Ghostman and Demon Hunter

Nathan and Shaun talk to Lorri Sankowsky and Keri Young, authors of the Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Indianapolis! This intriguing account by ghost hunters Lorri Sankowsky and Keri Young covers everything from high-tech gadgets, to inborn psychic abilities, while instructing readers on how to locate friendly or not so friendly apparitions. This account is equally informative for both the novice and the more experienced paranormal researcher. It offers visitors and residents a chance to see beyond the surface of various haunted locations throughout the area. Numerous sites of criminal activity, suicides, tragic fires and accidents, and disturbed remains abound in Indiana, providing hundreds of opportunities for ghost hunting. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Lorri Sankowsky and Keri Young were the former codirectors of a prominent paranormal investigation group in the Indianapolis area. Together they have explored many famous ghostly locations, such as the French Lick Springs Hotel, the legendary Indiana Motor Speedway, and various haunted cemeteries. For these two women, inspiration for this book came after many years of researching and exploring paranormal areas throughout their region, witnessing first hand some of the strange and unusual events in Indy’s most haunted locations. Download G&D 07-18-10

Nathan and Shaun are joined by their friends for a live broadcast and investigation of the Haunted Whispers Estate in Mitchell, IN. Download G&D 07-02-10

What a great G&D Show! Matt Speck, owner of Black Moon Manor, a newly discovered haunted location that is quickly becoming known as one of Indiana’s and possibly the Nation’s most active settings, joins us to talk about how he found the Black Moon. Matt told us about what kind of things go in inside the Black Moon, how investigators can get inside and how you can win money at the Black Moon as-well-as what’s coming up for the Manor. We had a blast with music by Spectremen and G&D News. Download G&D 06-27-10

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher and intuitive living in New York City. He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater. Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson’s Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice.  He began to “hear” for his clients, and much of Paul’s work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years. Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute’s 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. Download G&D 06-20-10

Unseenpress.com, Inc. and Historic Indiana Ghost walks and tours was developed in 2000 by Nicole Kobrowski, a Hoosier native and Michael Kobrowski, a Indiana transplant. Nicole’s cultural roots go back almost 200 years in Indiana and US history. She is a self-proclaimed “mutt” with family ties in Native Americans and six European countries. Her love of history was cultivated in Europe and through her other travels and journeys. Traveling extensively, Nicole feels the call of her Indiana roots calling her back to a place she calls home. Her involvement with the paranormal started when she was very young because of personal experiences. Since that time, she has been a voracious reader and investigator of the paranormal and works towards being able to use qualitative and quantitative scientific methods and instruments to provide proof of paranormal existence. Education is a large part of her life and she is currently finishing her doctoral degree at Ball State University. Michael Kobrowski was born and raised in Germany. His father’s family came from eastern Poland after being displaced in WWII and his mother’s family came from Bavaria. He has always been interested in the paranormal and sci-fi worlds and has developed a strong bond with real paranormal stories and experiences. As a systems, programming and computer support consultant, Michael has been able to use his talents to develop a number of gadgets for use in the field. The Westfield “Ghosts of the Underground Railroad” tour began in 2001 when Nicole and Michael decided that the history and ghosts of Westfield were too interesting to keep bottled up in suburbia. Through their writing and research, Nicole and Michael developed a tour based on the real paranormal stories and history of the area. The tour was a huge success and the business was expanded to include Noblesville, Indianapolis and other Indiana Cities. Currently, the company also offers three different bus tours as well. Unseenpress.com, Inc. released its first much awaited book in 2006 and currently has 8 books in process. “Haunted Backroads: Central Indiana, was well received and continues to be a popular read on the Internet. Unseenpress.com, Inc. now employs 5 professional storytellers and continually adds more tales to their tours. Many times on the tours, guests will report spirit activity through feelings, photos— and touch! The company prides itself in that no part of its tours are staged, nor are special effects used. As Nicole and Michael are fond of saying, “If you see or feel something on the tour, it is truly your reality.” These tours have been recently voted #1 by the a poll of people who have attended ghost tours in Indiana. Unseenpress.com, Inc. and Historical Indiana Ghost Walks and Tours has been featured on CBS-WISHTV 8, Fox 59, in the Indianapolis Star and Intake Magazine, and in the Noblesville Daily Times. It has also been featured nationally in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, Midwest Living and other publications. Information has also been written in a variety of paranormal organizations’ publications. Read more news coverage about us here. www.unseenpress.com Download G&D 06-13-10

Do certain events here on Earth signify that an extraterrestrial threat places the future of humanity in peril? Author AAron Kaplan attempts to alert the human race of what is about to come by presenting and interpreting historical records, weaved in an expository and informative account. Discover a diabolical event that pervades humanity’s future in Deep Analysis: Frightening Conclusion. Join Shaun and Nathan as they talk with AAron about what did and did not happen at the Roswell UFO crash! Download G&D 06-06-10

It’s a paranormal party!  Bonnie Joe and Magnus Apollo join Nathan S. and Shaun B. for a crazy night of paranormal talk. No we didn’t talk about anything important but we had a good time. Find out how G&D got started and what it was like in the good old days as well as on the set of Extreme Paranormal. Download G&D 05-23-10

Paranormal activity has been a part of Nicole Hill’s life for as long as she can remember. As a very small child, She lived in a home that was believed to be haunted. Although Nicole does not remember much myself, he family is full of stories about unexplained footsteps, recurring dreams, and odd mechanical glitches that took place in their previous home. The experiences have continued throughout her life and has convinced her that there is more to death than long hallways and bright lights. Nathan and Magnus talk with Nicole about her work with the CT Soul Seekers. www.ctsoulseekers.com Download G&D 05-02-10

It’s a wild and crazy night with Shannon and Jeff Sylvia from Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters International, Up for Discussion, and Shantown. Plus Magnus Apollo the Cryptoman helps out as guest co-host. A lot of things went wrong, a lot of things went crazy, an lot of things were a lot of fun. It was a great night. Download G&D 04-25-10

Margaret Florio has been a member of The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group and Society – www.TRIPRG.com – since March 2003 and has been experiencing spirit activity since childhood. She is a senior investigator with the group and is a case sensitive. She has been a member of AAEVP – ATransC – for two years and has been a guest on several radio shows.  When she is not doing the paranormal bit, she is an Assistant Administrative Officer for a state agency. She has a teenage son, a dog, a cat, a tortoise and has been happily married for thirty years. She is joins Nahtan S and Magnus this week on the Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show. Download G&D 04-18-10

Hero Paranormal investigate and research verified reports and sightings of anamolous activity while protecting those involved. Finally a research group situated in Utah’s famous Uintah Basin. A hotbed  for UFO’s, many types of craft, crypto-odditites and high strangeness have been reported in this area for years. Skinwalker Ranch is a ranch located in the Uintah Basin of Utah. It has been the focal point of many paranormal events. The area surrounding the ranch is just as active. UFOs, creatures of every shape and size, and mysterious small intelligents lights are common. The ranch has for some reason gotten all of the publicity when in reality the entire area is alive with activity. The former owners of the ranch where a family called the Shermans, they were so tormented and harrassed by all the paranormal activity that they sold the ranch to a Las Vegas Tycoon who has been doing scientific research there in one form or another ever since. Native Americans believe the entire area known as Skinwalker Territory is cursed in some way shape or form. A Skinwalker is difficult to describe but not unsimilar to a Native American Witch with a great deal of Black Magic prowess. They are said to be able to take the forms of different animals and Shapeshift. Many werewolf like creatures have been sighted in the area and are know to run alongside vehicles. I have dropped everything and dedicated my life to the research of the variety of extreme strangeness, my name is Ryan Burns. Download G&D 03-28-10

Shannon Lusk and Scott Sukel of the Ohio State Mansfield Reformatory talk with Nathan S and Magnus Apollo about the Ghost of the famous prison seen in The Shawshank Redemption and on Ghost Adventurers. Built in 1834, the Ohio Penitentiary was actually the second Ohio Penitentiary, the third state prison, and the fourth jail in early Columbus. In April 1955 it housed an all-time high of 5,235 prisoners. Most prisoners were removed from the prison by 1972 with the completion of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, and the facility was closed in 1984. The state sold the Ohio Penitentiary to the City of Columbus in 1995. Stone walls and iron bars they’re still here, but what of the humanity, if you can call it that, of the old Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield. What of the 154,000 inmates who passed through it’s gates in it’s 94 years as a working prison. Not to mention their keepers, the Wardens, and the Guards, the gravediggers, and the rest, what of them remains? As it turns out, more than you might think. No matter what their crime, some sent to Mansfield have never left. They rest unclaimed in a cheerless graveyard just outside the fence. 215 numbered markers laid out row on row. Most were victims of disease, influenza, tuberculosis, but some died of less natural causes; From the violence, that is all to common inside any prison and was far from unknown in this one. And the worst of it occurred well away from the main cell block with their rows of cages stacked tier on tier, and inmates, one or two to a cell. There were too many eyes, too many witnesses here, no the worst of it was reserved for a far lonelier place, deep beneath the prison ground. A place called local control, or solitary, by some, known by everyone else as the hole. Near total isolation can crack all but the toughest of cons, but none was so alone that there wasn’t room for death. At least one inmate managed to hang himself, another set himself on fire, once two men left too long in a single tomb like cell, only one walked out, leaving his cellmate’s body behind, stuffed beneath a bunk. Could there be other similar surprises? Or words left over from the days before the prison closed? Even when they’re empty, some swear something walks these halls. It isn’t enough for contemporary visitors not to wonder off alone while sight seeing, what‘s become one of Mansfield’s more popular tourist attractions. But the bloodiest single incident in the old prison’s history occurred outside it’s walls. In July 1948, when the Reformatory’s farm boss, his wife and daughter were kidnapped and shot to death by two parolees bent on revenge. A six state manhunt for the so called mad-dog killers ended in a shootout that left Robert Daniels of Columbus in custody and his partner, James West dead. “I’ll get the Chair” Daniels told police as he signed the confession. And on January 3rd, 1949, he did. A year later in 1950 disaster struck again. This time, here in the living quarters of the Warden himself. The Warden’s wife, removing a jewelry box from a closet shelf dislodged a pistol from it’s hiding place. When it hit the floor, the gun went off inflicting a fatal wound. And within the decade, even more bad luck. The Warden, hard at work in his office, suffered a heart attack and died. All this was nearly 40 years ago and more, how then to explain the voices shaken tour guides swear they hear today? Man and woman talking, to faint to understand, to persistent to ignore and chilling to listeners who think they’re alone, only to find themselves apparently eavesdropping on the warden and his wife locked forever in an endless conversation from beyond the grave. Download 03-14-10

Bonnie of Ghostlytalk joins Nathan S. of the Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show as we talk to Derek Bartlett of Cape Cod’s Haunted History Tour. Derek formed CAIPRS in August 2001. Derek  has always been looking for answers. These questions started as early as his childhood while hearing local legends and stories of New England ghosts and shipwrecks. Since forming CAIPRS he has not only found a dedicated team who seek the same answers but has found more questions as to how and why paranormal events happen around us. Derek believes in a pragmatic, scientific approach to ghost hunting and uses both technical equipment and intensive historical research in his case work. CAIPRS, led by Mr. Bartlett is involved with cases that span from New England to New Orleans and beyond. Derek is a former US Marine and employs the  concepts of both discipline and an intense theoretical approach in his work. A self described “skeptical believer” he is not out to debunk everyone else’s work as much as he is to prove his own findings. He maintains a high standard for CAIPRS and feels that leading by example is not only better for his own group, but for the overall perception of paranormal research groups as a whole. Both Derek and CAIPRS are based in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Download 03-07-10

Shaun and Nathan are joined by Dean of the Bird Cage Theatre. The Bird Cage Theatre is Tombstone’s most authentic attraction and one of the west’s  most famous landmarks.Visitors and employees of the Bird Cage Theater have reported seeing the spirits of former prostitutes and men in cowboy hats. Some claim to have been touched and pushed by unseen forces. At night, the sounds of laughter, yelling and music have been heard, as though the parties of the Old West were still raging. Many have claimed to see the visage of a man in black wearing a visor pacing across the stage. Then they are joined by Orlando Ferrante and Joe Franke of the Connecticut Paranormal Research Society. The Connecticut Paranormal Research Society is a non-profit organization which is devoted to helping people with paranormal disturbances. Orlando Ferrante is not only the co-founder and senior technical investigator of the Connecticut Paranormal Research Society; he is also a gifted sensitive and accomplished paranormal consultant with over 16 years experience in paranormal investigation. Orlando possesses a unique and uncanny ability to sense the presence of spirits and to see visions of future events with remarkable accuracy. His experience and unrivaled passion for finding the truth makes him one of the leading investigators in the field today. Joe Franke, in addition to being the co-founder and senior lead investigator of the Connecticut Paranormal Research Society; Joe is also an expert paranormal consultant. His investigative experience spans well over two decades, with him spending the majority of his adult life helping others understand and overcome their paranormal experiences. G&D 02-28-10

We are joined by Sheena Metal of the Sheena Metal Experience.  www.latalkradio.com/Sheena.php Sheena is also the Executive Producer of Montgomery House – The Perfect Haunting, www.montgomeryhousehaunting.com . Sheena Metal is a Los Angeles entertainment icon.  She has anchored numerous radio shows for over ten years in Los Angeles–six of which were spent on top-rated talk station KLSX (97.1 the FM Talk Station) where she helmed five successful shows (The Sheena Show, Late Night Booty Call, Sheena and The Princess, Sheena and Sam). Her untouchable wit, unforgettable voice and unflinching fan base have proven Sheena to be an undeniable radio presence that was the subject of a comprehensive five-page feature in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar section, as well as being featured in: LA Weekly, the Daily News, Music Connection, and dozens of other periodicals. In addition, Metal was interviewed and quoted in Michael C. Keith’s Sounds in the Dark, currently in publication with a forward by Larry King.  Currently she hosts Music Highway, an internationally syndicated music/talk hybrid heard on over 2,400 affiliates to nearly 130 million listeners worldwide. We were also joined by our Crypto Pal John Magnus Champlin. Download 01-31-10