That was the caption underneath the cartoon of an upright wolf eating roadkill that ran in the December 29th, 1991 article ofThe Week, the local paper of the small Wisconsin city of Elkhorn. It was an article that they thought would be fun but

295 – WE’RE BAAAAAAACK! A recap of the past 19 months away from our regularly scheduled ‘cast

Dec 22nd, 2021 46m 30s

Hello, dear listener! It’s been a bit since we published a “traditional episode” of this audio podcast, and we want you to know that we’re still here and we’re still at it! This episode is a quick “hello” and a little retrospective of what has

293 – Staying Cool In A Crisis: From Meditation to The Rosary

May 21st, 2020 1h 36m

Horror stories, clickbait, panic porn, your amygdala is constantly getting stimulated nowadays because the media understands that if they activate your fight or flight response, you’ll pay attention. The old saying goes “If it bleeds, it leads”

294 – The Hunger of the Damned: Chad Lewis and Wendigo Lore

May 18th, 2020 1h 7m

When Hollywood comes looking for a nasty monster from First Nations folklore, there’s one supernatural creature that seems to dominate the landscape. The legend of the Wendigo has inspired cinematic villains from Pet Sematary to Supernatural, R

292 – Lights In The Sky: Personal and Listener UFO Experiences

Apr 22nd, 2020 1h 12m

Millions of people have UFO stories. There is a one-hundred percent chance that you know at least one person that has a story! So, we went to our listeners and in our own archives for this episode’s tales of UFO experiences. Once again, join me

291 – Everyone’s Got A Ghost Story: Listener and Personal Experiences

Apr 16th, 2020 1h 11m

Everyone’s got a ghost story, from your grandma to your high school social studies teacher. In fact, some of the people that you least expect (and some skeptics as well), seem to have stories that they just can’t quite explain. One time, I reme

290 – Big Fur: Creating The Most Realistic Bigfoot Ever

Apr 9th, 2020 1h 9m

In the wilds of western Alberta, Canada, Ken Walker lives, hunts, creates, and sings Roy Orbison tracks. He’s a world champion taxidermist who specializes in recreations of extinct animals. He’s brought back stunning versions of the Sabretooth

289 – Fortunate Phantoms: The World’s Happiest Ghost Stories

Mar 30th, 2020 1h 9m

With the world under quarantine for an indefinite amount of time and people everywhere being a little freaked out by the current circumstances of our COVID-19 isolation, we thought we’d brighten things up a little bit with some ghost stories th

288 – St. Patrick’s Day: Legends and Lore Of The Emerald Isle

Mar 18th, 2020 1h 5m

Every year on St. Patrick’s Day, we all hear the story of St. Patrick so we know it by heart, right? Even before most of us were old enough to slurp cheap green beer and scour the streets in search of Jameson, we knew the story of Ireland’s mos

287 – Portals To Hell: Ghost Hunting With Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman

Mar 13th, 2020 1h 3m

Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman return on Friday The 13th to TRVL with the second season of Portals To Hell. Jack, of course, is the son of the rock ‘n’ roll Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, and he grew up in the world of reality television

286 – Chip Coffey Unfiltered: Messages From A Medium

Mar 9th, 2020 1h 2m

Friendly and funny, Chip Coffey in person doesn’t seem like the type who seems to have an open line with dead people. At paranormal conventions in the vendor room, he’s the boisterous laugh and endearing voice you can hear from the other side o

285 – Listening To The Gut Punch: Sallyanne Monti and the Power of Intuition

Mar 3rd, 2020 1h 14m

Sallyanne Monti always thought that her story was already told. Growing up in the same Italian-American Brooklyn neighborhood as the characters in Saturday Night Fever, getting married to her high school sweetheart and having four kids, she was

284 – Death From Above: When Big Bird Attacks

Feb 19th, 2020 1h 5m

Gigantic birds. They’re fricking terrifying . And there might be some kind of genetic memory (or epigentic inheritance) as to why when CNN posts headlines like “Bones reveal Neanderthal child was eaten by a giant bird”. We’ve had Seth Breedlove

Jack London

Feb 13th, 2020 59m 58s

When you think of turn of the Twentieth Century writer Jack London, you immediately think about of the Yukon and his most famous works like White Fang or Call Of The Wild. And in fact, Harrison Ford returns to the screen next week with the late

282 – Coronavirus Conspiracy: A Pandemic of Misinformation

Feb 7th, 2020

Here we go again, it’s a new year and there’s a new type of flu going around that’s going to kill us. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first originated in Wuhan, a city of eleven million people in China, and since it began, internet rumor

281 – It’s All In Your Mind: The Paranormal Imagination of John E.L. Tenney

Jan 28th, 2020 1h 6m

“What you think is weird is weirder than you think” – that’s the slogan that’s on the website of John E.L. Tenney and his weird lectures. That’s a fun turn of phrase but it took me a little bit to figure out what it means. We understand the ide

280 – The Turn Of The Screw: Henry James And The History Of Parapsychology

Jan 16th, 2020 1h 5m

The latest adaptation of Henry James’ classic 1898 ghost story The Turn Of The Screw is called The Turning starring red hot teenage actor Finn Wolfhard but it’s not the only adaptation being released this year. Mike Flanagan’s sequel to his Net

279 – Ram Dass: The Spiritual and Psychic Adventures of Richard Alpert

Jan 8th, 2020 1h 6m

I’ll admit it, I love making fun of hippies. 20 years of living in Madison, Wisconsin (where the Vietnam War never ended, at least the protest part of it) and performing alongside jam bands has jaded me to the culture. Free love and the daily “

278 – Kallikantzaroi: Christmas Goblins And Legends Of The Twelvetide

Dec 30th, 2019 1h 5m

Every year, it seems like the Christmas season starts earlier and earlier, and you can see people getting annoyed about it on social media. Some people say it’s inappropriate to get your Christmas decorations up until the day after Thanksgiving

277 – The Angel Experiment: Everyday Miracles With Corin Grillo

Dec 21st, 2019 58m 1s

Angels feel like something for little kids and Christmas trees. It’s Della Reese performing heartwarming miracles on cheesy Sunday night television or the goofy Clarence from It’s A Wonderful Life. Or even a hearbroken Nicolas Cage staring fore

276 – The Mandela Effect: Bringing the Phenomena to LIfe With David Guy Levy and Steffen Schlachtenhaufen

Dec 13th, 2019 55m 46s

The fun part of The Mandela Effect is talking about the memories you share with other people that doesn’t necessarily jibe with reality. When you remember The BerenSTEIN Bears with other people and you all can’t figure out just why the real wor

275 – Hellier 2: Hunting Indrid Cold With Greg Newkirk

Dec 6th, 2019

We’ve had Greg and Dana Newkirk from The Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult on the show several times before and they’ve always got great stories, whether they’re talking about the beautiful story of how they met or reminiscing about

274 – Tripping The Field: Lucid Dreaming With Ian Jaydid

Nov 26th, 2019 1h 13m

I used to be terrified of going to sleep. Everyone has a nightmare once in awhile, but starting when I was six years old, I’d have them almost every night. I couldn’t just fall asleep, I’d read until the book would fall out of my hands and my e

273 – Fractured Souls: Sylvia Shults and The Ghosts of The Peoria State Hospital

Nov 21st, 2019 1h 7m

Nothing gets a ghost hunter salivating like the opportunity to do an investigation in an abandoned sanitarium. It seems like we get our ideas of what life was like in a mental asylum entirely from movies like Return To Oz or Sucker Punch, where

272 – Southern Gothic: Ghost Stories and Legends Featuring Steve Gorman of The Black Crowes

Nov 13th, 2019 58m 53s

To say that the American South has a complex history is an understatement. To us in Wisconsin, it sometimes feels like a different country entirely and 99% of our touring experiences down there have been amazing. There is something to Southern