Splintered Spirits

with Gary and John
  • 4.8 (26)
  • Spirituality
  • Updated Semiweekly

What are spirits, really? Splintered Spirits explores the afterlife, ghosts, and the mysteries of human consciousness. Hosted by producer Gary Shapiro (the uneasy novice) and his nephew John Santa of Santa Paranormal (the experienced researcher), this podcast bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual worlds. Tune in for unnerving, funny, and thoughtful interviews or on-location experiments with psychic-mediums, parapsychologists, ghost hunters, witches and everyday people who have pierced the veil.

  1. Splintered Spirits Live: Balesky's Back!!!

    2d ago

    Splintered Spirits Live: Balesky's Back!!!

    Amie Balesky returns to Splintered Spirits for a conversation that pushes past easy labels like "spirit" and into deeper territory. She shares how her understanding of energy, vibration, and connection has evolved since her last visit, offering a fresh lens on how she experiences and interprets the unseen. Gary and John dig into what's changed for her, and how those shifts are shaping the way she works and sees the world.The conversation moves through some heavier moments, including stories of unsettling premonitions and a surprising new direction in her work that has drawn unexpected outside interest. Amie opens up about the responsibility that comes with the things she senses, and how she decides what to share and when.As always, the episode balances the eerie with the entertaining. Between lighter personal stories and a visit with the Annabelle doll, this one captures the mix of humor and mystery that keeps listeners coming back to Splintered Spirits.

    1h 36m
  2. Ep 48: The Paranormal Princess, Haley Michelle

    5d ago

    Ep 48: The Paranormal Princess, Haley Michelle

    Meet Haley Michelle, the Paranormal Princess. By day, she owns Royal Wishes, an entertainment company where she has been bringing beloved princess characters to life at children's birthday parties for over a decade. By night, and sometimes in between, she is one of the most uniquely vibrant voices in the paranormal world. She has nearly three million TikTok followers, a collection of over 50 haunted dolls, and a brand unlike anything else in the ghost hunting community. Gary and John sit down with Haley to explore what it means to bring light, warmth, and a decidedly pink energy into a space that tends to favor black t-shirts and dark corridors. Haley opens up about growing up with mediumistic gifts from infancy, her journey into haunted objects, and how her princess persona may actually amplify her connection to the spirit world. Children's spirits are especially drawn to her. From paranormal investigations inside the Ohio State Reformatory to nursing home visits where spirits appeared alongside her while she was in full character, Haley shares her most extraordinary and emotional ghost encounters, including deeply personal signs she has been receiving since the recent passing of her mother. The conversation takes a thoughtful turn into some of the biggest questions in the paranormal community. What are spirits, really? Do past lives exist? And why do so many ghost hunters assume every cemetery is crawling with the dead? Haley also shares her take on the haunting of Disney World, introduces her famous haunted doll Cynthia, and explains why she will occasionally drop the crown on haters online. She is the rare paranormal personality who makes ghost hunting feel like magic.

    1h 9m
  3. Splintered Spirits Live with Audrey xx Bella!

    Jul 3

    Splintered Spirits Live with Audrey xx Bella!

    Audrey and Bella were just two best friends who bonded over K-pop in college until a trip to Salem, Massachusetts changed everything. With zero investigation experience, they started a YouTube channel about ghost hunting and the unexplained, and their very first paranormal investigation became their very first video. In this episode, Gary and John talk with the duo about building their brand from scratch. Audrey shares growing up in a haunted house and discovering her sensitivity to paranormal energy, while Bella explains how she conquered her childhood fear of the dark by diving headfirst into everything that scared her. They cover their evolution from taped-together gear to a fully planned investigation process, plus the moment a spirit box responded with "Lucifer" on their first ever hunt. The conversation gets into their most haunted location, Laurel's House of Horror in Maryland, where corrupted footage and an alleged possession changed how Audrey thinks about demons. They also talk business strategy, their five year plan, and what they believe spirits really are, all with plenty of laughs along the way.

    1h 2m
  4. Splintered Spirits Live with Angel Morgan, Pet Psychic featuring Voxxie (the cat)!

    Jun 26

    Splintered Spirits Live with Angel Morgan, Pet Psychic featuring Voxxie (the cat)!

    Animal psychic and “realm walker” Angel Morgan is back, and this time she brought backup: a ball python named Benedict and a whole lot of wild stories. In this episode, Angel dives into how she communicates with animals on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, from hearing a snake clearly say “You’re my mommy, take me home” to doing ceremony for frozen feeder mice and cattle bound for market. The conversation starts light and weird, then keeps surprising you as it goes deeper into the ethics, rituals, and real-world moments that shaped her work. Things get personal when Angel starts reading John’s infamous house cat, Voxxie. She calls out a spirit-level animal who wants to go to cemeteries, an orange cat with a tragic past, and a little girl in John’s home who might be tied to a destroyed haunted doll named Penny. From cinematic animal communication stories at historic train stations to a pack of dogs coming through a spirit box onstage, Angel keeps dropping experiences that challenge what we think “spirits” are and how they show up. If you’ve ever wondered whether your pets are just watching you or actually watching over you, this one is going to stick with you.

    58 min
  5. Ep 45: Angel Morgan, Pet Psychic

    Jun 23

    Ep 45: Angel Morgan, Pet Psychic

    Welcome to an episode that asks what happens when the spirits you talk to have fur, claws, or scales. In this Splintered Spirits conversation, Gary sits down with animal psychic and realm walker Angel Morgan, a psychic-medium who claims she can tune into animals on mental, physical, emotional and spiritual levels. Together they discuss the Akashic Records, haunted locations, nature spirits, and the hidden roles animals play as guardians, messengers, and energetic sponges in our homes. If you are into animal communication, pet psychics, paranormal investigations, haunted houses, mediumship, spirit guides, and real-life psychic readings, press play now. Angel explains how she works with spirit animals, gods and goddesses, and even restless entities attached to objects, while also talking about ethics, grief, and what it feels like to know an animal is preparing to cross over. The conversation moves from practical tools for protecting your pets during hauntings to big-picture questions about what spirits are and how consciousness moves between realms. Stay to the very end, where Gary includes his own dogs for an on-air reading that lands with eerie specifics and becomes one of the most personal and unsettling moments in the entire episode.

    1h 29m
  6. Splintered Spirits Live!!! June 18, 2026

    Jun 19

    Splintered Spirits Live!!! June 18, 2026

    This week on Splintered Spirits, it's just Gary and John Santa flying solo, no guest, which means the gloves come off and the conversation goes everywhere. The guys dig into the latest Paranormal News, including the ongoing battle over The Conjuring House and whether its future lies in Hollywood hype or serious investigation, plus a wild story about a developer who wants to level the historic Pennhurst Asylum to build a 1.3 million square foot AI data center. What would the most haunted data center in America even look like? They have thoughts. From there things get cosmic. Gary and John break down government UAP disclosures and the genuinely unsettling claim that world governments say they have no idea what they're dealing with. They explore a chilling theory that the spirits encountered in investigations might actually be the dead of an alien species, a question made even stranger when multiple AI models independently pointed to an alien-type being over a traditional ghost. Along the way they share a creepy listener ghost photo submission, debate spirit boards and timeless entities, and somehow both admit they’ve probably slept with a few aliens. No shame. No discrimination. It's a looser, funnier, no holds barred episode that still chases the show's core question: what are spirits? Stick around for a preview of next week's Pet Psychic episode with Angel Morgan . New episodes drop Tuesday, with the live show every Thursday. Like, share, follow, and stay curious.

    1h 1m
  7. Splintered Spirits Live with Psychic-Medium, Joelle Tremblay

    Jun 12

    Splintered Spirits Live with Psychic-Medium, Joelle Tremblay

    On this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary Shapiro and John Santa sit down with Canadian evidential medium Joelle Tremblay to explore how a corporate high achiever became the only medium in Canada certified by the Forever Family Foundation. Joelle shares the emotional story of four years of fertility treatments, a surprise “spiritual boot camp” retreat, and the moment during pregnancy when she suddenly started knowing and hearing things she could not logically explain. She talks about the strange sequence of events that turned a yoga teacher and doctorate candidate into a working medium whose abilities seemed to arrive hand in hand with new life. From there, Gary and John dive into what evidential mediumship looks like in real practice. Joelle explains how her clairs developed from pure claircognizance into powerful clairsentience and clairaudience, why she prefers not to see too much, and how she experiences spirits as distinct, personality-filled presences rather than just a vague field of consciousness. She walks the audience through the rigorous Forever Family Foundation testing process, including the infamous video-off sitter who would only respond with “tell me more.” The conversation also tackles ethics, boundaries with spirit, the reality of doing highly emotional grief work, and what it means to practice mediumship inside science-minded Canadian culture while still honoring angels, spirit guides, and the raw, human weight of loss. If you are searching for paranormal podcasts that blend psychic mediumship, afterlife evidence, and real human stories, you’ll get all that in this episode and hear why Joelle walked away from corporate life, how she handles skeptics and non-ethical practitioners, and why she thinks grief itself is a universal language that cuts across borders, beliefs, and platforms.

    1h 2m
  8. Ep 47: The Haunted Shanley Hotel with Kelly Hammerling

    Jun 9

    Ep 47: The Haunted Shanley Hotel with Kelly Hammerling

    Spend the night in a haunted hotel where the guests aren’t the only ones checking in. In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with Kelly Hammerling, the owner of The Haunted Shanley Hotel, a 19th‑century boarding house turned mafia hangout, brothel, and bar that now hosts more than 50 reported spirits. From a rebuilt 1800s hotel with Irish mob ties and personal tragedy to the present‑day caretaker who actually lives there full‑time with her “second family” of ghosts, this episode dives into the building’s wild history. From jaw‑dropping first‑hand accounts of spirit box sessions that spit out non‑human voices, a digital temperature gauge jumping to 66.6 degrees mid‑communication, and a bouncer spirit named Frank who has been known to put hands around Kelly’s throat, The Shanley doesn't disappoint.  Along the way, Kelly breaks down why investigators keep coming back for new evidence: from disembodied voices and full‑body apparitions to deeply personal messages from loved ones during seances. If you’re into haunted hotels, ghost hunting, EVPs, ITC, spirit boxes, the Estes Method, portals, scrying, and real‑life paranormal investigations at historic locations- Let's face it - ANYTHING paranormal related - the Shanley has to be on your list. and this episode will make you rethink what it means to live, and sleep, inside an intelligent haunting.

    59 min
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What are spirits, really? Splintered Spirits explores the afterlife, ghosts, and the mysteries of human consciousness. Hosted by producer Gary Shapiro (the uneasy novice) and his nephew John Santa of Santa Paranormal (the experienced researcher), this podcast bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual worlds. Tune in for unnerving, funny, and thoughtful interviews or on-location experiments with psychic-mediums, parapsychologists, ghost hunters, witches and everyday people who have pierced the veil.

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  • Creator
    with Gary and John
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    124
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © with Gary and John
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