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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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!”.

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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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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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