BARRY CONRAD

Occupation: Documentary producer & Cameraman
Private Interest: Paranormal Researcher

Barry Conrad originally hails from Hamilton, Ohio. Originally, he started out as a TV news cameraman at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati working under the auspices of anchorman/reporter Nick Clooney (father of actor George Clooney).

When Conrad was 12 years old, he overheard a friend of his mother’s discussing the paranormal incidents taking place in her new home on the outskirts of Fairfield, Ohio. Doors would slam shut of their own accord, objects moved around and the all pervasive odor of smoke would sometimes filter through the house. One night her son nearly jumped from the balcony of an upstairs bedroom, feeling that he was being asphyxiated by an invisible fire.

Barry was impressed by the woman’s apparent sincerity and from then on, he developed an interest in supernatural matters.

After a five year stint in Ohio, Conrad was offered another stint as news photographer in Denver, Colorado. He worked for both KWGN-TV and later moved over to KOA-TV (the NBC affiliate station) shooting both news and feature stories. In 1986, he moved to California to start his own production company called American Video Features (now known as Barcon Video).

During the fall of 1987, he met Dr. Barry Taff who had once investigated a woman’s claims that she had been raped and attacked by an invisible force. The story became a motion picture in 1983 called “The Entity”. Thereafter Taff and Conrad developed a working relationship that lasts to this day as they have investigated dozens of haunted house and poltergeist cases in the Los Angeles area.

In 1989, one of those cases turned out to be nearly as frightening as “The Entity”. While checking into a woman’s story in San Pedro of malevolent ghostly activity including the sighting of a disembodied head, the pair encountered violent phenomena.

Conrad filmed the case and later made it into a documentary titled “An Unknown Encounter”. Segments of the story later appeared in an anthology film that he produced in 2002 called “ California’s Most Haunted”. Both shows garnered high ratings when they aired on the Sci-Fi Channel’s “Tuesday De-classified” series in 2003.

In recent years, Barry and his girlfriend, Lisa McIntosh teamed up to produce three pilot episodes for what they hope to be an on-going series titled, “Monsters of the UFO”. The three stories covered were “Incident At Kelly” concerning the apparent landing of a UFO and subsequent gunbattle with strange little men in Kentucky that occurred in 1955. The event spawned the term, “little green men”.

For “Legend of the Flatwoods Monster”, Conrad and McIntosh traveled to the small West Virginia town where a 10 foot tall creature was spotted by seven witnesses after the landing of a UFO on a hillside. The final episode shot was “Mothman: Man, Myth or Monster” detailing the incredible events surrounding a flying winged humanoid that culminated with the mysterious destruction of the Silver Bridge in that town. Just as mysteriously, associate producer Lisa McIntosh developed a rare cancer in 2004 while visiting Point Pleasant and died this past summer at the very young age of 42.