Bewitched Banter

Aliens must love the sun because they love to visit the state of Arizona. The Bewitches represent their new home state today by covering two stories that involve UFO visitations. Krista covers the infamous Phoenix Lights when a craft as large a football field was reported over the Valley one night in March 1997. Amy then takes us up north to Snowflake, where Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by aliens forty years ago. Tune in to make up your mind if Aliens really did visit the Southwest. Still wanna come visit us here in the Grand Canyon State?

We are not alone in the universe. According to the Drake Equation, it is predicted that in our lifetime that we will be able to communicate to other intelligent life. However, a large group of people believe that we already have been in contact with aliens and they have been visiting planet earth for quite a while. Amy covers a few stories that echo the same question. Instead of the government covering up Alien and UFO sightings, what if the government are the guilty ones that are fabricating and creating these staged sightings to keep everyday citizens from learning about top secret information and operations that they don’t want us to know about?

In today's episode, we cover the story that inspired Wes Craven's movie Nightmare on Elm Street. Surprisingly, this movie wasn't inspired by a serial killer. Craven's inspiration came from a chain of events that happened to the Hmong male population who sought refuge in the States after the Vietnam war ended. This story focuses on the idea if a nocebo (think the opposite of placebo) is a real thing. Can your belief system ultimately harm you? Can dreams have a lasting impact and in some cases can they end someone's life? In both of today’s stories, the answer may actually be “yes.” Krista then takes us to the Philippines for the legend of The Batibat (Ilocano) and the Bangungot (Tagalog).

Imagine waking up or falling suddenly to sleep and you cannot move. You can’t speak or cry for help and you feel a tightness or pressure on your chest. Even worse, you can see, hear and feel sensations so terrifying as the stuff right out of Nightmare on Elm Street and the apparitions are 100% absolutely real to you. Can science really explain this? Turns out, it can. It’s a classified sleep disorder called  “parasomnia” and it can cause intense feelings of dread, anxiety and fear. Sure there’s a scientific explanation for sleep paralysis, but it doesn’t make the phenomenon any less terrifying for anyone who has experienced it. Just ask co-host, Krista. It’s no wonder why cultures across the world have noted this occurrence as several malevolent forces from demons and a death hag even to being linked to alien abductions.

Come down to Peru with us. That is if you'd like to be possessed like the South American children and teens Krista covers. All of them tested their fate by playing around with Ouija...or so they thought. Were they actually possessed? Amy covers the trial of the killer nicknamed the "Ice Man." This case was heavily influenced by the headlines from several gossip magazines that leaked that the jury may have consulted in a Spirit Board while intoxicated. Tune in to find how many glasses of wine it takes to get advice from ghosts?