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Join us for a luminous episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — as we talk with mystic and healer Sonja Grace who has the unique ability to travel through time and space to do remarkable spiritual detective work. Sonja will join us in hour2. In hour1 Joel and Eric will amaze and amuse with the week’s hot paranormal news.

Sonja Grace Spirit Traveler

Sonja Grace’s new Spirit Traveler book explores eight of the world’s greatest historic sites — including including the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, Chichen Itza, and Tiwanaku — in an effort to understand what really happened at them centuries and millennia ago. Sonja shares her ability to travel through time and gain detailed information about who built each site and why, revealing startling insight into the people, demi-gods and ceremonies of the past.

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There have been thousands of books written about these sites from the perspective of scientists and archaeologists. While this information is crucial to our knowledge, much of the mystery about them remains unsolved and questions surrounding their purpose have lingered through the centuries: What was the purpose of Stonehenge? How were the Great Pyramids built, and why is their particular geometry so significant? Why was Skellig Rock so important to the monks? Sonja Grace brings her unique understanding of the truth to history.

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Each chapter of the book tackles the scientific and historical information available about each site up to this point in time and addresses the questions that continue to puzzle archaeologists and historians. The second half of each chapter is devoted to Sonja’s Spirit Traveler’ experience, what she learned, and the answers to some of those longstanding questions.

Sonja Grace is an internationally known mystic and healer whose work helps people who suffer physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. She is an energy surgeon who Spirit Travels to work with her clients where ever they are in the world and performs all levels of healing including restructuring tissue, repairing organs, bones, blood and cells. She sees and receives messages from loved ones who have crossed over and offers a venue for healing in this world and the spirit world. Her ability to read and clear the karmic threads to past lives helps clients heal lifetimes of patterns. Sonja offers meditation retreats, workshops and training.Sonja’s ancestral background is a fascinating blend of Native American and Norwegian. She has been adopted by the Hopi Reservation where she is considered a medicine woman. Sonja is the author of Become an Earth Angel (Findhorn Press), and has appeared on Beyond Belief with George Noory, Coast to Coast AM, Better TV, A.M. Northwest and the Virtual Light Broadcast

On this addition Joel and Steve cover all things Bigfoot with two of the most well respected Bigfoot researchers in the field today. Abe Del Rio & Michael Hexum of the Minnesota Bigfoot Research Team. More about the team. "The Minnesota Bigfoot Research Team/ MN.B.R.T.,a group of like minded individuals that work together in proving the existence of Sasquatch/Bigfoot. Here we hope to share our adventures in searching for Bigfoot. Here we hope to educate and engage with people in & out of the Bigfoot community."

Tim Shaw has had a long fascination with ghosts and things that go bump in the night. He can trace the religion of Spiritualism in his family back to the 1880’s and had several “Mediums” in his lineage. As a child he experienced paranormal phenomena, eventually taking training in mediumship however he does not believe that everything is a ghost. Tim possesses a heathy dose of skepticism which aids in his desire to seek out the truth.

Mr. Shaw is the founder of Sean Thomas Productions which films the web series “Curiosity.” He is an accomplished photographer who also enjoys Backwoods Primitive Trekking, Flintknapping, Urban Exploration and is also a skilled Traditional Leather-worker.

Tim has authored "The Ghosts of Buffalo - Spirits, Murder, And Mayhem In The Nickel City,” Co-Authored “Haunted Rochester.” and has contributed a chapter in Marla Brooks wonderful book "Animal Spells And Magick". In E.R. Verner's "Haunted Asylums" Tim has written both the Introduction as well as shared photographs from various locations. His photography also appears in Verner's newest release "Haunted Prisons." In his work "Please Talk With Me, The True Story Of The C2D1 Haunting" Tim has researched and written about one of the most devastating negative haunting in the Western New York region. It serves as the official companion book to a movie of the same name! In 2015 he finished an exciting new book of spirit channeled and inspired writings along with his photography in his latest book "The Dogma Of.....ME,” which was published by Dark Moon Press. His writings have been included in a Just Released Title....” Lost Whispers, A Collective Allegory Of Haunted America.” Tim has also written the forward for Marla Brooks Tarot Deck entitled “The Witches Oracle Deck” printed by Schiffer Books.

The Black Lounge of which Tim was the host ran on the Para-X Radio Network for nine years. He has also been featured on The SyFy Channel's "Ghost Hunters" (The Well of Horror),The Discovery Channel's "Ghost Lab" (The Betrayal/Fort Niagara), "CBS Radio"(The Wake Up Call, By The Soul, For The Soul, The Astral Bag Lady, and The Psychics Next Door), "Paranormal NY", Spike Network’s "Ghost Ops" (Fort Mifflin/William Howe), Deftone Pictures Studio's "Alien Invasion", "To Catch A Soul", and "A Grim Becoming", The Award Winning "Marsh Creek Tramp," as well as Core Productions Documentary "John Zaffis, The World Within". Most recently he has been featured on Destination America’s hit show “Paranormal Lockdown” (The Hinsdale House episode.

At present he is working on season Two of “Curiosity” with show host Eric Charles and is actively seeking out people with usual lifestyles or occupations for future episodes.

On this darkly haunting episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — we excavate western New York’s notorious Hinsdale House, recently featured on Nick Groff’s Paranormal Lockdown, with owner and paranormal investigator Dan Klaes, and veteran investigator and para-personality Tim Shaw. Dan and Tim will be joining us in hour2 – in hour1 Joel and Eric will reveal the week’s mind-melting paranormal news and banter pleasingly.

Hinsdale House History

The Dandy family moved into the century-old farm house in Hinsdale, New York, in the early 1970s, thinking they had finally found their dream home. Within days they began to experience unexplained activity that continued to grow worse as time went on. The family received mysterious phone calls and experienced a variety of poltergeist activity. Sometimes they would even hear chanting from the nearby woods.

At first shrugging the activity off, the Dandy family then began seeing full-body apparitions of woman in white, bizarre animal-human hybrids, even what they believed could be demonic, non-human entities.

One night the family noticed a group of strange faces staring in their windows. However, when Mr. Dandy ran outside to chase away the trespassers, the faces reversed and were then peering back at him from the inside of the house.

Then the haunting began to turn violent: objects levitated around the house, a lamp from the living room threw itself at one of the Dandy daughters. The last straw came when Mr. Dandy experienced a state of amnesia, unable to remember some of the most frightening incidents. At this point an exorcist named Father Alphonsus, a priest from St. Bonaventure University, was called in to exorcise the home while the family and a team paranormal researchers were present. The paranormal activity became the strongest it had ever been. Lights in the house turned on and off, unexplainable banging emanated from the walls, and a palpable sense of evil permeated the home.

Unfortunately, the exorcism didn’t work, and after a few days of calm in the house, the activity ramped up again, finally forcing the Dandy family to move. Clara Miller-Dandy wrote the book Echoes of a Haunting in 2000, which detailed her family’s terrifying experiences living in the home from July, 1973 to October, 1974.

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Today the house is owned, maintained, and operated by local paranormal investigator Dan Klaes in order to preserve the haunted building for research purposes. The Hinsdale House was brought to the public’s attention in the fifth episode of Paranormal Lockdown, which saw Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman spend 72 hours living in and investigating the notorious location. During their investigation, the seasoned investigators experienced a range of activity associated with the house, including chanting, banging, and an overwhelming sense of confusion.

Daniel Klaes’ interest in the paranormal spans his entire life, stemming from his experiences living in a haunted house. These encounters with unusual phenomena pushed theDan Klaes Hinsdale House boundaries of his own belief system. In fact, Dan later purchased his family’s home and has grown comfortable with his unseen guests. Klaes co-founded the Greater Western New York Paranormal Society, which has tackled some of the most challenging paranormal cases in the region. Dan is also a producer of the Behind the Shadows documentary series that can be viewed internationally on the Roku station Paranormal Reality TV. He is also a radio host of Phenomena Encountered on the Crossroads Radio Network, a sought after speaker, and author, having penned Hinsdale House, An American Haunting.

In June of 2015, Dan realized a lifelong dream. The infamous Hinsdale House, site of the infestation and structural exorcism, became available for purchase and wasting no time, he made an offer that was accepted. Klaes immediately began renovations to stabilize the house, which continue to this day. Shortly af(continued)

In this chilling episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we speak with Joe Cetrone and Steve Pate, paranormal investigators and co-stars of Destination America’s terrifying new Haunted Case Files (Sundays 10/9c). We will dig deeply into Joe’s most frightening cases in the 10pE hour – in hour 1 we are joined by wondrous forensic psychologist Clarissa Cole talking serial killers and the underlying psychology.

From the producers of PARANORMAL SURVIVOR comes the all-new series HAUNTED CASE FILES, Sundays at 10/9c on Destination America, in which ghost hunters recountHaunted Case Files logo their most extreme supernatural experiences, from the unnerving to the terrifying to the downright dangerous. Be careful of what you look for because even the most hardened veterans aren’t always prepared for what they might find. These are the cases that truly tested them. Each episode features a story from three different paranormal investigation groups, along with interviews, recreations and actual recordings of the evidence they captured.

Integral to the series are investigators Joe Cetrone and Steve Pate, who appear on five episodes of the series. Joe Cetrone’s insatiable passions for musical creation, writing, paranormal investigation, and empathic observation have fueled his calling and facilitated his expression. He has embarked on a lifelong journey to exploring the unknown and uncovering hidden truths.

Haunted Case Files Joe CetroneBorn in Providence, RI, Joe spent his first nine years growing up in a section of the city known as Federal Hill before moving to Warwick, RI. A frightening ghostly encounter at an impressionable young age set him on a quest for the truth – one that would change the course of his life forever. His passion to investigate the unseen realm accelerated following a bizarre conversation with his father, only days prior to his death.

Joe would later be trained by Keith Johnson, formerly of TAPS and the SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, where he learned of the paranormal on a scientific level. In 2005, he joined New England Anomalies Research. In 2006, Joe co-founded the Rhode Island Demonic Disturbance Investigation Association, otherwise known as RIDDIA. Both he and co-founder, Michael Piccerelli, were given the opportunity to host Strange Encounters on WCAN Radio, a weekly show dedicated to the supernatural. The series gained in popularity and the two-man crew moved on to Haunted Voices Radio, a 24-hour non profit network educating the community and fostering paranormal awareness.

In 2007, a project known as Dark Hauntings began, wherein a producer, film crew and members of RIDDIA conducted a 72 hour investigation at the notorious Sallie House in Atchison, Kansas.

Joe is currently a speaker, lead investigator for Supernatural Response Team (SRT), and the co-host of Reflections in the Dark on Firefall Talk Radio. In June of 2011, he held his first Spirit Fire Conference in New England. In October of 2014, Joe was contacted by the production company Our House Media for a new Canadian television series titled, Paranormal Survivor, which kicked off in January of 2015. He appeared on several episodes of the show as a paranormal consultant.

The first season of HAUNTED CASE FILES continues through the fall, kicking off with the following episodes:

In the premiere last Sunday, August 28, a former funeral home’s dark past comes back to haunt investigator Michelle Desrochers. Then, father/daughter team Alan and Anna Tolf investigate a crumbling mansion only to be terrorized by the angry spirit of a scorned wife. Finally, in Ohio, ghost hunters are called to a family home, where the spirit of a former owner has returned to threaten the new inhabitants.

Sunday, September 4 at 10/9c

In Rhode Island, a couple calls in investigator Joe Cetrone after their flirtation with the occult unleashes a demonic spirit they cannot control. Then, in Massachusetts, a ghos(continued)

In this revelatory episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we speak with sociologist and author Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life Dennis Waskul about the meaning and consequences of paranormal experiences as detailed in his fascinating new book, Ghostly Encounters. Dennis will join us in hour2 – in hour1 we will cover the week’s jaw-dropping paranormal news, and Sweetheart of the Great Northern Woods, Kirsten Klang, will read your true ghost stories.

Ghostly Encounters Dennis WaskulDennis Waskul, with able assistance from Michele Waskul, is author of Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of Everyday Life (Temple UniversityPress, 2016). Based on two years of fieldwork and interviews with 71 heartland Americans, the Waskuls’ book is a reflexive ethnography that examines how people experience ghosts and hauntings in everyday life. Through these stories, Ghostly Encounters seeks to understand the persistence of inexplicable experiences and beliefs in ghosts in an age of reason, science, and technology; and how those beliefs and experiences both reflect and serve important social and cultural functions.

In five compact, intellectually rigorous but eminently readable chapters, the Waskuls explore how uncanny happenings become interpreted as ghosts, and the reasons people struggle with or against a will to believe. They classify the variety and character of hauntings and ghostly encounters (apparitions, phantasms, wraiths, poltergeists, specters, and phantoms), outcomes of people telling haunted legends, and the personal and societal consequences of ghostly experiences.

Waskul writes in the intro to the book, “In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling…. I am startled but not afraid…. Mostly, I am engrossed; I have never seen anything like this before (or since) and it fascinates me.”

Scholars speak and write a lot about why they study the things they do, how they conduct their research, what they found, and what it all means. Scholars sometimes report what their research does for them. But scholars seldom talk or write about what research does to them—a conversation that Waskul suggests that we need to initiate more frequently. Since a goal of ethnography is to engage in intense subjective submersion in order to obtain an insider’s understanding of the phenomenon the ethnographer is studying, Waskul reveals the ghosts that followed him home as well as the affect of his increasing inability to determine what is real.

Dennis Waskul is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Minnesota State University Mankato. Dennis has authored or edited numerous books including Popular Culture as Everyday Life; The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society; Body/Embodiment; and Self-Games and Body-Play. He has published many empirical studies on a variety of topics including various investigations of the sexual use of new media technologies, sociology of the body, sensual sociology, and the intersections of fantasy and lived experience. Dennis Waskul has served as President of Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

In this ecumenical edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — we speak with a woman who stands astride the twin worlds of the paranormal and horror, Patti Starr. Patti is the legendary paranormal investigator who runs Ghost Chasers International, owns and operates Lexington, Kentucky’s Ghost Hunter Shop, is maestro of the Bardstown Ghost Trek, AND she is founder and proprietor of The Scarefest horror and paranormal convention. Patti will join us in hour2 – in hour1 we will cover the week’s spine-tingling paranormal news, and Kirsten Klang will read your true ghost stories.

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The ScareFest, now on its ninth year, is the largest, most iconic horror and paranormal convention and tradeshow in the USA, where attendees experience three days of the strange, weird and macabre. Opening day is September 30, and the event runs through October 2, 2016. This year’s theme, Camp ScareFest salutes the thematic stories and characters of the horror series “Friday the 13th.” Present every year are top celebrities from the horror and paranormal communities. The ScareFest will be held at the Lexington Center, a state-of-the-art facility and one of the largest convention centers in the state of Kentucky.

National Ghost Hunting Day

And if that isn’t enough, National Ghost Hunting Day is now officially registered to be celebrated on the first Saturday of every October. On October 1, 2016, National Ghost Hunting Day will be celebrated for the first time with the World’s Largest Ghost Hunt serving as the inaugural mega event. The World’s Largest Ghost Hunt will be centered at The ScareFest! With hundreds participating and thousands watching live and via live streaming, a shotgun start will simultaneously kick-off the search for paranormal evidence at locations across the United States and around the world.

Patti Starr

With over 30 years of paranormal research and ghost investigations Patti has captured many anomalies in photos, videos, and audio while investigating haunted locations. Her goal as a paranormal investigator is to collect evidence to support the premise that life goes on even after death. She is very active as a ghost researcher, author, lecturer, consultant, dowser, and teacher. Her book, Ghost Hunting in Kentucky and Beyond, is a must-have resource for all serious ghost hunters.

Patti’s work has been documented in numerous newspapers and magazines including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oracle 20/20, Ghost Magazine, and Southern Distinction.

On this enlightening edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio — with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen — world renowned medium Armand Egidi joins us to discuss his gifts, methods, and take calls from listeners. Armand will join us in hour 2. In hour 1, Joel and Eric will reveal the week’s top paranormal news and banter amiably as is their habit. In addition, your real ghost stories will be read by our very own Sweetheart of the Great Northern Woods, Kirsten Klang!

“Where there is darkness I bring light. Where there is misunderstanding I bring clarity. To say that I love what I do would be an understatement. I’m a psychic medium and spiritual teacher driven in this life to bring forth awareness and healing through love and connection to the spiritual world,” says medium Armand Egidi. For ten years Egidi has utilized his psychic gifts to help others heal emotional wounds and face their deepest fears. Not only does he work with those in spiritual need from his New Jersey base, but he travels regularly around the country and across the globe from Sydney to Sao Paulo. As of this writing, Armand has spread his light in six countries, traveled over 78,000 miles, and Armand Egidi NYChelped nearly 3,000 people.

His goal is to help people achieve inner peace through his innate ability to channel their lost loved ones and past life experiences. Some of his most rewarding memories include easing a widow’s separation anxiety from her lost husband by channeling his presence to her, and on another occasion he was able to facilitate an apology from a dead father to his daughter for abusing her while he struggled with alcoholism.

Armand Egidi has three specific gifts that help him to help others. He is a psychic medium, able to see, hear and communicate with spirits on every level. What he can see and sense varies from spirit to spirit, of course. He is clairvoyant, able to communicate with the departed through visions, usually in a trance-like state. And he is clairaudient, able to hear spirits speak on a case-by-case basis.

Egidi recalls possessing these gifts as early as three years old, during an incident where he “just knew” his mother was irritated with his noisiness, Despite having never said a word out loud he was able to repeat verbatim what she was thinking.

Armand Egidi NYC crowdArmand’s first career was in clinical social work. He holds a BA in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ and an MSW from New York University. He still maintains his license to practice clinical social work. His transition from work as a full time clinician to a psychic healer occurred in 2007 when someone noticed his gift during a private therapy session. “I was talking to a new friend one day, someone I knew very little about and he said, ‘Armand you know what you are doing don’t you?’ I said, ‘no?’. He said ‘You’re reading me, can you continue?’ I said, ‘There is a man behind you who is a father figure to you and he is writing Radio Flyer with his finger in gold letters.’ His eyes widened and he said, ‘that’s my uncle who was a father figure to me and he gave me the 50th anniversary Radio Flyer wagon which had gold letters and night white.’ ”

Requests to see the man now referred to as “Medium Armand” began to pour in. Since this turning point he has performed readings at prestigious resorts like Deer Lake Lodge in Montgomery Texas; read several people on stage at the The Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City; and most recently he was booked as a motivational speaker for franchise owners and top level managers at the Domino’s Pizza’s world meeting in NYC this September.

It is our profound honor to welcome the legendary Erich von Däniken — author of the revolutionary Chariots of the Gods and many other works on the extraterrestrial origins of mankind — to this edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio, with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen. Von Däniken is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Chariots of the Gods with a gala live presentation and worldwide webcast from London October 15, 2016. Mr von Däniken will join us in hour 2. In hour 1, forensic psychologist and renowned redhead Dr. Clarissa Cole will join us — as she does the first Thursday of every month — to drill into the minds of serial killers.Who will tonight’s victim be?

2016 is the 50th anniversary of when a young man sat at a typewriter in Davos, Switzerland, and pecked out one of the most important and popular books of the 20th century, Chariots of the Gods. Honoring that fateful creation is ERICH von DÄNIKEN LEGACY NIGHT, Chariots of the Gods Chronicles 1966 – 2016, October 15, 2016 in London.

The godfather of Ancient Astronaut Theory returns to London after 25 years for his first ever live-streamed webcast event. This two-hour celebration will honor the past and future of author and researcher Erich von Däniken and will be globally broadcast live from BAFTA’s historic Princess Anne Theatre. The evening will feature keynote presentation by the guest of honor himself, as he showcases his most influential speeches, describing his findings and breakthroughs in developing the Ancient Astronaut Theory. Following the keynote address, the bold new trajectory of Erich von Däniken’s legacy will be unveiled. This explosive announcement will reveal developments from the creative geniuses behind the highly anticipated Chariots of the Gods 360-degree entertainment franchise by Media Invest Entertainment. For Gala Night attendees, the evening will conclude with a VIP cocktail reception and book signing with Erich.

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Erich von Däniken set off a firestorm in the late-’60s with the release of his classic Chariots of the Gods, which set forth the proposition that man had his origins in the stars and that his development has been aided by extraterrestrials. Where did von Däniken’s extraordinary notions come? He writes in the preface to the anniversary edition of Chariots of the Gods, “I come from a very Catholic family in Switzerland and my father decided that I would have a theologically-oriented education. So he enrolled 16-year old Erich at Collège St-Michel, a Jesuit boarding school in Fribourg, Switzerland. At that time, my conception of God was magnificent and simultaneously incomprehensible – and has remained so to this day. I always thought God – who or what that was – had to exhibit some minimum features. The true God would be flawless and could do no wrong. He would have to be omnipresent and need no vehicle to get from point A to point B. In particular, God would be timeless. God could not be something that did experiments and then must wait to see what resulted. Those were the thoughts my confused 16-year old brain had about God,” he writes.

He continues, “In theology class, we regularly translated Bible passages. Typically, this was from the ancient Greek or Latin texts into German. And so my plight began. The God of the Old Testament used vehicles for his earthly visits. He was often described with attributes such as ‘smoke, fire, earthquake, or noise.’ ‘Fallen angels’ or ‘God’s sons’ came down from heaven to fornicate with pretty daughters of men according to the first book of Moses. The biblical God conducted experiments and did not know the outcomes, or worse, they were wrong. First he ‘created man and saw that it was good.’ But later “the Lord repented that he had created man, and it grieved him deeply.” He decided that the whole of humanity had to drown with the exception of Noah and his family.”

Like many seekers, Erich virtually pleads, “Was God (continued)

Join us for a dark and stormy night of intense paranormal activity with paranormal investigator, demonologist and author of The Ghost in the Coal Cellar Andrea Mesich on this episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio, with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen. Andrea will join the show in hour 2. In hour 1, Joel and Eric will rummage through the week’s smoking hot paranormal news, and Kirsten Klang will read your real ghost stories!

A young family’s rocking chair sways under the force of an unseen presence. Gutted by fire, an abandoned schoolhouse teems with restless spirits. Phantom lights chase the terrified motorists deep in a national forest. Lone paranormal investigator Andrea Mesich regales readers with four fascinating and creepy tales of the paranormal from Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in The Ghost in the Coal Cellar.

Andrea Mesich

Not just ghost stories, explore the history behind each haunted location, learn how to conduct an investigation, how various gadgets work, and much more. Discover the life-changing paranormal experience that turned Andrea from a skeptic to an investigator in 2004. Follow her path from fear to curiosity and gain insight into everything she’s learned about the world’s paranormal mysteries.

Andrea Mesich, hailing from Ironwood, MI, studies the paranormal, practices new techniques, tests different theories, and researches history, trying to discover why paranormal events happen and what can we learn from them. She has also been a demonologist for the last two years, traveling the country helping clients and religious officials with tough cases of the paranormal and demonic.