See You On The Other Side

Our paranormal universe was all abuzz this week when a paper signed by 33 scientists called “The Cambrian Explosion: Terrestrial or Cosmic” suggested that not only the incredible biodiversity of life that burst forth in that ear was because Earth was being blitzed by massive clouds of organic molecules from space, but it presented the theory that  the octopus might have come to Earth as froze...

Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she dreamed up the idea of  Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.      In the villa that Lord Byron was renting during June of 1816. It was the  Year Without a Summer  , caused by a massive volcano a half a world away that shot so much ash into the air, crops were ruined and temperatures dropped across the Northern Hemisphere. So,...

Since the  last time we talked with paranthropologist Jack Hunter  , he’s become a Doctor. So congratulations to this hard-working academic! His new book,   Engaging the Anomalous: Collected Essays on Anthropology, the Paranormal, Mediumship and Extraordinary Experience   is coming out this week and for those of you who are interested in learning about the univer...

When it comes to psi research and bravely holding the torch against the encroaching darkness of materialism, Dean Radin, PhD is the man who has stood at the forefront. His work as a scientist researching psychic phenomena in the lab while being a spokesperson for approaching psychic phenomena from a scientific perspective is inspiring. Since 2001, he has been the chief scientist at the Institute o...

 Coast to Coast AM  is the grandaddy of all paranormal talk shows. It is the original and it’s a big reason why a show like  See You On The Other Side   exists. Its founder and greatest host, Art Bell passed away on Friday the 13th. Art Bell wasn’t just a talk show host, he singlehandedly took the discussion of weird topics from the fringe of the airwaves to fron...

If you’ve ever experienced sleep paralysis, you know it’s not a laughing matter. You wake up to find yourself with a pressure on your chest, surrounded by nightmare creatures, and you can’t move. Sleep paralysis can make you question reality, after all, your dreams are showing up in your waking life. They are having a physical effect on you. No wonder that for millennia they’ve showed up in cultur...

Gary Lachman is a man after our own heart. Not only does he write amazing books on occult figures like Aleister Crowley, Madame Helena Blavatsky, and Colin Wilson, but he started as a musician in the New York New Wave scene in the 1970s (the most exciting time to be a musician ever, in my opinion!) As the bass player of Blondie, he wrote songs like “(I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear” whi...

News just came this week that they arrested Keith Raniere in Mexico City. Keith was the founder and leader of the NXIVM organization which started as a series of self-help seminars attended by people as successful as Richard Branson, a former US Surgeon General, the daughters of Edgar Bronfman Sr., the Seagrams billionaire, two children of Mexican presidents, the founder of Black Entertainment Tel...

The story of the demonic possession of three children in Gary, Indiana in 2011 is one of the most compelling paranormal stories of the Twenty-First Century. What started off with a black fly infestation starts manifesting itself in strange behavior from the children, from dangerous imaginary friends to threats and strange voices.  A local clairvoyant claims that there’s up to 200 demons who a...

This week we take the show on the road by visiting the Old South Pittsburg Hospital whose manager we met at the  Haunted America conference in Alton, Illinois last Summer.   After hearing stories of the shadow beings, Electronic Voice Phenomena, and variety of paranormal characters, we knew that we had to go on location and see the hospital itself. This place doesn’t look spooky at...

I don’t know when St. Patrick’s Day turned from a sweet celebration of a wonderful culture into an excuse for binge drinking (a Guinness holiday instead of a Hallmark one?) , but I think it was at some point in my lifetime. Before it used to be just about wearing green, running in the almost Spring grass looking for four-leaf clovers, eating Lucky Charms, drinking Shamrock Shakes, and of cour...

In May of 2014, a vicious crime shocked Wisconsin and made headlines across the United States. Two junior high school girls attempted to stab their friend in a sacrifice to an Internet horror story known as “The Slenderman”. While the victim thankfully survived, it left the world wondering, why would these girls commit such a horrible crime and what is The Slenderman? The pic that started it all C...

From  Joan Crawford  to  Sandra Bullock  ,  Bette Davis  to  Hilary Swank  , actresses who win Academy Awards are said to have been cursed in love shortly after. In fact, everyone from   Forbes     to  National Public Radio  to   The Washington Post     have talked about it. For example, Emma T...

February 20th, 2018 would have been Kurt Cobain’s 51st birthday and it’s hard to believe that he’s been gone for over two decades. Nirvana sold 75 million albums which puts them in the upper echelon of recording artists, but more than that, Kurt Cobain was one of the, if not  the , last rock star. He was aloof and artistic. He hated his fame while being drawn to it. He was the antithesis...

Prince is one of the least divisive musicians out there, everyone likes at least one Prince song. His mastery of multiple instruments made it so that he could write songs in almost any genre, moving from a Rock guitar jam to a sexy R&B bump and grind to a Pop piano ballad effortlessly. His death in April of 2016 really hit home not just for people like me who grew up with his music, but multip...

Working in TV, comics, and novels, writer Paul Cornell has created stories for some of the greatest fictional characters of all time.   Doctor Who  to Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes to Batman. He’s a Hugo award winner, has a  podcast about Hammer Horror Films  , and has an encyclopedic knowledge of UFO lore and mythology. Paul and artist  Ryan Kelly   have...

Last time we talked with  Matthew Swayne it was about his book    Haunted Rock & Roll   , but he’s also written a book called   America’s Haunted Universities: Ghosts that Roam Hallowed Halls .   As a research writer at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania, Swayne has first hand access to university legends and ghost stories. Born on Halloween,...

Texas cryptozoologist and paranormal researcher Lyle Blackburn has been hunting mysterious animals since he saw   The Legend of Boggy Creek  as a kid. A 1972 movie about a strange Bigfoot-like creature who was seen in the small town of Fouke, Arkansas starting in the 1950s, it became a traveling film sensation that made the stories renowned across the United States and had a signifi...

While home on break from college, Scott Porter saw a woman he thought was his mother making breakfast in the kitchen but when he came in to eat there was no one there. Stephanie Burke was just a little girl when she saw her grandmother’s ghost and then started regularly communicating with spirits who visited her in the house she was raised in. These paranormal experiences eventually led them...

Louvel Devon is the owner of Chicago’s  Occult Book Store.   In business for almost a century, it is the oldest book store of its kind in the world. Louvel was born “in the caul” which means that he came out with part of the amniotic membrane still covering him (because it’s often over the face they call this a “cowl” or “veil”) and it’s a good omen for the child,  often indica...

The biggest paranormal story in the Midwest in 2017 was the winged humanoid sightings over Chicago and we have covered the Chicago Mothman extensively over the past several months. First in  episode 159  , we interviewed the editor of  Phantoms and Monsters   blog where many of the Mothman sightings have been reported, then we brought on the great cryptozoologist Loren Col...

 When the  New York Times   UFO story came out online on December 16th, it was the very definition of a bombshell in the paranormal community. When the “Paper of Record” decides to write about heretofore unknown government program out of the blue on a Saturday in December, several questions immediately spring to mind… Are they finally coming clean on what they really know? Who...

When most people think about elves in the modern day, they either think about Legolas in  The Lord of the Rings  or they think about the short little fairy like creatures with Mr. Spock ears that make toys for Santa Claus. Now, Santa’s Workshop and the elves that build his toys is a creation of mid-Nineteenth Century magazines, but the history of elves goes a lot deeper than just working...

This week we have two 50th anniversary tragedies that we talk about on the podcast, one musical and one paranormal. The first is that in Madison we’re acknowledging the half-centennial of the  death of Otis Redding, whose plane crashed into Lake Monona on December 10th, 1967.   He was only 26 years old, just a year off the  cursed 27 Club . The second tragic anniversary has man...

Ho ho ho, friends, it’s a Yuletide tradition for us to uncover the weirdest stories we can about the Christmas season and this Holiday is no different. In the past we’ve covered everything from  Krampus  to  Icelandic Christmas monsters  to  Holiday ghost stories  and  Alien Jesus  , but we’ve hardly talked about the star of the show in most children’s imagi...