Armed with gallons of courage and the latest ghost-busting technology science can offer (forget the proton packs, this is serious stuff), the 17 volunteer members of the Long Island Paranormal Investigators team are knee-deep in the other side – facing fearsome phantoms and probing petrifying poltergeists in Long Island’s cemeteries, haunted houses and spooky woods.

Fiction, you say? Maybe. But co-founder Michael Cardinuto, a lead director at Westbury-based special-needs social-services agency Tiegerman Community Services, can tell you stories that will turn you white as a ghost: disembodied screams, mysterious hooded beings, demonic pig-lizards, shadow people and more, all here on Long Island and all very real, according to the paranormal professional.

In today’s conversation, Michael joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to debunk the “nonsense” of “reality TV” ghost-hunting, review his most blood-curdling experiences from 18 years of real-life afterlife investigations and confirm that – if you know where and how to look – the truth is out there. Happy Halloween, brave listeners!