Talking Strange Paranormal Show

Goblins crawling out of flooded Appalachian mine shafts. A shadow guest who comes in the night. A close encounter older than the Bible. Glynn Washington, creator and host of Spooked and Snap Judgment, joins Aaron Sagers to dig into Season 11 of Spooked, “The Spooked Field Guide to the Shadow.”
Glynn breaks down why it takes about six months to make a single Spooked episode, why the show tracks down more than one witness for its biggest mysteries, and how his team earns the trust of communities — including Native communities — before a story ever reaches your ears. He also opens up about how more than 250 episodes have made him “more ignorant” about the unknown (in the best way), why he loves a good liar, the funeral in Detroit where he swears he heard his late auntie laughing, the complicated history of the word “spooked,” and why you can’t talk about good and evil without looking at the real-world monsters outside your door.
Plus: Snap Judgment and KQED’s investigative series "We Are Jane Doe," the launch of Spooked+, and a tease of a Close Encounter with an extraterrestrial.

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

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Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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Why are witches the face of Halloween? Blame a paranoid king, a storm at sea and the North Berwick witch trials of 1590. On this Talking Strange Halloween special, host Aaron Sagers tells how James VI blamed the storms battering his bride on witchcraft, how the accused confessed under torture to meeting Satan in a church on Halloween night, and how Agnes Sampson won the king over with a secret. Plus: Macbeth, why Salem had nothing to do with Halloween and how Margaret Hamilton made witches wear black.
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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

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Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

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(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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Was the most famous Bigfoot footage ever filmed a hoax? Or are the findings about so-called mystery footage debunking the Patterson Gimlin Film based on circumstantial evidence and logical leaps? "Capturing Bigfoot" director Marq Evans and producer Tamir Ardon join Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers (in an interview conducted March 2026) to defend their bombshell documentary and its mystery “test run” footage.
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filmed a towering, hairy figure striding through Bluff Creek, California. Their footage has been analyzed, debated and defended for nearly 60 years. Now "Capturing Bigfoot," streaming on Prime Video, claims a 16mm reel found locked in a safe shows a 1966 rehearsal with a man in a suit, and that it proves the legendary film was staged.
What do you think about the famous Patterson Gimlin Film, and are you convinced by the findings of "Capturing Bigfoot"?

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

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Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

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(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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Everyone knows Halloween has ancient roots in Samhain. But the Halloween we actually celebrate — with orange and black decorations, trick-or-treating, store-bought masks and horror movie marathons — is far younger than you think. On this episode of Talking Strange, the paranormal pop culture show, host Aaron Sagers traces how the modern version of America’s spookiest holiday was invented by magazine editors, paper companies, mask makers and filmmakers.
Discover why Halloween’s official colors were once brown, yellow and white; when “trick or treat” first appeared in print; how a Jazz Age paper company dressed the holiday in crepe paper; and how a rubber Frankenstein mask kicked off the monster boom, and why Hollywood waited decades to make Halloween the star.
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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

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Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

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(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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What does it take to build Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 35? Host Aaron Sagers goes behind the curtain at Universal Orlando Resort with HHN Show Director Ramon Paradoa, who is a horror lifer who went from Scareactor to designing the nightmares himself.
For the event’s 35th anniversary, Ramon reveals how the Entertainment Creative Development team turns original concepts and iconic horror franchises into immersive haunted houses. He and Aaron dig into Ramon’s HHN 35 houses Sinners — where he liaised with Ryan Coogler — and fan favorite H.R. Bloodengutz, as well as the differences between crafting an original concept house versus one based on existing IP. They also chat about the legacy of Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow, and what he thinks makes for a perfect scare,
HHN Orlando runs on select nights through November 1, so grab those tickets. And even if you can go, check out this episode between two horror nerds — and don't miss Aaron's rankings of HHN houses.

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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Halloween and Samhain traditions are real, and you can still visit them this year. Host Aaron Sagers invites you along for a Hallowtide road trip across England, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
In England, children in Somerset carry turnip lanterns on Punkie Night. In Cheshire pubs, a century-old horse skull named Dick snaps at the crowd during the Antrobus Soul Cakers' play for All Souls'. Lewes marches 17 burning crosses through town on Bonfire Night, and in Ottery St Mary locals run through the streets with flaming tar barrels on their backs. In Ireland, we climb the Hill of Ward, called Tlachtga, where legend says Samhain's sacred fire was lit, and see what archaeologists have actually found there. Then we crawl into Oweynagat, the "Cave of the Cats," known as Ireland's gate to hell. We finish with Derry's Halloween festival, the biggest in Europe, and Hop-tu-Naa, the Isle of Man's oldest unbroken tradition, complete with witch songs and fortune-telling in the hearth ashes.

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Act 1: England

Act 2: Ireland and the Isle of Man

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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Every haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 2026, ranked from worst to best. Host (and HHN superfan) Aaron Sagers takes on HHN 35 at Universal Orlando Resort. He ranks all 10 houses: Stranger Things 5, Sinners, Hellraiser, Evil Dead Burn, Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness, Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control, Cybergoria, MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals, INVASION: Alien Abduction and H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!
Along the way he digs into why the original houses stole the spooky season show, which IP houses captured a mood instead of just replaying the movie, and how Doug Bradley's return as Pinhead and a heartfelt Ozzy tribute stand out. He also makes the case for why Halloween Horror Nights is about spectacle and exhilaration, not full-contact scares.

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers for a deep dive into two of the most anticipated horror projects on the horizon: Season 3 of The Creep Tapes and Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie where she both acts and directs an episode.
Known for her unforgettable performances in The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Hush, and Gerald’s Game, Siegel also discusses the camaraderie of husband Mike Flanagan’s universe, and what continues to draw her to stories that blur the line between fear and humanity.

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JD Vance told Joe Rogan that UFOs aren't aliens; they're demons. Now the director of the documentary UFOs and God pushes back, but also weighs in on why his new film presents the point of view that UAPs aren't extraterrestrial, and they ain't nice.
Wes Llewellyn co-directed the new Vision Films documentary with his wife, Amanda, whose reported childhood abductions are at the center of it. He argues the phenomenon is spiritual rather than extraterrestrial,and that "demon" is the wrong word for it, not because these things are harmless, but because the word ends the conversation.
Host Aaron Sagers digs in on where evidence stops and belief begins: the night Amanda told him and the years he spent not believing her, why any visitor would have to be interdimensional, whether "nefarious" is a finding or a faith position, where a Christian-lens film leaves everyone else, and what the government's slow-drip disclosure is really for.
UFOs and God is out now from Vision Films.

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four thousand years before Ghost Hunters, somebody wrote down an encounter with the dead, and the instructions for getting rid of him involved beer. Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers offers up a brief origins of ghost hunting from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the oldest known image of a ghost, to the Roman philosopher who solved a haunting on a writing deadline, to the 1794 novel that used the phrase "ghost-hunting" like everybody already knew what it meant.

Plus: your listener submissions!

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The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr.

Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well.

Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter/X

Blue Sky

Instagram

Facebook

TikTok

Patreon

(For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices