Monsters in Your Backyard Panel

Presented as part of NSN’s 2022 Haunted: Share the Scare

With Gene Tagaban, Donna Washington, David Schmidt, and Dr. Elizabeth Tucker and moderated by Mara Menzies

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Monsters in Your Backyard Panel (Gene Tagaban, Donna Washington, David Schmidt, and Dr. Elizabeth Tucker, moderated by Mara Menzies)

You don’t have to go far to find stories of the weird and the odd.  There are monsters in your own backyard.  Come and hear from this amazing panel of experts, as they share their own perspectives and experiences about finding and bringing to life stories of the strange and unusual.  Gene Tagaban is a storyteller, trainer, actor, speaker, and mentor (storytellingraven.com).  Donna Washington is a storyteller, spoken word recording artist, and author (dlwstoryteller.com).  David Schmidt is an author,  storyteller, and translator speaking nine languages (holyghoststories.com).  Dr. Elizabeth Tucker is a professor of English and Literature at Binghampton University (State University of New York) and researches the folklore of the supernatural (binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=ltucker).  Mara Menzies, a storyteller, and author will be the moderator and will be beaming in from Kenya  (marathestoryteller.com).