The Paranormal Lovers

Send us Fan Mail We are heading to the land down under to take a look at one of the most controversial claims of alien abduction.  While working on their new winery, Amy and Keith Rylance and their business partner Petra had just settled down for the evening when a bright light lit up the night.  Petra claims to have watched Amy fly out of the window in that beam of light, only for her to reappear...

Send us Fan Mail There are few cults that are as well known as the one we are talking about today. For those of us old enough to remember, hearing the word Waco brings up memories of seeing that fire rage on the evening news.  But things for the Branch Davidians started back in the 1930's. One man took a group of his followers to Waco Texas where he set up his own twisted version of the Seven...

Send us Fan Mail Ian takes us to the mother land this week to tell us the legend of a spirit that takes a form most of us would not think twice about.  As summer sweeps across the US fireflies, or lightening bugs, are out light up the night. For many of us we have memories of going out to catch them and put them in jars to keep in our rooms over night.  This is probably not something they do in To...

Send us Fan Mail One reason we have such a problem with racism today is that we did not punish the confederacy hard enough for their treason.  Another would be the 1,600 scientist, and technicians and their families that were brought over to the US from Nazi Germany. You read that right, the US government brought over 1600 of Germany's best and brightest, their spouses and their children, to...

Send us Fan Mail Ian takes us down to Savannah this week to look at one of the most haunted buildings in the city.  Built as a hotel for travelers this building would be used for various things, including of course a hospital where dozens of people died, mainly children.  Even before she was opened as a brew pub reports of strange experiences in the building had been made. While it might be closed...

Send us Fan Mail We have a short local urban legend for you folks today, the tale of Helen's Bridge in Asheville NC.  Built in the early 1900's to get to the Zealandia Mansion, this bridge is said to be the sight where a grieving mother took her own life. And now she haunts the bridge looking for her baby.  If you were to go up to the bridge it is said your car could stall, or you might...

Send us Fan Mail This week Ian is taking another look at a somewhat local cryptid. Local to us in that it seems to live in our state, albeit, on the other side. And I could not be happier about that! We deal with our fair share of mosquitos in WNC, but in the swamp land of ENC there lives one that is said to be the size of a man, or at least a very large bird. Gallinipper is it's name and if...

Send us Fan Mail Life has gotten a little chaotic lately, so we have not recorded in a couple weeks, but we wanted to let yall know we are not going anywhere, just life lifeing. Enjoy this episode from Rethinking Our History about the murder behind one of the most popular cult classics around.  In 1992 the cult classic movie Candyman made it's way to movie theaters, and more than a few people...

Send us Fan Mail After our history episode about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire I was interested to know how haunted the college campus that the building sits on is. Turns out it is quite haunted.  From the fire that killed 146 factory workers, to a graveyard of yellow fever patients buried under a beloved park, there are many spirits that roam the halls and campus of New York University.   ...

Send us Fan Mail The US is not the only place to have tales of a large humanoid bird like figure.  Even before the nuclear reactor meltdown at Fukushima, there had been reports of strange flying creatures across the islands. One such creature was even shot and killed, and reported to be a large bee.  But years later when the reactor melted down, there was a report of humanoid bird like figure in t...

Send us Fan Mail We are ending our look at the LaRouche Movement this week with Part 3.  After getting out of jail LaRouche spiraled even deeper into paranoia. His followers were on the front lines of climate change deniers, and Obama haters, and had their safety threatened more than once.  The worst part of all this is even after he died, his followers are still pushing his ideals to the masses....

Send us Fan Mail Donald Shrum just wanted to go bow hunting with his friends in Cisco Grove in California on September 4th 1964. Having set off in different directions two of the three friends made it back to camp before night fall, but Donald was not so lucky.  Having found a tree to spend the night in Donald was settling down for a long night when a light caught his eye. What would happen over t...

Send us Fan Mail This past weekend was spend with family so were are rereleasing one of our favorite episodes for you to enjoy. We are back this week to look at one of our favorite topics, Lost Cities. In particular we are looking at the search for the Lost City of Z that took the life of explorer Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and a friend Raleigh. Percy's life was one of adventure and service...

Send us Fan Mail Now that I have remembered I was covering this topic we are back with part 2 of our look into the LaRouche Movement.  We look at how paranoid Lyndon LaRouche becomes, moving his followers to the middle of nowhere, hiring armed guards, etc.  We also take a look at his troubles with the law and his ongoing bid for a seat in the US government.  Next time we will look at his death and...

Send us Fan Mail In the fifth and final Friends Don't Lie Files Ian takes us through the history of the Montauk Project. Well, the alleged history anyways.  While it might be a name many of us know, the government has never admitted to any projects named Montauk, and no records have been released that verify this project took place. But we do love a good conspiracy theory here on this show. ...

Send us Fan Mail This week we are headed to the Queen City right here in NC to look at one of the most haunted locations in what is said to be the most haunted city in the state.  Founded in the middle 1800's as an all girls school, it was ran by a couple who years later would come under fire for their cruelty towards their enslaved captives.  That would only be the beginning of the tragedy t...

Send us Fan Mail We are back with part 4 of The Friends Don't Lie Files and the conclusion of our MKUltra Series. And this week were are headed up north to look at how this project affected citizens of Canada.  It took much longer for the abuse of this project to come to an end outside of the US. In Canada at the Allan Memorial Institute, one doctor held experiments for years before he was fo...

Send us Fan Mail We are back with another cult for you this week. This time it is a little different with the leader actually making a mark in US politics, as well as politics in other countries. Lyndon LaRouche grew up Quaker before his father was kicked out of the church. But he kept their values of non violence through most of his life. That was, until he had followers under his control. Like m...

Send us Fan Mail Due to medical things we got behind on notes this week so enjoy one of our favorite episodes re-released for your pleasure! This week Ian is taking a dive into Reddit. While here he found some interesting stories of an alleged phenomenon that has been reported by search and recuse personal for years.   We are not sure where these stories allegedly took place, or even the validity...

Send us Fan Mail We are back this week with part 3 of the Friends Don't Lie Files, and Part 2 of MKUltra. After Operation Artichoke started many more secret operations took place across the US. And the number of people dosed without their knowledge and consent also exploded. From high ranking military officials, to hospital patients and prisoners, no one was excluded from being a test subject...

Send us Fan Mail On the night of September 1st 1969 dozens of people across Berkshire County had similar experiences. Many of them saw a large strange shape in the sky with lights. Some of them lost track of time, and the kids, well the kids had amazing experiences to tell.  Thought to be the first encounter of it's kind, this event has been debated by the residents of the area, and UFO enthu...

Send us Fan Mail In this second installment of the Friends Don't Lie Files Ian takes us through the beginnings of one of the most infamous classified government experiments, and the one that is often mentioned in Stranger Things; MKUltra. After the 2nd world war, to avoid prosecution, many scientist from Nazi Germany fled to the US in what we would later learned was called Operation Paperclip...

Send us Fan Mail We are back with another poltergeist this week, this time in West Yorkshire England.  Said to be one of the most haunted houses in the UK, the house at 30 East Drive has had reports of supernatural activity being made about it since the Pritchard family moved in in August of 1966.  But even after the family left the activity did not stop, and now the new owner has opened the house...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of The Friends Don't Lie Files we take a look at the real life Eleven: Nina Kulagina.  Born in raised in the Soviet Union Nina knew there was something different about her mother from a young age. But she had no idea she would also have this ability that her mother showed, telekinesis.  Nina joined the military at a young age but an injury saw the end of...

Send us Fan Mail One of the greatest, (in our humble opinion), season finales we have ever witness took place over the New Years holiday: Stranger Things. We have been fans of the show since the beginning, and it is one of the many things that led to the creation of this show.  Over the next few weeks Ian will take us through a few of the programs that gave inspiration to this iconic show, but fir...