Tonight was what we’ll call a quickie.  We explained out hiatus of recent and announced that we’ll be returning to regular shows on September 5th of 2010.  We briefly touched on GHI and GH:A.  We also played the trailer for “Vampires Suck“.

Take care everyone and we’ll see you in September!!!  Have a great Summer!

Since I (Frank) am feeling pretty sick, we’re not going to be able to do a show tonight. Sorry for the late notice but our hope was to be able to do one but I’m just feeling too bad. Thanks again.

Frank

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.

Tonight we have a rantless discussion on the finale of ‘Lost’ and a little bit of a rant on the finale of ‘Flash Forward’.  We discuss our unintended car collection and just have a regular good ole time.

Our Independent Music Break featured more music from the amazing CD Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope.  The Sheds: Only Way Out Is Through – written for a friend of the band that was going through chemo.

No show next week so we’ll see you on June 13th!

Well, it’s not live but we really wanted to get a show out this week.  Tonight we talk about the NEW ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’.  Laura went to the midnight premiere, Frank hasn’t seen it yet.  We also talk about the movie Transylmania which was super fun!  In the TV world, we discuss the premiere of ‘Happy Town’ and, of all things, the crappy final season of ‘Lost’.  In my opinion, this season should be named ‘Lost: Done’ cause it has sucked!

We finish up with an INCREDIBLE interview with the Psychic Medium Terri Jay.  Her specialty is Pets.  She was a sweetheart.  Be sure to check her out at www.terrijay.com today!

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!

We were joined tonight by our great friend Jake Wheat.  Jake tells us all about the CD “Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope” which all proceeds benefit Stomp Out Cancer and Ewing’s Sarcoma Research.  You will be hearing songs from the CD featured on our Independent Music Breaks over the next few months.  While Jake was here, we also talked about his other project, ‘The Waverly Hills Sanatorium Audio Experience” and “Stomp Out Cancer: Volume 1“.  It was an incredible hour and we hated for it to be over.  Actually, when we stopped recording, we kept talking for quite a while afterwards.

Before Jake joined us, we talked about the new ABC series ‘Happy Town‘ which we plan on covering when it starts up on April 30th.  You can watch the first 14 minutes on ABC’s site.  It looks GREAT!!!  We can’t wait.  We’re planning to make it our guilty pleasure this year.

As we mentioned, tonight’s Independent Music Breaks were from the CD “Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope” which you can find on iTunes.  We played the songs ‘Stronger’ by Public Symphony and ‘Emory’ by Heros and Madmen.  Remember, all proceeds from all the CDs benefit Ewing’s Sarcoma research.

Thanks for listening!

Just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that we’ll be taking Easter Sunday off.  Be sure to join us next Sunday when our guest will be the always incredible Jake Wheat.  Please be sure to check out the amazing banner that our good friend Mark Hayden did for us.  ;)

This was, without a doubt, the most effort we’ve had to put into a show in quite a while.  I forgot to record the beginning of the show so what you hear up until the first break, we recorded after the show.  I think it came out pretty good, all things considered.  We were joined by Mr. Methodic himself,  Chris .R. Notarile to catch us up on what’s been going on with Blinky Productions.  Chris has quite a few projects in the works.  During the show, we played the Daddy’s Girl trailer.  The audio version doesn’t do it justice so, be sure to check it out at http://iwillkillforyou.blogspot.com/ for yourself.  We also talked about Chris’ incredible follow-up to Methodic the short Methodic 1.5.  Check it out as well.

Our Paranormal News this week was by Bonnie Vent at http://www.sdparanormal.com/.  This week’s Independent Music Break featured the Devil Himself and the song ‘Deserted’.

Explicit language and topics

A little different episode in that we didn’t do it live.  Due to some family obligations, I (Frank) was running too late to make the live show.  Fortunately, we had a great interview recorded with David MacDonald from KY MUFON that we had planned on playing anyway.  ;)  David takes us through some general MUFON info and some incredibly interesting history of UFOs in Kentucky.  UFOs have been a topic that I have wanted to include for quite some time.  I  think we’re starting 2010 off with doing it justice first with Kyle Lovern and now with David MacDonald.

We often joke that we plan great episodes but it’s the execution of the episode where we mess up.  Well, tonight, we more than lived up to that expectation.  We were having the mother of all audio problem nights.  Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll work on getting those problems ironed out before our next live guest.  With that said, awesome time tonight.  We started off the show with a recap of our road trip last weekend down to the Myers House NC to check out the incredible premier of Judith.  We also reminisced about the old forgotten drive-in theater with one of our Spooky Groupies, Patrick.  Tying in with the Judith discussion, we gave our views on the rewatch of  Rob Zombie’s Halloween.  We both loved it!  The key is not to compare it to the original John Carpenter version.  Realize instead that Rob Zombie made it his.

After our first break, we were joined by Ken Arnold and Wendy Donigian from the incredible web series ParaAbnormal in character as Ken Livingston and Wendy the Psychic.  After our second break Ken and Wendy hung around as themselves and we had a blast talking ParaAbnormal.  If you haven’t seen ParaAbnormal yet, do it today.  Head over and check it out.  It is truly funny.  If you’ve been around the paranormal community long, chances are, you’ll see someone you know in the characters.

Our Independent Music Breaks featured a familiar band to Spooktalkular listeners, Tenpenny Joke out of Australia.  The first break was ‘Black Satellite’ and the second was ‘Chaos Engine’.  Be sure to support independent music whenever possible!

2010 Parawards

What could be said besides WOW?  The 2010 Spooktalkular Parawards were an incredible success.  The chatroom was packed with our regular listeners as well as a bunch of the GAC family to cheer along Zak and ‘Ghost Adventures’ to an incredible win.  Both captured over 78% of the fan vote in their categories.

Here’s the press release going out shortly:

FIRST ANNUAL SPOOKTALKULAR PARAWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Ashland, Kentucky, USA – March 5, 2010 – After a brisk two month vote, fans have selected the winners of the 2010 First Annual Spooktalkular Parawards.  Listed below are the winners.

Spooktalkular Parawards Winners (2010)

• Paranormal Reality Series Best Male – Zak Bagans (Ghost Adventures – Travel Channel)
• Paranormal Reality Series Best Female – Kris Williams (Ghost Hunters – SyFy)
• Best Paranormal Reality Series – Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel)
• Best New Paranormal Reality Series – Psychic Kids/Children of the Paranormal (A&E)
• Paranormal Drama Series Best Male – Jensen Ackles (Supernatural – CW)
• Paranormal Drama Series Best Female – Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer – CBS)
• Best Paranormal Drama Series – Ghost Whisperer (CBS)
• Best Horror or Thriller Movie – Paranormal Activity (Blumhouse Productions)

The Parawards were conceived by Spooktalkular hosts, Frank and Laura Chambers in 2008 to compliment the Spooktalkular podcast.  Nominees for the eight categories were selected in early January with Internet voting by the fans running through the end of February.

Spooktalkular is an Internet podcast hosted by husband and wife team Frank and Laura.  The show first aired in July of 2008 to discuss paranormal topics ranging from ghost hunting television shows to UFOs and just about everything in between.  The show is netcast live on Sunday nights at 6:00PM Eastern at www.spooktalkular.com.  Immediately after the live netcast, archives are available on iTunes, by RSS feed or directly from the website at www.spooktalkular.com.

For more information about Spooktalkular or the 2010 Parawards, contact Frank at frank@spooktalkular.com.

Again, incredible night.  Thanks to everyone, especially MissBree29 for everything.  As promised during the show, the link for the Nick Groff interview is http://www.spooktalkular.com/2009/07/20/spooktalkular-episode-026/.  Be gentle, keep in mind, that was 27 episodes ago.  I’d like to think we’ve gotten a little better.  ;)

Our good friend Mark Hayden won “My Bloody Valentine” in the February “I Heart My Bloody Valentine” contest.  Thanks to all that entered!  Look for an awesome new contest to be announced soon!

Tonights Independent Music Break featured the music “We Are One” by Dash the Assassin!

Join us Sunday March 14th at 6:00PM Eastern when we’ll be talking with Ken Livingston himself along with some of the gang from the awesome web series ParaAbnormal.

Episode 52 was probably one of the most anticipated Spooktalkular episodes since we started and I really feel like we didn’t disappoint.  Kenny Caperton and Josh Hasty join us for a full hour warm up for the premiere of “Judith” A Halloween Tribute Short Film next weekend.  In addition to “Judith”, we talked about Josh’s incredible project “A Mannequin In Static” which we loved.  Films like AMIS really underscore what we love about independent films.  You can feel the passion for the project from everyone involved.

A special thanks goes out to Mark Hayden  and Jake Wheat for all their hard work.  With Mark’s graphics and Jake’s theme design, the site has never looked better.

Our independent music breaks tonight featured “We Are One” by Dash the Assassin and “Disconnect Me” by Hydrovibe.  Always support independent music!

Be sure to join us Friday March 5th at 8:00PM Eastern when we will be doing a live show for the Spooktalkular Parawards!

In the famous words of Heather O’Rourke, “They’re Here” and by they, I’m sure she meant Spooktalkular.  We are back and moved to Sunday nights.  For our first Sunday night show, we were joined by the incredibly talented Poet and Author, Lanaia Lee.  We started off with a reading of one of her poems “Residual” as read by Victor Aurelius.  From there, we went on to talk about the Crystal Skulls, Atlantis, Edgar Cayce and so much more.  Thirty minutes wasn’t nearly long enough with this incredibly interesting lady.  Be sure to check out her book series “Of Atlantis“.  She says she won’t quit until she’s on a best sellers list.  Let’s help her get there and then not let her quit.  ;)

To find out more about Lanaia, go to her website http://www.lanaiaslair.com/

She and Victor do a show on blogtalk which you can find at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/viktoraurelius or on his NING site at http://whispersinthedark.ning.com/

Our independent music break featured the music “The Forgotten” by Josef Karl Gunnersson from his 2008 album “Retrograde!”.

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Tonight, we returned to a little more typical Spooktalkular, if there is such a thing. First of all, out ghost has a name. It’s Pottsie!

We start out by taking our normal looks at ‘Ghost Adventures’ and ‘Ghost Hunters’. Laura does an in-depth discussion of the ‘Mystery Quest’ that dealt with Jack the Ripper. We also talk about the brand new series. ‘Ghost Hunters: Academy’

During our break, we check out some music from the awesome band AMORIC. The name if the song is ‘Only For You’.

The second half of the show, we check out an incredibly interesting interview that we did with Eric Espejo and Aaron Goodmiller from 19th and Wilson Productions.  They talk to us about their new picture named ‘Ghosts Don’t Exist’.  We love the trailer and everything we have learned about the movie so far.  We here at Spooktalkular have another reason to like the movie.  Our good friend Troy from over at The Millennium Group Sessions Podcast.

After a rocky start, we ended up having a great time.  The entire episode was devoted to our discussion of the new release ‘The Forth Kind‘ which we went and watched Sunday night.  We both really enjoyed the movie.

Our incredible Independent Music Break featured ‘Sirens’ by the band Tenpenny Joke.

Look for a more normal (if there is such a thing) Spooktalkular next week.  ;)  Thanks for listening!