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Weird NJ/Weird US/Weird Hauntings/Last Exit Joanne M. Austin is a writer and editor who covers two subject matter extremes: the financial services industry and regional folklore as featured in the magazine Weird N.J. At the latter, she edited two special editions of the magazine – Tales From Clinton Road and Last Exit: Travels with Death in the Garden State – and interviewed a wide range of weirdly interesting people, including the Amazing Kreskin, Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, and Sci-fi author Jeffrey Ford. She also compiled and edited the award-winning anthology Weird Hauntings: True Tales of Ghostly Places and has done the same with a second book, Weird Encounters: Ghostly Tales of Haunted Places, which will be available from Sterling Publishing in September 2010. Since graduating with honors from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Illustration Ryan Doan has supplied illustration and photo design services to such clients as Barnes and Noble, Sterling Publishing, BMG Entertainment, Sababa Toys, Art Asylum, The Aquarian magazine, The Sun, and commissioned costumers.In 2004 he joined Weird NJ magazine as an Associate Editor and Production Associate/Photographer. That position soon parlayed into Staff Artist when Weird NJ signed a large book deal with Barnes and Noble. He enjoyed that position for five years until branching out to establish himself as a freelancer. He was the primary illustrator for over 32 internationally syndicated titles also supplying cover art for three editions. Included in those titles is the award-winning Weird Hauntings, where he was responsible for acquiring the photography and which he enjoyed being the sole illustrator. The follow-up book Weird Encounters: Ghostly Tales of Haunted Places, his second book, will be released in the fall of 2010 to hopefully the same response as the first. Ryan has also worked as a freelance photojournalist, interviewing and photographing often eccentric, colorful characters. His photography has also appeared in many of his book projects and on the walls of commissioned clients. Ryan just finished working on a special issue for Weird NJ entitled Last Exit: Traveling With Death In The Garden State. He is now seeking to expand his freelance clientele. He can be reached through his web site www.ryandoan.com . Download 01-24-10

Kimberly Gunn is an avid collector of haunted dolls or as she prefers to call them, spirit children.  Many of the dolls in her collection were mis-understood and frightened their owners,  while some of my other spirit children were owned by Wicca, Celtic or paranormal investigators who were either researching them or understood them and were trying to help them. Steve Gunn is a Psychic Medium, Metaphysical Practitioner, Tutor and Author. Download 01-10-10

Download 01-03-10 Horror Movies with CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT: L. L. Soares’s fiction has appeared in such magazines as Cemetery Dance, Horror Garage, Bare Bone, Gothic.Net, and Lullaby Hearse, as well as the anthologies THE BEST OF HORRORFIND 2, RIGHT HOUSE ON THE LEFT, RAW: BRUTALITY AS ART, and TRAPS. His story -Second Chances- received an Honorable Mention in sixteenth annual edition of THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. He is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association -HWA, as well as the current co-chair of the New England Horror Writers -NEHW. His first story collection, IN SICKNESS, will be published in 2010 by Skullvines Press. Michael Arruda is the author of numerous short stories and movie reviews. His work has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and online publications, including BE VERY AFRAID!, AMAZING HEROES, LOVECRAFT’S WEIRD MYSTERIES, FAR SECTOR SFFH and DAWNSKY. Michael’s an Active Member of the HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION and served as the HWA’s NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER co-coordinator from 2001 to 2007. He’s also been penning the movie review column -In the Spooklight- for the HWA NEWSLETTER since 2000. Michael also writes the movie review column -Cinema Knife Fight- with L.L. Soares.

Download 12-20-09 Joshua has been involved with the crystal skulls since 1983 when he had an opportunity to be in the presence of an amethyst skull located in northern California.  At that time, he felt a very strong connection with this artifact which forever changed his life. Since then, he has devoted a great deal of time and effort to sharing with others key information about the crystal skulls and the role they have to play in the prophesized “Golden Age”. He feels very fortunate to have had an opportunity to be able to visit privately with a number of the more well known crystal skulls in the world including: the “Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull”, “ET”, the “British Museum Crystal Skull”, and “Ami”.

Download G&D 12-13-09 EVP’s with Laurie Champion Laurie Champion, Author of Forever Dead and the director of Pinellas/Pasco Paranormal at the age of fifty one,,has been in this field for thirty one years.  She got into the field because she herself was the victim of a hostile haunt for years as a child. She and her team have much experience with all kinds of hauntings and some cryto cases.

Download G&D 12-06-09 G&D talk with Lanaia Lee, author of Skulls of Salvation, about 2012, the end of the world, magic and all things on peoples minds as we come closer to what many believe is the end of the world. The same things Lanaia puts in the fictional books called the “Of Atlantis” series.

Download G&D 11-29-09 Born in New Bedford Massachusetts, Jeff Sylvia grew up an alter boy and confirmed Catholic.   He believed strongly in God, and the devil, heaven and hell, and the struggle between good and evil.  “I remember at a very young age pondering the afterlife”.  Although he did believe in life after death, the though of communication with the dead was a big leap. “I once looked at my wife like she was nuts, but then I educated myself”. It was when he moved to the Leominster, MA condo, (featured on A & E’s Paranormal State) that unexplained phenomena began to take place, and the need for answers and fascination with the paranormal took shape in his life.

G&D 11-22-09 Ghostman & Demon hunter talk with Julio Razquin on the hunt with Jim Snell of Granite State Paranormal looking for the New Jersey Devil.  www.gspnh.webs.com

G&D 11-15-09 The Professor Slim King is back to talk about predictions and haunted amusement parks.

G&D 11-08-09 We talk to Tim Miller, President of FlatSigned Press about President Gerald R. Ford’s  Limited Edition Book “The John F. Kennedy Assassination” and Comments on President’s Nixon, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. http://flatsigned.com/

G&D 10-25-09 The strange-but-true history of Maggie Fox, 19th-century founder of the American Spiritualist movement, haunts a 20th-century journalist in this double-barreled tale of love and loss. Mackin (Dreams of Empire; Queen’s War; etc.) skips between Fox’s story and that of middle-aged magazine writer Helen West, who takes on an assignment to write an essay about Maggie and her sister Katie. In 1848, the two inventive children drew crowds by claiming that they were receiving spirit messages at their home in upstate New York; in fact, they had devised a clever system involving hidden hammers and cracking joints. The “Hydesville Rappings,” as they were dubbed, gained popularity, and the Fox girls were swept off to New York City, where they performed s‚ances for the likes of Horace Greeley. As Helen uncovers this bizarre tale, she begins to feel a kinship with Maggie, an unhappy child who grew up too quickly in a harsh environment. Like Helen, who has been mourning the death of her married lover, Jude, for three years, Maggie also lost her one great love, Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, and spent the rest of her sorrow-filled life communing with his ghost. Although Helen is not a believer at first, she soon finds herself spooked by mysterious bumps in the night. She believes she feels Jude’s presence, and a desperate hope of seeing him again persists even as a new man attempts to woo her. Mackin shifts skillfully between these two atmospheric worlds, and once she tones down the overwritten prose of the first few chapters, the dual narrative acquires rhythm. Intelligent if predictable in its setup, the novel pays homage to two strong women separated by history but united in spirit.

G&D 10-11-09 Nathan S, Shaun B, and Jason Gow get ready for their up coming special Extreme Paranormal on A&E. The guys just cut loose.

G&D 09-2809 For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales — all true — submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine, has compiled her favorite stories from all ten issues in this sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating, anthology. This quirky book is filled with tales from ordinary people — who just happen to have eccentric, sometimes peculiar interests. Ranging from the outrageous (attending a Black Mass, fishing bodies out of San Francisco Bay, making fake snuff films), to the more “mundane” (visiting a torture museum and tracking real vampires), this curiously enjoyable collection of stories, complete with illustrations and informative asides, will entertain and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.

G&D 09-20-09 We welcome back author Melissa Martin Ellis about her new book “Everything Ghost Hunting.” Melissa resides in Rhode Island and has taken classes in ghost-hunting at The Atlantic Paranormal Society in Warwick (TAPS). She was assisted in her research by members of TRIPRG, the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group, as well as Nathan Schoonover of the Ghostman and Demon Hunter Show. She has collected photographs of unexplained and paranormal phenomenon for decades and is an avid paranormal investigator. Melissa is a freelance writer and photographer with more than twenty-five years of experience. Her work has appeared in such diverse publications as The Boston Globe, Rhode Island Monthly, Newport This Week, Balancing the Tides, The Providence Journal, Horsemen’s Yankee Peddler, and Newport Life Magazine. A former supervisor of the photo lab at the Naval Underwater Systems Center in Newport, Ms. Ellis is a longtime member of the Newport Art Museum and has served as an officer of the Newport Photographer’s Guild. She has exhibited numerous times in New England, most recently in a well-received two-person show called “Dreams of Empire” in Newport, RI.

During his entire childhood, Hougan Catela was exposed to several Christian based religions including Pentecostal, Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Southern Baptist and Nazarene and possesses considerable knowledge of the Bible. His intense exposure to several traditions throughout his life developed his deep spiritual connection so much so, that Hougan Catela studied other esoteric paths including Freemasonry, Enochian, Native American Hopi and Vodou. Shane was literally called from Haiti in Oct 1994 with then partner, Sallie Ann Glassman and was told kanzo initiation had been arranged for them and when could they arrive to Haiti? Although he had not been searching for this path, nor asked anyone to inquire about initiation, he could not deny the Lwa and decided to kanzo as Hougan Supwin in Nov, 1994 in the suburb of Bel-Air, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, West Indies. This took place about 3 weeks after the United States invaded Haiti and re-installed Jean-Claude Aristide as president. It was at this time Hougan Catela gave his life and full commitment to Bondje and to Vodou. His lineage at that time was through his Papa Edgar Jean-Louis and Papa Silva Joesef. When they returned to the United States, Hougan Catela and his then partner founded and began Island of Salvation Botanica and The Simbi-Sen Jak Ounfo, in New Orleans, LA. Hougan Catela co-owned and operated Island of Salvation Botanica, conducted all weekly Vodou ceremonies in the temple, established the first public ceremonies on behalf of the City of New Orleans to combat crime, created and conducted the now famous public ceremonies to protect the city from hurricanes, until December of 2001. During this span of 8 years, Hougan Catela made numerous visits to Haiti to further his knowledge and studies in the Haitian Vodou tradition as often as possible. Due to the dedicated and service to the Vodou religion Hougan Catela was creating through his Botanica and Vodou Temple, he was invited to Australia in 1997 to teach and conduct seminars on the Vodou tradition, which he humbly accepted. He provided almost 3 weeks worth of seminars and teachings of the Vodou religion in Sydney and Melbourne. Further, Hougan Catela has been filmed and featured on such networks as Discovery, Discovery Medical, The Learning Channel, Travel Channel and such shows as Sightings, Local Broadcast and featured in NY Times, Cond-Nast Traveler, National Inquirer, Time Picayune and many more mass media outlets. In 2002, he was told by the Lwa he had to go into the djevo again and complete the process that started 8 yrs ago, but this time to receive the additional tools he had not received the first time. After he consulted the Lwa, numerous Mambos, and Hougans about this request, he then asked Houngan Yabofe and Mambo Marie Charles to take him back to Haiti and place him in the djevo. Hougan Shane or Hougan Catela completed this process in Jan. 2003, was initiated and ordained as Hougan Asogwe and became a member of Sosyete la Belle Fleur de Ginea (of which a branch is currently located in New Orleans). Hougan Catela currently lives and works in New Orleans as a Systems Engineer for a large corporation and provides numerous Vodou services on behalf of Erzulie’s Authentic Voudou and New Orleans Mistic Botanica. http://ghostanddemonhunter.planetparanormal.com/wp-content/downloads/C09-13-09.mp3