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Send us Fan Mail A single prop in the background can change how you see an entire movie, and sometimes it can change how you see the real world too. Author Wayne Burdett joins me to explain why he believes the 1998 Nicolas Cage thriller Snake Eyes contains “Easter eggs” that map onto modern political conspiracy narratives, including claims about the Charlie Kirk assassination story that’s been arg...

Send us Fan Mail Houdini built his name on surviving the impossible, but the most haunting part of his story might be what he did before he died: he challenged psychics, exposed mediums, and still promised his wife Bess a secret code from the other side if communication after death was real. We take it back to Detroit, where Houdini’s life ended on Halloween, and we sit with the question that won’...

Send us Fan Mail We go off on podcast gatekeeping after a simple collaboration offer turns into a weird credential contest and a full-on Facebook pile-on. Then we read a publicist email that dismisses indie shows by audience size and lay out why we keep making strange content anyway.  • The Corn Queen metaphor for creator resilience and refusing to be “flushed”  • A collaboration invite triggering...

Send us Fan Mail Coincidences are normal until they start lining up so perfectly you feel like you’re being handled. We start there, then move into a real life, voice disguised interview with someone who believes they experienced gang stalking, a form of alleged organized harassment that can look like community stalking, covert surveillance, smear campaigns, and constant low level provocation mean...

Send us Fan Mail Sex trafficking isn’t a distant headline or a plot device. It’s a real crime that feeds on secrecy, social trust, and the moments we tell ourselves “that could never happen here.” We open with a clear content warning, then get honest about what exploitation can look like in everyday life and why the warning signs are so easy to miss until it’s too late. Dawn from the Ghost Whisper...

Send us Fan Mail Something about the number 13 keeps following me, and I’m not mad about it. I start by talking Face of Halloween, why the donation side of these contests gets weird fast, and why I’m trying to do it the old-school way with straight votes. From there I go personal and a little mystical, breaking down my 8/18/2013 wedding date through numerology and astrology and why the “five” vibr...

Send us Fan Mail A quiet block can feel like a protective bubble until the day it doesn’t. I’m back with part two of my “Burbs” saga from Stoner Street, where the houses look normal, the lawns get mowed, and yet the weirdest moments keep stacking up with witnesses, dates, and details I still can’t explain. If you’re into paranormal podcasts, suburban horror stories, and real-life neighborhood myst...

Send us Fan Mail A single boom can split your life into before and after. When a house explodes just down the street, I stay inside shaking, trying to make sense of the sound and the fear. Hours later, I finally step outside and watch a creepy little angel head statue roll across the ground and stop right at my feet. Maybe it was debris. Maybe it was nothing. But that timing becomes the first brea...

Send us Fan Mail A quiet night inside the 314 Masonic Lodge in Hutchinsville turns loud fast when we stop chasing “stories” and start chasing timestamps. We’re on location with our gear, our nerves, and a plan to pull straight paranormal evidence, including spirit box work, ambient audio, and one risky choice: reading from a Freemason Holy Bible inside the lodge itself. The text pulls us into Maso...

Send us Fan Mail A hidden doorway that looks deliberately sealed. A basement that hits like a wave of heat and panic. A smell so specific you can’t “power of suggestion” your way out of it. We’re back for spooky season with Dawn, the leader and owner of Ghost Whispers, to unpack our paranormal investigation at the historic 314 Masonic Temple in McCutcheonville, Ohio and the trail of strange patter...

Send us Fan Mail A touring rock musician cuts his hair, puts on a suit, and walks into a Chicago courtroom, then ends up trying murder cases when the city is at a boiling point. That’s the real-life origin story of our guest, Greg Owen, a former Cook County prosecutor who went from sharing stages with legendary acts to learning homicide trials inside a system battling both violence and corruption....

Send us Fan Mail Fourteen downloads. That’s the gap between this weird little paranormal podcast and 10,000 total downloads, and I’m not quietly refreshing the stats until it happens. I’m turning the final stretch into a listener challenge, because the best part of this show has never been the numbers. It’s you, the people sitting on stories that still give you chills. I talk about what it’s like...

Send us Fan Mail Lionsgate is creeping up, my body is doing what bodies do, and the timing feels a little too perfect to ignore. I start with the 8/8 Lionsgate Portal, Leo season energy, and why I’m treating this window as a reset focused on release rather than chasing. We get into full moon intensity, menstrual cycle symbolism, and the real difference between spiritual meaning and medical science...

Send us Fan Mail Horror doesn’t always arrive with fangs and fog. Sometimes it shows up as a mailman, a bank, a headline you wish you never clicked, or a “normal” family moment that suddenly turns into a nightmare. That’s the thread we pull on with indie horror author Alex Grass, who just released Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror, a short story collection packed with vignettes, novelettes, a...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine a 3 a.m. drive with a donated human heart in a cooler, an unforgiving deadline on your GPS, and the sudden certainty that someone is sitting beside you. That’s where we start: eerie organ transport legends that keep showing up in personal accounts, from “the heartbeat in the cooler” to phantom passengers and shadowy hospital hallway spirits. I unpack why these stories hit...

Send us Fan Mail A mother of three faces first degree murder charges, and the courtroom battle is about something far bigger than headlines: postpartum mental health, criminal responsibility, and what we do when a parent says they are not okay and nobody catches it in time. We walk through the Lindsay Clancy case as it’s been publicly reported, including her background, the timeline leading up to...

Send us Fan Mail He says a voice entered his mind, ordered him to shut off the TV, and changed the trajectory of his life. Michael Monk joins me to unpack a string of experiences that begin with a third eye style awakening and escalate into something most people only hear about in whispers: a severe left-eye injury followed by a prayer he believes healed it, then years of testing spiritual guidanc...

Send us Fan Mail A rock journalist walks into the paranormal and doesn’t come back out the same. I’m joined by author and researcher Maxim Furek, and we start with the kind of background you can’t fake: writing from childhood, underground papers, major music interviews, and the moment a real-world coal mine disaster story opened a door into something far stranger than a rock biography. We talk abo...

Send us Fan Mail One question kicks the door open: if you had to choose one Greek goddess that matches your personality, who would it be? I start by letting ChatGPT read my vibe through the lens of Greek mythology and it lands on Hecate first, Artemis second, with a nod to Athena. We talk crossroads, night energy, intuition, sacred bees, protection, and the kind of curiosity that makes you walk to...

Send us Fan Mail Tarot creators are deleting accounts, “WitchTok is going away” is trending, and the rumor machine is working overtime. We jump into what’s really underneath the drama: how content moderation, political pressure, and shifting platform rules can quietly squeeze spiritual creators, paranormal storytellers, and anyone talking about taboo subjects. I share why I’m not betting my voice...

Send us Fan Mail A haunted hospital is creepy enough, but a haunted hospital with a former birthing room hits differently when the air turns thick and your chest feels tight. We’re back at Stimson Hospital with Kristina and Ryder, and we’re doing what most paranormal shows avoid: playing raw, unedited investigation audio so you can hear the pauses, the confusion, and the moments that might be real...

Send us Fan Mail A month off doesn’t mean we went quiet. We came back with a plan, a special guest, and a location that has been living rent-free in Michigan paranormal circles for years: Stimson Hospital in Eaton Rapids. Ryder joins me on the mic before we hit the road, and we get honest about what scares us, what we think is fake online, and what might feel very different when you’re standing in...

Send us Fan Mail Something feels wrong lately and not just in the news. I’m Melissa, and I’m pulling together the clips, messages, and weird little “how is this real?” moments that people keep sending me, from virus panic and cruise ship drama to the deeper anxiety underneath it all: trust is gone, reality feels slippery, and the world keeps dangling massive stories and then dropping them like not...

Send us Fan Mail A loophole that supposedly makes murder “legal” inside Yellowstone. Appalachian warnings that tell you not to look up in the trees at night. A haunted Ohio building big enough to swallow your confidence whole. If that sounds like your kind of weird, we’ve got you. Melissa is joined by Carissa for a rapid-fire ride through spooky trivia, paranormal folklore, and conspiracy-flavored...

Send us Fan Mail A truck shows up in a tiny cemetery with its taillights on, and then it simply vanishes. No headlights cutting through the dark, no engine pulling past us, no way out that makes sense with the loop we just drove. That’s how our night at Tyler Cemetery starts, and it only gets stranger from there. I’m Melissa, and I’m joined by Dawn Martin, owner of the Ghost Whispers paranormal te...