6 Degrees of John Keel

Secrets surrounded our guest, Daniela Simina as she was growing up in Rumania. Secrets about magic, about fairies, about her family, about herself, and she wrote it all down in a memoir that not only teaches us the magic she grew up with and the ways of her ancestors (especially her Grandmother), but the secrets to surviving a totalitarian regime.

Steve Ward returns to the podcast and he and Barbara to talk about dogmen in the US and werewolves in the UK. The work of the late Linda Gregory--the researcher who brought the dogman into public awareness in the US--and the new documentary by Paul Sinclair--a great researcher in the UK are also discussed.

Drew returns to the podcast to talk about the continuing interaction he has had with strange lights and shadow people. There's a lot going on in this episode: animal reactions to UFOs, poltergeist activity and much, much more.

Deb Kauble, experiencer, investigator and author visits with Barbara and they talk about what is the meaning of paranormal and UFO experiences.

Micheal M. Hughes returns to the podcast to talk with Barbara about Ritual and Ceremonial Magick and how they are a very human method of connecting with our own and other consciousnesses throughout the Universe. And there are UFOs. Because.

Karly, the Village Tarot Witch, talks about her life, how she first was haunted by a house, and then, when she may have haunted that house herself. There's a little bit of adult language here, but it's a great story, fun and full of meaning.

Author, Witch, Teacher, Filmmaker and UFO Researcher, Cheryl Costa settles in for a long talk with Barbara, touching on Witchcraft, Magick, Buddhism, History, UFOs, UFOlogy and many other topics besides.

Mike Clelland returns to the podcast to talk about how he mined his own UFO related experiences to create his first novel, which is a project that took over a decade to finish. Lots of topics are covered: mystical owl and light experiences, synchronicity, shamanic initiation, the role the subconscious plays in creative endeavors and the mythos of the American West.

In light of the horrifying events in Israel, instead of a new episode this week I'm reposting the episode Morganna and I did on the medieval roots of antisemitism. Next week, look forward to hearing from Mike Clelland.

Simon and Thomas visit with fascinating tales of high strangeness and UFOs from Denmark. We rarely get to hear stories from our Scandinavian friends, so this episode is really special.

Professor WHAM comes back to the podcast to elaborate on some of her experiences living on a haunted piece of land in Kansas known as Buck Creek. Strange weather, invisible people talking, unusual animal behavior and a large guardian spirit that doesn't much care for humans.

Kate Ray visits with Barbara and the two discuss the Wollaton Gnomes, writing books with non human intelligences, ghost hunting, seances and more.

Nathan visits with Barbara and they share tales of growing up in Appalachia full of ghost hunting, hidden cemeteries, the Rapture, Satanists, and Camden Park.

Alexandra returns to the podcast, bringing her experience as an academic to and a practitioner of modern core shamanism to discuss with Barbara the similarities between traditional practices of ecstatic spirit and initiation and modern experiences of alien abduction.

Jason, Todd, Dasos and Barbara all sit down and talk about their personal experiences of mental health and how paranormal weirdness impacts or doesn't impact their psyches.

Joshua Cutchin returns and talks about his soon to be released novel and the impetus behind it--and how the writing process is akin to negotiating with stubborn people who just happen to live in the author's head.

Christina the Crescent Hare visits with Morganna and Barbara to talk all things mushrooms. Magic, psychedelica, medicine, foraging, cooking, mycelial communication, and esoterica--all that and more! There's even a recipe in the show notes.

Fellow West Virginian Jason Ruehl joins Barbara to talk about the weirdness of their mutual home state, and how kids who grow up hanging out in the woods learn the most interesting things. Bigfoot, ghostlights, and the Flatwoods monster all show up in the stories.

Dr. Neil Rushton settles in for a nice conversation with Barbara on the subject of fairies, gnomes, films, fiction and altered states of consciousness.

Fred Andersson has written a book on high strangeness in Sweden and he visits to talk about the book, Swedish UFO cases old and new, Swedish folklore and anomalous lights.

WJ visits with Barbara to talk about her experiences in the air and on the ground. Little flashes, UFOs and MIB all take part in her stories.

Experiencer and documentarian, Joe Plante visits with Barbara and tells of messages from beyond, significant synchronicities and the strength of the soul.

Author, paranormal researcher and seeker of women's hidden history, Alex Matsuo joins Barbara to talk about her newest book, "Women of the Paranormal." Learning history has never been so much fun.

Author and fairy seer Daniela Sinema visits with Barbara and the two talk about her book "Where Fairies Meet," which is a study of the parallels between Irish and Rumanian fairy lore. They also talk about Daniela's years growing up in Rumania and learning from her grandmother who is also a fairy seer.

Morganna and Barbara chat about what the meaning of this new round of disclosure talk could be, along with other stuff. Including a weird light in the sky and river demons.

Experiencer Lucinda Morel visits to talk about experiencers through the generations of her family. Lots of little people, fairies, Bigfoot and other strange entities.

Jimmy comes to visit Barbara and tell about his strange anomalous light experiences.

An old friend of Barbara's, Tom, visits to talk about all things liminal.

Jake and Josh tell stories of channelled messages from the Orange World, Shadow People, Aliens, Crawlers and Highly Strange Psychedelic Experiences. And there's a naked guy.

John Frum tells his experiences with death, life, rebirth and alien abduction with Barbara. Trigger Warning: the episode contains descriptions of sexual encounters, some non-consensual. If these sorts of things bother you, or if you let your kids listen with you, please skip this episode.

Illustrator, musician, Comics writer and artist Todd Purse joins Barbara to talk about his own personal vision of the Other and how he hopes it influences his child. And art. And folklore. They talk about lots of things.

Hayley sits down with Morganna and Barbara and tells tales of a ghost and his hidden treasure, a Lady in White, precognitions, missing time missing objects and more.

James Salsido returns to the podcast to tell Barbara about a mysterious light and a strange cat.

Elen Sentier is a life-coach, teacher, practitioner of old ways of traditional British magic, and a transpersonal psychotherapist. She visits and talks with Barbara about the old ways and how she's bringing them to her businesswomen students in the 21st century.

Morgan Daimler and Cat Heath return to the podcast and answer listeners' questions about elves and fairies. We only got through half the questions in two hours, so we will record a part two episode in the future.

Morganna and Barbara welcome a neighbor from just across the ridge, Katherine Ziff, to talk about her books. They include the history of the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, working with children and art, and the history and creation of homeopathic flower essences.

Morgan Daimler returns to the podcast and she and Barbara discuss how Madame Blavatsky's interpretations of fairies through the lens of Theosophy changed Western understandings of them considerably.

Tim Renner and Chad Redding hang out with Morganna and Barbara, catching up on everyone's projects both mundane and paranormal. Books, bookbinding, printing, paper making, watercolor pigments begin the discussion which then swings around to the nature of The Greys, and of course, those mysterious lights that just seem to follow us around. There's more, of course.

Octavian asked Barbara a question: Is there a safe way to seek contact with fairies? It's a question many people might have, so we made an episode about it.

Paranormal writer and experiencer, AP Strange joins Barbara to tell his childhood stories of growing up with poltergeist activity. Yes, there's a Muppet involved

Zoe Burnett returns to the podcast to discuss the paranormal in cinema with Barbara. The two discuss how films with nuclear families as a central theme explore the weirdness that surrounds us, and how those movies teach us what the paranormal is and is not.

Steve Berg returns to the podcast to finally talk with Morganna and Barbara about the weirdness of Nebraska. And there's a lot of it!

Morganna and Barbara settle in for a conversation about the sacred nature of anomalous lights with r

Christine is an artist who specializes in friendly oddities like cryptid faeries, she talks with Barbara about art, weirdness and a MIB encounter. You can find her art on Instagram under the name Crescent Hare.

Barbara and Morganna look back at the weirdness of 2022, and forward to the weirdness of 2023 in a lighthearted little mother/daughter talk. Next week, they'll return to their regular once a week schedule of Keelian podcast magic.

Josh Cutchin drops in on Barbara and the two folklore nerds get weird with the Yuletide Season. Wild men and women of the Alpine and Nordic regions are discussed and the traditions are enumerated, with family stories, music and fun.

Morganna and Barbara welcome Steve Berg to talk about Weird Nebraska. But then they forgot to ask about it. Don't worry—He'll be back.

Barbara settles in for a long conversation with her old friend Dan Trout, about the Umnothings, a special tree, and a curious cryptid.

Author, Adventuress and Cemetery Aficionado Tui Snyder joins Barbara for a wide-ranging conversation about beautiful cemeteries and their sculptures.

Morganna and Barbara are joined by Mike Pingleton and the trio talk herpetology, cryptids, The Loveland Frogman and The Other.