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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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Due to severe thunderstorms and a few other little nasties, we’re pushing Episode 20 back to tomorrow. Look for it around 11:00PM tomorrow night.

Spooktalkular Episode 18 is history.  Even with a sick Laura, we manage to get another episode of the show out.  This one has been the toughest episode to date to edit and prep for release.  In addition to Laura not feeling well, we had technical difficulties which caused some of the audio to be corupted.

Before we get rolling, we have some thanks to shout out.  Be sure to check out www.para-x.com.  Dave and Tom run a first class network over there with over 50 paranormal shows.  You’ll find something you like at para-x.com.  Also, our friends over at www.backtofrankblack.com have launched an incredible podcast named “Millennium Group Sessions”.  The latest episode has a cool interview with Marshall Bell who played the Judge in the episode of the same title.  Be sure to check them out and watch the site for news.

You’re probably wondering what you can expect from this one.  Well, let me tell you.  We watched some movies.  We start out with an INCREDIBLE independent project that you’ve heard us mention before named “Methodic“.  With it, a new horror genre is created.  Meet the basher flick.  Or, should we say, “Meat the basher flick”?  After that, we talk about “The Uninvited”.

On to TV talk.  Since we didn’t do the show last week, we have two weeks worth of shows to discuss.  That leaves us with two episodes each of “Monster Quest”, “Paranormal State”, “UFO Hunters” and “Ghost Whisperer”.  Due to a schedule change *again* over at CBS, we only have one episode of “Harper’s Island” but wow, what an episode it was.

Here’s the episodes we talk about:

Monster Quest

Gigantic Killer Fish II – A look at an 1895 fish attack off the coast of Florida by a Goliath grouper, a massive fish that can weigh in at 1,500 lbs and a recent attack that may be evidence these dangerous fish are returning – then off to the freshwater lakes of Minnesota where attacks by the no less aggressive Muskie could be on the rise.

Isle of the Lost Tiger – A look at over 350 reports from the Australian island of Tasmania that claim a vicious predator, once thought to have hunted to extinction, has made a comeback – the Tasmanian Tiger, and how an Australian biologist is using preserved DNA of the animal in hopes of cloning a living specimen.

Ghost Whisperer

Endless Love -Melinda has to figure out how to plan for her wedding and help a young lady get vampires to leave her alone.

The Book of Changes – Melinda hopes she can protect her baby after a ghost visits her. Season Finale

Paranormal State

Three Like Mine – Heather, Matt and their three kids are being harassed nightly by an entity in their Indiana home. Heather has been shaken by a force that says, “Hey” –  as if trying to get her attention — followed by the phrase, “Three to nine.” Psychic medium Michelle Belanger helps decipher a message that may be connected to the original property owners. Meanwhile Ryan investigates one of the client’s personal connection to the paranormal.

Dead and Back – Viki suffered a brain aneurism that left her on the brink of death. She fears the experience may have opened her up to unwanted spirits in her Alabama home. When psychic/medium Chip Coffey feels a connection to a male entity with familial ties, the case takes an emotional and creepy turn. PRS also experiments with new magnetic-pulse technology.

UFO Hunters

UFO Relics – Investigating so-called “trace cases,” the team studies supposed physical evidence left behind after various UFO sightings, from a strange glass-like rock found in Poland, to an odd piece of metal a Missouri man claims to have found after it was dropped from a UFO.

Underwater Area 51 – The investigators monitor the activity of the AUTEC (Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center), which is used by the U.S. Navy for underwater research, but the increasing reports of UFO and USO activity surrounding the facility have lead to rumors the base is testing alien technology.

Harper’s Island

Thwak – Abby uncovers a secret obsession as the wedding rehearsal takes an unexpected turn.

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Last week, during Spooktalkular, we reviewed in detail, the recent video accusing "Ghost Hunters" of fraud by faking evidence.  In case you missed it, here’s the video “TAPS LIES – Ghost Hunters Live – 2008 – Fraud-O-Rama”;

As I mentioned during the show, I’m not passing judgement on the validity of the claims made in the video.  The producer of the video makes a fairly compelling case for his accusations of fraud.  I personally hope that the accusations are false because if they are, they call into question the validity of ALL evidence presented on "Ghost Hunters" and for that matter, all of the paranormal reality shows.

Wednesday’s "Ghost Hunters – All Access" episode is the first that I’ve watched since viewing the fraud accusations.  Going in, I wondered how I’d feel.  Since I’m a podcaster on the topic of "Paratainment", I try to keep an open mind when watching these shows because, not only are they entertainment, they are also prep work for discussion on Spooktalkular.  I found it incredibly hard to watch the show objectively.  Every time they would show an evidence clip, I found myself looking for the "man behind the curtain" and how it possibly could have been faked.  For almost every clip shown, I was able to determine a way it could have been faked.  Now this DOES NOT mean that it was faked or that I thought it was.

Why is this important?  In order to believe the validity of and evidence presented, one has to trust the source.  Simply put, if doubt is injected as to one piece of evidence, presented as factual, this calls into question all evidence.  When I was a child, I remember finding out that there was no Santa.  I was in third or forth grade so I was around 9 years old or so.  I found out because I noticed the shipping label on one of my Christmas gifts, a Weebles Treasure Island, was addressed to my Mom from JC Penney’s not Santa.  I asked my Mom about it and she came clean about the fact that Santa was indeed, not real.  From there, that called into question all of my beliefs about the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and so forth.  One by one, as I reexamined these, I realized that they also were not real.  All of this because of the doubt injected by Santa not being real.

That is why I feel it is very important for "Ghost Hunters" or Jason and Grant themselves to publish a rebuttal.  The video produced by Moviedan is very compelling so the response must be equally so.  Jason and Grant have both posted responses on their Myspace blogs but, they are not anywhere as stong of an argument as the one by Moviedan.  I really feel that "Ghost Hunters" should almost devote an episode to debunking this video.  Otherwise, a lot of people will start questioning the last several years of their work.

Now, for the other possibility, if it is fake, let us know.  I still watch magicians even though I know there isn’t anything mystical going on.  Wrestling still enjoys quite a following even after the acknowledgement that it is fake.  Based simply on the entertainment value alone, "Ghost Hunters" could enjoy the same.

Me, shoot, I’m still out on what I think.  I’m still trying to gather evidence and watch what happens.  I still enjoy "Ghost Hunters" even though I watch it even more skeptically than before.  I would, however, like to see a real response from GH or Jason and Grant one way or another.

What do you think?

Welcome to Spooktalkular episode 6, recorded on Halloween Night.  It’s been a little while but it’s actually one of our best.  This time, we did a good bit of post production which really made a difference.  I had hoped to get this one out yesterday but I really feel that it was worth the wait.

In the paranormal news, we talk about the recent article linking EMF to paranormal.  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=ghost-lusters-if-you-want

We also talk about the upcoming remake of Friday the 13th and listen to the new trailer.  Here’s the link to the trailer on YouTube.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJYncOq2W0&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_227056

We take a look at the new Travel Channel series “Ghost Adventurers”.   We do a quick look at “Paranormal State” which was picked up for a third season.  Also, we mention the upcoming giveaway of an autographed picture from the cast of “Paranormal State”.  We talk about the “Paranormal State” field trip in February to Point Pleasant.  If you happen to be up in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, be sure to check out the Mothman Museum.  Jeff Wamsley does a heck of a job with it.

Since it’s Halloween night, it’s time for the “Ghost Hunters” Live event.  This year it’s at Fort Delaware.  Since it’s happening while we record the show, be sure to listen next time when we take a look at the live event.  We do take a look at the “Ghost Hunters” Uss Hornet episode with special guest Colin Ferguson from “Eureka”.

We have started a new MySpace page set up on http://www.myspace.com/spooktalkular so if you’re on Myspace, be sure to add us as a friend.

We produced this episode with a little lower bitrate as to be a little friendlier on those of us on slower connections.  All our testing seemed good but if there are any quality issues noted, let us know.  As always, thanks for listening!

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It’s been a couple of weeks since we have gotten an episode out.  Hopefully, this one will make the wait worth it.  In it, we discuss the last couple of weeks of Ghost Hunters International and Paranormal State.  We also discuss the recent bigfoot hoax by those two guys in Georgia.  We review the latest Corey Squared film Lost Boys: the Tribe.

We hope you enjoy!!!

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It’s a wrap. After an unexpected two week hiatus, we’ve cranked out episode two. On this episode, we talk about the last couple of weeks in Ghost Whisperer, Scare Tactics, Ghost Hunters International and Most Haunted along with the season two premiere of Paranormal State. We also talk about some paranormal entertainment news from Ghost Hunters and Ghost Whisperer. Introduced is the “Name the Ghost” contest. Our logo has a ghost on it without a name. We are looking to listeners to help. Our Voicemail number has changed. The new number is 518-690-8429 or Skype us at “spooktalkular”.

In the show, we mention the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, WV. For complete information, check out http://www.mothmanfestival.com/.

Also mentioned is something that I’m a huge fan of now for listening to podcasts. That is Rockbox. I run it on my Version 1 Sansa 280 and it kicks it. Check it out at http://www.rockbox.org.

The next episode will be recorded Friday night where we’ll take a look at Ghost Hunters International, Paranormal State and Ghost Whisperer along with more.

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