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Meet The CAPS TEAM
The Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society is comprised of a unique group of individuals that encompass a wide range of modalities. From Cryptozoology, Research, survival, Spirit Communication and more.
When our team takes on a case we are able to not only look at it from one point of view and area of research but by several.
NAME: Barnaby Jones
TITLE: Founder/Lead Investigator
SPECIALTY: Cryptozoology
BIO: Founder and lead investigator for CAPS, host of two podcasts (Monsters on the Edge, and Whispers from the Dark) I have been interested in Paranormal and Cryptids my whole life, as far back as elementary school I remember doing a research paper on El Chupacabra, and this was at the height of the reports and sightings. Throughout grade school I was investigating cemeteries and other paranormal things. Later on, I opened Misery Haunted House in an actual haunted location and had a lot more paranormal experiences and really got interested in learning more. 2019 I met Craig Sulk (owner of the Hyden Adventure) and after talking with him about the Bigfoot activity on his property I created Cryptids, Anomalies, and the Paranormal Society. CAPS has been going ever since.
INTERESTING FACTS: Diploma in Cryptozoology. I have traveled from New York to California and been to a zoo in almost every state, former Professional Wrestler and owner of Misery Haunted House.
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: Had a fake tree violently shaken, then thrown at me by an unknown entity while building sets at Misery Haunted House.
Barnaby is the host of "Monsters on the Edge" On Untold Radio AM
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Barnaby is the host of "Paranormal Spectrum" On the Untold Radio Network
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NAME: Barbara Post
TITLE: Investigator
SPECIALTY: Camping & Outdoors
BIO: My name is Barbara and I have a career in home Healthcare and have been working with autistic children for over 20 years. I enjoy outdoor activities like camping, hiking, kayaking and animal photography. I am also an avid rockhound and love painting rocks. My husband and I enjoy traveling with our two puppies exploring new and exciting places.
INTERESTING FACTS: Collector of Yooperlite Rocks
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: One of the most unique things i have experienced was In 2021 while driving through the Eastern Upper Penninsula of Michigan. It was late and I witnessed what could only be described as a goblin walking on the side of the road. At first I didn't believe my own eyes but there was no doubt. Since my husband and I live in an active haunted house nothing really suprizes me anymore!
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NAME: Chris McCreary
TITLE: Researcher
SPECIALTY: Bushcraft & Tracking
BIO: I've always had an interest in the strange side of our world. I've always had a love and respect for the outdoors since childhood. I learned a lot of my outdoor skills from my time in the army, which has grown into continuous learning with bushcraft and survival skills. Being in the woods, you need to be prepared for anything at all times. Pairing my two passions of bushcrafting and the strange occurrences of cryptids to UFOs allows me to constantly learn and sharpen my skills while investigating high strangeness. Every time I'm in the woods, it's an adventure, and I'm enjoying my journey!
INTERESTING FACTS: There is so much more in this world than what meets the eye. In the words of Ron Morehead " your mind is like a parachute, it only works if it's open"
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: Most memorable encounter to date would have to be my road crossing sighting. In spring of 2016 driving to a lake to go fishing, I was driving down a winding country road. I crossed over a set of railroad tracks to a sharp left hand turn. Slowly coming out of the turn I saw something large quickly cross the road in front of me from right to left on two legs. It jumped down into the ditch turn towards my truck, grabs the ground and thrusts itself towards me with an over arm swing of it's right arm grabbing the dirt throwing it's body forward. I smoked at the time and needing to ash my cigarette, I turned to my window to ash. In that 2 seconds it took to ash, I looked back and the creature was completely gone. I stopped in the area and looked into the woods and I didn't see anything. Knowing I had someone waiting for me at the lake I decided to leave. It took me 4 years to tell anyone about what I saw that day. But I'm grateful for the experience. And I hope to see something like that again.
NAME: Derek
TITLE: Investigator
SPECIALTY: Medium
BIO: Been ghost hunting for a little over 10 yrs. I am a spirit medium, and the lead investigator for my own ghost hunting group called Ghosthunters of Appleton (G.O.A)
INTERESTING FACTS: Avid Geocaher
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: When I was upstairs at an antique store, I picked a toy truck up and down with the price tag on the outside, I left it alone and when I came back to check on the truck, it was askew with the price tag tucked in. I heard a disembodied voice say "who's there" after I asked if anyone is there.
NAME: Ellie Weisensel
TITLE: Investigator
SPECIALTY: Psychic Medium
CONTACT ELLIE
BIO: Born in WI and have lived my entire life within 60 miles of birthplace. Even the
two years I worked on the Canadian Border in a little town called Pembina ND I
owned my house in WI and drove home every weekend. (yes it was a long drive
one way) After the two years in ND, I transferred to Minneapolis MN for 9
months, while still traveling home every weekend (and now some week days)
then transferred to Madison WI which allowed me to be home every night. I
never claimed residency in ND or MN.
INTERESTING FACTS: As long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a medium and converse with the
spirit world. I just never imagined it would involve the darker side and entity
releasements that have taken me on a path beyond my wildest dreams. I never
thought that my life would be busier in retirement than it was when I worked full
time.
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER:
One weekend I was babysitting my grand-girls at their house, they were ages 5
and 2. The 5 year old was showing mediumship abilities. We were in the living
room watching TV. The hallway light was left on. While watching TV, we all three
had fallen asleep (the TV did not have a timer on it). The girls fell asleep on one
couch and I feel asleep on the other couch. Around 2 am, my oldest grand-
daughter starting screaming, GAGA what is that, GAGA what is that? I woke up to
her screams. There was an apparition hanging in midair between the two
couches. Its back was to me and facing my grand-daughter. Looking at its back it
looked about 3 feet tall and dressed as a girl in a dress with a coat, and in black
boots. It slowly turned its face toward me to show me she was a little girl, till she
grinned that horrific scary grin. I stumbled in the dark searching for my phone as
it had turned off the hall light and the TV and it was pitch black in the house. I
couldn’t find my phone so I stood up and turned to find the living room light
switch to turn on the lights. As I stood up, it dissipated in thin air. I felt like I had
touched an electric fence. I picked up my granddaughter and proceeded to
conduct an entity releasement. The next day I asked her, what she saw and she
replied with a scary old man. At that moment I knew they could show themselves
as they want, however they want, to whom they want.
NAME: Ethan
TITLE: Skeptic
SPECIALTY: Debunking
BIO: Originally from Richland Center WI and grew up in a hunting family so I've always been out in the woods and very familiar with the typical sounds and sights.
INTERESTING FACTS: History fanatic and avid scale modeler
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: While investigating the Burlington Woods, experiencing unidentified movement in the leaves on the ground, that we could not locate or justify the source.
NAME: "MA"
TITLE: Researcher/Investigator
SPECIALTY: Research
BIO: Born and raised and educated in Wisconsin.Have traveled throughout the western states.Enjoy sewing, crafting, creating and exploring, always learning.Love to read, examining the facts and solving mysteries.Work involves data research, and problem solving and developing new methods.
INTERESTING FACTS: Have decades of experience with paranormal. Read and studied many different authors.Psychics : Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, John Edwards. Paranormal investigators: Books and pod casts, and radio shows. Too many to list.Encounter Books By: Mary Sutherland, Linda Godfrey, Chad Lewis.Studies of the Ancient Peoples, and Native American Folklore, Effigy Mounds, Fairie Lore and other cryptids.Also UFO encounters and areas that most of these things take place and why.Along with enjoying the fiction books that sometimes are more truth than fiction.Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Harry Potter series, Fablehaven, DragonWatch, Seekers, Eragon series,and TV series like Star Trek and Supernatural. Just have some interesting things to add.
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: Including many paranormal experiences, ghostly communications,
and other strange photographic anomalies. The shadow person experience, in my own home, was one of the most memorable experiences, that I would not like to repeat. Although, in the Burlington woods, the occurrence of all the characteristics of a Bigfoot encounter, except the actual sighting of one, was pretty memorable too. I would like to see a bigfoot, but not too close.
NAME: Rick Post
TITLE: Investigator
SPECIALTY: Camping & Outdoors
BIO: My name is Rick and I am a Gemini. Ironically this allows me to look at things from multiple perspectives.
INTERESTING FACTS: I enjoy getting out in nature and exploring as well as discovering the unknown.
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER: My wife Barbara and I live in a haunted house and have stories that would curl your hair; ever hear ghostly children play hopscotch outside your bedroom door at 2 AM? I tend to be the skeptic looking for rationality when something occurs but with keeping an open mind understanding there is not always a rational answer.
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NAME: Stephanie Lynn
TITLE: Investigator
SPECIALTY: Spirit Sensitive
BIO:I am a certified psychic medium. As a Spirit Sensitive individual my main goal is to bring understanding and communication from Spirit to others. I have completed a multitude of courses and certifications to ensure the legitimacy and validity of my abilities.
Outside of my servitude of Spirit I also work to grow and develop my own education and understanding of both paranormal and cryptid encounters. Even with my abilities I try to approach all investigations and occurrences with a skeptical but open mind that seeks all possibilities and attempts to support any evidence of an occurrence with documentable proof.
I am looking forward to continuing to learn from the amazing members of CAPS and finding new avenues to bring resources, understanding and help to others.
INTERESTING FACTS: Even though I have abilities and consider myself a Spirit Sensitive I have a very analytical mind and think of myself as a skeptic. I feel that having an analytical mind and operating from a point of skepticism allows me to approach situations and investigations from a very balanced perspective.
MOST MEMORABLE ENCOUNTER:It is hard to pinpoint what my favorite paranormal experience is, I have had many throughout the course of my life. When I tried to answer the question about a paranormal experience I’ve had an experience that happened when testing some new equipment for paranormal investigations came to mind.Myself and 2 of my colleagues were testing some new equipment, that included a spirit box at a local graveyard. I was asking if there was any Spirit’s in the graveyard who would like to talk to us. I thought I heard “Bob” through the Spirit box and promptly asked “did you say Bob”?
This time the voice I heard in the Spirit box clearly said “Bob”. I repeated the name. It was at that time I noticed the face of one of the people I was with. Their jaw was dropped, and they were pointing behind me. I turned around and to my surprise the gravestone marker directly behind me belonged to a man named Robert. This isn’t the craziest of experiences but a very profound one for me!