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What scares you the most? We're joined by horror authors Andrew Pyper, Steve Stred, and C.M. Forest, as well as publisher Michelle River (Eerie River Publishing) to talk about just that, as well as the upcoming horror convention Dread Con!

Dread Con, sponsored by Rue Morgue Magazine, will be happening on Saturday, September 14th at Federation Hall in Waterloo, Ontario. Admission is only five bucks and you get to meet all the authors in this episode, plus many, many more!

Our musical guest on this episode is Oceanography, who is going back out on a west coast tour. You can find their music and tour dates by clicking here

The video for Oceanography's "Monterey" can be found on YouTube

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The first in our two-part series about haunting in prisons! We have a number of stories from North America, plus an exclusive look at the haunting of the Lima Sheraton in Lima, Peru, former site of the infamous prison known as El Panoptico. When it comes to ghost stories, there's regular old dark, then there's lock-up dark, and the only thing scarier than some of the horrific true crime cases we touch on in this episode is our pronunciation of Spanish.

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Singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, aka Oceanography, is going back on tour and will be our musical guest on the next "Talk Spooky", so we thought we would share his 2021 conversation with Brennan from his old talk show "Largely the Truth." Check Brian's tour dates here

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This week, singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, who performs as Oceanography, joins me to talk about his fantastic new LP "Thirteen Songs About Driving Nowhere in Alphabetical Order" and along the way we manage to invent car-to-car food delivery then discuss the impermanence of place

Buy your digital copy on Bandcamp: https://oceanography.bandcamp.com/

Physical copies and tour dates: https://www.oceanographymusic.com/

Monterey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrx6zr-hD7o

Field Shots video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi4BlHFfHU

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Close calls during a mountain hike, an explanation of Philippine totems, and a review of the brand new psychological thriller "Broken Bird", in UK theaters on August 30th. All this and more in our latest mail show!

Our musical feature on this episode is "(Never) 2 Hot" by Massey feat. Xochi, presented courtesy of Bent River Records.

Link to the screengrab Bob sent in [Imgur]

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We're joined by Sinead Hanna of "The Poisoner's Cabinet" to tell stories of high strangeness in and around waterfalls! From North Queensland to California's High Sierras and the mountains of the Philippines, your best bet is to just stay out of the woods, man.

The Lady of the Lake can be found here

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A strange light over Western Australia, schizoaffective disorder & the paranormal, and a history of bad luck on the same Blackpool rollercoaster that once threw off a young Paul Bestall. That's right - it's a mail show.

Our musical feature on this episode is "Barcelona" by Rain is Wet

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What do you get when you combine stories from New Zealand and remote Western Australia, with a recorded appearance of a hat man in 1989? You get just a portion of the listener stories on this episode, along with some surprising findings from Brennan's research, and Paul's love of summer

Links:

Daniel W. VanArsdale's Paranormal Journal [carryiton.net]

Paul Cropper's blog, The Fortean [thefortean.com]

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Board games, a Greek poet, and the mystery of Jawbone Hill are just a couple of the topics we cover in our listener mail segment before we get down to an epic conversation with John Olsen, author of the "Stranger Bridgerland" series. John is a fount of knowledge on the strange side of Utah and we talk about missing time, the good kind of orb, and a whole lot more!

Our musical feature on this episode is "Bar" by King Tut's Tomb

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How weird IS the Beehive State? As it turns out, pretty damn weird: we talk about the haunting of Park City, menacing presences in school at night, Tommyknockers, the Farmington Poltergeist, and a whole lot more!

Story Time Codes:

Visions of the Apocalypse (8:48)

House Has Devil (27:00)

Everybody Knows (36:49)

Fresh Powder (55:38)

The Farmington Poltergeist (1:06:23)

Lights Out (1:17:35)

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Paul has a legendarily good week, Brennan is on the road again, and there are e-mails about narcolepsy, having hope for the future, plus why the Dublin-New York portal might be the best expression of being human.

Our musical feature on this episode is "D00mfkinD00m" by Rainy Days For Ghosts

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What comes to mind when you think of Italy? Palazzos? Gnocchi? Monica Bellucci? On this episode, we have exactly none of those things but plenty of banshees, family ghosts, inexplicable smoke, and a thorough debunking of one of the paranormal world's laziest myths. We also have some UFO sightings taken straight from a recently unearthed collection of newsletters from the late, great John Keel

Links mentioned:

BBC article about the Florence UFO sighting [BBC]

How to Be a Keelian Scholar in One Easy Step [The Observer]

Pat Cooper's comedy [YouTube]

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