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Mountain State Spirit Seeker Society

The big 5 0 is here and we had a fun time.  We talk about the incredible web series ParaAbnormal.  Check them out and recommend them to a friend today.  Due to popular response, we’re going to move to Sunday nights starting February 21st at 6:00PM Eastern.  We’re going to take next week off and do one more Monday night show on the 15th.

Tonight we were joined by the Mountain State Spirit Seeker Society to tell us a little about their group and some of the work they’ve been doing.  We’ve been trying to get these guys on for quite a while so it was great to finally get everyone together.  Great half hour with them.  Be sure to check out their website.

Our Independent Music Break featured ‘X My Eyes’ from The Russian Brides.  Remember to support independent music!

If you haven’t voted in the Spooktalkular Parawards yet, head over to www.spooktalkular.com and vote today.

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Kyle Lovern

We started out talking a little about an interesting comment we received from one of our listeners Graham, about episode 46.  Between time 23:05 amd 23:09, Graham noticed a womans voice that doesn’t sound like Laura’s.  I’ll try to isolate it and we’ll play it during the next show.  We also talk about possibly moving the show to Sunday night.  Be sure to let us know what you think about what time we should do the show.

Tonight we were joined by Kyle Lovern, author of  the books, “Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena, volumes 1 and volume 2“  to talk a little local UFO.  Once again, we ran short on time but Kyle was good enough to agree to come back and join us again.

Our Independent Music Break featured the song ‘X My Eyes’ from the Oregon group the Russian Brides.  Always support Independent Media!

If you haven’t voted yet, be sure to vote for your choices in the Spooktalkular Parawards.  Head over to http://www.spooktalkular.com/voting/survey.php?sid=28 today.

Special Thanks again to our guest Kyle Lovern and to all of our listeners!

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I can finally say, we’re back.  The show tonight was more classic Spooktalkular.  Our Spooky Groupies are back.  We had a blast!!!  Busy. busy show.  We talk about the Parawards so if you haven’t voted yet, head to www.spooktalkular.com/parawards and vote today.  Voting has been very brisk.  Laura shares some Haunted Headlines with us, during which we discuss the remake of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street‘.  It looks promising.  Here’s the original trailer from 1984.  And now for your viewing pleasure, the 2010 trailer.  Thanks to our good friend Patrick for sharing via Twitter that on this day in 1644, the first US UFO sighting happened in Boston, Mass.  If you’re not following Patrick on Twitter, you should be.  MovieDan will be premiering his new podcast this week over at http://www.srnlive.com/ so head over and check it out!  Spooktalkular loves MovieDan!

Thanks to our good friend Richard turning us onto Methodic 1.5, we check it out and we LOVED it!  Chris .R. Notarile does it again.  The Dollman is alive and better than ever.  Check out Methodic 1.5 free on Youtube.

Frank had the chance to meet Kyle Lovern, author of Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena this past weekend along with his publisher Keith Davis from Woodland Press at a local book signing.  Book is great and we’re working to get Kyle on the show sometime.

Our Independent Music Break featured the song ‘Hide’ by the group Groundmower.

Laura tells us about some of the paranormal shows from this past week.  Paranormal State was particularly interesting.  Ryan was a little rough with his team.  Looks like Steve from GH: Academy may have come competition for Paranormal Jerk next year.

Speaking of GH: Academy, back on December 12th, we posted a story about Jane Riley from GH: Academy possibly being censored on some stuff she posted on Hulu.  That story grabbed a little attention this week so we discuss it a little.  We also talk about Kris Williams acting career before Ghost Hunters.  Yea, you didn’t misread it.  She acted before she got her current acting gig.  I hope she was better acting in her previous roles than she is acting like a paranormal investigator.

We round out the show with a rant on the current state of paranormal entertainment.  The concept of what would make a good paranormal show and the Ghost Hunters Community vs the Ghost Hunting Community.  And yes, they are very different.  As always, thanks for listening!

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Tonight’s show was mainly to hammer out the details of 2009 Spooktalkular Parawards.  I think we ended up with a good group of nominees.  Be sure to vote at  http://www.spooktalkular.com/parawards for your favorites.  Voting will run through February of 2010.  Winners will be announced in March.  Here’s the final list of nominees.

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Well, Laura was good enough to write everything down from the show.  Here’s our first pass at the nominees.  We’ll be slimming down the list to five each by next week when we revisit and finalize it during Spooktalkular Live.  Let us know what you think!

Paranormal Reality TV Series

Best Male
1. Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures
2. Ryan Buell from Paranormal State
3.Jason Hawes from Ghost Hunters
4. Grant Wilson from Ghost Hunters
5. Karl Beattie from Most Haunted
6. Jason Gowan from Extreme Paranormal
7. Aaron Goodwin from Ghost Adventures
8. Barry Fitzgerald from Ghost Hunters International
9. Rob Demarest from Ghost Hunters International
10. Kieran O’Keefe from Most Haunted
11.  Stuart Torevell from Most Haunted

Best Female

1. Elfie Music from Paranormal State
2. Heather Taddy from Paranormal State
3. Katrinia Weidman from Paranormal State
4. Yvette Fielding from Most Haunted
5. Kris Williams from Ghost Hunters
6. Katie Burr from Ghost Lab
7. Michelle Belenger from Paranormal State

Best Paranormal Reality Series

1. Ghost Hunters
2. Ghost Adventures
3. Paranormal State
4. Most Haunted

Best New Paranormal Reality Show

1. Extreme Paranormal
2. Ghost Lab
3. Psychic Kids/Children of the Paranormal
4. The Haunted from the Animal Planet
5. Ghost Hunters Academy
6. Celebrity Ghost Stories

Best Paranormal Drama Series

1. Ghost Whisperer
2. Medium
3. Harpers Island
4. Being Human
5. Supernatural

Best Paranormal Drama Male

1. Jim Beaver from Supernatural
2. Chris Gorham from Harpers Island
3. David  Conrad from Ghost Whisperer
4. Jamie Kennedy from Ghost Whisperer
5. Jake Weber from Medium
6. David Cubitt from Medium
7. Russell Tovey from Being Human
8. Aiden Turner from Being Human
9. Alex Price from Being Human(
10. Jensen Ackles from Supernatural
11. Jared Padalecki from Supernatural
12. Adam Campbell from Harpers Island(Cal)

Best Paranormal Drama Female

1. Jennifer Love Hewitt from Ghost Whisperer
2. Patricia Arquette from Medium
3. Cameron Richardson from Harpers Island
4. Katie Cassidy from Harpers Island
5. Elaine Cassidy from Harpers Island
6. Anna Mae Routeledge from Harpers Island
7. Lenora Crichlow from Being Human
8. Sinead Keenan from Being Human
9.. Cassandra Sawtell from Harpers Island
10. Sofia Vassilieva from Medium

Best Horror Movie of 2009

1. Drag Me to Hell
2. Friday the 13th
3. Halloween 2
4. My Bloody Valentine
5. Paranormal Activity
6. Fourth Kind
7. Last House on Left
8. Final Destination in 3D

This was a little disorganized episode due to our traveling during the holidays.  Laura talks about a couple of ‘Paranormal State’ episodes along with a ‘Ghost Adventures’ episode.  After a break with the song ‘Only For You’ from AMORIC, we jumped right in to hammering out the 2009 Spooktalkular Parawards nominees.  We’ll make a final pass on the nominees next week and then open it up to voting.  There are a couple of “Not Safe For Work” moments in this one but nothing like last week.

Hope you enjoy

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Spooktalkular returns with a little edgier show than normal.  No, this isn’t going to be the norm, we just went where the material led us today.
Frank takes a rant out on Ghost Hunters Academy.  We discuss ‘The Haunted’, ‘Psychic Kids’, and a Jack the Ripper special on the Discovery Channel.  We also have a lengthy discussion on a recent ‘Paranormal State’ episode.  Our independent music break featured ‘Chaos Engine’ by TenPenny Joke
All in all, a great, fun show.  It’s good to be back!

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After making it about half way through the latest Ghost Hunters Academy, I decided to do a quick search for GHA on Twitter.  I noticed a post about the possibility of Jane Riley being an actress which, I have to admit, perked up my ears since I am always looking for the full story of everything.  I went on to search futher when I Googled Jane Riley Ghost Hunters Academy and got the following:

Now, if you notice, the first return is Hulu and the second under it says that Jane rated herself 5 out of 5 stars.  Nothing ticks me off more than self serving ratings.  That is why you will never see a review from Laura or myself about Spooktalkular.  Needless to say, I was curious so I clicked and got a message that the page couldn’t be found.

This screams to me that someone had posters remorse and deleted it after they posted which, perks my ears even more.

Well, fortunately, in the world that is the Internets, nothing is ever truly deleted, so thanks to the Google cache of the page, all is safe.  I was not prepared for the comments that little Jane left for her fans.  She does not seem to be a happy person with the show or how she was edited.  She speaks to being verbally abused by Steve Gonsalves and being filmed when she started crying.  This doesn’t surprise me.  Steve comes off as someone who could be one of the biggest jerks ever especially on GHA.  Shoot, you can almost watch his ego grow by the minute on camera.

Here are the screen captures of the posts.  I’m betting she posted those comments, then, she got a call from someone at Pilgrim Television suggesting that she delete the comments.

Remember folks, this is a TV show.

Enjoy and please, by all means, comment!

Short TV week due to Thanksgiving but we had some good talks about ‘Ghost Adventures’ and ‘Ghost Hunters Academy’ none the less.  We also briefly talk about a cool independent project we were turned on to named ‘Judith: The Night She Stayed Home‘ and the film ‘A Mannequin In Static’ both by Josh Hasty.  We also talk about the cool house in North Carolina that is a replica of the Myers house from the original  ’Halloween’.

This week, our Independent Music Break featured ‘Chaos Engine’ from the band Tenpenny Joke.  Remember to support independent music.

Jonathan Farrell joins us to talk about Paranormal Investigation and his site Perception9 Paranormal.  Awesome interview.  Laura solo’d it and it turned out great.  Jonathan was incredibly interesting.

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Busy night tonight. We start off talking about the cool upcoming Hydrovibe tour.  There was an interesting article over on SciFake about Certifying Paranormal Investagtors??? Check it out at scifake.com.  Laura talks a little ‘New Moon’ since she went to the midnight showing on opening night.  We hit our usual assortment of Television with ‘Ghost Hunters: Academy’ and ‘Ghost Hunters’ which brings us to the latest controversy to come to light. Donna Lacroix does a “tell all” interview with the Ghost Divas Podcast. It calls into question, issues of faking the evidence, the mistreatment of Brian and even poor treatment of women in general. You owe it to yourself to check this one out. You can get the full interview here or for some of the high points, check out Moviedan’s highlights here.

We also touch on Ghost Lab and Ghost Adventures. We then get into a fairly involved discussion on the latest Jack the Ripper special where he comes to America.

We round the show out with an awesome interview that Laura did with Sergio from the band Mandinga. They did some of the music from the movie Transylmania which opens on December 4th.  During the interview, we hear two songs. The song ‘Bite Me‘ is from the movie. The other song is Goochie.

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