Talking Strange Paranormal Show

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If you believe the world is stranger than it seems — or you just love a good ghost/monster/UFO story — Talking Strange is your podcast. Hosted by paranormal TV journalist Aaron Sagers (Netflix's 28 Days Haunted, HBO Max/Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera), each episode brings together celebrities, actors, authors, folklorists, and experts of the unusual to explore everything from UFOs and ghosts to cryptids, urban legends, and all manner of high strangeness — as well as the movies, TV shows, and pop culture inspired by the unexplained.Whether you're a lifelong paranormal enthusiast or just dipping your toes into the weird, subscribe and join the conversation. New episodes weekly.

  1. Sep 26

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

    Every haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 2026, ranked from worst to best. Host (and HHN superfan) Aaron Sagers takes on HHN 35 at Universal Orlando Resort. He ranks all 10 houses: Stranger Things 5, Sinners, Hellraiser, Evil Dead Burn, Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness, Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control, Cybergoria, MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals, INVASION: Alien Abduction and H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!Along the way he digs into why the original houses stole the spooky season show, which IP houses captured a mood instead of just replaying the movie, and how Doug Bradley's return as Pinhead and a heartfelt Ozzy tribute stand out. He also makes the case for why Halloween Horror Nights is about spectacle and exhilaration, not full-contact scares. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Sep 18

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

    Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Kate Siegel joins Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers for a deep dive into two of the most anticipated horror projects on the horizon: Season 3 of The Creep Tapes and Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie where she both acts and directs an episode.Known for her unforgettable performances in The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, Hush, and Gerald’s Game, Siegel also discusses the camaraderie of husband Mike Flanagan’s universe, and what continues to draw her to stories that blur the line between fear and humanity. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Sep 11

    Are UFOs Demons? 'UFOs and God' Film Asks

    JD Vance told Joe Rogan that UFOs aren't aliens; they're demons. Now the director of the documentary UFOs and God pushes back, but also weighs in on why his new film presents the point of view that UAPs aren't extraterrestrial, and they ain't nice.Wes Llewellyn co-directed the new Vision Films documentary with his wife, Amanda, whose reported childhood abductions are at the center of it. He argues the phenomenon is spiritual rather than extraterrestrial,and that "demon" is the wrong word for it, not because these things are harmless, but because the word ends the conversation.Host Aaron Sagers digs in on where evidence stops and belief begins: the night Amanda told him and the years he spent not believing her, why any visitor would have to be interdimensional, whether "nefarious" is a finding or a faith position, where a Christian-lens film leaves everyone else, and what the government's slow-drip disclosure is really for.UFOs and God is out now from Vision Films. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Aug 21

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

    Four thousand years before Ghost Hunters, somebody wrote down an encounter with the dead, and the instructions for getting rid of him involved beer. Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers offers up a brief origins of ghost hunting from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the oldest known image of a ghost, to the Roman philosopher who solved a haunting on a writing deadline, to the 1794 novel that used the phrase "ghost-hunting" like everybody already knew what it meant. Plus: your listener submissions! _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Jul 29

    Eli Roth: Talking Ice Cream Man Horror

    Eli Roth just spent 20 years plotting the death of the ice cream truck.This week on Talking Strange, horror icon Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Thanksgiving) joins host Aaron Sagers to talk about his tenth feature, Ice Cream Man, opening August 7, 2026. This is his most ambitious, most blood-soaked project yet, and the first release from his new studio, The Horror Section. The film stars Ari Millen as a silent, smiling villain who turns an idyllic small town's children into instruments of mass patricide, with executive production from Nas and original music from Snoop Dogg. (And no, this isn't the 1995 Clint Howard cult movie of the same name.) This is Eli Roth's Pied Piper fairy tale, and it is a completely different animal.We get into the hilarious and squirm-inducing gore, the surprisingly wholesome chaos of directing 80 kids covered in fake blood, and why Roth thinks the scariest villains are the ones who believe they're the hero. Roth also shares his own tales of scary urban legends and ice cream trucks. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Jul 22

    The Harry Houdini Mysteries & Seances with John Cox

    Harry Houdini spent the final years of his life doing something few expected from the world's greatest escape artist: hunting ghosts. Or rather, hunting those who claimed to speak to ghosts.In this episode of Talking Strange, host Aaron Sagers sits down with John Cox, the leading Houdini historian behind the acclaimed blog Wild About Harry (wildabouthoudini.com). Cox is the author of Escaping Obscurity: The Travel Diary of Harry Houdini, 1897–1899 and is currently completing a definitive three-volume Houdini biography.Aaron and John dig into Houdini's complicated, often contradictory relationship with Spiritualism — a movement he publicly crusaded against. They trace the rise and collapse of his friendship with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator and devout Spiritualist whose unwavering belief in psychic phenomena put him on a collision course with Houdini's exposure campaigns. The conversation also covers Houdini's own staged séances, the mystery of his famous secret code with wife Bess, and the strange afterlife of his legacy in pop culture.For more with John Cox, check out the expanded episode on Aaron's Patreon (Patreon.com/AaronSagers)_______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Jul 17

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

    What does it actually take to investigate Bigfoot, Area 51, and the Loch Ness Monster with a journalist's eye instead of a believer's bias? This week, Talking Strange host Aaron Sagers sits down with Emmy Award winning producer Miguel Sancho, showrunner behind A&E's The Proof Is Out There and former investigative producer at 20/20 and 48 Hours.Miguel walks us through the reporting and technology his team uses to chase down some of history's most stubborn mysteries, from cryptozoology and ancient archeology to simulation theory and the afterlife. We dig into his new book Evidence of the Extraordinary, packed with over sixty full color photographs, and talk about what separates rigorous paranormal investigation from wishful thinking, plus why hard bitten journalism might be the best tool we have for tackling the unexplained. _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jul 2

    Backrooms & Liminal Space Folklore w/ Lynne McNeill

    Why does an empty office hallway feel scarier than a monster? Folklorist Dr. Lynne S. McNeill breaks down the psychology behind Backrooms, Severance, and the internet's obsession with liminal spaces.If you've ever felt unsettled walking through an abandoned mall, a fluorescent-lit office at night, or scrolling past another eerie "backrooms" photo on your feed, this episode is for you. Host Aaron Sagers speaks with Dr. Lynne S. McNeill — folklore professor and Chair of the Folklore Program at Utah State University — to unpack why "liminality" has become one of horror's biggest cultural forces.Lynne traces the concept back to anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's work on rites of passage, then connects it straight through to Backrooms, Apple TV's Severance, Slender Man, analog horror, and the "uncanny" spaces that dominate TikTok and Reddit. They also dig into: What "liminality" actually means — and why folklorists say it's nearly universal across cultures How the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged our fascination with in-between, abandoned spaces Why Gen Z and Gen Alpha are drawn to liminal horror even without nostalgia for malls or offices The difference between "the Backrooms" as a place vs. the Backrooms as a mythology (and why that split matters) AI, "latent space," and the unsettling folklore already forming around it (yes, they talk about Loab) _______________________________________________________________ The Talking Strange Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture show featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as experts in all things strange and unexplained. Talking Strange is a creation of Aaron Sagers with production help from Michael Ahr. Host Aaron Sagers is a paranormal TV host and journalist who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel, Discovery+, and MAX streaming service. If you like Talking Strange, please subscribe, leave a nice review, and share with your friends. The Talking Strange Paranormal Show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever you check out spooky content. Connect with the show community on Facebook as well. Email us with episode ideas, guest suggestions, and spooky stories: Contact@TalkingStrange.com Follow Host Aaron Sagers: Twitter/X Blue Sky Instagram Facebook TikTok Patreon (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches) Until Next Time: Be Kind. Stay Spooky. Keep It Weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you believe the world is stranger than it seems — or you just love a good ghost/monster/UFO story — Talking Strange is your podcast. Hosted by paranormal TV journalist Aaron Sagers (Netflix's 28 Days Haunted, HBO Max/Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera), each episode brings together celebrities, actors, authors, folklorists, and experts of the unusual to explore everything from UFOs and ghosts to cryptids, urban legends, and all manner of high strangeness — as well as the movies, TV shows, and pop culture inspired by the unexplained.Whether you're a lifelong paranormal enthusiast or just dipping your toes into the weird, subscribe and join the conversation. New episodes weekly.

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