Issue: No. 5 – Monsters, Ghosts, and UFOs of the Great Lakes
Brad Blair – Author, adventurer, podcast host, and lifelong paranormal enthusiast, Brad Blair has spent decades researching the strange and unknown. His passion for the paranormal has taken him across the United States and around the globe to some of the most haunted and mysterious locations known to the world.
Co-author of the books Yoopernatural Haunts, Great Lakes Monsters & Mysteries, and author of Paranormal Justice, Brad has contributed to numerous periodicals and documentaries on all things strange, and is a co-founder of the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society. He resides in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with his wife and son, where he operates several tourism related businesses and co-hosts Creaking Door Paranormal Radio alongside Tim Ellis.
Follow Brad:
Facebook: @brad.blair.73
Tim Ellis – Tim is married and the father of four fur babies in beautiful Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where he was born and raised. He and his wife, Lindsay, own two radio stations, 94.5 and 95.1 Bridge FM, where he is the Morning Show Host. In 1998, along with two childhood friends, Brad Blair and Steve LaPlaunt, they started the journey that became The Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society “Yoopers” (U.P.P.R.S.). From 2000 to 2006, Tim took his love of radio and ghosts as a Co-Host for a podcast called TAPS Family Radio, a wildly popular TAPS team branch from the Ghost Hunters TV show.
In 2008, Tim and Brad Co-Founded, with the support of their U.P.P.R.S. team, the Michigan Paranormal Convention, becoming one of the largest Paranormal Gatherings in the United States. In 2012, Tim brought back his love of radio and ghosts when he and Brad created Creaking Door Paranormal Radio, a podcast on all the major platforms such as iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify.
In 2018, Tim, Steve, and Brad worked together again as they tri-authored their first book, Yoopernatural Haunts: From The Case Files of The Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society, which was published by one of the field’s leading authors, Rosemary Ellen Guiley. The book went to number one, multiple times, on Amazon’s New Releases: Ghost & Hauntings.
In 2021, Tim and Brad released their second book, Great Lakes Monsters and Mysteries, recounting some of the myriad legends and lore of Michigan’s Great Lakes region. Along with monsters of the deep, you will read of UFOs and alien encounters, shapeshifters, cryptids both winged and terrestrial, imps, fairies, gnomes, Black-Eyed-Kids, haunted lighthouses, and phantom schooners.
Tim continues to be a veteran paranormal investigator, working in the field for three decades. He is a professional international speaker and Master of Ceremonies for 30 years, speaking on all things paranormal and weird. Tim is the Co-Owner of Yoopernatural Haunts Ghost Walking and History Tours in his hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, He is featured in numerous publications, including U.S.A. Today, The Detroit Free Press, and Lake Superior Magazine, to name a few and helped in several documentaries on the paranormal. As much as he loves radio, Tim is truly happiest when working, writing, and speaking about ghosts, monsters, legends, and everything that keeps most people up at night.
Follow Tim:
Facebook: @tim.ellis.9
Instagram: @timmye_72
X/Twitter: @TalkingTim