Talking Strange Paranormal Show

A former skeptic restores a century-old miner’s cabin near Death Valley — and comes face to face with a grizzled, bearded man peering around his refrigerator at 2 a.m.As the second part of his visit to Death Valley, host Aaron Sagers chats with Las Vegas bar owner Derek Stonebarger, who owns the haunted miner’s cabin Airbnb in Beatty, Nevada. Aaron stayed there, and now he gets the full story. The cabin was pieced together from miners’ shacks hauled out of Rhyolite, the boom town of 1903–1913 that once held more than 12,000 people before it became one of Nevada’s most famous ghost towns. Derek walks through the years of restoration, the hidden shower they found sealed behind a bathroom wall, and the seven-second encounter that changed what he believes.Book a visit to Death Valley’s Haunted Miner’s Cabin Airbnb to see for yourself if the ghost of a grizzled miner pays you a visit. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A grizzled miner ghost peeks around the fridge of a haunted Airbnb near Death Valley, and the owner locked eyes with him for seven long seconds. In partnership with Airbnb, host Aaron Sagers travels to Beatty, Nevada, the “Gateway to Death Valley,” to stay in a “miner chic” cabin built from three miners’ shacks hauled down from the ghost town of Rhyolite around 1925. Owner Derek Stonebarger shares his encounter with the bearded miner who never checked out, and the whiskey he still pours for him. Aaron leaves his recorder running in the empty house. Did it catch something moving inside?Then the ghost stories keep coming at locations where Ghost Adventures filmed for an episode airing later this season. The Sourdough Saloon, where bartender Hutch and cook Tim share tales of the Shadow Man, an unnerving back room, and a man who shows up only in the window’s reflection. The Exchange Club, a labyrinth of a 1906 landmark, where Danny the electrician hears men and women talking outside his door when no one else is in the building. Plus a detour into Roswell lore and strange lights over the Nevada desert. Rhyolite ghost town, with historian and “unofficial mayor” Karl Olson, where Aaron hears voices near Millionaire’s Row with no one in sight. A creepy church tied to Charles Manson lore, and the eerie silence of Death Valley’s Mosaic Canyon, where a raven became Aaron’s trail guide. Book a visit to Death Valley's Haunted Miner Cabin Airbnb to see for yourself if the grizzled old miner shares a drink with you. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goblins crawling out of flooded Appalachian mine shafts. A shadow guest who comes in the night. A close encounter older than the Bible. Glynn Washington, creator and host of Spooked and Snap Judgment, joins Aaron Sagers to dig into Season 11 of Spooked, “The Spooked Field Guide to the Shadow.”Glynn breaks down why it takes about six months to make a single Spooked episode, why the show tracks down more than one witness for its biggest mysteries, and how his team earns the trust of communities — including Native communities — before a story ever reaches your ears. He also opens up about how more than 250 episodes have made him “more ignorant” about the unknown (in the best way), why he loves a good liar, the funeral in Detroit where he swears he heard his late auntie laughing, the complicated history of the word “spooked,” and why you can’t talk about good and evil without looking at the real-world monsters outside your door.Plus: Snap Judgment and KQED’s investigative series "We Are Jane Doe," the launch of Spooked+, and a tease of a Close Encounter with an extraterrestrial. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are witches the face of Halloween? Blame a paranoid king, a storm at sea and the North Berwick witch trials of 1590. On this Talking Strange Halloween special, host Aaron Sagers tells how James VI blamed the storms battering his bride on witchcraft, how the accused confessed under torture to meeting Satan in a church on Halloween night, and how Agnes Sampson won the king over with a secret. Plus: Macbeth, why Salem had nothing to do with Halloween and how Margaret Hamilton made witches wear black.Sources: Lisa Morton, Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween April Madden, ed., History of Halloween Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History David J. Skal, Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Was the most famous Bigfoot footage ever filmed a hoax? Or are the findings about so-called mystery footage debunking the Patterson Gimlin Film based on circumstantial evidence and logical leaps? "Capturing Bigfoot" director Marq Evans and producer Tamir Ardon join Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers (in an interview conducted March 2026) to defend their bombshell documentary and its mystery “test run” footage.On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a towering, hairy figure striding through Bluff Creek, California. Their footage has been analyzed, debated and defended for nearly 60 years. Now "Capturing Bigfoot," streaming on Prime Video, claims a 16mm reel found locked in a safe shows a 1966 rehearsal with a man in a suit, and that it proves the legendary film was staged.What do you think about the famous Patterson Gimlin Film, and are you convinced by the findings of "Capturing Bigfoot"? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone knows Halloween has ancient roots in Samhain. But the Halloween we actually celebrate — with orange and black decorations, trick-or-treating, store-bought masks and horror movie marathons — is far younger than you think. On this episode of Talking Strange, the paranormal pop culture show, host Aaron Sagers traces how the modern version of America’s spookiest holiday was invented by magazine editors, paper companies, mask makers and filmmakers.Discover why Halloween’s official colors were once brown, yellow and white; when “trick or treat” first appeared in print; how a Jazz Age paper company dressed the holiday in crepe paper; and how a rubber Frankenstein mask kicked off the monster boom, and why Hollywood waited decades to make Halloween the star.Sources: Lisa Morton, Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween David J. Skal, Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it take to build Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 35? Host Aaron Sagers goes behind the curtain at Universal Orlando Resort with HHN Show Director Ramon Paradoa, who is a horror lifer who went from Scareactor to designing the nightmares himself.For the event’s 35th anniversary, Ramon reveals how the Entertainment Creative Development team turns original concepts and iconic horror franchises into immersive haunted houses. He and Aaron dig into Ramon’s HHN 35 houses Sinners — where he liaised with Ryan Coogler — and fan favorite H.R. Bloodengutz, as well as the differences between crafting an original concept house versus one based on existing IP. They also chat about the legacy of Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow, and what he thinks makes for a perfect scare,HHN Orlando runs on select nights through November 1, so grab those tickets. And even if you can go, check out this episode between two horror nerds — and don't miss Aaron's rankings of HHN houses. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halloween and Samhain traditions are real, and you can still visit them this year. Host Aaron Sagers invites you along for a Hallowtide road trip across England, Ireland and the Isle of Man.In England, children in Somerset carry turnip lanterns on Punkie Night. In Cheshire pubs, a century-old horse skull named Dick snaps at the crowd during the Antrobus Soul Cakers' play for All Souls'. Lewes marches 17 burning crosses through town on Bonfire Night, and in Ottery St Mary locals run through the streets with flaming tar barrels on their backs. In Ireland, we climb the Hill of Ward, called Tlachtga, where legend says Samhain's sacred fire was lit, and see what archaeologists have actually found there. Then we crawl into Oweynagat, the "Cave of the Cats," known as Ireland's gate to hell. We finish with Derry's Halloween festival, the biggest in Europe, and Hop-tu-Naa, the Isle of Man's oldest unbroken tradition, complete with witch songs and fortune-telling in the hearth ashes. Sources:Act 1: England Punkie Night, Hinton St George — Calendar Customs Antrobus Soulcakers — Calendar Customs Antrobus Soulcakers 2026: Cheshire's Pub Play With a Horse's Skull — Secret GB Antrobus, Cheshire — Master Mummers We Burn to Remember — Mike Jay (first published in Gunpowder Plots, 2005) Please don't travel to Lewes Bonfire Night — Lewes District & Eastbourne Borough Councils Samhain Revival — Erin Mullally, Archaeology magazine, 2016 Púca Festival 2026 — Dublin Guide Púca Festival Sunrise Meditation at Tlachtga 2026 — Discover Ireland Inside Ireland's "gate to hell" that birthed Halloween — Ronan O'Connell, National Geographic, 2021 Oweynagat — Showcaves Derry Halloween — Visit Derry Why Parkin is part of Bonfire Night tradition in Yorkshire — Bettys Púca Festival — official site Derry Halloween — official site Tar Barrels — Ottery St Mary Town Council Act 2: Ireland and the Isle of Man Traditional food for an Irish Halloween — Ireland.com (Tourism Ireland) _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 2026, ranked from worst to best. Host (and HHN superfan) Aaron Sagers takes on HHN 35 at Universal Orlando Resort. He ranks all 10 houses: Stranger Things 5, Sinners, Hellraiser, Evil Dead Burn, Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness, Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control, Cybergoria, MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals, INVASION: Alien Abduction and H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!Along the way he digs into why the original houses stole the spooky season show, which IP houses captured a mood instead of just replaying the movie, and how Doug Bradley's return as Pinhead and a heartfelt Ozzy tribute stand out. He also makes the case for why Halloween Horror Nights is about spectacle and exhilaration, not full-contact scares. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers for a deep dive into two of the most anticipated horror projects on the horizon: Season 3 of The Creep Tapes and Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie where she both acts and directs an episode.Known for her unforgettable performances in The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Hush, and Gerald’s Game, Siegel also discusses the camaraderie of husband Mike Flanagan’s universe, and what continues to draw her to stories that blur the line between fear and humanity. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JD Vance told Joe Rogan that UFOs aren't aliens; they're demons. Now the director of the documentary UFOs and God pushes back, but also weighs in on why his new film presents the point of view that UAPs aren't extraterrestrial, and they ain't nice.Wes Llewellyn co-directed the new Vision Films documentary with his wife, Amanda, whose reported childhood abductions are at the center of it. He argues the phenomenon is spiritual rather than extraterrestrial,and that "demon" is the wrong word for it, not because these things are harmless, but because the word ends the conversation.Host Aaron Sagers digs in on where evidence stops and belief begins: the night Amanda told him and the years he spent not believing her, why any visitor would have to be interdimensional, whether "nefarious" is a finding or a faith position, where a Christian-lens film leaves everyone else, and what the government's slow-drip disclosure is really for.UFOs and God is out now from Vision Films. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four thousand years before Ghost Hunters, somebody wrote down an encounter with the dead, and the instructions for getting rid of him involved beer. Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers offers up a brief origins of ghost hunting from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the oldest known image of a ghost, to the Roman philosopher who solved a haunting on a writing deadline, to the 1794 novel that used the phrase "ghost-hunting" like everybody already knew what it meant. Plus: your listener submissions! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eli Roth just spent 20 years plotting the death of the ice cream truck.This week on Talking Strange, horror icon Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Thanksgiving) joins host Aaron Sagers to talk about his tenth feature, Ice Cream Man, opening August 7, 2026. This is his most ambitious, most blood-soaked project yet, and the first release from his new studio, The Horror Section. The film stars Ari Millen as a silent, smiling villain who turns an idyllic small town's children into instruments of mass patricide, with executive production from Nas and original music from Snoop Dogg. (And no, this isn't the 1995 Clint Howard cult movie of the same name.) This is Eli Roth's Pied Piper fairy tale, and it is a completely different animal.We get into the hilarious and squirm-inducing gore, the surprisingly wholesome chaos of directing 80 kids covered in fake blood, and why Roth thinks the scariest villains are the ones who believe they're the hero. Roth also shares his own tales of scary urban legends and ice cream trucks. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Houdini spent the final years of his life doing something few expected from the world's greatest escape artist: hunting ghosts. Or rather, hunting those who claimed to speak to ghosts.In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with John Cox, the leading Houdini historian behind the acclaimed blog Wild About Harry (wildabouthoudini.com). Cox is the author of Escaping Obscurity: The Travel Diary of Harry Houdini, 1897–1899 and is currently completing a definitive three-volume Houdini biography.Aaron and John dig into Houdini's complicated, often contradictory relationship with Spiritualism — a movement he publicly crusaded against. They trace the rise and collapse of his friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator and devout Spiritualist whose unwavering belief in psychic phenomena put him on a collision course with Houdini's exposure campaigns. The conversation also covers Houdini's own staged séances, the mystery of his famous secret code with wife Bess, and the strange afterlife of his legacy in pop culture.For more with John Cox, check out the expanded episode on Aaron's Patreon (Patreon.com/AaronSagers)_______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it actually take to investigate Bigfoot, Area 51, and the Loch Ness Monster with a journalist's eye instead of a believer's bias? This week, Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers sits down with Emmy Award winning producer Miguel Sancho, showrunner behind A&E's The Proof Is Out There and former investigative producer at 20/20 and 48 Hours.Miguel walks us through the reporting and technology his team uses to chase down some of history's most stubborn mysteries, from cryptozoology and ancient archeology to simulation theory and the afterlife. We dig into his new book Evidence of the Extraordinary, packed with over sixty full color photographs, and talk about what separates rigorous paranormal investigation from wishful thinking, plus why hard bitten journalism might be the best tool we have for tackling the unexplained. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does an empty office hallway feel scarier than a monster? Folklorist Dr. Lynne S. McNeill breaks down the psychology behind Backrooms, Severance, and the internet's obsession with liminal spaces.If you've ever felt unsettled walking through an abandoned mall, a fluorescent-lit office at night, or scrolling past another eerie "backrooms" photo on your feed, this episode is for you. Host Aaron Sagers speaks with Dr. Lynne S. McNeill — folklore professor and Chair of the Folklore Program at Utah State University — to unpack why "liminality" has become one of horror's biggest cultural forces.Lynne traces the concept back to anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's work on rites of passage, then connects it straight through to Backrooms, Apple TV's Severance, Slender Man, analog horror, and the "uncanny" spaces that dominate TikTok and Reddit. They also dig into: What "liminality" actually means — and why folklorists say it's nearly universal across cultures How the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged our fascination with in-between, abandoned spaces Why Gen Z and Gen Alpha are drawn to liminal horror even without nostalgia for malls or offices The difference between "the Backrooms" as a place vs. the Backrooms as a mythology (and why that split matters) AI, "latent space," and the unsettling folklore already forming around it (yes, they talk about Loab) _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He arrived with felt shoes, a bowl of mercury, and a hunger for fame. When ghost hunter Harry Price drove up to Borley Rectory in 1929, he was stepping into the role he'd spent his whole life rehearsing, and into one of the most controversial paranormal investigations in history.In this episode of Talking Strange, we dig into the strange, murky world of Harry Price: self-made skeptic, showman, and the man who declared a crumbling Essex rectory "the most haunted house in England." We trace his rise from a staged adolescent ghost hunt to the heights of British paranormal celebrity, his decades-long obsession with Borley's phantom nun, mysterious wall writings, and objects that moved on their own — and the damning posthumous expose that called it all into question.Was Price a dedicated investigator who genuinely believed? A fraud who manufactured evidence for book deals? Or something more complicated, such as a man whose craving for legend became indistinguishable from the legend itself? Whether you're a seasoned ghost story enthusiast or new to the world of paranormal history, this episode explores the blurry line between investigation and performance, belief and deception.Topics covered: Harry Price's origins and rise to fame as England's premier ghost hunter The dark history of Borley Rectory and its phantom nun legend The 1937 experiment: 48 volunteer observers and a year of documented strange occurrences The fire, the bones in the cellar, and the investigation that never truly ended The 1956 debunking — and why Borley's ghosts refuse to stay buried Sources include: Alice Vernon's Ghosted, Brian Righi's Ghosts Apparitions and Poltergeists, Lisa Morton's Ghosts: A Haunted History, and David Jaher's The Witch of Lime Street.If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to Talking Strange and leave a review — it helps more strange history find its audience. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can ghost hunting equipment actually detect paranormal activity, or are investigators sometimes using these tools the wrong way?In this special extended episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with paranormal researcher, equipment builder, and science communicator Lauren Hellekson (LaurenHaunts.com) for a deep dive into the technology behind modern paranormal investigations.Together, they break down some of the most popular ghost hunting tools, including digital voice recorders, thermal and infrared cameras, SLS devices, EMF meters, REM Pods, proximity sensors, smartphone apps, and more. Lauren explains what these devices were actually designed to do, how investigators commonly use and misuse them, and practical tips for collecting better evidence in the field.Featured in the BeaconTV documentary series The Bridge Between Dimensions and currently studying Physics and Astronomy, Lauren brings a rare combination of hands-on paranormal experience and scientific perspective to the conversation.Whether you're a seasoned investigator or just getting started, this episode is an essential guide to paranormal equipment. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if Steven Spielberg's latest UFO movie is closer to reality than science fiction?In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers welcomes author and film historian Max Evry (author of the forthcoming book Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) to explore Spielberg's highly anticipated new film, Disclosure Day, and its connections to some of the director's most iconic works, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and War of the Worlds.The conversation dives into the movie's nods to real UFO experiencer accounts, how Spielberg's fascination with extraterrestrial contact has evolved across decades of filmmaking, and why these stories continue to resonate with audiences today. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are demons really everywhere — or has pop culture trained us to see them that way?In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with two folks who could legit call themselves demonologists — occult expert Michelle Belanger and religious studies scholar Joseph Laycock to explore the shocking history behind demons, possession, and exorcism.From ancient beliefs and folklore to The Exorcist, the Satanic Panic, paranormal reality TV, and the influence of Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, the conversation dives into how demons became a mainstream obsession in modern media and ghost hunting culture.Michelle Belanger, author of Dictionary of Demons, and Joe Laycock, author of The Penguin Book of Exorcisms and The Exorcist Effect, unpack the fear, folklore, religion, and psychology fueling today’s demon craze.Do you believe in Demons? In the comments, share your stories of what you believe was a demon encounter. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talking Strange heads to Las Vegas for a behind-the-scenes look at Universal Horror Unleashed — the new year-round haunted attraction from Universal Studios.In this “Halfway to Halloween” episode, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Universal creatives TJ Mannarino and Nate Stevenson to break down the 110,000-square-foot immersive experience featuring haunted houses inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist: Believer, Universal Monsters, and the original story “Scarecrow: The Reaping.”They reveal how the team expanded Halloween Horror Nights into a permanent Las Vegas destination — and what that means for horror fans looking for a more immersive, year-round scare.From creative design and storytelling to food, drinks, and future expansion plans (including possible new locations like Chicago), this episode explores how horror is evolving beyond seasonal events into full-scale entertainment experiences. ALSO: Don't miss Aaron's ultimate guide to Horror Unleashed at DailyDead.comWhat house would YOU want to see in a year-round horror attraction? Drop your thoughts in the comments. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor William Sadler joins Aaron Sagers to discuss his new survival horror film The Yeti, now on-demand, and the enduring appeal of classic monster movies.From battling a brutal creature in the Alaskan wilderness to reflecting on his roles in The Shawshank Redemption at the haunted Ohio State Reformatory, and playing Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and Bill and Ted Face the Music, Sadler covers a career that spans decades of iconic storytelling.He also opens up about The Last Day of Byron Bray, a short film inspired by true events, where he plays a man confronting mortality through prophetic dreams of his own death.Monsters, mortality, and movie history collide in this conversation with an actor that has had an incredible career. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the intersection of monster lore and eyewitness testimony? In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers talks with with paranormal investigator, author, and TV personality Richard Estep (Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911) to explore his new book, Monsters: Myths, Legends and Real Encounters. From the depths of Loch Ness to the forests of North America, Estep breaks down the blurred line between myth, legend, and reported real encounters. We dig into some of the world’s most enduring creatures — including Mothman, Bigfoot, werewolves, vampires, and Nessie — and talk about when folklore becomes something more. Estep, who has authored more than 30 books and brings a grounded perspective from his career as a paramedic and investigator, shares chilling cases, historical context, and the stories that continue to defy easy explanation. What do you think? Are monsters just myth, misunderstood animals, supernatural entities, or something genuinely unexplained? Share your story of a monster encounter! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hokum (2026), directed by Damian McCarthy (Caveat, Oddity), is a new supernatural psychological horror story set in Ireland that blends grief, folklore, and isolation — and a troubled writer locked away in a haunted hotel room.Starring Adam Scott (Severance, Parks and Recreation), the film follows a novelist who retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes only to become entangled in a chilling legend about a witch tied to the honeymoon suite.As visions intensify and a mysterious disappearance unfolds, the story forces him to confront both the supernatural and his own past.In this episode of Talking Strange, McCarthy returns to the show to break down the folklore behind the film, how atmosphere drives fear, and why some stories refuse to stay buried.Would you stay in a room with a dark history? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the new re-imagining of Faces of Death, murder is good for the algorithm. Hitting theaters April 10, 2026, the new film is directed by Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) and produced/co-written by Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline). In this episode of Talking Strange, Goldhaber and Mazzei speak with host Aaron Sagers about the plot that follows a follows a content moderator (Barbie Ferreira from Euphoria, and Nope) who uncovers violent videos tied to the legacy of the original film, forcing her to question what is staged and what is real — and putting her on a collision course with a social media serial killer (Dacre Montgomery, from Stranger Things, and Dead Man’s Wire).The film — also starring Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell, The Buccaneers), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America, Sorry to Bother You), and Charli XCX (The Moment, Mother Mary) — reflects a world where “faces of death are everywhere” and the content stream has become modern pop culture.Listen in as Goldhaber and Mazzei unpack the ethics of shock horror, the influence of social media, and why audiences can’t look away from disturbing content. And don’t miss our Talking Strange episode with guests Barbie Ferreira and Dacre Montgomery. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starring Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria, Nope) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things, Elvis), the new Faces of Death arrives in theaters April 10, 2026, reimagined for the digital age by director Daniel Goldhaber and producer/co-writer Isa Mazzei (Cam, How to Blow Up a Pipeline).The horror film follows a social media content moderator with her own inadvertent Internet fame (Ferreira) who discovers disturbing videos that may be reenactments, or something happening in real time. When she can’t ignore the videos any longer, she sets out to investigate and discovers a serial killer (Montgomery) thriving on his own social media fame.The story builds on the original film’s infamous “is it real or not?” concept, placing it inside today’s nonstop content stream. And in this episode of Talking Strange, the cast talk with host Aaron Sagers about their exposure to the original taboo horror franchise, as well as internet horror, viral media, and the unsettling psychology behind watching the unwatchable.The film also stars Josie Totah (Saved by the Bell, The Buccaneers), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America, Sorry to Bother You), and Charli XCX (The Moment, Mother Mary).Would you keep watching if you didn’t know it was fake? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We already knew Florida was weird, but it gets much weirder in the new horror/black comedy Mermaid, starring Johnny Pemberton, and open in select theaters. April 8.Written and directed by Tyler Cornack (Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema), Mermaid follows Pemberton  (21 Jump Street, Superstore, Fallout) as a socially-awkward drug addicted Floridian who discovers a wounded mermaid, and becomes dangerously obsessed with protecting her.Also Avery Potemri as the mermaid, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live, Weeds), Tom Arnold (True Lies), and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2, Peacemaker), Kevin Dunn (Veep) the film is Cornack's “absurdist love letter to Florida,” blending surreal humor, horror, and the bizarre reality of coastal life .In this episode of Talking Strange, Pemberton shares with host Aaron Sagers about  the film’s strange tone, the balance of comedy and horror, the experience of filming in Florida — and jokes about what his Fallout character might be up to, or mutating into, in the third season.Do you think Mermaids actually exist? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film just get exposed as a hoax? New evidence in Capturing Bigfoot claims the truth has been hidden for decades.Aaron Sagers talks with filmmakers Marq Evans and Tamir Ardon about the shocking “mystery footage,” Roger Patterson’s legacy, and whether Bigfoot’s most famous evidence was staged.In this Talking Strange episode, we break down the explosive claims behind Capturing Bigfoot, including: The newly discovered 16mm “mystery footage” Claims that Roger Patterson faked the original film Whether Bob Gimlin knew the truth The role of Bob Heironimus in the alleged hoax The late Dr. Jeff Meldrum’s reported reaction to the new evidence Accusations of ambush interviews and ethical questions This isn’t just about Bigfoot; it’s about belief, legacy, and why people hold onto mysteries even when challenged.Do YOU think the Patterson-Gimlin film is real or a hoax? And if it’s a hoax, why has it held up for nearly 60 years? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did the Fox Sisters really talk to the dead, or start the biggest paranormal hoax in American history? Host Aaron Sagers is joined by author ⁠Barb Rosenstock⁠ to explore ⁠American Spirits⁠, the true story of the sisters who launched the Spiritualism movement in the lead up to the Civil War with their mysterious “spirit rappings.” In her compelling book that goes deep into the strange lives of celebrity, famous interactions, and struggles with alcohol, Barb discusses belief vs. deception, why séances took hold across America, and how grief and the media fueled a national obsession with the afterlife. She also answers the question of whether Leah Fox is the villain of the story. Plus, a look at Houdini’s Library and Harry Houdini’s lifelong love of books. Question: Have you attended a seance, and did you found it convincing? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with ⁠Aaron Sagers⁠ is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠, ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on ⁠Facebook⁠ as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: ⁠Contact@TalkingStrange.com⁠ Follow Host Aaron Sagers: ⁠Twitter/X⁠ ⁠Blue Sky⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠ ⁠Patreon⁠ (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with filmmaker Ian Tuason, writer and director of the new A24 horror film Undertone.Opening March 13, Undertone follows Evy, the co-host of a paranormal podcast who begins receiving disturbing recordings from a listener. While caring for her dying mother, Evy studies the strange audio and EVP messages. Soon the haunting appears to move from the recordings into her own home, revealing a terrifying entity connected to motherhood and infants.Tuason joins Aaron to discuss the real paranormal ideas and research that inspired the film, including eerie experiences from his own life and unexplained happenings in his home. In the video version of the interview, Tuason even gives a brief tour of the house where Undertone was filmed.They also dive into the enduring appeal of paranormal investigations, EVP recordings, and why stories about hauntings and the unknown continue to resonate with audiences.Tuason also shares what excites him about directing the upcoming Paranormal Activity reboot, and what made the original film so powerful that he hopes to preserve in the next chapter of the iconic horror franchise.Question for viewers and listeners:Do you believe EVP recordings could capture real paranormal voices, or is there another explanation?Have you ever experienced strange audio, EVP, or unexplained sounds in your home? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmaker Natasha Kermani joins host Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss her haunting new medieval horror film The Dreadful, now available on demand.Starring Game of Thrones alumni Sophie Turner and Kit Harington alongside Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, the film follows a woman and her ruthless mother-in-law struggling to survive on the margins of medieval England as a mysterious knight and an ancient curse begin to close in around them.Kermani breaks down the real inspiration behind the film’s curse — including the Arthurian Green Knight and Knights Templar, and "The Monkey's Paw" — the gothic folklore that shaped the story, and the eerie tone of medieval horror. She also shares behind-the-scenes insights into directing Turner and Harington in a surprisingly awkward reunion moment that fans of Game of Thrones will definitely notice.Plus, we talk about Marcia Gay Harden’s uncanny ability to make violence feel real on screen, and Kermani’s previous genre work including Lucky, V/H/S/85, and Abraham’s Boys, based on Joe Hill’s gothic tale.Question for viewers and listeners:Do you think medieval folklore and curses make horror more believable than modern supernatural stories? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a cold season, and the Wendigo is the master monster of winter. So Is the Wendigo just a legend, or something far darker?On this Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers interviews researcher and author Chad Lewis about Wendigo Lore: Monsters, Myths, and Madness, co-written with Kevin Lee Nelson.For centuries, Indigenous communities in Canada and the northern United States have told stories of the Wendigo, a cannibalistic spirit or monster associated with winter, starvation, and possession. Lewis discusses traditional Native American lore, historical accounts of alleged Wendigo cases, and even modern stories of so-called Wendigo hunters.The conversation also explores how the Wendigo has transformed into an internet-era phenomenon, often linked with Skinwalker stories on TikTok and social media.What happens when ancient folklore collides with viral fear? Have you encountered a Wendigo? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with national bestselling author J.W. Ocker about his new novel Welcome to the Ghost Show and his lifelong exploration of the strange.Ocker is the Edgar and Lowell Thomas Award-winning author of The United States of Cryptids, A Season with the Witch, Cursed Objects, and more. He is also the creator of OTIS, Odd Things I’ve Seen, documenting thousands of eerie and unusual locations across America. In this conversation, we explore haunted houses in fiction, how horror works for younger audiences, and the Stephen King influence on all things horror. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did the assassination of John F. Kennedy begin in Dallas, or years earlier in the Florida Keys?On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers speaks with author and Key West researcher David L. Sloan about his startling new book, How Key West Killed JFK: The Island That Changed The Course of History.Drawing from declassified FBI and CIA documents, personal interviews, and never-before-seen photographs, Sloan lays out evidence linking Cuban exiles, organized crime figures, and intelligence operatives moving through Key West and the Florida Keys during the Cold War.The discussion explores rumors of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby at the Key West Airport, CIA activity in Marathon and No Name Key, and the disturbing story of Gilberto Lopez, a Key West baker whose violent past may force a reassessment of November 22, 1963.This episode examines how hidden history, conspiracy, and overlooked locations may change how we think about the JFK assassination, America's greatest true crime story.Remember to join Aaron's Patreon for live recordings and audience interaction with guests! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is joined by author Jason Offutt to explore the strange creatures hiding in North American folklore and eyewitness reports. Offutt is the author of Chasing North American Monsters: A Guide to Over 250 Creatures from Greenland to Guatemala. The conversation takes a timely turn toward Greenland, a place suddenly dominating global headlines, but also home to chilling monster legends shaped by extreme landscapes, isolation, and centuries of oral tradition. The discussion also looks at Offutt’s early fascination with monsters, which began with tracking Bigfoot stories through old newspaper archives, and leads into a deeply unsettling personal experience involving a full bodied apparition. Along the way, Aaron and Jason unpack how cryptids are documented, why certain regions generate more monster stories than others, and how folklore adapts in the modern media age. If creatures are reported independently across generations, regions, and cultures, when does folklore stop being dismissed and start becoming evidence? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is back on the road. He visited Key West, Florida, and through a spooky fun and random coincidence, ended up connecting with local Ernest Hemingway House tour guide Amy Bebbington, who then introduced him to Andy Zyvith and Feliz Andrews of the You Two Scare Me podcast. Not one to miss out on the chance to chat about the paranormal, they sat for a chat at The Saint Hotel in Key West. The Saint was gracious enough to host everyone for the live recording in the supposedly haunted Room 106. In their chat, they discuss banshees from Bebbington’s Irish family, haunted Pittsburgh and a ghost that steals puzzle pieces, a Hat Man interaction and ghostly brothers, and of course, more about the ghosts of The Saint, and Haunted Key West. And of course, we chat about Robert The Doll and the books by David L. Sloan. Note: This was recorded way back in August 2025, and the file got lost along the way. Also, as this was an unplanned interview, excuse my rambling, lack of proper preparation, and a few stumbles. But it’s a great conversation. — Aaron. More about You Two Scare Me:Andi Zyvith and Feliz Andrews have been friends for over a decade, and have been wanting to start a spooky podcast together for just as long. They are two working moms who love to hang out, tell scary stories, and laugh their faces off. What better outlet is there for that than a podcast with your bestie? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with author and paranormal historian Marc Hartzman to explore the eerie, fascinating world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spirit communication. Hartzman’s latest book, The Talking Dead: A Collection of Messages from Beyond the Veil, 1850s to 1920s, invites readers to eavesdrop on the afterlife through an extraordinary anthology of séance transcripts and spirit writings from the height of the Spiritualist movement. These are the messages once shared in parlors, séance rooms, and Spiritualist circles, and allegedly dictated by voices from beyond the veil. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush, Midnight Mass) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss her darkly twisted short "Down the Chimney," part of Executive Producers David Dastmalchian and The Boulet Brothers' The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors anthology, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Siegel dives into turning one of the most familiar holiday tropes — Santa visiting good little boys and girls — and turns it into a hilariously dark Rankin/Bass-esque tale of Seasonal body horror. And how she did it to get revenge on her sister! In their conversation, they chat about the creepy side of the holidays, childhood vulnerability, and the creepy side of Elf on the Shelf. She also talks about writing and directing horror in a compact format, collaborating with The Boulet Brothers and David Dastmalchian, and what she hopes husband Mike Flanagan got her for Christmas. And don't miss the other interviews for Holiday of Horrors as part of the Talking Strange show, including chats with David Dastmalchian, The Boulet Brothers, and Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Malignant). _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and director Akela Cooper (M3gan, Malignant) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss her chilling short "Old Acquaintance," part of David Dastmalchian and horror drag icons The Boulet Brothers' The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors anthology now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Set on New Year’s Eve, "Old Acquaintance" follows a woman returning home after her father’s sudden death, only to discover the demon that haunted him may now be coming for her. Cooper unpacks the story’s emotional core, the mythology behind the demon, and why the holidays are the perfect pressure cooker for horror. The conversation also explores Cooper’s collaboration with The Boulet Brothers and David Dastmalchian, the challenge of telling a deeply personal, terrifying story in a short format, and how holiday traditions can amplify dread instead of comfort. And don't miss the other interviews for Holiday of Horrors as part of the Talking Strange show, including chats with David Dastmalchian, The Boulet Brothers, and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House, Hush, The Fall of the House of Usher). _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, writer, and monster kid David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil, Dust Bunny) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to dive deep into The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, the chilling four-part anthology now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Dastmalchian discusses his close friendship and creative partnership with The Boulet Brothers, how they collaborated both on-screen and behind the scenes, and why the holidays are his favorite time of year to unleash fear. He also breaks down working with Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House) and Akela Cooper (M3GAN) about their holiday shorts, and delves into his directed story "Yeti or Not" — a snowy nightmare written with Jennifer Polania and Leah Kilpatrick, who also designed the terrifying Yeti creature. From Christmas horror traditions to monster design, collaboration, and finding joy in seasonal darkness, David and Aaton pulls back the curtain on how Holiday of Horrors came together, and why festive fear hits differently. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Boulet Brothers join Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to unwrap their chilling new four-part anthology special, The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, now streaming on Shudder and AMC+. Executive produced by horror icons Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet alongside David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), the series delivers festive fear with brutal twists, atmospheric dread, and macabre surprises. The Boulets break down each terrifying tale: From a haunted family home on Christmas Eve to a snowy Yeti nightmare, a demon stalking New Year’s Eve, and Santa's truly nightmarish trip down the chimney. They also discuss collaborating with genre powerhouses Akela Cooper (M3gan, Malignant), Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House), and Dastmalchian, plus why the holidays are the perfect setting for horror. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, writer, and monster kid David Dastmalchian joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to talk about his role as a badass hitman in Dust Bunny (opening in theaters Dec. 12), his own childhood nightmares, and chatting about mortality from inside a coffin. In Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny, David plays a mysterious hitman sent to take out Mads Mikkelsen’s character who is a high-value target in a fantastical criminal underworld. The job seems simple until he finds his mark seated with a 10-year-old girl, and suddenly the mission, the money, and his own buried history collide. David breaks down how Fuller pitched the role from the character’s point of view and why a monster in the bed might stop this killer cold. Aaron and David dig into: David’s childhood monsters: a small Frankenstein’s creature stepping out of a closet door, and people who beg him for help before transforming into werewolves How those fears now live on in his comic Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter and other writing projects Bryan Fuller’s heightened “world at 11” tone — grounded emotion with stylized color, comedy, and horror (think John Wick meets Amélie with a touch of Spielberg, Dante, and Sondheim) Dust Bunny as a holiday release and why David sees it as a perfect family-sharing, big-screen fairy tale for spooky-minded folks of all ages They also talk about Grave Conversations, David’s YouTube show where he interviews guests while lying together in coffins, and how those end-of-life, afterlife, and legacy discussions reveal a more vulnerable side of people like Bryan Fuller. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visionary creator Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, American Gods) joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers to discuss his feature directorial debut, Dust Bunny. The movie is a dark, fantastical fairy tale about childhood fear, imagined monsters, and the very real ones hiding in plain sight. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a mysterious hitman who kills real-life monsters and Sophie Sloan as a fearless 10-year-old girl convinced something evil has devoured her family. Together, they battle assassins, confront grief, and blur the line between fantasy and reality in a story that reminds viewers of the hyper-realized worlds of John Wick and Amélie. In this wide-ranging conversation, Fuller breaks down the film’s heightened storybook aesthetic, monster design inspired by a child’s imagination, action sequences that feel almost balletic, and what it’s like directing performers like Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, and David Dastlmalchian. He also opens up about his own belief in the supernatural, including a chilling, unexplained encounter he experienced while living in Los Angeles. It’s a conversation about monsters, fairy tales, ghosts, and why believing children, and embracing imagination, may be the most powerful tool we have. What was your childhood monster under the bed, or in the closet? Sound off in the comments! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foxy Shazam frontman Eric Nally joins Talking Strange to talk about the band’s huge year — from their song “Oh Lord” becoming the opening-credits dance theme for Peacemaker Season 2, to appearing on the Superman (2025) soundtrack as the fictional band The Mighty Crabjoys. With James Gunn calling Foxy Shazam “objectively the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world,” the band also dropped two new albums: Animality Opera and Box of Magic. Eric also shares some truly bizarre paranormal stories from his travels — including filming a music video inside the notoriously haunted Bobby Mackey’s Music World. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes a horror story truly unsettling? Is it the monster, or the man behind the camera? In this Talking Strange episode, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Mark Duplass — who previously joined the show to talk his Hulu series Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal — to talk about The Creep Tapes, the long-awaited second season of his found-footage horror series spun off from The Creep films, which returns Friday, November 14 on Shudder and AMC+. Duplass — who co-created the franchise with Patrick Brice — dives into the twisted psychology of his infamous serial-killer character, the art of balancing comedy and dread, and the really scary state of the entertainment industry. With guest stars David Dastmalchian (a frequent friend to Talking Strange), Robert Longstreet, and Katie Aselton, this season of The Creep Tapes is dark, funny, and even more disturbingly intimate. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Trejo wants to know what happens when you accidentally uncover history’s biggest secrets? This episode on Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Danny Trejo — the legendary actor from Spy Kids and Machete, as well as Trejo's Taco's restaurateur — to chat about Mysteries Unearthed on The History Channel, which premieres its second season on Nov. 11. Trejo talks to Sagers about about the thrill of discovery, the real-life treasures that have been found by chance, and the mysteries that still lie buried around us. And of course, they talk about ghosts, and Trejo's own experiences. This season on Mysteries Unearthed: From a 1938 Superman comic worth a quarter of a million dollars to a WWI chemical weapons plant, to remnants of a killer asteroid twice the size of the Superdome, and a giant reptile that once ruled the skies — Danny Trejo shares incredible true stories about history being revealed accidentally. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iconic comedian, actor, and paranormal enthusiast Dan Aykroyd of Ghostbusters joins Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss the unbelievable true stories behind Season 3 of History Channel's The UnBelievable. From satanic cats to skyfalls, fire ants, and chainsaw miracles, Aykroyd dives into bizarre-but-true moments in human history that are stranger than fiction. The new season, premiering November 7 at 9/8c, explores “Strange Sightings” — from jungle apes and killer birds to mysterious clown invasions — reminding us that the world is far weirder than we think. Aaron also discusses the future of Ghostbusters with Aykroyd, and his love of old-school hosts like Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy, and Robert Stack. Thanks to the Peppermill Resorts & Casino in Reno, Nevada, for helping sort out a place to record during Aaron's paranormal globetrotting. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Halloween week episode, host Aaron Sagers takes a trip to New Orleans’ Garden District to uncover the ghostly secrets of one of the city’s most intriguing stays: The Parks-Bowman Mansion, a Victorian-era Airbnb that’s said to be haunted by a young girl in a yellow dress. Built in 1884, this Queen Anne-style home is a living museum filled with artifacts, books on folklore and the occult, and maybe a few lingering spirits. Joining Aaron is the mansion’s owner, Adrienne Parks, who shares eerie encounters, missing-object mysteries. They talk about the home’s distinctive Haunted Bedroom, the stories psychics have told about four resident ghosts, and what it’s like hosting guests in a place where the past never seems to rest. If you’ve ever wanted to sleep in a haunted mansion, sip coffee near a lap pool under live oaks, or stay footsteps from the famous Lafayette Cemetery No. 1,  this is your ghostly travel guide to New Orleans’ most spirited Airbnb. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Bruni (Kindred Spirits, Haunted Road podcast, and author of Food to Die For) joins host Aaron Sagers for a spirited conversation about paranormal tourism — and her Strange Escapes travel company — as well as her Halloween speaking tour on true crime and the paranormal. In this interview recorded in September, she also discusses the The Conjuring House sale (the auction for which has since been canceled), and her hopes for the home and paranormal community. Follow Amy Bruni’s work and upcoming events at amybruni.com. Aaron also teases his stay in the haunted Parks-Bowman Mansion, an Airbnb in New Orleans with a spooky reputations, which he'll be sharing more from in a future episode. And in the comments, tell us: Would you spend the night at The Conjuring House? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legendary makeup FX artist, director, and producer Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow, Day of the Dead) joins host Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss his new, blood-soaked Shudder horror competition series, Guts & Glory. Nicotero shares behind-the-scenes secrets of the show’s creation, the challenges of bringing classic gore to a new generation of fans, and what’s next for Creepshow. Plus, he teases his hopes for the future of Universal Monsters, reflecting on why these iconic creatures still haunt our imaginations nearly a century later. Whether you’re a horror die-hard, a FX nerd, or a Walking Dead fan, this episode digs into the artistry and legacy of one of the genre’s true masters. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She’s the Queen of Halloween, the Mistress of the Dark, and a certified pop culture legend. Now Elvira is taking over the kitchen! Cassandra Peterson joins host Aaron Sagers to talk about her first-ever cookbook, Elvira’s Cookbook From Hell (out September 30). Together they dish on the devilishly delicious recipes, the campy humor, and the spooky stories that make this cookbook more than just a meal; it’s a feast for horror fans and food lovers alike. Cassandra also opens up about keeping Elvira’s legacy alive after four decades, how her love of Halloween flavors her creativity, and what still delights her about all things macabre and mischievous. Whether you grew up watching Movie Macabre or just love a good creepy cocktail, this episode serves up plenty of nostalgia, wit, and wicked fun.What spooky dish or drink would you serve if Elvira came to your dinner party? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[This episode first ran on October 19, 2022] Dr. Jeff Meldrum was one of the foremost Bigfoot researchers out there. He was a Professor of Anatomy & Anthropology at Idaho State University, and his work centered on the evolution of hominin bipedalism. He joined Talking Strange in 2022 (on the 55th Anniversary of the famed Patterson-Gimlin footage) to discuss his 25 years of work, as well as opening up about what Sasquatch "disclosure" might look like (similar to the serious focus UFO/UAP are currently receiving). Additionally, he opened up about whether he thought the U.S. government has explored the topic, what it takes to become a reliable trustworthy Bigfoot researcher, and the paradigm shift and importance of indigenous people coming forward to openly discuss their stories. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers explores the haunting true crime and paranormal story behind Blood & Myth, the new Hulu original documentary now streaming. Aaron speaks with Blood & Myth director Kahlil Hudson and author/executive producer James Dommek Jr.about the violent crimes that shook a remote Native village in Northern Alaska, and the chilling possibility that they were connected to ancient legends of the Inukuns, mysterious “little people” long feared in Inupiaq culture. At the center of the story is Teddy Kyle Smith, a respected Inupiaq actor turned fugitive, who claimed he was driven to violence after a terrifying encounter with the Inukuns in the Alaskan wilderness. Through the eyes of James Dommek Jr., Blood & Myth investigates whether this was madness, myth, or something more sinister where true crime and folklore collide. In this interview, Aaron and his guests discuss the challenges of telling a story that balances Native oral traditions, chilling folklore, paranormal mysteries, and the tragedy of real crimes. If you’re fascinated by true crime documentaries, paranormal encounters, Alaskan legends, or the intersection of folklore and reality, you won’t want to miss this conversation. Talking Strange explores the paranormal, horror, folklore, and unexplained stories every week. Subscribe for more interviews, deep dives, and strange tales. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers dives into the terrifying world of Strange Harvest (now streaming on demand), the new horror film blending serial killer chills with cosmic dread. Aaron is joined by Stuart Ortiz, co-writer/director of the cult hit Grave Encounters, and Jesse J. Clarkson, who both designed the eerie production and stars as the sadistic killer, Mr. Shiny. Together, they discuss real true crime, horror easter eggs in the film, the cosmic horror origins of the story, and gruesome set pieces — from ritualistic murders to leeches in swimming pools — and the sinister, otherworldly forces lurking behind the blood. If you’re a fan of cosmic horror, true crime-style terror, and the creative process behind modern horror filmmaking, this episode is for you. Talking Strange explores the paranormal, horror, folklore, and the unexplained every week. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share with fellow horror fans. Are you a fan of true crime when it involves the paranormal? _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step into the spooky side of theme parks and haunted legends with Aaron Sagers on this episode of Talking Strange! First, Aaron takes you inside his exclusive sneak preview of The Beak and Barrel, the brand-new Pirates of the Caribbean bar at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. From pirate lore to Easter eggs from the films, discover why this swashbuckling tavern is already making waves. Then, it’s on to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort, where Aaron shares his take on this year’s most chilling houses, including the terrifying Terrifier maze and the eerie Five Nights at Freddy’s experience. Finally, a listener story sends us sailing into supernatural waters with a haunting aboard the legendary Queen Mary. Aaron explores how this ghost ship connects to his Spooky Travels column and why it remains one of the most famous haunted destinations in the world. What are your Spooky Season plans? If you’re into Disney Parks secrets, Universal Orlando thrills, haunted history, or pop culture horror, this episode has it all. Listen, subscribe, and join the spooky conversation! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Horror master Chuck Russell — the director behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob, The Mask, Eraser, and The Scorpion King — returns to the genre with Witchboard (2025). In this Talking Strange interview, Russell opens up to host Aaron Sagers about his own beliefs in the supernatural, his hands-on research into pendulum boards, and his personal paranormal experiences. He also discusses bringing Witchboard’s story of possession, deception, and dark forces in New Orleans to life, and what it means to step back into horror after decades of iconic filmmaking — and doing so in a whole new entertainment landscape. Whether you’re a fan of his cult classics or curious about real-life ghost stories, this conversation dives into the fascinating overlap between Russell’s filmmaking and the paranormal.Have you ever used a Ouija Board? Share your story in the comments. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers chats with writer and producer Christopher Monfette, the creative mind behind TexArcanum, the new supernatural western comic from Dark Horse Comics. TexArcanum is a genre-bending tale of cowboy arcanist Avery Belle, who finds himself caught in a supernatural land feud teeming with ghosts, demons, gods, and forgotten folklore. Think Yellowstone meets The X-Files, with a splash of Elmore Leonard grit and Stephen King dread. Monfette shares how his background as an entertainment journalist for IGN and G4 eventually led him to comic writing — including his collaboration with Clive Barker on Hellraiser — and how his TV work on 12 Monkeys, Star Trek: Picard, and the upcoming Vision series from Marvel has shaped his unique narrative voice. We also dig into the horror-noir Americana of TexArcanum, its influences from folklore, pop culture, and myth, and what it means to write a cowboy steeped in arcane mysteries in a haunted Heartland. TexArcanum #1 is available now from Dark Horse Comics. Question: Would you rather be an Occult Detective or Supernatural Monster Hunter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Aaron Sagers sits down with fellow Paranormal Caught On Camera stars Katrina Weidman and Steve Shippy to pull back the curtain on Season 9 of the hit Travel Channel / Max / Discovery+ series. From behind-the-scenes scares to the wildest evidence caught on tape, no ghost (or alien or bigfoot) is left unturned. Katrina shares insights from her legendary career — from Paranormal State to Paranormal Lockdown, Portals to Hell, and her current YouTube investigative series Travel the Dead with Heather Taddy. Steve talks about his terrifying cases featured in A Haunting in the Heartland and his Shock Docs films. Plus: they both reveal chilling personal stories that should be featured on Paranormal Caught On Camera — if they weren’t too creepy to air. If you love real ghost stories, paranormal investigation, or want a look into what it's like to document the unexplained for TV, this episode is a must-watch (and listen)! Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more haunted happenings every week. Have you ever caught something strange on camera? Drop your story in the comments! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is joined by his fellow experts from the hit Travel Channel and HBO Max/Discovery+ series Paranormal Caught on Camera to talk all things Season 9 — and what really goes on behind the scenes of the viral videos, haunted locations, cryptid clips, and UFO sightings featured on the show. Aaron sits down with cast members Brian J. Cano, Dan Sturges, Dr. Lynne S. McNeill, Mark Sceurman, and Susan Slaughter to share personal reactions to some of the wildest moments of the new season, how they approach the unexplained, what doesn’t make it on air, and why audiences keep coming back for more. Whether you're a die-hard believer or a curious skeptic, this episode offers a deeper look at how the experts break down footage — and how the show has impacted the paranormal community. Paranormal Caught on Camera Season 9 is drops new episodes Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on Travel Channel, HBO Max, and Discovery+. Which video from Paranormal Caught on Camera stuck with you the most — and do you think it’s real? Let us know in the comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is this a funny found footage film, a scary one, or both? On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is joined by director/co-writer Max Tzannes, co-writer Jacob Souza, and editor/cinematographer David San Miguel to discuss Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project — a meta mockumentary horror comedy produced by the Radio Silence team behind Scream, Abigail and Ready or Not — that blurs the line between behind-the-scenes chaos and real-life terror. Inspired by The Blair Witch Project, Spinal Tap, and American Movie, the film follows a group of ragtag indie filmmakers trying to make a Bigfoot movie... but something supernatural and sinister might actually be lurking in the woods. Produced by Tyler Friesen with Radio Silence (Scream, Scream VI), Found Footage is both a love letter and a hilarious jab at DIY horror and cryptid culture. We get into the real story behind the film, the Patterson-Gimlin influence, indie horror pitfalls, and whether this crew accidentally stumbled into a real found footage nightmare. More creepy clues and secrets at: ThePattersonProject.org Do you think a demonic force and Bigfoot could be simultaneously existing place in the same location? Leave a comment and let us know! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're checking into Hell Motel, the new horror anthology series from the creators of Slasher, Aaron Martin and Ian Carpenter. Paula Brancati and Jim Watson — both Slasher veterans — talk with host Aaron Sagers about their roles on the new Shudder and AMC+ series that blends true crime obsession with satanic panic and over-the-top kills. In Hell Motel, a group of true crime superfans are invited to the Cold River Motel — the site of an unsolved satanic mass murder. But when the guests get stranded, a fresh murder spree begins, turning their weekend into a deadly reenactment with bloodier results than the original crime. Brancati (as washed-up scream queen Paige) and Watson (as academic Andy) discuss horror fandom, playing flawed characters, their favorite twisted kills, and what makes Hell Motel more than just another slasher. Plus, they reveal behind-the-scenes details from the set and tease the secrets that make this series a brutal, meta must-watch. Watch Hell Motel Tuesdays on Shudder and AMC+ beginning June 17. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paranormal investigator Heather Taddy (Paranormal State, Alien Highway, Portals to Hell) joins Aaron Sagers to talk haunted prisons, shadow figures, and the eerie activity captured in the latest episode of her hit YouTube series, Travel the Dead. Alongside Katrina Weidman, Heather investigates Cambria County Jail in Ebensburg, PA — where slamming jail cells, rainstorms, and full-body apparitions make this one of their wildest episodes yet. Heather also recounts one of her most intense paranormal encounters: a chilling ghost story from Ohio State Reformatory (aka The Shawshank Redemption Prison) in May 2025 — with Aaron, Mike Ricksecker, and Ben Hansen (UFO Witness) along for the ride. Do you think prisons are the most haunted places in America? Drop your theories in the comments. Want to join Aaron live and ask guests your own questions? Join the strange family on Patreon: Patreon.com/AaronSagers More About Heather TaddyHeather first made waves in the paranormal world as a key investigator on A&E’s Paranormal State while studying Film & French at Penn State. Since then, she's co-hosted Alien Highway (Travel Channel), Portals to Hell, and Mysteries Decoded (CW). Currently, she co-produces and stars in Travel the Dead alongside Katrina Weidman, and is the face of Very Local’s upcoming series Mysteries on the Map. When she's not ghost hunting, Heather is also a musician, vintage clothing enthusiast, costume designer, and advocate for Interstitial Cystitis awareness. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean Byrne, acclaimed director of The Devil’s Candy and The Loved Ones, returns with Dangerous Animals — a nerve-shredding thriller that blends shark horror with serial killer dread. In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers dives deep with Byrne to discuss the psychological undercurrents of the film, the true nature of predators, and why Dangerous Animals flips the script on classic shark horror. Starring Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, and Josh Heuston, Dangerous Animals centers on Zephyr, a rebellious surfer abducted by a shark-obsessed killer who’s not feeding the sharks by accident. It's a chilling reminder that sometimes the most dangerous creatures walk on two legs. We talk about crafting dread on the open water, Byrne’s inspirations, and why this is not your average creature feature. Subscribe for more horror interviews, strange stories, and behind-the-scenes dives into the paranormal and unsettling corners of pop culture. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny and Michael Philippou — the breakout directors behind Talk to Me, A24’s highest-grossing horror hit — return to the world of supernatural terror with Bring Her Back. In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers talks with the Australian twin filmmakers about their new movie's dark secrets, grief-fueled rituals, and hidden connections to Talk to Me. The Philippous also hint at other stories in this universe, what scares them most, and what they won’t reveal (yet). Subscribe for more interviews on horror, folklore, and paranormal pop culture: https://linktr.ee/talkingstrange Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and all major podcast platforms. More about Danny and Michael Philippou: Twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou are an Australian writer-director duo, known for their online presence in comic horror and action. The Philippou’s first feature film Talk To Me debuted internationally at 2023 Sundance Film Festival and acquired by A24 in a bidding war. Soon after, Talk To Me premiered at Berlinale and SXSW. Upon its release during the summer of 2023 the film went on to become A24’s highest grossing horror film of all time and the second highest grossing film in A24’s history. The film made over $92 million dollars at the worldwide box office. It also gathered critical acclaim and rave reviews (98% on Rotten Tomatoes.) The film’s accolades include 11 AACTA Award nominations in 2024, Australia’s top film honor. Danny and Michael’s passion for storytelling began on YouTube where their videos have been watched over 1.5 billion times with over 6.7 million subscribers. They gained notoriety from their homemade slasher videos, stunts, and comedy sketches. In 2015, RackaRacka’s channel was awarded the Streamy’s Best International YouTube Channel, landed on Variety’s 2016 Fame Changers, and ranked 5th on Financial Review’s Cultural Power List. In their home country, RackaRacka won numerous awards at Online Video Awards and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award for Best Web Show. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, Aaron Sagers sits down with Shane Pittman, paranormal investigator, and Aaron's co-star from Netflix’s 28 Days Haunted. Shane Pittman joins the show for a powerful, no-holds-barred conversation. Known for his work on The Holzer Files and as the founder of Beacon TV, Shane opens up about his deeply personal new book Hope on the Other Side of Pain: Grief, Grace, and Ghosts — a raw and vulnerable memoir tracing his journey from childhood trauma to national paranormal investigations. This isn’t just a ghost story. It’s a story about survival, resilience, and finding purpose through pain. Shane shares what it’s like to chase shadows both literal and emotional, how the paranormal has been part of his healing, and why he believes the dead sometimes speak when the living stay silent. Plus: Hear about the upcoming reunion with his Holzer colleagues Dave Schrader and Cindy Kaza in Paranormal Mysteries, debuting this fall on Beacon TV. If you've ever faced darkness — internal or otherwise — this episode might just remind you there's still light on the other side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers is joined by Rodney Barnes — the award-winning writer behind Killadelphia, Blacula, The Boondocks, and the new hardcover collection of the Batman vs. Werewolf book, Batman: Full Moon for DC Comics (available May 13). He's also the voice of the successful narrative horror podcast Run, Fool! and will soon be taking on new stories in the 30 Days of Night universe. Barnes discusses how growing up as a Universal Monsters kid helped shape his creative voice and love of horror, and he shares stories of how the tradition of oral storytelling — especially spooky stories told by his grandmother — deeply influenced his perspective and writing. From the gothic shadows of Dracula to the caped crusader battling werewolves, Barnes explores the intersection of pop culture, race, and the supernatural in his work. Whether you’re a comic book fan, a lover of monster movies, or someone who grew up hearing stories that made you look twice at the dark, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, rate, and share if you're strange like us. More about Rodney Barnes: Rodney Barnes is an award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator whose vibrant, emphatic voice has established him as a Hollywood mainstay. Barnes was most recently an executive producer and writer for HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Showtime Lakers. His publishing imprint, Zombie Love Studios, is dedicated to storytelling through unique BIPOC perspectives, including Killadelphia—nominated for an Eisner Award, Blacula: Return of the King—an adaptation of the cult horror classic, Monarch—an apocalyptic sci-fi adventure series following a group of Compton school kids in the midst of an alien invasion, and Florence & Normandie—a collaboration with artist/entertainer Xzibit. Additionally, Barnes hosted the Winning Time Podcast, and is host & co-creator of the Run, Fool! podcast—a collaboration between MrBallen, At Will Media, and Campside Media with 800K downloads a month and ranked 38th in true crime fiction podcasts. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this "Small Talk" minisode of Talking Strange, host Aaron shares an audience-submitted story about a paranormal road trip where they investigated six haunted locations over the course of 10 days (including Mothman's hometown of Point Pleasant, Trans Allegheny Asylum, Old Blackford County Jail, Randolph County Infirmary, Whispers Estate, and Fowler Theater. During the journey, they encountered a floating ghost torso at the Lowe Hotel, and a whistling ghost in the Farrar Elementary School. Did the journey make them more attuned to paranormal activity? And did they have hitchhiking ghosts that accumulated and joined them from one location to the next? Listen in, and share your own thoughts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the corn… Director Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil) returns to the horror scene with Clown in a Cornfield — opening in theaters May 9 — a brutal, blood-soaked love letter to ‘80s slashers and the haunted heartland of America. Based on Adam Cesare’s cult YA horror novel, this new film brings back killer clowns, generational tension, and practical gore like you haven’t seen in years. Host Aaron Sagers talks to Eli about the horror DNA in the new movie, the dangers of actual cornfields vs. clowns, directing a cast of tough Gen-Z actors, and the future of the Cornfield Universe. Clown in a Cornfield hits theaters May 9. Don’t miss this one. Official Synopsis: In Clown in a Cornfield, Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time. Welcome to Kettle Springs. The real fun starts when Frendo the clown comes out to play. Directed by Eli Craig with a screenplay by Carter Blanchard and Eli Craig; based on the novel by Adam Cesare; starring Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, Vincent Muller, Kevin Durand, and Will Sasso. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did a group of Sasquatch visit a Talking Strange listener, and warn her to stop a secret program that was harming them? That's part of the story in this week's Small Talk episode, where host Aaron reads reader-submitted tales of the strange and unusual. Mary writes in to tell of her dreamquest where Sasquatches are being harmed by something that sounds a lot like government interference with the message to "Stop Project Wildflower." What does this mean, and does it make any sense? Listen in, offer your reactions, and share your own stories — which you can do by emailing Contact@TalkingStrange.com _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Aaron Sagers interviews actor Emeraude Toubia (Shadowhunters) and director Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth), the star and filmmaker behind the new horror movie Rosario. Opening in theaters May 2, Rosario follows a Wall Street stockbroker, played by Toubia, who returns to her late grandmother’s apartment — only to uncover a terrifying secret. As she sorts through her grandmother’s belongings, Rosario stumbles across a hidden chamber filled with occult artifacts tied to dark generational rituals and supernatural forces rooted in real-world beliefs. A chilling and fun mix of Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell, Rosario blends gooey practical monster effects with a heartfelt story about immigrant families, grief, and buried trauma. Aaron talks with Toubia and Vargas about crafting a new kind of horror film, representing cultural horror stories authentically, and why real rituals sometimes make the scariest monsters. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[This episode first ran on May 31, 2023.] Why do we like to be scared? What’s the difference in fear between a haunted house attraction and ghost hunters in a “real” haunted house? What is fearmongering, and the evolving fears of society? And what’s up with being afraid of clowns, aliens, Bigfoot, and even wide open spaces? Margee Kerr is a sociologist and author. She earned her PhD in 2009 from the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches and conducts research on fear — specifically how and why people engage in 'scary' experiences like haunted attractions, horror movies, and paranormal investigations. She enjoys working as a consultant for attractions and museums and is the author of SCREAM: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear named as a must-read by The Washington Post. And author of Ouch! Why Pain Hurts and Why It Doesn’t Have To. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Parade, Atlantic Monthly, and NPR’s Science Friday. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this wild and weird episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers shares two firsthand accounts of high strangeness — and they're both absolute head-scratchers. First up: Alysia, a loyal Patreon supporter, recalls the unforgettable night she saw the Easter Bunny… but not the costume-clad kind. We’re talking tall, furry, lifelike, and wearing yellow shoes and a bow tie. Was it an alien? A childhood manifestation? An actual cryptid rabbit delivering baskets? We don’t know, and that’s the point. Then we travel to Carson City, Nevada, in the Reno Tahoe Territory. At The Fox Brewery and Pub, located inside the historic and allegedly haunted St. Charles Hotel, Aaron sits down with a Nevada Deputy Attorney General who goes on the record with a chilling tale of paranormal activity and strange encounters on Lake Tahoe, involving odd entities, and maybe something in the water. This episode is packed with high weirdness, haunted history, and the reminder that — sometimes — it’s okay to not have all the answers. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this live-recorded episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers welcomes special guest Eric Altman — cryptozoologist, paranormal researcher, and director of the Pennsylvania Cryptozoology Society — to dive deep into one of Pennsylvania’s hottest recent Bigfoot cases. Eric, a veteran investigator with nearly three decades of fieldwork experience, shares the fascinating story behind the April 2024 Roaring Spring, PA investigation, where he and his team uncovered massive 15-inch-long tracks in the mud. Hear about the incredible discovery, the casting process, and why experts like Cliff Barackman and Dr. Jeff Meldrum believe the evidence is the real deal. Plus, Aaron and Eric discuss the state of Bigfoot research today, media appearances, why Pennsylvania remains a hotspot for Sasquatch sightings — and his Pennsylvania Bigfoot Camping Adventure. Get ready for an episode packed with footprints, fieldwork, and plenty of cryptid curiosity. Learn more about Eric Altman at: ericaltman.net pabigfoot.com pacryptosociety.com _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, we pause to share a couple listener submitted stories. First up, listener Mike shares his tales from Virginia City, Nevada. After hearing our episodes about the Reno Tahoe Territory, and visiting the Washoe Club, he wanted to talk about perhaps encountering the ghost of an old cowboy. Then, listener Chad tells about his personal connection to the UFO over Lake Oneida, New York, in 1997. Occurring just a few months after the famed Phoenix Lights, this looked remarkably similar. As if that's not strange enough, Chad's family's footage of the lights gained enough attention that he believes it is connected to a visitation of strange Men in Black-type characters, as well as his own mystery illness. Don't forget to submit your own stories so you, too, can be included in a future episode. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What lurks in the shadows? On this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with Derek Hayes, creator and host of the hit podcast Monsters Among Us, where real people share their spine-tingling encounters with the paranormal, cryptids, UFOs, and all things unexplained. Derek dives into his own eerie experiences, what fuels his passion for mysteries of the unknown, and why firsthand witness accounts make Monsters Among Us so uniquely terrifying. Plus, Aaron and Derek share some favorite monster encounter calls, bringing the chills straight to the Talking Strange audience. Are these tales of ghosts, Bigfoot, alien abductions, and bizarre beasts real? That’s for you to decide. Tune in—if you dare. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with paranormal investigator and world traveler Dustin Pari to swap stories of spooky travels, unforgettable adventures, and the quirks of life on the road. From sleeping under the stars at Dracula’s Castle to exploring the world’s most haunted locations, Dustin shares what it’s like to chase ghosts across the globe. But it’s not all things that go bump in the night—he also opens up about his biggest travel pet peeves, favorite Disney destinations, and love for tiki cocktails. Tune in for a conversation that’s part paranormal, part travelogue, and 100% entertaining. Subscribe to Talking Strange wherever you get your podcasts and follow Aaron Sagers for more eerie explorations and pop culture deep dives! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Along the rugged north coast of Northern Ireland, just beyond the legendary Giant’s Causeway, sits the Old Bushmills Distillery—the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery, steeped in history, Irish folklore, and ghostly tales. In this episode, Aaron Sagers takes you inside Old Bushmills Distillery, where he received a warm (and whiskey-filled) welcome from Julie Dixon, Visitor Centre Supervisor. As part of Aaron's Spooky Travels exploration of Ireland, he explores the mysteries of Bushmills, from the haunting legend of the Grey Lady ghost to the fairy lore woven into the distillation process of Irish whiskey. Hear firsthand how centuries-old superstitions still influence whiskey-making today, plus a few Irish toasts and rituals you’ll want to remember for your next dram. So grab a glass, settle in by the fire, and join Aaron for a journey into the spirits—both spectral and liquid—of Bushmills Distillery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Still on the road in Ireland, host Aaron Sagers visits the National Leprechaun Museum in Dublin, Ireland — which is not at all what he expected. Rather than a tourist trap, it’s a fun, cultural storytelling experience where one learns about the rich tradition of Irish folk tales and fairy tales. (He then returned later that night, after the daytime tour, for the Adults Only “Dark Land” storytelling experience.) After the experience, Aaron sat down with Diarmuid Fanning, museum supervisor and producer of its Talking Stories podcast (available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify), and storyteller/filmmaker Niamh Mahony — who uses the Irish tale of Macha to tell of a modern woman’s medical struggle with endometriosis. They speak of the power of Irish folk stories, the mission of the museum, their favorite tales, and even some spooky ghost stories from their own experiences. Plus, they chat about how millennials like them engage with these stories differently than other generations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talking Strange is on the road in Ireland, with host Aaron Sagers collecting history, spooky stories, and folklore along the way. This episode, he's staying at the Clontarf Castle Hotel and connects with historian, author, and storyteller Dennis McIntyre. The modernised hotel has a castle structure dating back to 1837, and there has been a castle on the site since 1172. Clontarf Castle is also near the site of the epic 11th Century Battle of Clontarf, and near the site of the assassination of the First High King of Ireland Brian Baru. The area is also where Dracula author Bram Stoker lived for the first several years of his life. McIntyre — who runs guided tours with Dublin North Bay Tourism, and is the author of Bram Stoker and the Irishness of Dracula — tells us of the ghosts of the castle, as well as the "Ghost Room" where he grew up, and then shares his thoughts as to why Dracula deserves more attention for its Irish connections. Then, Aaron shares some of the ghost stories her learned from his own stay at the Clontarf Castle Hotel — but nothing too terrifying that it should prevent you from staying in, considering it's quite lovely luxurious and the only castle you can sleep in near Dublin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Aaron Sagers is on the road in the Reno Tahoe Territory in Nevada, and returns once again to the Old Washoe Club in Virginia City. While sitting in the back room of the old saloon, he speaks with tour guides and paranormal investigators Kimi Good and Justin Seagraves about their freakiest moments at the Washoe, and how they'd define the paranormal reputation of the famous site that began as a lavish "Millionaires Club" of the elite in the 1860s during the silver mining boom of the Comstock Lode — and is now one of the most popular paranormal landmarks around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Aaron Sagers has hit the road to gather short stories about hauntings and general weirdness from the folks out there across the world. He continues his spooky travels in Virginia City, Nevada, in the Reno Tahoe Territory. Aaron sits for a brief chat with Dane Barker of the Virginia City Roasting House to discuss some of the haunted happenings of the historic coffee house. What's up with the spirit who did not want her to eat her dessert?! Not cool, ghosty. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode, host Aaron Sagers hits the road to Carson City, Nevada, in the Reno Tahoe Territory, to explore the haunts of the old Brewery Arts Center (www.breweryarts.org), as well as some potential new spirits in the area. He is joined on this walk and talk journey with Director of Operations, and local ghost tour guide, Michael Wiencek. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and paranormal researcher Mike Ricksecker (Ancient Aliens) joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss the theories of Time Travel, and Stargate Portals, and how they might connect to ideas of ghosts, aliens, and Bigfoot — all from his new books of research, Portals to the Stars: Inside Stargates, Atlantis, and Secrets of Ancient Egypt and Travels Through Time: Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel, and Stacked Time Theory. MORE ABOUT MIKE RICKSECKER: Mike Ricksecker is the author of A Walk In The Shadows and Alaska's Mysterious Triangle, as well as several historic paranormal books. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs, including History Channel's Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained, Travel Channel’s The Alaska Triangle, Discovery+’s Fright Club, and is the producer and director of the docu-series, The Shadow Dimension, available on several streaming platforms. For more than seven years he has hosted The Edge of the Rabbit Hole livestream show and the Connecting the Universe interactive class on his online learning platform, the Connected Universe Portal. He is the author of the new books Portals to the Stars: Inside Stargates, Atlantis, and Secrets of Ancient Egypt and Travels Through Time: Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel, and Stacked Time Theory. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike is a U.S. Air Force veteran with a background in Intelligence and a degree in computer simulation programming. He’s been researching unexplained phenomena across the world for over 30 years. Follow Mike Ricksecker: www.mikericksecker.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/MikeRickseckerOfficial Instagram: @mikericksecker X (formerly Twitter): twitter.com/mikericksecker YouTube: youtube.com/@mricksecker TikTok: @mikericksecker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Criminalia podcast hosts Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi join host Aaron Sagers to discuss their new book, Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals. Every month, over 200,000 listeners download Criminalia to hear stories of history’s wildest and most devious criminals they never knew existed. But this isn’t just any true-crime podcast—more than an engaging history lesson, Criminalia also offers a cocktail recipe to go with each criminal. Now, the hosts of Criminalia, Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi, expand their pursuits with the new book Killer Cocktails, where they serve up stories of heists, murders, tragic persecutions, and more — all with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks inspired by the tales. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alejandro Rojas is a longtime journalist and researcher with field studies in the area of UFO/UAPs. He joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss the UFO sighting tracking app Enigma, and the recent congressional hearings and recent sightings (including the compelling Signal Mountain, TN, sighting). More About Enigma Enigma is the first Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP/UFO) sightings alert network and smartphone app. It’s an independent, venture-backed startup dedicated to awareness of what’s in the sky. It allows users to share their sighting stories and read accounts from thousands of other witnesses, as well as upload photos and video. There are already up to 25k sightings added directly to Enigma to complement the more than 200k recent and historical sightings in the app's database. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Musician and filmmaker Dimitri Coats — guitarist for the punk supergroup OFF! and frontman for Burning Brides — joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss his punk rock sci-fi comedy feature film Free LSD, which he wrote, directed and stars in, as well as his own paradigm shifting experience with potential extraterrestrials. Receiving comparisons to Repo Man, Free LSD also stars OFF! singer Keith Morris (from the bands Black Flag and Circle Jerks) in the lead role, and other musicians David Yow (The Jesus Lizard) Autry Fulbright (And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead), DH Peligro (Dead Kennedys), as well as Jack Black, Dana Gould, Chelsea Debo, Chloe Dykstra, James Duval, Barry Del Sherman, Chris D., E.R. Ruiz, Gill Gayle, Davey Havok, and S.A. Griffin. MORE ABOUT FREE LSD Keith, an elderly sex shop owner, falls for a younger woman who visits his store looking for a gift. When their relationship turns physical, Keith's failure to perform leads him to a strange erectile dysfunction doctor who offers hope in the form of an experimental drug. The experience gives Keith much more than renewed manhood. It also provides a glimpse into a parallel universe where he is not only the singer of the band OFF!, but also the target of an advanced AI species that will stop at nothing to prevent the group from making a new album, which holds the key to an awakening of human consciousness. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Bruni of the Kindred Spirits TV show, and Haunted Road podcast, joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss her new cookbook Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories From America’s Most Legendary Haunted Places. In the book, Bruni and co-author Julie Tremaine offer up a taste of haunted hotels, eerie ghost towns, creepy prisons and more through recipes from each locale, along with stories about the paranormal activity in each. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and paranormal researcher Richard Estep joins Aaron Sagers to discuss his new book In Search of Demons, and the persisent phenomena of demons across paranormal belief, and pop culture. Richard Estep has been a paranormal investigator for 30 years, researching claims of ghosts and hauntings on both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of more than 30 books, in genres ranging from paranormal non-fiction and true crime to history and fiction. He is a cast member of the TV shows Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal Revenge, and Paranormal 911, and has made guests appearances on A Haunting, Destination Fear, and Haunted Case Files. In his new book, In Search of Demons: Historic Cases & Firsthand Experiences from Experts & Skeptics Alike, available now, Estep hunts down firsthand experiences and historic accounts of the most legendary demonic activity. He consults with experts ranging from a medical doctor to an ordained Catholic exorcist on cases like the Salem Witch Trials and the inspiration for The Exorcist. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The paranormal entertainment world is dominated by men — with a few remarkable exceptions like Amy Bruni, Cindy Kaza, and Jessica Chobot. But it’s still a boy’s club, and a white boy’s club with hardly any women of color. To get into these issues and discuss their own spooky stories, host Aaron Sagers has gathered upcoming leaders of the paranormal: Beckie-Ann Galentine, Melisa Viva Farris of Hidden Marietta, Amanda Noel, Amanda Paulson, and Lauren Hellekson. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this Talking Strange, Dark Horse Comics gathers women horror creators Dr. Rebekah McKendry (Barstow comic, Glorious film, Colors of the Dark Podcast), Leah Kilpatrick (Headless Horseman; DC Horror Presents), Carmilla: The First Vampire co-creators Amy Chu and Soo Lee for a spooky season chat about the genre, and navigating the medium that's traditionally been dominated by men. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lora Sauls is the Assistant Director of Creative Development and Show Direction for Art and Design, Entertainment at Universal Orlando Resort, and joins the show to discuss the creation of Halloween Horror Nights Orlando. This year, HHN Orlando returns with 10 Terrifying Haunted Houses inspired by famous horror franchises — like A Quiet Place, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and Insidious — as well as original concept houses: Universal Monsters: Bloodlines, Monstruous: Monsters of Latin America. Slaugher Sinema 2. Museum of Deadly Exhibits, Goblin’s Feast. Triplets of Terror and Major Sweets Candy Factory. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Matthew Lillard (SLC Punk, Scream, Scooby-Doo, Five Nights At Freddy's, The Life of Chuck) joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss his new horror-themed tequila brand Macabre Spirits, which launches this October, and comes in premiere packaging, as well as a new novella by director Mike Flanagan. Lillard also discusses his career in film, and horror, and the spooky stuff that creeps him out — and teases his new Blumhouse show Killer Cakes, the sequel to Five Nights, and how he'd come back to life in the Scream franchise. More about Macabre Spirits Macabre Spirits is the first super-premium tequila made by and for devotees of one of the most avid fandoms in the world: horror. Macabre Spirits gives horror enthusiasts their very own spine-chilling potable crafted with the same devotion to artistry, storytelling, and terror as their favorite horror brands and comes with a new novella from modern horror master Mike Flanagan. Macabre is the second brand from Find Familiar Spirits, the company founded by celebrity actor/entrepreneur Matthew Lillard and screenwriter Justin Ware to provide high-end collectible spirits to targeted fandoms, and follows on the heels of their smash success Quest’s End Whiskey. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, comic creator and frequent Talking Strange guest David Dastmalchian (Late Night with The Devil, Life of Chuck, and the Count Crowley comics) and comic book and collectible icon Todd McFarlane joins the show to discuss Knights vs. Samurai, the new Image Comics title created by Dastmalchian with the guidance of McFarlane (with art by Federico Mele). The adventure series features mythology, monsters, and a meet up of noble knights vs. honorable samurai in a "journey of magic, warfare, and a search for the truth." The title, available now, is only $2.99. More About Knights vs. Samurai Sir Charles Ward, "The Dragon Butcher," has achieved knighthood, acclaim, and is leading a legion of royal warriors on a noble mission, yet his self-doubt and grief haunt him. Venturing to a mysterious island in the Far East, Charles leads his diverse assembly of fighters (including a giant and two clerics) to seek vengeance against savage monsters who ambushed a group of English missionaries. Arrival on the island reveals that the truth may be drastically different from what Charles was led to believe, and the "savage monsters" he will face are actually a regiment of skillful warriors the likes of which he has never seen. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the latest Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers (28 Days Haunted, Paranormal Caught on Camera) talks with executive producers Mark Duplass and Joshua Rofé about their new true crime/paranormal series Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal, debuting on Hulu with eight episodes on Sept. 24, 2024. More About Out There: Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal takes you inside eight true crime cases with shocking encounters with the paranormal world - through eyewitness accounts, expert interviews, and all-new investigations. In each case, amidst an agonizing search for answers, one rumor emerges from the pack: something inhuman is afoot. These in-depth investigations transport us to towns and cities across North America where we speak to individuals with eyewitness accounts and first-person details about the extraordinary, supernatural events that changed their lives forever. A six-year-old boy in the Smoky Mountains disappears forever after being snatched by a mysterious ape-like beast. A UFO crash in Long Island sparks an assassination attempt and illuminates a massive political conspiracy. An occult coven of Satanic witches is implicated in a decades-old New Jersey murder. Lonely ghosts in San Francisco’s Chinatown threaten to steal the lives of the unmarried. In these stories and more, “Out There” tracks down fresh leads and uncovers new evidence amid a labyrinth of twists and turns. At the end of the road, the investigations unearth new truths – about the power of mythology, the allure of the paranormal, and the monsters among us. About the Guests: Joshua Rofé directed and executive produced the acclaimed Hulu series SASQUATCH, which premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival. Previously, he directed and executive produced the four-part Amazon Prime documentary series LORENA, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and the Netflix Original Documentary BOB ROSS: Happy Accidents, Betrayal, and Greed. Mark Duplass is an award-winning actor, filmmaker and producer. As an actor, Mark has appeared in a wide range of film and television projects including the Apple+ series THE MORNING SHOW for which he received two Emmy nominations and a 2022 Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Mark was also one of the stars of the acclaimed HBO show TOGETHERNESS, a series he co-created with his brother Jay. Mark’s many on-screen feature film credits include: THE PUFFY CHAIR, which he also co-wrote and co-directed, the indie-sensation HUMPDAY, the Gotham award-winning YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, the Oscar-winning ZERO DARK THIRTY, the contemporary classic sci-fi films THE ONE I LOVE and SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, BOMBSHELL opposite Charlize Theron, PADDLETON with Ray Romano and the CREEP horror franchise. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pop culture icon himself, Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead, Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness, Burn Notice), joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss his career, horror, the all-important definition of lollygagging, and he teases his role as Police Chief Dandridge in the upcoming pop-horror series Hysteria on the Peacock streaming service (premiering Oct. 18, 2024). He also shares a wild UFO story from Oregon. More about Hysteria: When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported “supernatural activity” triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston, the stars of the 2009 surprise blockbuster hit Paranormal Activity join host Aaron Sagers to discuss their new Audible Original podcast "Paranormal Activity: True Tales of Possession." Sloat uses his real-life exploration of the paranormal and spiritism, while Featherston serves as the curious voice of the audience as they examine real-life stories of demonic possession, tracing the phenomenon from its earliest known accounts to its modern-day headlines. With help from noted experts in witchcraft, shamanism, exorcism, and parapsychology, Katie and Micah explore chilling cases throughout history and across cultures, challenging our understanding of the world—or worlds—around us. More about the guests: Micah Sloat is best known for his breakout role in the 2009 surprise smash Paranormal Activity. His performance earned him a Teen Choice Award nomination for Best Horror Film Actor, and he reprised his role in several Paranormal Activity sequels. Sloat’s interest in the paranormal extends far beyond the screen. He has a broad background in many spiritual traditions, with a focus on Peruvian shamanism, British Traditional Witchcraft, and Hawaiian shamanism. By combining these practices with his undergraduate studies in philosophy and his master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology, he’s developed his own transformational practice for healing, change, and manifestation called Spirit Work. Katie Featherston is best known for playing the lead role in Paramount's 2009 smash hit Paranormal Activity, which earned her the Best Actress award at the 2009 Screamfest Film Festival, and has been ranked among many critics' lists of the "Best Horror Movies" ever made. Featherston has also appeared in many of the subsequent sequels, and was brought on to appear in multiple episodes of ABC's The River produced by Steven Spielberg. She can also be seen in the short films Solace for the Unloved and Becoming, both of which she co-directed, as well as in season 2 of HBO’s Big Little Lies. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The cast of Evil — Michael Emerson (Leland Townsend), Katja Herbers (Kristen Bouchard), and Aasif Mandvi (Ben Shaki) — join Aaron to discuss their four seasons on the show about a team of assessors working with the Roman Catholic Church to evaluate potential possession cases, and their larger conflicts with the forces of Hell itself. With the series finale now live, the cast does discuss the importance of the show in their careers, and how they felt the conclusion bid farewell to their characters (and left the door open for a potential return). Spoilers ahead! _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alien: Romulus writer/director Fede Álvarez, along with cast Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, David Jonsson, and Isabela Merced join host Aaron Sagers to briefly discuss the new film — now in theaters — that brings the iconic Ridley Scott franchise back to its horror roots. Recorded live at San Diego Comic-Con. More About Alien: Romulus: The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. The film stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), David Jonsson (Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy), Archie Renaux (Shadow and Bone), Isabela Merced (The Last of Us), Spike Fearn (Aftersun), Aileen Wu. Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directs from a screenplay he wrote with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues (Don’t Breathe 2) based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Alien: Romulus is produced by Ridley Scott (Napoleon), who directed the original Alien and produced and directed the series’ entries Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, Michael Pruss (Boston Strangler), and Walter Hill (Alien), with Fede Alvarez, Elizabeth Cantillon (Charlie’s Angels), Brent O’Connor (Bullet Train), and Tom Moran (Unstoppable) serving as executive producers. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a new series of bonus episodes, host Aaron Sagers brings in some friends as a guest co-host where they answer live audience questions, goof off, and generally talk about a lot of random and spooky topics. This week's guest is Greg Lawson. Greg Lawson is the "paranormal detective" — a homicide detective, underwater crime scene investigator, and military veteran. He is a 30-year law enforcement officer, professional investigator, police academy and collegiate educator, and former expert witness for the state has spent much of his adult life exploring strange places. From the first Russian colony in Three Saints Bay, Alaska to the pyramids of Egypt, he has explored paranormal hot spots in over 40 countries. He is a career law enforcement officer with over 31-years of experience. He has worked as a hostage negotiator, SWAT officer, academy instructor and as a sex crimes and homicide detective. Greg has a master's degree from Texas State University and specializes in investigative procedures, teaching these skills to Texas law enforcement officers. _______________________________________________________________ Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter. Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter.com/aaronsagers Instagram.com/aaronsagers Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage tiktok.com/@aaronsagers Patreon.com/aaronsagers (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices