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June 11, 2008
501(c)(3) non-profit status in 2005.
Dave Bender grew up in Montana surrounded by his Native American background.
He studied traditional ceremonies and medicine from his uncle. Dave’s family has
always discussed and embraced the paranormal. He moved to California and started
American Paranormal Investigations, in part to assist others with their struggles
surrounding the paranormal, but also to provide others with the opportunity to learn
more about the paranormal. He works in the Social Services field by day and by night
monitors the group’s nonprofit status.
Day Job: Social Worker and Screen Writer
Hobbies: Basketball, Pool, Darts, and Scary Movies
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EVP, and Photography. And a Sensitive with various abilities.
Ann Overhiser is a farmer’s daughter from Michigan. She lived eight years in
Spokane, WA before moving to Sacramento, CA. For relaxation she enjoys
everything from camping and fishing, to bead work, to figure skating, to photography.
API provides an outlet for her to explore what can’t be proven….yet. She has a
background in crisis counseling, shelter supervisor, domestic violence advocate, sexual
assault advocate, and CPR/BLS instruction.
Day Job: Retired Paramedic, and Sr. Special Procedures Technologist
Hobbies: Figure Skating, Beading, Photography, and Going on Adventures
Anywhere!
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invaluable to every investigation he participates in.
Jason Keli’inohokula Lindo, or Keli’i to his friends and family, is a sensitive from a long
line of sensitives. Jason was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and is of Native Hawaiian,
Chinese and Sephardic Jewish heritage. Jason grew up in a traditional Hawaiian
home steeped in beliefs about ghosts, ancestral guardian spirits and legends of sacred
geographic spots. Jason says his first encounter with a ghost, the spirit of his
Hawaiian great grandmother, happened when he was 5 years old at an old Chinese
graveyard in the Makiki district of Honolulu. Since that encounter, Jason has
developed, with the encouragement of family elders, his ability to sense and
communicate with spirits. Jason has been a member of several California paranormal
groups and has been featured on the live broadcast of Dead Famous from
Hollywood. Jason has investigated some well known California haunted locations,
including: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the California Governor’s Mansion, the
Crocker Museum and Sky Ranch near Yosemite National Park. In addition to his
work in paranormal investigations, Jason is also active in several Native Hawaiian
cultural and political groups in Northern California where he frequently advises on
traditional Hawaiian protocols and at his synagogue in Sacramento, where he and his
partner of 15 yrs are active members. Jason also works as a social worker and
supervisor for a large, Sacramento based non-profit agency working with the
developmentally disabled. Among Jason’s interests is collecting multicultural ghost
lore and historical documentations of hauntings from across the globe.
Day Job: Social worker and supervisor
Hobbies: Collecting multicultural ghost lore
addictive.
I was born in San Jose, Ca. in March of 1974 to two of the very best parents in the
world. Although my mother will not admit it (due to her belief system), I have inherited
her and my grandmothers sensitivity. I was raised a non-denominational Christian, and
currently have my own beliefs rooted in nature and the All is One theory. I believe in
trying to be a positive influence in people and am generally an optimistic and happy
person. I have been interested in the paranormal since I was a very young child, as I was
aware of the presences of deceased family members I had never met before and have
spent the better part of my lifetime looking for like-minded folks to work with; which is
one reason I am so pleased and proud to be part of A.P.I. Currently I am a full time
student working on a degree in Television Production and Film Studies at CRC in
which we have several productions currently airing on local access cable, and I have
some schooling in Landscape Architecture. I work part time for a high end storage
company. I have worked at several historic sites with documented paranormal activity. I
have also worked as a supervisor at a high-end coffee roasting company in the Bay
Area and I love to talk coffee!
Day Job: Producer for the local TV show "Live Wire"
Hobbies: I enjoy dancing to house music, and tap dancing ( which I have been doing
since I was 8 years old), listening to punk, psychobilly, and rockabilly music, and going
to pre-1965 car shows, camping, and riding my 2 bicycles ( not at the same time;) I love
vintage clothes, cars, furniture, bikes, etc. and I LOVE to swim in the ocean.
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Erin grew up in Loomis, CA. She has always been interested in the paranormal even
as a small child. She is 25 years old and lives with Kris, her boyfriend, Max her dog, and
Louie and Lucy, her two cats. She is an administrative assistant for a major Northern
California construction company and is also pursuing her Real Estate Sales License.
She enjoys spending time with friends and family, a lot of reading, and cooking. She
and Kris are expecting their 1st child in April of 2007.
Day Job: administrative assistant
Hobbies: spending time with friends and family
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Gary grew up in Denver, Colorado. He has lived in New York, Florida and Alabama
before finally landing in Sacramento. Gary has been interested in the paranormal
since he was a small child. My background is in management and engineering, I have a
Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, However, I am currently starting a new
phase in my life as a service technician while I pursue my MBA. Being new to hands-on
investigation of the paranormal, I have never seen a haunting and I look forward to the
day when I experience the paranormal for myself. Until then I remain agnostic about
ghosts and the paranormal; I intend to be objective and professional in researching
ghosts, spirits and haunts and I hope to produce real verifiable proof of them.
Day Job: Service Technician
Hobbies: Investing, reading, and travel especially to ruins and ghost towns and my
girlfriend Jaimie
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Vickie was born in Japan , the daughter of an army officer. Having lived and traveled in
several countries, she now calls Lake Tahoe her home. She worked for Universal
Studios, training animals for movies, and then began teaching children instead.
Although she still works as a teacher, she now enjoys her summer vacations performing
in musicals and looking for ghosts. She became interested in the paranormal when her
young daughter would talk about seeing her (deceased) grandmother. Looking for
answers, she too began experiencing paranormal activities. She worked for a couple
of years as a docent at Pipers Opera House in Virginia City , NV and has explored
many parts of the town on her own. She soon learned this was unsafe and began
looking for a group that had similar beliefs in the paranormal. She found API and
knew this was the group for her.
Day Job: Teacher
Hobbies: Performing in Musicals and looking for ghosts
My name is Marcie and I'm an enthusiastic newcomer to the API team. I've had a
lifelong interest in the paranormal, tempered with enough skepticism to keep me
grounded. As a kid I would save up my allowance to buy every issue of Fate magazine.
Google it if you don't know about that periodical. It really opened my mind to
possibilities that weren't exactly commonplace for little girls in the 1960s.
I currently live in Vacaville in a home haunted by my late husband Wayne, a native
Hawaiian with a good sense of humor. His latest prank was sending a sock monkey
sailing across my bedroom, nailing my oldest son, Joe, in the head. This, I believe, was
an homage to one of my favorite sayings, "Don't make me call my flying monkeys."
Our household consists of monkey-head Joe, his brother Bob, one fierce
dachshund, four obnoxious cats and a couple of feeder fish who turned into pets.
I have a background in newspaper reporting, so I look forward to pitching in on writing
and research projects. Power to the nerds who take pleasure in paper-pushing,
fact-finding missions!
The truth is not only "out there," it's in all of us.
Day Job: Jail booking clerk
Hobbies: Reading, knitting, Egyptology, old movies and an endless quest for the
perfect sushi.
I always believed in the supernatural especially after my family and I had our own
experiences. I joined API because I want to be able to help others like they helped me.
Day Job: Alameda County employee, and I served 4 years in the US Marine Corps
Hobbies: Bass fishing, military history, the paranormal, SF Giants fan, UFC fan
Hi, I'm Nick I was born and raised at South Lake Tahoe. I am currently in college full
time and enjoying every minute of it! I have not had many paranormal experiences, but
the few I've had sparked my curiosity. I prefer the strange and unusual!
Day Job: College Student
Hobbies: I love skiing, hiking, camping, and anything outdoors; I also love to play ice
hockey in goalie position, I play as a forward as well. When I'm not outside I'm inside
with friends playing video games, building something, or most likely doing homework...
HI, my name is Christie. I am a University of California Davis student with a psychology
major that happily calls Lake Tahoe my home. I grew up in the bay area and in Lake
Tahoe and throughout my life have had strange and unexplainable experiences that can
only be understood through the paranormal. I have done ghost hunts at Piper's Opera
House and other locations. I look forward to investigating and seeing whats out there.
Day Job: College Student
Hobbies: I'm into horseback riding, skiing, ballet, renaissance fares and any other fun
outdoors activities.
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