Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf

Astonishing Legends Productions
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“Go inside the mind of one of television and movies’ wildest storytellers…”  Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf is a podcast that feels like discovering a secret diary.  Every episode unravels the mysteries of a book from Richard's bookshelf and a story from Richard’s life, weaving together the excitement of the supernatural and the warmth of personal storytelling.

  1. SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE! Bigfoot 101: A Sasquatch Odyssey with Brian King-Sharp

    DEC 12

    SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE! Bigfoot 101: A Sasquatch Odyssey with Brian King-Sharp

    “It was ten feet away, slick dark-brown hair. And it’s going up this ridge. The cop in me kicks in and I decide I’m going to follow it. I just wanted to see it again. In retrospect it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life. It was totally unsafe. I do not recommend it to anybody who’s listening.” – Bigfoot researcher Brian King-Sharp What is it like to come face-to-furry-face with Bigfoot?  Today you’ll find out.  My friend Brian King-Sharp, host of the popular Sasquatch Odyssey podcast has been on the trail of Bigfoot for forty years.  And he’s here to answer our questions -- and spill his secrets: Why haven’t we ever found a Bigfoot body?  Is the Patterson-Gimlin film a hoax?  Why do hunters never seem to shoot a Bigfoot?  What is the best evidence we have that Bigfoot exists?  And what does it feel like to finally encounter one up close?   LINKS & NOTES Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?  Listen to Brian King-Sharps podcast Sasquatch Odyssey here:  https://pod.link/1552990311  Buy all of Brian’s books here: https://paranormalworldproductions.com/store Find out more about Sasquatch Research at the Olympic Project here: https://www.olympicproject.com/ "Get your tickets to 'Merry Queerness' -- the cabaret show Susan's producing -- here! https://lalgbtcenter.org/event/merry-queerness-a-wildly-inappropriate-holiday-show/

    1h 9m
  2. SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Gods, Ghosts and UFOs

    DEC 3

    SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Gods, Ghosts and UFOs

    Today I’m excited to bring you an episode of the brilliant new podcast Gods, Ghosts & UFOs – with their special guest, ME!  You’ll recognize co-host Tom Maxwell from his appearances on Astonishing Legends Episodes 291 & 292, “American Bloodfalls”.  (You might also know him as the frontman for the 90s band Squirrel Nut Zippers. He wrote their hit song “Hell”).   On Gods, Ghosts & UFOs, Tom – along with co-hosts J.E. Peterson and Mallory Everton – does a weekly round-up of weird and obscure paranormal news stories.  Their conversations are hilarious, probing, provocative – and refreshingly intelligent.  If you’re a fan of RHPB, Astonishing Legends and Scared All The Time, you’ll love this too. So enjoy this episode where they welcomed me as their guest – and we talk about haunted Las Vegas Casinos, the Fresno Night Crawlers and a YouTube UFO mystery that might already have been solved…  LINKS:  Listen to “Gods, Ghosts & UFOs” here: https://www.tommaxwell.com/gods-ghosts-ufos

    53 min

  3. NOV 28

    SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist with Jenny Ashford and Tom Ross

    “I feel that it hates me sometimes. It can move objects. I heard it speak once, or try to speak. It sounded like somebody underneath the water. It’s never really touched me and I don’t want to see what it actually looks like. I was afraid it was going to look like a corpse.”  -- Tom Ross, poltergeist experiencer.  Have you ever heard someone describe what it’s really like to live with a poltergeist?  Today you will.  When Tom Ross was thirteen, he spent four terrifying days in what seemed to be a haunted condo in the Mammoth Ski Valley.  Years later, he and author Jenny Ashford met, fell in love – and ended up writing about his experiences in a book I covered in Season 2 of RHPB – The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist.   In this fascinating interview, Tom Ross and Jenny Ashford share stories from the front lines of the boundary between this world and the next.  We talk about everything from how Tom and Jenny met, to The Shining, to Tom’s poltergeist theory, to Ed & Lorraine Warren, to The Enfield Poltergeist, to flying remote controls, to Mad Max: Fury Road, to “Case Managers from the Afterlife” and finally: what do you do with a poltergeist with unlimited strength -- that wants to kill you? Notes & Links: Go to Jenny Ashford’s website to buy The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist and all her books: http://www.jennyashford.com/books.html  Check out Jenny’s Amazon Author Page here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jenny-Ashford/author/B003WN5M32?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=537b3ef0-a46b-436d-bfa3-f61ee4bcd411  Visit Tom & Jenny’s Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@13OClockPodcast

    1h 5m

  4. NOV 14

    SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE: UFOs and High Strangeness with Rob Kristoffersen

    “When I was six years old, on Christmas Eve, I had an encounter with a little gnome that walked into my bedroom. I don’t recall any fear.  But after that, I don’t remember anything.” – Rob Kristoffersen Rob Kristoffersen is not only an expert on UFOs and UFO cases and host of the Our Strange Skies podcast – he’s also one of my best friends.  In this wide-ranging interview we get progressively weirder and wilder, touching on everything from Bigfoot to elves to ghosts to crop circles to UFO cults to alien abductions – and all the way to the mysterious creature Rob saw on his neighbor’s lawn that completely changed his life. Links: Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?  Check out Rob’s podcast Our Strange Skies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-strange-skies-ufos-throughout-history/id1546735571

    1h 38m

  5. OCT 31

    The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts - Part Two

    “They’re demons.  You’re talking to demons.  And I don’t like the sound of it one bit.” -- The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts Joe Fisher falls further into darkness as he attempts to prove the earthly existences of his spirit guides.  But once he realizes that his otherworldly lover Filipa has lied to him, all bets are off.  A late-night meeting with a friend who warns Joe about “the other side of the spirit guides” puts the communications he’s been receiving in a new -- and terrifying -- light.  The only remaining question is: can Joe get out in time to save himself? Meanwhile, Richard makes some discoveries of his own about his best friend Michael Principato.  Can a friendship survive betrayal?  And can you ever really go back to high school, reclaim the past, and fix something that seems forever broken? Something that you yourself broke?   Links:   Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?  Buy The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts-a-riveting-investigation-into-channeling-and-spirit-guides-joe-fisher/1cb4282a7d49b9fc?ean=9781944529505&next=t

    1 hr

  6. OCT 24

    The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts - Part One

    “Here, in an ordinary suburban living room in Toronto, a cynical, 42-year-old mother of three was giving voice to disembodied humans who were testifying to the fact that we do not die. And that we are never truly alone.” -- Joe Fisher, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts On July 20th, 1984, journalist and paranormal researcher Joe Fisher witnesses the phenomenon of channeling for the first time -- and his life changes forever.  What if spirit guides really do exist?  What if we all have people on the other side who watch us, love us and silently guide us in ways we cannot even begin to imagine?  Joe sets out to prove this very thing.  But as he embarks on this strange journey, his objectivity falters when his own personal spirit guide introduces herself: her name is Filipa -- and 300 years ago in Greece, the two of them were lovers.  But as his obsession with her grows, Joe begins to suspect she might not be exactly who -- or what -- she says she is. Richard’s life changes forever, too -- on his first day of high school.  That’s when he meets the legendary Michael Principato.  Michael is everything Richard wants to be: popular, talented, funny -- and effortlessly creative.  Richard and Michael soon become best friends and for one magical year it’s a relationship like nothing Richard’s ever experienced before.  But something happens that first summer after freshman year and suddenly Richard finds himself wondering: do I really know Michael Principato at all?  Links:   Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?  Buy The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts-a-riveting-investigation-into-channeling-and-spirit-guides-joe-fisher/1cb4282a7d49b9fc?ean=9781944529505&next=t

    1h 5m

  7. OCT 17 · BONUS

    S3: “The Light In The Dark Tour” Wrap-Up! Part 2

    Richard & Susan’s adventure continues as they make their way from Point Pleasant, WV to Washington, DC -- where they meet up with fellow RHPB super-stars Scott Philbrook, Tess Pfeifle and Kayla Lord!  Then it's on to New York City and a visit with “Uh,Dad?” (Owen Gerber-Hatem) -- and finally, an absolutely legendary show at the home of Haunted Hallways creators Janice & Leo Bartoldus! Join us for more stories, more fan love, more pancakes -- and more french fries! Links:   Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?  LEARN MORE ABOUT THE PLACES RICHARD & SUSAN WENT AND THE PEOPLE THEY MET BELOW! The Tabard Inn https://www.tabardinn.com/  Kramer’s Books https://www.kramers.com/  Hart Bar https://www.hartbarnyc.com/  Learn about all the Cool stuff Cullen Gallagher does here!  https://www.cullengallagher.com/  Enjoy the truly amazing magic of Henry Bartoldus!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfkaNrmkbc Susan's Show! (80's TV Ladies!) https://www.80stvladies.com/

    1h 11m

  8. OCT 10 · BONUS

    S3: “The Light In The Dark Tour” Wrap-Up! Part 1

    Ten Days. Five Shows. Four Cities. One Mothman. No Regrets.  Join Richard and his featured guest Susan Lambert for all the behind-the-scenes stories of the first leg of the RHPB “Light In The Dark Tour”.  When did Richard freak-out?  When did Susan freak-out?  Which shows went the best?  What’s a Fuzzy Duck?  And what’s the deal with all those French fries?  Find out all this and more -- PLUS -- when will the tour resume and will it come to a city near you? Links:   Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink  Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/ CHECK OUT THE PLACES RICHARD & SUSAN VISITED BELOW! The Bourbon on Main Restaurant in Frankfort, KY http://www.bourbononmain.com/  The Main Street Diner in Frankfort, KY  https://www.facebook.com/MainStreetDinerLLC/  The Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, KY  https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/   Fat Patty’s in Morehead, KY  https://fatpattys.com/  The Coffee Tree Bookstore & Fuzzy Duck in Morehead, KY  https://www.coffeetreebooks.com/ The Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, WV https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/  The Colony Restaurant in Gallipolis, OH  https://visitgallia.com/the-colony/   We met author Bryna Butler! Check out her books here: https://brynabutler.com/  We met actor and author Joey Madia -- check him out here: https://www.facebook.com/joeymadiacreative/  Bill & Jacqueline Kousoulas have written “Bridging The Tragedy”, a fascinating book about post-traumatic growth in the aftermath of Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge collapse: https://www.facebook.com/bill.kousoulas.7

    1h 20m
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“Go inside the mind of one of television and movies’ wildest storytellers…”  Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf is a podcast that feels like discovering a secret diary.  Every episode unravels the mysteries of a book from Richard's bookshelf and a story from Richard’s life, weaving together the excitement of the supernatural and the warmth of personal storytelling.

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