Splintered Spirits

On this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary Shapiro and John Santa sit down with Canadian evidential medium Joelle Tremblay to explore how a corporate high achiever became the only medium in Canada certified by the Forever Family Foundation. Joelle shares the emotional story of four years of fertility treatments, a surprise “spiritual boot camp” retreat, and the moment during pregnancy when she su...

Spend the night in a haunted hotel where the guests aren’t the only ones checking in. In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with Kelly Hammerling, the owner of The Haunted Shanley Hotel, a 19th‑century boarding house turned mafia hangout, brothel, and bar that now hosts more than 50 reported spirits. From a rebuilt 1800s hotel with Irish mob ties and personal tragedy to the...

What if the ghosts haunting you aren't in a dark hallway, but buried deep inside your own mind? In this live episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with  Brett Harpp, LMHC-D (she earned that D) , better known as  The Haunted Therapist , a licensed mental health counselor and EMDR-certified trauma therapist who has built an extraordinary bridge between the world of psychology and...

John returns from an action-packed trip to Buffalo, where he forgot his luggage, experienced overwhelming sensations at Niagara Falls, attended the premiere of  The Devil's Mark  with Nick and Tessa Groff, and led a one-of-a-kind cemetery walk at Sweeney Cemetery — complete with two mediums, EVP work, and a spirit that may have guided them straight to a long-lost grave. Back home, the haunted...

When death is your day job, what does it do to your beliefs about ghosts, the afterlife, and what comes next? In this episode of  Splintered Spirits , Gary and John sit down with Dr. Dead Serious herself—parapsychological researcher and Paranormal Rescue investigator Kelly Curtis—to explore the eerie intersection of death, dying, and paranormal activity. Kelly shares insights from her groundbreaki...

What does it take to build a paranormal convention from scratch in a haunted Old West gold mining town, when you've never even  attended  one before? That's exactly what Tiffany Fox, co-founder of  Haunted AF  and  Are You Afraid of the Dark? Paranormal Events , decided to do when she and her team set their sights on Cripple Creek, Colorado. Gary and John sit down with Tiffany to pull back the cur...

What happens when a New Orleans-born costume designer moves to Hollywood and starts seeing ghosts on every film set and haunted theater she works in? You get Tammie Merheb Chavez -- paranormal investigator, podcast host, practicing bruja, and one of the most distinctive voices in the paranormal community. Raised on a rich blend of Honduran, Lebanese, and New Orleans folklore, Tammie saw her first...

Nick Groff helped invent modern paranormal television, but this is the story you haven’t heard, told by the guy who shot it, cut it, and then had to walk away from it. In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with Nick to trace the wild arc from hyperactive New England horror nerd to the wedding-DJ meet‑cute that accidentally created Ghost Adventures. Nick breaks down how he a...

On May 7, 2026, Gary and John dive deep into a listener-submitted paranormal experience that starts as a ghost story and slowly unravels into something far more complicated. From terrifying childhood encounters at Gettysburg to West Virginia mine where the "re-enactors" turned out to be something no one can explain,  this episode has it all. You'll understand when you hear it. But th...

A world‑renowned psychic medium, a paranormal TV icon, and two hosts who can turn 9/11 stories into dark comedy (too soon?), this episode has it all. Drawing from an intense near‑death experience at age four and a background in education and clinical mental health, Tessa Groff walks Gary and John through the evolution of her abilities, from seeing spirits at her bedside to leaving “normal” jobs be...

News 12 anchor Kristie Reeter is back on Splintered Spirits, and this time she survived Season 2 of Haunted Tri-State with two rosaries, a night in the Shanley Hotel's men's quarters, and a few experiences she still can't explain. We dig into all four new episodes, covering the Shanley Hotel in Napanoch NY, Kingsland Manor in Nutley NJ, a Prohibition-era speakeasy in lower Manhattan, a...

Gary Galka is the engineer and inventor behind the Mel Meter, the PSB7 spirit box, and the REM Pod, devices that define modern paranormal investigation. His journey into the unknown began after the tragic loss of his 17-year-old daughter Melissa in 2004. What started as a father's grief became a decades-long mission to use real science to bridge the gap between the living and the dead. In this...

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John Santa from Santa Paranormal explore the latest in paranormal news, ghost hunting, UFO theories, cryptid sightings, haunted locations, and spirit communication. From strange deaths and conspiracy chatter to Bigfoot, Dogman, and Loch Ness Monster speculation, the conversation moves through the biggest supernatural topics shaping the paranormal com...

Gary and John are back for a live episode packed with paranormal news, show updates, and big conversations about where Splintered Spirits is headed. No guest this week, but that just means more time to dig into the stuff they love most, including a recap of their wild Ghostfire ITC session at the Shanley Hotel, a look at their recent episode with adult film star Aubrey Black and why sexual energy...

This week on Splintered Spirits, we’re stepping into the space where desire, death, and consciousness collide. Our guest is Aubrey Black, an internationally recognised adult film star, creative producer, and visual artist with a multi‑decade career spanning photography, media, fashion design, health, and fitness, who also comes from a New Zealand family where intuitive and spiritual gifts are part...

This week on Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with paranormal researcher, intuitive medium, and Certified Master Spiritual Teacher, Tawney Lewis, a lead expert on the Travel Channel's hit series My Haunted Hometown and a recurring face on Ghost Adventures, Paranormal Revenge, and Scariest Places in America. Tawney pulls back the curtain on what it truly means to investigate haunted l...

What happens when two lifelong paranormal investigators from Kansas City, who grew up in haunted houses, finally start telling their stories? You get Chumming with the Spirits. In this episode, Gary and John Santa from Santa Paranormal sit down with J.D. Duvall and Larry "Para-chum" Buchanan for one of the most entertaining and eye-opening ghost hunting conversations yet. These two have...

Skepticism meets the supernatural when Gary sits down with Benjamin Radford, one of the world’s best-known paranormal investigators and deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer. Author of Investigating Ghosts, Scientific Paranormal Investigation, Tracking the Chupacabra, and more than a dozen other books, Ben has spent decades chasing claims about hauntings, monsters, and mysterious phenomena around th...

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with viral paranormal content creator and ghost hunter Jake Bruce to explore what happens when you mix legit fear, smart storytelling, and the weirdest corners of the spirit world. Together they dig into Jake’s early experiences that pushed him beyond “ghost tour tourist” into full‑blown ghost hunter, how childhood trips to historic bat...

Splintered Spirits sits down with broadcaster, paranormal investigator, and intuitive ITC specialist Greg Bakun, host of Ghost Box Radio, for a deep dive into what it really means to talk to the dead. From the first time a spirit box answered him in a creepy Minneapolis basement to a jaw‑dropping session where a voice claiming to be Abraham Lincoln identified his own deathbed photo, Greg unpacks w...

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, host Gary sits down with world-renowned psychic medium Cathy Nadal for a live coffee reading at Coffee Unique in Bronxville, New York. Cathy—author of Seeing More Than Clouds in Your Coffee, certified with the Forever Family Foundation, registered nurse, and retired U.S. Army Colonel—uses espresso and Turkish coffee to demonstrate tasseography, turning Gary’s...

In this less-edited redux of one of our wildest early episodes, Gary and John head back into Johnny’s infamous haunted basement with psychic-medium and author Cathy Nadal to see what still lurks in the dark. With cameras rolling this time, Cathy walks into the space cold and immediately starts pulling detailed hits on the building’s history, secret societies, and a vicious Scottish spirit named Ed...

On this week’s episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John go off-script and deep into the tension between believers and professional skeptics in the paranormal world. They unpack their conversations with skeptic heavyweights. From what it would actually take to convince a skeptic—a levitating grandfather clock, maybe?—to how evidence is judged in science versus ghost hunting, they probe why some...

James Underdown has spent over 25 years trying to give away $500,000 to anyone who can prove a paranormal ability under real test conditions, and no one has even come close. In this episode, Gary and John sit down with the executive director of Center for Inquiry West and founder of the Independent Investigations Group to dig into wild claims of telepathy, telekinesis, dowsing, “teleporting” horse...

Splintered Spirits goes live with Mandy Cummings of the Ghost Sisters, an all‑female paranormal investigation team from Ohio known for their raw, unfiltered ghost hunting across some of the most haunted locations in the Midwest. In this episode, paranormal investigator and medium Mandy shares how her years as a corrections officer shaped her approach to investigating haunted prisons, jails, and in...