See You On The Other Side

This episode features an interview with screenwriter for   Star Trek: The Next Generation   and   Deep Space Nine,   Mark O’Connell. In the interview they cover growing up in the same small town, and how Mark developed his interest in science fiction, how Ray Bradbury gave him his first writing encouragement, and how he broke into writing for&...

Stonehenge. In reality, it’s a bunch of really big rocks arranged over the Salisbury plain in England. While the lintels (the huge stones laid horizontally across the tops of the upright ones) make it unlike any other manmade stone formation, Stonehenge is still like the constellations, all its meaning has to come from your own mind. And no other neolithic arrangement of boulders has fired more im...

In  Episode 10,  when we discussed the ghosts of Rock stars, one of the biggest sources of our stories was Matthew Swayne’s book,  Haunted Rock n’ Roll: Ghostly Tales of Musical Legends  . There were plenty of stories that we left untold that day, so we thought a great way to kick off 2015 would be to have the author himself, Matthew Swayne, for an interview so we could go furt...

We’re down to our last day of 2014, so what better time to discuss New Year’s traditions and superstitions? Mike and Wendy begin by sharing their own traditions for celebrating the turn of the year, and then delve into some historical and international New Year’s traditions and superstitions. Is there something you do each year when midnight of January 1st arrives? We’d love to hear about it,...

Mike interviews author and paranormal researcher, Chad Lewis. Chad has been featured on such shows as   Coast to Coast AM   and Discovery Channel’s   Legend Trippers . Since they’re both from Wisconsin originally, Chad talks a little about how the state’s fascination with the paranormal and particularly it’s 3 UFO festivals (in  Belleville  , ...

If it’s the most wonderful time of the year, why are we sharing scary haunted tales? Explore the history of the tradition of telling spooky Christmas ghost stories! More links on Christmas Ghost Stories: Hypnogoria article on  “The Origins of Ghost Stories at Christmas” Deseret News,  “Telling Ghost Stories is a lost tradition on Christmas Eve” The Conversation,  “Why ghosts ha...

With the recent news of Creed frontman Scott Stapp’s meltdown, it seemed like a good time to discuss some of the craziest celebrity conspiracy theories and what some of our favorite stars believe in. Many celebrities have not shied away from their beliefs that the government is lying about something or that it is after them. 9/11 Truth is one of the big ones, with Oliver Stone, Marion Co...

The threat of a global killer in the form of an asteroid plummeting toward earth is ever present, and several celebrities want to make everyone aware of this via a new event: Asteroid Day! We talk about movies featuring asteroids, actual asteroid collisions, and the people who want us to know of this risk of extinction. Oh- and there’s plenty of discussion about Queen guitarist Brian May...

Wendy returns from vacation to join Mike in a discussion about subliminal messages in television, movies, and music. Actor Matt Frewer played Max Headroom in a sci-fi show called “Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future” (which happened to be one of Mike’s favorites!). In the story, people were exposed to “blipverts”, advertising delivered in quick bursts, and which eventually ended up killing pe...

It’s the Holiday season and St. Nick’s Day was just this past weekend on Saturday, December 6th. Wendy Lynn is on vacation, so Mike brings his sister, Allison Jornlin, from Milwaukee Ghosts, again for a discussion on one of the less famous European Yuletide traditions,  Krampus, the Christmas Demon  . They begin with a discussion of Saint Nicholas traditions in their family and heavily G...

In this episode, Mike and Wendy Lynn delve into the mysteries of Lysergic acid diethylamide, or as it’s better known by its acronym, LSD (or its street name, acid). The show starts with a discussion of the invention of LSD in the 1930s, and then into how LSD became the “drugs” in sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. Then they go into detail on the difference between acid and other drugs and the Steve Job...

Today we turn the topic to rock stars who have encountered UFOs and extraterrestrials. The tales go all the way back to the Bible, with the story of Ezekiel spotting a wheel in the sky. In a more modern story, one of Van Halen’s lead singers, Sammy Hagar, claims he was abducted by aliens who either uploaded or downloaded something to/from his mind. The Sammy Hagar UFO stor...

We’re talking ghost stories! Specifically, stories about rock star ghosts and celebrity hauntings. Ghosts aren’t often reported of people who died peacefully. Many rock stars’ lives have ended tragically and suddenly, in the type of untimely ending often resulting in restless souls with unfinished business. Many witnesses purport to have seen those souls in the form of ghosts, and when those ghost...

Very few things seem as antithetical to basic humanity than being in league with the Devil. We’re so used to the idea of a benevolent monotheistic God in our conception of modern religion (How many times have you heard the expression, God is Love?) that the idea of wanting to glorify His opponent seems insane. We’d like to think that we’re capable of understanding people’s motivations and their pr...

Today we welcome special guest Allison Jornlin to the show. Allison is the founder of  Milwaukee Ghosts   Tours and has been researching strange events and paranormal occurrences for years. Today she brings us an interesting story from the entertainment world: That of Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof (1989 – 2014), daughter of Bob Geldof. Bob was front man for the Boomtown Rats...

Several of the greatest stars of the music scene left this world at the age of 27. In today’s episode, we talk about the many musicians who are members of the “27 Club”, including: Jim Morrisson Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin Brian Jones Amy Winehouse Kurt Cobain The majority of these tragic losses were due to abuse of drugs and alcohol, but some of the deaths are mysteries that remain unsolved, some e...

The saddest song in the world: A piece so full of despair that many are rumored to have taken their own lives while listening to it. Music doesn’t get much darker than that, and in today’s episode we explore the history and legend behind Rezső Seress’s “Gloomy Sunday”. Frequently referred to as “the Hungarian suicide song”, Gloomy Sunday has been covered by many artists in genres spanning from cla...

As promised, we present the second half of Mike’s interview with  Susan Masino  ! Before getting right into the meat of the show, we thank you for listening. Seriously, it’s been fun beginning this new project and getting some content out there that’s a little different from our norm. If you’re enjoying the show, we’d  really  appreciate it if you could leave a review (the more...

In our very first interview episode, Mike talks to special guest  Susan Masino  about some incredibly interesting crossovers between the music world and the world beyond. As author of books:  Let There Be Rock: The Story of AC/DC  ,  Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy-My Life and Times with AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss…  , and  The Secrets of the Universe: Universal Laws, Past Live...

It’s election day in the USA, and we’re having a political conversation… Well, as close to “talking politics” as we’ll get on this show! The discussion centers around elected officials. Slimy, slithery, cold-blooded ones that came from another part of the universe. Annunaki: The aliens that rule the planet!

Have you ever taken control of your own actions while dreaming? In this episode, we delve into the topic of lucid dreaming. Mike shares his experience of studying the process in order to escape nightmares, and Wendy describes a lucid dream in which she could fly.

Across the ages, musicians have purportedly made a deal with the devil to be able to more masterfully compose and/or play their instruments. Today’s episode explores this idea, and Mike and Wendy discuss what things they consider worthy of a deal with the devil. Mike and Wendy then dip into famous cases of making a deal with the Devil.  Musicians like Giuseppe Tartini who was b...

This is the first episode of Sunspot’s brand new podcast, See You On The Other Side, a new paranormal pop culture podcast. In it, you’ll get a little background as to why we find it fun to talk about the supernatural, paranormal, and general other-worldly topics and their relationship with the entertainment industry. Mike and Wendy recap some of the strange things that they and their bandmate Ben...