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With the announcement of the closure of both The Big Apple Circus and Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth circus, and in the wake of the 2016 Creepy Clown sightings, Eric Dwinnells and guest co-host Jennie "Blades" Lecesse are going to discus clowns. Why are people (allegedly) afraid of clowns and where did this for come from? Eric has a theory and it involves serial killers and after school specials! Plus, we'll hear from a real-deal professional circus clown (Jessi Wonderfool) to get her opinion on the fear clowns.

Specifically, we'll discuss:
John Wayne Gacy
The 1981 Phantom Clown Scare
Stephen King's IT
The Northampton Clown
DM Pranks
The Rosehill Cemetery Clown video
The world-wide 2016 clown sightings/pranks and the aftermath

Plus Eric defends the good, honest, hardworking clowns from the street to the big top! All this and more on tonight's Spooky A S!

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There's an escaped convict on the lose IRL and he was trying to break into a home in host Eric Dwinnells' neighborhood! Guest Tom Cole is back to help Eric process this event and give un update on the fugitive. But this got Eric thinking: escaped convicts/mental patients are a common trope in horror films and urban legends, but what happens in the real world?

Tonight, we're going to look at two different prison breaks and their very different outcomes. First we'll discuss the very recent breakout masterminded by alleged vicious criminal Hossein Nayeri. Then we'll discuss the escape of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy and the truly horrifying crimes he committed while eluding the police.

We'll also discuss Eric's New Year's Eve and how he and Tom might attempt to breakout of prison. All this and more on tonight's Spooky A S!

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Host Eric Dwinnells meets with the mysterious Kristen to discuss cursed cars! From James Dean's last ride in The Little Bastard, to The Golden Eagle, to the black volga to JFK's death car, we're going you creepy tales from creepy cars. Plus find out why racer drivers and stage actors share a distrust of the color green. We also discuss the legend of the car that smells like death and inspired a Seinfeld episode. All this and more on tonight's Spooky A S!

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Happy New Year? We'll see! Tonight, inspired by people hating on 2016, host Eric Dwinnells takes a look at the fear of numbers aka numerophobia aka arithmophobia! Of course, that's just the fear of numbers in general, but what about the fear of the numbers 4 (tetraphobia), 13 (Triskaidekaphobia), the 23 enigma, the curse of 39, or fear of 666?

Where did these ideas come from? What makes these numbers so scary? How can we free ourselves of these fears? The answers will lead us to discuss things like

Judas at the last supper

Loki, the bummer of a dinner guest

asian languages

William s. Burroughs

Jim Carrey

shady business practices

Pimping

The Omen

The Beast of Revelation and the end of the world

Plus find out what Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffery Dammer and Eric Dwinnells all have in common!

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It's another family affair as host Eric Dwinnells takes a break from Christmas festivities to talk with his nephew/guest co-host, Tyler Clapp about Sideshow Freaks! Now, of course, freaks is not a very p.c. term and discussing people born with abnormalities on Spooky A S my seem a bit uncouth, but rest assured the creators have nothing but love for most so called "freaks"...Eric has performed in more than one sideshow!

But tonight, we're not just talking about their abnormalities. There are 2 murderers on tonight's rundown! Who are the killer freaks and what drove them to do it? Also discussed is why the freak show went away...and how in some ways, it lives on today!

Specific acts discussed include:
Jo-Jo the Dog Faced Boy
Alice Doherty, The Wooly Girl

Conjoined twins Chang and Eng and Lazzerous and Joannes Baptista Colloredo
Grady Stiles, The Lobster Boy
The Human Pincushion Mirin Dajo
and Ella Harper the Camel Girl

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Tonight on Spooky A S host Eric Dwinnells tells you the tale of the mysterious Phantom Whistler of Louisiana! Late at night, a mysterious disembodied whistle would keep young Jacquelyn Cadow up at night. Wolf whistles at first...like they used to do in Tex Avery cartoons. But after Miss Cadow announced her engagement months later, the whistling became much more ominous. It switched from the annoying yet familiar wolf whistle to the creepy sound of a funeral dirge fallowed by a "shrill moan". Not long after, Jacquelyn's mother received a phone call from the phantom stating he would kill Jacquelyn if she went through with her wedding!

Was there ever really a phantom whistler? Or was it a cruel prank? Or maybe the whole thing was made up; maybe it was just a hoax. Eric will once again try to separate fact from fiction and let you be the judge!

Also discussed:

The 2016 Boston Ballet production of The Nutcracker, Eric's former life as a song and dance man, and Cheers.

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You know the Andy Williams song "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" where he promises "they'll be scary ghost stories..."?  Ever wonder why he's talking about ghost in the middle of a cheery Christmas song? Host Eric Dwinnells sure did and lucky for you, he found the answer! Turns out the telling of ghost stories was a very popular tradition in England and parts of America until the early 20th century! But why? And how did this tradition fade away?

Eric explains all this and touches upon that most famous of Christmas Ghost Stories, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as well as lesser known woks by writers like M.R. James and Jerome K. Jerome. He'll even read you the shortest known ghost story in english and tell you about an odd tradition his mother insisted upon on Christmas morning.

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Eric Dwinnells is home alone again and this time he's spouting off at the mouth about Men In Black aka MIB! You know the movies and the Will Smith song. Maybe you've ridden the ride at Universal Studios, but did you know real-life encounters with the MIB have been reported as far back as the 1940's? Who are these mysterious men who show up and harness UFO researchers/witnesses? Do they work for a secret branch of the government? Are they hostile alien beings? Civilian hoaxers with a twisted sense of humor? Or are they just completely made up? And how do Dan Aykroyd, Brittany Spears, and Saturday Night Live all tie into the legend of the men in black? Find out tonight on Spooky A S!

Also included:

The Maury Island Incident and Harold Dahl

Albert Bender

Robert Richardson

Shane Shovar and the MIB caught on film

And the strange tale of Dr. Herbert Hopkins

Read more about the Muary Island Incident here

Read what Dr. Hopkins' son has to say about his father's strange tale here

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It's a full on family affair as host Eric Dwinnells is joined by his sister, Cindy Clapp, directly after Thanksgiving dinner to discuss family memories! Believe it or not, the conversation leads right into tonight's topic, Bill Ramsey: The "real life" wolf man!

Bill Ramsey claimes that at age 9,  he started randomly changing into a wolf (mostly in the metaphysical scene though he and others claim there was a partial change in his physical appearance as well). He would just feel the changing coming over him and start to attack whoever happened to be handy. Enter renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren from the USA. These days, The Warrens are famous for working on cases/writing books that got turned into movies such as The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring 1 & 2, and Annabelle. But were these two truly seekers of truth trying to help victims of paranormal attacks, or were they opportunists trying to make a quick buck and increase their own fame by inserting themselves into a good story? When will Bill Ramsey's story be turned into a big Hollywood movie? Only time will tell.

Anyway, the Warrens convince Bill "The Bald Werewolf" Ramsey to come to America and have an exorcism performed...see Ed Warren decided Bill wasn't truly a werewolf, he'd just been possessed by a demon that happened to be a wolf spirit. Naturally!

So Bill makes the trip to America...but who is this so-called "bishop" that will be performing this exorcism and will the demon wolf spirit just slink off quietly with it's tail between it's legs?

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In honor of Thanksgiving, Eric Dwinnells and Brian Toney are looking into spooky Native American beliefs and myths! We'll focus mostly on The Wampanoag tribe since they were the tribe which took part in the first Thanksgiving with the pilgrims, but we'll touch on mythology from other tribes across the country as well.

Topics include:
Pukwudgies

Hobbamock

Moshup

Horned Serpent

Underwater Panther

Thunderbirds

And Eric's distaste for instant mashed potatoes!

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