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Ghosts grabbed her, and Mom wanted in. Mother-daughter ghost hunters Michelle and Megan Lanham of Creepy Colorado Paranormal join Splintered Spirits for a conversation that proves the family that gets haunted together hunts together. Their story starts in Fort Carson, Colorado base housing, where the activity began within a week: pantry doors slamming open, lights flicking on and off, and three-year-old Megan serving tea to “some boy” only she could see. When the base commander dug into the history of the land, he found a past that included a POW camp, with the dead buried on the hill behind their cul-de-sac.Michelle and Megan get real about the cleansing that made everything worse, the priest’s blessing that worked until it didn’t, and the moment at Holy Cross Abbey that turned a mother-daughter outing into a full-time obsession. They share the attachment that followed them home from Kansas, a hitchhiking entity from the Conjuring house that scared one of them into swearing off investigating for good, plus the Facebook Live footage of a full-body apparition standing beside a rocking chair, and the medium who was pulled off a staircase at Whispers Estate in Indiana. It’s a rare mix of genuinely creepy stories and laugh-out-loud honesty, with Gary asking the questions you’re already thinking.Whether you love real ghost stories, haunted house encounters, ghost hunting gear and tips, or just a great story about a mom and her daughter, this episode of Splintered Spirits delivers it all. Hear their theory that hauntings are time travel and EVPs come from the future, their advice to every parent whose child says they see something, and why these fearless ghost hunters are more afraid of spiders than spirits.

Psychic medium Cindy Kaza, known for her work on Travel Channel’s The Dead Files, The Holzer Files, and Ghosts of Devil’s Perch, joins Splintered Spirits for a conversation that goes way beyond your typical ghost story. Cindy opens up about the moment she first saw a spirit at just 10 years old, the “awakening” in her early 20s that changed the course of her life, and her training both in the U.S. and at the legendary Arthur Findlay College of Intuitive Sciences in England. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s actually like behind the scenes of paranormal TV, walking into the most haunted, tragic locations looking camera-ready while everyone else is bracing for impact, this episode has the answer, and it’s funnier than you’d think. But this isn’t just paranormal investigation talk. Cindy gets real about the hardest moment of her life: losing her brother, and what that loss taught her about grief, mediumship, and the limits of her own gift. She shares the ancient burial ritual that changed how she, and maybe you, think about death, dying, and what comes after. It’s a rare mix of laugh-out-loud TV stories and genuinely moving honesty from one of the paranormal world’s most recognizable mediums. Whether you’re a longtime fan of ghost hunting shows, psychic medium readings, or just love a great story about grief, loss, and the afterlife, this episode of Splintered Spirits delivers all of it. Tune in for ghost stories, paranormal investigations, and a conversation about life, death, and everything in between that you won’t stop thinking about.

From Prison Cell to Paranormal Art: Mike “Danger” Castro What do Army military intelligence, a wrongful murder charge, and the visual identity of the paranormal world have in common? Mike “Danger” Castro. Mike served seven years in the Army, including tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, before becoming one of the most sought-after creatives in the paranormal space. He’s been the creative voice behind Beacon TV since before it launched, including the artwork for Amy Bruni’s docuseries, co-ran Ghosted magazine for nearly three years, and founded Black Frame Society, a community of artists, musicians, photographers and creators standing up for human-made art. But the road there was anything but ordinary. Mike opens up about being arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, fighting the case from jail, and ultimately winning a settlement and an apology from the State of New Jersey. He shares how that ordeal forced him to rebuild his life through art, and how his first paranormal gig, branding ghost tours at the Old Columbus Inn, led to everything that followed. Then it gets personal: the woman who died in Mike’s home, and who his whole family has seen since. He describes finding her standing on his staircase looking up at him while his young son talked to her, and a photo he took just feet from where he sat for this interview that he says doesn’t look human at all. Plus: the difference between a real investigation and an event investigation, why evidence-hoarding holds the field back, the paranormal figures Mike respects most, and his theories on residual energy and parallel dimensions. Links to Mike and Black Frame Society are in the link tree in our bio. #SplinteredSpirits #Paranormal #GhostStories #ParanormalPodcast #Haunted

What happens in the room when someone takes their last breath? Darnell Lamont Walker would know. By day he's an Emmy-nominated kids' TV writer behind Karma's World and Work It Out Wombats. The rest of the time he's a death doula, sitting with the dying and their families so nobody has to face the end alone. And he does most of it for free. In Darnell's words: "I haven't quite figured out how to ask dying people for money." Gary and John sit down with him to talk about his book Never Can Say Goodbye, hospice, grief, and what being a death doula actually looks like. Then things get weird, in the best way. Darnell describes the energy shift that can pass through a room at the moment of death, and an ayahuasca journey where he met his late grandmother again. He also takes on the big Splintered Spirits question: what are spirits? We get into why men have such a hard time talking about death, whether spirit guides help us through life's transitions, and what a death doula does when a client wasn't a good person. Stay to the very end. Darnell rewrites his own obituary every year, so Gary and John give it a try. One is heartfelt. The other is John's. 👻 (I'm kidding, they're both insane). If you're into the paranormal, the afterlife, end-of-life care, or just the strange side of death, hit play, then like, share, comment and subscribe.

Do ghosts have a message for the living? Paranormal investigator and empath Bianca Pierre-Louis, known as Spooky Melanin Magic ( @spookymelaninmagic  )  joins Gary and John for a ghost-hunting conversation that’s funny, eerie, and eye-opening. From the most haunted places in America to the feelings that follow her home, Bianca shares what it’s really like to sense the spirit world. This episode dives into empaths and psychic intuition, haunted history, paranormal evidence, and the stories that never made it into the history books. Bianca explains how she tells her own emotions apart from the energy of the dead, why some spirits are still trying to be heard, and what keeps drawing her back into the dark. Whether you’re a seasoned ghost hunter, a true believer, or just curious about the paranormal, this one has everything: real hauntings, big laughs, and the question at the heart of every episode, what are spirits? Plus, John and Bianca tease their upcoming investigation together. Grab a seat, Spirit Squad. We’re spirit maxing.  @Santaparanormal ​

She sees the dead. She collects haunted dolls. And ten million people can't stop watching. Clairvoyant, actress and paranormal powerhouse Kelsi Davies joins Gary and John to talk about growing up with spirits, the family gift nobody wanted to talk about, and what really happens when she walks into the most haunted places in America. Plus her new Tubi series, a trip through a past life, and the question we ask everyone: what are ghosts? It's funny, it's dark, and it gets a little cosmic. New episode is now everywhere you listen. Watch on YouTube or Spotify, or catch it on Apple and wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to like, comment, hype and share! Follow Kelsi everywhere @kelsiidaviess.

John Kruth runs one of the strangest labs in America, and he's got the data to prove it. As executive director of the Rhine Research Center, the oldest continuously operating parapsychology lab in the country, with roots tracing back to a 1930s Duke University basement, Kruth has spent over fifteen years running ESP, psychokinesis, and psychic phenomena through controlled, peer reviewed, double blind experiments. He grew up doing meditation and healing work before he could ride a bike, and a shared childhood dream convinced him early on that something bigger than five senses was going on. This episode is built around one question. Are spirits energy, or are they information? Gary sits down with Kruth to unpack what parapsychologists mean when they say psi, which covers telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and the far edges of human consciousness. Kruth breaks down the Ganzfeld experiment, a sensory deprivation setup involving ping pong balls taped over your eyes, red light, and white noise, then tells a genuinely unsettling story about accidentally leaking his own thoughts into a subject sitting in another room. From there it's biophotons, energy healing, near death experiences, and survival research, plus a real debate over whether ghosts and hauntings are leftover human energy, like John Santa's theory suggests, or something closer to an informational field we're all quietly plugged into. It's a rare chance to hear a working scientist take hauntings, apparitions, and mediumship seriously without checking his skepticism at the door. Kruth compares psychic ability to golf, something anyone can practice but usually needs a natural gift to really excel at, and explains why the Rhine still runs lab studies instead of just chasing ghost stories on camera. If you care about parapsychology, ghost hunting, or just want a smarter conversation about what might survive after we die, don't miss this one. @RhineResearchCenter-ESP @Santaparanormal

Paranormal author and investigator Sam Baltrusis joins Gary and John Santa from @santaparanormal live with a reveal they didn’t see coming. Sam’s distantly related to Lizzie Borden. With his new book, Lizzie Borden and the Family Curse coming out October 13, Sam digs into the Borden family tree and its unsettling ties to other infamous names, including Aileen Wuornos and Marilyn Monroe. He also traces an ancestor whose father was executed on spectral evidence, begging the question whether a family can really carry a curse. The conversation goes deep on the Fall River axe murders. Sam walks through alternate suspects, including William Borden, and the Bertha Manchester murder theory. He also shares what Ryan Murphy's take on the Lizzie Borden story got wrong. From there, the talk turns thoughts on  a different ways ghost hunters should work. Sam, Gary, and John debate going into a haunted location cold versus knowing its history, trade notes with the skeptics, and explain why critical thinking matters. If you love true crime, haunted history, New England ghost stories, or paranormal investigation, this live episode is for you. Sam and John will both be at MASS ParaCon, October 2 to 4, 2026, in Taunton, Massachusetts. Subscribe to Splintered Spirits for weekly conversations with the people chasing the unexplained, and Stay Curious.

Tarot cards get a bad rap in the movies: dramatic candlelight, a mysterious stranger, and a death card that spells doom. The reality is a lot more interesting, and a lot less scary, and in this episode we're getting the real story straight from someone who reads professionally and is currently fighting a legal battle over it. Beck Ravenswood, the Hanover, Pennsylvania witch making headlines as the plaintiff in a landmark court case over Pennsylvania's fortune telling laws, joins Gary for a full breakdown of the craft that started it all. Beck walks through tarot's murky medieval origins, the difference between the major and minor arcana, why the deck splits into four suits just like a regular deck of playing cards, and what it actually means when a card shows up reversed. Along the way she also gives an update on her ongoing lawsuit, a case that's turned into something much bigger than tarot itself, touching on free speech, religious practice, and what the government gets to decide counts as legitimate spiritual work. Then Beck puts Gary in the hot seat for his first ever tarot reading, a full ten card Celtic cross spread that digs into what's really going on beneath the surface. Whether you're tarot curious, already have a deck collecting dust on a shelf, or just want to understand what's really happening in a reading before you write it off, this episode is a genuinely useful crash course in one of the most misunderstood tools in the paranormal and spiritual world.

Chris McKinnell, grandson of legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, joins Splintered Spirits for a conversation about ghosts, consciousness, fear, and the real stories behind the Warren legacy. With more than four decades of fieldwork across 10,000 cases in 18 countries, Chris brings a perspective shaped by firsthand experience, psychology, religion, cultural anthropology, and a lifetime spent around the unexplained. Chris discusses why he moved beyond the demonology framework associated with the Warrens, why he believes fear can make paranormal experiences worse, and what he thinks spirits actually are. He also talks about the true cases that inspired The Conjuring universe, the modern obsession with Annabelle, haunted objects, psychic ability, residual energy, and why the paranormal may have far more to do with human consciousness than horror movies. This is a grounded, surprising episode of Splintered Spirits with one of the most connected voices in paranormal investigation.

John Santa has a big problem this week. After a few too many cocktails at the haunted Tarrytown House Estate, a flirtatious spirit named Lily got a little too comfortable on his live stream. Then she followed him to home. Gary and John discuss the consequences of altered states of "intent,” why alcohol and ghost hunting don't mix, and whether it can be considered cheating if it’s with a ghost. From there the guys dig into some genuinely wild paranormal theory: entities that evolve over time, a possessed forest campsite nicknamed The Creature, water tables as spiritual conduits, and whether an 8 foot shadow figure could exist without even knowing it's terrifying anyone. There's talk of dowsing rods, ley lines, time slips, and a haunted Confederate soldier still walking someone's hallway. Real ghost stories, real paranormal investigation talk, zero filter. Splintered Spirits Live drops weekly with unscripted conversations about hauntings, spirit communication, ghost hunting equipment, and the paranormal community's strangest encounters. New episodes and guest interviews every Tuesday, live shows every Thursday. Time’s winding down to take Are You a Ghost Magnet survey at splinteredspirits.com/survey to find out if you're wired to attract the supernatural.

This episode of Splintered Spirits welcomes viral paranormal reaction creator Fuel Neve, for a funny, thoughtful, and unexpectedly personal conversation about ghost encounters, horror, social media, and why the paranormal does not always have to be deadly serious. Fuel shares how his loud, hilarious reactions to strange internet videos helped build his following, and why John Santa’s ghost-hunting clips are perfect material. Then things get genuinely spooky. Fuel recounts the shadowy figure known as “Old Man Mr. Fox” from his grandmother’s basement in Crown Point, Indiana, a presence his relatives later admitted they had seen too. He also relives a terrifying solo hotel stay in Inverness, Scotland, where the temperature plunged, appliances turned on by themselves, and a closet door shook from the other side. Gary, John, and Fuel get into the big question behind it all: What are spirits? From residual hauntings and intelligent entities to time, dimensions, and the possibility that paranormal experiences are something the human brain cannot fully process, this is a lively paranormal conversation with plenty of laughs, strong language, and more than a few “WTF is wrong with you?” moments!

What happens when a terrifying encounter in your own bedroom becomes the beginning of a life in paranormal investigation? On this episode of Splintered Spirits, Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation investigator Shari DeBenedetti shares the chilling story that changed everything: unexplained activity in her family home, a physical encounter she still cannot explain, and a faceless doppelgänger that looked exactly like her then-boyfriend. Long before joining Jason Hawes and The Atlantic Paranormal Society, TAPS, Shari spent years investigating private cases across Massachusetts and upstate New York. She talks about building an investigative team in the 1990s, working with the limited equipment available at the time, and why a logical, evidence-first approach matters even when a case becomes deeply personal. She also tells stories that never made it to television, including the moment a skeptical engineer was violently thrown across a room. From Ghost Hunters to Ghost Hunters Returns, this is a candid, funny, and unsettling conversation about spirits, fear, skepticism, and the real work of helping people feel safe in their own homes again. If you love paranormal podcasts, true ghost stories, haunted-house investigations, EVP evidence, or behind-the-scenes stories from the Ghost Hunters universe, press play and dive into the conversation.

Reverend Meg joins Splintered Spirits for a grounded, funny, and deeply personal conversation about psychic mediumship, spiritual awakening, spirit guides, and the nature of the nonphysical world. An ordained minister and licensed psychic medium through the Chapel of Awareness, Meg shares how a former atheist began experiencing powerful intuition, déjà vu, and encounters she could not easily explain, eventually leading her into years of spiritual study and ministry. We talk about ADHD and learning to separate intuition from a busy mind, why meditation and skepticism matter in psychic development, and why Meg believes mediumship is a skill that requires practice, mentorship, and verifiable exercises. She also breaks down her view of ghosts, guides, and consciousness after death, including why she sees spirits as nonphysical energy rather than frightening human-like entities. What are spirits? Can paranormal investigators benefit from a more spiritual approach? And why does Meg believe we may be less separate from the spirit world than we think? This episode explores paranormal experiences, psychic abilities, spiritual healing, shadow work, religion, fear, and the ongoing search for peace, purpose, and connection.

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary sits down with Mizz Paranormal, Cat, and Luna for an unfiltered conversation about paranormal experiences, ghost hunting ethics, and the growing fight for civility in the paranormal community. The three guests share the personal experiences that shaped their beliefs and drove them to speak publicly about what they see happening in the field. But this is also a conversation about accountability. Mizz Paranormal, Cat, and Luna break down what they feel is the line between paranormal entertainment and authentic investigation, why debunking is a necessary part of ghost hunting, and how misinformation, rage bait, bullying, harassment, and parasocial fandoms can poison online paranormal spaces. Gary pushes back from the perspective of a producer, leading to a real discussion about transparency, content creation, evidence, the Conjuring House controversy, and whether the paranormal community can make room for disagreement without becoming cruel - which this conversation proves: it can. If you love paranormal podcasts, ghost stories, spirit communication,  and honest conversations about the ethics of ghost hunting, this episode goes deeper than the jump scares. It is a funny, candid, occasionally controversial look at belief, integrity, and what it takes to defend truth and human decency in a field where nobody can fully prove what happens after death.