A Conversation About Ghosts

Did you know that 41% of the population believes in ghosts? That is two in five.  Is there really something to this phenomenon, or is this something that is explainable with modern science?  That is one of the questions that Marc Hartzman tries to answer in his new book “Chasing Ghosts“.  We discuss quite a few historic cases, including The Bell Witch, which was a ghost story that ends in murder, and The Greenbriar Ghost, which is the first time in U.S. History that testimony given by a ghost was admitted as evidence in a court of law.  We even get into some of the technology used to detect ghosts, including Thomas Edison’s “Spirit Box”,and the brilliantly named “Psychic Howler”, both of which were to operate like a telephone to the afterlife.

A Brief History of Alien Visitation

When it comes to the UFO phenomenon, we have discussed a lot of it on this show, including The Battle of Los Angeles, Betty & Barney Hill, Roswell, the Jackie Gleason/Richard Nixon alien encounter, and John Dover’s experiences on the Navajo Nation.  This is a lot, but can you believe there’s more?!  This week I sit down with Marc Hartzman and discuss his new book “We Are Not Alone”, which chronicles the history of UFO and alien encounters in the U.S.  I bring us back to the “War of the Worlds” broadcast in 1938, and we go through the most recent congressional hearings of 2023.  We even make a stop in 1999, where Marc interviewed Vanilla Ice about aliens for his zine “Backwash”.  This is a tour through history you don’t want to miss.