Tales of supernatural suspense written, produced, and narrated by Soren Narnia. The text of these stories is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA. Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around ...
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Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and per ...
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Each week, hosts Eric Vespe and Josh Robert Thompson welcome a notable guest to the show to discuss a work of film from the career of director Steven Spielberg. The Spiel is an open-ended love letter to one of the greatest film directors of all time and his enormous impact on cinema.
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Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators a ...
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Most people are baffled at any idea that fairies could exist...and telling people you've had a fairy encounter is a major taboo. The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast hears from people who’ve had experiences and want to share them. Whether you’re already a believer, or full of intrigue, come open-minded and open-hearted…simply listen, and make your own mind up. But take heed, these are not winged Tinkerbells. These are real fairies. Please note: this podcast is not suitable for children as it m ...
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In a world where Congress has passed groundbreaking bipartisan legislation to study UFOs and investigate Secret Access Programs that may be concealing crashed otherworldly craft, comedian Dave Foley and showrunner, screenwriter, and novelist Tom Wheeler interview the most compelling and credible journalists, researchers, and government officials on the frontlines of “exotic” UFO and alien technology. Join Tom and Dave—self-proclaimed non-experts—as they seek out the real experts, solving thi ...
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Journey into the mind of legendary American horror director Mike Flanagan. Each episode, Flanagan and a guest filmmaker watch a film together, giving insightful commentary, and offering listeners a unique watch-along experience. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shar ...
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Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah visit the homes and workshops of their favorite creators for intimate conversations about the relationship between their lives and their art.
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Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster
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1:35:17In this episode, JF and Phil are joined by Jacob G. Foster—sociologist, physicist, and researcher at Indiana University Bloomington and the Santa Fe Institute—for a conversation about their recent collaboration in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their co-authored essay, “Care of the Dead,” explores how the dead c…
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Director Panos Cosmatos - Revisited
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1:22:39A classic revisited! Visionary director Panos Cosmatos discusses a few of his favorite futuristic police state movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with Charles Soule
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1:39:59Charles Soule (author of the Star Wars: The High Republic series as well as some of the best Star Wars comic books) joins the show to talk all about one of the most controversial and heavily debated Steven Spielberg films: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We all know co-host Josh Robert Thompson goes to bat for this one, but does…
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Ask people in the Cleveland area about The Ron Tanglethorn Show and you might get a few nods here and there. Never the most popular late-night offering on the AM band, it's remembered by diehards mostly for the rather unusual way it signed off the air for good. Music: "Salience Bias" by Art Against Agony, all rights reserved. All stories on the Kni…
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Ep 101: Lodge Tales: Shapeshifters and Talking Owls
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2:09:18Exciting News! This is TMFSP's first published episode with SpectreVision Radio. I have joined the Podcast family featuring other great shows like, Greg and Dana Newkirk's The Haunted Objects Podcast and Mitch Horowitz's Extraordinary Evidence T H E S H O W It was so great to finally meet with R O D W I L L I A M S O N from Lodge Tales Podcast - on…
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Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot
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1:22:29In this continuation of their non-linear journey through the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the ninth Arcanum: the Hermit. Walking through darkness with his lantern and staff, the Hermit invites us to break from the collective and seek a direct relationship with the Real. This is the card of the seeker, the misfit, the sage, and the wanderer. As tends …
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DEATH OF A UNICORN writer/director Alex Scharfman
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1:17:17Writer/Director Alex Scharfman discusses his favorite movies with a single location (or limited locations) and escalating crises — either about class or creatures with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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Bear McCreary Picks His Top 5 John Williams/Steven Spielberg Scores
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1:17:45Incredible composer Bear McCreary (God of War, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Battlestar Galactica, Happy Death Day) knows a thing or two about composing badass scores. Vespe challenged him to come up with top 5 favorite John Williams/Steven Spielberg collaborations and the resulting episode sees McCreary putting his Top 5 against Vespe' To…
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Ep 100: Annick Brofman: Chakra Healing with The Body Mirror System
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1:22:00Send us a text An in-depth conversation with Annick Brofman, long-time healer and wife of Martin Brofman, creator of the Body Mirror System. I trained with Martin from 2005 until 2014. Here’s Martin talking about healing and consciousness https://youtube.com/@iamhealer?si=f9orde0YC9QeXLIB Two Day Workshop BRISTOL November 2025 To mark the 20th anni…
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GAZER co-writer/director Ryan J Sloan
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1:17:35Writer/director Ryan Sloan discusses a few of his favorite films where identity is under siege with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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The Spiel welcomes Anthony Breznican, Vespe's Kingcast co-host and entertainment reporter extraordinaire at Vanity Fair, to talk about Amblin's Innerspace. This weird-ass movie was directed by Joe Dante and produced by Spielberg and is all about a shrunk down Dennis Quaid getting injected into Martin Short's butt and that's just the start of this c…
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Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis
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1:33:43John Crowley’s Little, Big is, at once, a family saga, a fairy tale, an occult thriller, an idyll, a dystopia, as well as a meditation on myth and history, the real and the fantasy, memory and imagination. Little, Big is also a book that JF and Phil have been planning to discuss for as long as Weird Studies has existed. In this episode, they are jo…
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IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA actor Glenn Howerton
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1:44:09Actor Glenn Howerton discusses the movies that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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Ep 99: Hiker on the Bridge...and Banshee? NSW Australia
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1:06:27Send us a text I chat to Simone from New South Wales. Her first experience was atop a mountain early one morning. Simone and her husband's primal neuroception immediately picked up 'something was not right' and when they saw his eyes, they knew he wasn't human....it was as if he was using that body form to 'see' into this world. And he indicated he…
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Spielberg's Endings with Clarke Wolfe
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1:18:16I think we can all agree that Steven Spielberg knows how to end a movie. He's got some all-timer endings in his filmography, but he also has some divisive endings. We're talking about War of the Worlds, A.I., Munich, and more. Noted filmmaker, podcaster, entertainment host, and professional geek Clarke Wolfe (Malum, Torn Hearts, Sending in the Wolf…
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Episode 53 | REALLY?!. with Tom & Dave
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1:16:21Tom Wheeler and Dave Foley discuss the latest developments in the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) community, focusing on the compelling testimony of Jake Barber, a former special forces pilot. Barber reports having participated in recoveries of non-human technology and describes a deeply emotional experience with a UAP. The hosts explore the id…
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Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two
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1:28:49In this episode, JF and Phil continue their conversation on the wedge, their figure for the epistemological divide between approaching reality from the heart and exploring it with the mind. As the discussion unfolds, the wedge begins to reveal itself not as a rigid binary but as a spectrum—one that stretches from ultimate thickness to ultimate thin…
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS creator Jenny Lumet
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1:36:25Writer/Producer Jenny Lumet discusses a few of her favorite wildly inappropriate summer kids movies from the 70s with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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The Goonies is an important movie for folks of a certain generation, including the absolute madman who is this week's guest. You know him from Pitch Perfect 2, The Suicide Squad, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Silicon Valley and now he's here to talk about The Goonies, Richard Donner's coming-of-age adventure story produced by Steven Spielberg. We bounc…
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A youthful lark across the states takes a man into the heart of an awful anomaly. Music: “Outside Your Grace” by Denhollander, all rights reserved. All stories on the Knifepoint Horror podcast are written, produced, and edited by Soren Narnia, who can also be heard narrating or acting on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'Se…
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Ep 98: Dr Jack Hunter: Goblins in the Garden
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51:48Send us a text Dr Jack Hunter discusses Tricksters, his personal experiences with the Mediumship group in Bristol, thresholds/portals in gardens, synchronicities and we even ended up sharing our kids' experiences with goblins/gnomes in our gardens. Here's the link to Jack's kids discussing what they saw in the garden: :https://www.youtube.com/watch…
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Another special preview of THE WHITE CANON. Trevor Beaulieu & Josh Olson host different guests every week for deep dive discussions about movies that are universally beloved amongst mainstream white film audiences, and relatively unknown by black ones. Full Episode Available Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Leave it to Vespe and JRT to turn a conversation about the 1995 Amblin family adventure story CASPER into a lewd, R-rated talk about ghost titties. In our defense, bad influence (and James Beard award-winning author) Mallory O'Meara is our guest and despite all of our best efforts when we three get together things get chaotic and talk quickly turns…
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Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One
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1:16:38"The Wedge" is a key concept for Phil and JF. When exploring weird phenomena—from artworks to ghosts, and everything in between—one tends to emphasize one or the other "end" of the event. At the thin end of the Wedge, the focus is on subjective experience: how it felt, what it was like, and its personal significance. At the thick end, the emphasis …
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Writer/Director/Actor Josh Ruben discusses a few of his favorite villainous henchmen with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy SpectreVision Radio
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Twister and Twisters with Stephen Graham Jones
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1:19:02Celebrated genre author Stephen Graham Jones (The Indian Lake Trilogy, Mongrels, I Was A Teenage Slasher) is a huge fan of both Twister and Twisters, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and shows up this week ready to talk about what made him laugh, cry, and jump for joy in both the 1996 original film and its 2024 sequel. Topics in…
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Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class
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33:11Due to scheduling conflicts and a series of unforeseen events, JF and Phil have had to push the release of the next official episode of Weird Studies back by one week. To tide you over, we're unlocking a bonus episode previously available only to our Patreon supporters. It serves as the perfect preface to Episode 184, which will be released on Febr…
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Episode 52 | REALLY?!. with Tom & Dave
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1:10:49In this engaging conversation, Tom Wheeler and Dave Foley discuss the recent surge in UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) activity and the government's response to it. They reflect the past six months, highlighting significant events such as congressional hearings, th Immaculate Conception document, and ongoing drone phenomena. The hosts express th…
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A special preview of THE WHITE CANON. Trevor Beaulieu & Josh Olson host different guests every week for deep dive discussions about movies that are universally beloved amongst mainstream white film audiences, and relatively unknown by black ones. Full Episode Available Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Send us a text I speak with Pamela and Brian a couple living in Scotland who have had mystical experiences at West Kennet, Silbury Hill, Loch Tay, Kinnoull Hill, Dumgoyach and The Sleeping Giant. This episode is a beautiful reminder that the Otherworld surrounds us and we only have to open to it. The Show There are connections with Beltane, The Wil…
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