WSOC-TV Summer Food Drive is TODAY!!

WSOC-TV's Summer Food Drive is today. Please bring your non-perishable food donations to our studios between 10am and 7pm.

For the second year, we're also collecting pet food donations!

Channel 9 anchors and reporters will be on hand all day to help unload your donations.

The Summer Food Drive benefits Second Harvest Food Bank and helps feed kids in the summer when school meals aren't available.

Please help us make this year's food drive the most successful yet.

WSOC-TV is located at 1901 N. Tryon Street, just north of uptown Charlotte

CAPS Founder & Director to Appear on WSGE 91.7 FM

Tina R. McSwain, CAPS Founder & Director, to appear on WSGE 91.7 FM The Gaston College Roundtable's Sunday edition this Sunday - June 12th at 9am.

Tune in.

Thank You to ConCarolinas

CAPS wishes to thank the Con Committee of the 2011 ConCarolinas for their hospitality and the courtesies extended to us at this year's convention. We also want to thank the ConSuite on behalf of our charity partner, The Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, for their generous donation of the food items left over after the Con.

Again, a special thank you to Ron, Frank, Stephanie, Jada, Carol, and Donna for making our experience at ConCarolinas 2011 a great one!!

Sincerely,

Tina R,.McSwain, Founder and Director

The Charlotte Area Paranormal Society (CAPS)

ConCarolinas is This Weekend in Charlotte

ConCarolinas is the area's premier Science Fiction/Gaming/Horror/Fantasy Convention held annually in Charlotte, NC. Located at the University Hilton, and lasting 3 days, the spectacle lasts from Friday June 3rd at 3pm until Sunday June 5th at 5pm.

Come meet the Special Guests of Honor, your favorite writers and gamers, have your picture taken with the Ghostbusters, StormTroopers, Darth Vader or a Jedi or two. Visit with Star Fleet Officers, Klingons, and characters of all types.

See www.concarolinas.org for more details.

CAPS Founder & Director, Tina R. McSwain, is a featured guest and will be speaking on several paranormal panels. Followong is the Paranormal Tract Schedule

Friday - 6/3/2011
03:00 pm Best Evidence of the Paranormal - University Ballroom B - Programming 2
05:00 pm The Paranormal in Other Cultures - Walden - Programming 4
06:00 pm Urban Legends - Walden - Programming 4

Saturday - 6/4/2011
9:00 am Ask a Ghost Hunter - Walden - Programming 4
11:00 am Too Much of a Good Thing? - Walden - Programming 4
12:00 pm Skeptics vs. Believers - Walden - Programming 4
07:00 pm Shawn Sellers - Walden - Programming 4
07:00 pm - The World Premier of Ghost Trek TV Pilot - University Ballroom D/E Programming 1

Sunday - 6/5/2011
12:00 pm Cryptozoology - Walden - Programming 4
01:00 pm Paranormal Then and Now - Walden - Programming 4

CAPS will have an information table at the Con. Drop by and say Hi!

Meetup is Tonight

Join us at Meetup tonight at Caribou Coffee on East Blvd. in Charlotte, beginning at 7pm. We'll discuss our recent investigation of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY along with other paranormal topics. Come out and meet, greet and mingle with your fellow paranormal enthusiasts. All past, current and newest members are welcome to attend!

CAPS Investigates Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, KY

Eleven CAPS Core Team members investigated Waverly Hills on Sunday night - May 22nd. We just arrived home yesterday afternoon.

While personal experiences are not considered evidence, they are deemed important, and almost everyone in the group had at least one.

We used (8) Sony Hi8 night-shot cameras on tripods with IR illuminators, (3)roving Night Shot cameras with IR illuminators (these accompanied the teams as they investigated), (2) full spectrum HD video recorders on tripods with IR illuminators, (2) full spectrum digital cameras, (1) roving full spectrum video camera with IR Illuminator, and (1) roving FLIR thermal imaging camera. Of course, team members ran digital audio recorders the entire time, and used digital cameras as well.

With this much footage and audio to review, it will be some time before we can complete our analysis. We will post anything we find. In the meantime, we will discuss the investigation and relate our personal experiences at this month's Meetup on Friday - May 27th at 7pm at Caribou Coffee on East Blvd. Please plan
to join us.

On a personal note, I will say that if you ever get a chance to investigate Waverly, go for it! It has been the most active site I have ever seen (and I have been to many across the country). I know I speak for my fellow team members as well when I say that the place, the images and the experience stays with you.

Announcing CAPS May Paranormal Class

We are excited to announce that renown local Psychic/Medium Mary Beth Wrenn will
be teaching our May Paranormal Class on Friday - May 20th at 7PM. Please see the details below:

Ghostly Investigations & Respect for the Dead

"Spirits are not entertainment. I repeat the spirit world is not entertainment." The spirit world is real and is to be respected. The spirit world is aware of your energy all the time. As soon as you enter a haunted location, your aura is being scanned. If your intention is for good and for understanding and you have a lot of patience - the spirit world will respond in kind. But if you go into a haunting with the intention to provoke 'remember garbage in... Garbage out!' The spirit world can react in a very negative and emotionally draining way. You could very possible be attached psychically,emotionally and physically and worst yet, you could be possessed by a spirit who won't let go".

Join Psychic/Medium Mary Beth Wrenn for an in-depth discussion about Ghostly Investigations and Respect for the Dead. Mary Beth is a full time professional Psychic/Medium who's been in practice for over 20 some years, having investigated hauntings in both NJ and in North Carolina. She resides in the Charlotte Metro reading clients in-person, on the phone and online. For more information just go to www.marybethwrenn.com

Class location will be in the north this month, returning to the classroom space donated to us by Organic Dyestuffs Corporation of Concord. This location is right across the street from the Lowe's Home Improvement Store. We meet upstairs, beginning at 7PM.

Organic Dyestuffs Corporation
1015 Concord Parkway North (US Hwy 29)
Concord, NC 28027-5923

Please feel free to call 704-236-9678 should you have problems. We hope you'll
join us for this most interesting class!!

Best regards,
Tina R. McSwain,
Founder & Director,
The Charlotte Area Paranormal Society (CAPS)