Additional Activities
Utah's Paranormal Conference -- PhenomeCon has some fun and exciting add-on activities that are sure to make your experience at the conference even better!
Click "Buy Tickets" then from this page simply select which activity(s) you would like to add to your schedule.
Additional fees are required. Space is limited. More activities will be added so please check back.
Please make sure that the activity(s) you select do not conflict with each other or your schedule.
Behind the Scenes Dinner with the Cast of
the Travel Channel's Expedition Bigfoot
Join the cast from the Travel Channel's Expedition Bigfoot for dinner and a peek into behind the scenes. There is several hours of filming that goes into each episode of Expedition Bigfoot but not all the film gets aired! This is a fascinating opportunity to watch an episode of the show with the cast, ask questions and be told more of what is happening in that scene.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
Behind the Scenes Dinner
$75 / Person
Friday, Sept. 9th
6:30Pm - 8:00PM
Behind the Scenes Dinner with the Cast of the History Channel's Skinwalker Ranch
Join the cast from the History Channel's Secret of Skinwalker Ranch for dinner and a peek into behind the scenes. There are several hours of filming for each episode of Skinwalker Ranch but not all of the material is aired! This is a fascinating opportunity to watch an episode of the show with the cast, ask questions, and be told more of what is happening in the scene.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
Dinner with Skinwalker Cast
$75 / Person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
6:30pm - 8:00PM
Voices of Believers -- Open Mic & Dinner
Join us for Dutch Oven Dinner at one of the Basin's unexplainable hot spots, Remember the Maine Park. This beautiful park is nestled up next to a 400 foot cliff. There has been reports of mysterious orbs, drum beating, and strange occurrences in the surrounding woods. A fascinating night filled with listening to and sharing personal paranormal and mysterious experiences from around the world. This is the perfect night for believers and experiencers to share with others in a safe nonjudgemental environment about what they have witnessed, experienced, and have felt. Transportation is not provided to the park. Carpooling is recommended.
This is a stand alone event and can be purchased separately or in addition to your PhenomeCon registration.
Unforgettable Night
$30/person
Friday, Sept. 9th
7:00-10:00PM
Lunch with Bob Gimlin
Join Special Guest, Bob Gimlin for lunch. Bob was one of two men that witnessed and captured on film an iconic moment in history. The famous Patterson/Gimlin film shows a large, over 7-feet tall female Sasquatch at the creeks edge. This magnificent creature caught sight of the men and their horses and proceeded to move away towards the forest, all the while, the camera was running and capturing the iconic moment.
Lunch guests will have a unique opportunity to interact with Bob on one of his last road trip events. Bob has a special gift for all guest attending lunch with him.
Special Opportunity
$75 / person
Saturday, Sept. 10th
11:45am - 1:00PM
Guided Hike to McConkie Ranch Petroglyphs with James Keenan
Located just north of Vernal, at McConkie Ranch, the Dry Fork Canyon petroglyphs are famous for their quality and accessibility. These panels cover 200 feet of cliff face in the Navajo formation. This gallery of primitive art dating from 1-1200 A.D. shows excellent examples of the Fremont Native American culture. Join us on this hike with James Keenan -- whose main curriculum at the University of California Santa Barbara was anthropology and archaeology. James will be able to share his vast knowledge on ancient human history and these amazing petroglyphs.
*The hike is about 1 mile long. It is rugged and hilly in spots. Tennis shoes are advised. Porta potties are available at the trailhead.
* One mile hike is required to get to the petroglyphs.
* Please do not touch petroglyphs with your hands. The oils from your hands will damage these priceless artifacts.
Tour departs from the Uintah County Conference Center.
* PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this activity to your agenda.
History Brought to life
$25/Person
Wednesday, Sept. 7th 5-8pm
Thursday, Sept. 8th 8AM-11AM
VIP Lunch with Greg Lawson
Enjoy a VIP Lunch with Greg Lawson at one of Vernal's delicious and locally owned restaurants. Greg is an international lecturer and author of four books on the paranormal. He is a career law enforcement officer with over 30-years of experience. Greg is also a paranormal investigator that uses the same skills and investigative procedures he uses in law enforcement to help him investigate the strange and paranormal.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP LUnch
$75/Person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
11:30AM - 1:00PM
VIP Dinner with Dr. Mireya Mayor &
Russell Acord
Enjoy VIP Dinner with Dr. Mierya Mayor & Russell Acord at one of Vernal's locally owned and delicious restaurants. Dr. Mierya and Russell are both known for their adventurous spirits on the Travel Channel's hit series Expedition Bigfoot. Dinner guests will enjoy hearing stories of Russell & Dr. Mierya looking for Bigfoot and other paranormal encounters.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to you agenda.
VIP Dinner
$75 / person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
6:30Pm - 8:30PM
Dark Sky Viewing at Steinaker State Park
Dark skies surround Vernal for some of the best night sky viewing at a beautiful State Park. Join other PhenomeCon believers and park rangers to study the natural features of the night sky.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this activity to your agenda.
Shuttle bus departs from the Uintah County Conference Center.
Beautiful Night Sky
$20/person
Friday, Sept. 9th
8:00PM - 10:00pM
VIP Lunch with Dr. Travis Taylor
Enjoy VIP Lunch with Dr. Travis Taylor catered by a locally owned and delicious restaurant. Travis is recognized from the History Channel's hit series "Secret of Skinwalker Ranch." Travis brings a vast wealth of knowledge that helps the team at Skinwalker Ranch apply hard science in an effort to solve the incredible mystery at Skinwalker Ranch.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP Lunch
$75 / person
Friday, Sept. 9th
Noon - 1PM
SOLD OUT
VIP Dinner with Stacey Brown
Enjoy a VIP Dinner with Stacey Brown at one of Vernal's delicious and locally owned restaurants. Stacey is a film maker and skunk ape researcher. You may have seen him on Finding Bigfoot, Strange Evidence, the Travel Channel, and Spike TVs 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty in which he was awarded the $100,000 research grant.
Dinner with Stacey will be fascinating as he relates stories of his quest to find the skunk ape and Bigfoot.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP Dinner
$75/person
Wednesday, Sept. 7th
6:00pm - 8:00pm
VIP Dinner with Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Enjoy VIP Dinner with Dr. Jeff Meldrum at one of Vernal's locally owned and delicious restaurants. Dr. Meldrum is a full time professor of Anatomy & Anthropology at Idaho State University. He has been on countless television shows and is considered a leading expert on Sasquatch. Over the last 25 years, Dr. Meldrum's lab has housed over 300 footprint casts attributed to relict hominoids around the world.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to you agenda.
VIP Dinner
$75 / person
Saturday, Sept. 10th
6:30pm - 8:30pm
SOLD OUT
VIP Dinner with James Keenan
Enjoy a VIP Dinner with James Keenan at one of Vernal's delicious and locally owned restaurants. James is an author, researcher and field investigator. He continues to explore topics of the paranormal and Ufology and believes that the paranormal, Ufology and ancient human history may be intertwined. James has been a guest on numerous television, podcast and radio shows. Including the History Channel's series "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch."
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP Dinner
$75/Person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
6:30pm - 8:00pm
VIP Lunch with James Vieira
Enjoy VIP Lunch with James Vieira catered by a locally owned and delicious restaurant. James is known for his role as host of History Channel's "Search for the Lost Giants," "Roanoke:Search for the Lost Colony," and "Return to Roanoke: Search the Seven."
Lunch with James will be a fun and fascinating time as he recounts stories of his travels and research.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP Lunch
$75 / Person
Saturday, Sept. 10th
Noon - 1:00 PM
Remote Viewing Workshop
The remote viewing workshop will be led by Christopher Duncan, who was trained by retired US Government Remote Viewers. The workshop consists of instruction in techniques and methods of remote viewing, the do's and don'ts of remote viewing, a live demonstration, and each attendee will be guided through remote viewing real targets themselves both as a group and then individually. By the end of the workshop each attendee will have witnessed a remote viewing, will have been given basic instruction, and attempted two remote viewings themselves, giving them the tools needed to further hone their craft.
Remote Viewing
$30 / person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
7:00Pm - 9:00PM
UFO Valley Campground
Night Sky Viewing and Bonfire
Watch with wonder the beautiful dark sky from the UFO Valley Campground -- located next to the infamous Skinwalker Ranch! Guests will enjoy a bonfire as they watch the sky and visit with each other.
* Shuttle bus will leave from the Uintah County Conference Center.
* Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a jacket.
* PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
Fire & Stars
$50 / person
Thursday, Sept. 8th
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Downtown Ghost Hunt with April Slaughter & Cypress Paranormal Research
Take part in a night of paranormal investigation in downtown Vernal, Utah. Thrill seekers will meet at Cobble Rock Park (29 South Vernal Ave, Vernal, UT) and will walk to a nearby location. Professional paranormal researchers will have a wide verity of tools including DR60 Recorder, SLS Camera, Deadbox, EMF Induction Amplifier and more! This will be a fascinating night of investigating the paranormal.
*Please wear comfortable shoes for walking and standing. And bring a jacket -- it cools off when the sun goes down.
* Based on the sensitive nature of ghost hunting participants are required to turn their phones off or silence them, be respectful of the staff, spirits, and locations, no faking noises, and be able to follow instructions. Anyone unable to comply to the rules and guidelines can result in your removal from the experience with no refund.
*Paranormal results are not guaranteed.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to you agenda.
limited spots available
$25 / person
Wednesday, Sept. 7th
Thursday, Sept. 8th
Friday, Sept. 9th
9:00pm - 11:00pm
VIP Dinner with April Slaughter
Enjoy VIP Dinner with April Slaughter at one of Vernal's locally owned and delicious restaurants. April has been an active paranormal researcher fro nearly twenty-five years. She is one of America's leading researchers into the study of Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP), Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) and is the first to introduce her personal experiences with Induced After Death Communication (IADC) to the paranormal field. Dinner with April will be fascinating as she speaks on her different paranormal experiences that she has had.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
VIP Dinner
$75 / person
Wednesday, Sept. 7th
6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Dark Sky Viewing at
Dinosaur National Monument
Vernal is surrounded by excellent dark sky night viewing at Dinosaur National Monument -- home of the Dinosaur Quarry's Wall of Bones. Join other PhenomeCon believers and park ranger to study the natural features of the night sky.
Shuttle bus will depart from the Uintah County Conference Center.
*PhenomeCon registration is required to add this activity to your agenda.
Amazing Night Sky
$20 / Person
Saturday, Sept. 10th
8:00PM - 10:00PM
SOLD OUT
Gallery Reading with Clairvoyant Medium --
Dr. Rebecca Foster
Join other PhenomeCon believers for a special gallery reading by clairvoyant medium -- Dr. Rebecca Foster. Dr. Foster will use her gift to do readings to randomly selected audience members.
Readings can bring closure, peace and the knowledge that life goes on and that your loved ones are still very much a part of your life. Please attend with an open heart and mind to have the best experience.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
*Unfortunately, not every attendee will receive a reading.
*Photos, video recording and audio recording are not allowed.
Gallery Reading
$50 / person
Friday, Sept. 9th
7:00Pm - 9:00PM
Escorted Trip to the Perimeter of Skinwalker Ranch with Dragon & Thomas Winterton
Exclusive trip to the perimeter of the infamous Skinwalker Ranch with Dragon (Head of Security at Skinwalker Ranch) and Thomas Winterton (Skinwalker Ranch Manager). This will be a fascinating opportunity for questions and conversation with Dragon & Thomas as you travel to/from the site. You will have a unique opportunity to pass through the public security barrier and take take your photo at the Ranch's entrance gate. (Due to safety, unknown paranormal risks, and the ranches policies no visitors are allowed beyond the entrance gate.) This is closer than the general public can get to the ranch! The tour's last stop is the panoramic overlook of the property where Dragon and Thomas will be able to point out the Ranches layout and some of the phenomenal hotspots.
Tour buses leave from the Uintah County Conference Center. Dragon and Thomas will be on separate buses but will switch buses so everyone has a chance to ask questions with both of them.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to purchase this add on item.
Limited Tickets Available
$100 / person
Friday, Sept. 9th
6:30-9:00PM
SOLD OUT
Blind Frog Ranch Tour
The Blind Frog Ranch is a thrilling interactive tour that takes you onto the BFR property. See the sites that you have seen on the TV show as well as sights not included in the show. The tour will have ten stopping points along the way. Including the Dig Site, the Pond and Cave, Ute Doorway and more. Keep your cameras ready! There are some beautiful views and amazing photo opportunities on the tour.
*PhenomeCon Registration is required to add this to your agenda.
*Limited space available
*Tours depart from BFR Outpost (528 West Main Street, Vernal, UT) Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in, complete waivers and use restroom.
*This is an interactive tour. There will be some moderate hiking (on the dirt road only) and activities along the way. Please wear hiking boots or tennis shoes.
*You will have the opportunity to soak in the mineral rich pond for up to 20 minutes. Please wear your bathing suit or board shorts under your clothes. (There is no place to change into swimming attire on the BFR) Bring your own towel or purchase one from the BFR Outpost.
*You are allowed to bring only one medium size backpack (nothing bigger). Backpacks will be held on your lap during the van portion of the tour.
*Bring some drinking water and sunscreen.
*Photos only! No video taken on the BFR. (Discovery Channel controls video & media from the Ranch)
Disclaimer: This is an off road adventure tour, so there will be a lot of bumps, grooves & rocks on the dirt road. The tour will have to 4-wheel and power through the rough terrain. If you're only comfortable with a smooth ride, this may not be the tour for you.
Interactive Tour
$75 / person
Wednesday, Sept. 7th
5:00pm - 8:00pm
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Thursday, Sept. 8th
9:00am - noon
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