Talking The Edwardian Ball and All Things Edward Gorey on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Edwardian Ball co-founder Jason Katz and Edward Gorey House curator Gregory Hischak visit the show

by Eric Olsen | Feb 26, 2016 | art, conventions and events, culture, media, radio | 0 comments

  On tonight’s elegant yet trashy edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, 9-11pE, we dig into the whimsical yet macabre world of artist/illustrator Edward Gorey, talking with founder of the...

LUCIFER on Fox – Sympathy for the Devil Can even the Prince of Darkness be redeemed?

by Eric Olsen | Feb 24, 2016 | culture, media, paranormal, religion and belief, supernatural beings, television | 0 comments

Is it sacrilegious to sympathize with the devil? Is it legitimate to humanize Lucifer under the pretense that he has “retired” from running hell and is now slumming with the humans as a nightclub owner in Los Angeles? Most transgressive of all, is it...

Slenderman Secret – The Image Behind the Stabbings Journey from meme to the real world

by Eric Olsen | Feb 23, 2016 | culture, paranormal, religion and belief, supernatural beings, weird/science | 2 comments

On May 31, 2014, Slenderman went from compelling but wholly fictional Internet meme to household word when two 12 year-old Wisconsin girls lured a friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an effort to earn the favor of the faceless, elongated, dark-suited...

Examining THOUGHTFORM Movie and Bizarre Death of Olivia Mabel on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Filmmakers from Elftree Media talk real-life mystery

by Eric Olsen | Feb 12, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, media, movies, paranormal, radio, religion and belief, supernatural beings, weird/science | 0 comments

On tonight’s mysterious and disturbing episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio, 9-11pE, with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we will be examining the bizarre real-life death of Olivia Mabel, whose story is being turned into the short...

Weird Valentine’s Day – Goat’s Blood, Poetry, Martyred Saints, and a Box of Chocolate Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it

by Eric Olsen | Feb 9, 2016 | culture, religion and belief, seasonal | 2 comments

You just finish putting away all the Christmas and winter decorations and Valentine’s Day rolls around, a time for the showy expression of love, especially romantic love, in the form of mushy cards, a box of chocolate, flowers, a romantic meal, maybe jewelry...

Interview with EMILY DICKINSON: PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR Playwright Todd Brian Backus Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is last line of defense between the everyday and world of magic, ghosts, vampires

by Blogcritics | Feb 6, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, magick and occult, media, monsters, paranormal, vampires | 0 comments

By JON SOBEL Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Investigator, the new play by Todd Brian Backus, is having its world premiere this month as part of the 2016 FRIGID New York Festival. A founder and Artistic Producer of the PowerOut theater company and a stage director,...