Friday night ghostly frights: The UNO Paranormal Society holds a summit to educate the community about the paranormal

Pam Styer (left) sells entry tickets for the UNO Paranormal Summit to a group of students.

A large crowd of students and Omaha residents sit in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service building and listen to a variety of paranormal experts’ experience.

Guests watch the footage of the Paranormal Nebraska Research Group (NRG) did of their paranormal hunt this past summer at the Villisca Ax Murder House.

(From left to right), Diana Lindloff, Katie Reda, Lisa Reda and Laura Weise of the Paranormal NRG discuss their hunt in the Villisca Ax Murder House with an image of a group member’s back having red marks from a supposed ghost attack in the background.

Ashley DeBolt (right) of Heartland Paranormal group instructs a guest on the various paranormal investigation equipment the group uses on a hunt.

Two guests write down their questions and comments on a board the UNO Paranormal Society set up to give interactive feedback at the end of the night.

Members of various Nebraskan paranormal investigative groups (Paranormal NRG, Great Plains Supernatural Investigators and Heartland Paranormal) present their expertise and equipment in one of the many panels held that night.

Kyle Finley (left) and Katie Reda (right) draw out a ticket for the raffle they held to raise money for the UNO Paranormal Society.

Ashley DeBolt (right) leads a group of summit attendees on a ghost hunt. She is showing them where a former UNO student Carolyn Nevins’ body was found outside of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Kayser Hall after being murdered the night before in Decemeber 1955. Her case remains unsolved.

Ashley Ortmeier (left) uses dowsing rods to communicate with Carolyn Nevins’ spirit while other guests watch. The group asks a series of questions that can be answered with yes, no or neutral and the way the rods turn signals the answer.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Paranormal Society is a student organization that acts as a community hub for people on campus and in the metropolitan area to gather and share paranormal information and their experiences. Each year near Halloween since the group’s inception, the UNO Paranormal Society, with the help of their former president and now community advisor Kyle Finley, puts on a UNO Paranormal Summit where paranormal investigation groups from the Omaha area present their findings and expertise to the community. They show videos, audio recordings and photographs of the various evidence they found while conducting their investigations and give advice on how one could perform their own investigation or how to deal with ghosts. At the end of the night, the summit holds a ghost hunt on the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s campus where the experts help guests perform their own paranormal investigations with a variety of tools that range from dowsing rods to electromagnetic field (EMF) meters. It is all great fun that helps people learn more about the paranormal investigation community and get into the spooky spirit of the Halloween holiday while helping the UNO Paranormal Society raise money for the organization and charitable causes.

For more information about the UNO Paranormal Society, such as their meetings or other events, visit their page on MavSync or their group page on Facebook.

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