Skeptical field notes from strange belief systems.
Oh No, Ross and Carrie follows firsthand investigations into paranormal claims, alternative health, spiritual movements, and fringe science. The tone is skeptical without being sealed off, with jokes used to slow down hype and make strange ideas easier to examine.
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Oh No, Ross and Carrie is a long-running field guide to belief at the edge of science, spirituality, health, and the paranormal. Its defining move is simple and stubborn: instead of only describing claims, the show follows what happens when someone actually attends the event, reads the book, visits the practitioner, or sits through the pitch. That approach gives the episodes their texture. A chiropractic series can turn from posture jokes into x-rays, body-map claims, and questions about what a practitioner says they can infer from a glance. A Communion episode can begin with an alien-abduction memoir and widen into performance, sincerity, memory, and the cultural weight of Whitley Strieber's story. The Conscious Life Expo material brings together crystal healers, alien contactees, vaccine deniers, channelers, tarot readers, free energy machines, and supplement sellers under one very crowded roof. The show notices the absurdity. It also listens long enough to understand the claim before taking it apart. That balance is the appeal. It is skeptical, but not flatly dismissive. It is playful, but not careless. The back-and-forth rhythm lets an idea get stated, challenged, clarified, and sometimes cornered. When someone like Lori Spagna moves rapidly through many separate assertions, the show is especially alert to the difficulty of holding one claim still long enough to test it. When a movie like Sound of Freedom enters the conversation, the hosts' instinct is to check the story around the story, including later updates and corrections. The archive is broad: Kabbalah, Mormonism, acupuncture, homeopathy, tarot, creationism, Scientology, UFOs, flat Earth, ESP, earthing, exorcism, urine therapy, and many more claims and communities. It is also personal in the way a 13-year investigation becomes personal, with the farewell episode reflecting on hundreds of hours spent around sense, nonsense, and the reasons people believe. The result is not just a catalog of odd subjects. It is a method: show up, define terms, follow the evidence, admit the joke, and circle back to reality.
Made for: For listeners who like paranormal stories, fringe health claims, cult-adjacent communities, and conspiracy culture examined with humor and actual patience. It suits curious skeptics more than pure debunking completists.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart because its investigations are experiential: claims are tested through visits, readings, conversations, expos, and treatments rather than armchair summary. Its comedy sharpens the reporting instead of replacing it.
Welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie, the show where we don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves. Follow us as we join religions, undergo alternative treatments, seek out the paranormal, and always find the humor in life's biggest mysteries. We show up - so you don’t have to.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Firsthand investigation, close attention to evidence, and generous humor reveal how extraordinary claims become durable social beliefs.
Oh No, Ross and Carrie turns unusual claims into firsthand inquiry, with Ross Blotcher and Keri Poppy examining the reasoning around alternative treatments, alien encounters, spirituality, and paranormal belief.
Ross and Keri put chiropractic X-rays and alien testimony on trial, so you get the cross-examination.
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A chiropractic conversation turns slouching, foot pain, food rules, and slow comedy into grounded skeptical listening.
This chiropractic episode takes a grounded path into skeptical inquiry, starting with Ross Blotcher's slouch and a joking comparison to the sloth from Zootopia before widening into posture, foot pain, and the ways everyday aches pull people into health advice.
A funny, skeptical look at how an extraordinary encounter becomes a settled story.
The episode frames Whitley Strieber's Communion as a case study in how an extraordinary experience can become firmer each time it is retold. With John Hodgman, Ross Blotcher and Kerry move between Strieber's book and a behind-the-scenes documentary, tracking the shift from…
Ross and Keri make chiropractic certainty the subject of a brisk, funny skeptical visit.
Chiropractic turns into a comedy of confident diagnosis as Ross and Keri revisit the practice through posture checks, x-ray plans, and a quick read of uneven hips and a possibly imbalanced pelvis.
A skeptical, funny reading of Communion and the evidence gathering around its alien claims.
Whitley Strieber's Communion gets a brisk, skeptical book-review treatment as Ross Blotcher and Carrie Poppy test the book's paranormal claims against the logic used to hold them up.
UFO lore for the metaphysically restless.
Spooky stories with sharp best-friend energy.
Raw radio from the Bigfoot search.
VR hangouts, wild tangents, real reactions.
Ross and Carrie review Whitley Streiber's Communion, the 1987 memoir with the subtitle "A true story" and a 1989 film starring Christopher Walken.
Ross and Carrie attend the Conscious Life Expo 2024 in Los Angeles, focusing on a talk by famed UFO abductee author Whitley Strieber.
Ross Blotcher and Darren Butters trace chiropractic from D.D.
John Hodgman links Oh No, Ross and Carrie, Art Bell, and Whitley Strieber by recounting a late-night radio call where an "energy vampire" got shut down as the wrong kind of vampire.
Dr. Nick says chiropractic may help IBS, asthma, and a "skipping heart" after one x-ray intake.
Ross Blotcher and Carrie Poppy review the 2023 horror film Late Night with the Devil, attracted by its 97% Rotten Tomatoes score and James Randi-inspired character.
Ross and Carrie humorously review Whitley Strieber's alien abduction memoir 'Communion'.
Ross and Carrie attend the Conscious Life Expo 2024, planning to investigate various fringe spirituality and paranormal claims, including a talk by UFO abductee Whitley Strieber.
Ross and Carrie introduce an episode about the film Sound of Freedom and Deborah King, blending humor with critical investigation of fringe claims.
Ross and Carrie discuss their challenging interview with Lori Spagna, a fast-talking fringe figure with many claims, and their efforts to analyze her ideas.