Interview by Janel Spiegel<\/p>\n
For more than 30 years Eric Mintel is an acclaimed jazz musician with his group the Eric Mintel Quartet. By later at night Eric Mintel investigates the paranormal.\u00a0 \u00a0Eric and spirit medium Dominic Sattele were recently featured on the cover of American Paranormal magazine (Jan\/Feb) 2023. Eric has also had stories written up on his paranormal activities by numerous newspapers and has been featured on many radio stations and podcasts across the country and around the world.<\/p>\n
Eric took time to talk with The Valley Ledger about his paranormal adventures and the upcoming Bucks County ParaCon! – 1st Annual Paranormal Conference.<\/p>\n
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Hi Eric, it\u2019s great to talk to you. How is everything going? Please tell us how all of this manifested?<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric-In 2016, I started Eric Mintel Investigates, and started doing some local inns, and bed and breakfast places, places that have great history, and haunted history. As a result of that, we have been doing events along with those videos, and on top of that we\u2019ve been traveling all over the country because people are so excited about what we\u2019re doing. Some of the stuff that we have caught on-camera is amazing. I go into a lot of these investigations on the skeptical side, but having said that, and having caught we have caught on-camera. I\u2019m now a firm believer that there is thin veil. People are seeing something. I saw a lot of these Paranormal Conventions, and we don\u2019t a lot of these in Bucks County. We decided on March 9th<\/sup> that we would have a Paranormal Convention in Bucks County. Tickets are flying off the shelf. We have some great key note speakers including: Nick Pope, Dominic Sattele, Bill Birnes, Tom Carey, Eric Spinner, and Jim Krug. Myself and Dominic Sattele will be speaking about our encounter with The Beast of Bray Road. <\/em>It\u2019s an upright canine dog-like creature that we encountered in 2021. We have quite a few keynote speakers coming from all over. We have vendors, crafters, food trucks. It\u2019s going to be a great day.<\/p>\n I love it. I love that. I appreciate that you go in skeptical. I don\u2019t like the term \u201cGhost Hunting.\u201d We are not hunting anything or anyone. We are interacting and showing appreciation so, thank you for that. <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- Me neither, I don\u2019t like that term. That\u2019s the other thing, people think, oh, he\u2019s a Ghost Hunter, and that\u2019s not what I do. We are a paranormal tourist TV show. We show people where to go, what to do, and where to stay, and where to have these incredible experiences. I go into this skeptically because not every place we go into is haunted. Now with the BigFoot, U.F.O. situation or the dog man situation, we have had encounters with those. We couldn\u2019t explain it, and you can hear it on the video. Then we saw eye-shine, and it\u2019s about six to seven feet tall. I said, we need to get out of here. We did an investigation at the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. This has completely changed my perspective on what\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n How long do your investigations take from start to finish? How do you start your process?<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- It\u2019s a daunting process. Right now, we\u2019re working on the VAMPA Museum.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been to VAMPA. It\u2019s quite a place. I felt sick in the one room. <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- It\u2019s a haunted Vampire Museum. Ed is the owner, and he has over 700 Vampire killing kits. We go into that with a lot of the history of the location, and we get a lot of the history about Ed. He\u2019s been all over the world. I don\u2019t tell my team anything. We go in and we have a cameraman. We don\u2019t use a lot of the gimmicky stuff. They give you a false reading. People don\u2019t account for camera equipment, and we go in as truth based as possible. I also want to emphasize that this is family friendly entertainment. We put some humor into it. Right now, at this vampire museum, we\u2019ve never dealt with demonic haunted objects. So, and I\u2019ll tell you, last Tuesday, we filmed some extra footage, which hasn\u2019t been released yet. We heard a disembodied voice; it freaked us all out. You could see our reactions. It was me, Dominic, and Ed. It was absolutely freaky; it was the same sound we heard in the barn. I would say it\u2019s Dominic. He\u2019s like a magnet for these things. I\u2019ve known Dominic my entire life, and I didn\u2019t know he was a spirit medium. Having him on the investigations is great. We have done places like Hanoverville Roadhouse.<\/p>\n I want to ask you about VAMPA because I was so fascinated, and I have had so many paranormal experiences. The Exorcism chair, the doll room, and the barn made me so uncomfortable. I felt like someone was grabbing me, and wanted us all out. It\u2019s stunning, and that tall doll. I don\u2019t know what you can reveal. But, what do you think? I can connect, my mom is gifted also. I can see, and feel. It\u2019s quite an experience. <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- Wow, you\u2019re not kidding about the barn. Yes, that\u2019s what we think. Dominic had an experience with that. I didn\u2019t want to go down that road, and there is something in there. I don\u2019t have those feelings but I feel like I need to get out there.<\/p>\n It gives off an angry energy. <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- Exactly. Your right on the money there. Ed knows, he was burning an object the other day because he thought it was demonically possessed and he didn\u2019t want to put it in the museum. We recently picked up a doll that was connected to the Robert Bailey Thomas estate. He created the Farmers Almanac. This thing was so weird, it had nails in it, a skull behind it. It was sitting in a beautifully carved baby chair. It had a skull in its hand. We were like, what the hell is this? We have a new video we\u2019re doing called, \u201cParanormal Pickers.\u201d The idea is that these objects are haunted, and how do we handle it, and cleanse the objects. It\u2019s been amazing. We have investigated quite a few incredible places. The VAMPA video will be released in June.<\/p>\n What advice or words of wisdom would you offer? <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- I\u2019ve always been a self-starter. You have to have a belief in yourself. I have an outlet to do this. Thankfully my jazz audience has followed me over to the paranormal world. Create and be truthful about it.<\/p>\n What is next for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- We just finished a tour, and we will be performing again. I have a tour coming up in April with my jazz quartet. I\u2019m focusing on this convention.<\/p>\n Thank you so much, Eric. It was such an honor to talk to you. You are awesome. <\/strong><\/p>\n Eric- Thank you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bucks County ParaCon!<\/p>\n https:\/\/ci.ovationtix.com\/36202\/production\/1185765?fbclid=IwAR1oi9FLdxMmTLtKVRqyHkm4QsGmUcC2OntIPbLbek3RmhBTMwJ6z-GeqYA<\/a><\/p>\n www.Facebook.com\/BucksPN1<\/a><\/p>\n www.EricMintelQuartet.com<\/a><\/p>\n Eric Mintel\u00a0Yamaha Artist:\u00a0https:\/\/www.yamaha.com\/artists\/ericmintel.html<\/a><\/p>\n Eric Mintel IMDB:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10693809\/<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BucksPN1\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/ericmintelquartet.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.vampamuseum.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interview by Janel Spiegel For more than 30 years Eric Mintel is an acclaimed jazz musician with his group the Eric Mintel Quartet. By later at night Eric Mintel investigates … Continue reading Interview with Eric Mintel | Interview by Janel Spiegel<\/span>