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Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green unpacks his favorite animated movies with a live-action sensibility and his favorite live-action movies with a cartoon sensibility with Josh Olson and (sometimes) Joe Dante! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Coyote vs. Acme (2026) Modern Times (1931) Beetlejuice (1988) Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) Batman (1989) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Batman Returns (1992) Ghostbusters (1984) The Conjuring (2013) The Addams Family (1991) Addams Family Values (1993) Get Shorty (1995) Ratatouille (2007) The Incredibles (2004) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) The Lost Weekend  (1945) The Last Action Hero (1993) Airplane! (1980) Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) Raising Arizona (1987) Predator (1987) M (1931) M (1951) The Black Vampire (1953) Barney's Great Adventure (1998) Other Notable Items Our revamped Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Samy Burch Mel Blanc Charlie Chaplin  Abbey Road Studios in London, England Tim Burton Wes Anderson Michael Keaton Batman: The Animated Series TV series (1992-95) The Real Ghostbusters TV series (1986-91) Beetlejuice TV series (1989-91) The Simpsons TV series (1989- ) The Ren & Stimpy Show TV series (1991-95) Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures TV series (1987-88) The Tick TV series (1994-96) The Maxx TV series (1995) Christopher Nolan Daniel Waters Batman TV series (1966-68) ArcLight Cinemas  Joan Cusack Barry Sonnenfeld Pixar Brad Bird Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! TV series (2007-10) Warner Bros. Peter Lorre The Animated Peter Lorre book by Matthew Hahn (2024) Arnold Schwarzenegger Mad magazine (1952- ) Sergio Aragonés Lee J. Cobb Sam Raimi Ted Raimi Joel Coen Ethan Coen Nicolas Cage Bugs Bunny Wile E. Coyote Woody Woodpecker Paul Chadwick  Mega Man TV series (1994-96) Joseph Losey  David Wayne David Wain  The State SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests, and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At twelve, Julie stared at a clawed arm at the end of her bed for seven seconds and then went back to reading, and the two decades that followed are why a UFO investigator spent weeks taking her statement.DEEP-DIVE ARTICLE about Archer Avenue & Resurrection Mary: https://weirddarkness.com/resurrection-mary/EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/EncountersOfJulieREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mtepz5jcFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: If you've listened to Weird Darkness for any length of time, you know that I will often suggest someone who has had a paranormal disturbance in their home or life, reach out to a pastor or priest for guidance. But what exactly happens when the Catholic Church starts investigating the paranormal? (When The Catholic Church Goes Ghost Hunting) *** Many states around America say they have the most haunted road in the country. And while the words “most haunted” are somewhat subjective, it's hard not to see why people outside of Chicago consider Archer Avenue not only the top spooky street in America, but the most haunted on the planet. (The Anguish Of Archer Avenue) *** After allegedly murdering her husband in 1960, Sharon Kinne shot her lover's pregnant wife. Then, she evaded justice and escaped to Mexico only to kill again — before vanishing without a trace. (The American Murderess Who Disappeared in 1969) *** Modern courtrooms aren't equipped or knowledgable enough to determine whether or not ghosts are real, but that hasn't stopped ghosts from appearing in several court cases! (Court Cases Involving Ghosts) *** When you hear of a two-headed creature you typically think of two heads side-by-side growing from the neck and shoulders area. But have you ever heard of a creature growing another head on the very top of it's other head? It happened… and not to just any creature. It was a human boy who lived much longer than anyone expected. (The Bengal Boy With Two Heads) *** Buried alive inside the castle walls, the Finnish Maiden immured still haunts the medieval building of Olavinlinna Castle. (The Maiden of Olavinlinna Castle) *** The case of “Julie” from Carlisle in the United Kingdom is an intriguing one not only because it unfolded over many years, but because it appears to straddle the line between apparent reptilian entities and paranormal activity. (The Encounters of Julie)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:03.125 = Show Open00:03:46.357 = The Encounters of Julie00:21:34.557 = The Bengal Boy With Two Heads ***00:26:40.964 = When The Catholic Church Goes Ghost Hunting00:38:00.163 = The Anguish of Archer Avenue ***00:50:12.310 = The Maiden Of Olavinlinna Castle00:55:15.646 = The American Murderess Who Disappeared In 1969 ***00:1:03:06.483 = Court Cases Involving Ghosts01:13:33.193 = Show Close01:14:40.612 = SONG: “Archer Avenue” by Dark Weirdness01:18:51.465 = Bloopers*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:SONG: “Archer Avenue” by Dark Weirdness: https://weirddarkness.com/music“When The Catholic Church Goes Ghost Hunting” by Mariel Loveland for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5b5y7fyc“The Anguish Of Archer Avenue” by Sabrina Ithal for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x6sy6fxa“The American Murderess Who Disappeared in 1969” by Neil Patmore for All That's Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/429crjvz“The Bengal Boy With Two Heads” by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet (includes photos):https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3s3dpwme“Court Cases Involving Ghosts” by Jim Rowley for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mtpfhf5v“The Maiden of Olavinlinna Castle” posted at Moon Mausoleum: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ybfsypnj“The Encounters of Julie” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4696c2yx(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: March, 2022LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://weirddarkness.com/OFFICIALWeird Darkness looks at a clawed arm at the foot of a child's bed in Carlisle, a boy born in Bengal in 1783 with a second head growing atop his own, the Vatican office that vets miracles and demonic possession, the Chicago road that produced Resurrection Mary, a Finnish maiden entombed alive in a castle wall, a Missouri housewife who killed at least three people and vanished, and the court cases where ghosts turned up as evidence.It opens with the woman investigators call Julie, twelve years old and reading in bed in Carlisle, England, in 2000 when a black arm ending in white talons came over the foot of her mattress. Dave Hodrien of the Birmingham UFO Group interviewed her in early 2022 about twenty years of reptilian sightings, poltergeist activity, and shadow figures that followed her from that bedroom into the hospital wards where she later worked as a senior nurse.From there comes the boy born in the Bengali village of Mundul Gaut in May 1783 with a second head sitting inverted on top of the first, an upper head that wept and tried to nurse while its expressions ran independent of the child's. A cobra killed him at four, a salt agent for the East India Company robbed his grave, and his skull still sits in the Hunterian Museum in London as a specimen of craniopagus parasiticus, a parasitic twinning that occurs in two or three births out of five million.The Vatican's paranormal caseload runs through the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the Consulta Medica, a board of Italian Catholic physicians who rule on whether a healing has any natural explanation, with Michael O'Neill of MiracleHunter.com estimating that 99.9 percent of investigated miracles are medical. Father Lampert puts genuine demonic possession at one case in five thousand, and the Vatican's revised 1999 guidelines require priests to consult mental health professionals before any exorcism is approved.Archer Avenue follows, the old Native American trail southwest of Chicago where Resurrection Mary has hitchhiked between the O'Henry Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery since the 1930s, and where police answering a call on August 10th, 1976 found the cemetery bars bent apart and scorched with handprints. The same stretch carries phantom monks at St. James of the Sag, a cloven hoofprint outside Kaiser Hall, a driverless hearse, the Maple Lake ghost light, and Red Gate Woods, where the world's first nuclear reactor lies buried from the Manhattan Project.Olavinlinna Castle, built on a lake island in southeastern Finland in 1475, holds the legend of the lord's daughter who opened the gate for her Russian lover and was condemned for treason and immured alive in the courtyard wall, with a rowan tree of white flowers and red berries said to have grown where she died.Sharon Kinne told police in March 1960 that her toddler had shot her husband, collected $230,000, and was acquitted of killing her lover's pregnant wife before fleeing to Mexico City, where she shot a man in a motel room and earned the nickname La Pistolera; she walked out of Iztapalapa prison during a blackout on December 7th, 1969 and has never been found.The episode closes on hauntings that reached a courtroom, from the 1917 Ouija-board novel Jap Herron credited to Mark Twain's ghost to Stambovsky v. Ackley, the 1991 Ghostbusters ruling that made a Nyack house legally haunted, and Gerald Brittle's $900 million suit daring Warner Bros. to prove the events behind The Conjuring actually happened.

This week, we've got our engines revving for 1979's Gas Pump Girls. It's not what it sounds like. It's actually about a bunch of girls who work at a gas station. Make sure you bust out your Titscope™ for this one, because there's like 17 boobs in this movie that are prime oggle fodder. We're gentlemen, though, so we're really not into that. But if you are, email Rob or Chris for all the appropriate time stamps that they took for research purposes. With that out of the way, let's grab it, stick it in, squeeze it, and let it peter out! Salacious sluts with super-duper selection of slippery sales strategies, succumb to sensual, sexy, slurping service station semantics! Showing tits and selling gas! Budget cuts between the boobies! Geriatric G-men on an angry honker hunt! Conjuring farts and sex! Hometown high school harlots hanging loose in halter tops! Graduate girl gown grounding! Ding dong dung heaps! Talking horny at the motorists! April's snail trail! The girls get racist, and much, much more on this week's episode of The Worst Movie Ever Made! www.theworstmovieevermade.com 

One new exhibit wants to celebrate the history of power in San Francisco's LGBT+ communities. It's called “Conjuring Power: Roots and Futures of Queer and Trans Movements. A multimedia art exhibition currently running at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the City. It features paintings, murals, and oral history recordings from queer elders.It's curated by Tina Valentin Aguirre, the director of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, and Caro de Robertis, an award-winning author and professor at San Francisco State. KALW's Jenee Darden spoke with them on “The Sight +Sounds Show.”  

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC! PART TWOLong before The Conjuring became a Hollywood franchise, the farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, was already known for reports of disturbing paranormal activity. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the property decades ago, helping turn the house into one of the best-known locations in modern paranormal history.But what is it like to investigate the Conjuring House today?In this episode of The Grave Talks, Eric Vitale of the New England Society for Paranormal Research takes us inside a recent investigation of the property and shares what happened when his team began asking questions of whatever may still be there. From uneasy rooms and unexplained responses to moments that left investigators wondering just how much the house was willing to reveal, Eric offers a firsthand look at a location whose reputation began long before the cameras arrived—and whose story is far from over.#TheGraveTalks #ConjuringHouse #EricVitale #NESPR #Paranormal #GhostHunting #HauntedRhodeIsland #EdAndLorraineWarren #HauntedHistory #ParanormalInvestigationLove real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC!Long before The Conjuring became a Hollywood franchise, the farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island, was already known for reports of disturbing paranormal activity. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the property decades ago, helping turn the house into one of the best-known locations in modern paranormal history.But what is it like to investigate the Conjuring House today?In this episode of The Grave Talks, Eric Vitale of the New England Society for Paranormal Research takes us inside a recent investigation of the property and shares what happened when his team began asking questions of whatever may still be there. From uneasy rooms and unexplained responses to moments that left investigators wondering just how much the house was willing to reveal, Eric offers a firsthand look at a location whose reputation began long before the cameras arrived—and whose story is far from over. #TheGraveTalks #ConjuringHouse #EricVitale #NESPR #Paranormal #GhostHunting #HauntedRhodeIsland #EdAndLorraineWarren #HauntedHistory #ParanormalInvestigation Love real ghost stories? Don't just listen—join us on YouTube and be part of the largest community of real paranormal encounters anywhere. Subscribe now and never miss a chilling new story:

This podcast episode features a deep discussion of Lindsey Stewart's book, The Conjuring of America, which examines the historical and cultural significance of Black women's survival magic. The hosts explore how traditional practices—such as midwifery, herbal medicine, and conjuring—were essential tools for resilience and resistance throughout four hundred years of oppression. They highlight how the American economy often exploited and commercialized these contributions while simultaneously labeling the women themselves as superstitious or criminal. Personal anecdotes from the speakers connect these historical themes to contemporary concepts like "Black Girl Magic" and the endurance of family legacies. Ultimately, the dialogue serves as a tribute to the intellectual and spiritual labor of Black women who transformed scraps into sustenance and hope.

Artwork that honors and celebrates past queer and trans movements.

On today's show, Host Jeneé Darden visits the home of the legendary Bay Area artist Mildred Howard to talk about her exhibition at the Oakland Museum. Then, artwork that honors and celebrates past queer and trans movements.

Ahoy, nerdlings! Welcome to episode 242 of Up Yours with More! BC and MODOK are back again with stuff to talk about. Some comic book and pop culture headlines, those top 10 books from last week, the books they're excited for this week, and on the back half of the program, the Nerd Hole question of the week. (Also, a special 10:10; standing by).NewsSettlement with Some Diamond Consignment Vendors Proposed DC Celebrates the Legacy of Joe Kubert on His CentennialDC Extends 'The Deadman' to 12 Issues Magik Leads a Mystical New X-Team Against a Demonic Invasion in 'X-Orcists'New 'Dog Man' Volume Coming In November 2026Spencer Acquiring Hot TopicCryptozoic Invokes 'The Conjuring of Lucipurr' ICv2 Showbiz Round-UpFind Us Online at the Following Outlets Website :: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠upupandawaycomics.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube :: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@upupawaycomics⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook ::  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/upupawa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠y and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/uuablueash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram :: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/upupawaycomics⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter :: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/upupawaycomics⁠⁠

Nach fast 3 Jahren sind wir zurück! Voll motiviert, voll engagiert und fast perfekt informiert. Wir quatschen über Raging Bull, Das Kanu des Manitu, Beetlejuice 2, Conjuring 4, Megan 2.0, The Boys, Stranger Things & Co. – und werfen einen Blick auf den Dunesday im Dezember. Liebe Grüße an alle Fans & Freunde!

August 1981, a small house in Lee, Massachusetts. A sixteen-year-old boy sits alone in the dark, in a room where something has already knocked a grown woman unconscious. Behind his head, inside the wall, something is clawing and growling.This week, Yvette Fielding is joined by Chris McKinnell. The grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the couple behind Amityville, Annabelle and the entire Conjuring universe. But Chris isn't here to guard the legacy. He's here to question it.He tells the stories Hollywood left out: claw marks opening on a woman's face live on air, a great-grandfather in his rearview mirror, and the untold British chapter, when Ed and Lorraine toured three thousand miles of this country's most haunted sites. And he does what almost nobody in this field will, he says where his grandparents were wrong.A curse, a mind under strain, or consciousness surviving death? Listen, and decide for yourself.Chris tours the UK and Ireland this September and October with The Real Conjuring.His book, The Warren Legacy: What the Paranormal Reveals About Consciousness and Reality, is out now.

The Sixth Sense, Piranha, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Antropophagus, Lady Killer, and The Bat headline this episode of This Week in Horror History, covering August 3 through August 9. As summer horror reaches its hottest, strangest stretch, we're starting our early Halloween horror pregame with killer fish, emotional ghost stories, murderous housewives, hurricane-party paranoia, forbidden cult cinema, and Vincent Price lurking inside a classic old-dark-house mystery. Inside this episode: August 3, 1978 — Piranha releases in the United StatesJoe Dante turns the post-Jaws killer-animal boom into a fast, funny, and surprisingly vicious summer creature feature. Genetically altered military piranha escape into the water system, transforming lakes, rivers, vacation spots, and summer-camp swimming holes into potential feeding grounds. August 6, 1999 — The Sixth Sense releases in the United StatesM. Night Shyamalan changes the modern ghost story with the haunting tale of Cole Sear, a frightened child surrounded by dead people no one else can see. Beneath the famous twist is a deeply emotional horror movie about grief, loneliness, empathy, and the things both the living and the dead are desperate to say. August 3, 2016 — Lady Killer 2 #1 reaches comic shopsJoëlle Jones brings back Josie Schuller, a stylish midcentury homemaker, devoted mother, and highly efficient professional killer. The horror comic transforms domestic perfection into a bloodstained performance where violence is already inside the home, wearing gloves, preparing dinner, and cleaning up after itself. August 5, 2022 — Bodies Bodies Bodies releases theatrically in the United StatesA24 traps a group of wealthy, deeply dysfunctional friends inside a mansion during a hurricane. When a party game becomes a possible murder investigation, slasher tension collides with social-media anxiety, buried resentment, toxic friendships, accusations, and spectacularly bad decisions.Deep-Cut Spotlight — AntropophagusJoe D'Amato's notorious Italian cult-horror film sends unsuspecting visitors to a beautiful but eerily abandoned Greek island where paradise has become a sun-bleached trap. Also known as Anthropophagus and The Grim Reaper, the movie earned a reputation as one of those forbidden video-store horrors whispered about by genre fans because its most extreme moments supposedly had to be seen to be believed. It is grimy, excessive, mean-spirited, and inseparable from the dangerous mystique created by its alternate titles, shocking cover art, and cult-cinema notoriety. Horror Birthdays This Week: John Landis, M. Night Shyamalan, Vera Farmiga, and Tobin Bell enter the birthday roll, bringing connections to An American Werewolf in London, The Sixth Sense, The Conjuring, Bates Motel, Orphan, Saw, and some of modern horror's most recognizable filmmakers, paranormal investigators, and moralizing masterminds. Weekly Recommendation — The BatVincent Price enters an old-dark-house mystery filled with locked rooms, hidden money, suspicious residents, secret passageways, clawed gloves, and a masked killer known only as the Bat. Released in 1959, The Bat delivers classic black-and-white comfort horror with thunderstorms, creaking hallways, shadowy intruders, and the cozy feeling that someone could appear at the far end of the corridor at any moment. It is the perfect late-summer watch for horror fans already pregaming for Halloween and preparing for the arrival of spooky season.From Piranha and The Sixth Sense to Lady Killer, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Antropophagus, and The Bat, this week in horror history proves that terror can swim beneath summer water, stand silently in the corner of a child's room, hide behind domestic perfection, explode during a hurricane party, or wait inside a darkened house.The calendar may still say August, but the Halloween horror pregame starts now.

The Conjuring made this Rhode Island farmhouse one of the most famous haunted houses in the world. Millions know the story of the Perron family, the Warrens, and the witch named Bathsheba. But how much of it is actually true? Tonight, we separate Hollywood from history, uncover the real lives behind the legends, examine the séance that tore a family apart, and explore how a centuries-old farmhouse became one of the most controversial paranormal stories ever told. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Text Us Here!Horror is punching way above its weight right now, and it's not an accident. We kick things off with quick life updates and entertainment news, then we get into the bigger question that's been hanging over theaters all year: why are smaller horror movies pulling people in while “guaranteed” blockbusters struggle to feel exciting?We talk through what's working, from low budget horror economics to the one thing audiences can't resist: originality that actually commits. Obsession becomes our main case study, because it's the kind of psychological horror that doesn't rely on cheap jump scares, it relies on choices, consequences, and that creeping feeling that something is deeply wrong. We debate where the villain line really starts, why the story hits so hard, and how horror can make you leave the theater feeling gross in a way that proves it did its job.From there, we widen the lens: superhero fatigue after Endgame, why Marvel trailers often show too much, and how practical effects and craft (shout out The Odyssey) can make a movie feel like an event again. We also trade horror recommendations, argue for anthology style storytelling as the genre's secret sauce, and shout out favorites like The Shining, The Conjuring, Hereditary, Midsommar, and Paranormal Activity 2.If you've been craving scary movies that feel fresh, or you're burnt out on franchise homework, hit play and come argue with us. Subscribe, share this with your horror loving friend, and leave a review with your pick for the best horror movie of all time.You have a limited offer you can use now, that gets you up to 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one time purchases with code: FMJPOD20 at checkout.You can claim it at: https://www.magicmind.com/FMJPOD20Magic MindA mental performance shot you soon won't forget! Make 2025 your year for the best version of you!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThanks For Listening! Subscribe for X-tra Lives!https://www.buzzsprout.com/1473904/subscribe

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose, Loot) joins the show to discuss a 24-hour period where she was firing on all woo woo cylinders. Creepy feelings! Prophetic dreams! Plus, the crazy tale of how she drew a certain energy across her path in a miracle encounter overseas.  You can catch bonus content now on the Woo Woo YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WooWooPodcast. Follow us on Instagram! @raedratch @irenebremis @mjrodriguez7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on The Halloween Podcast, we cover one of the biggest paranormal stories of the year as Jason Hawes is officially listed as the owner of The Conjuring House, take a look at HalloweenCostumes.com's massive reveal of more than 100 new animatronics and inflatables, and discuss the announcement that a brand-new A Nightmare on Elm Street film is officially in development, along with Robert Englund's thoughts on the future of Freddy Krueger. We also head Around the Crypt with news about Connecticut's Forsaken Lands haunted attraction relocating, a new Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween book, and after-dark ghost tours at Australia's historic Gladstone Gaol. Plus, we remember Sam Neill and Brenda Fricker, welcome a new Pumpkin Room supporter, and read another fantastic five-star Apple Podcasts review. Story Links Jason Hawes & The Conjuring House https://www.wpri.com/target-12/who-owns-the-conjuring-house-jason-hawes-records-deed-amid-court-fight/amp/ HalloweenCostumes.com Reveals 100+ New Decorations https://horrorfuel.com/2026/07/15/video-halloweencostumes-com-drops-over-a-hundred-new-animatronics-and-inflatables/ New A Nightmare on Elm Street Movie Announced https://people.com/new-nightmare-on-elm-street-movie-announced-12019000 Robert Englund Discusses Freddy's Future https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/robert-englund-return-freddy-krueger-213827060.html The Forsaken Lands Relocating https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/one-connecticuts-biggest-halloween-attractions-100000803.html Choose Your Own Adventure: Fairy House Halloween https://bleedingcool.com/pop-culture/choose-your-own-adventure-preps-for-october-in-fairy-house-halloween/ Gladstone Gaol Halloween Ghost Tours https://glamadelaide.com.au/this-halloween-gladstone-gaol-is-opening-its-gates-after-dark-for-a-haunting-ghost-tour-that-delves-into-the-prisons-chilling-past/ Follow The Halloween Podcast Websitehttps://www.TheHalloweenPodcast.com Facebookhttps://www.Facebook.com/TheHalloweenPodcast Instagramhttps://www.Instagram.com/TheHalloweenPodcast YouTubehttps://www.YouTube.com/TheHalloweenPodcast EmailInfo@TheHalloweenPodcast.com Haunt Line731-400-0472 Support the Show on Patreonhttps://www.Patreon.com/TheHalloweenPod Happy Halloween! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

CreepGeeks Podcast Episode 364 INTRO  You're listening to CreepGeeks Podcast! This is Season 10, Episode 364 Diarrhea Superbug, Deadly Fungus Storms, Dollar Generals Are Haunted, Conjuring House, and Remote Controlled Cockroach Swarm.   Welcome to CreepGeeks Podcast! We broadcast paranormal news and share our strange experiences from our underground bunker in the mountains of Western North Carolina.  THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BARLEY'S BITES Barley's Bites Barley's Bites is dedicated to providing top-quality, home-made dog treats for every doggo to enjoy. Our treats are made with fresh, healthy ingredients and no harmful chemicals, ensuring your pet receives the best possible nutrition.  Jack loves them, and the dog neighbors approve. Made in New Mexico! Thanks, Kristen and Dave, for sending Jack and us some tasty treats! Barley's Bites: Exclusive offer for CreepGeeks Listeners- Barley's Bites would like to offer all CreepGeeks Podcast listeners 20% off their orders with code "CreepGeeks" at checkout. Your favorite anomalous podcast hosts are Greg and Omi Want to support the podcast? Join us on Patreon:  CreepGeeks Paranormal and Weird News is creating Humorous Paranormal Podcasts, Interviews, and Videos!  Get our new Swag in our Amazon Merch Store:  https://amzn.to/3IWwM1x  Get Starlink for Rural Internet Access  Starlink | Residential Hey Everyone. You can call the show and leave us a message!  1-575-208-4025 Use Amazon Prime's Free Trial! Did you know YOU can support the CreepGeeks Podcast with little to no effort? It won't cost you anything!  When you shop on Amazon.com using our affiliate link, we receive a small percentage.  It doesn't change your price at all. It helps us keep the coffee and gas flowing in the Albino Rhino!  CreepGeeks Podcast is an Amazon Affiliate CheapGeek and CreepGeeks Amazon Page's Amazon Page    Support the Show:  CreepGeeks Swag Shop!  Website- CREEPGEEKS PARANORMAL AND WEIRD NEWS Hey everyone! Help us out!  Rate us on iTunes!  ‎CreepGeeks Paranormal and Weird News Podcast on Apple  WARNING: This Podcast May Contain Bioengineered and Cell-Cultivated Food Products. Stanley Milford Navajo Rangers Book- The Paranormal Ranger: A chilling memoir of investigations into the paranormal in Navajoland https://amzn.to/3ZhzG8m  Interested in Past Lives or Past Life's Journeying- RC Baranowski. Past Life Journeying: Exploring Past, Between, and Future Lives Past Life Journeying: Exploring Past, Between, and Future Lives - Kindle edition by Baranowski, R. C.. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.  Over on our Patreon-  Patron's Messages-  Welcome, Patrons and new Patrons-  New Lake Shawnee Haunted Amusement Park Video is available! Brown Mountain Lights Brown Mountain Lights Geological Survey- Here's a thought: Are Brown Mountain Lights caused by lithium? 1-800 Number Comments-   Fate Magazine - Fate Magazine  Did you know that #creepgeeks is ranked- FeedSpot- 10 Best North Carolina News Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025  10 Best North Carolina Technology Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025  GoodPods- Best Fortean Podcasts [2025] Top 3 Shows - Goodpods  Best Bigfoot Podcasts [2025] Top 30 Shows - Goodpods  Greg's Pen Tangent -The Sharpie S-Gel in Copper:  https://amzn.to/4gNatda  CreepGeeks Podcast NEWS: Omi-  Into the Shadows of McDowell County  Haunted Hollers of McDowell County  What are we doing? What are we up to? Listener Messages- Last Episode Follow-Up:  They're Taking Our Food! Superbug hits 27 states: Here's where the deadly fungus is spreading  CDC investigates parasitic illness spreading across U.S.   Deadly fungal storms are now sweeping the US – and spreading a disease few doctors recognise  US food recalls surge past 57 million units as allergens, listeria, and plastic trigger alerts Meat Recall 2yrs ago Texas AG Ken Paxton secures settlements with egg producers following allegations of price gouging   Paris official blames Americans and their air conditioning for Europe heat wave that has killed 1,300 people  As if the heatwave wasn't bad enough! Brits are told to brace for a POLLEN bomb over the next four days   Video: Treasure Hunters Settle Lawsuit with FBI Over Mysterious Dig for Civil War Gold  WORLD NEWS: WEIRD NEWS: Dr Jeff Mishlove Pitched the ESP Olympics to Hollywood. Forty Years Later, Someone Built It.  CRYPTID:  Bigfoot hunter says proving corpse's authenticity has been an uphill battle  PARANORMAL: 'Conjuring House' Ownership Change Revealed in Rhode Island Town's Records | NEWSRADIO 1040 WHO | Coast to Coast AM with George Noory  Infrared Thermometers, Useless for Investigations  All Dollar General's are Haunted

It's another packed episode of That Film Stew as we dive into the latest movie and TV news! Blue Beetle is officially back, we're getting ready to return to Hotel Transylvania, and another trip to Elm Street is on the horizon. We also discuss the casting of the young Ed and Lorraine Warren for the next chapter in The Conjuring universe, plus the surprising news that Free Willy is set to make a splash with a reboot. Join us as we break down all the biggest headlines, share our thoughts, and look ahead at what's coming to cinemas and streaming.

Send us Fan MailJoin us for an Irish folk tale of haunted hotels, mysterious forests and magic mushrooms mixed with goat milk! That's right we watch Adam Scott get down to his roots and learn the importance of "do not disturb" signs, book ends and how sexy they can be, and why keeping a small hack saw on you is always a good idea!AND THANK YOU FOR LISTENINGPLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTAGRAM:https://instagram.com/fromdusktilldonpodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y    

Poet and anarchist mk zariel (it/its) joined me to talk about the magically queer classic The F*ggots & Their Friends Between Revoltions. A fairy tale for adults that still rings true, fortunately and unfortunately, in our own time. mk and I discuss the politics of the book and how it intersects with its own writing and praxis.You can find out about mk's work, including where to purchase its books, on its website.Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org and follow us on BlueSky for episode updates. You can follow me there and on Mastodon for morning pages, fountain pen and ink nerdiness, and a tarot or oracle card of the day.You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is The Keeper & the Mermaid by Cathy Lynn available wherever you buy ebooks.Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini, the award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are all available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.You can pre-order my upcoming book  A Witch's Book of Days (September 2026) from Crossed Crow Books and anywhere else you buy books. My most recent novel, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

On Episode we discuss the career of Sam Neill as well as the return of the Conjuring and Nightmare on Elm Street. We then get into a bunch of new trailers released including Digger and Dune 3. What We're Watching: Whistle In the Mouth of Madness Toy Story 5

Special host Danielle, chair of Kids Reading Across Rhode Island takes the mic and chats with KRARI author, Eden Royce (@edenroycebooks) about her book Conjure Island, and all things Southern Gothic, spooky and spectacular. Follow along with Eden at edenroyce.com and find Conjure Island and other titles at your local library!   Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.    Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.   Books The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher Molka by Monika Kim Media Cemetery Man Ludwig (UK) Send Help (Coming Soon) The X Files

Special host Danielle, chair of Kids Reading Across Rhode Island takes the mic and chats with KRARI author, Eden Royce (@edenroycebooks) about her book Conjure Island, and all things Southern Gothic, spooky and spectacular. Follow along with Eden at edenroyce.com and find Conjure Island and other titles at your local library!   Overdueing It is a project funded by the Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services and is produced by library staff around the Ocean State. We are proud to be a resident partner of the Rhode Island Center for the Book. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speakers' own and do not represent those of the Overdueing It podcast, its sponsor organizations, or any participants' place of employment. The content of Overdueing It episodes are the property of the individual creators, with permission for Overdueing It to share the content on their podcast feed in perpetuity. Any of the content from the Overdueing It podcast can not be reproduced without express written permission.    Our logo was designed by Sarah Bouvier and our theme music is by Neura-Flow.   Books The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher Molka by Monika Kim Media Cemetery Man Ludwig (UK) Send Help (Coming Soon) The X Files

In tonight's dead letter… three families lived in the same old house across the years, none of them knowing each other, and each one wound up sharing the place with the same two ghostly visitors. As kids, our listener Heather and her sister kept seeing a little boy who was never actually there when they looked closer. The adults saw someone different — an old man, solid enough that Heather's stepmother screamed for her father, certain a stranger had walked in. The corroboration of everything shows up in the form of a psychic.REFERENCE LINKSRelated Astonishing Legends EpisodesAstonishing Legends — The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine, Part 1 (Spotify)Astonishing Legends — The True Story Behind the Conjuring, Part 1 (Spotify)Astonishing Legends — Sam the Sandown Clown, Ep 183 (Spotify)Astonishing Legends — The Fermi Paradox, Ep 022 (Spotify)Astonishing Legends — Battle at Cisco Grove, Ep 246 (Spotify)Astonishing Legends — Mantis Men, Ep 258 (episode page)Topic & Background ReferencesPareidolia: why we see faces and figures in random shapes (Britannica)The doppelgänger, the living double of folklore (Britannica)Vic Tandy and the 19 Hz "haunted" frequency of infrasound (Wikipedia)The Sallie House of Atchison, Kansas (Wikipedia)The Perron family haunting, the true story behind "The Conjuring" (All That's Interesting)Sam the Sandown Clown: the 1973 Isle of Wight encounter (OnTheWight)The Cisco Grove alien encounter of 1964 (UFO Casebook)John Keel and the "ultraterrestrials" (Wikipedia)The Fermi paradox: "Where is everybody?" (Britannica)Wormholes and the Einstein–Rosen bridge (Wikipedia)Natalie and Tara, "doers of things" on YouTube (Natalie and Tara)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!This week's episode is sponsored by Mint Mobile — get premium wireless for $15 a month at mintmobile.com/dlo.

Hosts STEPHEN SCARLATA (producer, Jodorowsky's Dune) and JOSH MILLER (writer, Sonic The Hedgehog, Violent Night) are marked by the beast and must uncover the mystery behind WES CRAVEN and KEVIN WILLIAMSON's notoriously production-plagued and aptly-named werewolf movie, 2005's CURSED. Joining them to howl at the moon are CLARK COLLIS (author of 'Screaming and Conjuring', and lead programmer at the horror-movie streaming service BloodStream) and BRIAN COLLINS (film critic and author of 'Horror Movie a Day'). Theme music by Brian J Casey

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Centuries before Hollywood dressed it in a nun's habit, the demon Valak prowled the pages of forbidden grimoires as a winged boy astride a two-headed dragon, commanding legions of serpents to do his bidding.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources):https://weirddarkness.com/valekREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/24s8nzb9FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Although Valak is depicted in the films "The Nun" and in “The Conjuring 2” as a habit-wearing spirit, the real demon appears as a child riding a two-headed dragon — at least according to a 17th-century demon-hunting manual. (The Reality Behind The Demon, Valak) *** The Vatican is one of the most well-guarded areas in the world. But if rumors are to be believed, all that security isn't only to protect the pontiff… but some dark, disturbing secrets… and a machine that could change everything we know to be true. (The Vatican's Secret Machine) *** We'll look at that time a force field was accidentally created at a 3M plant. (3M's Accidental Force Field) *** In 1872 George Wheeler met and married May Tillson in Boston. He made a home for May and her younger sister Della, first in New York, then in California. Along the way, George fell in love with young Della and when she planned to marry someone else he was faced with a dilemma: he could not marry her himself and he could not bear to see her wed to another. The solution he chose pleased no one. (Thus She Passed Away) *** In the 1800s scientists and doctors needed cadavers to study human anatomy and practice their skills. To help accommodate the need, it was made legal to sell dead bodies. What could possibly go wrong? (The Unsettling Anatomy Act)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:16.547 = Show Open00:03:31.777 = The Reality Behind The Demon Valak00:11:37.807 = The Unsettling Anatomy Act ***00:24:33.689 = 3M's Accidental Force Field00:34:11.149 = Thus She Passed Away ***00:44:01.086 = The Vatican's Secret Machine00:53:13.339 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Reality Behind The Demon, Valak” by Gina Dimuro for All That's Interesting:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/43vu356n“3M's Accidental Force Field” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3vvnwbpv“Thus She Passed Away” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yyztmnat“The Unsettling Anatomy Act” by SM for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8vdns9“The Vatican's Secret Machine” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8kxxz8(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: December, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness moves from a centuries-old demon mistaken for a nun, through the Victorian trade in stolen corpses and a force field that appeared inside a 1980 factory, to a San Francisco trunk murder and a Catholic priest who claimed to have built a machine that could film the past.It opens with the demon Valak, who reaches modern audiences through The Nun and The Conjuring 2 as a pale, nun-robed figure but appears in the 17th-century grimoire Clavicula Salomonis Regis, or The Key of Solomon, as the 62nd spirit: a boy with angel's wings riding a two-headed dragon, commanding a legion of serpents and an army of thirty demons while hunting snakes and hidden treasure. The nun costume was the invention of director James Wan, who reshaped a vision the medium Lorraine Warren described to him — a swirling hooded figure carrying female energy — into a holy icon turned against her Catholic faith. Warren and her husband Ed, the demonologists who rose to fame after the 1976 Amityville investigation, reportedly met a spectral hooded figure at the Borley church in southern England, where lore held that a nun had been bricked alive in the convent walls after an affair with a monk. The Key of Solomon, which lists the seventy-two demons King Solomon was said to have vanquished, sat on the Vatican's Index librorum prohibitorum until the Church abandoned that list of prohibited books in 1966, though copies kept turning up in the hands of Catholic priests.From there the episode turns to the Anatomy Act of 1832, the British law that legalized dissecting unclaimed bodies from workhouses and hospitals to end the grave-robbing of the resurrectionists, yet instead built an organized corpse trade across Victorian England. The twelfth-century St. Bartholomew's left wicker baskets beneath its King Henry VIII gate for body dealers to fill, while a Liverpool Street express known as the "dead train" carried sealed funeral wagons of stacked corpses toward Cambridge. Deepening the trade, the New Poor Law of 1834 confined the destitute to workhouses whose officials profited from selling the dead, and in 1858 the master of St. Mary Newington workhouse, Alfred Feist, was caught funneling pauper bodies to Guy's Hospital through the undertaker Robert Hogg, who staged fake funerals and collected double payment. Anatomists prized the bodies of fetuses and children, keeping their skulls intact — only one of fifty-four specimens in a Cambridge collection had received a craniotomy — and the public's dread boiled over in Manchester in 1832, when a grandfather opened the coffin of a three-year-old who had died at the Swan Street Cholera Hospital and found a brick where the boy's head should have been.Next comes a stranger kind of dread, set in the summer of 1980 at a 3M plant in South Carolina, where workers slitting twenty-foot-wide polypropylene film at a thousand feet per minute walked into an invisible wall they could not push through. The static-charged field, which one worker measured past the limit of a 200-kilovolt handheld electrometer, pulled people toward it so strongly they had to back away on foot, swallowed a passing fly, and by one account could have held a bird in its grip before vanishing as abruptly as it formed. Managers reproduced the effect the next morning under lower humidity, and the plant production manager reportedly said he didn't know whether to fix it or sell tickets; later accounts claim a researcher who published on the phenomenon was contacted by NASA and federal agencies before the grounding fault was corrected and the field never returned.The episode then moves to a true-crime case in San Francisco, where around midnight on October 20, 1880, George A. Wheeler walked into a police station and confessed to strangling his sister-in-law Della Tillson and packing her body into a trunk in their room at 23 Kearney Street. Wheeler had fathered two children with Della, both of whom died, while her sister — his deaf wife, May — lived across the hall posing as his sister-in-law, and the arrival of the miner George Peckham, who hoped to marry Della and take her to Sacramento, drove Wheeler to kill rather than let the two leave together. He told reporters that Della sat in his lap and asked him to end her life, that she died with her head on his shoulder, and his defense of hereditary insanity failed across two trials, the second forced by a California Supreme Court ruling over improperly admitted testimony from a book on medical jurisprudence. On January 23, 1884, five thousand people gathered outside the jail, entrance tickets sold for ten dollars apiece, and Wheeler — newly drawn toward Catholic conversion under Father Cottle — kissed a crucifix, commended his spirit, and dropped to a broken neck.The episode closes inside the Vatican with Father Pellegrino Ernetti, an Italian priest, exorcist, and musical scholar who claimed in the 1950s to have helped build a device called the Chronovisor that could see and hear the past. Ernetti said a team of twelve anonymous scientists, among them the physicist Enrico Fermi and the rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, tuned the machine to a speech by Mussolini, then Napoleon, a Roman market under Emperor Trajan, a Cicero oration, and a 169 B.C. performance of Quintus Ennius's lost tragedy Thyestes, which he said let him publish its full text. When the magazine La Domenica del Corriere printed a Chronovisor image of Christ's face on the cross on May 2, 1972, it was soon matched to a mirrored photograph of a wood carving by the sculptor Cullot Valera, and Ernetti — who said the machine was too dangerous to exist and had been dismantled and hidden — left behind no device, no named living witnesses, and a 1993 presentation to four cardinals whose contents were never disclosed.

Join the Parajunkie Fam for ZERO Ads always, exclusive livestreams and MORE! www.patreon.com/hauntedcitypodcastThis week, Madison and Chris Soucy sit down with Cody and Satori, for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up in the paranormal, building a large collection of paranormal objects, and what over a decade of investigations has taught them about how spirits actually present themselves.Satori, daughter of TAPS founder Jason Hawes, shares what it was like growing up with ghost hunting as a completely normal family affair. Cody talks about the childhood experience that launched him into the field and the wild, roundabout way he eventually made it onto the TAPS team anyway. Together they break down how their very different approaches, technical and intuitive, work together in the field, why barometric pressure might be one of the most underrated tools in paranormal investigation, and the investigation at the Thames Club in Connecticut that permanently changed the way Cody thinks about how spirits can appear.They also talk about their haunted object museum, now home to more than 500 artifacts from around the world, how it started completely by accident, and why packages from strangers keep showing up at their door,Plus, Cody and Satori announce upcoming events including an exhibition at the SK Pierce Mansion in Gardner, Massachusetts and the Gettysburg Bed of Field Bash this summer. And if you're local to Savannah, check out the benefit concert for our friend Tanner on June 23rd at Coastal Empire Beer Co. (doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7 PM, sliding scale $5 to $20).Find Cody and Satori here:Website: paranormalcouple.comInstagram/TikTok/YouTube: @theparanormalcoupleSatori's handmade shop: handmadebyhawes.comBook "Archives of the Paranormal": available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and your local bookstoreSupport the show and join our Parajunkie family on Patreon. It's the best way to help us keep doing investigations and bringing you conversations like this one.Visit the Savannah Paranormal Museum this summer. We have new artifacts, great AC, and we're open 24 hours a day.

A huge thank you to Tamsin Davis-Langley for jumping in to save me from a last minute scheduling disaster (of my own doing). It was an enormous pleasure to talk with her about Jake Stratton-Kent's Geosophia. The two-volume work spans a breadth of thought and practice and Tamsin and I still ranged all over the place, including a brief discussion on Stratton-Kent's approachable and warm writing style (compared to the obfuscation in other occult texts), our own writing projects, how we came to Stratton-Kent's work, and a myriad other things. We went a little long but I hope you'll enjoy our conversation as much as I did.You can find out more about Tamsin's work and catch all her social media links and blog info on her website re:imaginedgirl. Sadly, Outside the Charmed Circle is currently out of print but copies are available where you can pick up second hand and out of print books and directly from Tamsin by contacting her through the website.Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org and follow us on BlueSky for episode updates. You can follow me there and on Mastodon for morning pages, fountain pen and ink nerdiness, and a tarot or oracle card of the day.You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is The Keeper & the Mermaid by Cathy Lynn available wherever you buy ebooks.Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini, the award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are all available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.You can pre-order my upcoming book  A Witch's Book of Days (September 2026) from Crossed Crow Books and other booksellers now. My most recent novel, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOSometimes it only takes one moment — one spark — to change the course of an entire life. For Michael Salerno, that moment came late one night while watching a popular paranormal television show. What began as simple curiosity soon became an obsession, and then a mission: to dedicate his life to helping those oppressed by the demonic.In this gripping episode, we dive into Michael Salerno's true story — a journey that led him deep into the study of demonology and face-to-face with some of the darkest forces imaginable. His pursuit of knowledge opened unexpected doors, including a close and personal friendship with Lorraine Warren, the world-renowned investigator who, alongside her husband Ed, inspired The Conjuring films. Under Lorraine's mentorship, Michael sharpened his understanding of the spiritual battle between good and evil and learned the delicate and dangerous work of aiding the afflicted.But this wasn't just theory. Michael didn't stay in the classroom or behind the books. He dove headfirst into real-life cases of demonic oppression, families tormented by forces beyond comprehension, homes plagued by violent hauntings, and individuals left scarred by the shadows that stalked them. Each case tested him — body, mind, and soul. Each case revealed more about the chilling reality of the demonic world that lurks just out of sight.If you've ever wondered what drives someone to confront evil head-on, this is the story you cannot miss.#TrueGhostStory #RealHaunting #Demonology #MichaelSalerno #LorraineWarren #ParanormalActivity #Haunted #Exorcism #DemonicOppression #GhostStories #Supernatural #RealParanormalLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!Sometimes it only takes one moment — one spark — to change the course of an entire life. For Michael Salerno, that moment came late one night while watching a popular paranormal television show. What began as simple curiosity soon became an obsession, and then a mission: to dedicate his life to helping those oppressed by the demonic.In this gripping episode, we dive into Michael Salerno's true story — a journey that led him deep into the study of demonology and face-to-face with some of the darkest forces imaginable. His pursuit of knowledge opened unexpected doors, including a close and personal friendship with Lorraine Warren, the world-renowned investigator who, alongside her husband Ed, inspired The Conjuring films. Under Lorraine's mentorship, Michael sharpened his understanding of the spiritual battle between good and evil and learned the delicate and dangerous work of aiding the afflicted.But this wasn't just theory. Michael didn't stay in the classroom or behind the books. He dove headfirst into real-life cases of demonic oppression, families tormented by forces beyond comprehension, homes plagued by violent hauntings, and individuals left scarred by the shadows that stalked them. Each case tested him — body, mind, and soul. Each case revealed more about the chilling reality of the demonic world that lurks just out of sight.If you've ever wondered what drives someone to confront evil head-on, this is the story you cannot miss.#TrueGhostStory #RealHaunting #Demonology #MichaelSalerno #LorraineWarren #ParanormalActivity #Haunted #Exorcism #DemonicOppression #GhostStories #Supernatural #RealParanormalLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

In this episode, we sit down with director and cinematographer John R. Leonetti for a deep dive into his incredible career and lifelong love of filmmaking.We talk about his early beginnings in the industry and his work behind the camera on iconic films including The Mask, Mortal Kombat, Dead Silence, Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, and The Conjuring.That naturally leads into the conversation about his transition into directing with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and how that experience shaped the next phase of his career.We also explore his entry into The Conjuring Universe with Annabelle, including discussion around some of the real-life mythology and inspiration behind the infamous doll.John shares fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from across his career, opens up about why films like Dead Silence continue to build passionate cult followings, and even talks about the possibility of Dead Silence 2.And to top it all off, he reveals an incredible upcoming project that horror fans will absolutely not want to miss.If you've ever wanted to hear stories from inside the making of some of modern horror and cult cinema's most memorable films, this is an episode you don't want to miss.For more of my content and to grab your copy of the book - HEREBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/class-horror-cast-horror-movie-podcast--4295531/support.

Horror history gets weird, reflective, and dangerously snackable this week as This Week in Horror History travels through June 8–14 with mischievous monsters, haunted hotels, supernatural comedy, demonic hauntings, creepy mirrors, and one killer dessert that may be eating America alive.This episode digs into a packed week of classic horror movies, cult horror sequels, supernatural blockbusters, 1980s horror, haunted-house horror, and strange consumer-satire body horror, including the release of Gremlins, the same-day arrival of Ghostbusters, the wider theatrical expansion of The Shining, the hit sequel The Conjuring 2, and the mirror-filled nightmare of Poltergeist III.Inside this episode:• Gremlins turns one cute little mogwai into small-town monster chaos and helps push Hollywood toward the PG-13 rating.• Ghostbusters brings haunted libraries, demonic possession, rooftop apocalypse, and paranormal exterminators into one of the biggest supernatural comedy franchises ever.• The Shining expands wider in U.S. theaters, pulling more audiences into Stanley Kubrick's cold, hypnotic nightmare inside the Overlook Hotel.• The Conjuring 2 sends Ed and Lorraine Warren to the Enfield haunting and introduces one of modern horror's most memorable demonic figures.• The Deep-Cut Spotlight goes to Poltergeist III, the strange 1988 sequel that traps Carol Anne inside a haunted Chicago high-rise full of mirrors, elevators, cold hallways, and unfinished supernatural business.Plus: a horror birthday roll featuring Johnny Depp, Natalie Portman, Jurgen Prochnow, and Adrienne Barbeau, a creepy look at how horror sneaks into family homes, hotels, corporate towers, grocery aisles, and blockbuster comedy, and a weekly recommendation for Larry Cohen's weird, gross, and sharply satirical cult classic The Stuff.From mogwai mayhem and ghost exterminators to haunted reflections, demonic forces, the Overlook Hotel, and a mysterious dessert that might be consuming its customers from the inside out, this week proves horror can invade almost anything: your home, your hotel room, your movie theater, your refrigerator, and your appetite.

A regular nineteen-year-old with no criminal record stabbed his landlord to death with a pocketknife, then later claimed the demon he'd taunted into possessing him — instead of his fiancée's eleven-year-old brother — had crawled out of a well and into his body to commit the murder.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/arnejohnsonREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8n97s9FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: The third Conjuring film is based on the true story of Arne Cheyenne Johnson who claimed he committed murder because a demon made him do it. But how much truth is there to that story? (The Devil Made Him Do It) *** A tribe living in the Amazon Jungle tells about a strange encounter they had with an extraterrestrial and a strange beam of light. (That Time An Alien Visited the Kayapo People) *** An elderly man decides he needs to hire someone to help him care for his property… but who he chose would bring only death and a mystery that still goes unsolved. (The Wonnangatta Station Murders) *** Lizard people. Reptilians. It's one of the strangest and most controversial conspiracy theories in existence – and we'll look at some of the history behind the idea, as well as what science says about the possibility of it being a reality. (The Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians) *** A nun who wasn't very good at being a nun ended up being a nun without a head. (The Headless Nun of Watton Priory) *** We've all been asked the question, “How do you want to die when it comes your time?” Aside from the boring but realistic answer of “quietly in my sleep” some would prefer to go out in a blaze of glory, doing something heroic to save a person or persons from imminent doom. But of course that does not happen for most of us. In fact, there are probably more people going out in a blaze of stupidity! (Dumbest Deaths) *** In 1995 Mike Marcum got it in his head to build a time machine. Did he succeed? We may never know – because he disappeared without a trace. (The Mike Marcum Time Machine)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:00:16.342 = Show Open00:02:43.182 = The Devil Made Him Do It00:13:06.595 = The Wonnangatta Station Murders ***00:21:13.768 = That Time An Alien Visited The Kayapo People00:31:32.636 = Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians ***00:36:18.232 = Headless Nun of Watton Priory00:50:09.790 = Dumbest Deaths ***01:02:12.268 = The Mike Marcum Time Machine ***01:06:33.695 = Show Close & Bloopers*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Myths and Modern Science of Reptilians” from Anomalien: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/b7m27fbr“The Devil Made Him Do It” by Marco Margaritoff for All That's Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/pxfxa423“That Time An Alien Visited The Kayapo People” by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/sauzjxp2“The Wonnangatta Station Murders” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ceycy3k“The Headless Nun of Watton Priory” from Esoterx: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x4sknt6r“Dumbest Deaths” by Katie Chilton for ListVerse: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/sm6mwmj7“The Mike Marcum Time Machine” from Earth Chronicles: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/hytc7552(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: November 17, 2021Weird Darkness host Darren Marlar leads listeners through seven dark tales spanning a courtroom plea of demonic possession, an unsolved double murder on a remote Australian cattle station, an Amazon tribe's memory of a sky visitor, the serpent-race conspiracy of reptilians, a centuries-old English haunting, history's most absurd deaths, and a Missouri man who vanished after trying to build a time machine.It opens with the 1981 killing of forty-year-old landlord Alan Bono in Brookfield, Connecticut, the first murder in the town's 193-year history, committed by his nineteen-year-old tenant Arne Cheyenne Johnson with a five-inch pocket knife. Johnson's attorney Martin Minnella attempted a plea of not guilty by reason of demonic possession, tracing the violence to months of torment suffered by eleven-year-old David Glatzel, the brother of Johnson's fiancée Debbie, who described a tormentor with black eyes, animal features, and hooves. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren declared it a genuine possession and claimed David levitated and stopped breathing across three exorcisms overseen by priests, while psychiatrists countered that the boy had a learning disability. Judge Robert Callahan rejected the supernatural defense as unprovable, Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter on November 24, 1981, and the case later inspired the film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.From there the episode travels to the remote Wonnangatta Station in Australia's Victorian Alps, where caretaker James Barclay hired English handyman John Bamford in 1917, a man rumored to have killed his own wife. After the two rode to Talbotville to vote on the Reinforcement Referendum in December 1917, mailman Harry Smith found the homestead empty but for the words "Home Tonight" chalked on the kitchen door, and weeks later he and Jack Jebb uncovered Barclay's decomposed body in a shallow creekside grave, dead from a shotgun blast to the back. The following November, Bamford's body surfaced in a log pile on the Howitt Plains with a bullet in the head, leaving investigators with a recently fired shotgun, traces of strychnine in the kitchen pepper, and no answer as to who killed the second man.Next comes the legend of the Kayapo people of the Brazilian Amazon, who tell of a sky visitor named Bep Kororoti who descended from the mountains of Pukato-Ti amid thunder, wielding a weapon that reduced trees and stones to dust and a beam of light that paralyzed anyone who fled his lessons. The being neither ate nor drank, taught the villagers practical skills, and eventually ascended back into the sky, and the account drew international attention when young Kayapo men touring Rio de Janeiro reportedly pointed at an Apollo 11 astronaut display and shouted that he had returned. Erich von Däniken cited photographs of Kayapo men in straw ritual costumes resembling spacesuits, taken by Joao Americo Peret in 1952, nearly a decade before Yuri Gagarin's 1961 spaceflight, as supposed support for the ancient astronaut theory.The discussion then turns to reptilians, tracing serpent-race myths found across Sumeria, Babylonia, India, China, and Mesoamerica, alongside the modern claims of David Icke that some humans are disguised lizard people. Set against the folklore, researcher Bjarke Jensen of Aarhus University lays out the actual biology: the human reptilian brain that governs heart rate and breathing, eyes structured much like a reptile's, and conductive heart tissue whose molecular building blocks Jensen's team located hidden in the spongy hearts of lizards, frogs, and zebrafish.The episode then visits Watton Priory in East Riding of Yorkshire, a Gilbertine community where, according to the twelfth-century account of Saint Aelred of Rievaulx, an orphaned girl named Elfleda fell in love with a young lay brother, was beaten and chained in a dungeon by the nuns, and was forced to watch as the man was mutilated. A second tragedy fastened itself to the same site after the 1644 Battle of Marston Moor, when Parliamentarian soldiers beheaded the Catholic Lady of Watton and killed her child, and over the centuries the two women blurred into a single spectral figure remembered as the Headless Nun, said to stand at the foot of the bed in blood-stained garments before vanishing.From there the show catalogs history's most absurd deaths, beginning with English Channel swimmer Matthew Webb, who drowned in the Niagara rapids in 1883, and the Spartan general Pausanias, sealed inside a temple of Athena and starved until he died moments after his release. The roll continues with Draco of Athens, smothered around 600 BC beneath cloaks and hats thrown in tribute; Sir Arthur Aston, beaten to death with his own wooden leg; the philosopher Heraclitus, who buried himself in cow dung hoping to cure his dropsy; lawyer Clement Vallandigham, who fatally shot himself in 1871 while demonstrating how a victim might have shot himself by accident; the Viking Sigurd the Mighty, killed by an infection from the sev

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODEWhen Roger and Carolyn Perron moved their five daughters into a secluded Rhode Island farmhouse in 1970, they received an unsettling warning from the previous owner: leave the lights on at night.What followed would become one of the most famous haunting cases in paranormal history and later inspire the hit horror film The Conjuring.For nearly ten years, the Perron family endured unexplained phenomena that ranged from unsettling to terrifying. Strange voices echoed through the house. Doors slammed on their own. Apparitions appeared without warning. And a dark presence the family came to know as Bathsheba seemed determined to make its power known.Andrea Perron, eldest daughter of the family and author of House of Darkness House of Light, shares the true story behind the legend. From séances and spiritual encounters to the moments that convinced the family they were living alongside the dead, Andrea reveals what life was really like inside the house that inspired a horror phenomenon.This isn't the movie version. This is the story as it happened.#TheGraveTalks #TheConjuring #AndreaPerron #ConjuringHouse #HauntedHouse #GhostStories #Paranormal #Bathsheba #Supernatural #ParanormalPodcast #Apparitions #PoltergeistActivity #DarkEnergyLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

Send us Fan MailHorror films are no longer Hollywood's outcasts — they may be its smartest success story.In this episode of The Fixate & Binge Podcast, we explore how horror evolved from niche genre fare into one of the most culturally relevant and financially powerful forces in modern cinema. From allegories of social anxiety and political unrest to the genre's uniquely low-risk, high-reward business model, horror continues to thrive where many blockbuster formulas struggle.We examine why audiences increasingly connect with fear-driven storytelling, how viral marketing and online word-of-mouth have transformed horror into a built-in event genre, and why films like THE CONJURING franchise, Curry Barker's OBSESSION, and Kane Parsons' BACKROOMS reveal a changing Hollywood landscape.Is horror simply profitable — or has it become the genre that best understands our fears, our culture, and the future of cinema itself?Thank you for listening! You can find and follow us with the links below!Read our Letterboxd reviews at:https://letterboxd.com/fixateandbinge/Follow us on Instagram at:https://www.instagram.com/fixateandbingepodcast/?hl=msFollow us on TikTok at:https://www.tiktok.com/@fixateandbingepodcast

Reviewed to Death is officially kicking off the summer season with a brand-new theme: Ghosts. To start things off, we are revisiting the modern titan of supernatural cinema that launched a billion-dollar franchise: James Wan's 2013 masterpiece, The Conjuring.We're heading to Harrisville, Rhode Island, to look at the "true" story of the Perron family and the Warrens. But we aren't just stopping at the first film; we are taking a bird's-eye view of the entire Conjuring Universe to see how this haunted house story built a cinematic empire.Music:“I know I Am Nothing” by zapsplat.com“Haunted Staircase” by zapsplat.comAll  additional music provided by Groove Witness -⁠ ⁠⁠⁠www.groovewitness.us⁠Sound effects by zapsplat.comCreate your ⁠podcast⁠ today! #madeonzencasterRead our companion written reviews - imgur.com/user/trojaSpaceBandit

In this week's supersized episode (chosen by our Patreon supporters), we will be going over 25 different horror movie franchises to give you our favorite and least favorite film from each one. All in all there are 174 movies to choose from!!! Feel free to play along. If you would like to join our livestream recordings for The Cherry Picker, we would be thrilled to have you with us. Check out Zack's Patreon (Link below) to take part.● ● ●▶️ Watch the Video Podcast● ● ●

Last weekend, Midnight Terrors was back at AtomaCon for a weekend of live events and convention fun! During our time there, we linked up with our good buddy, The Carolina Storyteller, for some talk about The Conjuring 2 and the true story behind it! For part 1, check out The Carolina Storyteller Podcast for our discussion about the true events behind the film! May we present to you part 2 of our crossover with The Carolina Storyteller in which compare the movie, The Conjuring 2, to its true events! Check out part 1 of this crossover with The Carolina Storyteller:https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mF4mUfVvXfBbST8ZNW6RQ?si=4d64602aff6e4ae4Check out The Carolina Storyteller on Patreon:The Carolina Storyteller — Creator of Valmont, Red Coats, Through The Flames and more. | PatreonCheck out MTP's Linktree:midnightterrorspodcast Official: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!What happens when the home you grew up in never truly lets you go?For Joe Vitale, childhood was shaped by unexplained voices, violent energy, and terrifying moments of mimicry that seemed far too intelligent to ignore. The house that should have felt safe instead became the center of a haunting that followed him for years, leaving emotional scars and unanswered questions behind.But instead of running from the paranormal, Joe found himself drawn toward it.Those early encounters eventually led him into the world of paranormal investigation, placing him face-to-face with some of the most active haunted locations in America—including the infamous The Conjuring House.There, Joe experienced a chilling encounter with a young spirit girl who appeared to recognize him… as though she had been waiting for his arrival.We explore how one haunted childhood opened the door to a lifetime of ghostly encounters, darker entities, and a confrontation with the unexplained that still follows Joe to this day.#TheGraveTalks #ConjuringHouse #Paranormal #GhostStories #HauntedHouse #Spirits #Supernatural #ParanormalPodcast #ShadowPeopleLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWOWhat happens when the home you grew up in never truly lets you go?For Joe Vitale, childhood was shaped by unexplained voices, violent energy, and terrifying moments of mimicry that seemed far too intelligent to ignore. The house that should have felt safe instead became the center of a haunting that followed him for years, leaving emotional scars and unanswered questions behind.But instead of running from the paranormal, Joe found himself drawn toward it.Those early encounters eventually led him into the world of paranormal investigation, placing him face-to-face with some of the most active haunted locations in America—including the infamous The Conjuring House.There, Joe experienced a chilling encounter with a young spirit girl who appeared to recognize him… as though she had been waiting for his arrival.We explore how one haunted childhood opened the door to a lifetime of ghostly encounters, darker entities, and a confrontation with the unexplained that still follows Joe to this day.#TheGraveTalks #ConjuringHouse #Paranormal #GhostStories #HauntedHouse #Spirits #Supernatural #ParanormalPodcast #ShadowPeopleLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access:

Possession horror might be the scariest subgenre ever made… so naturally we had to draft it. In this episode of the Messed Up Movies Podcast by Misfit Parade, we each build our ultimate possession horror lineup featuring classics, hidden gems, nightmare fuel, and a few controversial picks. From The Exorcist and Evil Dead to When Evil Lurks, Talk To Me, Smile, The Conjuring, and even Ghostbusters… things get competitive fast. Who drafted the best team? Who reached too early? And which movie got completely robbed? Drop your favorite possession horror movies in the comments and tell us who won the draft.  Help us make our first feature length Messed Up Movie: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mr-creamjean-s-hidey-hole-horror-comedy-movie#/ Support the show on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/messedupmoviespod    

Is there anything more comforting in horror than the relationship between Ripley and Newt in Aliens (1987)? Comfort Horror. It’s a thing. It keeps the fandom fed. We come back time and again to get scared, and we love it. Why? This is the third of my series of Crypticon Seattle convention panel recordings. Panels are the lifeblood of this annual horror gathering, feeding the fandom’s macabre knowledge cravings. Horror movies are the bonds this community shares, and to understand why, this panel examines the lure of horror for many of us. In Kim Douthit’s panel, Comfort Horror, she asks her panelists the question, “Why do we replay the same nightmares? What movies bring us comfort in a time rife with anxiety?” It seems antithetical that many of us crave the experience of being scared. For some, it’s a ritual. A rite of passage. We overcome our perceived fears. Building up the courage to soldier through a horror movie is a peak emotional triumph for many people. For others, the familiarity of the repeated horror experience becomes a form of comfort. There are a few horror movies that I know, frame by frame, and each story beat and moment. I’ll bet that you have a movie or two where you have seen it so many times, you can recite the dialogue when watching it. Several of those movies were discussed on this panel. In an era where most people don’t get to feed their adrenaline through hunting or exploring, horror movies can fill that need. Curiosity is a challenge. Mysteries are meant to be uncovered. Horror movies show us what might be hiding under the bed, within the mirror, or sneaking around in the woods. Kids demand answers. For many in the horror community, these youthful questions persist, and horror offers some shocking responses. Some adrenaline junkies chase thrills by going on roller coasters, skydiving, or downhill skiing. Horror movies can provide those thrills without the threat of injury. The Crypticon Seattle “Comfort Horror” panelists (L to R): Tony Gee, Kim Douthit, Kennedy Rainer, Heather Alexander, and Melissa Leigh. Comfort Horror, a Crypticon Seattle Panel Recording This is the third panel recording from Crypticon Seattle 2026. If you enjoyed listening to this panel, I have two others you can listen to. Tiki Terrors and Tropical Horror, hosted by Brian Callahan, and Good Boy: Pets in Horror Movies, hosted by Brien Gorham. For those of you who don’t go to horror conventions, this gives you a flavor of what it’s like, and hopefully, you will come out to Crypticon one of these years. The Panelists: Kim Douthit, Host: Ghoulish Tendencies, CinemacrazeTony “SkeleTony” Gee: The Great Plot Podcast, Skeletony ArtKennedy Rainer: The Unorthodox PlayersHeather Alexander: The Portland Horror Movie Massacre, The Scariest ThingsMelissa Leigh: Seattle Horror Writers Association, Beneath the Rainshadow Movies Discussed within the Comfort Horror Panel: Hell House LLC (2015) Carrie (1976) Fright Night (1985) House of 1000 Corpses (2003) Friday the 13th (the Franchise) Midsommar (2019) Night of the Living Dead (1990) The Thing (1982) Ready or Not (2019) Sinners (2025) The Conjuring (2012) You’re Next (2013) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Would You Rather (2012) In a Violent Nature (2024) Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Today at the Atomic Hearth, we share season 6's first astral meditation episode. These meditations provide a tool you can use to help connect to the Witch Within, with each focusing on a unique idea or theme. Having just celebrated Bloom, this astral meditation is focused on embodying Witch as Warrior, where we will be forging our own warrior's tools - a sword and shield.This mediation, as well as the others we'll be sharing with you this year, is meant for ALL levels of meditators - and even those who have never meditated or those with aphantasia, or the inability to visualize. ✨Not yet a part of our community? Join us on Discord or Patreon for FREE! If you would like to support the creation of this podcast toss a coin into the cauldron via our Patreon. Find links at⁠⁠⁠: https://linktr.ee/atomicwitchcraft Sound effect credits:

When a reclusive miser turns up dead with an axe to the head, his family's buried secrets and bitter rivalries start spilling out, and no one walks away clean.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources and full transcript): https://weirddarkness.com/CharlesHenryFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Ebeneezer Scrooge had nothing on a man named Charles Henry. Charles was miserly, and cruel. No doubt he had a long list of people who could've been accused of wanting him dead. *** When it comes to B-movie horror, you can't do much better than the 1958 classic “The Blob”. But don't believe it's just science fiction – reports have been coming for years of people in real life actually coming across some type of amorphous creatures very similar to what was originally seen on the big screen. *** The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Annabelle, and many other books and films have been based on Ed and Lorraine Warren and the stories they tell. But it appears they may not be as advertised. If fact, they've been shown to be fraudulent on more than one occasion. *** Whether or not you believe in curses, luck, or fate it may be hard to explain away some of the eerie items people have had in their keeping, only to get rid of them as quickly as possible for fear of suffering more calamities. *** A woman describes her home as a child as evil – even on sunny days, the gloom would overtake her. *** In an old cemetery in North Carolina, a young girl is buried – but not in a coffin as you might expect. She was buried while submerged in a keg of rum.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:18.836 = Show Open00:03:38.797 = Miser Henry's Murder00:10:39.439 = Unlucky Possessions00:27:00.103 = My Haunted Childhood Home ***00:29:29.674 = The Blobs00:41:55.110 = The Rum Keg Girl00:47:07.349 = When The Warrens Were Exposed As Frauds ***01:14:48.146 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Miser Henry's Murder” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder By Gaslight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/bdhek2cw“Unlucky Possessions” by T.C. Bridges for Haunted Ohio Books: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yck36nt7“My Haunted Childhood Home” by Marie Davis, posted at MyHauntedLifeToo.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc8cbkwm“The Blobs” by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2wu24zca“The Rum Keg Girl” posted at North Carolina Ghosts: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/27ssnbh8“Were The Warrens Exposed as Frauds?” by Christopher Shultz at Ranker.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8tyrhr(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: November, 2018

Here's an "offbite" from last week's Something Offbeat episode. We're getting a little eerie this week with tales of hauntings and infestations. These include actor Val Kilmer's artificial intelligence-fueled return in a new film, and an interview with the grandson of paranormal investigators who inspired the Amityville Horror and Conjuring franchises. Featuring audio from: WWL Radio in New Orleans and Paranormal 360 out of WCCO News Talk in the Twin Cities.

Here's an "offbite" from last week's Something Offbeat episode. We're getting a little eerie this week with tales of hauntings and infestations. These include actor Val Kilmer's artificial intelligence-fueled return in a new film, and an interview with the grandson of paranormal investigators who inspired the Amityville Horror and Conjuring franchises. Featuring audio from: WWL Radio in New Orleans and Paranormal 360 out of WCCO News Talk in the Twin Cities.

We're getting a little eerie this week with tales of hauntings and infestations. These include actor Val Kilmer's artificial intelligence-fueled return in a new film, and an interview with the grandson of paranormal investigators who inspired the Amityville Horror and Conjuring franchises. We'll also dive into a study that reveals how many Americans believe they have psychic abilities and we'll learn how to avoid being possessed by invasive plants. Featuring audio from: WWL Radio in New Orleans, Paranormal 360 out of WCCO News Talk in the Twin Cities, the Dana & Parks Show out of KMBZ in Kansas City and WWJ Newsradio in Detroit.

Read a more in-depth article about Candyman: https://weirddarkness.com/candyman-love-story/Say his name five times in a mirror, and Candyman, a vengeful spirit born from love, betrayal, and unspeakable violence, will appear to continue his blood-soaked legend across generations.*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*IN THIS EPISODE: If you look in a mirror and say his name five times, he will appear behind you, complete with a hook for a hand – covered in blood because his hand has been cut off. Isn't that romantic? No? Well, Clive Barker's 1992 horror cult classic “Candyman” actually began as a real-life love story. So how did it turn so gruesome and terrifying? (The Nightmarish Love Story Behind Horror's Candyman) *** The Enfield Poltergeist has become infamous thanks to Ed and Lorraine Warren and “The Conjuring” films. That took place in a house in Brimsdown, Enfield, London England. But on the other side of the pond there is an Enfield, Illinois. Not as well known as the one in England of course, but they still have a horror in their past. One that took place four years before the Enfield incident in London… about a terrifying creature that locals who were alive at the time still get goosebumps talking about. (The Horror of the Enfield, Illinois Monster) *** Complex family dynamics and an infatuated businessman ended in a murder that was covered up and remained hidden for three decades, buried in the grounds of the house at 10324 Canyon Road. (A Dark Secret Leads To a Death On Canyon Road) *** One girl decided to go by the name of Lila, because her true name was Delilah but she didn't want to be associated with that harlot in the Bible. The stories behind how people get nicknames can often be fascinating. So how do you supposed Margaret Dickson got tagged with the nickname of “Half Hangit Maggie”? (Half Hangit Maggie) *** The search for intelligent life in the universe has been a goal for decades, with everyone from NASA to SETI to backyard Ufologists looking to the skies, listening to various radio waves, hoping to catch just a glimpse, at least a hint of what we hope to find. But could it be that we're looking in the wrong place? Perhaps the extraterrestrial intelligence, the more advanced life we seek to make contact with, is not out there somewhere… but it is here somewhere… already on Earth? (There Might Be Intelligent Life On Earth After All) *** Too often we are let down by those whom we look up to – and that goes doubly so for those in religious authority. How many well-known religious figures have toppled over after being exalted on high by the followers they so skillfully misled? Jim Bakker, Robert Tilton, Ted Haggard, Jimmy Swaggart… but none compare to Major Thomas Weir – a strict Presbyterian known for his powerful prayers, earning him a reputation for being one of the most saintly men of his time. But then he made a confession so outlandish, so ghastly and profane, they executed him. (Confession of a Warlock)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:03:42.594 = The Nightmarish Love Story Behind Horror's “Candyman”00:19:53.864 = Horror of the Enfield Monster ***00:29:03.329 = Half Hang-It Maggie00:43:57.532 = Dark Secret Leads to a Death On Canyon Road ***00:51:32.380 = There Might Be Intelligent Life On Earth After All01:03:56.242 = Confession of a Warlock ***01:17:24.131 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakHELPFUL LINKS & RESOURCES…https://WeirdDarkness.com/ALBUMS = Songs and Videos by our Weird Darkness punk band, #DarkWeirdnesshttps://WeirdDarkness.com/STORE = Tees, Mugs, Socks, Hoodies, Totes, Hats, Kidswear & Morehttps://WeirdDarkness.com/HOPE = Hope For Depression or Thoughts of Self-Harmhttps://WeirdDarkness.com/NEWSLETTER = In-Depth Articles, Memes, Weird DarkNEWS, Videos & Morehttps://WeirdDarkness.com/AUDIOBOOKS = FREE Audiobooks Narrated By Darren Marlar EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/candymanSOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Nightmarish Love Story Behind Horror's Candyman” by Linda Meyers for Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/m2jehmrs; music from Candyman soundtrack by Philip Glass“The Horror of the Enfield, Illinois Monster” by April A. Taylor for Ranker: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3ec4bpfh“A Dark Secret Leads To a Death On Canyon Road” by Fiona Guy for Crime Traveller: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/knmaee7e“Half Hang-it Maggie” by Suzie at Digging Up 1800: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/m438c37r“There Might Be Intelligent Life On Earth After All” from Earth Chronicles: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3sehpz6w“Confession of a Warlock” from Esoterx.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/3u4tdup6(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. 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