Strange Talk

The world is weird. The news is weird. And frankly, we’re starting to wonder if “weird news” is even weird anymore. This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle dive headfirst into the bizarre headlines that somehow escaped the internet’s containment unit. We’ve got 2,200 lizards smuggled through an airport in socks, a wandering kinkajou, a barn owl rescued 70 nautical miles out to sea, a runaway b...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle sit down with Jean Border for a conversation that travels from the deeply personal to the downright strange. Jean shares her journey into exploring energy work and the unseen world, including the experiences that led her down a path far outside the structured, technical world she once knew. From mysterious sensations and strange encounters to the challen...

What happens when the paranormal, energy work, and extraterrestrial encounters all start pointing toward the same strange corner of reality? Alyx and Ginelle sit down with Linda Haley, executive director of the Reiki Center in Columbus, Ohio, and the person behind the Experiencer's Forum at the Dayton UFO Conference. Linda shares the story of her own early paranormal experiences, including growing...

This time, there’s no rushing Ray out the door. After catching just a few minutes with him at the Dayton UFO Conference, Alyx and Ginelle get a full hour with Wright-Patterson veteran, UFO researcher, author, and professional keeper-of-strange-stories: Ray Szymanski, and there is a lot to unpack. Ray takes us deep into the infamous 1966 Michigan UFO flap, from the hundreds of reports filed by poli...

The lights over Dayton are glowing. This week, Strange Talk broadcasts from the edge of the unknown at the Dayton UFO Conference, where Alyx and Ginelle venture deep into one of the country's premier gatherings of UFO researchers, experiencers, and seekers of the unexplained. First, we sit down with Ray Szymanski to explore the enduring mysteries surrounding Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Projec...

Fresh off our trip to the Dayton UFO Convention, Alyx and Ginelle make one more stop before heading home: the legendary Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It's a place where aviation history, ghost stories, and extraterrestrial conspiracies all seem to collide...and that's exactly how we like it. Tonight, we're opening the case files on Hangar 18, rumored alien visitors, haunted aircraft, phantom fo...

As the clock strikes 9pm, the airwaves crackle to life with the sinister hum of Strange Talk. This week, Alyx and Ginelle gather around the glow of the radio dial to sift through another collection of haunted headlines, unexplained happenings, and delightfully strange stories from around the world. A massive asteroid drifts through our cosmic neighborhood, Steven Spielberg weighs in on whether ali...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle invite you to take a closer look at your neighborhood, and maybe introduce yourself to the people next door while you're at it. From reports of a mischievous goblin haunting an Argentine oil field to a neighborhood under siege by wandering self-driving Waymos, this episode is full of reminders that the strangest stories often happen closer to home than w...

After an all-night paranormal investigation inside the infamous Poasttown Elementary, Alyx is joined by Noelle “Mrs. Creep” from Creepy Confidential to compare notes, swap stories, and unpack one very strange night. From haunted dolls rescued from the school’s eerie gift shop to mysterious names appearing on spirit communication devices, the duo retraces their journey through dark hallways, forgot...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle dive headfirst into a rapid-fire stack of weird news that somehow spirals from AI identity crises to robot wolves fighting off bears in the forests of Japan. The duo then explores NASA’s plans for near-monthly moon missions, the sudden boom in space camp registrations thanks to the Artemis II mission, and the intriguing possibility that one day messages...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle sit down with Stephanie and Mike Grable, founders of the Dayton UFO Conference and state leads for the Ohio chapter of Citizens for Disclosure, for a deep dive into the rapidly changing world of UFO and UAP disclosure. From grassroots activism and congressional whistleblower protections to the strange history surrounding Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle finally sit down to unpack the chaos, community, and cosmic weirdness of Frogman Festival, as well as share the stories you all brought to us. After an unforgettable (and incredibly busy) weekend in Loveland, the team dives into a collection of listener encounters recorded live at the Strange Talk booth using their new phone recorder, alongside a chillin...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle welcome librarian, author, and paranormal researcher Courtney Block for a hushed conversation about the liminal quality and haunting presence of libraries. After meeting at Frogman Festival, the trio reconnect to explore Courtney’s newest book Inside the World’s Haunted Libraries, a collection of firsthand accounts from library workers around the globe,...

On this episode of Strange Talk, Alyx sits down with Beck Ravenswood to unpack a bizarre and very real legal battle unfolding in Pennsylvania that centers on tarot reading, free expression, and a law dating back to the 1800s. Longtime listeners may remember Strange Talk first covering this story during a weird news segment back in 2023, and now Beck joins the show to provide a firsthand update on...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx sits down with Alex (of Winners and Tense Kids) and musician Cedric Sparkman to unravel the eerie true story of Mary Mallon, the seemingly healthy New York cook who, in the early 1900s, left a trail of typhoid outbreaks in her wake while never showing symptoms herself, sparking a manhunt, forced quarantines on a lonely island in the East River, and a century-long de...

Strange Talk is back with a fresh Weird News roundup as Alyx and Ginelle dive into the bizarre and uncanny from around the world.  This week: teens in Wisconsin encounter a “silver fox” Sasquatch while setting off fireworks in the woods, a family in India is driven from their home by a series of mysterious fires possibly tied to a curse, a self-proclaimed witch doctor is arrested after taking thou...

On this episode of Strange Talk, Alyx sits down with Brian Bateman, a Texas homeowner whose house is quietly, persistently haunted. Not by violent poltergeists, but by presences that seem curious, calm, and woven into daily life. Brian shares the subtle signs that first tipped him off that he wasn’t alone, from a bed his dod wouldn't sleep in to unexplained sounds and movements to moments that fel...

On this episode of Strange Talk, Alyx is joined by returning guest Jeff Craig, founder of the Frogman Festival, to talk all things past, present, and future Frogman. As the festival heads into its fourth year, Jeff reflects on how the event has grown, what worked in previous years, and why this year’s festival is returning to a one-day format while still packing in speakers, vendors, music, and co...

On this episode of Strange Talk, Alyx sits down with parapsychologist Kelly Curtis from the Paranormal Rescue Team to explore the eerie intersection of death, belief, and the paranormal. Kelly, whose PhD research delves into how different types of exposure to death and dying shape our beliefs, identities, and psychological outcomes, brings a unique perspective to the world of hauntings and anomalo...

As the clock strikes 9pm, the airwaves crackle to life with the sinister hum of Strange Talk. This week, Alyx and Ginelle dive into the latest weird news from around the globe.  We kick things off with a shocking story out of Thailand where a woman was found alive and moving inside her coffin after being taken to a Buddhist temple for cremation. From there, we hop over to California, where surf br...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Ginelle talk with Zach Bales, creator and mind behind The Paranormal Roadtripper's Nightmare Gallery, Somerset Kentucky’s eeriest attraction. Zach takes us deep into the process of bringing real paranormal encounters to life, sharing what goes into recreating cryptids, hauntings, ET encounters, and unsolved mysteries as immersive museum pieces. The trio wades in...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx and Vayne crack open the dusty vault of hometown folklore and trade stories from their shared stomping grounds of Loveland, Ohio; from ghost hunts gone sideways to mysterious sculptures in the woods, deer mistaken for demons, and the long-whispered tales of lantern-carrying figures stalking old railroad beds. They dig into childhood rumors, half-true warnings from a...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx sits down with Chris Harmon, MUFON-certified field investigator, member of the Case Assistance Group, and part of the Experiencer Resource Team. Chris shares the extraordinary story of his lifelong encounters with non-human intelligences, the ET family he’s known since childhood, and how those experiences shaped his work as a healer and certified hypnotist. Rachel j...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx, Vayne, and Ginelle blast off into another round of Weird News from around this spinning blue marble (and slightly above it). We’re starting in orbit, talking radiation sickness risks for future space missions and what that means for anyone bold enough to try living off-Earth. Then, we come crashing back down to the ocean where someone thought tossing a pile of old...

This week on Strange Talk, Alyx, Vayne, and Ginelle are back with a science fiction, double feature of open lines and weird news. And things get wonderfully strange from the start, we’re joined by our friend Michael Midnight, who calls in to give us the scoop on his show’s brand new time slot (catch him at 9pm like us but on Tuesdays). From there, we tumble headfirst into the weird and the wacky:...