150 episodes

Hosted by paranormal TV host and journalist Aaron Sagers (Netflix's 28 Days Haunted and Discovery+/Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera), Talking Strange is a paranormal pop culture podcast where celebrities, actors, authors, folklorists and experts of the unusual gather to discuss everything from UFOs to ghosts, cryptids, urban legends, and all manner of high strangeness — as well as the movies, TV shows, and other "entertainment of the unexplained" inspired by them.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 47 Ratings

Hosted by paranormal TV host and journalist Aaron Sagers (Netflix's 28 Days Haunted and Discovery+/Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera), Talking Strange is a paranormal pop culture podcast where celebrities, actors, authors, folklorists and experts of the unusual gather to discuss everything from UFOs to ghosts, cryptids, urban legends, and all manner of high strangeness — as well as the movies, TV shows, and other "entertainment of the unexplained" inspired by them.

    Strange Friends: Jessica Chobot

    Strange Friends: Jessica Chobot

    In a bonus episode of the show called "Strange Friends," host Aaron Sagers brings in friend Jessica Chobot — from Expedition X, BattleBots, and Bizarre States: Resurrected podcast — for a more informal talk where they talk about all manner of weirdness, including paranormal romance, spooky origins, travel quirks, and more.
    JESSICA CHOBOT has been a cast member and investigator on Expedition X on the Discovery Channel and MAX. Previously, Jessica covered pop culture news and events as the host for Nerdist News, Nerdist News Talks Back, and Mothership over at Nerdist.com. She’s also made appearances as a judge, and as a sideline reporter for BattleBots and is one-half of the talent behind the paranormal podcasts, The Untold Hour, and Bizarre States: Resurrected.
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (For Q&As, livestreams, cocktail classes, and movie watches)
    Until Next Time:
    Be Kind.
    Stay Spooky.
    Keep It Weird.
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    • 1 hr 20 min
    Strange Friends: Joshua Dairen

    Strange Friends: Joshua Dairen

    In a new series of bonus episodes we're calling "Talking Strange: Strange Friends," host Aaron Sagers brings in some friends as a guest co-host where they answer live audience questions, goof off, and generally talk about a lot of random and spooky topics. For the first one of these, Aaron is joined by Joshua Dairen, a fellow spooky nerd and quite the altruistic, philosophical paranormal researcher.
    More about Josh:
    Joshua Dairen is a verified content creator and researcher whose deep dive into history and the paranormal has led him to become a rising star in both genres. He mainly focuses on the south, but explores the details around urban legends across the country and the secrets they sometimes hold.
    He’s become immensely popular in a short amount of time because of his skills as a storyteller, and he has 157 thousand followers and 2.3 million likes on his TikTok Account.
    He also owns The Coffee Shop in Opelika, Alabama. One of the few Black Owned Coffee Shops in Alabama, and the entire space.
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (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

    • 1 hr 24 min
    ‘Oddity’ Director Damian McCarthy

    ‘Oddity’ Director Damian McCarthy

    Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy joins the show to talk about his supremely spooky — and fun — supernatural retribution horror movie ‘Oddity’ about possessed possessions and a creepy AF ‘Wooden Man’ creature. The film has been getting a lot of buzz — winning awards at South By Southwest and The Overlook Film Festival — and opens July 19 in theaters, and is coming soon to Shudder.
    Mc Carthy joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss his own horror movie upbringing, as well as the creepy setting of his home in West Cork, Ireland — and how his parents’ VHS video store shaped him.
    More about Oddity:
    When Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted (Gwilym Lee) are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy (also Bracken), a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana (Caroline Menton). Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (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

    • 38 min
    Lumina with Writer/Director Gino McKoy

    Lumina with Writer/Director Gino McKoy

    ‘Lumina’ just had its premiere at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, California. The sci-fi flick by writer/director Gino McKoy explores what would happen to the loved ones of individuals who were abducted by aliens. Joining McKoy are actor Ken Lawson and producer David Seychell, who spoke to Aaron about the project!
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (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

    • 22 min
    Inside the Haunted Mansion & Spooky Explorers Club w/ Jason Surrell

    Inside the Haunted Mansion & Spooky Explorers Club w/ Jason Surrell

    This episode we revisit an earlier talk with Jason Surrell, author, screenwriter, and the former Imagineer behind the book The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic. Jason joins the show to discuss the secrets behind the famed and beloved Haunted Mansion attraction.
    Also, this episode ties into the Spooky Explorers Club. This September 26-29, 2024, host Aaron Sagers is launching the Spooky Explorers Club (SpookyExplorersClub.com) at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. The event combines the paranormal with the magic of Disney for a unique event that includes Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, access to Hollywood Studios, talks about the paranormal with Shane Pittman (Holzer Files, 28 Days Haunted) and influencer Beckie-Ann Galentine. There will be scavenger hunts, group ride alongs, photo ops, cocktail party, included lunches and a $250 meal card — all while staying at a Disney Resort.
    More about Jason Surrell
    As a Senior Creative Director at Universal Creative, he served as the Creative Director of Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon and the Senior Creative Director of Universal Studios Beijing and Universal’s Epic Universe, along with extensive concept development.
    For fifteen years, Jason was a Senior Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering, with twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. His Disney credits include the reimagined Star Tours, New Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow, Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor, Raiders of the Lost Jedi Temple of Doom, Symphony in the Stars: A Star Wars Fireworks Spectacular, The American Idol Experience, Star Wars Weekends, The Great Movie Ride, Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream, The Magic of Disney Animation, and the recent enhancements to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
    And he is the author of The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic, The Art of the Haunted Mansion, Screenplay by Disney: Tips and Techniques to Bring Magic to Your Moviemaking, Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies, The Disney Mountains: Imagineering at Its Peak and The Art of Marvel’s The Avengers.
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (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

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Danny Robins Talks 'Uncanny'

    Danny Robins Talks 'Uncanny'

    Danny Robins created a smash hit with his Uncanny podcast in the UK, and is now bringing his exploration of the paranormal to the United States with the fourth season, and his Apple TV and BBC Select television series.
    More about Danny Robins
    For four seasons, journalist, writer, broadcaster and ghost host Danny Robins has explored the paranormal with his podcast Uncanny, which has expanded into a TV series of the same name (available on Apple TV and BBC Select), a book titled Into The Uncanny, and a stage show that's current on tour in the United Kingdom called Uncanny: I Know What I Saw. With the latest season of the podcast, Robins tours the United States — and even expands his Team Skeptic and Team Believer explorations to stories of UFOs and Bigfoot.
    He joins host Aaron Sagers to discuss their shared love of ghost stories, as well as what else he wants to explore, and about his previous works Haunted, The Battersea Poltergeist, The Witch Farm, and 2.22 A Ghost Story.
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    Talking Strange Paranormal Show with Aaron Sagers is a weekly paranormal pop culture podcast featuring celebrity and author interviews, as well as learned experts in all things strange and unexplained. Sagers is a paranormal journalist and researcher who appears as host of 28 Days Haunted on Netflix, and on Paranormal Caught On Camera on Travel Channel/Discovery+, and Talking Strange is part of the Den of Geek Network.
    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. For more paranormal pop culture, head to Den of Geek, and follow @TalkStrangePod on Twitter.
    Email us with episode ideas, and guest suggestions, or for a chance to have your letter read on a future episode: TalkingStrange@DenOfGeek.com
    Follow Host Aaron Sagers:
    Twitter.com/aaronsagers
    Instagram.com/aaronsagers
    Facebook.com/AaronSagersPage
    tiktok.com/@aaronsagers
    Patreon.com/aaronsagers
    (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

    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
47 Ratings

47 Ratings

BellaReader ,

Great show & great host

Great show. Aaron is informed and likable, and manages to have friendly conversations with some amazing guests across a range of topics — and interjects without making it about him.

Side Jen ,

Beyond binge-worthy

Admittedly finding this one later than I would’ve liked, but such a fantastic show. The diversity of topics is unparalleled. The guests are outstanding, educated and engaging. Aaron’s knowledge of all guests and topics drives the podcast with a perfect balance that provides both an understanding and learning opportunity for people of all levels of knowledge and interest in all things strange and unusual. Absolutely loving it!

Colleen all weirdos ,

A fun dive into weird waters!

Host Aaron Sagers is a true prince of paranormal pop culture. This pod takes you on a journey to weird, spooky, and spacey places you didn’t even know you were dying to visit. It’s for all ages, but GenXers, in particular, will love Aaron’s humor and cultural references. I’m a big fan!

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