Barry Conrad is originally from Hamilton, Ohio. He started his career 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 Barry 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 developed an interest in supernatural matters.

After a five-year stint in Ohio, Barry was offered a job as news photographer in Denver, Colorado. He worked for 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, where he eventually started his own production company: Barcon Video Productions.

In 1989 Barry was called to investigate the haunted home of Jackie Hernandez in San Pedro, California. Jackie’s claim of malevolent, ghostly activities, including the sighting of a disembodied head, was just the type of investigation Barry was looking for. The result of the investigation yielded the hanging and attempted murder (by the phantom) of one of the investigators. The ghost followed Barry back to his apartment and proceeded to terrorize him with poltergeist behavior there.

Barry 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.

Barry is currently producing a trilogy of UFO documentaries called Monsters of the UFO. The first episode, "The Incident at Kelly" was released in 2006, and won the 2008 International UFO Congress award. The "Incident at Kelly" covers the apparent 1955 landing of a UFO and subsequent gun-battle, with strange little men from rural Kelly, Kentucky. The event spawned the term "little green men."

Second in the series and scheduled for release in 2008 is "Mothman: Man, Myth or Monster." This documentary details the incredible events surrounding a flying winged humanoid that culminated in the mysterious destruction of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The final story covers the legend of "The Flatwoods Monster". A 10 foot tall creature was spotted by seven witnesses after the landing of a UFO on a country hillside. All documentaries consist of historical records, eyewitness accounts and recreations. Barry’s journalism background provided the avenue for well-researched information, while his many years as a cameraman assures the highest quality in filmmaking.

Fall of 2008 schedules the release of Barry’s first book, "An Unknown Encounter", based on the San Pedro haunting and DVD by the same name.