2007 Paranormal Awards: And the Winners Are...

 The Paranormal Awards Ceremony took place on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM. Mark Sceurman & Mark Moran of Weird US hosted this event. 

Thanks to those of you who made your voices heard by nominating the following groups, shows, Web sites, evidence, and published works for this year’s Paranormal Awards. From over 100 nominations, the top five in each of the following categories were collected and then voted on by visitors to this Web site.

Your votes for these nominees have been tabulated to result in the Best of Best for each category, and the winners have presented with engraved awards to mark their achievement. 

See the list below for the nominees and the winners.

The Nominees Were:

2006 Lifetime Achievement Award
Brad Steiger (About Brad Steiger)
Hans Holzer, Ph.D. (About Hans Holzer)
Art Bell (About Art Bell)

...And the winner is: Hans Holzer, Ph.D!

Best Paranormal Book of 2006
Weird Hauntings: True Tales of Ghostly Places by Joanne Austin
Dread and the Dead Filled the Dunnam House by Dusty Smith
The Case for Ghosts by J. Allan Danelek
So There I Was... by Troy Taylor and Len Adams
PSIence: How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena by Marie D. Jones

...And the winner is: Weird Hauntings: True Tales of Ghostly Places by Joanne Austin

Best Paranormal Research Web site of 2006
Eastern Paranormal - www.easternparanormal.com
East Tennessee Paranormal Research Society - www.tnseeparanormal.com
The Atlantic Paranormal Society - www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com
The Shadowlands: Ghosts and hauntings - www.theshadowlands.net/ghost/
Missouri Paranormal Research - www.missouriparanormalresearch.com

...And the winner is: Eastern Paranormal

Best Ghost Hunting Organization of 2006
Missouri Paranormal Research (website)
The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) (website)
Paranormal Visions (website)
Eastern Paranormal (website)
Cape and Islands Paranormal Research Society (website)

...And the winner is: The Atlantic Paranormal Society

Best Ghost Evidence (photo, video, or EVP) of 2006
Missouri Paranormal Research - Waverly Hills Sanatorium Photo (see it / read write up)
Missouri Paranormal Research - The Blue Ghost (see it / read write up)
Northern Minnesota Paranormal Investigators - "Bound" EVP (hear it / read write up under "Ashley's House, Cohasset, MN)
South Jersey Paranormal Research - Mt. Peace Mist (see it / read write up)
Daytona Beach Paranormal Research Group - Judge Stickney Sighting (see it / read write up)

...And the winner is: Missouri Paranormal Research for "Waverly Hills Sanatorium Photo"

Best Paranormal Broadcast of 2006
APSR Paranormal Talk Radio (website)
Ghostly Talk Radio (website)
Ghost Hunters TV Show (website)
A Haunting TV Show (website)
The 'X' Zone Radio Show (website)

...And the winner is: Ghost Hunters

The list of nominations was culled from user-submitted entries over a period of six weeks on the ghostworldconference.com Web site. The winners were determined by online votes cast on this Web site over a period of eight weeks.

Thank you to those of you who nominated Ghostvillage.com, author Jeff Belanger, author Vince Wilson, the organization of the NJGHS, and The Deadline podcast. The founders of Ghost World, LLC were honored that you thought so much of our work to nominate us, but in keeping with a clear conscience we removed ourselves from the nomination and voting process.