2003 Penn State UNIV-CON
October 23-26, 2003; University Park, PA
Cost: $30
Contact: Paranormal Research Society, c/o Pennsylvania State University,
125 HUB/ROBESON Center, University Park, PA 16802
Email: psuprs@yahoo.com
Web: www.clubs.psu.edu/paranormal/univcon/univcon
Features workshops, ghost tours, investigations, paranormal market and fair, conference-style rooms for individual workshops and meetings and much more! Guests and speakers include John Keel, Lorraine Warren, Lou Gentile, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, and George Lutz.

AIP at Sea
September 25-28, 2003; Key West, FL and Cancun, Mexico
Email: cruisin87@juno.com
Web: www.southernghosts.com/Events/KeyWest.asp
Features ghost tour of haunted Key West; paranormal investigation of a Mayan ruin; on-board workshops on paranormal research, psychic experiments and investigative techniques; and lectures by American Institute of Parapsychology founder and parapsychologist Dr. Andrew Nichols, AIP technical advisor Scott Flagg, and others.

Alchemy of the Paranormal
October 25, 2003; Reno, NV
Contact: (702) 673-7000
Email: kberry@tmcc.edu
Web: www.TMCC.edu
Best-selling author and researcher Dennis William Hauck will relate best cases from over 20 years of paranormal research and will focus on the personal aspects of otherworldly encounters and how they affect the lives and belief systems of witnesses.

Conference on Paranormal Studies
November 7-9, 2003; Tucson, AZ
Contact: American Institute of Parapsychology, Andrew Nichols, PhD,
PO Box 142193, Gainesville, FL 32614
Email: aiptucson@hotmail.com
Features Parapsychological Field Investigator training workshops and speakers, including Dr. Gary Schwartz, Director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona and author of "The Afterlife Experiments"; Prof. Loyd Auerbach, AIP California State Section Director and author of "Hauntings and Poltergeists" and "Mind over Matter"; Bill Everist, a psychology professor and paranormal investigator; and Brian Gross, Arizona's most active ghost hunter.

Haunted Prison III: Prisoner's Revenge!
Friday through Sunday, October 3-November 1, 2003; Mansfield, OH
Contact: Mansfield Reformatory, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, OH 44905, (419) 522-2644
Email: info@mrps.org
Web: mrps.org/halloween/index

Historic Hauntings:  The Fort Possessed
October 25-26, 2003; Jamestown, NY
Cost: $10
Contact: Old Fort Niagara, (716) 745-7611
Web: www.oldfortniagara.org/haunt
Meet spirits in a tour of an 18th-century fortress that includes some of the oldest buildings on the Great Lakes and has a long and sometimes violent history.  Includes stories by the bonfire and tour of a cemetery.

Joshua P. Warren Paranormal Conference
January 9-11, 2004; Asheville, NC
Cost: $478 (inc. accommodations, some meals)
Contact: (800) 438-4800
Email: jpw@LEMURteam.com
Web: www.paranormalconference.com
Produced by L.E.M.U.R. Paranormal Investigations and Joshua P. Warren,
author of "Haunted Asheville and How to Hunt Ghosts" and located at the luxurious, 4-star Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains, this interactive conference features a wide variety of content including ghosts, psychic phenomena, UFOs and extraterrestrials, cryptozoology, weird technologies, convenient locations available for live ghost hunting, and more.  Speakers and guests include Maggie Blackman, Will Beckwith, Tom Cameron, Loren Coleman, and Patrick Huyghe.

Mansfield Reformatory Ghost Hunt

September 19, 2003; Mansfield, OH
November 8, 2003; Mansfield, OH
November 21, 2003; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $25
Contact: Mansfield Reformatory, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield, OH 44905, (419) 522-2644
Email: info@mrps.org
Web: mrps.org/index2

Mid-South Paranormal Convention
September 27-28, 2003; Louisville, KY
Contact: Expo Five, Keith Age, 2900 South 7th Street Road, Louisville, KY 40216, (502) 636-3532
Email: bruno11111963@yahoo.com
Web: www.louisvilleghosthunters.homestead.com
Guests include American Ghost Society President and author Troy Taylor, and Kriss Stephens, Lead Investigator for MTV's Fear.

Nevada Ghost Hunting Conference
October 25-26, 2003; Reno, NV
Cost: $79
Contact: TMCC Community Services, (775) 829-9010
Email: commserv@tmcc.edu
Web: commserv.tmcc.edu
Tour haunted sites in Virginia City, hear about the latest ghost hunting voice and photographic technology, and find out about local history and the region's ghosts. Guests and speakers include Dennis Hauk, Tom and Lisa Butler, Dr. Dave Oester, and Dr. Sharon Gill.