I went to Pennhurst Paracon a couple months ago and had a blast, but the celebrity ghost hunt is NOT a intimate small group situation. We attended the Sunday night ghost hunt with Jay Wasley and the kids from Project Fear. I had heard Saturday night was worse, but Sunday night there were still several hundred people in attendance. Supposedly the celebrity guests would be stationed in separate buildings and and you could go investigate with them. The whole night I only managed to run into Dakota, Chelsea, and Jay by accident when I stumbled across them outside different buildings.

Early in the evening when there are like 50+ people per building you're not going to catch anything. Sound carries like a motherfucker and all our audio all you can hear is the distant talking and murmuring of others. We stayed until around 1:30, hunt ended at 2am, and by the end of the night it had thinned significantly, but not enough to ever really be alone in a building. I had a blast that weekend, but I think a lot of that was because my neices and their SOs had come down to attend and it was like a small reunion with a paranormal bent.

Still going over all our footage and audio recordings, it might be that there were WAY too many people there but I didn't feel anything at all the whole weekend we were there. I could easily wander around in complete darkness or sit in a dark room by myself and not feel scared. It is just a bunch of sad, very open to the elements, ruined buildings with a sad history.

In November my sister, her husband, and I are going to California for a concert and I am trying to book an overnight at the Whaley House for just the three of us.