See You On The Other Side

Author and screenwriter  Geoff Holder  has written thirty-six books on the supernatural from haunted guides of Scottish cities to stone circles and zombies, but its his research into hundreds of poltergeist cases throughout history that we wanted to talk with him about.  And Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts joins us again for this episode’s interview! Poltergeist is just the...

The United States isn’t supposed to have royalty, elected officials are supposed to be normal citizens. You don’t get “born into” anything here, you’re supposed to earn your position. In fact, the Founding Fathers didn’t even like the idea of permanent titles. You weren’t President for Life, you were only called “President” while you were in office. It was supposed to be different than t...

Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts  met  Logan Marvel  when she stood on his neck on a bed of broken glass. Since then, we knew we had to have him on the show. It’s an old cliche that every kid dreams about running away and joining the circus, but Logan Marvel actually did it. In fact, he was so inspired, that he started to stretch for four hours a day when he was twelve years...

When we hear about paranormal experiences, we can envision what people see and hear. A ghost might moan, a UFO might quickly blink in and out of existence. We don’t ask people if they tasted a ghost, we ask them if they have ever “seen” a ghost. But we humans have five senses (well, I would argue at least six, but let’s make it five for the sake of this interview!) so what about the rest of them....

http://www.othersidepodcast.com/118

While the partisan hysterics of the 2016 Presidential Election has amateur political pundits   “unfriending” each other   on Facebook and  torn family relationships asunder  , we’re more interested in the things that can bring people together. And nothing unifies a nation like a great supernatural experience! American presidents are no stranger to the world...

I first met filmmaker  Ben Wydeven  at the Madison Horror Film Festival when we were discussing the  haunted Rogers Theatre in Wausau . Sunspot had played there the weekend before and had heard some haunted stories, but Ben had shot his entire movie in the theater while it was being remodeled. I knew I had to pick up a copy of   The Medium We recorded a   Su...

Since it’s our favorite time of year, we thought we’d spend an episode talking about the history of Halloween, our favorite Halloween legends, Halloween costumes, and share some personal Halloween stories. From the ancient Celts of the British Isles and theirAutumn Samhain festival which they believed was the time where the veil between the worlds of this life and the next was super thin...

First things first here’s a big announcement… our very own Allison Jornlin from  Milwaukee Ghosts  was awarded the very first Wisconsin Paranormal Researcher of the Year award! Huzzah! It really was a privilege to be part of the  Milwaukee Paranormal Conference  this last weekend. Wendy and I had a chance to lead the interview session with   Paranormal Lockd...

2016. Just saying the year feels like we’re living in the future. We’re well past   Back To The Future II   now and we’re only 3 years away from   Blade Runner   territory. But he sad truth is that there’s no jetpacks, our Artificial Intelligence autocorrects our communication into incoherence, and the U.S. Presidential Election is straight out of a 90s dyst...

[ Credit to   Djbarrett Photographer and Graphic Artist   for photo of Amanda Howard in this episode’s header image ] Remember the first time you saw   The Silence of The Lambs  ? I do. I was fourteen years old and I went to go see the movie with my dad at the local budget theater in Milwaukee in June of 1991. I remember the day well because I’d ju...

This week we interview the paranormal power couple Greg and Dana Newkirk, self-named professional weirdos who together write and edit one of the best places to find strange news on the Internet,   Week In Weird  ! Growing up in Canada, Dana Matthews discovered her obsession with ghost hunting while in high school and quickly shot to fame with her own TV show on the SPACE C...

Remember the scene in   Ghostbusters  where Dan Aykroyd is laid out on the bed and a ghost undoes his zipper and the camera pans up to his eyes crossing? Yeah, sorry for that imagery. But it’s from a deleted scene in the film where Ray Stantz (Aykroyd’s character,  as if you didn’t know  ) was investigating a military fort. He tries on an old uniform and lays dow...

Science fiction is the most popular form of modern entertainment.  Every summer we’re treated to an alien invasion movie or the latest comic book adventure and even the biggest show on American television glamorizes sci-fi “nerds” (even  if  The Big Bang Theory   routinely get the details wrong  for those of us paying attention.) Such was not the c...

We’ve discussed SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) before when  we talked about that Russian billionaire that gave a hundred million dollars to the quest to find aliens  , but this past week had a huge announcement for those of us who keep our eyes on the skies. We’re talking about the  signal that was reported by a Russian radio telescope in May of 2015  but f...

In addition to being a fun way to learn new stuff about the weird world, paranormal conventions also give you the opportunity to meet like-minded individuals. In fact, that might be the best part. If you’re surrounded by people at your job or in your family who don’t share your particular obsession with the more wonderful aspects of the world, well then they can get tired of talking about the supe...

Love it or hate it, SyFy’s  Ghost Hunters  is really the show that jump started excitement about the paranormal in the 21st Century. Their influence on the general public’s view of ghost hunting is tremendous (which makes the lack of attention to paranormal reality shows in the  Ghostbusters  remake even more disappointing.)  Season eleven, episode three is called “Phantom...

Exorcism, it’s back baby! From scores of  possessed Peruvian kids  to the  Catholic Church increasing the number of priests they train for exorcism  , to a  psychiatrist seriously discussing possession in the pages of  The Washington Post  ,  the word on the street is that people are getting possessed by demons and it’s gonna take some of that Power of Chris...

We first encountered Mary Marshall at the  Chicago Dark Shores Ghost Convention last year   where she put on a presentation delving into the scientific investigation of the paranormal. She’s based out of Hoffman Estates in the Chicagoland area (which I just wanted to mention so that we could all enjoy this picture from a Sunspot show in Hoffman Estates a few years ago.) While M...

Here’s an episode chock full of paranormal goodness. First, I tell Wendy and  Allison  about the time that I worked for Miss Cleo (because sadly,  the actress who portrayed her, Youree Dell Harris, passed away last week.)  Second, Allison and I were recording on location from [Milwaukee’s haunted Hilton Garden Inn](hilton garden inn milwaukee haunted). We decided to make it a p...

This week we thought we’d try something different by interviewing another podcaster and paranormal investigator, the host of the  Malliard Report   (what he calls “the fastest hour in Paranormal Talk Radio”), Jim Malliard. Jim’s show has featured fascinating guests from  Coast to Coast AM  ‘s George Noory and  Scotty Roberts  to   See You On The Ot...

We saw on Facebook the other day that every   Ghostbusters   film has come out in the same month as a   Star Trek  film.   Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock   came out a week before the first   Ghostbusters   and   Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier   came our a week before   Ghostbuster...

Episode 100! And we’re celebrating our first patron on the  See You On The Other Side Patreon  – thank you John! This week we bring in  Allison Jornlin from Milwaukee Ghosts again   to discuss every paranormal investigator’s favorite film the week that the reboot comes out. Growing up in the 80s, the film was a huge influence on all of us because not only did it...

One of our favorite bumper stickers for a long time said “Keep Austin Weird”. Austin is a lot like our current city of Madison (except a WHOLE lot bigger and warmer) with the capitol and state’s flagship university keeping things interesting. They’ve also got a lot of hippies, just like us. We’ve been going to perform in Austin at least once a year since 2002 and it’s one of our favorite citi...

This weekend Allison from  Milwaukee Ghosts  , Wendy, and I had the privilege to attend the  2016 Haunted America conference in Alton, IL  run by one of the Midwest’s spookiest storytellers, Troy Taylor. our in depth exploration of the Myrtles Plantation  in Episode 77 Up next was  Paranormal Sarah   , who we also saw at the Paradigm Symposium in May, but th...