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Well, brillyant listeners Halloween is finally here and I am honored that you have allowed me to be a part of your day. To help you get in the mood this Halloween I have got a spectacular show lined up for you show casing the Show Me State. I’ve got the weird, the spooky, and the straight up terrifying for you. Stay tuned for accounts told to me by listeners. I’ve got a personal experience to shar...

Welcome to Asylum 49, a haunted attraction where the ghosts are all too real. Stick around to hear about the spirits that still reside in the old hospital and even get in on the scares every Halloween when it is transformed into a premier haunted attraction.

Extra! Extra! This week I have another old timey newspaper article for your delight! To help get you in the Halloween spirit I'm featuring an old west vampire! Stick around to hear about a throw down in Nebraska between a cowboy and a vampire!

I have got a very special episode for you this week, just in time for Halloween! As we are now firmly entrenched in the Halloween Season, you might be wondering what it's all about. How did this crazy, magical holiday come to be? I have author and Halloween Historian Lisa Morton on to discuss its origins in Samhain and it's evolution into Halloween as we know it today. So don't you dare go anywher...

On this week's brillyant tidbit, I'm getting Batty! So join me as I attempt to separate fact from folklore surrounding these Halloween icons. So get ready to take flight into the dark and learn more about these amazing creatures.

This week on brillyant I'm talking haunted dolls and Poppet Magick with good witch a psychic medium Patti Negri!

On this week's Tid Bit I look at an article from 1869 about a 93lbs frog found in a cave in Tennessee.

This week on brillyant I've got a fatal feline, a most tedious tapping, a young mother who tells me about a series of dream visitations and I'll look at a strange case of teleportation from Buenos Ares. So kick back and relax while Uncle Allen tells you all about this week's bizarre offerings.

On December 20, 1958, two men claim they were nearly abducted by flying globular beings from a flying saucer.

I was fortunate enough to have the amazing opportunity to have a conversation with Jeff Belanger! He has a new book out, Wicked Strange, available on September 2!

El Muerto, the headless horseman of Texas, rode the plains of Texas on a black mustang, his head dangling from the saddle. He was impervious to bullets and arrows, and its all true. Yet it wasn't supernatural, no the truth is stranger than that and for a story this weird I welcome Author and Historian John LeMay to the show. You can find his books on Amazon or wherever you purchase your books. Sad...

On this week's romp through the bizarre tangles of my mind I present the long awaited, much anticipated 2nd installment of the Monsters of the Midwest with Murphysboros, Illinois' own: Big Muddy Monster. I talk to John Sellars, Executive Director Emeritus of the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri about the Great Cobra Scare of 1953. I give you a new edition of Brillyant After Da...

She once roamed the Great Smoky Mountains between North Carolina and Tennessee with skin of stone, a long obsidian blade for a finger...and a taste for children's livers! By special request, I bring you the legend of Spear Finger!

Fog. It has a way of capturing our imagination. It is mysterious and romantic. It also has a history of being deadly. This week I look at the Donora Death Fog. I'll look at a phone booth in the desolate Mojave Desert, and how it has been connecting strangers around the world. I'll also examine a most curious haunting that will leave you scratching your head and possibly questioning the nature of r...

Did strange little me traverse the vast reaches of space to share their breakfast with a chicken farmer from Wisconsin? If Joe Simonton is to be believed, yes. Yes, they did.

This week on brillyantpodcast we look at the desert rampage of the murderous Red Ghost! Also, we travel to Scottland to learn more about the bizarre the mysterious Loch Ness...Camel? All this and more, stick around folks its going to get wild. As always, it gets dark in here.

I have an amazing conversation with author Jason Offutt. Our discussion ranges from Shadow People, time traveler Mike 'Madman' Marcum, Skidmore, Missouri, and much more. It was a fascinating conversation, and you can check it out here on Brillyant.

In this episode I explore the evolution of funerals in America. A couple of listeners share their ghostly encounters and a new edition of Brillyant after dark. Warning it gets dark in here.

Hear the tragic story of Inez May Gibson. Does her spirit still inhabit the second floor room of the infamous Malvern?

When night falls, Enter the woods at your peril, For inside lurks something Worse than the devil. Avoid at all costs the gathering place, Where at midnight, the Pig-Man Roams on Cannock Chase. _Rhyme passed down generation to generation by local school children.

For my first installment of Monsters of the Midwest I offer you the Show-Me states own pumpkin headed, dog munchin' cryptid, Momo- The Missouri Monster. I explore the bizarre final hours of Thomas Meehan. This and so much more await you. Warning:It gets dark in here.