Perhaps the strangest thing about the 2006 “Twilight Zone” convention was the lack of strange occurrences. T-shirts were selling for $25, and the only time an organizer turned down the volume on the show’s familiar theme song was to make special announcements, like the one that the holder of ticket No. 410035 had won the first door prize.

But the less-than-supernatural particulars masked the nervous excitement yesterday at a Hilton hotel in less-than-supernatural Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. The first “Twilight Zone” convention on the East Coast was not so much for casual admirers, but for true fanatics.

Mike Belveduto, 22, of Scranton, Pa., was there, a bracelet-style tattoo across his left forearm with the clock, the eyeball and other objects that float across the screen in the show’s opening montage.

“One day this whole arm will be all ‘Twilight Zone,’ ” he said. “I just don’t have the money yet.”

Dr. Jeff Menkes, 59, was there, too, driving in from his home in Connecticut (that was his green Corvette convertible in the parking lot, the one with the “TWLT ZN” license plate).