The Street Lights Are On

Using the ouija board as a jumping off point, this week we'll be scouring the tattered pages of the Necronomicon in search of even more terrifying haunted games. Definitely an episode for our braver (or perhaps more foolhardy) listeners, your favorite purveyors of horror and hokery will be sharing some devilishly good fun.

This week we return to our Victorian parlor room and continue the seance we began when last we met. Join hands with your favorite dime store spiritualists, take a whiff of that offbrand sage burning on the mantle, and settle in to your chairs as we bring you real life tales of ouija-induced terror!

This week your favorite creatures of the night dust off their microphones and pry open the vaults of classic horror lore to explore an item which has long fascinated aficionados of the paranormal. Whether it be a cheap piece of plastic, marketed as a quirky good time by toy companies, or a gateway to the other side of the void as some have claimed, the Ouija board is now ubiquitous to horror movies and books, having risen from relative obscurity and entrenched itself in popular culture. Join us as we trace the surprisingly brief history of the infamous game and shelter under the streetlights as you draw your own conclusions.

Get nice and cozy in your hover chair, put on your 3-D specs , and help yourself to an ice-cold bottle of blue milk from the concession stand because this week our guests from beyond the stars are beaming down to the silver screen! Join these two B-movie connoisseurs/sci-fi enthusiasts as we break down some of our favorite alien-themed cult films and discuss the frightening possibility that extraterrestrials may walk among us. Space rednecks, mass hallucinations, and good old fashioned UFO stories all patiently await you at the streetlight cinema!

This week we look up at the bleak, starless sky over Los Angeles in search of strange terrors not of this world! Some eighty years ago a fierce battle raged above our very heads; thousands of rounds were spent and the city was gripped by a febrile panic such as we have never again experienced, and yet not a single enemy craft was downed. In fact it may very well be that no "airplane" (at least as we know it) was ever even in the vicinity of the area. What then was it? What were its intentions? And from what mysterious pace does it hail?

Good evening creeps and crawlies, this week we venture once more into the dizzying vastness of the web, scouring cursed sites and long-dead message boards in search of the choicest, most spine-tingling stories of horror and mystery. Join these two grizzled cyberspace detectives as we seek the truth behind these strange tales and try to shed some light on the dark and eerie corners of the internet!

This week creeps and crawlies, we return with perhaps our most spine-chilling episode to date! Long-time listener and friend of the show Melissa Hernandez shares with us her experiences in the dark, strange world of the supernatural. What becomes of those spirits who choose to linger on in the shadowy realms between this world and the next? When and where do the voices of the dead make themselves heard, and to whom do they reveal themselves? What, if anything, has the power to check the evil of ancient dark magic and to break the hexes of its misguided practitioners? The answers to these questions await you, as always, under the streetlights.

This week we cross into Bavaria, to the bishopric of Würzburg, where we try to make sense of the frenzied hysteria which saw no less than a thousand people condemned and executed as witches between 1626 and 1631. Hear the sordid accusations leveled by neighbors against neighbors, sons against fathers, mothers against children and discover the lengths to which a mad prince went in order to free his lands from alleged witchcraft and heresy. Both an object lesson in religious fanaticism and a chilling tale of betrayal, murder, and fear, we under the streetlights humbly present to you, europe's bloodiest recorded witch hunt.

Tonight our witch hunting party heads to the new world, to Maryland's infamous black hills and the sleepy villages nestled between them. Join us as we trace the dark origins of a centuries-old witch's curse, but make sure not to lose your way in the woods; the last people who did still haven't come out. Grab your maps and pack your sleeping bags, eerie backroads and eldritch forests await.

This week, in the first installment of a multipart series on witches, we return to the old country in search of history's most feared and vilified sorcerers. Join us as we trace the origins of witchcraft in Europe back through more than a thousand years of bloodshed and persecution, and attempt to recreate the nightmarish world of the dark and middle ages. Grab on tight to your broomsticks and hold on to your pointy hats!

On this, our very first All Hallow's Eve, we are joined by our good friend Victor Hernandez for an hour long discussion of the paranormal.Witches,restless ghosts, and mysterious riders who make themselves known only after nightfall, are but a few of the paranormal entities who roam the cobblestone streets of Zacoalco. Join us then, on the calzada del Tecolote, as we venture ever further into the dark reaches of haunted Mexico!

This week we dig through the cobweb-ridden archives of true crime history and shine light on two of its most infamous cases. Take a stroll with us through the idyllic streets of small-town Plainsfield, Wisconsin where the 1957 arrest of Ed Gein lead to a series of grisly discoveries which rocked the seemingly Rockwellian community. Later we head home to the City of Angels, which between 1984 and 1985, was gripped by a hellish wave of murders perpetrated by the dreaded "Night Stalker"

This week we say our farewells to old Transylvania and head out on a globe trotting journey of discovery. Follow us as we give chase to the vampiric menace as it threatens to envelop the world in the folds of its accursed wings. We'll be scouring every eerie corner in which the sun does not shine, in search of the myths and legends that surround the blood-sucking legions of the night!

This week friends, we ride fast as our horses may carry us, into the dark hinterlands of Romania, to that country beyond the woods where the undead rule the night! Bran Castle casts a long shadow , and from this ancient princely seat, Vlad Dracula stretches forth his blood stained hands. Tune in to hear one of history's seminal vampire tales as told by hosts who still leech off their parents...

Hit the road one last time with your two favorite hosts and find out why man has learned to shun the night time desert and the creatures who lay there in wait for easy prey. This week we plunge our fangs into three brand new stories that strayed too far from the trail, and we venture further than ever before into the lair of the dreaded skinwalker!

This week the Skin Walker returns to its desert haunts in search of new victims to feed its dark magic and unholy gods. Hot on its trail, we pursue! Join us as we plunge headlong into the red sands of the Southwest in search of answers, but be wary, the glowing eyes above the sagebrush may not be those of an owl and the rustling of the cottonwoods may very well be the last noise you hear. Huddle around the campfire as we recount to you some the most frightening encounters with this insidious being that the web has to offer!

The Streetlights Are Back On ! This week, following our brief hiatus, your two favorite hosts are heading to the Southwestern United States in search of the region's most infamous monster, the dreaded Skin Walker. Having been featured so prominently throughout film and television, and having become a part of popular culture, the Skin Walker's origins have become somewhat clouded, so in this episode we'll be providing some cursory knowledge and background on the creature as well as sharing some of the traditional lore surrounding it. If dark magic, blasphemous rites, and cold-blooded murder sound like a good time, you're in for a treat!

For our second ever interview, join The Streetlights are On team in welcoming our good friend and coworker Marvin as he shares the most terrifying, blood-curdling stories we have yet come across. In old Maryland, beneath the peeling church spires of yesteryear, in the shade of decrepit gambrel roofs, and at the edge of dark primeval woods, paranormal dramas unfold each day , witnessed only by those who suffer them. To the South the loamy soils of Florida, rich and dark in their old age, likewise play host to all manner of secrets too sinister for man to comprehend in their entirety. Could it be though, that the most frightening tale of all is that which took place a scarce six months ago right here in California? During the small hours of the night,as the rest of Glendale slumbered, the Mejia family faced a nightmare such as few will ever bear witness to.

Places have memories all their own, superior to ours in their permanency, and cold in their indifference. When the living bear witness to these, when they hear the ghostly echoes of death ring out across the ages, and feel the very same terror that ran up men's spines long centuries ago, we refer to the phenomena as a haunting. Join us this week as we unravel the traumatic pasts of some of the world's most haunted locations, and discuss how these paranormal scars were left, as well as why they have been able to endure the unyielding march of time. From medieval fortresses in the Scottish highlands, to the blood-soaked fields of Pennsylvania and a very literal Parisian underworld, human suffering and tragedy have left their mark; when the streetlights are on, it's easy to appreciate it...

Still flying high off our first ever interview with Joseph Schmidt, this week we're bringing you a 45 minute, action-packed, horror-filled, nightmare inducing special! Join us as we delve into the human psyche and explore all the horrors that the untouched depths of our minds have in store for us. From the dark forests of primeval Germany, to the blinding snowscapes of northern Canada, and even in the hum-drum suburbs of folksy old Waukesha, Wisconsin , man has the ability to cast off all reason and sense of self in favor of the darkness that lies within each of us. Tune in and find out what happens when we give free reign to our basest instincts and fears, when we forsake the humane in favor of the bestial, and allow the monsters of the mind to enter...

This week we hit yet another milestone for the show as we welcome our very first guest , our good friend and boss, cart lead Joseph Schmidt ! Join us for an intimate conversation on all things spooky and listen to some of the most frightening stories we've come across thus far in this horror-filled journey of ours. What lurks beneath the heights of Dodger Stadium? What secrets does a hundred-year-old catholic school harbor in its ancient masonry? Stick around 'till the streetlights are on, and you just might get your answers...

This week we bid Japan farewell, and hopefully do justice to its rich tradition of ghostly and supernatural tales with our final two stories of the series. Venture into the stormy seas off Japan's coast with us and peer through the eerie mists that hide its most frightening secrets.After that take a stroll with us through the streets of urban Japan, and and discover how even in arguably the world's safest country, terror rules the night. That awful chill in the sea breeze, the sound of your panicked steps on the pavement, the soft electric hum you can just make out, they can only mean one thing; the streetlights are on...

On this week's show we're bringing you two more dark tales featuring surprisingly sympathetic characters, as we continue with our haunted Japan series. Follow us deep into Japan's treacherous mountains and uncharted cavern systems as we go on the trail of the dreaded Tsuchigumo; then return to Japan's infamous haunted restrooms with us as we play yet another deadly game, this time with Hanako-san, a victim of history's deadliest war, and who has terrified countless generations of Japanese school children. Remember folks, the streetlights are on!

As promised, this week we head east and make our first foray into haunted Japan, that unnervingly real and ever palpable world which has for so long fascinated us. Join us as we bring you the first two stories in this series, spine-chilling tales born of blood and tragedy such as no other place than the land of the rising sun could have produced; under the guise of a monstrous yokai, death incarnate stalks the battlefields of feudal Japan in search of fresh fodder, and elsewhere a tormented spirit invites unsuspecting victims to play a deadly game in the lavatories of Japan's public schools. The stories are no longer our own, but that doesn't mean they're any less frightening!

Join us for the thrilling conclusion to our three part introductory series! This week we'll be sharing the last of our personal ghost stories, at least for the time being, so get ready for one final horror filled visit to the spectral town of Tototlan,Jalisco and to the dark abysmal void that is Daniel's room. Laughs and screams await all those who stay up when the streetlights are on.

Welcome back to more stories from us! We are still diving into stories that have happed to us or our family members! If you want to reach out to us or send in your own stories! Please send a email to: thestreetlightsareon@yahoo.com

In this episode we talk about our experiences that we have encountered! First, is a story from Noe Followed by Daniels story! Finally it ends with Noe telling his last tale for this episode! If you want to reach out to us or send in your own stories! Please send a email to: thestreetlightsareon@yahoo.com

This is where our journey Begins. Under the safety of the street light.