Richard welcomes a paranormal researcher and experiencer who recalls her childhood in West Virginia during the time of the mysterious and frightening Mothman sightings in 1966.

GUEST: Susan Sheppard is a long time paranormal investigator, researcher and experiencer. Her West Virginia childhood was marked by a wide range of unusual experiences such as growing up near one of the first Mothman sightings, encounters with the Men in Black, sensing spirits (as well as other manifestations of the mysterious and the unknown) at an early age. Her grandmother was a psychic medium and her favorite aunt a practicing spiritualist who taught her the art of the seance and other spiritual traditions.

Susan has worked as a medium, a self-taught astrologer, is an artist-poet and storyteller. Her areas of expertise are ghosts and hauntings, fairies and fairy lore, astrology, psychic dimensions, cryptozoology, Indrid Cold, Men in Black, Mothman, and Appalachian folklore. She is the author of several books and oracle decks such as The Phoenix Cards and most recently The Black Moon Astrology Cards were brought out by Blue Angel Publishing. She is also the creator and main storyteller for the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours in her hometown of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

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