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Hosts Ryan and Jordan deliver terrifying tales of the paranormal and break them down for your listening pleasure.

Fireside Chats: Folk Art of the Lumberwood with Cassie Marozsan

This week, we had the great pleasure of sitting down with Fortean folk artist extraordinaire, Cassie Marozsan. We had a fascinating chat about her personal approach to the immortalization of the creatures of cryptozoology through artwork, her personal quest to find new and exciting mediums, and a three-legged forest walrus that may or may not…

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55: Episode 55 – The Mysterious Death of Christopher Case

In the early 1990s a Seattle executive with a passion for ancient music would have a run-in with a strangely seductive woman while on a business trip to San Francisco. This chance encounter would, within just one week’s time, utterly shatter his life. The man’s name is Christopher Case. The woman claimed to be a…

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Fireside Chats: A Fresh Start with Karly Latham

You know this week’s guest as the village tarot witch. Karly is the host of Painting, Tarot, and True Crime on YouTube, a divination specialist, and a bonafide history nerd. She’s a great friend of the show and you should absolutely support her in everything that she does. In this, her second appearance around our…

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54: Episode 54 – The Smurl Haunting

This week we’re discussing the inspiration for the 1986 book The Haunted and the 1991 TV movie of the same name. The Smurl Haunting is a classic tale of poltergeist activity, auditory and visual phenomena, and ghost hunter shenanigans. After being displaced from their homes due to flooding on hurricane Agnes, Jack and Janet Smurl…

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Fireside Chats: The Magic of Creation with Todd Purse

This week, we’re sitting down with Todd Purse. He’s an artist, a musician, and host of Create Magic Pod. Most of our chat focused around exploring the connection between the creative process and the paranormal. We talk Bigfoot, ghost stories, UFOs, and the effect of parenthood on each of our perspectives. Go support him in…

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53: Episode 53 – Penteli Cave

This week, we’re exploring the fascinating history of a little-known gem in the Greek countryside, Penteli Cave. Fifth Century Athenian marble quarry, 11th Century Byzantine church, the hideout of countless bandits, home to nomadic monks and wandering philosophers. Sightings of shadow people, vanishing humanoid goat figures, bipedal felines, electromagnetic and gravitational anomalies, floating black spheres,…

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Fireside Chats: The Gaia Hypothesis with Vuk

This week, we’re catching up with our first return guest! Vuk is the creator and host of Tracing Owls and Darwin’s Deviations. He’s a biologist, a brilliant researcher, and an honest to goodness Fortean. Today we discuss the Gaia Hypothesis and how it applies to Fortean phenomena of all types. Could it be that one…

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52: Episode 52 – The Hill Abduction

This week, we discuss one of the landmark UFO abduction cases of all time. In September of 1961, Barney and Betty Hill claim to have been abducted by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. About a year after their abduction, Betty and Barney sought hypnosis therapy to help reveal to them the events…

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Fireside Chats: A Peek Through the Veil with Lady Ann Selene

This week’s guest is a Reiki Master and Intuitive Tarot reader. She is the owner of KPNL Radio and the host of The Caravan, Library of Lore podcast. She has had an amazing life filled with otherworldly experiences. Earlier this year, she released her first book titled “Aperture In the Veil: Born In a Preternatural…

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51: Episode 51: The Crosswick Monster

In the years straddling the turn of the last century, a series of sightings and encounters with an enormous, seemingly amphibious beast that actively transitioned between rectilinear and quadrupedal locomotion sent the people of Southwest Ohio into a frenzy. We tell the terrifying tale of two brothers whose scrape with this bloodcurdling behemoth left one…

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