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by Jeffery Olson Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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What are the Best Paranormal podcasts?

List of paranormal podcasts

  • The Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold
  • This Paranormal Life with Rory Powers and Kit Grier
  • The Paracast
  • The Paranormal Punchers
  • Real Stories Of The Paranormal with Frank Jesus Faria
  • The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
  • Real Ghost Stories Online
  • Ghost Chronicles with Ron Kolek and Anne Kerrigan
  • Graveyard Tales
  • Mysterious Radio

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What are the best news podcasts?

[From our Best Podcasts with Black Hosts roundup] A daily news podcast from the Pod Save America team, What A Day is co-hosted by author and comedian Akilah Hughes (who Mashable interviewed for its own History Becomes Her podcast ).

Do people really listen to podcasts?

Various sources agree that podcast consumers listen to at least 80% of each episode. According to a 4,000-person survey, a great deal of podcast listening happens at home, with 90% of participants...

What are the best history podcasts?

The best history podcasts: 14 shows that tell you forgotten stories

  1. Bowery Boys. The pod from friends Tom Meyers and Greg Young describes itself as a "romp down the back alleys of New York City."
  2. Behind the Bastards. Let's face it: Bad people are fascinating. ...
  3. History Becomes Her. ...
  4. Backstory. ...
  5. The Sneak. ...
  6. Making Gay History. ...
  7. The History of American Slavery. ...
  8. You Must Remember This. ...
  9. Blowback. ...
  10. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. ...

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Framing the Invisible, with Shannon Taggart

Shannon Taggart's book Seance is a landmark in art photography and the history of psychical research. Taggart spent years photographing practitioners of spiritualism in the U.S. and Europe in an effort to capture the mysteries of mediumship, ectoplasm, and spirit photography.

Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan

The Book of Probes contains a assortment of aphorisms and maxims from the work of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, each one set to evocative imagery by American graphic designer David Carson.

What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"

A wish-fulfilment fantasy for pubescent boys of all ages, or a subtle disquisition on the ethics of a sorcerous world? John Milius' Conan the Barbarian (1982) manages to be both, although one may be easy to overlook. In this episode, JF and Phil leave the heights of Hesse's The Glass Bead Game with a headlong dive to the trash stratum.

Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: 'The Glass Bead Game,' Part Two

In the current "attention economy," which has resulted in plummeting literacy rates and the almost wanton neglect of various cultural practices, what significance does culture even have? Why seek to preserve something our age has decided doesn't have to exist? Perhaps Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game can be read as an answer to those questions.

Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse

JF and Phil have been talking about doing a show on The Glass Bead Game since Weird Studies' earliest beginnings.

On Skepticism and the Paranormal

Modern skeptics pride themselves on being immune to unreason.

Episode Archive

121 episodes of Weird Studies since the first episode, which aired on January 31st, 2018.

Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'

Phil and JF discuss the 1978 album that established the ambient music genre.

Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth Card of the Tarot

JF and Phil continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the Tarot with a discussion on the tenth major arcanum, the Wheel of Fortune.

Episode 113: Framing the Invisible, with Shannon Taggart

Phil and JF talk spiritualism and photography to American artist and paranormal researcher Shannon Taggart.

Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan

JF and Phil discuss Marshall McLuhan and David Carson's enigmatic 'Book of Probes.'

Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"

Phil and JF explore the ethics and metaphysics of sword and sorcery through the lends of John Milius' 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones.

Episode 110: Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: 'The Glass Bead Game,' Part Two

JF and Phil resume their discussion on Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," this time with a focus on what the novel reveals about the value of culture in our times.

Who is the host of True Hauntings and Scary Stories?

Ep 151- This week on the podcast, our guest is Cynthia Seer. Cindy is the host of True Hauntings & Scary Stories, a podcast that mixes true ghost stories and her own horror fiction. She brings with her stories of her grandparents super haunted (and historic) house in Florida as well as some other spooky encounters. Check out more of Cindy’ s stories…

What is the mysterious universe?

Mysterious Universe is a weekly podcast featuring fascinatingly strange reports from all over the world. Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.

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