Talking Strange Paranormal Show

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Spooky stories, sharper questions.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Show sits where paranormal curiosity meets horror pop culture. Aaron Sagers guides interviews about cryptids, spiritualism, unsettling films, internet horror, and the strange social history that grows around belief.

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Talking Strange Paranormal Show is built for the overlap between paranormal folklore and horror culture. Aaron Sagers leads interview-driven episodes that take strange stories seriously without requiring the audience to believe every claim. That balance matters. A conversation about Nessie, Mothman, Bigfoot, or the Van Meter visitor can move from creature lore into newspapers, tourism, tragedy, and the way a town learns to live with its legend. The show is fond of monsters, but it keeps asking what makes a monster story survive. Recent episodes also show how comfortably it handles screen horror. Faces of Death becomes a way to talk about viral media, exploitation, social media moderation, and the fear that some images may be more real than expected. Undertone opens a lane into sound design, unnerving cinematography, and the meta-horror of a paranormal podcaster being haunted by recordings. Mermaid brings Florida weirdness, dark comedy, addiction, secrecy, and creature horror into the mix. Hokum connects Irish folklore, grief, isolation, a haunted hotel room, and Adam Scott's performance. The historical side is just as important. The Fox sisters episode frames spiritualism as celebrity, seance culture, and pre-Civil War mystery rather than just a spooky parlor trick. The show works best when it follows the odd connection and then tests it. Is a famous Bigfoot film a hoax? Did a cryptid put a town on the map? Why do taboo horror titles return in a new media age? The pacing is conversational, sometimes enthusiastic, but rarely careless. It gives guests room, then steers the talk back toward folklore, archives, film craft, and cultural appetite. For listeners who want ghost stories with footnotes, horror interviews with texture, and cryptid talk that can smile at itself, Talking Strange offers a sturdy gateway into high strangeness.

Made for: For horror fans, folklore readers, cryptid-curious skeptics, and paranormal believers who prefer conversation over sensationalism. It also suits listeners interested in how strange stories become films, festivals, local identities, and online obsessions.

What sets it apart: The show links paranormal claims to pop-culture craft and social history. Bigfoot evidence, spiritualist origins, controversial horror reboots, and haunted-audio films all get treated as part of the same strange ecosystem.

In their own words

Hosted by paranormal TV host and journalist Aaron Sagers (Netflix's 28 Days Haunted and Discovery+/Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera), Talking Strange is a paranormal pop culture podcast where celebrities, actors, authors, folklorists and experts of the unusual gather to discuss everything from UFOs to ghosts, cryptids, urban legends, and all manner of high strangeness — as well as the movies, TV shows, and other "entertainment of the unexplained" inspired by them.

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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Aaron Sagers connects paranormal claims to folklore, historical records, local identity, and the cultural work performed by stories of spirits and monsters.

Aaron Sagers treats strange claims as cultural evidence worth examining, pairing curiosity about the paranormal with questions about how stories acquire credibility.

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Mark Twain's alleged afterlife writing got panned; your spooky rabbit hole comes with literary criticism.

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to hear Aaron Sagers ask whether a message from a famous spirit actually sounds like its supposed author
to wonder how Mothman sightings became part of Point Pleasant's identity

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Are Monsters Real? Richard Estep on Nessie, Mothman, & MoreApr 17, 2026

A curious, grounded tour of monster stories that treats belief as a question, not a pitch.

Monster lore is the hook, but the episode lands on a larger point: strange stories persist through newspapers, local memory, and later retellings.

Did Key West Killed JFK? The Florida Keys Conspiracy You Were Never ToldFeb 4, 2026

A layered JFK conspiracy episode built from interviews, documents, and Key West intrigue.

Key West ends up at the center of a JFK story that pulls in declassified FBI and CIA files, interviews, Cuban exile networks, mafia figures, intelligence operatives, and island rumor. Aaron Sagers keeps the talk steady and curious while David L.

Greenland's Monsters & Chasing North American Cryptids with Jason OffuttJan 23, 2026

A globe-spanning monster conversation that treats folklore as cultural history.

This episode treats monsters less like shock material and more like folklore that keeps crossing borders. Aaron Sagers centers Jason Offutt's new North American monster guide, then lets the conversation roam from Greenland to Guatemala, from Bigfoot to alien reports, and from…

You Two Scare Me Podcast at The Haunted Saint Hotel in Key WestJan 16, 2026

A Key West ghost-story visit that pairs hotel lore with a grounded reality check.

Aaron Sagers turns a Key West visit into a haunted-hotel conversation that moves from the Ernest Hemingway House to The Saint Hotel. The strongest material comes when ghost-child stories about the building sit beside the hotel's adult-only rule and the odd detail that there is…

Mark Twain's Ghost? The Talking Dead from Séances & SpiritualismJan 2, 2026

Ghost lore, literary history, and enough skepticism to keep the lights on.

Aaron Sagers keeps this episode grounded in The Talking Dead, using Aaron J. Sagers's anthology of messages from beyond the veil, from the 1850s to the 1920s, as a way to show how spiritualism was written down, argued over, and taken seriously by mediums and listeners alike.

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Halloween Horror Nights 2026 Houses Ranked: HHN 35 at Universal Orlando

Kate Siegel Talks The Creep Tapes Season 3, Carrie, and the Future of Horror

Are UFOs Demons? 'UFOs and God' Film Asks

Who Was the First Ghost Hunter? 4,000 Years of Haunted History

Eli Roth: Talking Ice Cream Man Horror

The Harry Houdini Mysteries & Seances with John Cox

The Proof Is Out There: Area 51, Bigfoot & Ghosts

Backrooms & Liminal Space Folklore w/ Lynne McNeill

Harry Price & Borley Rectory: England's Most Haunted

Ghost Hunting Equipment Explained w/ Lauren Haunts

Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' & Real UFO Encounters

Why Are Demons Everywhere? w/Michelle Belanger & Joe Laycock

Universal Horror Unleashed: Behind the Scenes

The Yeti's William Sadler: Creature Features, Shawshank Redemption, & More

Are Monsters Real? Richard Estep on Nessie, Mothman, & More

‘Hokum’ Director on Adam Scott’s Irish Horror

'Faces of Death' Director/Writer on Disturbing Horror Reboot

Barbie Ferreira & Dacre Montgomery Talk ‘Faces of Death’

Actor Johnny Pemberton on 'Mermaid' Horror

Bigfoot Hoax Exposed? 'Capturing Bigfoot' Filmmakers' Shocking Evidence

Did the Fox Sisters Fake It? Exploring True Origins of Spiritualism

Undertone’s Scary Truths: Director Ian Tuason Speaks

Director Natasha Kermani's 'The Dreadful' Curses Sophie Turner

Wendigo Lore Explained: Beyond the Native American Legend

Welcome to the Ghost Show with J.W. Ocker

Did Key West Killed JFK? The Florida Keys Conspiracy You Were Never Told

Greenland's Monsters & Chasing North American Cryptids with Jason Offutt

You Two Scare Me Podcast at The Haunted Saint Hotel in Key West

Mark Twain's Ghost? The Talking Dead from Séances & Spiritualism

From M3gan to Christmas Demons – Akela Cooper Gets Festive and Fearsome

Kate Siegel Talks Down the Chimney and Holiday of Horrors

The Boulet Brothers Bring Holiday Horror to Shudder

David Dastmalchian Gets Festive and Fearsome in 'Holiday of Horrors'

David Dastmalchian Talks Dust Bunny, Childhood Monsters & Coffin Chats

Dust Bunny: Bryan Fuller's Directorial Debut

Foxy Shazam's Eric Nally on James Gunn, Peacemaker, and Paranormal Encounters

Mark Duplass Returns! Inside The Creep Tapes Season Two

Danny Trejo on Mysteries Unearthed: Secrets Buried Beneath Our Feet

Dan Aykroyd and the True Stories Behind The UnBelievable

Inside New Orleans' Most Haunted Airbnb: Parks-Bowman Mansion

Amy Bruni on Halloween, Haunted Tourism, & The Conjuring House

Greg Nicotero Talks Guts & Glory, Creepshow, and Universal Monsters

Elvira Talks Halloween, Horror, & ‘Cookbook From Hell’

REWIND: RIP Bigfoot Researcher Jeff Meldrum

Alaska’s Inukuns: True Crime Meets Paranormal Legend in 'Blood & Myth'

Strange Harvest: Cosmic Horror, Mr. Shiny, and New Terror

Disney’s Beak and Barrel, Halloween Horror Nights, and Queen Mary Hauntings

Witchboard (2025) Director Chuck Russell Talks Paranormal Beliefs & Return to Horror

Christopher Monfette's TexArcanum: Horror, Folklore & Cowboy Magic

Katrina Weidman & Steve Shippy: Secrets of Paranormal Caught On Camera

Paranormal Caught on Camera Season 9: Behind the Scenes with the Cast

The Patterson Project: Bigfoot, Found Footage & Mockumentary Mayhem

Inside Hell Motel with Paula Brancati & Jim Watson

Haunted Prisons & Ghost Hunts with Heather Taddy

Shark Ritual Killings & Dangerous Animals Director Sean Byrne

Bring Her Back with Danny & Michael Philippou

Shane Pittman: Finding Hope in Hauntings

Batman vs. Werewolves with Rodney Barnes

Small Talk: Floating Ghost Torso & Whistling Spirits!

Clown in a Cornfield Director Eli Craig

Small Talk: Psychic Bigfoot Vision-Sighting?

Emeraude Toubia Talks Latin Horror 'Rosario'

REWIND: The Science of Fear with Dr. Margee Kerr

The Easter Bunny Encounter & Weirdness on Lake Tahoe

Bigfoot Tracks in Pennsylvania: Cryptid Investigation with Eric Altman

UFOs Over Oneida Lake & Men in Black

Best of Monsters Among Us w/ Derek Hayes

Dustin Pari's Haunted Travels & Tiki Tales

The Grey Lady & Fairy Lore of Bushmills Distillery

Ireland's Leprechaun Museum & Personal Irish Ghost Stories

Clontarf Castle Ghosts & the Irishness of Dracula