The hardest family pattern to recognize may be the one where we realize we are part of someone else’s story.

In this episode of Chats with Aunt Jacki, Jacki Smith explores family patterns, shadow work, ancestral healing, and the uncomfortable moment when we stop being only the child trying to understand our parents — and become the parent our adult child may be trying to understand.

After teaching about inherited beliefs, family legacies, ancestral contracts, and healing family patterns through the Akashic Records, Jacki reflects on the humbling truth that our children may not experience us the way we experience ourselves. This is especially tender in mother daughter relationships, parent and adult child relationships, and any family dynamic where love, grief, boundaries, repair, and old wounds live side by side.

We know our intentions. They know their experience. Both can be true.

This episode is an honest conversation about motherhood, adult children, impact versus intention, emotional healing, spiritual healing, distance, repair, grief, humility, and the magic of asking better questions before we defend the wound.

Because family patterns are not museum pieces. They are living things.

Ron & Lou are joined by Debbie from a 1893 house the New England Ghost Project investigated with a Japanese film crew...

On this episode of the **222 Paranormal Podcast**, we sit down with an incredibly fascinating guest, **Richie Grubbs**, professionally known as **Emerald Raven**. Richie is an author, paranormal investigator, oracle reader, Paqo energy healer, and artisan whose work explores the fascinating intersection of the physical and spiritual worlds.

Richie's journey is one that brings together many different interests and experiences, from paranormal investigation and storytelling to spirituality, energy work, and intuitive practices. His unique perspective offers a fascinating look at the many ways people seek to understand the world around them—and the unseen world that may exist alongside it.

Through his work, Richie draws inspiration from the **Paqo Kuna traditions of Peru**, incorporating nature-based energy work into his spiritual practice. He also works with intuitive oracle readings, helping people explore questions about their lives while seeking greater clarity, healing, and balance. For Richie, these practices are part of a larger journey of personal discovery and understanding.

Richard talks about what is entailed when visiting a psychic.

Henry and the gang discuss the meaning of paranormal. What does it really mean?

Deep in the forests of Waterbury, Vermont, the remains of a forgotten community are quietly being reclaimed by nature. In this episode, we explore Ricker Basin and Kelty Corners, two interconnected nineteenth-century hill-farming settlements that once stretched across thousands of acres and were home to roughly 50 families.

We’ll uncover the story of the hardy settlers who carved farms from the rocky Vermont hillsides, built schools, operated sawmills, raised families, and created a thriving community in what now feels like wilderness. We’ll also explore why the settlement gradually disappeared—including the challenges of farming, the devastating 1927 flood, and the construction of the Waterbury Dam, which ultimately submerged portions of the old community.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Today, hikers can follow old settlement roads through Little River State Park, discovering cellar holes, stone foundations, the Ricker Cemetery, the remains of the Waterbury Last Block Company sawmill, and the remarkable Almeron Goodell farmhouse. Nearby, the ruins of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp tell another chapter in the area’s history.

Plus, discover a wonderful inn, where the spirits have been looking over their guests for almost 200 years. It’s a fascinating journey into a Vermont - where the may seem distant—but the stories haven’t disappeared.

The Place of Safety is one of the finest stories in E. G. Swain's celebrated collection The Stoneground Ghost Tales, first published in 1927 by Ernest Benn Limited. Inspired by the upheavals of the English Reformation, the story centers upon an antiquarian's search for sacred church treasures believed to have been hidden from the royal commissioners of King Edward VI. As historical curiosity gives way to the supernatural, Swain creates an unforgettable tale of silent guardians, impossible apparitions, and mysteries that refuse to remain buried. Drawing upon his own experience as an Anglican clergyman, Swain became one of the foremost successors to M. R. James, combining authentic ecclesiastical settings with subtle supernatural horror. The Place of Safety remains one of his greatest achievements and is regarded by many readers as among the finest stories in The Stoneground Ghost Tales. Narrated by Christopher Halton.

Across North America, more than two thousand people have vanished in and around national parks under circumstances that resist every ordinary explanation. Former law enforcement officer David Paulides has spent years documenting these cases in his Missing 411 series, isolating the ones that can't be written off as voluntary disappearances, accidents, or animal predation — and finding that what remains follows a disturbing set of recurring patterns he calls profile points. This episode of Weird Darkness walks through those patterns one by one. It opens with the national park clusters and the failure of search and rescue dogs — trained trackers that lose the scent at a dead stop, panic, or never catch it at all — then moves to the berry-picking connection, with more than a century of cases: Lillian Carney in 1897 Maine, Alice Rachel Peck and her account of "The Black Man" who carried her, Eddie Hamilton, Wesley Piatote, Jack Pike, Simon Skogan, Gary Bailey, and the strange 1965 Kuninga family encounter in Finland. From there it examines the bright-clothing factor through the best-known cases in the catalog — Dennis Martin's 1969 vanishing in the Great Smoky Mountains, Alfred Beilhartz in Rocky Mountain National Park, and Jaryd Atadero in Colorado's Poudre Canyon — followed by the recurring role of granite boulder fields, nearby water, sudden weather, and victims who step out of sight around a bend and are gone. The episode also weighs what happens when bodies are recovered, often in previously searched areas or terrain the victim could not have reached, and lays out the range of proposed explanations — from unreported crimes and disorientation to cryptids, folklore entities, and Indigenous traditions of places where the veil between worlds runs thin — without landing on any of them. It closes with practical wilderness-safety guidance for anyone who'd rather not become a Missing 411 case themselves.

Throughout history, many military veterans have shared chilling accounts of unexplained encounters during combat and deployment. From ghostly soldiers seen on abandoned battlefields to mysterious figures walking through military bases, strange lights in the sky, and voices calling from empty buildings, these stories continue to spark debate. In this episode, we explore some of the most compelling firsthand reports from service members who experienced events they still can't explain—where the horrors of war and the unknown seem to collide.

Welcome Back to another Episode of Haunted America! On today's episode we read some stories sent in by listeners of the show.