Welcome to Spooktalkular Season 4.  We kick off season 4 with a great interview with Patrick “Cainam” Potts from the Missouri State Penitentiary Haunted Prison tour.  We also talk about Frank’s health and the plans for season 4 of Spooktalkular.

To find out more about the prison tours or (Mo)IST, check out the following links:

http://www.missouripentours.com

http://www.facebook.com/missouripentour

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Missouri-Investigations-of-Spirit-Tracks-MoIST/141614482573238

Tonight we break the hiatus with a new show.  We catch everyone up on Frank’s illness and discuss some of the new paranormal shows that have hit the airwaves since our last show back in March.  Since we were unable to arainge a guest on such short notice, we have rebroadcast an interview with Annamarie Hemingway from the August 24th 2008 episode of Ghostly Talk.  The topic of the interview was a discussion of the afterlife.  Since Frank will be going under the knife soon for a pretty serious operation, it seemed fitting.  Great interview, hope you enjoy as well and be sure to check out her website at http://www.practicingconsciouslivinganddying.com/ and check out Ghostly Talk at http://www.ghostlytalk.com for complete show archives for the entire time they were on the air.  Amazing stuff.  They are also great friends of Spooktalkular.  Much love for Scottl, Doug and Bonnie.  We miss you guys.
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Be sure to email show@spooktalkular.com with show suggestions and the answer to tonight’s trivia question.  Who was the vocal talent used in the new Spooktalkular Intro and Outro.
It’s good to be back and thanks again for everyone’s love, support and prayers!  See you in a couple of weeks.

Tonight, we announce an indefinite hiatus.  Spooktalk Frank has to take some time off to deal with some sickness.  The details are in the show and it will sound better rather than reading it so I’ll leave it to you to hear.  Thank you so much my friends for your love and support over the years.  With that on my side, I will beat this.

Great show tonight.  We had an amazing interview with Matt Pellowski from Red Line Studios.  We talked about the great documentary “Eyes of the Mothman” which released on February 22nd.  You can find it at any online retailer.  This film actually screened at the Mothman Festival this past year but due to our working the festival, we were in and out so we’ve been waiting to see the entire movie and, wow, it was worth the wait!

Here are the links from the interview:

It’s good to be back.  Not really a structured episode but more of a back to the show episode.  We talk about Frank’s new podcast named CamperCast which begins next weekend.  We recap some of the movies that we’ve watched recently.  Not breaking with tradition, we shred Paranormal Activity 2.

We’re moving to a bi-weekly format so our next show will be on February 27th.  We hope you join us then.  ;)

If you’re interested in Frank’s new Camping Podcast, keep checking http://campercast.mytristate.org for details.

Remember, please keep our great friend Mark Hayden and his family in your thoughts with their sickness.

Welcome to Spooktalkular 2011.  We were hoping to have Brian Harnois on this week but in a Spooktalkular First, he was a no-show.  Here’s the Twitter conversation where I thought we had it set up.

So who knows….  Still a fun show.  We talked about the Planet Macabre and Creepture Feature Horror Show podcasts.  We then headed into a discussion about the dead birds that have been happening around the world.  After that, what would be fitting for Classic Cinema but the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “The Birds”.  During our discussion, we also talked about Jaws and the Jaws game from the 70′s.  A quick search turned up this link with a picture of the game.  http://gedblog.com/2009/06/01/you-know-for-kids-2/

Our Independent Music Break featured the song ‘Knots’ by a cool band out of Florida named Seven Years Past.  Great sound with a strong female lead.  Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/sevenyearspastfl or follow them on twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/sypband

We had some audio problems with the live feed at the beginning of the show.  At the suggestion of everyone in the chat room, we left it all in.  ;)  Enjoy!

It was good to be back tonight.  We had a busy night.  We had a fairly lengthy discussion about the recent Wikileaks controversy.  We then moved into some lighter territory with our Classic Cinema pick this week which was the 1974 hit ‘Black Christmas‘.  We rounded out the show with a discussion on ‘The Walking Dead‘.  The book I am waiting for is The Walking Dead: Compendium One.

A couple of the Must Check Out things we mentioned tonight were the Planet Macabre podcast and, our great friend Greg’s podcast The Creepture Feature Horror Show.  Give them both a listen, we’re sure you’ll love them.

We’ll be off air for the next couple of weeks for the holidays but in our absence, we’ll be rebroadcasting some classic ‘Ghostly Talk‘ with a couple of our favorites.

Have a Happy Holiday!

Another Episode is behind us.  We took on two awesome movies tonight.  First, our Classic Cinema featured ‘Westworld’ from 1973.  Man what a classic it is too.  Great movie, Laura and I both gave it 9 Pottsies.  For our feature discussion, we take on the recent horror movie ‘The Human Centipede: The First Sequence‘.  Incredibly disturbing but again, Laura and I both loved it.  9 Pottsies for it as well.

To round out the show, we jump into a discussion of the first two episodes of the AMC Original Series ‘The Walking Dead’.  Another great episode but sadly, only three remain.  Or should I say, “Sweet Three Remain”?

During our Independent Music Break, we featured more music from the album “Stomp Out Cancer Presents: Musicians Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma, Vol. 2 Hope” with Katrina Carlson’s‘Count On Me’.  Just a reminder that all proceeds from the album are donated to fight to cure Ewing’s Sarcoma.

No show next week due to the holiday.  We’ll be back on December 5th.  Have a great two weeks.

As you can see, we’ve change our naming scheme a little.  In addition to the overall episode number, we’re breaking it down by season and episode as well.  Tonight’s episode was a fun one.  We visit a little Classic Cinema with a ride on the 1980 Movie ‘Death Ship‘ provided by our good friend Richard.  Laura and I both gave it a 3 and a half Pottsie rating.

During our Independent Music Break, we featured more music from the album “Stomp Out Cancer Presents: Musicians Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma, Vol. 2 Hope” with Katrina Carlson’s ‘Count On Me’.  Just a reminder that all proceeds from the album are donated to fight to cure Ewing’s Sarcoma.

After break, we jump into a discussion of the first two episodes of the AMC Original Series ‘The Walking Dead’.  We really liked the show.  It shows great promise and we can’t wait to see where the remaining four episodes of season one go.

Halloween is upon us once again which means that it’s time for the Second Annual Spooktalkular Halloween Show.  Laura pretty much solos this one since Frank is busy cramming for an exam this week.  The Halloween Contest winner is announced and, the three spooky story entries are read.  The Houdini Seance has become a mainstay of our yearly celebration and this year is no exception.  We end the show with our playing of it.  Please everyone, have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Wow, another fun show is behind us.  Few technical problems only because I suck as a tech guy.  Kenny Caperton joined us tonight to tell us about the Halloween Bash at the Myer’s House NC scheduled for Halloween.  Sounds like a great time.  In addition to the bash, Kenny catches us up on what has been going on around the house.

Remember the listener story submissions.  Running through the month of October.  Also remember the trivia question that Laura announced during the first part of the show.

The Independent Music break featured more sounds from the album Stomp Out Cancer: Musician’s Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma Presents – HOPE.  Tonight’s song was by The Sheds and is titled “Only Way Out Is Through”. It was written for a friend of the band that was going through chemo.

***** WARNING *****  Please pay attention to the graphic content warning at the beginning of the show.  This is not one of our kinder/gentler shows so please consider yourself warned.  Grab the headphones as you see fit.

Ustream was toast tonight so our apologies to everyone who had joined us for the live show.  I will be looking for streaming hosts this week.  Well, the 2010 9th Annual Mothman Festival is finished and we had a blast (with one exception).  Join us as we recap the good, the bad and the ugly.  Our hope is that after this show, we’ll be invited back to host again because, all things said, we did have fun and love the festival.

Our Classic Cinema tonight featured the movie “Fire In the Sky” based on the true story of Travis Walton.  Check it out, we’re sure you’ll like it.

The Independent Music break featured more sounds from the album Stomp Out Cancer: Musician’s Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma Presents – HOPE.  Tonight’s song was by The Sheds and is titled “Only Way Out Is Through”. It was written for a friend of the band that was going through chemo.

It was a little harsher show tonight than normal but, not as bad as if we had done one last Sunday night.  We hope you enjoy.

I did change the bitrate on this one to try to make it a bit smaller.  Normally we encode at 64bits.  Tonight’s show was encoded at 32.  Let me know if it was too low of a bitrate.

Wow, 65 of these crazy things  now.  Who would have ever thought it?  We spend the first part of the show talking about the Mothman Festival which we will be attending next weekend.  We briefly talk about the new season of Ghost Hunters and Frank’s new approach to Ghost Hunting.  This was prompted by a podcast with Jeff Belanger.  Jeff also hosts a podcast of his own called 30 Odd Minutes.

After the break, we talk about the parody Taintlight.  Funny flick making fun of everyone’s favorite vamp series.  Free on Netflix streaming, think ‘Vampires Suck’ without the budget.  For Classic Cinema this week, we take an early look at the 2002 movie ‘Below’.  Another great movie free on Netflix streaming.

Our Independent Music was from the album Stomp Out Cancer: Musician’s Fight Ewing’s Sarcoma Presents – HOPE.  The song was Heroes & Madmen:Emory.  Please support Independent Music and especially this album.  It really is for such a great cause.

Remember, no show next weekend but we’ll be back in two weeks with our Mothman Festival recap.

Just in case you’d like to get a Mothman Tee Shirt of your own, here’s the link: http://www.cafepress.com/spooktalkular

Welcome back to season 3.  We kicked it off big time tonight.  We talked about our hosting the speaking forums for the 9th Annual Mothman Festival in the beautiful Point Pleasant, WV.  We sprinkled in a bit of spooky news and then topped the show off with a good bit of movies.  The movies we covered were Inception, Vampires Suck, The Last Exorcism and our Classic Cinema Event Horizon.

For a treat, we also talked about the film “Ghosts Don’t Exist” which is due to be released Tuesday the 7th.  We had some of the creative team from GDE on back in October so it was so incredible to get a sneak peek at the film which was so worth the wait.  Great film, great story, beautifully shot.  This isn’t an Independent Film, it’s an Independent Treat!  Grab a copy today, pre-order at Amazon or pick it up at Best Buy on Tuesday.  You won’t be disappointed.

From the WAY TOO MUCH department, a warning, parts of this episode aren’t exactly safe for work.  And here’s why…  For Classic Cinema this week, we talk about the 1997 film Event Horizon staring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill.  Let’s just say we went a little overboard on our discussion of Laurence’s Daughter’s newest film, “Montana Fishburne: An A-List Daughter Makes her XXX Debut“.  Sorry Laurence.  We still love ya man, and as a father myself, I can feel for you.  With that said, it should in no way take anything away from “Event Horizon”.

Our Independent Music break this week was from the Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2 CD: Hope.  Public Symphony (London): Stronger.

Tonight was what we’ll call a quickie.  We explained out hiatus of recent and announced that we’ll be returning to regular shows on September 5th of 2010.  We briefly touched on GHI and GH:A.  We also played the trailer for “Vampires Suck“.

Take care everyone and we’ll see you in September!!!  Have a great Summer!

Had an absolute amazing time doing the show tonight.  We didn’t have any guests but we still had plenty of gab going on.  We start off by discussing our plans for when we buy the Amityville Horror House which recently went on sale.  We just need 1.5 million of our incredible listeners to send us a buck each and we can make it a reality.  ;)  We also briefly talk about a really cool old audio recording about Spiricom that we found in the 2005 archives of Ghostly Talk.  We also checked out the remake of the Wolfman this weekend and we both loved it.

Believe it or not, Ghost Hunters Academy is back.  Well, we being the fans we are take a run through of the new cadets.  Frank is thinking about pitching a new similar series but instead of Steve or Tango, Gordon Ramsay is the lead.  It would be great.  While we’re in the angry mood, we also tear into Happy Town.  How does a show with this much potential end up in such a shape?

A couple of special thanks to some great friends of the show.  Jake Wheat has updated our website and, Jake, I promise I’ll get the new version online soon.  ;)  And, to Mark Hayden.  Thanks, as always for the incredible banners you do for us.

Tonight we have a rantless discussion on the finale of ‘Lost’ and a little bit of a rant on the finale of ‘Flash Forward’.  We discuss our unintended car collection and just have a regular good ole time.

Our Independent Music Break featured more music from the amazing CD Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope.  The Sheds: Only Way Out Is Through – written for a friend of the band that was going through chemo.

No show next week so we’ll see you on June 13th!

Well, it’s not live but we really wanted to get a show out this week.  Tonight we talk about the NEW ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’.  Laura went to the midnight premiere, Frank hasn’t seen it yet.  We also talk about the movie Transylmania which was super fun!  In the TV world, we discuss the premiere of ‘Happy Town’ and, of all things, the crappy final season of ‘Lost’.  In my opinion, this season should be named ‘Lost: Done’ cause it has sucked!

We finish up with an INCREDIBLE interview with the Psychic Medium Terri Jay.  Her specialty is Pets.  She was a sweetheart.  Be sure to check her out at www.terrijay.com today!

Welcome back to Spooktalkular after an unexpected break last week.  We are working on getting Marie and Larry rescheduled.  ;)  Tonights show was a little more classic Spooktalkular.  Laura and I just hung out, no guest and talked about what’s new in Paratainment.  We took another look (or listen) to the Happy Town trailer.  Laura and I have seen some of the first couple of episodes and we can tell you, this is the must watch series this spring!  It premieres on Wednesday April 28th.  Be sure to check out the first 15 minutes of the show over at abc.com and watch the premiere Wednesday.

We took a quick look and listen at the trailer for the new “Nightmare on Elm Street“.  Premiering Friday, April 30th.  Remember, every town has an Elm street.

Laura told us about a cool movie from Netflix Streaming named “Paranormal Entity“.  I’m going to watch it ASAP myself.

We also talked about the season premiere of Dr. Who on BBC.

We also mentioned the most incredible commercial that we’ve seen in a long time.  From the 2010 Super Bowl, the Old Spice commercial was one of our favorites.

Our music tonight featured the song We Are One by Dash the Assassin.

Thanks as always to our GREAT friend Mark Hayden for his incredible banners!

We were joined tonight by our great friend Jake Wheat.  Jake tells us all about the CD “Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope” which all proceeds benefit Stomp Out Cancer and Ewing’s Sarcoma Research.  You will be hearing songs from the CD featured on our Independent Music Breaks over the next few months.  While Jake was here, we also talked about his other project, ‘The Waverly Hills Sanatorium Audio Experience” and “Stomp Out Cancer: Volume 1“.  It was an incredible hour and we hated for it to be over.  Actually, when we stopped recording, we kept talking for quite a while afterwards.

Before Jake joined us, we talked about the new ABC series ‘Happy Town‘ which we plan on covering when it starts up on April 30th.  You can watch the first 14 minutes on ABC’s site.  It looks GREAT!!!  We can’t wait.  We’re planning to make it our guilty pleasure this year.

As we mentioned, tonight’s Independent Music Breaks were from the CD “Stomp Out Cancer Volume 2: Hope” which you can find on iTunes.  We played the songs ‘Stronger’ by Public Symphony and ‘Emory’ by Heros and Madmen.  Remember, all proceeds from all the CDs benefit Ewing’s Sarcoma research.

Thanks for listening!

This was, without a doubt, the most effort we’ve had to put into a show in quite a while.  I forgot to record the beginning of the show so what you hear up until the first break, we recorded after the show.  I think it came out pretty good, all things considered.  We were joined by Mr. Methodic himself,  Chris .R. Notarile to catch us up on what’s been going on with Blinky Productions.  Chris has quite a few projects in the works.  During the show, we played the Daddy’s Girl trailer.  The audio version doesn’t do it justice so, be sure to check it out at http://iwillkillforyou.blogspot.com/ for yourself.  We also talked about Chris’ incredible follow-up to Methodic the short Methodic 1.5.  Check it out as well.

Our Paranormal News this week was by Bonnie Vent at http://www.sdparanormal.com/.  This week’s Independent Music Break featured the Devil Himself and the song ‘Deserted’.

Explicit language and topics

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.

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!

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.