Legendary Showman Todd Robbins Talks with After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Host of Investigation Discovery's True Nightmares

by Eric Olsen | Nov 5, 2015 | culture, media, radio, television, weird/science | 0 comments

On tonight’s creepy episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted (10pE/9c) with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we survey the latest paranormal news from the @AMHaunted Twitter account and AMH site, then discuss Investigation Discovery’s...

Why Has Hocus Pocus Become THE Halloween Family Favorite? It's about the relationships

by Eric Olsen | Nov 4, 2015 | culture, halloween, media, monsters, movies, seasonal, television, witches | 0 comments

We have a family holiday viewing routine, and by “holiday” I mean Halloween and Christmas. Yes, we make a point of watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, mostly for the sobering, astringent, historically accurate The Mayflower Voyagers feature that’s...

Halloween Hangover A quick look before the decorations come down

by Eric Olsen | Nov 2, 2015 | culture, halloween, seasonal | 4 comments

Now’s the bittersweet time when overtly Halloweenish decorations all come down (autumnal items get a reprieve until Thanksgiving), and we think about all those Halloween movies, TV specials, books, and the like that we ran out of time for this year. Ah well,...

The Walking Dead Finds Jesus in “Here’s Not Here” Stand-alone Morgan episode one of the most powerful ever

by Eric Olsen | Nov 2, 2015 | culture, media, monsters, religion and belief, television, Uncategorized, zombies | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - SPOILERS, blah blah blah. And so it was Morgan’s turn. Extending the Glenn cliffhanger an additional excruciating week, last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, entitled “Here’s Not Here,” is a...

Halloween Reading Three essential books on our Dark Holiday

by Eric Olsen | Oct 30, 2015 | books, culture, ghosts and spirits, halloween, magick and occult, media, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal | 0 comments

When many people think of “Halloween reading,” they think of tales of hauntings and horror. I think much more Halloween-specific, finding the evolution of the holiday from its ancient roots in the mists of time to the present $7 billion extravaganza of...

Music and the Paranormal – Ghosts Seem to Dig the Tunes From aesthetic theory to rock 'n' roll ghosts, The 27 Club to the shaman's drum

by Eric Olsen | Oct 29, 2015 | conventions and events, culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, media, paranormal, religion and belief | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - I was honored to do a little Halloween talk today at my alma mater Wittenberg University, on a lovely fall day in Springfield, Ohio. My topic was Music and the Paranormal, two of my favorite individual topics that also have a...