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Everyone knows about the Loch Ness Monster, everybody has heard about the Sasquatch. Nessie and Bigfoot are the two most famous cryptids in the world. Even most Forteans have heard of Champ, the sea serpent that is said to roam the waters of Lake Champlain between Vermont and Quebec, first seen in the New World in 1609. But most people have never heard of the Master Otter, who’s been seen a lot mo...

Beltane, which occurs on May 1st, is the celebration of fertility and the encouragement of the world coming back to life. It is halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice.  The last time we talked about May Day was in our discussion with Selena Fox of the Circle Sanctuary  and this year we’re returning to the topic because it is a sacred time not just for Pagans. There’s...

If you read any of paranormal or horror movie blogs this week, you might have seen an article about a new “documentary” coming out that contains a film from the 1970s that has recently been rediscovered called  Antrum.  It was covered by  Bloody Disgusting  ,  Mysterious Universe  ,  Unexplained Mysteries  , and even  Forbes   magazine, who did the...

Although some claim the thoroughly modern French don’t believe in God or ghosts, let’s be real and face the truth. Everybody believes in something at least bordering on supernatural, even if they don’t readily admit it. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, brutally ravaged by fire on April 15th, 2019, is a prime example. There’s something in the folklore of Notre Dame Cathedral for ev...

You might be most familiar with him as the ghost hunting equipment guy on  Haunted Collector  with John Zaffis, the nephew of the notorious Ed and Lorraine Warren. Or you might have seen him as one of the hosts of the new Travel Channel show  Paranormal Caught On Camera . But in the days before paranormal reality television was the popular phenomena it is today, Brian was urban expl...

To those of us who are crazy about horror movies, there’s One Redneck To Rule Them All and that’s the host of  MonsterVision  , Joe Bob Briggs. To millions of impressionable teens, he was the voice who was able to find the best in cheesy horror movies. With his beer-drinkin’, nude scene-loving, onscreen violence-adorin’ attitude, he was the horror host that we all looked up to. A comic (...

Last time we talked with author Tea Krulos,  he was reminding us about the famed Doomsday Clock settling  once again at the dangerous Two Minutes to Midnight. He was paying special attention to the clock, because it was directly related to his latest book,  Apocalypse Any Day Now: Deep Underground with America’s Doomsday Preppers . h That’s right, Tea jumped into the fray with the p...

The first time I’d ever heard the name Lillith was because of a role-playing game. In the 90s, Dungeons & Dragons wasn’t quite hardcore enough, so we had to delve into the White Wolf World of Darkness. And tabletop wasn’t hardcore enough, we had to do it live action. That’s right, baby, LARPing (  just like Peter Dinklage in the underrated   Knights of Badassdom   ). If you don’...

Austin, Texas is one of our favorite places in the world. In addition to the wonderfully warm Texas sun, hundreds of live music venues to catch great bands at, rich history, and the  amazing tacos  , it’s the welcoming friendly people that keep us coming back year after year. This last trip to the SXSW festival was no different becuase we had a chance to meet up with  Monica Ballard...

You might say that Mark O’Connell knows a little bit about Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who was in charge of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book. There, Hynek was charged by the military to investigate UFO reports across America and then summarily disprove them. In fact, Mark O’Connell literally wrote the book on Dr. Hynek called  The Close Encounters Man . We’ve had Mark on the...

Since the Academy Awards were this weekend, we thought we’d do a uick update to our  Oscar Love Curse  episode that we recorded the same time last year (and to quote another Academy Award nominee from this year, another one bites the dust…  Sorry, Brie Larson, you’re the latest victim of the Oscar Love Curse!  ) But celebrities are just one of the many things that people are su...

Music is universal across human culture. Doesn’t matter what language you speak or where you from, singing and dancing is an essential part of the human experience, just ask Kevin Bacon… If anyone ever asks you about cocaine consumption in the 1980s, just point them here… There was a video that made the rounds a few years ago that showed normally unresponsive Alzheimer’s Patients reacting to the m...

Spontaneous Human Combustion just doesn’t seem to get the recognition in the paranormal world that it used to. I remember when I was a kid checking out books on weirdness from the library, they almost never failed to include this picture… AAll that was left of Mary Reeser Now I know that people randomly starting on fire might not be as sexy as demons or aliens, it’s one of the only strange phenome...

After being dead for almost three decades, serial killer Ted Bundy is back in the news. Of course, true crime TV shows are in big time since  Making A Murderer  set the world on fire three years ago, so Netflix is continuing the trend with their come series,  Confessions of a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.   It’s the first thing y...

This week, Wendy and I are once again joined by my sister, Allison Jornlin from  Milwaukee Ghosts  as well as Steve Ward, a paranormal enthusiast, frequent podcast guest, and weekly contributor to  Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files   . I met Steve last year at the Michigan Paracon and we bonded over the fact that we both had the same  They Live  -inspired t-shirt!...

When  The New Yorker  runs an article called  “Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua'”  , people are going to listen. It’s one of America’s most prestigious magazines, which is probably why they were a little combative in their discussion with Avi Loeb (  who’s been popping up all the time lately)   a...

This week, there was a plethora of exciting UFO news (well, probably as exciting as we’re going to get until they finally land in our backyard) so we wanted to bring back one of our favorite guests, [  Robbie Graham  ]. Robbie authored the fascinating and insightful book,  Silver Screen Saucers    as well as editing  UFOs: Reframing The Debate   , which is one of...

We’re back for another round of paranormal discussion this week as we focus on our favorite new stories in the past week. Once again, Wendy and I are joined by Scott Markus from  WhatsYourGhostStory.com  and Tea Krulos,  Milwaukee ghost tour  guide as well as the author of books like  Heroes In The Night   ,   Monster Hunters   , and the upcom...

Our New Year’s Resolution for 2018 was to hold ourselves to a  higher standard of paranormal investigation . Did we do so? Well, we hope so! We hope we gave you guys a lot to think about these past 52 episodes and hopefully stretched your mind but not your credulity. So, as we ring out the old of 2018, we wanted to talk about some of our favorite paranormal things of 2018. What exactly did we...

So what exactly is a Shaman? A quick explanation would be that it is someone who can interact with a spirit world that is surrounding us, but we usually cannot see, an intermediary between us and the spirits who can help us heal and ask for their wisdom. Our usual Western idea is of some kind of “Medicine Man”, a witch doctor taking hallucinogenics and shaking sticks at the sky. Sure, he might kno...

You know we love Christmas, after all we’ve already had five shows on the topic, covering things like: Christmas Monsters: Ten Terrors Of The Yuletide Holiday Hauntings: Christmas Ghost Stories Krampus: The Christmas Demon Elves: More Than Just Santa’s Little Helpers Santa Claus Is Real: Toys, Traditions, And Tulpas Which means when we’re looking for something new to talk about Christmas, it takes...

At the beginning of the Millennium, I used to visit the website tarot.com almost every single day. It was a good-looking page that had some really cool tarot cards and it was free to do a little reading everyday. You could pay for a full “Celtic Cross” elaborate kind of thing, or you could just get a little three card session for free. You would ask it a specific question and get three cards back,...

This weekend we did our first live podcast from a convention! Allison from  Milwaukee Ghosts  , Scott from  WhatsYourGhostStory.com  , Wendy, and I did a panel on   EVIL   at  Wizard World Madison  and it was a fantastic experience. Here’s how they described the panel in the literature: From urban legends to comic books to true crime, evil permeates our...

Have you ever dreamt something and it happened in real life? I have. I was eleven years old and it was the summer of 1988. I was in the middle of a nightmare when all of a sudden it was winter and I was getting off the school bus and kids across the street started throwing snowballs at my friend and I. My friend ran into his house and grabbed a red plastic circular sled to use as a shield against...

With a brand new Robin Hood movie coming out this week (which was originally called   Robin Hood: Origins  , I guess to make it sound like a   X-Men   movie or something), it’s time to talk about the famous bandit who fought against the tyranny of Prince John in Sherwood Forest and stole from the rich and gave to the poor.  But that’s my version of Robin Hoo...