I had a couple different options on how to close out this season of The Grave. But as I looked back, I felt it was only right at this point, to make an episode that lets all our listeners know where I stand on certain subjects. It seemed unfair that I ask my guests to come on and put their beliefs out there for everyone else to judge while I merely sit back and listen. It won’t do, I say!
Which is why, in this episode, Colin and I go in depth into my own personal beliefs about a great many topics concerning the paranormal. We also get into some of Colin’s personal experiences and where he stands on the issues presented. The intent of this episode is to let everyone know where I stand on these issues and where I’m at so far in my spiritual journey.
With that said, I hope you all enjoyed this season and enjoy this episode! I do fully intend to launch season three but as to when that will actually happen is anyone’s guess at this point. So, if you are a loyal listener or someone just stopping by, if you or someone you know has had a run in with the paranormal, I want to talk to you!
Email me at podcastthegrave@gmail.com or reach out on IG or Facebook!
Another week, another creepy tale for all of you! This week I’m chatting with Megan.
Megan and I went through the same school system. I actually posed as her boyfriend for 30 minutes or so during a basketball game once to keep some dude from hitting on her… one of my prouder moments. But apart from our (very) brief time spent together, we never spent too much time in the same social circles. So you can imagine my surprise when she reached out to say that she had some things to say on the paranormal. And folks… she brought the heat!
In this episode, we discuss her children and their sensitivity to things beyond the veil. We also delve into her own stories and experiences with what she calls spirit guides and how they have lead her to where she is in her life today. I don’t want to give too much away, but Megan certainly delivered with her stories. Plus she’s just a genuinely nice person. So I hope you are in a nice dark room or driving alone at night and enjoy Megan’s episode as much as I did!
This week we are back with part two of Maggi’s story!
Last week we heard about how Maggi was being visited at night by things that may very well come from beyond the veil… She has experienced shadow men standing outside of her window, watching her in her bed. She has also endured the image of an old woman staring at her from the other room. And while some may simply attribute these entities to her insomnia, I firmly believe that these encounters are more supernatural than scientific in nature.
In this weeks episode, we touch on one more presence that Maggi has repeatedly seen in her new apartment as well as a phantom knocking at her door. This episode also furthers a working theory I have concerning sleep paralysis and entities seen before sleep and after you wake. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the startling conclusion or Maggi’s stories.
Welcome back to the second half of season two… After a brief hiatus for the holidays, we are back with the creepy stuff!
This week I introduce you to Maggi.
Maggi is my wife’s best friend and also happens to be dating my best friend (weird, I know). But let it be known that I don’t give preferential treatment depending on how well I know someone. On the contrary, I had initially planned to give Maggi a slot on the upcoming sleep paralysis episode. But as we got talking, I realized there seemed to be something a little more sinister going on than I think she wants to give credit for.
Maggi and I discuss her sleep troubles and her thoughts on the paranormal coming from her scientific background as an audiologist before getting into the things that seem to haunt her after the sun goes down…
This is part one of Maggi’s two part episode, so please sit back and enjoy all the chills that she has to deliver!
Deb is the mother of one of my sister’s good friends and has lived in a haunted house for many years. My sister and brother had told me stories of The Gowrie home for a while now and have continually told me to have her on the podcast… Well, ask and you shall receive!
Deb’s experiences in the home include drums playing on their own, a shadow man who seems to have taken an interest in her as well as premonitions of ill-fated events that haven’t happened yet. She also tells a story from the former owner on Christmas day that shook me to my core!
So buckle up baby birds, for a hometown grown haunting…
We are getting right back into Jessica’s experiences as she details how she helped a family find the body of a young family member… Not by joining a search party, but by getting clues form the dead girl’s spirit that had attached itself to Jessica. She then details how she helps a father communicate with his deceased son and discovers the secret gift one gave to the other.
I can only hope that Jessica’s spiritual gifts impress you as much as they impressed me!
This week we are jumping into the world of a spiritualist…
Jessica was introduced to me via Stacy Christine from the first season of this podcast. I had initially expressed my hesitation about psychics/mediums/spiritualists etc. but figured it couldn’t hurt to have a chat with her… and I’ll say this, she did not disappoint! Jessica is not only an amazing person but, in my estimation, is an amazing spiritualist as well. She’s a no BS lady who left me baffled as she recounted some of her experiences. Her and I discuss her early run-ins with the paranormal before moving on to her gift and some of her first experiences using them. These include finding a missing woman, channeling the Pope and her encounters with some darker forces.
Part two of Jessica’s story will be coming next week and trust me when I say, Jessica has saved the best for last…
Tammy is back with her spine-tingling conclusion to last week’s episode!
To summarize part one of Tammy’s story, she has been dealing with the paranormal since she was a little girl. A family curse has caused a dark entity to cling to her. And no matter where she goes, it always follows. Different houses, different states, it doesn’t matter. Whatever this force is, it’s not going down without a fight…
In this weeks episode, Tammy delves deeper into some of her work as a paranormal investigator. She discusses some of the haunted locations she’s investigated and the ghosts she’s encountered there. But she got into investigating the paranormal to help people, and tells the story of a troubled mother and son who seem to be dealing with something demonic. But what Tammy discovers while in their home will chill even the most seasoned paranormal enthusiast to their core…
Be sure to stop by Tammy’s IG and TikTok accounts to stay up to date on all of her paranormal activity.
You can find her @screamqueen36 and @thehauntedone36.
So just a little light housekeeping here… I obviously haven’t been posting on my normal weekly schedule. This is in part because my life has become exhaustingly busy. Whether it’s my actual day job, being a dad to my 20-month-old daughter, driving from one end of Connecticut to the other multiple times a week, working on season two of The Grave, a steady month of weddings or any other regular life chores, my free time is currently all but depleted.
That is not to say I haven’t been watching horror. Just got time to watch The Black Phone and thought it was VERY good. Not heart-pounding scary but certainly edge-of-your-seat thriller. Scott Derrickson and Robert Cargill may just be the new Wan and Whannell. But as far as I’m concerned, it’s the doldrum season for horror and I simply don’t have the time to force an article just to post something.
So with that said, while I attempt to get my life back in order OR until there is some new flick that I simply either can’t wait to see or that is coming out, it’s likely the horror posts will be delayed until around late august. Rest assured, there will be more posts. But my extra efforts are focused on getting season two of my podcast up and running by October. A little note on that… have some AMAZING interviews lined up and really think we are outdoing ourselves with this season. So stay tuned for more updates on that.
Anywho, even though this post isn’t anything horror related (although perhaps my absence has had some of you completely mortified…) I did want to clear the air and drop ya’ll a little update. I hope everyone is safe and healthy and please do stay tuned for more creepy content…eventually.
So as you know, I am always on the hunt for a scary film. I search high and low (sometimes… very low) for something that will force me to cover my eyes. These days, those films have been quite elusive. In fact, they’ve been downright non-existent… that is until a few days ago. When I’m scavenging for horror films, I first jump on Amazon Prime to see what they’ve got in store. If I’m desperate I’ll even pay to watch something that just came out. But I also always check Shudder and Hulu just in case they got something new that I may have overlooked. And then, as a last-ditch effort, will do a quick scan over on Netflix.
Now, this is not to say that Netflix doesn’t have some good scary movies. However, as (I assume) most horror fans know by now, the majority of the Netflix horror catalog consists of older films that we have all seen before. But, on this particular night, I was making my rounds and out of desperation more than anything else, decided to venture on into Netflix to potentially watch Insidious for the tenth time (one of my all-time favorite horror films). And that’s when I saw it… A red movie poster with a fiendish hand reaching out for a young boy, the title – Don’t Listen.
This Spanish flick was one that I had passed over several times. I even began to watch it once a year or so ago and turned it off (but this was merely because I didn’t realize I had the option to turn off the English dub that it was automatically set to). But, now that I knew I could watch with subtitles as the good Lord intended, I made the choice to jump back in for round two. And I’ll tell you folks… It did not disappoint.
A quick summary for you – A family moves into a massive new home in the countryside which they intend to renovate and sell (classic!). But their son begins to hear voices that his mother and father chalk up to some psychological extension of being uprooted from their previous abode. However, when their son ends up mysteriously drowning in their pool, things take an awful turn. It’s not soon after this that the grieving father hears his deceased son’s voice in the house and seeks out an EVP (electronic voice phenomena) expert to get to the bottom of the voices. Needless to say, this intervention does not go well at all.
Don’t Listen worked on multiple levels for me and I think none may be stronger than the performances. This is a horror film that unfolds as a tragedy. And the sorrow hits almost instantly and never lets up. After the death of their son, the distraught and overwhelmed parents begin a downward spiral into depression that they are never able to climb out of. The role of the father was especially well-acted and his pain was palpable. This leads right into the overall tone and emotion of the film. Don’t Listen is a sad movie. Pretty much from start to finish, there’s death. It utilizes suicide, murder and isolation among other things to create a very ominous tone throughout. And the plot twist at the end is truly unsettling!
Now, while not all of the jump scares worked for me, those really weren’t what made this film scary. There are several scenes that create such a sense of tension and incoming fear that I was really quite impressed. One scene, in particular, involves the mother in her son’s room. She’s looking under his bed and sees a set of feet standing on the other side, but when she picks her head up there’s nothing there. This carries on for a bit before proceeding with a pretty original scare. And there are multiple scenes like this where director Angel Gómez Hernández takes his sweet time in setting up a chilling sequence of frights.
All in all, Don’t Listen satisfied my palette for a quality horror film that felt strangely original despite the common horror tropes utilized. It may have also resonated with me a bit more given that I am a father and could really feel for the parents who had just lost a child. But I also feel that even if you don’t have a kid you should still feel some sympathy for the situation. At any rate, I would certainly recommend this bad boy to any horror fan looking for something to watch. It’s not a new release but it flew under my radar, so I have to assume some of you missed it as well.
Anywho, that’s it for me this week! As always, thanks for reading and stay tuned for more creepy content.
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