# New Jersey ParaUnity Expo Brings Ghost Hunters, Cryptids and the Unexplained Back to Woodbridge 2026-10-05 · Woodbridge High School · Woodbridge, New Jersey · Event The 12th annual gathering returns Nov. 7 with paranormal television personalities, investigators, cryptid researchers, free lectures, exhibit rooms, vendors and a full day built around the strange corners of curiosity. The 12th annual gathering returns Nov. 7 with paranormal television personalities, investigators, cryptid researchers, free lectures, exhibit rooms, vendors and a full day built around the strange corners of curiosity. --- For one Saturday in November, Woodbridge High School is going to become a very unusual meeting place. Ghost hunters will be there. So will Bigfoot researchers, psychic mediums, authors, paranormal television personalities, investigators, vendors and the people who have spent years reading about New Jersey’s own catalog of strange places and stranger stories. The New Jersey ParaUnity Expo returns to Woodbridge on Saturday, Nov. 7, for its 12th year, bringing together several different branches of paranormal culture for a one-day convention that has grown well beyond a simple meet-and-greet with television personalities. The main expo runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Woodbridge High School, 1 Samuel Lupo Place. Organizers are promoting free lectures and exhibit rooms alongside vendors, food trucks and opportunities to meet guests from across the paranormal world. General admission starts at $25, with a current affordability offer reducing the price to $20 each when two adult admission tickets are purchased together. And the guest list covers a remarkable amount of territory. Names promoted for the 2026 event include Jason Hawes of TAPS and Ghost Hunters; Amy Bruni and Adam Berry, longtime investigators familiar to viewers of Kindred Spirits and the broader Ghost Hunters universe; Katrina Weidman; Dakota Laden; Patti Negri; Shari DeBenedetti; Kalani; and Dylan Stevens. The lineup also reaches into cryptid research with Expedition Bigfoot figures Dr. Mireya Mayor and Russell Acord, while Weird New Jersey brings the event directly back to the folklore, abandoned places and local oddities that have kept Garden State readers fascinated for decades. That mix may be the best explanation of what ParaUnity has become. Paranormal fandom is not really one fandom. Someone drawn to historic hauntings may have little interest in Bigfoot. A cryptid researcher may approach the subject very differently from a psychic medium. Television audiences, skeptical curiosity-seekers, equipment-heavy investigation teams and people who simply like a good unexplained story can all arrive through completely different doors. ParaUnity puts those doors in the same hallway. The vendor floor reflects that breadth. The expo has solicited paranormal groups from New Jersey and beyond, UFO and Bigfoot vendors, mediums, authors and other specialty sellers whose work fits the theme. Organizers have said they expect roughly 30 to 35 vendor spaces and intentionally limit duplicate categories rather than fill the room with multiple tables offering essentially the same thing. For attendees, that should make the day feel less like a celebrity autograph line with a merchandise room attached and more like a walk through the current paranormal ecosystem. There are people who investigate, people who document, people who collect, people who tell stories, people who approach mysteries as entertainment and people who take the search itself very seriously. The lecture component is another important part of the formula. The event promotes its regular auditorium lectures as included with admission, giving guests a chance to hear investigators and personalities talk at greater length rather than simply moving through a brief table interaction. Free exhibit rooms add another layer to the day. There are also several separately ticketed experiences built around the expo weekend. Patti Negri, known to paranormal television audiences through Ghost Adventures and other appearances, is scheduled to conduct a 90-minute live séance from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $40 per person. The event describes the session as an attempt to connect participants with deceased friends or loved ones and to provide readings for randomly selected audience members; not everyone attending will receive a reading. The expo notes that the session is for entertainment purposes, provides no guarantees, and recommends the experience for ages 16 and older. Later in the afternoon, Chip Coffey of Psychic Kids, Paranormal State and Kindred Spirits is scheduled for a virtual gallery reading in the auditorium from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Coffey will not be physically onsite for that session but will appear live by video and interact directly with selected audience members. Tickets are $50, and the expo likewise labels the reading as entertainment rather than a guaranteed prediction or communication. For attendees looking to turn the convention into more of a weekend, organizers are also offering 21-and-over VIP parties on Friday, Nov. 6, and Saturday, Nov. 7. Each party is listed at $150 per person and includes dinner, a cash bar and a DJ. The event has also arranged preferred hotel options in nearby Avenel. All of that makes the 2026 ParaUnity Expo a particularly interesting snapshot of where paranormal culture sits right now. The subject has become enormous entertainment, with years of television series turning investigations into familiar viewing. At the same time, the grassroots side never disappeared. Local teams still spend nights in historic buildings. Independent researchers still compare sightings. Authors still chase regional legends. People still trade stories about the house down the road, the abandoned building everyone knows, or the stretch of woods where somebody swears they saw something impossible. New Jersey, perhaps more than most states, has always had fertile ground for that kind of curiosity. The Jersey Devil alone has carried Pine Barrens folklore for centuries, while Weird New Jersey turned roadside oddities, ghost stories, abandoned sites and hyperlocal legends into their own kind of state identity. That is why an event like ParaUnity works especially well here. It does not require every person in the building to agree on what is real. The common denominator is curiosity. Believers can come looking for people who take their experiences seriously. Skeptics can come because unusual claims are still interesting claims. Television fans can meet investigators they have watched for years. Newcomers can wander the vendors and exhibit rooms without knowing an EVP from an EMF meter. And anyone who grew up reading Weird New Jersey probably already understands that sometimes the story is worth following before anyone decides what they believe about it. Twelve years in, the New Jersey ParaUnity Expo has become less about proving one particular version of the unexplained than gathering the people who keep asking questions about it. On Nov. 7, a lot of those questions will be gathered in Woodbridge. Research Sources Event details checked against current public listings on Oct. 4, 2026. Guest appearances and schedules remain subject to change by the organizer. • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — official site • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — 2026 vendor application and event hours • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — Patti Negri séance • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — Chip Coffey virtual gallery reading • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — Nov. 6 VIP party • New Jersey ParaUnity Expo — Nov. 7 VIP party • Katrina Weidman — 2026 NJ ParaUnity appearance • Dr. Mireya Mayor — upcoming appearances • Cody & Satori — 2026 event calendar --- ProbleMattic is written and maintained by Matthew Kulcsar, a software engineer, project manager, technologist, platform builder, emergency-services-trained helper, grandfather, and lifelong collector of broken systems, odd behaviors, and useful nonsense.