See You On The Other Side

The last week of the year is finally here! And depending on how your 2015 was, well, that’s going to make the difference whether you’re excited or depressed this week. I’m a little bit of both, we did so many great podcasts on weird news in 2015 and I met a ton of new people in the paranormal field. That was pretty awesome. And consistently Sunspot wrote more songs than any other year, s...

Christmas is all about peace on Earth, goodwill towards men, hey, it’s   the time to say “I love you”  , right? We make jokes about Santa’s list including the kids who are “naughty and nice”, but no one really means it. Even the naughty kids seem to get presents for the holidays. All the bullies I grew up with got presents from Santa Claus (  even if some of them...

Twenty years ago, I could never have imagined myself writing this post. New Age music to me when I was a teenager was the saddest, silliest, and least passionate music that I could imagine. It was a crime to art akin to Muzak, which ripped the heart out of what I thought were passionate songs and just left them with a lifeless shell of toothless melodies and tame Mom-friendly synths. I was a Rock...

December 3rd marked the 89th anniversary of the Agatha Christie disappearance, where the most popular author on the planet and the person we can credit most with the development of what people think of as the modern mystery novel, went missing for eleven days. The author of  And Then There Were None  ,  The Mousetrap  , and  Murder on the Orient Express  has thrilled...

The topic this week is a difficult one to approach. It’s very personal and it’s about as unpleasant as they come. It’s just something that we don’t like to talk about. And during the Holiday season where it’s treated as a fact that more suicides occur than at any other time of year, it’s a topic that we thought was worth discussing. Just to say something right away, if you ever...

What do you think of when you think of Thanksgiving? Pilgrims and Native Americans, right? Coming together to overcome a weak harvest in Plymouth, Massachussetts and learning to accept one another in a spirit of peace. Yep, that sounds about right. The story of the first Thanksgiving is a nice one, except when you think about who the Pilgrims actually were and the invisible world they lived in alo...

Cryptozoology is the study of creatures that are only rumored to exist. “Crypto” is ancient Greek for “hidden” or “secret” and “zoology” is the study of animals. So, right there, the word defines itself – cryptozoology is the study of hidden or secret animals. These secret animals are called “cryptids”. The suffix “-id” is another part of language derived from Greek to mean “belonging to” or class...

Human shadows moving around where no material objects are there to cast them. The silhouette of a man in the corner wearing a fedora, watching you. A form that refuses to reflect light with glowing red eyes that you feel is feeding on your emotions. When you do a Google search for shadow people now, you’ll see thousands of eyewitness accounts across the Internet of people who have experienced thes...

Chris Bores is mostly known for his YouTube comedy videos as     The Irate Gamer   where he plays through vintage video games, reviews them, and gets angry every time he dies in the game.  While he’s gotten millions of views for his video game work, his paranormal investigation is what inspired his book,   G   host Hunting 2.0: Breaking New Ground...

It’s a very special episode of   See You On The Other Side. T  his Halloween will be our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! How time flies when you’re exploring the unknown while writing songs about it! And obviously, we love Halloween, so we got zombified and joined the cast of Rockford sitcom   The Deadersons     and worked on a special mu...

I’ve often been critical of a lot of the “paranormal reality” television out there because it amazes me how much evidence that they can collect in one place in a short amount of time. They go to a new place every week and somehow come up with amazing evidence. If you’ve ever been on a paranormal investigation, you understand that  most of the time you come up empty-handed  , so...

So, October 2nd through 4th, I attended the  Dark Shores: Chicago Ghost Conference  with a VIP pass. My sister,  Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts  , as well as one of the guides on her haunted history tour, Estephanie (  check out some of her cool handcrafted items here!  ), also came along and in this podcast we go over our favorite parts of the convention. This is...

UFO movies have been with us for just a little bit less time than movies themselves. From Kenneth  Arnold’s original sighting of a flying saucer in 1947  to the  Roswell incident less than a month later  , it only took a couple of years for Hollywood to catch up. In 1950 they’d released   The Flying Saucer   and UFOs landed...

Adam and Drew Gray are Canadian filmmakers who have approached documenting the paranormal with a scientific eye and an open mind.  Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts  first introduced me to their work through a documentary called   The Nightmare.  Inspired by a sleep paralysis incident that affected Adam Grey so deeply that he couldn’t sleep for weeks where he saw a shrouded fi...

For some reason, humans love to believe that the end of the world is coming soon and with September 28th being the final Blood Moon of the Blood Moon Prophecy and (  even CNN is getting in on the apocalyptic clickbait  ), we thought it would be good to explain what the Blood Moon Prophecy is and tie it to the multitude of missed apocalypses that have been prophesied through his...

So, making the rest of us completely jealous, my sister  Allison  from  Milwaukee Ghosts  got to go to Hawaii this summer to visit some family and bask in the perfect weather. But we sent her on a mission, that if she got to go to paradise, then we were going to get some ghost stories and a podcast out of her. And we didn’t even have to threaten her, she did her duty and visite...

Out of Body Experiences (OBEs) are one of the least talked about paranormal phenomena, a lot of people have so much invested into the idea of your consciousness leaving your body at the time of death, that we forget that some people claim that they can leave their body and travel  while they’re alive!  It’s been called  astral projection  and  spirit walking  &nb...

So let’s say you go to a party and get black out drunk. It happens to the best of us, right? RIGHT!? Well, anyway, you don’t remember what happened but one of your friends tells you some stories about how you took your shirt off and put a tie on 80s-style, you put the lampshade on your head and jumped on the couch to dance. You start to remember bits and pieces of it and think that you can picture...

We’ve had discussions about Artificial Intelligence before from Skynet from   The Terminator   to whatever   The Matrix   ended up being, the idea that something that we develop will eventually become intelligent and want to destroy us is now a common theme. But there’s another kind of machine that has it out for mankind and that’s one that’s either mis...

Dreams, man. We all have them, all the time. Sometimes they’re terrifying, sometimes they’re fun, sometimes they’re just downright nasty (and not always in a bad way)… But do they mean anything? Is it just the random firings of synapses that are going through the motions as we fall asleep? A shoebox full of memories, fantasies, and mistakes that gets shaken up in the middle of the night and put on...

The episode starts with our trip to Bray Road near Delavan, Wisconsin which is where the legendary “Beast of Bray Road” was seen. We talked about the beast in  Episode 51 – American Monsters: An Interview with Linda Godfrey   and since we were in Delavan, Wisconsin performing with our band,  Sunspot   on Friday, we thought that this was our golden opportunit...

With books about Dogmen, werewolves, Bigfoot, skin changers, and the rest of the stable of American monsters, Linda Godfrey took an unlikely route into becoming one of the nation’s pre-eminent researchers into strange animals. This week, I interview Linda about how her journey took her from being a reporter for a small-town Wisconsin newspaper to becoming a chronicler of cryptozoology with appeara...

The conversation begins with a  discussion of the “Milwaukee Lion”,  the mysterious wild animal that people have been seeing in the Milwaukee area. Some say it’s a mountain lion that someone kept as an exotic pet and then escaped, but Mike and Wendy don’t quite believe it (even though   Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts  said that the lion had been spotted only a mile awa...

It’s Summertime in the Midwest, so Mike and Wendy don’t waste the nice afternoon by recording this podcast on a patio outside (so excuse if you hear a little traffic or some birds every once in awhile.) First things first, we’re coming up on episode 50 – so if you want to win a fun prize package, just tweet at us (  @othersidetalk  ) your favorite episode so far along with the hashtag #o...

This week, Mike and Wendy catch up after an incredibly busy week. Whilst Mike was in the process of relocating from Minneapolis to Madison, Wendy took a spontaneous road trip to Nashville to spend some time with her sister. Nashville is, of course, rich with music and history. While in the city, Wendy took the time to visit a few locations that have legends of ghosts. Stop 1: Gaylord Opr...