The Paranormal Lovers
Husband and wife duo from Western North Carolina who love all the spooky, alien, creepy things that go bump, night or day. Cryptids, Aliens, Conspiracies, we got it!
Episodes
170 episodes
Episode 160: The Bunyip:
Long before written history found it's way to the land down under natives had been passing down the oral history of a strange creature that may or may not have existed. Descriptions of this creature are all over the board, some repo...
Episode 159: The Gray Man:
Down on the South Carolina coast there are islands, and a lot of them. Many of them were rice plantations where the Gullah Geechee culture was born and floruished. While the enslaved were working, their captors took off to another island to avo...
Episode 158: Strange Sounds Heard Across the Globe:
I had planned to just cover the Taos Hum this week but it would have been a seriously short episode so I found a few more sounds to cover. The Taos Hum is not the only strange sound that residents hear. Across the globe several area...
Episode 157: A Conversation with Captain Adam Marrow:
In this first episode of season 4 we had the privilege to chat with author, historian and pirate Adam Marrow. Adam has spent several years researching the history around pirates and folklore. He now has several books to his name an...
Episode 156: The Denver Airport:
We are headed one mile above sea level this week as we head to Colorado to take a look at one of the most talked about airports in the world. Said to be home to miles of underground tunnels, bunkers for the elite, even alien breedin...
Episode 155: The Gundiah - Mackay Abduction:
We are heading to the land down under to take a look at one of the most controversial claims of alien abduction. While working on their new winery, Amy and Keith Rylance and their business partner Petra had just settled down for the...
Episode 154: Waco:
There are few cults that are as well known as the one we are talking about today. For those of us old enough to remember, hearing the word Waco brings up memories of seeing that fire rage on the evening news. But things for the Bran...
Episode 153: The Adze:
Ian takes us to the mother land this week to tell us the legend of a spirit that takes a form most of us would not think twice about. As summer sweeps across the US fireflies, or lightening bugs, are out light up the night. For many...
Episode 152: Operation Paperclip:
One reason we have such a problem with racism today is that we did not punish the confederacy hard enough for their treason. Another would be the 1,600 scientist, and technicians and their families that were brought over to the US f...
Episode 151: Moon River Brewing Company:
Ian takes us down to Savannah this week to look at one of the most haunted buildings in the city. Built as a hotel for travelers this building would be used for various things, including of course a hospital where dozens of people d...
Episode 150: Helen's Bridge:
We have a short local urban legend for you folks today, the tale of Helen's Bridge in Asheville NC. Built in the early 1900's to get to the Zealandia Mansion, this bridge is said to be the sight where a grieving mother took her own ...
Episode 149: The Gallinipper:
This week Ian is taking another look at a somewhat local cryptid. Local to us in that it seems to live in our state, albeit, on the other side. And I could not be happier about that!We deal with our fair share of mosquitos in WNC, but in...
ROH Rerelease: Episode 23: The Murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy
Life has gotten a little chaotic lately, so we have not recorded in a couple weeks, but we wanted to let yall know we are not going anywhere, just life lifeing. Enjoy this episode from Rethinking Our History about the murder behind one of the m...
Episode 148: Hauntings At NYU:
After our history episode about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire I was interested to know how haunted the college campus that the building sits on is. Turns out it is quite haunted. From the fire that killed 146 factory workers,...
Episode 147: The Mothman of Japan:
The US is not the only place to have tales of a large humanoid bird like figure. Even before the nuclear reactor meltdown at Fukushima, there had been reports of strange flying creatures across the islands. One such creature was eve...
Episode 146: The LaRouche Movement Part 3:
We are ending our look at the LaRouche Movement this week with Part 3. After getting out of jail LaRouche spiraled even deeper into paranoia. His followers were on the front lines of climate change deniers, and Obama haters, and had...
Episode 145: The Cisco Grove UFO Incident:
Donald Shrum just wanted to go bow hunting with his friends in Cisco Grove in California on September 4th 1964. Having set off in different directions two of the three friends made it back to camp before night fall, but Donald was not so lucky....
Rerelease: Episode 102: Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z:
This past weekend was spend with family so were are rereleasing one of our favorite episodes for you to enjoy.We are back this week to look at one of our favorite topics, Lost Cities. In particular we are looking at the search for the Lo...
Episode 144: The LaRouche Movement Part 2:
Now that I have remembered I was covering this topic we are back with part 2 of our look into the LaRouche Movement. We look at how paranoid Lyndon LaRouche becomes, moving his followers to the middle of nowhere, hiring armed guard...
Episode 143: Project Montauk:
In the fifth and final Friends Don't Lie Files Ian takes us through the history of the Montauk Project. Well, the alleged history anyways. While it might be a name many of us know, the government has never admitted to any projects n...
Episode 142: Queens University Charlotte:
This week we are headed to the Queen City right here in NC to look at one of the most haunted locations in what is said to be the most haunted city in the state. Founded in the middle 1800's as an all girls school, it was ran by a c...
Episode 141: MKUltra Part 3:
We are back with part 4 of The Friends Don't Lie Files and the conclusion of our MKUltra Series. And this week were are headed up north to look at how this project affected citizens of Canada. It took much longer for the abuse of th...
Episode 140: The LaRouche Movement Part 1:
We are back with another cult for you this week. This time it is a little different with the leader actually making a mark in US politics, as well as politics in other countries.Lyndon LaRouche grew up Quaker before his father was kicked...
Re-Release: Episode 67: Stairs in The Woods Part 1:
Due to medical things we got behind on notes this week so enjoy one of our favorite episodes re-released for your pleasure!This week Ian is taking a dive into Reddit. While here he found some interesting stories of an alleged phenomenon ...
Episode 139: MKUltra Part 2:
We are back this week with part 3 of the Friends Don't Lie Files, and Part 2 of MKUltra.After Operation Artichoke started many more secret operations took place across the US. And the number of people dosed without their knowledge and co...