Talking Strange Paranormal Show

Was the most famous Bigfoot footage ever filmed a hoax? Or are the findings about so-called mystery footage debunking the Patterson Gimlin Film based on circumstantial evidence and logical leaps? "Capturing Bigfoot" director Marq Evans and producer Tamir Ardon join Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers (in an interview conducted March 2026) to defend their bombshell documentary and its mystery “test r...

Everyone knows Halloween has ancient roots in Samhain. But the Halloween we actually celebrate — with orange and black decorations, trick-or-treating, store-bought masks and horror movie marathons — is far younger than you think. On this episode of Talking Strange, the paranormal pop culture show, host Aaron Sagers traces how the modern version of America’s spookiest holiday was invented by magazi...

What does it take to build Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 35? Host Aaron Sagers goes behind the curtain at Universal Orlando Resort with HHN Show Director Ramon Paradoa, who is a horror lifer who went from Scareactor to designing the nightmares himself. For the event’s 35th anniversary, Ramon reveals how the Entertainment Creative Development team turns original concepts and iconic horror franchi...

Halloween and Samhain traditions are real, and you can still visit them this year. Host Aaron Sagers invites you along for a Hallowtide road trip across England, Ireland and the Isle of Man. In England, children in Somerset carry turnip lanterns on Punkie Night. In Cheshire pubs, a century-old horse skull named Dick snaps at the crowd during the Antrobus Soul Cakers' play for All Souls'. Lewes mar...

Every haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 2026, ranked from worst to best. Host (and HHN superfan) Aaron Sagers takes on HHN 35 at Universal Orlando Resort. He ranks all 10 houses: Stranger Things 5, Sinners, Hellraiser, Evil Dead Burn, Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness, Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control, Cybergoria, MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals, INVASION: Alien Abduction and H.R. Bloodengutz Pr...

Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers for a deep dive into two of the most anticipated horror projects on the horizon: Season 3 of The Creep Tapes and Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie where she both acts and directs an episode. Known for her unforgettable performances in The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the Hous...

JD Vance told Joe Rogan that UFOs aren't aliens; they're demons. Now the director of the documentary UFOs and God pushes back, but also weighs in on why his new film presents the point of view that UAPs aren't extraterrestrial, and they ain't nice. Wes Llewellyn co-directed the new Vision Films documentary with his wife, Amanda, whose reported childhood abductions are at the center of it. He argue...

Four thousand years before Ghost Hunters, somebody wrote down an encounter with the dead, and the instructions for getting rid of him involved beer. Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers offers up a brief origins of ghost hunting from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the oldest known image of a ghost, to the Roman philosopher who solved a haunting on a writing deadline, to the 1794 novel that used the phrase...

Eli Roth just spent 20 years plotting the death of the ice cream truck. This week on Talking Strange, horror icon Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Thanksgiving) joins host Aaron Sagers to talk about his tenth feature, Ice Cream Man, opening August 7, 2026. This is his most ambitious, most blood-soaked project yet, and the first release from his new studio, The Horror Section. The film stars Ari Mill...

Harry Houdini spent the final years of his life doing something few expected from the world's greatest escape artist: hunting ghosts. Or rather, hunting those who claimed to speak to ghosts. In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with John Cox, the leading Houdini historian behind the acclaimed blog Wild About Harry (wildabouthoudini.com). Cox is the author of Escaping Obs...

What does it actually take to investigate Bigfoot, Area 51, and the Loch Ness Monster with a journalist's eye instead of a believer's bias? This week, Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers sits down with Emmy Award winning producer Miguel Sancho, showrunner behind A&E's The Proof Is Out There and former investigative producer at 20/20 and 48 Hours. Miguel walks us through the reporting and technology...

Why does an empty office hallway feel scarier than a monster? Folklorist Dr. Lynne S. McNeill breaks down the psychology behind Backrooms, Severance, and the internet's obsession with liminal spaces. If you've ever felt unsettled walking through an abandoned mall, a fluorescent-lit office at night, or scrolling past another eerie "backrooms" photo on your feed, this episode is for you. Host Aaron...

He arrived with felt shoes, a bowl of mercury, and a hunger for fame. When ghost hunter Harry Price drove up to Borley Rectory in 1929, he was stepping into the role he'd spent his whole life rehearsing, and into one of the most controversial paranormal investigations in history. In this episode of Talking Strange, we dig into the strange, murky world of Harry Price: self-made skeptic, showman, an...

Can ghost hunting equipment actually detect paranormal activity, or are investigators sometimes using these tools the wrong way? In this special extended episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with paranormal researcher, equipment builder, and science communicator Lauren Hellekson (LaurenHaunts.com) for a deep dive into the technology behind modern paranormal investigations. Toget...

What if Steven Spielberg's latest UFO movie is closer to reality than science fiction? In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers welcomes author and film historian Max Evry (author of the forthcoming book Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) to explore Spielberg's highly anticipated new film, Disclosure Day, and its connections to some of the director's...

Are demons really everywhere — or has pop culture trained us to see them that way? In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with two folks who could legit call themselves demonologists — occult expert Michelle Belanger and religious studies scholar Joseph Laycock to explore the shocking history behind demons, possession, and exorcism. From ancient beliefs and folklore to The Ex...

Talking Strange heads to Las Vegas for a behind-the-scenes look at Universal Horror Unleashed — the new year-round haunted attraction from Universal Studios. In this “Halfway to Halloween” episode, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Universal creatives TJ Mannarino and Nate Stevenson to break down the 110,000-square-foot immersive experience featuring haunted houses inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Ma...

Actor William Sadler joins Aaron Sagers to discuss his new survival horror film The Yeti, now on-demand, and the enduring appeal of classic monster movies. From battling a brutal creature in the Alaskan wilderness to reflecting on his roles in The Shawshank Redemption at the haunted Ohio State Reformatory, and playing Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and Bill and Ted Face the Music, Sadler co...

What is the intersection of monster lore and eyewitness testimony? In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers talks with with paranormal investigator, author, and TV personality Richard Estep (Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911) to explore his new book, Monsters: Myths, Legends and Real Encounters. From the depths of Loch Ness to the forests of North America, Estep breaks down the blurre...

Hokum (2026), directed by Damian McCarthy (Caveat, Oddity), is a new supernatural psychological horror story set in Ireland that blends grief, folklore, and isolation — and a troubled writer locked away in a haunted hotel room. Starring Adam Scott (Severance, Parks and Recreation), the film follows a novelist who retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes only to become entangled in a...

In the new re-imagining of Faces of Death, murder is good for the algorithm. Hitting theaters April 10, 2026, the new film is directed by Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) and produced/co-written by Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline). In this episode of Talking Strange, Goldhaber and Mazzei speak with host Aaron Sagers about the plot that follows a follows a content moderator (Barbie Ferreira from E...

Starring Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria, Nope) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things, Elvis), the new Faces of Death arrives in theaters April 10, 2026, reimagined for the digital age by director Daniel Goldhaber and producer/co-writer Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline).The horror film follows a social media content moderator with her own inadvertent Internet fame (Ferreira) who discovers dist...

We already knew Florida was weird, but it gets much weirder in the new horror/black comedy Mermaid, starring Johnny Pemberton, and open in select theaters. April 8.Written and directed by Tyler Cornack (Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema), Mermaid follows Pemberton  (21 Jump Street, Superstore, Fallout) as a socially-awkward drug addicted Floridian who discovers a wounded mermaid, and becomes dangerously obses...

Did the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film just get exposed as a hoax? New evidence in Capturing Bigfoot claims the truth has been hidden for decades. Aaron Sagers talks with filmmakers Marq Evans and Tamir Ardon about the shocking “mystery footage,” Roger Patterson’s legacy, and whether Bigfoot’s most famous evidence was staged. In this Talking Strange episode, we break down the explosive claims behin...

Did the Fox Sisters really talk to the dead, or start the biggest paranormal hoax in American history? Host Aaron Sagers is joined by author ⁠Barb Rosenstock⁠ to explore ⁠American Spirits⁠, the true story of the sisters who launched the Spiritualism movement in the lead up to the Civil War with their mysterious “spirit rappings.” In her compelling book that goes deep into the strange lives of cele...