Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium: Recent Episodes
Scott Candey
An imaginary roadside curiosity museum full of dark and strange music, folklore, high strangeness, Fortean anomalies, and weird fiction.
This episode looks briefly at our dystopian sinkhole and features music from Wood & Wire, The Undone, Lebanon Hanover, Arrowounds, Just Mustard, Bird & Beast, Blankenberge, Cloverleaf, EERIÆRMOR, Urschaum and Desolation Colony.
Episode 84 of the Spookatorium I talk about the hiatus and a little bit about a conversation between Heather Cox Richardson and Gil Duran regarding the Dark Enlightenment and while it is current news, it is as strange as anything I would normally include in the show. Please seek out their interview here https://www.youtube.com/live/FWjR6_qYJAw?si=zHtInoSP6Jp8C6OP
In addition to that there is music from Isotropia, W424, Restive Plaggona, Tårne Spirer, Damad, Paranoia Keeps Crawling, State of Fear, Excess Blood, Cower, Bleib Modern, and Dead When I Found Her.
Episode 83 features just music, due to a chair malfunction. Enjoy the sounds of Allegory Chapel Ltd, Bestial Mouths, The Residents, Blackmouth, Rasputina, The Devil & The Universe, Nymph Faithest, Petit Mal, Antaeus, Goetic Equivalent, Vukari and Def.Master.
Episode 82 is a post election come down with music from Form Null, Cardinal Noire, Le Syndicat, 6th Circle, Cazzodio, Theologian, State Vector Collapse, Nazca, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Shellac and Snog.
Episode 81 of the Spookatorium – The Halloween episode, includes some George Lathrop and Edgar Allan Poe as well as tunes from Kip Tyler, Lee Ross, L'Enfant De La Forêt, Post Scriptvm, VHS Glitch, Part 1, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tom Waits, Aderlating, Mombi Yuleman, Ah Cama-Sotz, Mercyful Fate, Possessed, Morbid Saint, and Cutworm.
Episode 80 of The Spookatorium sinks in to the autumnal and lingers in October Country. With music from Pazuzu, Fields Of Mildew, First Human Ferro, William Ryan Fritch, Sonne Hagal, Nightmare Lodge, Karnnos, Strength Through Joy, I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness, Positive Centre, La Breiche and Hagalaz Runedance.
This episode is primarlity music and some creative updates. Enjoy the sounds of Contagious Orgasm, Dachise, Unholy, Lvcifyre, Helel, Violent Grief, Ubrarum Tenebrae, Epignose, DA, Temple of Angels, Esses, Crimson Scarlet, and Cody Drasser.
Episode 78 of the Spookatorium features a reading of HP Lovecraft's The Cats of Ulthar and music dark electronics from Xenonics-K30, Carbon 14, Envenomist, Teatro Satanico, Mass Ejection, Spiritual Voices/Dreadmaul, The Conjured, ÐØRSÆL, Hydra's Nidus, Temple Destroyer, Harvestman. And Tunnels of Ah.
Episode 77 Of the Spookatorium features some vignettes from Franz Kafka that went unpublished during his life and the soothing tones of Bleak, Stone 588, Nuovo Testamento, Artery, Splintered, Subarachnoid Space, Gravitar, Wire, Deception Bay, God, Primitive Knot, and Moon Mourning Earth.
On Episode 76 of the Spookatorium we take a look at the Census of Hallucination, or rather try to, and there is music from Black Messiah, Fall Of The Bastards, F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay, Brooddark, No.Ba, Doubting Thomas, Numb, Noise Unit, Robert Rich, Semiomime, Tvlpa, and Greymachine.
Episode 75 of the Spookatorium takes a look at the curious work of Charles Fort and his dedication to curious things. In addition to that there's music from Radiodrama, Black Mare, Skeptics, Rotting Yellow, Factrix, Suicide, DAF, GodheadSilo, Today Is The Day, Black Elk, Distorted Pony, & Stratvm Terror.
Episode 74 of the Spookatorium we poke our heads into Magonia for a more metaphysical take on the UFO phenomenon and there is music from Hordes Of Satan, The Mind Parasites, Hedon, Negru Voda, MSBR/Blazen Y Sharp, RL Huber, Vhril, Blood Box, Bloodletter, Denuit, Börn, and Chris Connelly.
This is a bonus episode I'm calling The Spookatorium Basement Show. It's only on the audio feed, I didn't make a video for it. It's isn't a typical show. If you like punk you will probably find something you like here... Music from Aus-Rotten Whorehouse of Representatives, Crucifix, Christ On Parade, NoMeansNo, Rudimentary Peni, Die Kreuzen, From Ashes Rise, Conflict, Icons Of Filth, World Burns to Death, Antigen, Subhumans, Corrosion Of Conformity, Detestation, Oi Polloi, Crass, Th'Inbred, Mannequin Beach, and Stikky.
On This episode I ramble a bit about movies again, (Stop Motion and Dr. Caligari) and there are tunes from Parzival, Elektrode, Glacial Mass, Rot Coven, Discordless, Survive, Cyberian, Aeoga, Bonini Bulga, Deadwood, & Decline of The I.
On Episode 72 of the Spookatorium we look at the life of Victorian Painter Richard Dadd who created his most enduring works while incarcerated in an asylum and there is music from Those Poor Bastards, Dry Wedding, DiNT, Einleitungszeit, Bloodflowers, Current 909, Dagda Mor, Daniel Menche, Click Click, Khylst Sect, The Klinik and Lavinia.
Episode 71 of the Spookatorium has some rambling about movies and includes music from Ave Teth, Azoikum, S-Core, Kenotaph. Sectarian Bloom, Girls In Synthesis, New Skeletal Faces, Demonologists, Alapastel, Modir, Tommy Creep, Electric Dragon, Triptidon, and Fetish 69.
On this episode of the Spookatorium we pay tribute to musician, engineer and good human, Steve Albini by digging into his music, soundtrack work, and some great records he worked on beyond the high profile releases. It features music from Shellac, Whitehouse, Head of David, Bodychoke, Chesley/Albini/Midyett, Neurosis, Dazzling Killmen, Pigface, The Wedding Present, Murder Inc., Rapeman, The Jesus Lizard, UT, High On Fire, and Big Black.
On this episode of the Spookatorium we look at the folklore of the Bullebak and there is music from, Usurper, Hedorah, Philistine, Brainbombs, Terminal Cheesecake, Shrike Totem, Crawl Unit, Bonemoss, Killus, High Marks, Nadragea, Blacklist, and Flower.
On episode 68 of the Spookatorium we look at the Resurrection Men of the Victorian Era and there is music from Techno Menses, Love Power Experiment, Matriarchy Roots, Simvlacrvm, SPK, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Exsanguinate, Sonic Violence, Oozepus, Zeni Geva and Public Image Ltd.
Just music on this episode from the likes of Grails, Orghanon, Maculatum, Lament Configuration, Forma4, The Great Tyrant, Product KF, Lila Ehjä, Sanr, Impact Test, Ornament, and Sol Invictus.
This episode features a ghostly tale by J.S. LaFanu and includes music from Cruelty Campaign, Scratch Acid, Yellow Bulb, Chalk, Enola Gay, Svasti-ayanam, Sleeping With The Earth, Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar, Steel Hook Prostheses, Azar Swan, and Civic Center
On episode 65 Of The Spookatorium we look at the life of Cyrus Reed Teed and how he turned his Hollow Earth ideas into a utopian cult. In addition there is music from Body Clock, Desolation Swarm, Conversations About The Light, Yanai, Blessed Sacrifist, Locust Revival, Noir For Rachel, Glaring, Black Mayonnaise, Hallowed Butchery, Detritivore and Christdriver.
On This episode of the Spookatorium we look at the work of Norwegian Artists Odd Nerdrum and hear some music from the likes of Elysian, Cataphiles, Empathy Cell, Noiztatic, Orphx, Ruhr Hunter & Chaos As Shelter, The Phonometrician, Cloverleaf, The Vomit Arsonist, Wäldchengarten, Vitriol and Deceased.
On this episode we look at the demonology compendium, Dictionnaire Infernal and have music from Insekt, Headbutt, Infaust, Sanctum, Dernière Volonté, Alder & Ash, Ancestral Voices, Silence In The Snow, Hante., Boreal Massif, and Chaos Echoes.
On This episode we look at the myth of Beira the Scottish Queen of Winter and revel in the sounds of Sigillum S, Hexsystem, Gavella Glan, Dense Vision Shrine, Skepticism, Slow Riot, Gyrate, Lasael, Moloch, Starfounder, and The Soft Moon.
On this episode we look at the beneficial possession case dubbed the Watseka Wonder and there is lots of great music from the likes of Shrouds, Fausten, Disposal Unit, Deafcult, Suicide Party, Sean Hølt, Corrado Maria De Santis, Exotoendo, Stereo Taxic Device, Lesa Listvy, Mazakon Tactics, and Mighty Sphincter.
This episode we return to the tradition of Midwinter ghost stories with a tale from Algernon Blackwood, and feature music from Doc Watson, Cindytalk, Siglo XX, Quitter/Canady, Prophän, Unfeeling, Alio Die, Her Menacing Pet, Amazing Grace, Cryobiosis, and Carpathian Forest
Call this the eulogy episode. We honor the passing of Shane MacGowan, Mark Samuels, and Geordie Walker, three people of significant creativity and influence that have passed since the last episode. There's music from The Pogues, Have Demons, Archaic Ruins, Rites Of Fall, The Legendary Pink Dots, These Immortal Souls, Leeches, I.Corax, ALC, Caul, and Killing Joke.
Episode 58 of the Spookatorium starts with some excellent modern post punk and takes a little trip back in time once it gets going. Lots of old experimental and Industrial from the late 80's to the mid 90's. I got carried away with that, so it's just tunes this time out, but they are good ones from the likes of. White Hex, Bambara, Ond Cirkel, Addremove, Blackhouse, VO.I.D., Borghesia, Echo West, Radiosonde, Runes Order, Soldnergeist, Deca and Dissecting Table.
On This episode we look at a few creatures from South American folklore and feature music from Hålbå, Megaptera, Silent Scream, Rotting Yellow, 2w, In Death It Ends, The Circular Ruins & Mystified, PBK, Oake, Endvra and Exit Electronics
It's another Halloween episode of the Spookatorium. This time we look at some ideas around death and the afterlife and check in with Lord Byron. in addition to music from Kay Starr, Thrill Kill Kult, Stilz, Terrortron, Nocturnal Emissions, Passed, Screening, Pessary, Daughters of Grief, Shinjuku Thief, The Spectre Collector, King Diamond, Sacrifice, Whiplash, Twisted Nerve, Vain Warr, Secret Shame, and Ausum.
This episode looks at the "Grand Traverse Stonehenge" in Lake Michigan and features music from Lemna, Nostalgia, Olhon, The Protagonist, The Black Monolith, Grabesmond, Blood Of The Black Owl, Ghostships, Golem Mechanique, and VRNA.
This episode of the Spookatorium we look at the recent film Moon Garden, and there is lots of music from Bestia Centauri, Aliquis, Overlook, Solypsis, Skullflower, Conflict Burning, Vengeance Space Quartet, Verge, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Hive Mind, and Aelter.
On episode 53 of the Spookatorium we look at the concept of the Dweller On The Threshold and the book, Zanoni, that inspired it. In addition there is music from Scorn, Fragile Body, Lithivm, Marax, Dweller On The Threshold, Voidthrone, Merrimack, Black Magnet, Shadow Structure, Depressor, and Teeth Engraved With The Names Of The Dead.
This episode is mostly music from the likes of: ATT Corp, Blackwood, Dome Runner, Mental Destruction, Colossloth, Brooddark, Locust Reign, Sonic Oscillations, Daemonyx, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Divided Visions of Souls, and Jonathan Canady.
Episode 51 of the Spookatorium looks at the work of Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett and his book Esoteric Buddhism. In addition there are tunes from TOT, Sky Burial, Heldentod, Distortion Six, Yoke, 20.SV, Sa Bruxa, G.xist, Dead Man's Hill, Catal Huyuk, Mortifero, and Ogre.
This is episode 50, and we do a little state of the podcast check in and talk about perspective and truth in the paranormal. In addition there are tunes from Øne19, Paracusia, The Folks Below, Seelenlicht, The Spectral Light & Moonshine Snakeoil Firefly Jamboree, Carst, Cementation Anxiety, Kerovnian, Venetian Blinds, Ascetic:, The Angelic Process, and Control.
This episode looks at the idea of doppelgangers, and to keep the theme lively all the tunes are cover songs from the like of Pankow, Satori, Angel Hair, Death Method, Ataraxia, Beyond Dawn, Unto Ashes, The Ancients Rebirth, Shadow Of The Torturer, Red Harvest, Otyg, and Snog.
On Episode 48 of the Spookatorium we explore the dark Expressionism of artist Hyman Bloom and hear the delightful sounds of Black Rain, Diasiva, Pact Infernal, Pterygium, Claustrum, Hybryds, GhostShips, Mandible Chatter, Kirchenkampf, Bad Sector, Noform, and Quelaag.
On this episode we look at the Nalusa Falaya and Bohpoli from Choctaw folklore and notice a few parallels with modern paranormal experiences. You will also hear the sounds of TenHornedBeast, Divinus Baal & Runa, Sciama, Dreadcore, MDS51, Nigh/T\mare, Noctilucant, Shinkiro, Noised, Aberva, Kletis, and Into The Pale Abyss.
I was pressed for time this episode, so there’s no stories this go, but still plenty of music from the likes of Reduction Plan, The Dead Mantra, Depther, In Search Of Shores, Narbenerde, Yen Pox, Sun Devoured Earth, Buried Alive, Garden of Myxini, Sator Absentia, Xiphoid Dementia and Pangaion.
This time out we look at the folklore around The Devil’s Causeway, and Frog Well in England, and feature tunes from The Monochrome Set, Princess Tinymeat, Azfarat, Blac Kolor, Sleeprunner, Infinity’s Astrum, Last Life, Law, Nightmares, Urusai, Pyrophilus & Witch Bottle
In this episode we look at the life of Arthur Crew Inman and float on the sonic waves of Ex.Hale, The Doomed Bird of Providence, The Pessimist Chamber, Froe Char, Melanchoholics, Nastika, Theologian, Vile Temper, Death Librarian, Hitting Birth, Test Dept., and Controlled Opposition.
Back after a little hiatus. This episode includes a personal spooky tale, ghost? time slip? who knows... and music from Ah Cama-Sotz, Xoma, Terra Tenebrosa, Infinexhuma, Silence In The Snow, SNTS, Evitceles, Selofan, Hum Of The Druid, Inslavement, Cemento, and Deaf Machine.
This episode we take a look at the Maryhill Stonehenge, a scale replica of the original Stonehenge in Washington state, and the superstitious origins of Horse Brass Medallions. In addition there is music from Polevaulter, Plague Agent, Spectral Aeons, Tho-So-Aa, Akinsa, Anchient, Snowbeasts, Sword Volcano Complex, Terminal Sound System, Kollaps, and Gator Bait Ten.
In this episode of the Spookatorium we look at the weird fiction of lesser known writer Edward Lucas White and present his story “The Voices.” There is music from Olekranon, STCLVR, Torn, Violent Grief, Bract, Cranes, Isotropia, In Slaughter Natives, Still Und Dunkle, Grim Heka and High Strange.
Episode 40 of Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium looks at instances of phantom music across phenomena and through a modern scientific lens. In addition, there is music from She Spread Sorrow, Shimmer Crush, Skrol, Theta, Foreseer, Forndom, Them Teeth, Sonologyst, Blakk Harbor, Clay Rendering and TSOL.
This episode of professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium includes information on the Piasa, a giant bird(?) once believed to inhabit the Mississippi Valley, and a look at some of the more esoteric interests of Sabine Baring-Gould the priest behind the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers." And of course, there's music. This time from Rope Sect, The Ex, Head Of David, Dynastes, November Novelet, Grey Frequency, Caulbearer, The Moon And The Nightspirit, Le'Enfant Del La Foret, Mago, Tertium Non Data & Velum Sonus.
This episode looks at a type of Fae called Night Elves, among other names, as possibly having a role in the Sleep Paralysis phenomenon. Beyond that, there is music from Masses, NoMeansNo, Hypsiphrone, Lot 49, Infestation Ritual, Delta Kane, Recant, Oureboros, Pain Emission, Swamp Terrorists, Controlled Bleeding, & Burial Hex.
This episode, we dip our toes into the Victorian tradition of holiday ghost stories with a reading of M.R. James "A School Story." Beyond that, there is lots of music from the likes of Badrich, Naxal Protocol, Never Worse, Murderous Vision, Hoducoma, Blackmole, Skinny Puppy, Khost, Luasa Raelon, Black Egg, Box and The Twins, Weever and Wilt.
In this episode, we explore the idea of the Sin Eater and look at some of the superstitions surrounding the Hangman's Rope. And there is lots of great music from the likes of Intersigno, Ourea, Belt, Swarm Intelligence, Images In Silence, Tribe Of Circle, Volunteer Coroner, Drape Excrement, Pain Teens, Shallow Waves, Dismal Thoughts, and A.M.Q.A
Episode 35 of the Spookatorium looks at Medium Helene Smith, who claimed to astral travel to Mars, and the work of macabre photographer William Mortensen. In addition, there is music from: The Handsome Family, Helge Sten, Hexvessel, IV Horsemen, Ivillion, Rituals, Second Spectre, Dark Circuitry, Coeur, Stefan Bachmeier, Stem Cell Research Project, & Council of Nine.
In this episode, we take a look at the idea of man-eating trees in remote parts of the world in the 1700 and 1800's. It occurred to me after I finished this episode how Lovecraftian some of the descriptions of these trees are prior to Lovecraft's writing. There is music from Antechamber, Black Mare, P.H.O.B.O.S., Haeretici 7o74, Ligeia, And Also The Trees, Reverence, Dreadmaul, The Chameleons, Geko, The Glass Beads, Funerary Call, Reptyla, Shadow Monument.
In this episode, we look at the rise and fall of a popular patent medicine from the late 1800s called Kickapoo Oil. Beyond that, there is lots of music. from the likes of Dav Dralleon, Hexmyr, Metadevice, Mayfairgrin, Cyclic Amp, Dailiv, Grotus, Black Lung, The Criminal World, Loss, GGGOLDDD, Moss Harvest, Snaig Tharta.
An extended Halloween episode with talk about the role of fog and mist in paranormal experiences and a look at the Dark Watchers of the Santa Lucia Mountains. In addition to lots of music from the likes of...
The Devil & The Universe, Electric Dragon, Aghast Manor, Splinterskin, The Hare & The Moon, Out of Hell, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Flatfield, Mordant Arrow, The Heartwood Institute, Incantor, None, Headless Horseman, Fields Of The Nephilim, Brotherhood of Pagans, Occults, Phelios, Asath Reon, Dusk, and Mercyful Fate
In this episode, we look at preserving the strange cures in medieval medical texts at Cambridge. There's a brief stop on Victorian medicine and the rise of antiseptics. We also dig into how a team in Canada built a better mental hospital by using LSD to help them understand the perceptions of the people who would be staying there.
Also Features music from... A Tergo Lupi, The Northern Lighthouse Board, Holy Mountain Beast, The Fall, Lolita Black, No Mind, Clock DVA, Cober Ord, First Law, SIMM, The Sound, This Mortal Coil, and JK Flesh.
This episode gets a little further back on track, with consensus opinions as it relates to poltergeist activity and the mysteries of human energy fields.
Beyond that, there's lots of music. From the likes of Fixions, Menace Ruine, Of The Wand & The Moon, Temple Destroyer, Ghost Actor, Sombre Lux, Cyan Revue, Imvixor, Lubricated Goat, Invercauld, Lucid Dreams, Vomito Negro, & Trust Crusher.
The first new episode in ages... This is music episode and reintroduction, but elements of the old show will be back going forward.
Featuring music from... Tear Garden, Empty Rituals, Killus, Anatomy Of, Screature, Lydia Lunch, Cuca Negra, Dark Leaves, Fvnerals, Missing Foundation, Moon Mourning Earth, Buio Mondo, The Cramps, Ritual Howls, Lebanon Hanover.
Our 4th Halloween episode, and the last of the old episodes.
This time we have fiction from Orrin Grey & Ambrose Bierce. In addition we look at the life of clairvoyant Marinus B. Dykshoorn.
I read a short vignette by Bierce called “John Mortonson’s Funeral,” first Published in 1906.
Orrin Grey, is a rising talent in the realm of supernatural horror. Orrin reads his vignette, “The Big, Dark House By The Sea.”
Features music from... Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tom Waits, Jill Tracy, Metal Church, Fantomas, Shinjuku Thief, The Church, The Damned, Atrium Carceri, Carpathian Forest, The Cramps, Trial, King Diamond, The Rohan Theatre Band
In this episode, we look at Cotard’s Syndrome a psychological affliction where the sufferer believes themselves to be dead, missing organs or simple non-existent.
We’ve got some publishing news from Gray Friar Press, Dark Regions Press, Tartarus Press, and the new Phantasmagoria Journal.
Then it’s into the catacombs beneath Paris, and a secret workshop in the dome of the Pantheon with UX an arguably secret society urban explorers and preservationists.
Author Richard Gavin speaks on the ideas behind his bleak tale In The Shadow Of The Nodding God from his collection Omens published by Mythos Books, and gives a reading of his vignette Notes On The Aztec Death Whistle.
Featuring music from... The Birthday Party, Westering, Rasputina, Pain Teens, Celtic Frost, Phallus Dei, Faith & The Muse, Sloppy Seconds, Goatvargr, God Bullies, Abandoner & Angel Of Decay, Malaria!
Welcome to the 3rd annual Halloween episode. This time around we pay tribute to Harry Houdini who left this mortal coil on Halloween back in 1926. In addition to the stupefying feats of conjuring and illusion, he was best known for, Houdini spent 30 years exhaustively researching spiritualism and the paranormal.
Next, we take a look at electro-magnetic fields as they relate to investigating the paranormal. Looking at the reality of what the fields are, and the leap of faith required to draw some of the conclusions that investigators seem to draw from them. Aside from that, there is just a whole lot of music.
Featuring music from... Pessary, Deceased, Gothica, The Protagonist, Mercyful Fate, Nightmare Lodge, Benestrophe, The Rohan Theatre Band, Steroid Maximus, Deathspell Omega, Hocico, The Accused, The Bleeding Light, Megaptera, Bauhaus
Out of the gate, we discuss the bizarre affliction that has come to be known as Morgellons disease. In some medical circles, it continues to be looked at as a psychological rather than a physiological condition. Then there are those that see the condition as a result of something more nefarious.
After that, we take a look at a set of core components by which hauntings might be judged in order to come up with some type of standardized scientific perspective on what occurs in a haunting scenario.
Finally, a piece on a supposed bigfoot carcass is said to have been discovered in Northern Georgia. This has been a twisted tale that is not resolved. (With the benefit of hindsight now it was even more twisted than it first appeared.)
Featuring music from... Avrigus, Joy Division, TSOL, Black Messiah, Scrap.Edx, Beyond Dawn, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Eisregen, God, Inade, Front 242, Nailbomb, Death In June, Nachtmystium, Namanax, Dual
First up, we revisit the legend of “Oriuagor,” a tome purported to drive insane those who dare read it. First touched upon in Episode 19. I had largely written it off, but a submitter from Denmark suggests that the legends at least are known there.
Next up we look at reports of a lake monster in Minnesota’s Lake Pepin, quaintly, if not predictably, known as Pepie. Next in Pennsylvania, there have been at least four reports of a large bird or bat-like creature stalking the back roads over the last year. The descriptions vary slightly, but the witness reports are pretty interesting.
Finally, we brush upon the subject of Demonology, and its inherent bias and delusion when approaching the paranormal.
Featuring music from... Maschinzimmer 412, Clockdva, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Ludicra, Dead World, Haus Arafna, Tiger Lillies, Blood Axis, Christian Death, Disgrace, Heltir, Noise Unit, Old Man Gloom, GGFH, Laibach
This time we take a peek at the life of Thomas Dyott. Dyott amassed a sizable fortune selling patent medicines under such tantalizing names as Roberton’s Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges & Vegetable Nervous Cordial.
From there we peek behind the curtain of opportunist psychiatry and look at the phenomenon of Spirit Release, the process of psychiatric exorcism.
Finally, we look at the Mormon theory that Bigfoot is actually the earthly incarnation of the biblical Cain.
Featuring music from... Harvestman, Bad Sector, Hollenfurt, Garmonbozia, Belborn, Front Line Assembly, Impetigo, Lament Configuration, Goliah, Somewhere In Europe, Bethlehem, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, Gaurithoth, Ruhr Hunter, Hybryds
We examine numerous instances of buzzing and grinding sounds that build to a crescendo and have been associated with everything from Near Death Experiences, Shamanic Rituals, Old Hag Syndrome, and other forms of transcendent consciousness.
Then we travel to Ohio to review the story of the Loveland Frog. While evidence is limited to eyewitness testimony and there are reports that at least some of it may have been exaggerated or hoaxed it remains one of my favorite crypto tales.
We take a look at the discredited work of Dr. Johann Beringer. He believed in the early 1700’s that fossils were in fact cast off ideas carved by the hand of God. His collection grew to encompass bizarre specimens like birds with fish heads, and even stones that bore the name of God.
Featuring music from... Chaos As Shelter, Wyrd, Novy Svet, Sistrenatus, Body Choke, New Mind, Moth Masque, Backworld, Agnes Bernelle, Khold, Skinny Puppy, Brutal Truth, Caul, Nefilim, Burzum, Nocturnal Emissions
This episode we examine the Jewish ritual of Kapparot – the transfer of sins into the body of a chicken and the sacrifice of the chicken prior to Yom Kippur… I also juxtapose this with a sensational article from the Sioux City Journal regarding a reported ritual killing.
We look at the hoax of the Jenny Haniver. Oddly named this crytpotaxidermy beast constructed from dried, rays, skates and cuttlefish has been passed off as a bona fide monster since the 16th Century, and continues to be despite widely being dubbed a hoax from early on.
Finally a look at the fascinating Charles Bonnet Syndrome. The condition in which those with failing vision find their lives interrupted by elaborate hallucinations.
Featuring cover songs from... Blixa Bargeld, Carpathian Forest, Tulus, The Accused, Harmony Garden, Malhavoc, Darkthrone, Babyland, Subterranean Masquerade, Ember, Dessau, Coil, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Never Presence Forever, Del
This time we take a look at a rise in reports of possession, exorcisms, and the mark of the beast in the news. Next up we take a look at the legacy of John “Goat Gland” Brinkley. Finally, we look at George Daynor’s Palace of Depression in New Jersey.
Featuring music from... Big Black, Cazzodio, Doubting Thomas, Blackhouse, Funeral Diner, Deinonychus, Echo & The Bunnymen, Impaled Nazarene, 16 Volt, Hagalaz Runedance, Black Flag, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Divinus Baal & Runa, Neurosis, Necrophorus, Hollow Earth
This time out we take a look at an alleged forbidden tome called Oriuagor, and the superstitions and warnings associated with reading the work.
Next we review the life and death of Anna Goldi who was immortalized as “The Last Witch of Europe” after her execution 1782 on bogus allegations of witchery in a small Swiss town.
Lastly, we look into two fabled giant serpents, the Lindorm in Scandinavia, and the Tatzelwurm reported to live in the Alps throughout Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland
Featuring Music from... Naiandra Muriatica, Econocon, Kapo!, iBurn, Head of David, Venom, Napalm Death, Einsturzende Neubauten, Vein Cage, Def.Master, Godflesh, Tear Garden, Grotus, Dream Into Dust, Aesthetic Meat Front, Nos, Devillock
This time out we look at the legacy of Mary Toft, Her story is outlined further in the book “The Girl Who Gave Birth To Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery,”
Next, we take a trip down south to check in on a couple of mysterious creature sightings. In addition, LiveScience.com ran a recent article on the possibility of using hi-resolution satellite imagery to search for elusive breeding colonies of various cryptids.
Finally, we take a look at the theory of palingenesy, the alchemical idea inspired by the work of Greek philosopher Lucretious that sought to explain ghosts and apparitions chemically, rather than metaphysically.
Featuring music from...
Disharmonic Orchestra, Dazzlingkillmen, Missing Foundation, Snog, Blanche, Clan of Xymox, Descendents, Navicon Torture Technologies, VO.I.D, Fluisterwoud, Today Is The Day, Jesus & Mary Chain, Brute Force, Charnel Valley, Naj, Corproparassita
A double-length Halloween episode that looks into ghostly sightings and communication with the dead through various gadgetry from Frank's Box to talking boards.
Featuring music from... Louis Armstrong, The Rohan Theatre Band, Black Mayonnaise, Hadit, The Dead Brothers, Ulthar, Mercyful Fate, Goatvargr, Bauhaus, Mondblut, Schloss Tegal, Darvulia, The Handsome Family, Those Poor Bastards, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Heid, Ah Cama-Sotz, Geomatic, A Murder of Angels, Innana, Brighter Death Now
Escape artists are seeking to set the world record in a one day relay of over 80 escape performances, while a grizzled old school freak takes the law into his own hands. A pillar of the pharmaceutical industry is working on a virtual reality rig that gives the user a window into the schizophrenics world. Another team working on solving our world’s energy issues are looking at cow stomachs as the golden ticket to solve our woes… environmentalist/animal rights advocates' heads explode at the conundrum. There are a couple of stories about brain surgeries with unexpected results.
Featuring music from... Nazca, Dante's Voodoo Cabaret, Download, Spektr, In Gowan Ring, Possessed, Grinderman, Pitch Shifter, Cat Rapes Dog, Dellamorte, Fred Lane, Sisters Of Mercy, November Novelet, Arcana, Diapsiquir, Deva-Loka, Novatron, Atom Infant Incubator
You will hear the moving tale of the death of a vampire peacock struck down in one of the shadowy corners of New York City, and the citizen who would not let its passing go unnoticed. I have a haunted lighthouse to tell you about, and ladies and gentleman, you can buy it for a dollar! I also take a look at the alleged tales of haunting in a remote Michigan town. A small town in Mississippi sees a strange creature on the loose, and doesn’t jump to cryptoid conclusions! An amphibious giant from beneath the sea with a hostile message is made an example of by the Dutch.
Featuring music from... Procer Veneficus, Cold Northen Vengeance, Coil, Dolorian, Spectral Light & The Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree, The Tiger Lillies, Christian Death, TSOL, Myrkr, Trial, Rwake, Angel Of Decay, Anima Mundi
Featuring music from... Grave, SPK, Cranes, Geisha, Hell Militia, Fetish 69, Sabbat, Mentallo & The Fixer, Mothra, 1000 Homo DJ’s, Steve Earle, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Old Scratch Revival Singers, Dive
Featuring music from... Swartalf, Wormwood, Destructo Swarmbots, Empyrium, Death In June, Carved In Stone, Tartaros, My Dying Bride, Post Scriptvm, Voivod, Philistine, Hum Of The Druid, Maruta Kommand, Thergothon
Featuring music from... Young Gods, Cyberaktif, Pigface, Godheadsilo, Overkill, Dead Brain Cells, David E. Williams, Steve Earle, The Pogues, Hekate, Circle Takes The Square, Sine Nomine, Uranus, To What End?, Steroid Maximus, Memorandum, MZ.412, The Creatures, Guy Lafleur, Black Noise Cannon
A special Spookatorium Xmas episode featuring music from... Social Skills Centre, Aborym, Samael, The Accused, Sonne Hagal, Truckstop Honeymoon, Charnel Valley, Atrium Carceri, The Handsome Family, Jason Webley, Abigor, The Iditarod & Sharron Kraus, Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Hellblinki Sextet, Rev. Glen Armstrong, The Mass
Featuring music from... Strength Through Joy, Tribe Of Circle, Somewhere In Europe, Agalloch, Backworld, Hagalaz Runedance, Geist, Kampfar, This Morn’ Omina, Alio Die & Mathias Grassow, Apoptose, The Carter Family, No Festival Of Light
I think the country may have done something stupid this particular week to inspire this one. Featuring music from... Cress, 1000 Homo DJ’s, Militia, Moonsanto, Thralldom, Missing Foundation, Snog, Echo West, Craft, Luasa Raelon, Melek-Tha
For some reason I decided to only play songs under 2 minutes this time.
Features music from.... Captain Hook & His Crew, Leather Strip, Skinny Puppy, Cathi Stout, His Hero Is Gone, Paul Lemos, Alien Sex Fiend, Scorn, Proscenium, Akrabu, Death In June, Sapthuran, Those Poor Bastards, Laibach, Nicholas Slonimsky, Hoarstone, Teen Cthulhu, SPK, Happy Flowers, Svasti-Anyanam, Richard Cheese, Diallo, Sleeping With The Earth, The Buried Civilizations, Sharron Kraus, Agnes Bernelle, Sear Bliss, Old Man Gloom, Conversations About The Light, Echo West, Ashfordaisyak, Ocosi, Of The Wand And The Moon, Maschinenzimmer 412, The Pogues, Roberta Lee & Thurl Ravenscroft, Beneath The Lake
A double length special Halloween edition that features music from...
The Hellblinki Sextet, Mercyful Fate, Coil, Goblin, Jill Tracy & The Malcontent Orchestra, Rohan Kriwaczek, Blanche, Tombstone, Extinction, Nordvargr, The Handsome Family, Christopher Walken, Aghast, Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Stone Breath, Archon Satan, TSOL, The Accused, The Vanity Set, Endura, Galgeras, Nehëmah, The Dead Brothers, ClockDVA, American Sinner, Amber Asylum, Crepuscule, Schloss Tegal
Features music from...
Amber Asylum, Plan E, Murder Inc., SLAB!, Controlled Bleeding, Elhaz, David Chenery & The Lonesome Valley Singers, The Pine Box Boys, Steve Earle, Consono, A Split Second, Niko Skorpio, Summoning
Features music from...
Dream Into Dust, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fields Of The Nephilim, Negurã Bunget, Sator Absentia, Oil Seed Rape, Jill Tracy, The Pogues, The Rohan Theatre Band, Foetus, Blacklodge, Rabaue
Features music from...
Kreator, Leather Strip, The Guild Of Funerary Violinists, Circus Contraption, Bill Lee, Samael, They Might Be Giants, Cranes, P.H.O.B.O.S., Rancid Hell Spawn, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Blanche, Satyricon
Features music from...
The Creatures, Steve Earle, The Handsome Family, Of Unknown Origin, The Elemental Chrysalis, Mortifera, Scorn, Nazca, Split Lip Rayfield, Chris Connelly, Eileen Fulton, Forseti, The Legendary Pink Dots
Features music from...
The Tiger Lillies, Lord Wind, November Novelet, Celestiial, The Meat Purveyors, Donovan, Beyond Dawn, GGFH, King Diamond, Rudimentary Peni, God Bullies, Sharron Kraus, Janet Klein, The Accused
Features music from...
Dr:Op:Fr:Am+E, Atrium Carceri, Alethes, Tenebrae In Perpetum, Lugubrum, Johnny Cash and Nick Cave, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Dead Brothers, Blut Aus Nord, Murderous Vision, The Handsome Family