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Superheroes are bigger than ever. Between two versions of The Flash, Batman in the movies and a young Bruce Wayne on television, Ghost Rider getting featured on network television, or even Doctor f  reakin’   Strange getting his own movie, we’ve come a long long way from the 1970s   Incredible Hulk   where they changed Bruce Banner’s name to David becau...

It’s getting near the end of the year, so that means it’s Oscar-bait time and one of the performances getting great reviews this season is Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in   Darkest Hour.   Of course, Gary Oldman isn’t afraid of a radical transformation (just see his work as a  computer-generated dwarf in the movie Tiptoes)   and the skinny...

Fred in front of George Mackenzie’s Tomb It’s called MindSpaOdyssey and you can check that out right here! City of the Dead ghost tours City of the Dead Ghost Tour – July 25th 2008 10pm The Greyfriars Courtyard, already spooky We walked back to the hotel to get our jackets and raced to St. Giles’ Cathedral to the tour. We almost didn’t get there because it was nearly a half-hour walk from the hote...

The last time we had Dr. Martin Walsh on we  discussed his experiences in Zanzibar during the Popobawa panic in the mid-90s   and we knew that there was more that we wanted to talk to him about. Not only is Dr. Walsh an anthropologist who has studied social phenomena for decades, he’s also one of the leaders of the search for the  Zanzibar Leopard,   a unique species...

Hey, it’s Halloween time again and we’ve been watching   Stranger Things 2   to get in the mood for our favorite holiday. Especially because the new show takes place during the Halloween of 1984. And while we’ve explored Halloween a couple times in the past, including  the urban legends that surround the holiday   and an  in-depth discussion of the phen...

When Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins was on the Howard Stern show promoting his new album,   Ogilala,   Howard and Robin were grilling him on his relationship with everyone’s favorite radio host/internet conspiracist, Alex Jones. Corgan (who now goes by his full name, William Patrick Corgan) has been on   Infowars   three times. https://www.infowars....

L. Sydney Fisher Haunted History The Devil’s Board. One of the things I like about Sydney’s work is that it’s inspired by true events as opposed to claiming its a documentation (ala The Amityville Horror). Fiction and narratives are meant to be exciting, and horror and suspense are meant to thrill you viscerally. Sometimes you have to go a little extreme with the story to make that happen, and rea...

Freelance writer and adventurer Tea Krulos is back this week with Wendy, Allison, and I to give us an update to what he’s been up to over the past year. In the past, Tea has written about  Monster Hunters  and  Real-Life Super Heroes  and now we catch up with him as he researches his next book,  The End . The End  is all about what you think. That’s right, we’re talki...

September 30th, 2017 was  National Ghost Hunting Day (for real!)   and we got to be a part of it with a massive investigation that was happening at the same time all over the world. We took our part of the World’s Larges Ghost Hunt at the Old Baraboo Inn in Baraboo, Wisconsin.  We visited there before in episode 89 of the podcast where we did a live performance and interview ....

Looks like there is no intellectual property that the great minds of Hollywood are afraid of resurrecting. Twenty seven years after it originally premiered, they’re bringing back  Flatliners  as a quasi-reboot / stealth sequel. They’re probably getting the message that us geeks are getting tired of rebooting properties when they could basically create a new story with new characters whil...

There’s nothing quite as sexy as a good mystery. Sometimes the game is figuring out clues left by an artist to discover a hidden clue to their true intent (  just look at the   Twin Peaks  online discussion fury that was happening all summer  ), sometimes the game is understanding what a mainly symbolic work is actually trying to say (look at  Jennifer Lawrence and Da...

Ever since our friend  Lisa from Madison Ghost Walks  met MJ Dickson from the British investigation group Sage Paranormal on a paranormal cruise earlier in this year, she said we have to have her on the show. She’s as down-to-earth as a psychic is gonna get and has lots of great stories of growing up in a paranormal family. Raised all over the world in countries from Zimbabwe t...

Filmmaker Tobe Hooper passed away on August 26th, 2017 at the age of 74. Hooper was most famous for being the director on   The Texas Chainsaw Massacre   and   Poltergeist,  but he also set his indelible mark on great films like   Salem’s Lot   and (the extremely under appreciated, in my opinion)   Lifeforce.   While he’ll...

The Midwest is abuzz this Summer with stories of winged humanoid creatures flying over Chicagoland. Tall dark creatures with red glowing eyes have been spotted all over the city with dozens of sightings this year alone. Now Lon has been collecting these stories,  Manuel Navarette from UFO Clearinghouse  has been writing up the reports and investigating each site, our friend   T...

Magician David Parr’s recent appearance on  Penn & Teller: Fool Us  ended up with David performing a neat card trick with Alyson Hanigan (Willow from  Buffy  !) that not only amazed the crowd, but managed to fool both of the title stars! The show is based around the famous magic duo trying to figure out tricks by other magicians and if they can’t figure your trick out, you...

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Linda Godfrey, the author who first brought the world’s attention to the Beast of Bray Road in the early 1990s.   We interviewed her all the way back in Episode 51  ,  brought her to our cryptid round table in Episode 67,   and couldn’t wait to get her back to discuss her latest book,     Monsters Among Us.   &...

Jenny Ashford wasn’t a believer. She was always into horror movies, books, and goth culture, but had never had a paranormal experience herself. Interested in fiction and fashion, but never seeing the real thing, that all changed when she met Tom Ross, who was the focus of a poltergeist in his teens. While already a successful author and graphic designer, Jenny seized on the opportunity to start re...

It’s no secret that my sister,  Allison Jornlin from Milwaukee Ghosts  is a  Buffy the Vampire Slayer  superfan. I had seen the original movie, which I thought was more interesting because it was one of the first Pee-Wee Herman cameos  after his “incident”  (and he’s hilarious in the film), but I thought the whole thing was silly and way too lightweight, I was in...

When it came to causing nightmares for the children of the 90s, few people besides the bogeyman himself are as responsible as D.J. MacHale. As the co-creator of Nickelodeon’s long-running  Are You Afraid of the Dark?  horror series for children, his work terrified a generation of flannel-clad youngsters. In addition to  Are You Afraid of the Dark?  , D.J. has also authored the...

Amelia Earhart is back in the news eighty years after her disappearance. The famous aviator went missing over the Pacific Ocean in July of 1937 along with her navigator Fred Noonan and it’s been one of the Twentieth Century’s great mysteries ever since. Just for a reference, this is Tom Noonan as “The Ripper” in Last Action Hero, who I kept comparing to Earhart’s navigator, Fred Noonan in the disc...

Jeff Belanger  is one of New England’s premier haunted historians. Well known for his work with  Ghost Adventures  (he was one of the guys who found the haunted places and looked for witnesses willing to discuss their experiences), Jeff also hosted the online show   Thirty Odd Minutes  , has written fourteen books on hauntings, and was Emmy-nominated for his work on t...

For the third time, we return to Alton, Illinois to do some paranormal business. The first,  we did a live podcast and hung out at the haunted Maeva’s Coffeehouse . The second  we went down to the Haunted America conference which was their Twentieth Anniversary . This time, we went down in force to the Haunted America Conference to not only check out the speakers, but to hang out at a&nb...

It’s always a pleasure when we can bring Mark O’Connell to talk on the show. Not only did he grow up in the same town as Allison Jornlin and I, so it’s always fun to reminisce about growing up a little different in our tiny hometown of Big Bend, Wisconsin, but he’s a science fiction screenwriter who’s got the same interest in the paranormal as we do here on the show. He’s written for&nbs...

Last week,  we covered the concept of “high strangeness” with Robbie Graham and Mike Clelland  as we talked about the book,   UFOs: Reframing The Debate  , a collection of essays on modern UFOlogy conceived and edited by Robbie. Try checking this image out with 3-D glasses! This week is the second half of that conversation between myself, Robbie Graham,  Mike Cle...

Last time we talked with  Robbie Graham, he had just released  Silver Screen Saucers   , a brilliant tome on how Hollywood and UFOlogy have influenced each other over the past 70 years. In the meantime, Robbie’s star has quickly risen in the UFO field (or is just the planet Venus?) thanks to his thorough research and an academic approach. His latest endeavor,  UFOs: Reframing T...