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Casey Affleck

Cast · Known for ParaNorman, Interstellar, Good Will Hunting

Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. He receives various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. The younger brother of actor Ben Affleck, he began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), Gerry (2002), and in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's film series (2001–2007). His first role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006). Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007 when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Robert Ford in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in his brother's crime drama Gone Baby Gone. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here. He went on to appear in Tower Heist (2011), ParaNorman (2012), and Interstellar (2014), and he received praise for his performance as an outlaw in Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013). In 2016, Affleck starred in the drama Manchester by the Sea, in which his performance as a grieving man earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has since starred in the dramas A Ghost Story (2017) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018) and as Boris Pash in the biographical thriller Oppenheimer (2023), his highest-grossing release. Description above from the Wikipedia article Casey Affleck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

Cast · Known for ParaNorman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men: Apocalypse

Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian actor. He gained recognition as a child actor for his leading roles in The Road (2009) and Let Me In (2010). In 2021, Smit-McPhee garnered critical acclaim for his performance as Peter Gordon in Jane Campion's western film The Power of the Dog, for which he earned nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He provided the voice of the titular character in ParaNorman (2012) and appeared in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Alpha (2018), and Dark Phoenix (2019).

Jon Brion

Composer · Known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ParaNorman, The Other Guys

Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones, Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to Stereogum, Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include Hard Eight (1996), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I Heart Huckabees (both 2004), Synecdoche, New York (2008), ParaNorman (2012), Lady Bird (2017), and Christopher Robin (2018). He released his debut solo album, Meaningless, in 2001. Brion was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey on December 11, 1963. He comes from a musical family; his mother, LaRue, was an administrative assistant and singer, and his father, Keith Brion, was a band director at Yale. His brother and sister became a composer/arranger and a violinist, respectively. Brion grew up in Connecticut, where he dropped out of Hamden High School at the age of 17, opting instead to play music professionally. From 1980–85 Jon was part of the band The Excerpts, along with Stephen Harris, Dean Falcone, Jim Balga, Bobby Butcher & Spike Priggen. In the early 1980s, Brion and musician/producer Bill Murphy began a writing collaboration in New Haven, Connecticut. They eventually enlisted bassist Don "Riff" Fertman and together formed the Bats (not to be confused with the New Zealand group or South African group of the same name). The Bats released a single, "Popgun", and one album, How Pop Can You Get?, on Gustav Records in 1982. The recordings had much critical acclaim, but little commercial success, and the trio eventually disbanded. In 1987, Brion moved to Boston, where he played solo gigs, formed the short-lived band World's Fair and became a member of the last touring version of Aimee Mann's new wave band 'Til Tuesday. He contributed guitar work to Jellyfish's 1993 album Spilt Milk, and in 1994, joined Dan McCarroll, Buddy Judge and ex-Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner in the short-lived pop band the Grays. He also played guitar on the Wallflowers' hit song "One Headlight", using a screwdriver that was sitting atop a nearby amp as a slide. Brion played numerous instruments on Sam Phillips' 1996 release Omnipop. Brion is featured as keyboardist and drummer on Marianne Faithfull's 2003 album, Kissin Time, and co-wrote a song, "City of Quartz", for her next work, 2005's Before the Poison. After being recognized as an accomplished session player, Brion branched out into production on then-girlfriend Mann's 1993 solo debut, Whatever, and its follow-up, I'm With Stupid. He has also produced albums by Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright, Eleni Mandell, Rhett Miller, Robyn Hitchcock, Brad Mehldau and Evan Dando, and co-produced Kanye West's Late Registration in 2005. ... Source: Article "Jon Brion" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0."

Sam Fell

Director · Known for ParaNorman

Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965) is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor. Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation. He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like Pop, Peter Lord's Oscar-nominated short film Wat's Pig, as well as Rex the Runt, before directing the 2002 project Chump. He also developed a children's TV series called Rabbits!. In 2001, he came up with the story of Flushed Away which he developed through 2002. From 2003, he went on to direct (with David Bowers) the film for Aardman. He also provided the voices for the characters Liam, The Prophet, Ladykiller and Fanseller. From 2008, he went on to direct The Tale of Despereaux for Universal Studios, and also provided the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge. Fell co-directed Laika's ParaNorman, with Chris Butler, which was released in the United States in August 2012.

Brady Allen

Brady Allen is an actor, known for Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) and Pearl Was Here (2013).

Gabrielle Walsh

Gabrielle Walsh is an American actress best known for her roles as Marisol in the found footage supernatural horror film Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) and as Jess in the science fiction thriller The Hive (2014). Walsh has also appeared on various television series, most notably Shameless, The Vampire Diaries, and From Dusk till Dawn: The Series.

Gloria Sandoval

Gloria Sandoval is known for The Heartbreak Kid (2007), Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) and Circle (2015).

Brianna Nicole

Brianna Nicole is an actress and producer, known for Paranormal Whacktivity (2013), Tough Love: Couples (2010) and Widow Detective (2012).

Nick Redfern

Cast · Known for Ancient Aliens

Nick Redfern is a well-known author and investigator specializing in topics such as UFOs, paranormal phenomena, and cryptozoology. His work often explores the intersection of these subjects with government secrecy and conspiracy theories.

Aaron Goodwin

Aaron Goodwin (born April 1, 1976) is an equipment technician, camera operator, and paranormal investigator. He is best known for his work on the Travel Channel's paranormal investigation series Ghost Adventures. In need of a cameraman for their documentary, Bagans and Groff first met and hired Goodwin in Las Vegas to assist them with primary filming and B-roll taping. The documentary then led to the series , Ghost Adventures. Often left alone on "hotspots" within the locations under investigation, Goodwin has been portrayed as "bait" to attract supposed ghostly spirits. Before joining Bagans and Groff, Goodwin had worked as a camera operator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and several behind-the-scenes films premiere in Las Vegas. He is also known for his work on Space Detective (2017), Malevolence (2004) and Crimps (2011).

Ivy George

Ivy George is an American actress. Her first acting role was as 'Little Girl' in an episode of The Crazy Ones, starring Robin Williams. She is best known for playing Leila Fleege in Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.

Ryan Bergara

Ryan Steven Bergara (born November 26, 1990) is an American Internet personality, actor, paranormal investigator, and co-founder of digital entertainment company, Watcher Entertainment. Bergara first rose to prominence after creating and co-starring in the YouTube true crime and supernatural series BuzzFeed Unsolved.

Shane Madej

Shane Alexander Madej (born May 16, 1986) is an American Internet personality, paranormal investigator, and co-founder of digital entertainment company, Watcher Entertainment. Madej rose to prominence for co-starring in the YouTube true crime and supernatural series BuzzFeed Unsolved.

Oren Peli

Producer · Known for Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, Insidious: Out of the Further

Oren Peli is an Israeli-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer best known for creating and directing the groundbreaking horror film Paranormal Activity. Produced on a microbudget, the film became a worldwide phenomenon and helped redefine modern found footage horror. Peli has since produced and developed numerous genre projects, including Insidious, Area 51, Chernobyl Diaries, The Bay and entries in the Paranormal Activity franchise.

Kawakawa Fox-Reo

Kawakawa Fox-Reo is a Kiwi actor of Māori descent, known for The Dead Lands (2020), Home and Away (1988) and Wellington Paranormal (2018).

John Newland

Cast · Director · Known for Robert Montgomery Presents, The Philco Television Playhouse, Thriller

John Newland was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter. In 1959, Newland became the host and director of the paranormal television series One Step Beyond. The series ended its run in 1961 and Newland later hosted its short-lived counterpart The Next Step Beyond in 1978. Following the demise of his One Step Beyond, Newland directed one of the early 1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes called "The Double Affair". His episode was given additional footage and released to cinemas as a motion picture titled The Spy with My Face. In 1966 he produced and directed all episodes but one of the serious spy series The Man Who Never Was for which he also served as a writer. Some episodes were strung together and released outside the United States as a film called Danger Has Two Faces. He later directed episodes of The Sixth Sense, and Police Woman. In addition to acting, directing, and screenwriting, he produced several television movies.

Soo Garay

Soo Garay is a Canadian actress born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is probably best known for playing Dr. Claire Davison on the TV series Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal.

David Wilcock

Cast · Known for Ancient Aliens

David Wilcock (March 8, 1973 – April 20, 2026) was an American paranormal writer, media personality, and YouTuber. A significant figure in the disclosure movement, Wilcock suggested that he was in telepathic contact with space aliens. Wilcock graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY, New Paltz) in 1995, where he studied psychology. He unsuccessfully applied to graduate school at Naropa University. Following graduation from SUNY, New Paltz, Wilcock worked for several weeks at a psychiatric hospital, according to religious studies scholar David G. Robertson, who was quoting directly from Wilcock's book, The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? Interdimensional Communication and Global Transformation. Robertson reports that Wilcock's interest in the paranormal began in 1993 when he heard from someone who, in turn, heard from someone else, that it was "common knowledge at NASA that UFOs had been recovered from crash sites". He was later told by his girlfriend, Yumi, that a Shinto shaman said he would become a "famous spiritual leader", and, a roommate also told him he had a dream in which Wilcock appeared as a "wanderer". By the late 1990s, it had been suggested to Wilcock that he was the reincarnation of Cayce. From 2010 on, Wilcock hosted a YouTube channel that eventually garnered half a million followers. He regularly appeared on the History Channel program Ancient Aliens. On April 20, 2026, Wilcock died by self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Nederland, Colorado residence.

George Knapp

George T. Knapp is an American journalist, news anchor, and talk radio host. Much of Knapp's work has focused on the paranormal, particularly UFOs. Knapp is noted for bringing to prominence UFO conspiracy theorist Bob Lazar in 1989.

John B. Alexander

John B. Alexander is a retired United States Army colonel. An infantry officer for much of his career, he is best known as a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal. He has written and lectured on UFOs. He characterizes his career as having "evolved from hard-core mercenary to thanatologist". Alexander figures prominently in journalist Jon Ronson's book 'The Men Who Stare At Goats', which was adapted into a Hollywood film starring George Clooney (2009).

Lynn Picknett

Lynn Picknett (born 1947) is an English writer of books that are mainly about religious history and popular conspiracy theories, the paranormal, the occult, and historical mysteries.Born in Folkestone, Kent, England, in April 1947, Picknett grew up in an alleged haunted house in York, attending Park Grove Junior School and Queen Anne Grammar School. After graduating from university with an Upper 2nd (hons) degree in English Literature, she briefly became a teacher, a shop assistant, and a stand-up comic before moving to London in 1971 to join Marshall Cavendish Publications as a trainee sub-editor. In 1990, Picknett was guest curator for the Royal Photographic Society's exhibition The Unexplained at Bath, performing the same function in 1999 for the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television at Bradford. In the early 1990s, Picknett teamed up with fellow researcher and writer Clive Prince. Their first book, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History, claimed that the characteristics of the Shroud of Turin could be reproduced using only a pinhole camera (camera obscura) and that Leonardo da Vinci, in producing the image, used his own face for the model of Jesus. This is inconsistent with the first exhibition of the Shroud of Turin, authentic or not, which was in 1357, almost a century before the birth of da Vinci, although Picknett and Prince counter-argue that the relic predating da Vinci "was not the same one as today's." The 1997 book The Templar Revelation by Picknett and Prince was credited by Dan Brown, both in The Da Vinci Code and in the 2006 court case (Baigent & Leigh v Random House), as the main inspiration for his novel.

Karen O'Leary

Cast · Known for What We Do in the Shadows

Karen O'Leary is a popular New Zealand early childhood educator, comedian, and actress. She is best known for her breakout role as Officer O'Leary in What We Do in the Shadows and its hit spin-off series Wellington Paranormal, as well as competing on season 4 of Taskmaster NZ.

Erin Marie Hogan

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Erin first displayed interest in the entertainment industry when she built a stage out of cardboard bricks in her preschool classroom and directed her classmates to stand on the make-shift stage and perform. Throughout her school years, she performed in numerous school and community plays and eventually, in films. She also sang with local bands Failside and Tight Pants Syndrome. Erin recently appeared in the films Paranormal Entity and 6 Guns. The streaming series, Kingdom Come premieres in June, 2010.

Jason Blum

Producer · Known for Halloween, Insidious: Chapter 2, Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Jason Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer and the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, the studio behind some of the most influential horror films of the 21st century. Under his leadership, Blumhouse produced the blockbuster franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and Halloween, helping redefine low-budget, high-impact genre filmmaking. Blum’s producing credits also include Sinister, Oculus, Whiplash, The Gallows, The Gift, Hush, Split, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Get Out, Happy Death Day, Upgrade, Us, The Invisible Man, Freaky, The Black Phone, M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Speak No Evil, spanning horror, thriller, and prestige drama. He has received multiple Academy Awards Best Picture nominations for Whiplash, Get Out, and BlacKkKlansman. In television, Blum won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for The Normal Heart and later earned an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the acclaimed true-crime miniseries The Jinx.