Haunted legends, true oddities and tarot, told with a grin.
The Shadows Radio sends Rebecca and Bill through haunted waterways, crimes blamed on ghosts and the real animals behind old sea myths. The mood stays light, with quick jokes, a live chat room placing bets, and tarot readings next to the ghost stories.
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The Shadows Radio is a paranormal talk show built around two voices, Rebecca and Bill, and the sign-off they share: 'we'll see you in the shadows.' Its subject is haunted history in the loosest sense. Episode titles run from 'Haunted Waterways around the World' and 'Real Life Basis of Myths' to 'Ghosts committing Crimes', 'Terrifying and True Horror Stories', 'World's Largest Ghost Hunt' and 'Gummi Bear Tarot', a spread that takes in legend, folklore, strange news and card reading. In practice the two work through a list of cases, one after another, and swap reactions as they go. One case is an 18-year-old arrested in Glasgow in 2006 who insisted that the language officers heard came from a pirate ghost. The response is generous rather than mocking. Maybe he did see something, and anyone would be rattled. A run through haunted water goes from the legend of Ulana at Devil's Pool, where the telling counts a string of deaths in the current, to Higbee Beach in New Jersey and the spirit of a man in a long coat. The myth material leans on natural history. Behind the kraken stands the giant squid, with its fights with sperm whales and the specimen that washed ashore in Denmark in 1853. Meanwhile the chat room bets on whether the kraken or a mermaid would win. That chat room matters. It gives the show the feel of live radio, and in 'Gummi Bear Tarot' it drives a run of readings for people waiting their turn, with a guest joining in. The queen of swords, for one, is explained as a card often read as cold that is really about clear, rational thinking. Horror talk gets the same personal treatment. A doll built with both Spanish and English inside, the language set by a single soldered wire, sits beside a memory of moving childhood porcelain dolls around the house so a mother would turn a corner and find one waiting. When the talk turns to an event billed as the world's largest ghost hunt, the tone goes dry. One speaker treated it as just another public hunt and was puzzled to be handed a sheet for logging experiences in a database. There is a plug for Fort Mifflin's website as well, with a warning that tickets go fast. Cold opens carry promos for other programs on the Para-X Radio Network, which adds to the radio-lineup feel. The closings are part of the appeal: out of time but not out of ideas, a reminder not to come looking for Magic 8-Ball stuff, and a promise of event clips that might take a couple of years. Little of it is solemn. What a listener gets is ghost lore and odd history passed back and forth with the jokes left in.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes ghost legends, folklore and strange true cases told with jokes and tangents, and who is happy to hear tarot readings alongside haunted beaches and sea monsters.
What sets it apart: It mixes legends of haunted sites and odd paranormal news with tarot readings and a live chat room that bets and asks for cards, so it plays more like a lively hangout than a lecture on haunted history.
Every historic site has a story. Every story can grow in to legend. Join Rebecca and Bill as they dive into these legends to learn the true history of the historic sites and learn all of the ghostly history that brings these places to life! Highlighting historic sites around the world, we love haunted history! A paranormal Potpourri of amazing topics! Join us Monday nights at 9pm on Para-X and we'll see you ... in the Shadows!
Davy Jones gets an accountant cousin, and your sea lore gets a punchline.
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A candid look at paranormal research that values uncertainty over easy certainty.
Paranormal research is framed here less as proof-seeking than as a discipline shaped by restraint. Rebecca and Bill argue that charging for investigations sits uneasily with a field that cannot promise a haunting is real, much less that an investigation will resolve it.
A playful, evidence-curious look at the real creatures and fossils behind legendary monsters.
The Shadows Radio takes a lively pass through legendary creatures, holding the kraken, mermaids, and dragons up against the real animals and remains that may have helped keep those stories alive.
A Fort Mifflin ghost hunt turns into a measured reflection on method, reunion, and history fading from view.
This episode follows a team into Fort Mifflin for a public ghost hunt that never quite settles between organized research and a night designed to produce an experience.
A loose, funny look at the squonk turns Pennsylvania folklore into comic sympathy.
The squonk comes through as a Pennsylvania creature built for comic sympathy: miserable, warted, mole-covered, and forever crying. Bill and Rebecca use that sad little legend as a way into how folklore gets inflated, reshaped, and made funnier in the retelling.
A Queen of Swords reading becomes a loose, funny conversation about conflict, bluntness, and paranormal radio.
This live tarot segment treats a card reading as a loose, often funny way to talk through everyday conflict. The Queen of Swords drawn for Kira becomes a portrait of someone seen as cold but better understood as rational, blunt, emotionally separate, and logical.
Dark history, rough jokes, strange tracks.
Fireside ghost stories, hidden curses, and plants on polygraphs.
The Shadows Radio episode “Ghosts committing Crimes” presents ten reported cases in which people attributed theft, harassment, assault, or murder to ghosts and other supernatural entities.
Rebecca and Bill of The Shadows Radio examine reported hauntings at waterways including Lower Yellowstone Falls, White Rock Lake, Saco River, Brayley Pond, Hales Bar Dam, and Lake Ronkon Koma.
On Shadows Radio's Gummi Bear Tarot, Rebecca and Bill hand chat-room names to Kara from Tara Readings by Kara for live readings.
Rebecca and Bill's October 4, 2021 episode presents ten reported horror cases, including the 1912 Villisca Axe Murder House and a 2013 disappearance at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel.
The Shadows Radio episode "Real Life Basis of Myths" runs through 10 creatures and links legends such as mermaids, the Kraken, and sea serpents to manatees, giant squid, and oarfish.
The Shadows Radio spends a Monday-night segment on the squonk, a Pennsylvania cryptid described as a warty creature that weeps constantly and can dissolve into tears when cornered.
Rebecca and Bill spend this Shadows Radio episode on Fort Mifflin's role in the 'world's largest ghost hunt,' a 24-hour event tied to National Ghost Hunting Day.
["The Shadows Radio episode 'Don't Call them Ghost Hunters' opens with Rebecca and Bill mourning Helena, a frequent chat-room listener, before turning to a debate over how paranormal workers should describe their field.", "Rebecca says paranormal investigators study haunted houses, haunted locations, and spectral findings in depth, while ghost hunters are hobbyists who may visit cemeteries or public places with friends.", "They also talk through unpaid team work, spaghetti-sauce gifts, a K2 meter purchase, the Olympus recorder, the infrared thermometer, and the ghost box that Rebecca refuses to use.", "The discussion ends with practical skepticism about apartments, old wiring, rats, raccoons, and the fact that most investigations produce nothing at all."]
The Shadows Radio hosts Bill and Rebecca open a Monday episode with National Days trivia and Philadelphia food talk, including the claim that Philadelphia cream cheese was invented in New York in 1872.
Rebecca and Bill of The Shadows Radio explain Catholic exorcism procedures, including the requirement that a major rite be performed by a priest with a bishop’s permission.
Rebecca and Bill of The Shadows Radio rank haunted asylums including St.
The Shadows Radio tests a physical Magic 8-Ball, online oracle cards, tarot-style readings, and runes against questions from listeners including Bill, Rain, Josh, Maureen, and Damien.
The Shadows Radio episode "Gummi Bear Tarot" brings Rebecca and Bill together with Kara from Tarot by Kara for listener card readings using a gummy bear deck.
The Shadows Radio hosts Rebecca and Bill examine 17 regional American terms for ghosts, including “skookum,” “Tommyknocker,” “duppy,” “catawampus,” and “raw head or bloody bones.” Rebecca traces “Tommyknocker” to mine ghosts and the knocking sounds associated with mining, while Bill connects it to Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers.
The Shadows Radio examines children’s alleged past-life memories through Reddit stories and the hosts’ personal experiences.
Rebecca and Bill present reported paranormal stories from Illinois, including the H.H.
Rebecca and Phil examine The Matrix Theory and Parallel Dimensions through Neo’s red-pill choice, simulated reality, and parallel universes.
Rebecca and Bill examine nautical mythology and superstitions involving women, redheads, priests, albatrosses, bananas, ghost ships, and ship cats.
The Shadows Radio's Rebecca and Bill examine the Bridgewater Triangle near Boston, described as a 200-mile area containing reports of UFOs, animal mutilations, ghosts, Bigfoot, and other anomalies.
The Shadows Radio episode “Paranormal Television Secrets” uses Reddit accounts from paranormal television workers to examine staging, editing, and production practices.
The Shadows Radio’s “Victorian Paranormal Pioneers” examines ten Victorian-era figures associated with mediums, occult societies, spirit communication, and alleged supernatural abilities.
Rebecca and Bill use The Shadows Radio to examine gift-giving superstitions involving knives, watches, hankies, opals, shoes, cats, mirrors, flowers, and wallets.
Rebecca and Bill trace how the Fox sisters—Leah, Kate, and Maggie—helped make 19th-century spiritualism a public phenomenon after reported raps began in Hydesville, New York, in 1848.
Rebecca and Bill of The Shadows Radio discuss ghost stories and personal paranormal experiences connected to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Shadows Radio episode “Ironic and Odd Deaths” features Rebecca and Bill discussing historical deaths involving unusual circumstances, including Harry Houdini’s 1926 abdominal punch and Francis Bacon’s 1626 snow experiment.
The Shadows Radio’s “Uncommon Divination Methods” has Rebecca and Bill compare familiar practices such as cartomancy, dowsing, numerology, and palmistry with stranger historical techniques.
The Shadows Radio episode “Numerology” examines recurring numbers such as 191, 7:11, 3:30 a.m., 666, and 999 through paranormal, personal, and statistical lenses.
The Shadows Radio episode "2020 Psychic Roundup" reviews publicly posted predictions for 2020 using four psychics and an almanac.
The Shadows Radio examines reported ghosts and legends connected to Notre Dame de Paris, a cathedral whose initial construction ran from 1163 to 1260.
The Shadows Radio examines old-fashioned fortune-telling games associated with Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Newfoundland, and Salem, Massachusetts.
Rebecca and Bill examine how Greek sirens changed from bird-bodied singers into the modern image of beautiful mermaid-like women who lure sailors to death.
The Shadows Radio episode “Ancient Aliens” examines extraterrestrial explanations for the pyramids of Giza, Puma Punku, Easter Island’s moai, Stonehenge, the Nazca Lines, and alleged lunar structures.
The Shadows Radio examines alleged curses involving Pele, the goddess associated with Hawaii's volcanoes, and tourists who return rocks or black sand after reporting bad luck.
The Shadows Radio's "Psychic Roundup 2020 - Part 2!" has Rebecca and Bill compare named forecasts by Ireland's Old Moore's Almanac, Nicholas Ajula, Betsy Lewis, Baba Vanga, Sidney Friedman, Jean Dixon and Liam with events from 2020.
The Shadows Radio examines Helltown, an abandoned area of Boston Township in Ohio associated with legends about Satanists, toxic chemicals, a giant Peninsula Python, and murdered children on a school bus.
The Shadows Radio’s “Out of Body Experiences” compares reports of disembodied perception with neurological explanations involving the temporoparietal cortex.
The Shadows Radio examines the “white things” of West Virginia, pale creatures linked in the discussion to Cherokee white-wolf lore and death omens.
The Shadows Radio hosts Rebecca and Bill interview director Eric Burleson and actor Jacob Shapiro about The Beth, a nine-minute horror short involving a boy, an infant, a police officer, and a sick mother.
The Shadows Radio examines ten military bases linked to UFO reports beyond Area 51, including Malmstrom Air Force Base, Carswell, Wright-Patterson, Fort Dix, and Kirtland.
The Shadows Radio examines the reported 1986 haunting of the Snedeker family at 208 Meridian Avenue in Southington, Connecticut, a former Halland Funeral Home.