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October 2024 is Looking Busy

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It’s officially October! Haunted houses, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, horror movies, and ghost shows are all ways I love to spend the month. This year, my calendar is filling up with events at which that I will be presenting. See you there!

October 11 & 12 – Louisville, Kentucky

At long last, I will be attending AND presenting at the Goatman Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. This free event has a full slate of horror and monster movies starting at 7:00pm on Friday, October 11. On Saturday, October 12, there is a full day’s Ghosts & Monsters Bus Tour, followed by free seminars, of which yours truly is presenting at 5:30pm. The day is capped off with a live director commentary of “Legend of Pope Lick Monster” and the movie Antlers.

October 17 – West Bend, Wisconsin

On Thursday, October 17 at 5:00pm, I’ll present “Haunted Stories with J. Nathan Couch” at the West Bend Library. Later that same evening at 7:00pm, join me for the final Downtown West Bend Ghost Walk of 2024, celebrating the Hunter’s Supermoon.

October 25 – West Bend, Wisconsin

The 2024 Halloween season rounds out with an appearance telling campfire stories at Nightmares Around Elm Street Haunted Walking Tours on Friday, October 25 from 7:30-9:30pm. This annual fundraiser supports The Youth and Family Project, Inc. in West Bend and features an evening is crammed full of walking tours, raffles, cocoa, and other goodies for sale.

Celebrate Halloween and support some great organizations while you do it! Copies of my books will be available for purchase at all these events.

See you in Chicago on June 8!

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For the first time, I’ll be speaking at the Chicago Paracon on Saturday, June 8, 2024. The low admission price of $1.00 per person gives you access to 80 vendors peddling ritual candles, occult items, oddities, weirdness, mysticism, and more. Also in attendance will be tarot, angel card, and tea leaf readers, plus psychics, and paranormal investigators.

No Midwest event would be complete without food, raffle, and music.

Besides yours truly, the other speakers are:

Allison Jornlin: Allison developed Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s first haunted history tour in 2008. Since then, she has presented at paranormal conferences across the U.S. and contributed paranormal essays and research to several popular books. Allison currently works as a professional weirdo, researching and writing for AmericanGhostWalks.com. Allison will discuss fairy folklore and fairy encounters.

Larry Eisler: Author of Ghosts of the Black Hawk War, filmmaker, historian, paranormal researcher and winner of the Annual Telly Award. Larry will discuss the advent of artificial intelligence and its effects on the paranormal community.

Bob Anderson: Bob is the host of the paranormal podcast Bob After Dark. He has been a paranormal enthusiast since he was a wee-lad. Bob has dabbled in many aspects of the spooky world from both research and investigations. He is sort of a Swiss-Army-Knife in the occult world, knowing a bit about not only ghostly hauntings, but cryptozoology, and demonology. Bob will discuss the true paranormal accounts behind horror films.

Barnaby Jones: Barnaby is the founder and lead investigator of C.A.P.S.: Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society. He is also the host of Whispers From the Dark podcast and Monsters on the Edge* on Untold Radio Network. Barnaby will discuss the scientific understanding of paranormal phenomena.

*I will appear on an upcoming episode of Monsters on the Edge!

See you at the Countryside Banquets & Conference Center, 6200 Joliet Rd, Countryside, IL 60525!

Milwaukee Paracon 2019: The Day After

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Greetings from Grafton!

I’m sitting here in my office after a particularly busy weekend. I’m two days removed from the Friday the 13th/Full Moon Downtown West Bend Ghost Walk, where we had the largest, most enthusiastic group ever. Washington County’s dedicated support of their paranormal history never ceases to amaze me.

Bright and early the next day (Saturday the 14th for those keeping track), I headed down to Averno College in Milwaukee for the 2019 edition of the Milwaukee Paracon. I was fortunate enough to present at the inaugural event back in 2015, and I’ve been able to appear at all but one, which I had to cancel due to personal strife.

The event is always a highlight of my year. I got to see a lot of beloved local colleagues, such as Allison Jorlin (milwaukeeghosts.com), Mike Huberty and Wendy Lynn Staat (See You On the Other Side podcast), Jay Bachochin (Finding Jay Bachochin), and MPC mastermind Tea Kurlos (Monster Hunters) to name only a few.

I had originally been scheduled to do a Washington County Paranormal presentation to celebrate the re-release of my first book, but I quickly found myself swept up into a Paranormal Author’s panel with new friends Shetan Noir and Tobias Wayland. While getting a chance to talk about my process for writing Goatman: Flesh or Folklore? I also had an opportunity to learn some methods used by Noir in her new book Lake Monsters and Odd Creatures of the Great Lakes and Wayland’s soon-to-be released book on the Great Lakes Mothman who recently terrorized Chicagoland.

My presentation about Washington County Paranormal did indeed happen, and I had a great time talking about Goatman, and the Old Courthouse Museum’s electrifying spirit “George.”

The biggest highlight was meeting all the enthusiastic people that dropped by my vendor’s table. The nicest thing about being in this field is meeting people and learning what inspired their interest in topics that a lot of people look down upon.

If you missed this year’s conference, please keep an eye on Milwaukeeparacon.com for information on the 2020 event!

J. Nathan Couch at Book Signing in West Bend, Wisconsin

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Just a quick note to folks in and around West Bend! I’ll be making an appearance at the West Bend Farmer’s Market on September 28th, 2019 from 7:30am to 11:00pm!

Drop in to All In Books and visit with me! The store will also be holding a raffle for two free passes to the Downtown West Bend Ghost Walk! See you there!

Details:
Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 7:30 AM – 11 AM
All In Books
136 N. Main Street
West Bend, WI

Washington County Paranormal

Washington County Paranormal on Kindle!

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Exciting news folks! My first book, Washington County Paranormal: A Wisconsin Legend Trip is now available on Amazon’s Kindle. While I’m a huge advocate for paper and ink books, this development makes the book available to readers in a number of exciting new ways. Not only can the Kindle version be purchased ala carte for $9.99 (the print version currently lists for $11.99), but the book is FREE to read for Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners Lending Library (KOLL) users!  Also, readers who’ve already purchased a print version Washington County Paranormal via Amazon.com can buy the Kindle edition for just $2.99! To get you’re copy today, just follow this link! In the coming months I’ll also be working on making the book available through other digital formats. Watch this site for details!

Washington County Paranormal
Washington County Paranormal

I understand digital books aren’t for everyone. I myself much prefer the scent of ink and paper to a cold, sterile, e-reader. Washington County Paranormal is still available as a tradition book through all major book sellers (if it isn’t on their shelves, they can order it for you)! Also, if you’re local to West Bend you can support the local economy by picking up a copy at any of the following small businesses or public institutions: The Exclusive Company, The Old Courthouse Museum’s Treasurer’s Vault Gift Shop, All In Books, Roots, or our newest member of the family, A Conversation Piece, LLC! If you’d like to sell print versions of Washington County Paranormal or any of my books at your local business just send me a message!