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Dr. Charlotte Pipes is a career university music professor and classical musician, retired from Nicholls State University in Louisiana. As a personal avocation, she has created vocal music specifically designed for use in Pagan rituals. She presents lectures on Wicca, Scrying, Rune Casting, Pagan Music, Neolithic Studies and Herbal Magick to audiences in several venues: university humanities classes, literary conventions, sci-fi/fantasy conventions, Wicca/Goddess conventions, internet podcasts and Wiccan discussion groups. Dr. Pipes is a Wiccan practitioner who has instructed students in the Craft for over 35 years.

Currently, she teaches classes on metaphysics and leads Wiccan rituals at the Metaphysical Resource Center
[ http://www.mrctreasures.com ] in Metairie, LA.  Dr. Pipes’ interests include astronomy, spiritualism, and ancient earth magick. She has traveled to Stone Age cultural centers all over Europe in order to study first-hand the monuments and artifacts left by our ancestors.

Kalila was born and raised in New Orleans. She personally researched and wrote the material featured on Haunted History Tours of New Orleans’ Ghost, Vampire and Spellbound tours. She is the author of New Orleans Ghosts, Voodoo, & Vampires, and Tales From The French Quarter, Afterlife Mysteries Revealed, and Miami’s Dark Tales.  Her newest book is Seance Experiments, available in fall 2015.

Her work as an intuitive psychic and medium has been recognized for over 2 decades worldwide. She has been featured on and worked behind the scenes on television productions including Travel Daily, Places of Mystery, Secret New Orleans, Unsolved Mysteries, FEAR!, MTV’s On The Road, Blind Date, Hidden New Orleans, Urban Legends, America’s Most Haunted Places, In Search of…, and Supernatural Destinations. She appeared in the motion picture, “The St. Francisville Experience.” She wrote and directed “Journey Into Darkness… The Trilogy”, a video documentary, featured in segment in television broadcast in the US & UK.  And worked on and appeared in the documentary for Sony’s Playstation II game, Ghosthunter. She conducted all of the paranormal investigations for the local television show, “Haunted New Orleans.” She was a producer in the PBS documentary “Southern Haunts” New Orleans episode produced by Sky Dive Films.