After Hours Events
After Hours Workshops, Tours,
& Special Events
After Hours Events are charged separately from general admission prices and are for Conference Attendees only. After hours events should be added to your shopping cart when purchasing. Space is limited. After Hours Events will be filled on a first come/first served basis. If you have already purchased your General Admission ticket and want to add on an After Hours Event, please call us at 815-990-7203.
Purchase subject to availability.
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Keep checking back for additional After Hours Events
as more may be added!!!
Friday, April 19, 2024
CREATE YOUR OWN CEMETERY TERRARIUM WITH AMANDA WOOMER
Friday Night 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm ($25.00)
Get your hands dirty as we discuss grief and the paranormal while creating mini cemeteries. Join Author, Anthropologist and Paranormal Researcher Amanda Woomer and create your very own cemetery terrarium. We will supply everything you need to construct a spooky succulent terrarium complete with authentic Galena cemetery dirt!
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COMBO - INVESTIGATION AT GALENA CELLARS WINERY and THE DOWLING HOUSE
Friday Night 10:00 pm - 2:00 am ($45.00)
Hosted by Transcendent Paranormal Society
Take part in a unique combination paranormal investigation of Galena Cellars Winery and The Dowling House. Investigate Galena's oldest house, The Dowling House, using traditional tools of divination including pendulums, dowsing rods and more. Investigate Galena Cellars Winery using modern ghost hunting equipment including, but not limited to, EMF detectors, REM pods, and EVP devices. This is a great opportunity to experience the many tools used in paranormal investigations over the last 150 years!
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The Dowling house, built in 1826, is the oldest standing stone house in the State of Illinois. It functioned as a frontier trading post and served as a militia planning center during the Blackhawk War. Today it is a tour home and one of Galena's leading attractions.
From 1900 to 1965, The Galena Cellars Winery functioned as Galena's primary funeral home and shared the space with a furniture store. As odd as that seems, the furniture makers made coffins, which were then utilized by the funeral home, and this arrangement was common throughout America. Countless people were prepared for burial in this building, and as such, it is one of the most haunted buildings, not just in Galena, but in the Midwest.
From ghostly children to unexplainable paranormal outbursts, this investigation is not for the faint of heart. Stories of encounters, photos, and eyewitness testimony in both locations make this investigation an event you don't want to miss!
INVESTIGATION AT THE DESOTO HOUSE HOTEL
Friday Night 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM ($45.00)
Hosted by Transcendent Paranormal Society
Take part in a paranormal investigation of the DeSoto House Hotel. Built in 1855, this infamous hotel that has been the location of a haunting by" The Lady in Black" for the past 160 years. Mediums who have been to the hotel have said that there are countless spirits clamoring to tell us their stories, but unable to reach our eyes and ears through the veil of death. Hotel guests have related many stories of paranormal experiences within the hotel. Join us for this investigation to discover if you, too, will encounter one of its ghostly inhabitants. Last years investigation captured significant evidence of the paranormal!
Saturday, April 20, 2024
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MANIFESTING FAITH WITH CHRIS MCBRIEN
Saturday Night 8:00 pm -9:30 pm ($25.00)
Back by popular demand, Chris McBrien, Psychic Medium, Shaman and Sufi will offer techniques for how to develop your powers of manifestation and how they relate to energetically raising not only your heightened awareness, spiritual evolution and create the reality you wish, but also increase your ability to perceive what is beyond your normal senses and how it can help your ghost hunting by opening your senses on multiple levels. Includes techniques and demo.
HAUNTED GALENA GHOST WALK
Saturday Night 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ($24.00)
Hosted by Ted Williams and Robyn Davis:
Founders of The Haunted Galena Tour Company
Experience genuine street theater featuring our dark history, eerie folklore, and true ghost stories as you stroll haunted Galena's by candlelight. Hear of infamous events, tragedies and hauntings that have lingered throughout our dark history and continue to haunt us today. Galena played an important role in the development of the United States during the nineteenth century. By 1848 Galena had become the center of commercial trade for the upper Mississippi Lead Region. Because of its prosperity, Galena is rich in 19th century architecture and that architecture has remained virtually intact for over 150 years. Come take a stroll through the streets of Galena on our flagship tour and hear the stories of Galena's past residents who still linger in this lovely little river town.
COMBO - INVESTIGATION AT GALENA CELLARS WINERY and THE DOWLING HOUSE
Saturday Night 10:00 pm - 2:00 am ($45.00)
Hosted by Transcendent Paranormal Society
Take part in a unique combination paranormal investigation of Galena Cellars Winery and The Dowling House. Investigate Galena's oldest house, The Dowling House, using traditional tools of divination including pendulums, dowsing rods and more. Investigate Galena Cellars Winery using modern ghost hunting equipment including, but not limited to, EMF detectors, REM pods, and EVP devices. This is a great opportunity to experience the many tools used in paranormal investigations over the last 150 years!
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The Dowling house, built in 1826, is the oldest standing stone house in the State of Illinois. It functioned as a frontier trading post and served as a militia planning center during the Blackhawk War. Today it is a tour home and one of Galena's leading attractions.
From 1900 to 1965, The Galena Cellars Winery functioned as Galena's primary funeral home and shared the space with a furniture store. As odd as that seems, the furniture makers made coffins, which were then utilized by the funeral home, and this arrangement was common throughout America. Countless people were prepared for burial in this building, and as such, it is one of the most haunted buildings, not just in Galena, but in the Midwest.
From ghostly children to unexplainable paranormal outbursts, this investigation is not for the faint of heart. Stories of encounters, photos, and eyewitness testimony in both locations make this investigation an event you don't want to miss!
INVESTIGATION AT THE DESOTO HOUSE HOTEL
Saturday Night 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM ($45.00)
Hosted by Transcendent Paranormal Society
Take part in a paranormal investigation of the DeSoto House Hotel. Built in 1855, this infamous hotel that has been the location of a haunting by" The Lady in Black" for the past 160 years. Mediums who have been to the hotel have said that there are countless spirits clamoring to tell us their stories, but unable to reach our eyes and ears through the veil of death. Hotel guests have related many stories of paranormal experiences within the hotel. Join us for this investigation to discover if you, too, will encounter one of its ghostly inhabitants. Last years investigation captured significant evidence of the paranormal!
Sunday, April 21, 2024
GREENWOOD CEMETERY TOUR
Sunday Morning 11:30 AM to 1 PM ($22.00)
Join Ted Williams & Robyn Davis for a guided tour of Galena's famous Greenwood Cemetery. Get a unique opportunity to go inside this hallowed ground to learn of burial and monument customs, visit the graves of some of Galena's most famous and infamous citizens, and hear the history of how and why Greenwood came to be. The proceeds from this tour go directly to the Greenwood Cemetery, a non-profit group that maintains and operates this active cemetery.