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Alistair, Hayley and Paul examine a christmas-related London based ghost story making the headlines in this, The Spooktator Christmas Special 2015.

Christmas Special 2015

Welcome to episode 3 of The Spooktator Podcast. Examining ghost related headlines from November 2015 the team discuss exorcisms, ouija boards and more.

Episode 3

The Spooktator #2 takes a look at a mysterious floating ghost video, and women who say they've had sex with ghosts and more. Check out the episode notes at spooktator.co.uk

Episode 2

The Spooktator is a monthly podcast that examines ghost-related stories and claims that make the international headlines on a regular basis from a skeptical position. 

In The Spooktator #1 hosts Hayley Stevens, Paul Gannon, Ash Pryce, Alistair Coleman and Mike Gage look back at the headlines from October 2015 as well as a controversial Most Haunted Live show.

Episode 1

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The Spooktator is back! In this episode, Hayley, Paul, and Charlie talk about parasocial relationships in paranormal media, asking whose interests are being served, and who is really your spooky friend? 

The Creep of the Para-Parasocial (2023)

Breaking out of quarantine to ask: does the Black Lives Matter movement affect paranormal research? Was there an increase in paranormal activity during lockdown? Was a ghost cyclist really caught on camera? Where did all of those UFOs come from? This episode also features an interview with Lancashire Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society

Afterlife in Lockdown

Hayley is joined for this episode by Blake Smith and Jeb Card to discuss S1 & S2 of Hellier (produced by Planet Weird), and the shifting landscape of paranormal research.

Blake Smith is a writer, researcher, and podcaster and hosts the MonsterTalk Podcast and the In ReSearch Of Podcast which he co-hosts with Jeb Card, an Archaeologist and author of 'Spooky Archaeology'.

Episode notes: https://spooktator.co.uk/index.php/2020/03/28/exploring-hellier/

Exploring Hellier with Blake Smith & Jeb Card

Did you miss us? The Spooktator is back in this extra long episode. The team discuss the latest in the Dear David saga, the ghost of Lauriston Castle, an update on a haunted Witches Prison and the death of Derek Acorah...

"What about Sam?"

What's a paranormal podcast to do to celebrate Halloween? Why, sit down and interview award-winning horror and paranormal writer Stephen Volk of course!

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Christmas Special 2015

Episode 3

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