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Ep 295 Michael M Hughes The History of Tarot, Magic, and Millennials

This week, One of our best interviews in a while, Michael M. Hughes returns to talk Magic for the resistance, Why  Millennials are embracing Magic and a deep look at the history of The Tarot. Slightly longer show than normal but we cover a lot of ground. Closing Music: Hole - Gold Dust Woman

Ep 294 We're going to 11...Again

Big show this week. We return back to the ramble cast format to talk interesting, funny and weird. We discuss Scientist who are growing mini brains, Lobo goes Hulk smash over Flat Earthers planning a trip to the south pole, A woman claiming to have sex with elves, Venomous hot sauce based on spider venom, Space Herpes! Playing rap music to cheese, Can you tell me who to eat down on Sesame Street, The Swiss town obsessed with the number 11, UFO's over Vegas again, Being sucked into your parent's graves really isn't cool, and people are intimidated by us!?! Closing music for the show: Disturbed- Shout. 

Best of Ep 158.5 25 year anniversary of the Holland Michigan UFO's

On March 8, 1994, The 911 lines flooded with calls about strange lights in the night sky of western Michigan.  the lights were seen by people of all walks of life. The phenomena were tracked by the National Weather Service Office in Muskegon County. What's more, the meteorologist recorded unknown echoes on his radar the same time a police officer was reporting the lights. 25 years later the mystery of what the lights have never been fully explained. This show contains the recorded 911 calls of that event and the call to the national weather service. Closing Music: type O Negative with Ozzy- Images of Matchstick Men

Ep 293 Strange Ago with Elizabeth Yetter

This week Elizabeth Yetter is with us to talk about her blog "Strange Ago".  We discuss The caretaker for the H.H. Holmes Murder castle, Decapitated heads that bite, The Men who Searched For Bodies at Niagara Falls,  The Blue Man Of Spring Creek, Bodies found in Bags, People who lived after being hanged,  Guillotine Tattoos, Frances Death Helmet,  Executioner Anatole Deibler and lots of other weirdness.  Find her Blog at Strangeago.com. Closing Music: He Said - Not A Soul

Ep 292 Jason Offutt Chasing American Monsters

This week Jason Offutt returns to talk about his new book "Chasing American Monsters". A book that documents over 250 urban legends, Folklore and stories about monsters across America. We talk about Space Penguins, The Dark Watchers, The Beaver Shark, Giant Cockroach Room Services, The Loveland Frogs from Ohio, Evil Garden Gnome encounters, The Iliamna Lake Monster, The Wereotter from southern Alaska! (Otters are Adorable right?), And how folklore immigrated to our country, oh, and Pterodactyls frolicking around. Fun show this one! Closing Music: Marvelous 3 - Freak Of The Week.

Stasis Ep 10 Steph Quick-The Rest Of The Burning Car Story and Digging Just A Bit Deeper

 By much request, a shorter follow up show with Stephanie Quick to hear the rest of the story about the "Carbacue" on Radio Mysterioso. We then end up taking another short lap around the weirdness track. This was supposed to be a 10 minute show but ended up going 40 minutes. Closing Music: Killing Joke - A Love Like Blood

Ep 291 Stephanie Quick- Near Death Experience, Synchronicity,And Empathy

  This week, Good friend of the show Stephanie Quick is with us to talk about her near death experience and how it changed her life, We talk about Synchronicity and empathy. Then things get really weird as Roejen freaks out about his own experiences with empathy, Shared thoughts, and synchronicity. He spills way more about himself then he ever has before.  Sorry about the audio glitches in this one. We did all we could to fix it. Closing Music: Nine Inch Nails- We're in This Together.

Ep 290 Aaron Dabah-Dating The Dead And Buying The Devil

This week, Aaron Dabbah from EsoterX.com returns to talk more Weird History and Fortean History. We discuss  Dating tips for the dead and Amazons, Why do ghosts have clothes and who makes them, The Electric Girls of Smyrna, No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition to get it right! The Sorceress Syndicate of Molfetta,  And trying to buy the Devils soul.  

Best of Ep-68 Daniel-Harms-and-Pennsylvania-Dutch-Hex-magic Dec 2012

 Going way back to December of 2012 for this one. Bad microphones and all. In this episode, we speak with grimoire and folk magic researcher Daniel Harms. Daniel joins us to talk about the world of Pennsylvania Dutch Hex magic and The book “ The long lost friend”. The long lost friend is essentially a book on Christian folk magic. Daniel explains to us what folk magic is, the history of the author and the book “The Long Lost Friend”, How Christian folk magic could exist, and how its practitioners used it. This is a deep and interesting look at a little discussed world of magic that is seldom heard of. 

Ep 289 Greg Newkirk-Hellier and the ethics of haunted objects

This week, researcher and Curator of the traveling Museum of The Paranormal & occult, Greg Newkirk joins us. We talk about his miniseries, Hellier, The nature of the Paranormal, The Dibbuk Box, How religion has played a factor in his research, and the ethics involved in curating "haunted Objects"