 Don has been out of training working as a doctor for various health systems including, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio and the University of Virginia Health system in Charlottesville. He was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio before doing his undergraduate and medical training in the Akron, Ohio area. He worked in Wooster, Ohio after finishing training and moved to Charlottesville in 2009.

Greg is co-founder along with his wife Kathy and a lead investigator of the paranormal team Tri-C Ghost Hunters based in Ohio. He was a Twinsburg, Ohio police officer for 29 years retiring in 2011. He has been studying and investigating the paranormal since 1991 and has conducted over 250 investigations throughout the United States, Canada and Scotland. Some of his investigations and travels have taken him to some of the most haunted places in the world, including the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, the Crescent Hotel in Arkansas, Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Kentucky, and the Edinburgh Vaults in Scotland just to name a few. Greg published his first book, “Insights into the Unknown: A Ghost Hunter’s Journey” in 2015 and has written chapters for “Amazing Paranormal Encounters Vol. 3 & Vol. 4” and “Encounters with the Paranormal Vol. 3” Greg published his second book “Roads into the Unknown: A Ghost Hunter's Journey Continues” in the fall of 2018. Greg also does lectures and presentations on the paranormal throughout Northeast Ohio. Greg is currently the lead paranormal Investigator at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio and the former Ghost Hunt Manager for the haunted Old St. Joseph Hospital in Lorain, Ohio.

Brett McGinnis has been exploring the unknown for 12 years. In 2010 he was a cast member on the SyFy Channel TV show “Ghost Hunters Academy”. After ‘The Academy’ Brett returned to Pittsburgh, PA where he finished his bachelors degree in film and television production. In 2015, Brett released his first full length paranormal documentary “The Staring Man” which documented Bruce Tango’s (Former police officer & SyFy’s “Ghost Hunters”) first paranormal experience as a child in New Jersey. He also co-founded paranormal event company “Ghosts N’at Paranormal Adventures” in 2015. Ghosts N’at takes people on ghost hunts & ghost tours with real paranormal investigators year-round. Brett continues to grow “Ghosts N’at” while producing & directing video content for some of the largest company’s in the world including Walmart, Yelp!, Groupon, Yellowpages, AOL & many more.

Chris George was introduced to the paranormal world at a young age while living in Leadville, Colorado- an historically significant mining town from the 1880’s. It was here that he began to witness shadow people that he was able to interact with. It wasn’t until afterwards that he found his home was located near the sites of collapsed gold and silver mines that were witness to many horrific deaths.

At age 11 his family moved to southern California where he continued to experience paranormal events.

He later found his calling as a park ranger. Chris received his degree in outdoors law enforcement and began his career as Law Enforcement Park Ranger in California.

After he was transferred back to Colorado, he began to hone his paranormal investigative skills in the historical buildings and sites found in the parks. In 1996, Chris created his own paranormal investigative team - “Anubis Paranormal Research Organization” or APRO.

With the vision of working with other paranormal teams around the world to develop a cooperative effort towards research and investigation, he hopes to find scientific proof of what lies on the other side.

Clarissa Vazquez is a Colorado native and avid paranormal investigator. After serving in the U.S. Air Force and having her first paranormal experience while enlisted, Clarissa returned to Colorado and later founded the Colorado Coalition of Paranormal Investigators (CCPI) in 2004. Her dedication and research of paranormal phenomena led to her subsequent calling as a minister.