Talking Strange Paranormal Show

Did the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film just get exposed as a hoax? New evidence in Capturing Bigfoot claims the truth has been hidden for decades. Aaron Sagers talks with filmmakers Marq Evans and Tamir Ardon about the shocking “mystery footage,” Roger Patterson’s legacy, and whether Bigfoot’s most famous evidence was staged. In this Talking Strange episode, we break down the explosive claims behin...

Did the Fox Sisters really talk to the dead, or start the biggest paranormal hoax in American history? Host Aaron Sagers is joined by author ⁠Barb Rosenstock⁠ to explore ⁠American Spirits⁠, the true story of the sisters who launched the Spiritualism movement in the lead up to the Civil War with their mysterious “spirit rappings.” In her compelling book that goes deep into the strange lives of cele...

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with filmmaker Ian Tuason, writer and director of the new A24 horror film Undertone. Opening March 13, Undertone follows Evy, the co-host of a paranormal podcast who begins receiving disturbing recordings from a listener. While caring for her dying mother, Evy studies the strange audio and EVP messages. Soon the haunting appears to mo...

Filmmaker Natasha Kermani joins host Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss her haunting new medieval horror film The Dreadful, now available on demand. Starring Game of Thrones alumni Sophie Turner and Kit Harington alongside Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, the film follows a woman and her ruthless mother-in-law struggling to survive on the margins of medieval England as a mysterious...

It's been a cold season, and the Wendigo is the master monster of winter. So Is the Wendigo just a legend, or something far darker? On this Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers interviews researcher and author Chad Lewis about Wendigo Lore: Monsters, Myths, and Madness, co-written with Kevin Lee Nelson. For centuries, Indigenous communities in Canada and the northern United States have told stories...

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with national bestselling author J.W. Ocker about his new novel Welcome to the Ghost Show and his lifelong exploration of the strange. Ocker is the Edgar and Lowell Thomas Award-winning author of The United States of Cryptids, A Season with the Witch, Cursed Objects, and more. He is also the creator of OTIS, Odd Things I’ve Seen, documen...

Did the assassination of John F. Kennedy begin in Dallas, or years earlier in the Florida Keys? On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with author and Key West researcher David L. Sloan about his startling new book, How Key West Killed JFK: The Island That Changed The Course of History. Drawing from declassified FBI and CIA documents, personal interviews, and never-before-see...

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is joined by author Jason Offutt to explore the strange creatures hiding in North American folklore and eyewitness reports. Offutt is the author of Chasing North American Monsters: A Guide to Over 250 Creatures from Greenland to Guatemala. The conversation takes a timely turn toward Greenland, a place suddenly dominating global headlines, but a...

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is back on the road. He visited Key West, Florida, and through a spooky fun and random coincidence, ended up connecting with local Ernest Hemingway House tour guide Amy Bebbington, who then introduced him to Andy Zyvith and Feliz Andrews of the You Two Scare Me podcast. Not one to miss out on the chance to chat about the paranormal, they sat fo...

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with author and paranormal historian Marc Hartzman to explore the eerie, fascinating world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spirit communication. Hartzman’s latest book, The Talking Dead: A Collection of Messages from Beyond the Veil, 1850s to 1920s, invites readers to eavesdrop on the afterlife through an extraordinary anth...

Actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush, Midnight Mass) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss her darkly twisted short "Down the Chimney," part of Executive Producers David Dastmalchian and The Boulet Brothers' The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors anthology, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Siegel dives into turning one of the most familiar holiday trope...

Writer and director Akela Cooper (M3gan, Malignant) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss her chilling short "Old Acquaintance," part of David Dastmalchian and horror drag icons The Boulet Brothers' The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors anthology now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Set on New Year’s Eve, "Old Acquaintance" follows a woman returning home after her father’s sudden deat...

Actor, writer, and monster kid David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil, Dust Bunny) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to dive deep into The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, the chilling four-part anthology now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Dastmalchian discusses his close friendship and creative partnership with The Boulet Brothers, how they collaborated both on-screen and behind...

The Boulet Brothers join Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to unwrap their chilling new four-part anthology special, The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Executive produced by horror icons Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet alongside David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), the series delivers festive fear with brutal twists, atmospheric dread, and macabre...

Actor, writer, and monster kid David Dastmalchian joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to talk about his role as a badass hitman in Dust Bunny (opening in theaters Dec. 12), his own childhood nightmares, and chatting about mortality from inside a coffin. In Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, David plays a mysterious hitman sent to take out Mads Mikkelsen’s character who is a high-value target in a fant...

Visionary creator Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, American Gods) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss his feature directorial debut, Dust Bunny. The movie is a dark, fantastical fairy tale about childhood fear, imagined monsters, and the very real ones hiding in plain sight. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a mysterious hitman who kills real-life monsters and Sophie Sloan as...

Foxy Shazam frontman Eric Nally joins Talking Strange to talk about the band’s huge year — from their song “Oh Lord” becoming the opening-credits dance theme for Peacemaker Season 2, to appearing on the Superman (2025) soundtrack as the fictional band The Mighty Crabjoys. With James Gunn calling Foxy Shazam “objectively the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world,” the band also dropped two new a...

What makes a horror story truly unsettling? Is it the monster, or the man behind the camera? In this Talking Strange episode, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Mark Duplass — who previously joined the show to talk his Hulu series Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal — to talk about The Creep Tapes, the long-awaited second season of his found-footage horror series spun off from The Creep films, which...

Danny Trejo wants to know what happens when you accidentally uncover history’s biggest secrets? This episode on Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Danny Trejo — the legendary actor from Spy Kids and Machete, as well as Trejo's Taco's restaurateur — to chat about Mysteries Unearthed on The History Channel, which premieres its second season on Nov. 11. Trejo talks to Sagers about abou...

Iconic comedian, actor, and paranormal enthusiast Dan Aykroyd of Ghostbusters joins Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss the unbelievable true stories behind Season 3 of History Channel's The UnBelievable. From satanic cats to skyfalls, fire ants, and chainsaw miracles, Aykroyd dives into bizarre-but-true moments in human history that are stranger than fiction. The new season, premiering Nov...

In this Halloween week episode, host Aaron Sagers takes a trip to New Orleans’ Garden District to uncover the ghostly secrets of one of the city’s most intriguing stays: The Parks-Bowman Mansion, a Victorian-era Airbnb that’s said to be haunted by a young girl in a yellow dress. Built in 1884, this Queen Anne-style home is a living museum filled with artifacts, books on folklore and the occult, an...

Amy Bruni (Kindred Spirits, Haunted Road podcast, and author of Food to Die For) joins host Aaron Sagers for a spirited conversation about paranormal tourism — and her Strange Escapes travel company — as well as her Halloween speaking tour on true crime and the paranormal. In this interview recorded in September, she also discusses the The Conjuring House sale (the auction for which has since been...

Legendary makeup FX artist, director, and producer Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow, Day of the Dead) joins host Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss his new, blood-soaked Shudder horror competition series, Guts & Glory. Nicotero shares behind-the-scenes secrets of the show’s creation, the challenges of bringing classic gore to a new generation of fans, and what’s next for Creepsho...

She’s the Queen of Halloween, the Mistress of the Dark, and a certified pop culture legend. Now Elvira is taking over the kitchen! Cassandra Peterson joins host Aaron Sagers to talk about her first-ever cookbook, Elvira’s Cookbook From Hell (out September 30). Together they dish on the devilishly delicious recipes, the campy humor, and the spooky stories that make this cookbook more than just a me...

[This episode first ran on October 19, 2022] Dr. Jeff Meldrum was one of the foremost Bigfoot researchers out there. He was a Professor of Anatomy & Anthropology at Idaho State University, and his work centered on the evolution of hominin bipedalism. He joined Talking Strange in 2022 (on the 55th Anniversary of the famed Patterson-Gimlin footage) to discuss his 25 years of work, as well as opening...