See You On The Other Side

We go back to the archives for this unreleased episode where we talked with Nick Redfern about his book, “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy”. “The object was hovering on legs” “Something being tested in the area” “A world of trouble” “Minds were manipulated” In the final days of December 1980, strange encounters and bizarre incidents occurred in the heart of Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England....

"A certain number of people, good honest working folk, had seen something—something unusual. Something scary. Something hairy that relished pavement patty dinners!"  That was the caption underneath the cartoon of an upright wolf eating roadkill that ran in the December 29th, 1991 article of The Week,  the local paper of the small Wisconsin city of Elkhorn. It was an&n...

Hello, dear listener! It’s been a bit since we published a “traditional episode” of this audio podcast, and we want you to know that we’re still here and we’re still at it! This episode is a quick “hello” and a little retrospective of what has gone on in our world since the last episode was published.

When Hollywood comes looking for a nasty monster from First Nations folklore, there’s one supernatural creature that seems to dominate the landscape. The legend of the Wendigo has inspired cinematic villains from  Pet Sematary  to  Supernatural  ,  Ravenous  to  Bone Tomahawk . From the legends of the Algonquin-speaking Great Lakes tribes in the Upper Midwest and...

Horror stories, clickbait, panic porn, your amygdala is constantly getting stimulated nowadays because the media understands that if they activate your fight or flight response, you’ll pay attention. The old saying goes “If it bleeds, it leads” and that applies now more than ever. We’re still in the middle of a pandemic that has kept most of the world inside and glued to TV and social media for tw...

Millions of people have UFO stories. There is a one-hundred percent chance that you know at least one person that has a story! So, we went to our listeners and in our own archives for this episode’s tales of UFO experiences. Once again, join me, Wendy Lynn,  Scott Markus from WhatsYourGhostStory.com  , and my sister  Allison Jornlin from MilwaukeeGhosts.com  to talk about our o...

Everyone’s got a ghost story, from your grandma to your high school social studies teacher. In fact, some of the people that you least expect (and some skeptics as well), seem to have stories that they just can’t quite explain. One time, I remember talking to someone about ghost stories and he said, “Nothing’s really ever happened to me… well… except that time that heard my grandmother’s voice tel...

In the wilds of western Alberta, Canada, Ken Walker lives, hunts, creates, and sings Roy Orbison tracks. He’s a world champion taxidermist who specializes in recreations of extinct animals. He’s brought back stunning versions of the Sabretooth Tiger and the Irish Elk and his work is featured in the Smithsonian Institution. He’s also a Squatcher and in 2015, he began a quest to create a perfect ver...

Wendy and I were joined for a podcast we recorded on Facebook Live with Allison Jornlin,  Milwaukee’s Paranormal Researcher of the Year  and  WhatsYourGhostStory.com  ‘s Scott Markus to talk about the happiest ghost stories we know. In this episode, we talk about a ton of happy ghost stories and one not-so-happy one: The Gallery Inn in San Juan, Puerto Rico which is haunted by...

Every year on St. Patrick’s Day, we all hear the story of St. Patrick so we know it by heart, right? Even before most of us were old enough to slurp cheap green beer and scour the streets in search of Jameson, we knew the story of Ireland’s most famous Saint. He used the shamrock to explain to the Pagan Celtic heathens the mystery of the Holy Trinity (three leaves in one shamrock equal the Father,...

Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman return on Friday The 13th to TRVL with the second season of  Portals To Hell . Jack, of course, is the son of the rock ‘n’ roll Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, and he grew up in the world of reality television as a star of the megapopular  The Osbournes . He’s fully embraced his father’s legacy by not only producing paranormal reality TV but by becomi...

Friendly and funny, Chip Coffey in person doesn’t seem like the type who seems to have an open line with dead people. At paranormal conventions in the vendor room, he’s the boisterous laugh and endearing voice you can hear from the other side of the room. Living in Atlanta now, Chip’s charm feels more Southern than his Upstate New York upbringing would normally lead you to believe. But his unassum...

Sallyanne Monti always thought that her story was already told. Growing up in the same Italian-American Brooklyn neighborhood as the characters in  Saturday Night Fever  , getting married to her high school sweetheart and having four kids, she was on the path that was always expected of her. That’s until a typo in an email address would change her life forever. In her memoir,  Light...

Gigantic birds. They’re fricking terrifying . And there might be some kind of genetic memory (or epigentic inheritance) as to why when CNN posts headlines like  “Bones reveal Neanderthal child was eaten by a giant bird” . We’ve had  Seth Breedlove talk about his  Terror In The Skies  documentary  which talks specifically about giant birds in Illinois, but in this episode w...

When you think of turn of the Twentieth Century writer Jack London, you immediately think about of the Yukon and his most famous works like  White Fang  or  Call Of The Wild.  And in fact, Harrison Ford returns to the screen next week with the latest version of the classic novel (written from the dog’s perspective, there are few works like it!) Jack London led a tumultous and a...

Here we go again, it’s a new year and there’s a new type of flu going around that’s going to kill us. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first originated in Wuhan, a city of eleven million people in China, and since it began, internet rumors have been flying fast and furious, in many places spread through memes. Some are fun… Some aren’t: How does bogus information spread so quickly? Trust. T...

“What you think is weird is weirder than you think” – that’s the slogan that’s on the website of  John E.L. Tenney and his weird lectures . That’s a fun turn of phrase but it took me a little bit to figure out what it means. We understand the idea of ghosts, we understand the idea of UFOs, we understand the concept of Bigfoot. Ghosts are the spirits of our consciousness surviving death after...

The latest adaptation of Henry James’ classic 1898 ghost story  The Turn Of The Screw  is called  The Turning  starring red hot teenage actor Finn Wolfhard but it’s not the only adaptation being released this year. Mike Flanagan’s sequel to his Netflix smash  The Haunting of Hill House  is going to be called  The Haunting of Bly House  and will rework James’...

I’ll admit it, I love making fun of hippies. 20 years of living in Madison, Wisconsin (where the Vietnam War never ended, at least the protest part of it) and performing alongside jam bands has jaded me to the culture. Free love and the daily “wake and bake” never seemed to me as much of a spiritual path as it does just another way to get your rocks off. I was disgusted at its patchouli-scented ba...

Every year, it seems like the Christmas season starts earlier and earlier, and you can see people getting annoyed about it on social media. Some people say it’s inappropriate to get your Christmas decorations up until the day after Thanksgiving. But it’s not like department stores are listening to this, they get their Holiday displays up immediately after Halloween is over. And while Jesus may be...

Angels feel like something for little kids and Christmas trees. It’s Della Reese performing heartwarming miracles on cheesy Sunday night television or the goofy Clarence from  It’s A Wonderful Life . Or even a hearbroken Nicolas Cage staring forelornly at the ocean from  City of Angels . They’re something silly, like a figurine in your Grandma’s cabinet or laying on a cloud in Heaven pla...

The fun part of The Mandela Effect is talking about the memories you share with other people that doesn’t necessarily jibe with reality. When you remember  The BerenSTEIN Bears  with other people and you all can’t figure out just why the real world has the book series written down as the  BerenSTAIN Bears  , it connects you with those people on more than one level. Not only are...

We’ve had Greg and Dana Newkirk from The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult on the show several times before and they’ve always got great stories, whether they’re talking about the  beautiful story of how they met  or reminiscing about  Buffy the Vampire Slayer   . We’ve hung out with them at  numerous paranormal conventions  and enjoyed their work. So when...

I used to be terrified of going to sleep. Everyone has a nightmare once in awhile, but starting when I was six years old, I’d have them almost every night. I couldn’t just fall asleep, I’d read until the book would fall out of my hands and my eyes closed involuntarily. I would dread if my parents went to bed before I fell asleep because that would just make things more terrifying, I’d be facing en...

Nothing gets a ghost hunter salivating like the opportunity to do an investigation in an abandoned sanitarium. It seems like we get our ideas of what life was like in a mental asylum entirely from movies like  Return To Oz  or  Sucker Punch  , where sadistic psychiatrists are hellbent and eager to perform lobotomies and shock treatment on innocent patients, living in squalor, s...