Stay ConnectedHosted by Askia “The Boogeyman” Booker, this show dives into the real, raw, and unexpected stories of fear—from industry insiders to everyday people with terrifying tales.
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🎧 Whether they live in the horror world or are just visiting, every guest brings a new nightmare to the mic.
Askia sits down with Maverick Approach, a conspiracy "realist" and former Hollywood child actor who's seen things most people couldn't dream up. From watching Diddy serve spiked drinks at an $80M Beverly Hills mansion to breaking down how your birth certificate is literally a maritime cargo manifest, this episode goes places.
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Growing up as a child actor in Hollywood, Maverick got a front-row seat to an industry most people only see from the outside. Underage drug use, inappropriate relationships, elite parties. He witnessed it early and it woke him up fast.
In this episode, Maverick breaks down the hidden architecture of control hiding in plain sight: the etymology of the word 'government' (spoiler: it literally means mind control), how spelling is actually spell-casting, why your school was modeled after a Prussian military prison, and how the publisher of your childhood textbooks was owned by the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
He goes deeper: flat earth vs. round earth? Neither. Try holographic simulation, backed by declassified CIA Gateway Process documents and a string theorist who found error-correcting computer code embedded in the equations of the universe.
Then there's the moon (hollow and artificial), NASA (the Hebrew word for 'to deceive'), the Cold War heart attack gun that left zero forensic trace, Directed Energy Weapons deployed in Venezuela, Project Blue Beam's fake alien invasion playbook, $21 trillion missing from government books, and underground civilizations being built right now for the ultra-elite.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Maverick
02:09 - The dark side of child acting
05:15 - Diddy parties
11:52 - Mind control
14:11 - Is college a scam?
16:47 - Battling Satanism
21:26 - Is outer space fake?
25:11 - The moon is a military base
28:29 - What they don't tell you about the ocean
32:35 - Are mermaids and sea monsters real?
36:14 - Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
38:08 - Direct Energy Weapons
41:41 - Real life zombies
43:28 - Simulation theory
45:47 - The Galactic Federation
48:58 - Project Blue Beam
50:29 - The truth about the Denver Airport
51:50 - Underground civilizations
56:06 - Dicyanin dye demons
58:58 - Telepathy is real?
1:03:01 - What they don't tell you about Mars
1:04:03 - Secret spy drones
Askia and professional witch Celeste break down shared dream experiments, government psychic programs, and the original terrifying lore behind fairies. They dig into MallWorld, a hyper-specific 1980s shopping mall thousands of people across the globe claim to dream about, and how Celeste ran a 1,000-person psychic experiment to test it. Plus: CIA psyops, the GATE program conspiracy, lucid dreaming herbs, and why you should never say 'thank you' to a fairy.
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Celeste's viral TikTok lucid dreaming experiments kicked off 2026 with a bang: over 1,000 people tried to psychically meet inside Mall World on the same night using a meditation guide, a sigil, and the symbol of moths and butterflies. The results? Hard to explain away.
From there, the conversation goes deep: declassified CIA programs like Project Stargate and MK Ultra, the GATE school program conspiracy (pink liquid, audio tone tests, and psychically implanted dream spaces), and the science behind why your brain invents disgusting bathrooms in your sleep.
Celeste also breaks down how to actually achieve lucid dreaming. Askia opens up about years of childhood nightmares, and Celeste shares why just talking about your dreams out loud might make them stop.
The back half goes full folklore: fairies aren't cute. Original European and Irish fairy lore describes them as dangerous, amoral beings, and spirits of the dead, land entities, or ancient Celtic royalty. Celeste ties fairy sightings to UFO encounters and angelic visitations, then closes with strict rules of engagement: if you see one, pretend you didn't.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - The MallWorld shared dream phenomenon
18:55 - CIA dream experiments
26:24 - Are dreams a connection to the spirit world?
27:56 - How to lucid dream
36:38 - The real reason behind recurring nightmares
43:40 - Why fairies are worse than you think
48:11 - Are all paranormal phenomena the SAME THING?
52:52 - Separating reality from the paranormal
Askia sits down with witch and returning guest Celeste Mott live from New Orleans. They expose a real vampire cult that tried to get this episode taken down, dive into cursed candles, spirits wearing masks, shotgun house ghosts, and the vampiric energy grid of the French Quarter. Then they get brutally honest about mental illness, self-harm, addiction, and the line between paranormal experiences and spiritual psychosis.
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The cult is real. The cult is culting. After Celeste's first appearance on the show, members of her former vampire cult contacted Askia demanding the episode come down. Instead of folding, Askia doubled down and brought Celeste back for round two.
This episode goes deep. Celeste breaks down how she builds a spirit court, what happened when she slapped a tree during a solstice ritual and found the letter 'A' carved in bark, and why spirits wear masks to manipulate practitioners. She walks through two of the most concrete paranormal encounters she's ever had: a full-body apparition witnessed by two people simultaneously, and a witch candle she bought locally that invited a skeletal shadow entity AND a ghost into her bedroom the same night.
Then it gets personal. Celeste opens up about the fine line between schizophrenia and spiritual psychosis and how the vampiric energy of the French Quarter can keep you addicted. The episode wraps with major red flags for identifying cults and high-control groups, and a teaser on Celeste's viral TikTok lucid dreaming experiments inside a shared dreamscape called Mall World. STAY TUNED FOR PART 2, NEXT WEEK!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Celeste Mott
02:15 - Vampire cults are real
06:38 - Celeste's personal Court of Spirits
12:41 - Spirits vs evil entities
16:03 - Celeste's ghost encounters
22:32 - Bad witches
28:22 - Celeste's alien encounter
33:04 - What is spiritual psychosis?
40:33 - Demons aren't what you think they are
44:28 - The vampiric energy of New Orleans
58:38 - How to avoid joining a cult
Askia continues New Orleans Month, sitting down with fangsmith and Vampire King Maven Lore to break down the real life Vampire Community: cult escapes, blood raves, vampires hunters, and all. From 17 years inside a cult to the truth about blood-drinking, this one goes places most podcasts won't.
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Maven Lore has been in the Vampire Community since the 90s, long before it was an aesthetic. He coined the term "fangsmith" in 1998, ran blood raves with stage blood, witnessed actual wood-stake attacks from self-proclaimed vampire hunters, and spent 17 years inside a cult he had to claw his way out of. Pixie brings her own harrowing story of escaping a predatory religious group that targeted her family after her father's death.
Together, they dismantle Hollywood vampire mythology, explain why New Orleans sits at a spiritual crossroads, and make a case for why being weird is not only okay, it's worth protecting. This episode covers vampire folklore across global cultures, the very real dangers of cheap permanent fangs, how cult behavior sneaks up on even the most skeptical people, and why the Vampire Court of New Orleans was structured like a town hall, not a throne room.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing the Vampire King
02:18 - The dark energy of New Orleans
03:38 - Real life vampire communities
16:33 - Vampirism vs Satanism
18:56 - How to escape a cult
30:01 - A day in the life of the Vampire King
32:01 - Becoming a fangsmith
40:07 - What vampires ACTUALLY look like
42:57 - Blood drinkers
48:47 - Real life vampire hunters
54:17 - Secret vampire groups
Askia sits down with Voodoo Priestess and scholar Lilith Dorsey to break down the real history of Voodoo, its West African roots, and why Hollywood keeps getting it wrong. Lilith shares chilling personal stories including telepathic voices in the Pine Barrens, a ghost knocking a cheater's phone into a toilet, firewalking on 1300-degree coals, and the dark truth about fairies and changelings. Plus, practical tips on spiritual protection and why asking for the wrong thing might cost you everything.
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Lilith Dorsey is a Voodoo priestess, author, and practitioner. In this episode she dismantles every misconception Hollywood has built around Voodoo, explaining that it's a religious system rooted in Benin, West Africa, developed by and for the Black diaspora. She gets into the real mechanics of ancestral veneration, what initiation actually looks like, and how spells born from slavery and oppression were tools of justice. not evil.
She also goes full paranormal: a haunted Brooklyn basement, a spirit named Peter, zombie origin stories from Haiti, and real vampires walking the streets of New Orleans. Lilith's path isn't a hobby. It's a calling with a cost.
Topics covered: Voodoo vs. witchcraft, spirit attachments, ancestral veneration, initiation, possession, fairies and changelings, spiritual protection, Pine Barrens, zombies, vampires, Hollywood vs. reality, and more.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Lilith Dorsey
01:29 - What is Voodoo?
03:21 - Lilith's first contact with spirits
08:38 - The Gift
11:37 - Using magick
16:59 - Voodoo initiation
20:08 - Lilith teaching Voodoo
24:05 - Voodoo is NOT evil
29:37 - Hollywood vs Voodoo
32:03 - Voodoo vs Hoodoo
34:48 - Voodoo as a religion
40:11 - Possessions in Voodoo
47:22 - What fairies actually look like
51:24 - How to protect yourself from negative spirits
55:37 - Dangers in the magick community
1:02:10 - Types of witches
1:03:22 - The haunted Pine Barrens
1:10:13 - Using bodies in Voodoo practices
1:14:40 - How to create a zombie
1:17:27 - Vampires in New Orleans
1:21:13 - Working with the dead
1:26:09 - Feminine energy
1:28:06 - The cost of magick
1:33:03 - What does the afterlife look like?
Askia sits down with Rose Sinister, a New Orleans vampire historian and tour guide, to dig into the real history of vampires, debunk Hollywood myths, and get into some genuinely dark territory. From Nazi propaganda creating the werewolf-vampire feud to the vampiric Casket Girls locked in a convent attic, this one goes places. Plus, Rose shares the wild story of surviving a 70 mph crash with a broken back.
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Rose Sinister is a professional vampire tour guide in the French Quarter, author of 'This Crimson Debt,' and host of the Rose Sinister: Vampires podcast. In this episode, she breaks down the Eastern European origins of vampire hysteria in the 1730s, explains why New Orleans became the vampire capital of America, and gets into the deeply queer roots of vampire literature from 'Carmilla' to Anne Rice's Castro-district-inspired work. She also calls out the tourist behavior happening on cemetery graves (you know who you are).
This isn't your basic vampire explainer. Rose brings the receipts: historical, folkloric, and personal. And yes, she'll tell you why you should never leave a crystal ball uncovered. "Vampires are us. They reflect our fears and our dark desires."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Rose Sinister
01:42 - What makes New Orleans haunted
03:32 - Interview with a Vampire, Vlad the Impaler
04:59 - Weird fears
05:56 - How to become a vampire
08:56 - Anne Rice changed everything
10:20 - Earliest vampires in New Orleans
14:27 - Vampires vs werewolves
17:55 - The legacy of Dracula
20:59 - The scariest NOLA vampire story
28:39 - Misconceptions about vampires
35:56 - Where did vampires come from?
41:09 - Vampires and the LGBT
44:28 - Meeting real life vampires
55:45 - Why vampires don't have reflections
1:00:13 - The allure of vampirism
1:04:33 - Rose's near-death experience
Askia sits down with Sen Elias, a spiritual practitioner, High Priest, and owner of Crescent City Conjure in New Orleans to unpack Hoodoo, Voodoo, possession, exorcisms, zombies, and the real cost of walking a spiritual path. This one goes deep, fast.
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Sen Elias doesn't sugarcoat anything. From breaking down the difference between Hoodoo and witchcraft, to describing what possession actually looks like in person, this episode pulls back the curtain on a world most people only think they understand.
Elias traces his Hoodoo lineage, explains why New Orleans is a living spirit that 'needs to eat,' and lays out the five signs you might be cursed. He also gets into the ethics of placing curses, the chilling reality of exorcisms, and why your ancestors outrank everything when you're in danger. The episode closes with a gut-punch: the cost of this path is normality. Ignorance is bliss, and he can't go back.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Sen Elias
01:55 - What is Hoodoo?
03:47 - What REAL witchcraft looks like
05:55 - Sen Elias's spiritual journey
09:21 - Reincarnation is real?
11:22 - How to connect to other realities
14:48 - Demystifying Hoodoo
17:48 - Initiation into witchcraft
20:25 - Why New Orleans is haunted
29:19 - Cursing people
34:30 - How to know if you've been cursed
37:03 - What possession really looks like
41:03 - Real life exorcisms
45:15 - Bringing people back from the dead
50:05 - Connecting to your ancestors
Askia sits down with Dona Strohbehn, a supernatural investigator and 'Paranormal Therapist.' They dig into paranormal PTSD, why the mental health field keeps getting it wrong, and what it actually takes to heal someone who's been attacked by a shadow person. Yes, that happened to her.
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Dona Strohbehn has been seeing, hearing, and feeling things since she was two years old. What started as 'imaginary friends' her parents dismissed turned into a 40-year career bridging clinical mental health therapy with paranormal investigation. She holds a Master's in therapy, specializes in trauma and PTSD caused by anomalous events, and uses real clinical tools to separate a spiritual experience from a psychotic break.
This episode goes deep. Dona breaks down why mainstream mental health practitioners are quick to slap a psychosis label on paranormal experiences without asking a single follow-up question. She talks about her Pagan practice, Celtic protective magic, and why she keeps Archangel Michael on speed dial during channeling sessions. She recounts being locked in a bathroom at the Lizzie Borden house, channeling three separate entities at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and getting physically attacked at the Tremont House in Galveston by a shadow person.
If you've ever had something happen in your home you couldn't explain, this one hits different. Dona's message is clear: your experience is real, your experience is valid, and there is no holy water required. "If your therapist is close-minded, find a new freaking therapist."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Dona Strohbehn
12:45 - Mental health vs the paranormal world
14:38 - Speaking directly to ghosts
16:25 - Paganism and Christian Witches
20:51 - Becoming the Paranormal Therapist
24:38 - What therapy actually looks like
34:18 - The haunted Lizzie Borden house
38:15 - The haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium
44:18 - Protector spirits
49:16 - What is Paranormal PTSD?
52:21 - Attacked by ghosts in the Tremont House
57:57 - What paranormal therapy looks like
1:06:41 - Losing sense of reality
1:16:59 - Religious trauma
1:23:33 - Reliving paranormal experiences
1:25:45 - Ouija boards
1:31:45 - African death masks
1:39:44 - Entities following you home
1:43:12 - Curing paranormal trauma
1:45:49 - Dealing with skeptics
Askia sits down with Lindsey AKA Phantomette, a solo paranormal investigator, to dig into her most terrifying experiences, from demonic presences at the Patterson House to a possessed doll that wrecked her apartment. They also get into the real dangers of investigating alone as a woman, the Midnight Man game, and whether ghosts are actually interdimensional beings.
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Lindsey has been crawling through abandoned asylums since she was a teenage, and she hasn't stopped since. Now she investigates some of the most notorious haunted locations in the country, alone, with a camera and zero backup. In this episode, she breaks down what it's actually like to sleep in haunted buildings, why she gets better results solo, and the one time she threw her entire camera setup and ran out of the haunted Hill House in a full panic.
She also gets into the haunted doll that caused chanting and cost her $666 in car repairs, and the room key from Hotel Apache that brought home a spirit from the 1800s. On top of the ghost stuff, Askia and Lindsey get into self-defense, personal safety as a female investigator, shamanism, crystals, psychic mediums, interdimensional theory, and Lindsey's dream of making it to the Doll Island in Mexico.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Phantomette
09:26 - The haunted Yorktown Memorial Hospital
10:59 - What it's like doing solo investigations
13:08 - The haunted Mizpah hotel
18:18 - The Haunted Hill House
20:01 - Speaking to demons
24:03 - Paranormal investigation equipment
27:03 - Ghost encounters
31:39 - Real life horror
40:27 - Entities following you home
42:26 - Haunted dolls
53:06 - How to protect yourself from evil entities
1:03:26 - What are ghosts really?
1:04:51 - The Midnight Man
1:08:36 - Are dreams actually visions?
1:10:13 - How to find a real psychic medium
1:13:04 - Moldavite and dark crystals
1:19:33 - Spirit attachments
1:20:32 - Shamans are real
1:27:09 - The Island of the Dolls
Askia sits down with Davyid from "Down the Rabbit Hole" for a no-holds-barred conversation covering haunted houses, Project Blue Beam, Bigfoot theories, alien weaponry, and surviving a fire that may have pulled Dayvid into a different universe. These aren't experts, just two dudes swapping wild stories and opinions in the dark. Highlights include a marine confessing alien weapon secrets during a ride-share and Dayvid waking up with actual gills after nearly dying.
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Dayvid joins Askia to unpack decades of paranormal obsession, starting with a childhood near a naval air station and a haunted rental house cursed by a gypsy, complete with a La Lechuza sighting by his dad. From there, the conversation spirals into simulation theory, DMT encounters, Project Blue Beam false flag conspiracies, a heart attack gun used on journalists, and Betty & Barney Hill allegedly abducted by humans pretending to be aliens.
They get into Bigfoot being interdimensional slave labor, astral projection warnings, psychics trapped on the moon, and deja vu as proof of alternate lives. Dayvid also opens up about surviving an apartment fire, waking up with unexplained gills, and how a brush with death completely rewired how he moves through the world. Raw, strange, funny, and oddly motivating.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Dayvid from Down the Rabbit Hole
03:02 - La Lechuza
08:40 - DMT creatures
10:16 - Simulation theory
14:24 - Project Blue Beam
19:00 - The Phoenix Lights
20:55 - Energy weapons
29:03 - Alien abductions
37:07 - Human alien hybrids
40:44 - Is Bigfoot an interdimensional being?
49:13 - The Akashic Records
51:29 - Astral projection
59:25 - Are dreams alternate realities?
1:05:01 - Are serial killers all around us?
1:08:25 - Dimension hopping
1:23:25 - Dayvid's ghost encounter
1:29:50 - Choosing to be happy
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