Phenomena Review Committee

Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, where winding roads disappear into dense forests and the darkness stretches beyond the porch light, there are warnings that some families have passed down for generations. Never whistle after dark. Don't answer voices calling from the woods. And if something whistles back... don't go looking for it. But where did these warnings originate? Are they rooted...

Halloween night. The pumpkins are glowing, the streets are growing quiet, and somewhere in the darkness, something may be coming home. For centuries, people have believed that October 31 marks a time when the boundary between the living and the dead becomes dangerously thin. A night when restless spirits wander, deceased loved ones return, and the supernatural seems closer than ever. But where did...

Three o'clock in the morning. The house is silent, the streets are empty, and somewhere in the darkness, something is waiting. For centuries, people have feared the witching hour , a time supposedly associated with witches, demons, curses, and the Devil himself. But where did these beliefs originate, and how did fear of supernatural forces become powerful enough to turn entire communities agai...

What if the dead could hear you? What if they could answer? In 1848 , two young sisters in Hydesville, New York, claimed they were communicating with a mysterious spirit through a series of unexplained knocks. Margaret and Kate Fox soon became the center of a supernatural phenomenon that would ignite the modern Spiritualist movement. Before long, séances were sweeping across America and Victorian...

Every October 31, the dead return, witches take to the skies, monsters roam the streets, and millions of people celebrate a night filled with fear, superstition, and the supernatural. But how much of what we believe about Halloween is actually true? Long before haunted houses, horror movies, jack-o'-lanterns, and trick-or-treating, ancient seasonal traditions marked the arrival of winter and t...

Before Regan MacNeil. Before the spinning head. Before the vomit, the crucifix, and Father Merrin standing beneath that streetlight—there was a thirteen-year-old boy whose family believed something had followed him into their home. In 1949 , a family in Maryland began reporting strange disturbances: scratching inside the walls, moving furniture, a shaking mattress, unexplained marks, and increasin...

In 1792, exactly one hundred years after the Salem witch trials, fear of witchcraft erupted in the backcountry of South Carolina. Livestock reportedly became sick and died. Young women suffered strange physical attacks. Witnesses told stories of levitation, pins and hair appearing from the body, people transformed into horses, secret gatherings of witches—and even encounters with the Devil. At the...

What happens when the sounds meant to relax you become the sounds that terrify you? In PRC Case File #016 , Johnny Macabre enters the strangely intimate world of ASMR, medical fear, parasocial relationships, and the unsettling psychology of trust . Why can a whisper lower your heart rate? Why do millions of people fall asleep listening to strangers speak directly into their headphones? What makes...

On August 25, 2026, the world lost one of its great masters of the strange. Tim Curry could make a villain terrifying, hilarious, seductive, theatrical, and unforgettable—sometimes all in the same scene. From Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise in IT to Darkness in Legend , Wadsworth in Clue , the Grand Wizard in The Worst Witch , and a long career filled with monster...

In August 1977, strange disturbances began inside a council house at 284 Green Street in Enfield, North London . The Hodgson family reported unexplained knocking, moving furniture, flying objects, apparitions, and eventually a disturbing gravelly voice that seemed to speak through eleven-year-old Janet Hodgson. What followed became one of the most extensively investigated—and fiercely disputed—pol...

After Amityville, the Perron farmhouse, and the Arne Johnson case, the Warren files move to West Pittston, Pennsylvania, where the Smurl family claimed that something followed them for years. In Part 4 of PRC Case File #014 , Johnny Macabre examines the alleged Smurl haunting: unexplained knocks, foul odors, moving objects, apparitions, physical attacks, religious intervention, and the arrival of...

In 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed and killed Alan Bono in Brookfield, Connecticut. The homicide itself was not in dispute. What came next was. In Part 3 of PRC Case File #014 , Johnny Macabre examines the case that became known as “The Devil Made Me Do It.” Before the killing, Johnson had become deeply involved in the alleged possession of David Glatzel, the younger brother...

After Amityville, Ed and Lorraine Warren became attached to another case that would later become one of the most recognizable haunted-house stories in modern culture: the Perron family farmhouse in Rhode Island. In Part 2 of PRC Case File #014 , Johnny Macabre examines the Old Arnold Estate, the Perron family’s nearly decade-long residence, the strange activity they reported, the Warrens’ involvem...

Before The Amityville Horror became a bestselling book, a film franchise, and one of the most famous haunted-house stories in America, six members of the DeFeo family were murdered inside 112 Ocean Avenue. In Part 1 of PRC Case File #014 , Johnny Macabre examines the history behind the Amityville legend. This episode follows the DeFeo murders, Ronald DeFeo Jr.’s conviction, George and Kathy Lutz’s...

Few names have shaped modern paranormal investigation as much as Ed and Lorraine Warren . To believers, they were pioneers who helped families facing terrifying experiences that others refused to take seriously. To critics, they were gifted storytellers whose religious interpretations often reached further than the available evidence. In PRC Case File #013 , Johnny Macabre examines the Warrens the...

An ordinary Raggedy Ann doll sits behind glass beneath a warning: “Positively Do Not Open.” According to Ed and Lorraine Warren, the doll became the focus of a disturbing case involving unexplained movement, handwritten messages, physical scratches, religious intervention, and what they believed was an inhuman presence seeking access to the people around it. In Part 1 of The Warren Files , Johnny...

For nearly eighty years, the United States government has investigated reports of unidentified objects moving through American skies. From Project Sign and Project Blue Book to AATIP, AARO, congressional hearings, and newly released Pentagon records, the language has changed—but the mystery remains. In PRC Case File #011 , Johnny Macabre examines the modern UAP disclosure movement and the evidence...

For generations, drivers along the quiet roads of Jacksonboro, South Carolina, have reported a mysterious light appearing in the darkness. Some describe a glowing lantern drifting through the trees. Others believe it's the restless spirit of a grieving preacher searching endlessly for his missing daughter. Skeptics point to atmospheric conditions, distant headlights, and optical illusions. Bel...

Long before stories of a woman dressed in white began circulating through Jasper County, there was Harriet Mackie—a dedicated educator remembered for her courage and selflessness. In this episode of PRC: Phenomena Review Committee , Johnny Macabre investigates the true story behind one of South Carolina's most enduring ghost legends. Separating documented history from generations of folklore,...

In the final chapter of Appalachian Unknowns , Johnny Macabre is joined once again by Amanda to examine unexplained lights in the sky, UAP, extraterrestrial encounters, and the stories that stay with the people who experience them. Centered on Amanda's own sighting of a mysterious blue fireball and other unusual aerial phenomena, this episode explores the line between observation and interpretatio...

In Part 2 of Appalachian Unknowns , Johnny Macabre is joined again by Amanda as they move from the old stone walls of Fort Mountain to the deep woods of Appalachia. This episode examines Bigfoot sightings, witness testimony, strange sounds, tracks, tree knocks, hoaxes, and the fear of being watched from the tree line. Together, they ask why mountain regions produce so many stories about wild men,...

In this guest episode of PRC: Phenomena Review Committee , Johnny Macabre is joined by Amanda for Part 1 of Appalachian Unknowns . Together, they examine the legend of the Moon-Eyed People and the mystery surrounding Fort Mountain State Park. Blending Amanda’s visit to the site with Appalachian folklore, Cherokee oral tradition, the ancient stone wall, and theories about forgotten communities, thi...

In this episode of PRC: Phenomena Review Committee , Johnny Macabre examines the Bermuda Triangle, the Atlantic region linked to vanished ships, missing aircraft, strange compass readings, electronic fog, and theories of portals to another world, planet, or dimension. From Christopher Columbus’s strange Atlantic observations to the USS Cyclops , Flight 19, Star Tiger, Star Ariel, the missing DC-3,...

In this episode of PRC: Phenomena Review Committee , Johnny Macabre examines alien abductions, UFO sightings, UAP case files, and recently released government documents. From the Betty and Barney Hill case to Project Blue Book, AARO, congressional transparency efforts, and new UAP file releases, this episode asks what happens when personal encounters become part of the official record—and why the...

In this episode of PRC: Phenomena Review Committee , Johnny Macabre examines the Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee, one of America’s most famous haunting legends. Centered on the Bell family in the early nineteenth century, the story includes strange noises, an unseen voice, physical attacks, religious fear, the death of John Bell, and a legend that grew far beyond one family’s farm. This episode ask...