ObscuraCon 2026 Is This Summer’s Strangest Weekend in Arkansas

Eureka Springs has always had its own thing going, and this July, it gets even more interesting. ObscuraCon is coming to town, and it’s not your typical weekend event. It draws a specific kind of crowd to one of Arkansas’s most fitting locations for it.

THE DEETS

What Your Ticket Gets You

There are several ways to attend, depending on how deep you want to go.

The Weekend Pass ($55.19) covers all lectures and panels both days, early vendor hall access, and 5 raffle tickets. The Weekend Pass + Ball ($71.19) includes everything in the Weekend Pass plus a First Contact Ball ticket and 10 raffle tickets.

The VIP Pass ($97.87) includes everything in the Weekend + Ball package, plus front-row seating, a limited edition lanyard, an official t-shirt, a poster, a sticker, and 15 raffle tickets.

One-Day Passes for Friday or Saturday are $33.84 each and include early vendor hall access. The First Contact Ball only is $23.17 if you want the Saturday night party without the full conference.

Two add-on workshops are also available: a hands-on cuneiform clay tablet session with Dr. Heather Lynn ($39.19) and a group QHHT session with Vivian Wouters ($33.85).

Keynotes, Workshops, and Vendor Weirdness

ObscuraCon brings together practitioners and researchers in UAP, paranormal phenomena, cryptids, regional folklore, and parapsychology for keynote talks and plenary sessions. The speaker roster is made up of people who actively work in these fields.

Hands-on workshops go deeper into investigative methods and field techniques, less lecture, more doing. The vendor hall features occult artisans, authors, investigators, oddities dealers, and indie creators.

Who’s Taking the Stage

The speaker lineup covers a lot of ground. Patti Negri, a celebrity psychic-medium known for her recurring role on Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, leads a séance at the infamously haunted Crescent Hotel. Ron James, filmmaker and Media Relations Director for MUFON, brings his work on UAPs and the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance. The Paranormal Rangers, former Navajo Rangers Stanley Milford Jr. and Jonathan Dover, speak to their investigations of cases involving Bigfoot, UFOs, and other unexplained phenomena.

Also on the speaker list: renegade archaeologist Dr. Heather Lynn, cryptozoology researcher and author Lyle Blackburn, paranormal researcher Larry Flaxman, astrophysicist and Ozark folk magic practitioner Debra Burris, QHHT expert Vivian Wouters, true crime and occult researcher Chloë Manon, and North American Dogman Project investigators Marcus Ellis and Patrick Bryan.

Nighttime Investigations and the First Contact Ball

After dark, the event moves outside. Nighttime investigations take attendees to Eureka Springs sites with documented histories of paranormal activity.

Saturday night ends at the First Contact Ball, a costume contest and dance party with DJ Testube and drinks. Gray alien, ghost hunter, or just yourself in a weird hat. It counts.

An Event Built for the Curious

This is the kind of event that’s hard to explain to someone who wasn’t there, so go and find out for yourself. If you’ve always had questions the mainstream tends to brush off, this is a good place to bring them.

Grab your tickets now and see you there.