Walkin' Tour w/Allan McLeod (Walkin’ About podcast)

·1 hr 34 min·5 clips

Author Teresa Matsuura reveals Japan's obscure beauty recipe of rusty nails and tea to dye teeth black.

The episode begins with an ad for the Uncanny Japan podcast, setting a tone of cultural mystery. Hosts Betsy Sodaro and Marcy Jarreau introduce their show, A Funny Feeling, where comedians share paranormal experiences. They welcome guest Allan McLeod, an actor, comedian, and host of the new podcast Walking About, which focuses on walking's connection to health, history, and community. Allan discusses his podcast's premise, including walks in notable places like downtown LA's pedways and Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The conversation shifts to paranormal beliefs, with Allan expressing openness to aliens and ghosts. He recounts early experiences from Mobile, Alabama, such as seeing a figure in the abandoned Battle House Hotel and exploring Bryce Hospital, an old insane asylum. Allan describes a recent unexplained event in El Sereno, Los Angeles, where he heard a child calling 'mom' outside but couldn't find the source. He shares a humorous yet creepy story from college involving a shower interruption while his grandfather's suits were nearby, coinciding with a water bill issue. Allan then details a trip to Hawaii's Big Island, where he and his wife encountered dolphins during a canoe ride and later saw a woman in a red gown on a dark road, which a ghost tour guide linked to the goddess Pele. The hosts read a listener story about a childhood camping incident where an unseen hand pressed on a tent, terrifying the children. Allan relates this to a camping trip at Malibu Creek State Park, where a murder had occurred, adding a layer of real-world eeriness. The episode concludes with Allan promoting his podcast and thanks from the hosts.

As heard by us

A fuzzy coffin and inherited suits turn funeral grief into warm family comedy.

A funeral memory turns comic without losing its ache, as a grandfather remembered for his accountant-like pragmatism insists on the cheapest coffin available, complete with a fuzzy surface likened to peach skin.

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

You get a funeral story where a grandpa's cheapest-possible fuzzy coffin becomes the detail you cannot stop picturing.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →

Listen to the show on

Apple Podcasts Spotify

Play clips from this episode More from A Funny Feeling