In this chilling episode of Dairyland Frights, host John sits down with paranormal investigator, medium, tarot reader, hairstylist, and mother — Joy zIggaty— for one of the most intense supernatural conversations ever featured on the show.

Joy opens up about growing up surrounded by terrifying entities, shadow figures, and unexplained paranormal activity that haunted her childhood home. From seeing spirits as a child to being chased by a crawling entity near her family’s garage, Joy shares firsthand experiences that blur the line between the living and the dead.

The episode takes an even darker turn as Joy reveals the shocking story behind her experience at Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum — an encounter so disturbing it eventually led to her appearance on the hit paranormal TV series Ghost Adventures. Joy describes terrifying encounters with a sinister smiling entity, unexplained EVP responses, shadow figures, physical sensations, and overwhelming fear inside the infamous museum.

John and Joy also dive deep into:

Joy also shares emotional stories about helping people connect with loved ones who have passed away and explains how she sets boundaries with spirits while navigating life as a psychic medium and mother.

If you love paranormal podcasts, haunted locations, ghost stories, demonic encounters, supernatural investigations, and true paranormal experiences, this is an episode you do NOT want to miss.

🎧 Listen now to this terrifying episode of Dairyland Frights and decide for yourself… are these entities truly evil, or is something even darker hiding in the shadows?

What do vampires, garlic, corn, Cinderella, and ancient folklore all have in common? In this fascinating episode of Dairyland Frights, host John welcomes author and folklorist Varla Ventura back to the show for a deep dive into the eerie origins of vampire legends, magical plants, and the dark history hidden inside classic fairy tales.

Varla explores how ancient societies once believed diseases like rabies, tuberculosis, and pellagra could transform people into vampires. The conversation uncovers the shocking connection between corn consumption and vampire hysteria in Europe, including how nutritional deficiencies may have fueled real-life “vampire epidemics.”

The episode also dives into:

Varla also discusses her books Enchanted Plants and her upcoming release, Rotten Botany, exploring the strange, deadly, and mystical side of the plant world.

If you love paranormal history, dark folklore, witches, vampires, cryptic legends, and spooky storytelling, this episode is packed with chilling insights and bizarre historical truths that will change how you look at fairy tales forever.

Varla Ventura — Author of Enchanted Plants and Rotten Botany

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Welcome back to Nightland Frights, where the shadows stretch longer, the stories grow darker, and the unknown never stops watching. In this chilling episode, we explore some of the most terrifying haunted locations across America, from abandoned prisons and cursed mansions to eerie amusement parks frozen in time.

Discover the horrifying legends surrounding Eastern State Penitentiary, the ghost-filled halls of The Stanley Hotel, and the infamous Lizzie Borden House. We dive deep into the paranormal activity reported at these legendary sites, including shadow figures, phantom footsteps, cold spots, and spirits trapped by tragic histories.

The episode also explores terrifying paranormal hotspots like Queen Mary, St. Augustine Lighthouse, Myrtles Plantation, and the infamous LaLaurie Mansion, where visitors claim the dead still linger.

But the terror doesn’t stop there.

We descend into the disturbing history of abandoned amusement parks, including the terrifying legend of Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, a location believed by many to be cursed after tragic deaths, ancient burial grounds, and decades of paranormal encounters. Rusted rides, ghostly laughter, moving swings, and unexplained apparitions have made Lake Shawnee one of the world’s most infamous haunted attractions.

We also uncover the eerie remains of forgotten parks like Fun Spot Amusement Park, Geauga Lake, Six Flags New Orleans, and Disney’s abandoned River Country, places where silence now replaces screams of excitement.

If you’re fascinated by ghosts, abandoned places, haunted amusement parks, paranormal investigations, urban legends, and America’s darkest locations, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now to Nightland Frights and step inside the places where history, tragedy, and the paranormal collide. Just remember… some places never let go.

This week on Dairyland Frights, John welcomes back fan-favorite guest Ashley from the Ghost Gossip Podcast for another unforgettable paranormal conversation filled with haunted dolls, spirit encounters, psychic intuition, creepy hotels, haunted road trips, and real-life ghost stories.

Ashley shares shocking experiences involving haunted dolls, spiritual protection, full-body apparitions, and the emotional reality of developing intuitive abilities. The conversation dives deep into paranormal investigations, spiritual boundaries, ghostly encounters inside haunted locations, and the darker side of energy attachments.

Then John and Ashley take listeners on a terrifying paranormal road trip across America’s most haunted destinations — including the legendary The Stanley Hotel, Salem’s infamous The Witch House, the eerie LaLaurie Mansion, and the terrifying Ohio State Reformatory made famous by The Shawshank Redemption.

If you love:

…this episode is for you.

Ashley from Ghost Gossip Podcast joins the show to discuss her experiences with intuitive abilities, haunted objects, paranormal investigations, and some of the creepiest supernatural encounters she’s experienced firsthand.

Be sure to check out her podcast and follow her across social media for more paranormal stories, haunted locations, and ghostly encounters.

If you enjoyed this episode of Dairyland Frights:

What makes the Midwest so terrifying? Is it the endless cornfields, abandoned farmhouses, isolated highways… or the people hiding within them?

In this chilling and hilarious episode of Eric Miller for a deep dive into horror storytelling, Midwest fear, serial killers, haunted isolation, and the psychology behind what truly scares us.

Eric discusses growing up in the Midwest, how small-town life inspires horror, and why places surrounded by cornfields and darkness feel far scarier than big cities. The conversation explores legendary horror creators like Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, and Bruce Campbell — while diving into classic horror films like The Thing, Evil Dead II, and bizarre cult classics like Rubber.

The episode also explores:

Eric also shares behind-the-scenes stories from Hollywood, including writing creature features like Ice Spiders and developing horror stories rooted in real human fears.

If you love horror movies, paranormal stories, creepy Midwest legends, psychological horror, classic monster films, or hearing how horror creators craft terrifying worlds — this episode is for you.

If you enjoy paranormal investigations, horror writing, ghosts, cryptids, creepy folklore, and conversations with horror creators, subscribe to Dairyland Frights and stay spooky.

🎙️ New episodes featuring authors, investigators, mediums, filmmakers, and paranormal experts drop regularly.

What happens when two paranormal podcasters join forces to swap terrifying personal experiences, haunted college stories, creepy shadow figures, and chilling ghost encounters?

In this eerie episode of Dairyland Frights, host John welcomes Bri and Christiana from Something Strange Pod for a conversation packed with paranormal experiences, haunted dorms, creepy folklore, and terrifying listener ghost stories.

The trio dives deep into:

This episode balances creepy paranormal storytelling with hilarious chemistry, making it one of the most entertaining and chilling conversations yet.

Bri and Christiana host a paranormal podcast covering:

Their mix of humor, spooky storytelling, and genuine paranormal curiosity makes this collaboration a perfect fit for Dairyland Frights.

One of the creepiest stories of the episode involves a child seeing a faceless girl sitting in a mango tree — an apparition later revealed to have been witnessed by multiple family members across generations.

Bri and Christiana discuss terrifying paranormal activity at their Pennsylvania college campus, including:

John shares his shocking real-life story about nearly purchasing the legendary Amityville Horror House and what former owners allegedly told him about the house’s paranormal reputation.

The episode explores eerie witchcraft legends tied to University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and the infamous “Witch’s Tower” said to be connected to paranormal sightings and dark folklore.

Subscribe to Dairyland Frights on your favorite podcast platform and follow for more terrifying paranormal conversations, ghost stories, haunted history, cryptids, and Midwest mysteries.

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Welcome back to Dairyland Frights, the paranormal podcast where we explore everything spooky, mysterious, creepy, and unexplained in the Midwest and beyond. In this chilling new episode, host John welcomes special guest Hayley from Ghost Stories & Gummies for a fun, eerie, and unforgettable conversation.

Hayley shares her personal paranormal encounters from mysterious knocking sounds in the night to an emotional visitation from her late grandmother. The episode dives into haunted objects, cursed dolls, spirit communication, gummies and ghost hunting, and the strange line between fear and fascination.

Then things get even darker as John and Hailey count down some of the Top Haunted Dolls in the World, including infamous legends like Robert the Doll, mysterious cursed toys, haunted marionettes, and dolls said to move, whisper, or bring bad luck.

If you love ghost stories, haunted dolls, paranormal investigations, creepy history, or supernatural debates between skeptics and believers, this episode is for you.

If you love podcasts about ghosts, haunted places, cryptids, cursed objects, EVP evidence, and real paranormal stories, Dairyland Frights is your new obsession.

Welcome back to Dairyland Frights, the paranormal podcast covering everything creepy, spooky, mysterious, and unexplained in the Midwest and beyond. In this chilling episode, he sits down with Victoria the Demon Folklorist, for one of the most fascinating deep dives yet into demons, jinn, possession cases, haunted dolls, Ouija boards, black-eyed children, and forgotten Wisconsin exorcism stories.

Victoria shares her own terrifying personal possession experience at age 19, how it inspired her academic folklore research, and why many cases people call “demons” may actually be something entirely different. She explains the shocking differences between demons vs jinn, why some hauntings follow people instead of places, and why true demonic cases may be far rarer than most believe.

The conversation also explores legendary paranormal topics like Annabelle, Robert the Doll, Ouija boards, witches, Satanic Panic, Catholic exorcisms, haunted convents, and Wisconsin’s forgotten possession history. If you love paranormal investigations, folklore, religious mysteries, and intelligent supernatural debate — this episode is for you.

🎧 New episode of Dairyland Frights available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major platforms.

This episode contains intense paranormal experiences and discussions of demonic encounters that may be disturbing to some listeners.

What if your first paranormal experience wasn’t just a ghost… but something darker?

In this chilling episode of Dairyland Frights, host John Radtke sits down with April from Spooky Girl 831 to dive deep into real-life encounters with the unexplained, from childhood hauntings to terrifying demonic attachments.

April shares the moment that changed everything… a face-to-face encounter with a mysterious girl who wasn’t supposed to be there and the chilling aftermath that followed.

April recounts seeing a mysterious girl in her home who gasped when noticed and vanished through a door that never moved… followed by weeks of whispers, laughter, and an eventual chilling warning from a pastor who sensed something attached to her.

If you’ve ever questioned whether ghosts are real…

This episode will stay with you.

What if the plants around you held ancient magic… and modern medicine is just catching up?

In this fascinating episode of Dairyland Frights, host John dives deep into the world of witchcraft, herbal magic, and the paranormal with acclaimed author Varla Ventura.

From growing up with a practicing witch mother to writing bestselling books on enchanted plants, folklore, and the supernatural, Varla shares incredible stories that blur the line between science, magic, and mystery.

If you’re into:

…this episode is going to hook you fast.

Despite some technical issues, this episode is packed with insane value, storytelling, and insight—and Varla will absolutely be back again.

“We may never prove the paranormal… but we’ll never stop chasing it.”