The Ghost Story Guys

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Introducing: Oceanography | Largely the Truth Aug 31, 2024

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Singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, aka Oceanography, is going back on tour and will be our musical guest on the next "Talk Spooky", so we thought we would share his 2021 conversation with Brennan from his old talk show "Largely the Truth." Check Brian's tour dates here

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This week, singer/songwriter Brian Kelly, who performs as Oceanography, joins me to talk about his fantastic new LP "Thirteen Songs About Driving Nowhere in Alphabetical Order" and along the way we manage to invent car-to-car food delivery then discuss the impermanence of place

Buy your digital copy on Bandcamp: https://oceanography.bandcamp.com/

Physical copies and tour dates: https://www.oceanographymusic.com/

Monterey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrx6zr-hD7o

Field Shots video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi4BlHFfHU

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Here There Be Cougars | Talk Spooky to Me Aug 27, 2024

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Close calls during a mountain hike, an explanation of Philippine totems, and a review of the brand new psychological thriller "Broken Bird", in UK theaters on August 30th. All this and more in our latest mail show!

Our musical feature on this episode is "(Never) 2 Hot" by Massey feat. Xochi, presented courtesy of Bent River Records.

Link to the screengrab Bob sent in [Imgur]

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Don't Go Haunting Waterfalls Aug 20, 2024

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We're joined by Sinead Hanna of "The Poisoner's Cabinet" to tell stories of high strangeness in and around waterfalls! From North Queensland to California's High Sierras and the mountains of the Philippines, your best bet is to just stay out of the woods, man.

The Lady of the Lake can be found here

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Incidents on a Rollercoaster | Talk Spooky to Me Aug 13, 2024

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A strange light over Western Australia, schizoaffective disorder & the paranormal, and a history of bad luck on the same Blackpool rollercoaster that once threw off a young Paul Bestall. That's right - it's a mail show.

Our musical feature on this episode is "Barcelona" by Rain is Wet

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When Worlds Collide Aug 06, 2024

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What do you get when you combine stories from New Zealand and remote Western Australia, with a recorded appearance of a hat man in 1989? You get just a portion of the listener stories on this episode, along with some surprising findings from Brennan's research, and Paul's love of summer

Links:

Daniel W. VanArsdale's Paranormal Journal [carryiton.net]

Paul Cropper's blog, The Fortean [thefortean.com]

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None Stranger Than Utah | Talk Spooky to Me Jul 30, 2024

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Board games, a Greek poet, and the mystery of Jawbone Hill are just a couple of the topics we cover in our listener mail segment before we get down to an epic conversation with John Olsen, author of the "Stranger Bridgerland" series. John is a fount of knowledge on the strange side of Utah and we talk about missing time, the good kind of orb, and a whole lot more!

Our musical feature on this episode is "Bar" by King Tut's Tomb

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Keep Utah Weird Jul 23, 2024

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How weird IS the Beehive State? As it turns out, pretty damn weird: we talk about the haunting of Park City, menacing presences in school at night, Tommyknockers, the Farmington Poltergeist, and a whole lot more!

Story Time Codes:

Visions of the Apocalypse (8:48)

House Has Devil (27:00)

Everybody Knows (36:49)

Fresh Powder (55:38)

The Farmington Poltergeist (1:06:23)

Lights Out (1:17:35)

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Where the Sun Don't Set | Talk Spooky to Me Jul 16, 2024

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Paul has a legendarily good week, Brennan is on the road again, and there are e-mails about narcolepsy, having hope for the future, plus why the Dublin-New York portal might be the best expression of being human.

Our musical feature on this episode is "D00mfkinD00m" by Rainy Days For Ghosts

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The Haunting of Italy Jul 09, 2024

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What comes to mind when you think of Italy? Palazzos? Gnocchi? Monica Bellucci? On this episode, we have exactly none of those things but plenty of banshees, family ghosts, inexplicable smoke, and a thorough debunking of one of the paranormal world's laziest myths. We also have some UFO sightings taken straight from a recently unearthed collection of newsletters from the late, great John Keel

Links mentioned:

BBC article about the Florence UFO sighting [BBC]

How to Be a Keelian Scholar in One Easy Step [The Observer]

Pat Cooper's comedy [YouTube]

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Life After Bumblebuzz | Talk Spooky to Me Jul 02, 2024

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We talk haunted offices, give the final word on soundtracks, uncover the hidden truth behind Paul's accent, and recap Brennan's trip to the Goblin Market in Indiana.

Then, Ghost Story Guys comes full circle as Brennan sits down with Anne & her son D, the original experiencers of Bumblebuzz, one of our most popular stories, to reflect on what happened and their lives since then.

Our musical guest on this episode is The Revenants, with their latest single, "You and I" from the album "Los Feliz"

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