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Episode 218 - Ghosts of the Shooting Star - Stories from Minnesota ParaCon 2018
Episode 21817th October 2018 • See You On The Other Side • Sunspot
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So, we hopped in the Sunspot van and Wendy, Scott from WhatsYourGhostStory.com , and I drove a thousand miles this weekend to the Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen, Minnesota for their 2018 Paracon. It was a fun-filled three days where we made dozens of new friends, talked about hundreds of paranormal experiences, and even got to play some Blackjack (Wendy has a system, in case you were wondering!)

Now, we’ve had vendor tables at several different paranormal conventions before and it is hard  to stand out. You’re competing with celebrities (we had two lovely actresses right next to us and Chip frickin’ Coffey right across the way), paranormal presentations, a bar open all day, and gambling. How are we going to get people’s attention with our little podcast? Well, we decided to create a paranormal quest where people could enter to win a sweet prize package of ghost tour tickets, Sunspot CDs, books on Chicago ghost stories, and a haunted Gingerbread house.


So, how were we going to get everyone to come on by and get weird with us? Well, we tried to do a little “paranormal quest” game where we had three sections:

Once people answered our questions, then we entered them into the drawing! So, what did we discover about the Paracon attendees?

  • “Purple Rain” is their favorite Prince song by a huge margin
  • There’s not as many Vikings fans as you’d think, most of them couldn’t even name a player
  • Ghosts are the most popular topic, followed by demons, then UFOs (I know, right? Unexpected.). Cryptids came in last, which broke Bigfoot’s heart.
  • More than three-quarters of the people we met had a personal ghostly encounter and a majority of them were about their family and loved ones. That was really nice. They were mainly positive and comforting experiences. 

So, since ghosts were the topic that most people were interested in, we decided to interview a few of the presenters about some of their most memorable ghostly encounters. In this episode, we have personal ghost stories from:

For the song this week, we used the name of the place, the Shooting Star Casino, as the initial inspiration. Time flies like a shooting star and as John Lennon said on  Double Fantasy :

Before you cross the street take my hand.
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy”


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