See You On The Other Side

I don’t know about you, but when I’m afraid of something, I make a deal with God. When I’m faced with an unknown or something that I can’t control, or something that’s too late to have any effect on, I pray. I beg, I plead, I deal. What was the last deal you made? What were you willing to sacrifice and what did you want? That’s baked right into the Judeo-Christian faith and really baked into relig...

Linnea Star got her first message from the Other Side when she was a child. Her grandmother was marrying a widower and his late wife appeared to the little girl. The deceased let her know that everything was alright and she approved of the match. When Linnea told her grandmother, she wasn’t shocked or scared, grandma knew that their family had a history of  talking to dead...

In April of 1990, I was 13 years old. I remember very well watching the debut of the pilot of   Twin Peaks   on that Sunday night (along with 35 million other people) and I didn’t miss an episode after that. I loved the quirky characters, the murder mystery, and the weird dreams, but most of all, I enjoyed spending time in a place where magic was real, ancient demons stalked th...

On May 13th, 1917 three children from a small village in Portugal claimed to have an apparition of the Virgin Mary appear before them. They claimed that the Blessed Virgin revealed three secrets to them that they could reveal to no one, and in fact the Third Secret could not even be released until 1960 and not to anyone but the Pope himself. They weren’t believed in the beginning and the chil...

Journalist and author Mike Damante took a left turn from covering mainstream entertainment and sports news in Houston to chronicling the weird world of the paranormal in his blog,   Punk Rock and UFOs .  With a lifelong passion for the music of punk rock and an interest in the weird, Mike Damante decided to take the attitude of punk music and apply it to the investigation of th...

Guardians of the Galaxy   was one of 2014’s biggest surprises. A fun cosmic romp set in a part of the Marvel Universe that I didn’t even know existed, it was a breakthrough for everyone involved. Lead actor Chris Pratt established himself as an A-list star that could topline a movie, James Gunn was finally given the budget he needed to make his wild fantasies come true, and a t...

With Beltane (May Day) on the horizon, we thought it was the perfect time to interview Wisconsin’s favorite Witch, Selena Fox. Selena is a Wiccan priestess who has been performing public Pagan rituals since the early 1970s and she is the leader of the  Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve  in southwest Wisconsin (geologically known as the  Driftless Region  ). Selena...

With the new film,  The Phoenix Forgotten   coming out this weekend, we thought it was the right time to reconsider The Phoenix Lights. On March 13th, 1997, an estimated ten thousand people saw a UFO over the Phoenix skyline. The new movie is a found-footage  Blair Witch  -style film produced by sci-fi movie favorite, Ridley Scott, that takes the plot of three teenagers who wer...

While the season officially begins after the Vernal Equinox (the day in March when it’s exactly 12 hours of light and 12 hours of dark), a lot of people don’t consider it really Springtime until Opening Day of baseball season. Growing up in the Milwaukee suburbs in the 80s, going to Brewers Opening Day was even considered an excusable absence. While my interest in the National Pasti...

On March 26th, 1997, thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate religious group were found dead in a mansion near San Diego, California. They were all wearing Nike Decade sneakers and identical black sweatsuits with patches on them that said “Heaven’s Gate Away Team”. They had happily taped Farewell Videos to say goodbye before they transitioned out of their physical bodies to “The Evolutionary Leve...

You’ve probably read some of Nick’s writing on the   Mysterious Universe  blog  or in   FATE  magazine   or have heard him on   Coast to Coast AM     or seen him on   Ancient Aliens  (no, he’s not  the dude with the crazy hair  ),   Monsterquest  , or   Penn & Teller’s B...

This week, we bring on Robert Lopaka Kapanui, who we discussed at length in   our episode 57 on Haunted Hawaii . Lopaka is a native Hawaiian who runs   Mysteries of Hawai’i ghost tours . He’s a writer, actor, and master storyteller who lives on the island of Oahu. Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts   joins us once again as we talk with Lopaka about what...

Dennis W. Carroll  , the co-founder the  Carolina Society for Paranormal Research and Investigation  had his first encounter with demonology as a teenager in church. The preacher had brought up a troubled man and the whole congregation prayed for him. While everyone’s eyes were closed and the were praying furiously for the man’s soul, Dennis saw three balls of what he desc...

When Bill Paxton passed away on February 26th, 2017 at the way too young age of 61, we just knew we had to talk about him. Sure, the TV news might talk about his HBO show,   Big Love   or when he headlined the storm chaser classic,   Twister  , but he was a huge presence in so many fantastic science fiction and horror movies. His legacy o...

Martin Walsh is a social anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has extensive field experience in East Africa including the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. Look at the red star to find Zanzibar We first heard about Dr. Walsh in the Gray Brothers’ documentary about sleep paralysis,   The    Nightmare,  (  check out our interview her...

From Near-Death Experiences to spirit possession, Jack Hunter has been finding the commonalities of paranormal experiences from cultures all over the world. As a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol in Anthropology, Jack has devoted his academic and professional life to understanding how different peoples across the planet use ritual, ceremony, to alter their states of consciousness to&...

Rachel Mann took a long and winding course to finding her calling as a healer and spiritual teacher. Originally studying the Russian language and Slavic folklore and preparing for an academic career, she switched paths as the Cold War ended in the early 90s and university positions teaching Russian dried up. Rachel giving somebody the Mother Earth Mystic Once-over! Wh...

Maureen St. Germain is the author of books like   Be A Genie, Reweaving the Fabric of Your Reality,   and   Waking Up in 5D  and calls herself a “Practical Mystic”. And with a title like that and a nickname like “Mrs. Magic”, Maureen is all about finding and embracing the spiritual aspects in your own life. While the language and symbolism might be...

J.M. DeBord is the real human being behind the Reddit user, RadOwl, who moderates that site’s Dreams forum. On that board he helps thousands of different users try and understand their dreams better. After being plagued by troublesome dreams in his own life, DeBord started taking dream interpretation seriously and discovered it was a powerful form of self-reflection....

While 2017 hasn’t had the murder rate of 2016 yet, the year did start out with the loss of William Peter Blatty, the author of   The  Exorcist, with the news ominously coming out on Friday the 13th in January.     While he did create one of the most famous works of horror of the Twentieth Century, he was much more than just a horror writer. His stories dealt...

The man who brought us the story of  The Bye Bye Man  , Robert Damon Schneck is a writer with a passion for finding the weirdest stories of American history. As a writer, he’s delivered articles on strange and unusual topics for   Fortean Times   (the paranormal gold standard!) and   Fate   magazine, as well as writing two incredibly well...

Joe Gisondi grew up in New Jersey reading the   National Enquirer  and from an early age. Before 1967, the tabloid focused on gory true crime stories, but in order to be stocked in newspaper checkout lines they changed their focus to celebrities, UFOs, and the occult. And the world was made better for it, because it inspired the paranormal bug in little Joe Gisondi. T...

It’s another bittersweet episode as we remember actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who passed away on December 27th, 2016. A performer and a personality who found her artistic voice in her personal struggles with mental illness and addiction, she was as inspiring off the screen as she was on. Snarky to the very last! When Disney bought   Star Wars   in 2...

Coming of age in the 1990s in upstate New York, Ryan Sprague was exposed to the UFOs, alien abductions, and government conspiracy-mania that enchanted us all during the decade. The finest music for attracting aliens… He was listening to Green Day’s   Dookie   album outside on vacation on a Summer night in 1995 when he had his own UFO sighting for the first time (an experience t...

When we met Reverend John Polk and heard the title of his first book,  Yahweh, The Biblical God Is An Alien  , we knew that a conversation with him would be the perfect Christmas special. After all, this is the time of year when Americans think about religion the most. To quote a million bumper stickers,  Jesus is the reason for the season  . We’ve covered Christmas ghost stori...