Encounters: A Paranormal Experience

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Big Liz, Candyman, and BOO HAGS: Legends & Lore from a Black Universe Apr 19, 2019

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From Ghost Stories to Cryptids to an Urban Legend bore from Film, we’ve got a little something for everyone’s tastes on this weeks episode!

This week we talk with Storyteller, Ariel Therkiel, from Tales From A Black Universe! A podcast dedicated to AfroFuturism, SciFi, and Speculative Fiction.

Join our retrospective glance at the legends and lore born out of the African American Experience, from Big Liz who's ghostly visage and legend are all that remain from her Civil War Era murder, then travel to Gullah to meet THE BOO HAG, & finally revisit the fictitious legend of the Candyman and how to Kill him (but more importantly how he has impacted culture)!

You won’t want to miss the spooky stories that Ariel brings!

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Spirit of the Dead by Aakash Gandhi

Consequence - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod*

Dreaming Blue by Sextile

*Consequence - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100283 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

The Monster of Flatwoods: Phantom? Beast? Visitor? Apr 12, 2019

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Journey with your hosts, Dakota and Amanda, as they brave the backwoods of Flatwoods, West Virginia to investigate the 1952 crash landing and sighting of a creature "not of this world".

Tonight's creature comes from the Testimony of the May family and the small town of Flatwoods that fate full September night.

It's a A West Virginia Cryptid / Extraterrestrial 101, Tune in now!

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

About That Oldie by Vibe Tracks

Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod*

Aletheia (Unforgetting) by Devon Church

Audio also used from Ivan Sanderson NY Radio Interview (1953) & BraxtonWV City Promotional Video.

*Martian Cowboy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100349 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Ghost Ships & Nautical Hauntings: Spooky Boats from America's Past Apr 05, 2019

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"Let young eyes watch from Neck and Point, And sea-worn elders pray,— The ghost of what was once a ship Is sailing up the bay!"

- The Dead Ship of Harpswell, John Greenleaf Whittier

This week on Encounters, join Amanda and Dakota on a journey thru maritime lore and delve into the secrets of 4 spooky boats!

Come learn about the mysterious disappearances of The Dash and the "unlucky" Mary Celeste. And learn of what awaits, lurking in the shadows of the USS Hornet and Queen Mary.

Tune in for what can only be described as "A Retrospective Analysis of Hauntings on and of Seafaring Vessels".

IT'S SPOOKY BOATS, GET READY!

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven'

Loneliest Road in America by Jesse Gallagher

Ghost Story by Kevin MacLeod*

Deep Space by Audionautix**

*Ghost Story by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300034

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

**Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Artist: http://audionautix.com/

The Travis Walton UFO Abduction Experience Mar 29, 2019

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In the mid 1970s, 7 lumberjacks in the forests of Arizona would encounter a UFO that made the sky seem as though it were on fire. It took their coworker Travis and for the next 5 days, the entire town of Snowflake thought it had a murder scandal on its hands. Then at the end of the 5th day, Travis is found barely coherent but alive at a gas station outside of town.

His story would go on to spawn books, films, research, and obsessions with what has been called “the best documented UFO abduction case”.

Audio obtained from Travis Walton - Face the State - Interview - 11.1975.

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Irregular by Kevin MacLeod**

**Irregular by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=irregular Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Slender Man: The Internet's First Urban Legend Mar 22, 2019

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"Fear the man, the slender man, For he can do, what no one can."

-Rostin Amirani, Slender Man Poem {DeviantArt}

This week, the Encounters HQ team is bringing your the first major Urban Legend born on the Internet.

THE SLENDER MAN.

Come listen to the creation myth that would spawn an entire CreepyPasta franchise, numerous video games, movies, ect and ultimately lead to a true crime of preteen on preteen stabbings in Wisconsin.

Its another Cryptid 101: Paranormal Crime Edition!

***Audio used from the Waukesha Police Interrogation in the State of Wisconsin vs M. Geyser;A. Weier (2014).***

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Alone by Aakash Gandhi

Long Four Note by Kevin MacLeod**

**Long Note Four by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100467 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

The LaLaurie Mansion: New Orlean's Original Haunted Home Mar 15, 2019

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This week, Encounters travels to New Orleans' infamous French Quarter to examine a haunted location that's history is one of the cruelest Dakota and Amanda have researched to date!

Meet Madam Marie Delphine LaLaurie and enter her three story slave torture mansion hidden in plane sight at 1140 Royal Street. Come learn about Torture, Capital Punishment Avoidance, a Haunted Portrait, and Nicholas Cage?!??!

All this week on Encounters.

Intro/Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven

Court and Page by Silent Partner

Orison by Dan Bodan

Men in Black: Galaxy Defenders or InterDimensional Hit Squad Mar 08, 2019

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In today's audio adventure, Amanda and Dakota examine the mysterious figures known as the Men in Black, (or more recently People in Black as more WIB sightings arise).

This week we look into the sordid past and encounters with these threatening "Federal Agent" like suppression team who seemingly seek to shut down any investigations or relaying of extraterrestrial interactions on behalf of "the worlds best interests".

So tune in now and learn the truth of the MIB...

Intro / Outro: Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

*Irregular by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=irregular Artist: http://incompetech.com/ **Deep Space by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Thunderbird vs Mongolian Death Worm: Primordial Foe Cryptid Showdown Mar 01, 2019

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Today, Dakota and Amanda are bringing you another Cryptid Creature Showdown with The Thunderbird vs. The Mongolian Death Worm.

Join your Encounters hosts as they profile two of the strangest cryptid "links" in nature. First we head to the America's for the legend of the Thunderbird, a celestial beast so named for its control of thunder and lightning but also has a dark hunger. Then we head to the shifting sands of the Gobi Desert, to do battle with the Mongolian Death Worm who can kills with a look!

Who would you want on your side?

Intro / Outro:

Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

We Are the Rain by Aakash Ghandi

Restless Natives by Doug Maxwell

Sao Men by Doug Maxwell and Zac Zinger

Absention by Odonis Odonis

The Devil in "Doe": An Exorcist's Tale Feb 22, 2019

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This Week on Encounters, A boy and three catholic priests journey together across time and country to battle 10 demons including Satan, Himself. It was the inspiration for "The Exorcist" and has continued to remain a well kept secret by all parties involved, including the mysterious "Doe" child who slipped into anonymity upon the conclusion of this biblical battle with The Devil! Join your hosts, Amanda and Dakota, as they battle their way thru the 1949 Exorcism Case of Roland Doe.

Intro / Outro:

Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

Orison by Dan Bodan

Barney and Betty Hill: Alien Abduction Deconstruction Feb 15, 2019

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Todays Topic: America's First Widely Documented Alien Abduction!

We are jumping back to Autumn 1961, to discuss the abductions of Barney and Betty Hill of Portsmouth, NH. Driving back from a delayed honeymoon, this couple witnessed strange sentient lights shifting in the sky, this leads to a climactic car chase to avoid this ever growing hovering "pancake" until ultimately.... well the Hills couldn't quite remember the past two hours. Tune in now to hear about what they uncovered happened...

Intro/Outro:

Strange Stuff by Matt Harris

Additional Music:

The Black Cat by Aaron Kenny

A Walk Into Space by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena

Loneliest Road in America by Jesse Gallagher

*Audio Clips from Dr. Benjamin Simon's Barney Hill Hypno-session (1964). C/O: FindingUFO.