Vera Whelpton

Vera Whelpton is a producer and director, known for The House in Between (2020) , The Sleepless Unrest: The Real Conjuring Home (2021) and Ghost Hunters Academy (2009)Vera Whelpton (Martinez) was born on June 1, 1978, surrounded by mountains in the industrial city of Monterrey, Mexico. Daughter to Maurilio Martinez a Genetics Professor, and Leticia Vera a Medical Doctor, Vera surprised her parents with her artistic abilities at a young age. By the age of 12 she had participated in many plays, and art competitions where she won first place with her paintings. By the mid-'90s she was accepted to the Visual Arts program at the UANL where she got her start in filmmaking and design, and her favorite topics were the human interest, medical field, and the paranormal. Vera had grown fond of the paranormal, because both of her parents claimed to have lived in a haunted house, and would always tell ghost stories at family gatherings. After her Junior year Vera moved to the United States to finish her education. The interest for the medical field also led Vera to study Nursing and worked many years in the Department of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Nephrology, and Internal Medicine. It was during these years that she had a profound paranormal experience while working at a nursing home regarding the unexpected loss of her father. This experience would be the event that led her to search for answers, and she has been investigating the paranormal for 18 years now. On February of 2010 Vera was cast on the TV show Ghost Hunters Academy where she met, fell in love, and married filmmaker Kendall Whelpton now husband of 9 years. In 2017 Vera and Kendall co-founded Robot Ninja Media a full-service production company that specializes in branded content and documentary storytelling. The two soon started the production for the paranormal documentary The House In Between (2020) which quickly became an instant hit. Vera then Produced and Directed with Kendall Whelpton The Sleepless Unrest (2021) a documentary about the real life farmhouse that inspired the Conjuring films. Show less «