Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium

On this episode we look at the beneficial possession case dubbed the Watseka Wonder and there is lots of great music from the likes of Shrouds, Fausten, Disposal Unit, Deafcult, Suicide Party, Sean Hølt, Corrado Maria De Santis, Exotoendo, Stereo Taxic Device, Lesa Listvy, Mazakon Tactics, and Mighty Sphincter.

This episode we return to the tradition of Midwinter ghost stories with a tale from Algernon Blackwood, and feature music from Doc Watson, Cindytalk, Siglo XX, Quitter/Canady, Prophän, Unfeeling, Alio Die, Her Menacing Pet, Amazing Grace, Cryobiosis, and Carpathian Forest

Call this the eulogy episode. We honor the passing of Shane MacGowan, Mark Samuels, and Geordie Walker, three people of significant creativity and influence that have passed since the last episode. There's music from The Pogues, Have Demons, Archaic Ruins, Rites Of Fall, The Legendary Pink Dots, These Immortal Souls, Leeches, I.Corax, ALC, Caul, and Killing Joke.

Episode 58 of the Spookatorium starts with some excellent modern post punk and takes a little trip back in time once it gets going. Lots of old experimental and Industrial from the late 80's to the mid 90's. I got carried away with that, so it's just tunes this time out, but they are good ones from the likes of. White Hex, Bambara, Ond Cirkel, Addremove, Blackhouse, VO.I.D., Borghesia, Echo West,...

On This episode we look at a few creatures from South American folklore and feature music from Hålbå, Megaptera, Silent Scream, Rotting Yellow, 2w, In Death It Ends, The Circular Ruins & Mystified, PBK, Oake, Endvra and Exit Electronics

It's another Halloween episode of the Spookatorium. This time we look at some ideas around death and the afterlife and check in with Lord Byron. in addition to music from Kay Starr, Thrill Kill Kult, Stilz, Terrortron, Nocturnal Emissions, Passed, Screening, Pessary, Daughters of Grief, Shinjuku Thief, The Spectre Collector, King Diamond, Sacrifice, Whiplash, Twisted Nerve, Vain Warr, Secret Shame...

This episode looks at the "Grand Traverse Stonehenge" in Lake Michigan and features music from Lemna, Nostalgia, Olhon, The Protagonist, The Black Monolith, Grabesmond, Blood Of The Black Owl, Ghostships, Golem Mechanique, and VRNA.

This episode of the Spookatorium we look at the recent film Moon Garden, and there is lots of music from Bestia Centauri, Aliquis, Overlook, Solypsis, Skullflower, Conflict Burning, Vengeance Space Quartet, Verge, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Hive Mind, and Aelter.

On episode 53 of the Spookatorium we look at the concept of the Dweller On The Threshold and the book, Zanoni, that inspired it. In addition there is music from Scorn, Fragile Body, Lithivm, Marax, Dweller On The Threshold, Voidthrone, Merrimack, Black Magnet, Shadow Structure, Depressor, and Teeth Engraved With The Names Of The Dead.

This episode is mostly music from the likes of: ATT Corp, Blackwood, Dome Runner, Mental Destruction, Colossloth, Brooddark, Locust Reign, Sonic Oscillations, Daemonyx, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Divided Visions of Souls, and Jonathan Canady.

Episode 51 of the Spookatorium looks at the work of Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett and his book Esoteric Buddhism. In addition there are tunes from TOT, Sky Burial, Heldentod, Distortion Six, Yoke, 20.SV, Sa Bruxa, G.xist, Dead Man's Hill, Catal Huyuk, Mortifero, and Ogre.

This is episode 50, and we do a little state of the podcast check in and talk about perspective and truth in the paranormal. In addition there are tunes from Øne19, Paracusia, The Folks Below, Seelenlicht, The Spectral Light & Moonshine Snakeoil Firefly Jamboree, Carst, Cementation Anxiety, Kerovnian, Venetian Blinds, Ascetic:, The Angelic Process, and Control.

This episode looks at the idea of doppelgangers, and to keep the theme lively all the tunes are cover songs from the like of Pankow, Satori, Angel Hair, Death Method, Ataraxia, Beyond Dawn, Unto Ashes, The Ancients Rebirth, Shadow Of The Torturer, Red Harvest, Otyg, and Snog.

On Episode 48 of the Spookatorium we explore the dark Expressionism of artist Hyman Bloom and hear the delightful sounds of Black Rain, Diasiva, Pact Infernal, Pterygium, Claustrum, Hybryds, GhostShips, Mandible Chatter, Kirchenkampf, Bad Sector, Noform, and Quelaag.

On this episode we look at the Nalusa Falaya and Bohpoli from Choctaw folklore and notice a few parallels with modern paranormal experiences. You will also hear the sounds of TenHornedBeast, Divinus Baal & Runa, Sciama, Dreadcore, MDS51, Nigh/T\mare, Noctilucant, Shinkiro, Noised, Aberva, Kletis, and Into The Pale Abyss.

I was pressed for time this episode, so there’s no stories this go, but still plenty of music from the likes of Reduction Plan, The Dead Mantra, Depther, In Search Of Shores, Narbenerde, Yen Pox, Sun Devoured Earth, Buried Alive, Garden of Myxini, Sator Absentia, Xiphoid Dementia and Pangaion.

This time out we look at the folklore around The Devil’s Causeway, and Frog Well in England, and feature tunes from The Monochrome Set, Princess Tinymeat, Azfarat, Blac Kolor, Sleeprunner, Infinity’s Astrum, Last Life, Law, Nightmares, Urusai, Pyrophilus & Witch Bottle

In this episode we look at the life of Arthur Crew Inman and float on the sonic waves of Ex. Hale, The Doomed Bird of Providence, The Pessimist Chamber, Froe Char, Melanchoholics, Nastika, Theologian, Vile Temper, Death Librarian, Hitting Birth, Test Dept., and Controlled Opposition.

Back after a little hiatus. This episode includes a personal spooky tale, ghost? time slip? who knows... and music from Ah Cama-Sotz, Xoma, Terra Tenebrosa, Infinexhuma, Silence In The Snow, SNTS, Evitceles, Selofan, Hum Of The Druid, Inslavement, Cemento, and Deaf Machine.

This episode we take a look at the Maryhill Stonehenge, a scale replica of the original Stonehenge in Washington state, and the superstitious origins of Horse Brass Medallions. In addition there is music from Polevaulter, Plague Agent, Spectral Aeons, Tho-So-Aa, Akinsa, Anchient, Snowbeasts, Sword Volcano Complex, Terminal Sound System, Kollaps, and Gator Bait Ten.

In this episode of the Spookatorium we look at the weird fiction of lesser known writer Edward Lucas White and present his story “The Voices.” There is music from Olekranon, STCLVR, Torn, Violent Grief, Bract, Cranes, Isotropia, In Slaughter Natives, Still Und Dunkle, Grim Heka and High Strange.

Episode 40 of Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium looks at instances of phantom music across phenomena and through a modern scientific lens. In addition, there is music from She Spread Sorrow, Shimmer Crush, Skrol, Theta, Foreseer, Forndom, Them Teeth, Sonologyst, Blakk Harbor, Clay Rendering and TSOL.

This episode of professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium includes information on the Piasa, a giant bird(?) once believed to inhabit the Mississippi Valley, and a look at some of the more esoteric interests of Sabine Baring-Gould the priest behind the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers." And of course, there's music. This time from Rope Sect, The Ex, Head Of David, Dynastes, November Novelet, Grey Freq...

This episode looks at a type of Fae called Night Elves, among other names, as possibly having a role in the Sleep Paralysis phenomenon. Beyond that, there is music from Masses, NoMeansNo, Hypsiphrone, Lot 49, Infestation Ritual, Delta Kane, Recant, Oureboros, Pain Emission, Swamp Terrorists, Controlled Bleeding, & Burial Hex.

This episode, we dip our toes into the Victorian tradition of holiday ghost stories with a reading of M.R. James "A School Story." Beyond that, there is lots of music from the likes of Badrich, Naxal Protocol, Never Worse, Murderous Vision, Hoducoma, Blackmole, Skinny Puppy, Khost, Luasa Raelon, Black Egg, Box and The Twins, Weever and Wilt.