John spends Veterans Day cleaning soldiers’ headstones while Gary wonders if it’s really “volunteering” when the ghosts might be supervising. Between stories of eerie calm and unexpected energy spikes, they dig into why honoring the dead sometimes leads to very lively encounters.

A thoughtful (and occasionally ridiculous) episode of Splintered Spirits that mixes heart, history, and a few laughs among the tombstones.

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John talk with Mark Marinaccio (https://linktr.ee/strangestoryco), Executive Producer of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and veteran of Ghost Hunters. Mark has built a career exploring the edge of what can be explained. He has documented strange events, guided research teams through unusual experiments, and helped define how audiences experience the paranormal on screen.

He shares how growing up with a psychic mother and a sci-fi-loving father shaped his curiosity, what it’s really like to oversee investigations at Skinwalker Ranch, and how he balances skepticism with belief.

If you’re drawn to the space where science meets mystery, this conversation belongs on your playlist!

A live episode from the vault that slipped though the cracks, and we dropped

Gary and John talk about commonalities amongst our guests interpretations of spirits, the idea of other dimensions, the "woo-woo"-ness of energy, big plans for the future, and maybe have an interaction with a spirit.

Modern Mortisha joins Splintered Spirits for a conversation that dives into the strange space where horror becomes art. She has built a world of two-sentence stories, silent performances, and carefully crafted moments that feel unsettling even when nothing moves. Her characters tilt their heads a little too slowly, her scenes linger a little too long, and her humor slips in at the moment you least expect it. In this episode we explore how she designs fear without relying on jump scares, how she shapes a story with nothing but a gesture, and why the smallest choice in framing can twist a simple idea into something haunting. If you love creators who reinvent how horror feels online, you are in the right place. Let’s dive into the conversation.

Modern Mortisha: https://beacons.ai/modern.mortisha

John and Gary talk about big plans for John's Holiday party.

ALERT: Everything you hear from Ghost Fire is 100% real, buuuuut I did add some Halloween fun. Let me know if you see any apparitions and how many you spot 😈

Gary takes Ghost Fire, the custom spirit box he built from scratch, out for its first real test. The mission: find out if the device can actually let us communicate with whatever’s on the other side. Join Gary as he pushes the boundaries between science and spirit in this hands-on field test of Ghost Fire.👻 Follow @santaparanormal and @splinteredspirits for behind-the-scenes updates#GhostFire #SpiritBox #SplinteredSpirits #ParanormalPodcast #GhostHunting

The Hudson Valley all female paranormal investigation team, Full Moon Paranormal joins John and Gary on this week's live!

Gary's sister and John's mother, Cathy Santa visits Splintered Spirits to go over the re-release of Episode 6 where Cathy Nadal gave Gary a reading. The guys also talk about their upcoming episode with Andrea Perron and her mission to make sure her family's former farmhouse (aka The Conjuring House) winds up in good hands.

Andrea Perron's GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-conjuring-house

This week on Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with Andrea Perron—author, survivor, and the eldest daughter from the true story that inspired The Conjuring. But this isn’t about the haunting. It’s about everything that came after.Andrea opens up about decades of reflection, how she made peace with what happened in that farmhouse, and how she’s now facing a new fight: five brain tumors and a renewed mission to preserve the home that changed her life forever.It’s a conversation about fear, faith, and what survival really looks like when the ghosts don’t leave—and neither do you.

🔗 Support Andrea’s GoFundMe with Jason Hawes: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-conjuring-house

House of Darkness, House of Light - vol 1 - https://amzn.to/4okWte9vol 2 - https://amzn.to/4ofafz4vol 3 - https://amzn.to/3KV3p3e