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Welcome to Spooktalkular 2011.  We were hoping to have Brian Harnois on this week but in a Spooktalkular First, he was a no-show.  Here’s the Twitter conversation where I thought we had it set up.

So who knows….  Still a fun show.  We talked about the Planet Macabre and Creepture Feature Horror Show podcasts.  We then headed into a discussion about the dead birds that have been happening around the world.  After that, what would be fitting for Classic Cinema but the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “The Birds”.  During our discussion, we also talked about Jaws and the Jaws game from the 70′s.  A quick search turned up this link with a picture of the game.  http://gedblog.com/2009/06/01/you-know-for-kids-2/

Our Independent Music Break featured the song ‘Knots’ by a cool band out of Florida named Seven Years Past.  Great sound with a strong female lead.  Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/sevenyearspastfl or follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/sypband

We had some audio problems with the live feed at the beginning of the show.  At the suggestion of everyone in the chat room, we left it all in.  ;)  Enjoy!

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It was good to be back tonight.  We had a busy night.  We had a fairly lengthy discussion about the recent Wikileaks controversy.  We then moved into some lighter territory with our Classic Cinema pick this week which was the 1974 hit ‘Black Christmas‘.  We rounded out the show with a discussion on ‘The Walking Dead‘.  The book I am waiting for is The Walking Dead: Compendium One.

A couple of the Must Check Out things we mentioned tonight were the Planet Macabre podcast and, our great friend Greg’s podcast The Creepture Feature Horror Show.  Give them both a listen, we’re sure you’ll love them.

We’ll be off air for the next couple of weeks for the holidays but in our absence, we’ll be rebroadcasting some classic ‘Ghostly Talk‘ with a couple of our favorites.

Have a Happy Holiday!

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Wow, 65 of these crazy things  now.  Who would have ever thought it?  We spend the first part of the show talking about the Mothman Festival which we will be attending next weekend.  We briefly talk about the new season of Ghost Hunters and Frank’s new approach to Ghost Hunting.  This was prompted by a podcast with Jeff Belanger.  Jeff also hosts a podcast of his own called 30 Odd Minutes.

After the break, we talk about the parody Taintlight.  Funny flick making fun of everyone’s favorite vamp series.  Free on Netflix streaming, think ‘Vampires Suck’ without the budget.  For Classic Cinema this week, we take an early look at the 2002 movie ‘Below’.  Another great movie free on Netflix streaming.

Our Independent Music was from the album Stomp Out Cancer: Musician’s Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma Presents – HOPE.  The song was Heroes & Madmen:Emory.  Please support Independent Music and especially this album.  It really is for such a great cause.

Remember, no show next weekend but we’ll be back in two weeks with our Mothman Festival recap.

Just in case you’d like to get a Mothman Tee Shirt of your own, here’s the link: http://www.cafepress.com/spooktalkular

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Had an absolute amazing time doing the show tonight.  We didn’t have any guests but we still had plenty of gab going on.  We start off by discussing our plans for when we buy the Amityville Horror House which recently went on sale.  We just need 1.5 million of our incredible listeners to send us a buck each and we can make it a reality.  ;)  We also briefly talk about a really cool old audio recording about Spiricom that we found in the 2005 archives of Ghostly Talk.  We also checked out the remake of the Wolfman this weekend and we both loved it.

Believe it or not, Ghost Hunters Academy is back.  Well, we being the fans we are take a run through of the new cadets.  Frank is thinking about pitching a new similar series but instead of Steve or Tango, Gordon Ramsay is the lead.  It would be great.  While we’re in the angry mood, we also tear into Happy Town.  How does a show with this much potential end up in such a shape?

A couple of special thanks to some great friends of the show.  Jake Wheat has updated our website and, Jake, I promise I’ll get the new version online soon.  ;)  And, to Mark Hayden.  Thanks, as always for the incredible banners you do for us.

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Welcome back to Spooktalkular after an unexpected break last week.  We are working on getting Marie and Larry rescheduled.  ;)  Tonights show was a little more classic Spooktalkular.  Laura and I just hung out, no guest and talked about what’s new in Paratainment.  We took another look (or listen) to the Happy Town trailer.  Laura and I have seen some of the first couple of episodes and we can tell you, this is the must watch series this spring!  It premieres on Wednesday April 28th.  Be sure to check out the first 15 minutes of the show over at abc.com and watch the premiere Wednesday.

We took a quick look and listen at the trailer for the new “Nightmare on Elm Street“.  Premiering Friday, April 30th.  Remember, every town has an Elm street.

Laura told us about a cool movie from Netflix Streaming named “Paranormal Entity“.  I’m going to watch it ASAP myself.

We also talked about the season premiere of Dr. Who on BBC.

We also mentioned the most incredible commercial that we’ve seen in a long time.  From the 2010 Super Bowl, the Old Spice commercial was one of our favorites.

Our music tonight featured the song We Are One by Dash the Assassin.

Thanks as always to our GREAT friend Mark Hayden for his incredible banners!

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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!

Another incredibly fun episode. Tonight we talk about the sad news of an indefinite hiatus from the incredible folks over at Ghostly Talk. ScottL, Doug and Bonnie have produced a first class show now for almost 8 years. Ghostly Talk is the rule by which the rest of independent paranormal podcast/radio should be judged. Guys, we’ll miss you and anxiously await your return! We also talk a little about some of the upcoming format changes here at Spooktalkular. As we’ve mentioned, we’re planning on going a little deeper into some serious paranormal topics. We start that off next week with a very special guest live, the incredibly interesting Marie D. Jones who will be talking all things 2012 with us.

As for this week, we dissect ‘Paranormal Activity‘. Be warned, if you haven’t seen it, we do a fairly lengthy discussion on it with an unlimited supply of spoilers. In a nutshell, we loved the concept but really feel more could have been done with it. After that, we talk some TV with ‘Ghost Hunters’, ‘Destination Truth’ and ‘Mystery Quest’.

Our Independent Music Break featured the song Oxygen from the incredibly talented Erica Shines. Be sure to pick up Erica’s album ‘I Will Wait For You’ over at CDBaby and always support independent music!

We round out the show with a wrap up of episodes 12 and 13 of ‘Harper’s Island’ and replay the Jim Beaver interview we did a few months back.

A couple of notes.  Be sure to send in your Spooky Stories for the contest.  Also, join us live on October 30th at 8:00PM Eastern when we’ll have the chat open along with the Mic for a special Spooktalkular.  We’ll be watching the Ghost Adventures Live crew when they investigate the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.   Be sure to get your Skype ready because we’ll be having listeners call in while we watch it.

Also, be sure to tune on on October 29th on the History Channel for a four hour marathon of the remaining ‘UFO Hunters’ episodes!  And, if you haven’t signed the petition to keep ‘UFO Hunters’ on the air, do it now.  Head over to www.ufomag.com and follow the link from there.

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Another awesome love show! We had a blast chatting with the Spookchattie’s tonight. Another name has been proposed… The Spooky Groupies. I like em both.  We intro the Spooktalkular YouTube channel.  So far, only the Mothman Hayride video from us…  But look for more.  We also talk about our format change of moving towards more serious paranormal topics.

Where to start, it was a busy episode. We started out with a cool interview with Alex Price who played Gilbert on the hit BBC series ‘Being Human‘.

From there, we head into our television coverage with a surprising newcomer this week, ‘South Park’ and the episode ‘Dead Celebrities‘ where our paraplumbers Jay and Grant get parodied in awesome form. You really know you’ve arrived when you’re spoofed on ‘South Park’! From there, we hit into ‘Ghost Hunters’, ‘Destination Truth’ and ‘Mystery Quest’. We also discuss the new show ‘Ghost Lab’. So far, we agree that we really like the personalities of the brothers but it’s really nothing new as far as format. We’ll discuss it more in the coming weeks.

We also talk about the upcoming ‘Ghost Adventures’ Live event at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum where the ‘Ghost Adventures’ Crew will be spending the night on October 30 starting at 8:00PM ET. Looks awesome!

Our Independent Music Break featured the song ‘Now or Never’ from the band AG Silver!  Awesome sound and they seem like great people also.  Please support Independent Media of all forms!

We wrap up the show with a recap of ‘Harper’s Island’ episode 11, Splash.  The Cal/Chloe death scene is the best in the series!  The song used for that scene is ‘Letters From The Sky’ by Civil Twilight.  It’s availible for free for a limited time from iTunes.

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Well, our second live show was great!!!  We had a blast with Emily, Alex and TL in the chat room.  Be sure to log on next Monday at 8:00 Eastern and join us.  This week, we were a little light on the TV.  Laura gives a great look back on the season finales of  ’Being Human’ and ‘Monster Quest’.  She also takes a look at ‘Ghost Hunters’.

No Classic Cinema this week but we do take a look at the direct to DVD/Syfy movie ‘Dead Like Me: Life After Death‘.

We gained a new MySpace friend this week.  The folks over at Wolf Creek Haunted Forest added us so we checked them out and they look like an awesome 77 Acre haunted attraction in Shepardsville, KY.  Perfect stopover when you go to see ‘Evil Dead the Musical‘.

This week’s Independent Music Break features the return of Mr. James McLean from over at backtofrankblack.com with his song ‘Enigma’.  Be sure to check out backtofrankblack.com if you haven’t already and see what you can do to help.

Next week, a real treat.  We’re going to have a visitor live on the show.  Our friend Emily from the new podcast ‘The Light’ A Ghost Whisperer podcast will be joining us to tell us about what she’s doing.  We’ve also committed to trying to get out to see ‘Halloween II’ this week.  All that in addition to the usual assortment of TV.  Whew….  Thanks for listening!

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