See You On The Other Side

Jeffrey Daugherty spent twenty years of his life as a Christian preacher and over a hundred thousand hours studying the New Testament in its original language. By looking at the native text, he started seeing a stark difference in the books written by the apostle Paul versus the apostle John. These differences led to a crisis of faith for Daugherty, who was conflicted...

Forrest J. Ackerman was the editor of the   Famous Monsters of Filmland  ,   a magazine that he founded in 1958 to discuss his favorite thing – fantasy, science fiction, and horror movies. The magazine would go behind the scenes with special effects and stories on the people involved with the production. The first issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland The modern&n...

Ed and Lorraine Warren were the Jay-Z and Beyonce of the paranormal set for decades. After establishing the New England Society for Psychic Research (notice the titular similarities to the science-minded Society for Psychical Research in the UK and the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City) in Connecticut in 1952, Ed and Lorraine could be found lecturing all over the New En...

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Before the wreckage of this last week’s crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 ended the mystery surrounding what happened to the Airbus A320, cable news immediately jumped on the story. Missing planes are big business. Traveling in the modern age means flying, and flying means getting in a metal cylinder and hurling through the sky at hundreds of miles an hour. For myself, it’s the surrender of control tha...

What a fantastic weekend as Wendy and I attended the  Paradigm Symposium  in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mission of the event is to bridge the gap between academic thinking and alternative studies and you could see it in action because the speakers treated each presentation like it was a college lecture. Mike, Scotty Roberts, John Ward, and Wendy Lynn Micah Hanks &nbs...

Quick update on some fun things this week, Wendy and I will be at the  Paradigm Symposium paranormal convention in Minneapolis  this weekend, so look out for us and let’s hang out if you’re there! Also in more fun haunting news, I just launched  St. Paul Ghost Walks  which is the first haunted history walking tour of downtown St. Paul, Minnesota (I like to call it the Evil Twin...

So, Wendy and I recorded this episode while on a trip to the sunny California Dream Factory and saw the previews for a show we’d talked about all the way back in  Episode 36 – Paranormal Lit 101: Victorian Horror with Brian J. Showers.   Houdini & Doyle   is the show that turns the friendship between escape artist Harry Houdini and Sherlock Holmes author...

We took the show on the road this last Saturday night to the  Old Baraboo Inn in Baraboo, Wisconsin  to do a live podcast and ghost hunt. Allison from   Milwaukee Ghosts  joined Wendy and I to explore what is reputed to be one of Wisconsin’s most haunted buildings. She put on a presentation about Dairy State weirdness at the beginning of the night and it was fant...

So, with Wendy on vacation this week, Allison from  Milwaukee Ghosts Tours And Investigations  joins me again to discuss the upcoming economic technocalypse, that’s right technological unemployment. Allison was just with me last week for our first Wizard World Comic Con in Madison, Wisconsin where we were on a panel called Wisconsin Paranormal. It was hosted by our friend,  Tea...

First of all, we’d like to thank everyone who helped nominate us for four different categories in the Madison Area Music Awards! Sunspot is up for Alternative Performer Rock Album  –  Weirdest Hits Hard Rock/Punk Song  – “Messiah Complex” Drummer/Percussionist  – Wendy Lynn Staats The Madison Area Music Association is a charity that runs these awards every year as a fundraiser...

First things first, our new release,   American Monsters  , is live and you can download the newest EP for free at   http://www.sunspotuniverse.com   – it’s three songs that were inspired by this podcast and we took them into the studio. You will love how these tracks turned out! This episode features the writer and director of the film   Conv...

April Fool’s Day. Just how did we get an unofficial holiday that’s based around making the people around you look stupid? First things first, we have an update from our  Zombie Apocalypse episode  , because there’s been new research that about the parasite Toxoplasma Gondii that lives in the bellies of the little feline friends. This parasite has been said to manipulate the beh...

We’re still on tour this week, performing music and checking out strangle tales and haunted history around the country. We just finished enjoying a few days in Austin, TX and performing at the Music Madness ATX Showcase with our good friends there. (  Check out their website right here!  ) And for a quick Texas tale of weirdness, our buddy, Victor Hidalgo, from the Music Madness Sho...

This week, Wendy and I are traveling through the country stopping at haunted sites and playing music and on Saturday we stopped in Cincinnati. It was a lot of fun and we’re doing it all this week, so check out the dates right here at  https://othersidepodcast.com/tour  ! And speaking of Cincinnati, our guests this week are the fine ladies of  Gatekeeper Paranormal  , who are th...

This episode, we’re interviewing the other half of the   Ghost Mine     and   Behind The Screams     team, Kristen Luman.  We talked with her co-host, Patrick Doyle, a little while back in episode 62 . Since then she also got to appear on the big daddy of paranormal shows,   Ghost Hunters   , for three episodes this la...

We’ve been discussing Orientalism for awhile on the podcast, last week it came up in our discussion of Planet X, Nibiru and it’s come up often in our discussions, from H.P. Lovecraft to Hollywood. The East is mysterious to us and therefore dangerous and titillating. There’s an element of fantasy to our thoughts about exotic places that seem strange and hard to understand. Just the word “exotic” co...

I’m normally the type of person who is willing to entertain alternative philosophies, fringe conspiracy theories, and what the straights would call “wacky ideas”, but I’ll be honest here when I’m saying that I have always been particularly prejudiced against certain paranormal concepts. There are just some that I find too ridiculous, or pointless, or lacking in any kind of scientific evidence what...

We recorded this episode on Valentine’s Day 2016, which is why we open with discussing  Ghostbusters II   (a film I feel is unfairly maligned because while the plot wasn’t as strong as the original, there were still some excellent jokes!), where the opening scene showed Peter Venkman hosting a paranormal show where he had two guests who predicted the end of the world. One of the gue...

There’s been plenty of times when I wished I wasn’t human. When I embarrassed myself or got in too much trouble, the fact that there’s no rules in the animal kingdom seemed to make a lot of sense. A bear never feels bad after killing and eating another animal while I feel bad if I eat something that has some gelatin (cow and pig toenails) in it. Or even better, wishing that I was a fictional chara...

The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana is reputed to be one of the most haunted homes in the United States. With a reputation of murder, treachery, and slavery, the Myrtles has dozens of ghost stories and the fact that it’s a bed and breakfast makes it a popular spot for amateur ghost hunters. Back in 2000, My sister, Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts and I did an overnight at the Myrtl...

Although we haven’t been hit by snow like the East Coast this week, we’ve been experiencing a nasty deep freeze here in the Midwest. I had the misfortune of catching a cold, but Mike was lucky enough to escape to California for a little sunshine and a whole lot of awesome musical instruments (and musicians playing them) at the  National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)  2016 co...

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Ever since seeing Bill Murray use the  Zener Deck  in an experiment in the beginning of   Ghostbusters  , I wanted to become a parapsychologist. After all, what could be cooler than investigating psychic phenomena? There’s a “science of the supernatural”? People get paid to do research into ESP? You can have that as a job? Sign me up! I even made my own Zener Deck in fifth...

When we last caught up with author and blogger, Tea Krulos, he’d been directing the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference, which was the first conference of its kind that Wendy and I had attended. We had a blast and it was  our second most downloaded episode of 2015  (so you guys must have liked hearing about it too!) So, we’ve talked to him about his conference and about his experiences worki...