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In this episode we’re talking about the book “The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema From Fodder to Oscar" by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris

The book explores the journey of Black actors and creators in modern horror cinema, from the fodder epitomized by night of the Living Dead to Get Out. It delves into themes, tropes, and traits that have come to characterize Black roles in horror.

The authors are Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman is Northwestern’s vice president and associate provost for diversity and inclusion. An internationally prominent and award-winning scholar, Dr. Coleman’s work focuses on media studies and the cultural politics of Blackness

And Mark H. Harris is an entertainment journalist who has written about cinema and pop culture for over twenty years for New York magazine, Vulture, Rotten Tomatoes, and more. A lifelong horror fan, he created the website BlackHorrorMovies.com in 2005 as the premier online source chronicling the history of Black representation and achievement in horror cinema. He was a featured commentator in the acclaimed documentary Horror Noire and the Shudder series Behind the Monsters.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

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In this minisode, we hear from listener Kirsty, who shares a story from 2009 about a trip to an English castle, a haunted bathroom and armoire, and the potential ghost of the Lady of the Castle caught on camera. PLUS host Aaron Sagers shares his own recent strange experience from a trip to a restaurant at the Universal Studios Orlando theme park, which was witnessed by several people.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

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In the Dark Horse Comics book Blue Book, artist Michael Avon Oeming, writer, James Tynion IV, and editor Greg Lockard retell some of the most popular UFO and alien encounter accounts starting with the infamous Betty and Barney Hill abduction. Issue One of the book is available now, with Issue Two dropping March 22, 2023.

Oeming and Lockard join host Aaron Sagers to discuss their interest in the UFO subjects, how to adapt these classic cases accurately, the artistic style, and future cases they will be tackling.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

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In this minisode of Talking Strange, we tell the story of Marla Cartin, the so-called Spiritual Misfit who believes there's a break-in at her home in a bad neighborhood, but instead, she makes eye contact with an eyeless shadow figure wearing a hat.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

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Actor David Dastmalchian has become known as one the busier guys working in Hollywood thanks to roles in The Suicide Squad, Dune, MCU's Ant-Man franchise, The Dark Knight, and more. But he's also the creator and writer behind Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter, which revolves around late-night horror host Jerri Bartman who discovers her job also entails real-life supernatural threats. The second volume of the Dark Horse Comic debuted in March 2022, and now Volume 2 of Count Crowley is hitting bookstores as a trade paperback on March 14, 2023.

David joined Talking Strange on the day of the premiere of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and before the premiere of his movie Late Night With The Devil at South By Southwest, to discuss Count Crowley Volume 2. He also chats about monsters and the paranormal, and teases a bit more of what's to come with Jerri Bartman, and even her potential leap to live action.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

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

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

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In this video minisode of Talking Strange, we tell the story of Billy Peck, who has an extensive action figure collection — which he suspects might be being moved by the ghost of a previous occupant in his home. We also hear from Dawn who saw a ghost holding a doll at Waverly Hills. Plus, we talk a little about the movie Unwelcome, and the folklore of Red Caps, and about Robert the Doll and spooky Key West.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

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Move over, Annabelle. We've got some spooky true tales of dolls. From Robert the Doll's supposed curse, to a clown doll who tries to strangle its child, and one found in a trunk at an AirBnB that follows guests home. These toys ain't child's play.

Author David L. Sloan (Robert the Doll, Haunted Key West), the "doll-tender" one of the most famous haunted dolls, Robert — and occult researcher Heather Greene (Lights, Camera, Witchcraft) — join host Aaron Sagers to talk about the true story behind a doll that rivals Annabelle. They also explore theories why dolls might be haunted, and read some of YOUR submitted haunted dolls tales to announce the Baby Oopsie Demon Toy Giveaway with Full Moon Features.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, with a weekly "Small Talk" mini-sode with reader submitted letters and spooky tales. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

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Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

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In the new folk horror movie Unwelcome, an English couple moves to the Irish countryside only to discover that goblins called Redcaps live behind their garden, and demand to be fed daily, or else they become hungry, and ornery.

Director Jon Wright (Grabbers, Robot Overlords) joins Talking Strange to discuss Unwelcome, the film that's both a creature feature as well as something of a home invasion film. It begins with an English couple mother-to-be Maya and husband Jaime (played by Hannah John-Kamen, from Ant-Man and The Wasp, and the MCU’s upcoming Thunderbolts, and Douglas Booth Netflix’s The Dirt, Jupiter Ascending) threatened in their London flat, only to move to the Irish countryside due to a home that’s been left to them by an aunt who has passed away. They set about doing renovations on the home, as well as interacting with superstitious townspeople who warn them to set out food nightly for the Redcaps…but another threat involves a family of local contractors who are up to no good and resent the English interlopers.

In the following conversation, Wright and host Aaron Sagers discuss the folkloric origins of the film, and the tonal balance. He also reveals more about the crazy ending and sequel ideas for this cult classic in the making.

Unwelcome is available now on digital in the UK, Coming to Select Theaters March 10 and Digital March 14.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Podcast is part of the Den of Geek network, and is hosted by Aaron Sagers, paranormal journalist and researcher, and Paranormal Pop Culture expert. You can catch Aaron as host of "28 Days Haunted" on Netflix, and on "Paranormal Caught On Camera" on Travel Channel/Discovery+.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange paranormal pop culture show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

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In this Small Talk mini-sode, I share some feedback about last week's "Ghosts Ghosted Me" email, and then read a story about a haunted Spider-Man remote control car (which seems to coincide with me wearing a lot of Spidey clothing).

Plus, I offer some additional thoughts about my recent Talking Strange interview with Viva Farris of Hidden Marietta, and her Crown Heights Brooklyn ghosts. And I chat about the new Haunted Mansion teaser trailer, and the passing of Ricou Browning from the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Show is part of the Den of Geek network, and is hosted by Aaron Sagers, paranormal journalist and researcher, and Paranormal Pop Culture expert. You can catch Aaron as host of "28 Days Haunted" on Netflix, and on "Paranormal Caught On Camera" on Travel Channel/Discovery+.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange paranormal pop culture show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter.com/aaronsagers

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Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage

tiktok.com/@aaronsagers

Patreon.com/aaronsagers

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

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

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Hidden Marietta co-owner Melisa "Viva" Farris is a fresh voice in the paranormal world. The 33-year-old African American woman grew up in a haunted apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, and now helps run the tourism and ghost-hunting company in Marietta, Ohio, complete with movie nights and an oddities shop. She joins Talking Strange to discuss her interesting background, philosophies around the paranormal, and how she adds a whole new voice to the field.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Show is part of the Den of Geek network, and is hosted by Aaron Sagers, paranormal journalist and researcher, and Paranormal Pop Culture expert. You can catch Aaron as host of "28 Days Haunted" on Netflix, and on "Paranormal Caught On Camera" on Travel Channel/Discovery+.

If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange paranormal pop culture show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.

Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: [email protected]

Follow Host Aaron Sagers:

Twitter.com/aaronsagers

Instagram.com/aaronsagers

Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage

tiktok.com/@aaronsagers

Patreon.com/aaronsagers

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

Until Next Time:

Be Kind.

Stay Spooky.

Keep It Weird.

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