High Strangeness surrounds the world, cropping up here and there, imbuing ordinary reality with weirdness and dunking normal people into strangeness and wonder. Follow us as we explore a reality that is stranger than any fiction.
Barbara is joined by Zoe Burnett, experiencer, practicing Witch, author and publisher, to talk about her synchronicity-laden experiences with spirits, ghosts and possible time slips in the Driftless region of Wisconsin.
Barbara and Morganna ring in the New Year with fellow Keelian Zelia Edgar by talking inspiration, Mothman, Sasquatch and High Strangeness.
Paranormal Investigators Theresa Racer and Brian Clary join Barbara and Morganna to talk about their experiences in West Virginia with ghostly hauntings and unusual spirits. Non-paranormal environmental factors that cause hauntings are also discussed, along with why you should never provoke spirits.
Barbara is joined by fellow Witches Susan Demeter and Kiki Dombrowski to talk about the Winter Solstice, Tarot, divination, UFOs, black cats, and lighting the Solstice flame in the depth of winter.
Chad Redding and Timothy Renner visit with our hosts to have a casual, meandering conversation about the 300th episode of Strange Familiars called The Witch Cloud. Ghosts, Advanced Paranormal Theory, time slips, vampiric entities and folklore are all discussed.
Being legally blind doesn't stop James from seeing and experiencing spirits, ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. Join Barbara and James as they talk about his experiences which include ghostly visitations and non-corporeal cats.
Taylor Bell, podcaster, web designer and experiencer joins the 6DJK database creation team on Project HERA: Humanoid Encounter Research and Analytics. He also talks with the hosts about his experiences with UFO's disappearing people, humanoids and ritual magic.
Artist, author, and ufologist Miguel Romero joins Barbara to talk about what it's like being the artist behind the exciting kickstarter project, The UFOlogy Tarot.
Researcher, author and American Ghost Walks Founder, Allison Jornlin talks with the hosts about some of the forgotten foremothers of paranormal research and why they may have gone missing from history.
Susan Demeter talks with Barbara about the meaning of Samhain and Halloween, and how Witches celebrate the dark season of the year. Also, Susan announces a super secret awesome UFO Tarot project.
We've made it to 50 episodes--for Halloween, the three hosts tell their experiences with ghosts.
Kendra and Barbara hear the strange adventures of the Morrow family that stretch from Texas to the Pacific Ocean, from Gettysburg to Japan, and include ghosts, kami, nature spirits, and UFO's.
Kendra, Barbara and Morganna talk with Amanda Woomer whose work includes writing about haunted restaurants, bars, hotels, breweries and distilleries. She also discusses her style of ghost hunting, ghost hunting equipment AND her paranormal journal featuring the work of women and non-gender-binary writers, The Feminine Macabre.
Author, Tarot reader, educator and Queen Diviner Kikki Dombrowski joins the whole hostly crew of the podcast to talk about her book and how to use divination techniques to connect to the past, the present, the spirits, the ancestors and the Other.
Guy Merritt talks with Barbara about his UFO experience in the 1990's and how it affected him, and how over the years, he has found others who saw the same object in the same place, but often at different times.
Experiencer and poet Matthew Wiley joins all three hosts to talk about his dreams, visions and amazing synchronicities. He also shares a recent poem inspired by his dreams.
Seriah of the podcast "Where Did the Road Go?" joins Morganna and Barbara to talk about his paranormal experiences and how they inspire his creativity and inform his worldview.
Author and Witch Susan Demeter joins Barbara to talk about why we use the word Witch to describe ourselves and Witchcraft to describe our practice. Lots of history, mystery, pop culture and feminism dancing through this wide ranging discussion.
Stephanie Quick returns to the podcast with Barbara and Kendra to talk about a series of synchronicities she had involving Sasquatch sexuality. It starts with a scholarly paper, believe it or not, and goes from there. Adult themes are present in this episode, since we are talking about sex, and there are words like breasts, penis and erection present in the discussion.
Fiction author, podcaster, musician and experiencer Phil Rossi of the "Don't Turn Around" podcast comes on the show to talk about his experiences with the paranormal with all three hosts, and lots of supernatural fun ensues.
Author Joshua Cutchin joins all three hosts to discuss the possibility that the "gray aliens" popularly associated with UFOs might be hungry ghosts, which are a concept from Buddhist traditions.
Woodsman and researcher Chad Redding of The Strange Familiars Podcast talks with Barbara and Morganna about meeting the Other out in the wilderness.
Author, Jungian Therapist and Ritualist Andy Mercer joins hosts Morganna and Barbara and talks about the contact of non-human intelligences through the historically ancient yet thoroughly modern method of ritual magic.
Author Greg Bishop joins all three hosts to discuss the recent UFO disclosure by the Pentagon. Conspiracies, truths, untruths and ideas about science and the removal of the social stigma surrounding UFOs are exchanged, then the discussion turns towards art. Yes, art. And then back to UFO's with Dr. Jacques Vallee's newest book.
Kendra and Barbara are joined by author and investigator Brent Raynes for a look at his introduction to Keel's concepts of "window areas," where a variety of high strangeness events occur repeatedly over time. Inspired by his correspondence with Keel, Brent investigated several window areas over the years, and has many stories to tell.
Morganna and Barbara welcome Dr. C. S. Matthews, author of Mysterious Beauty: Living With The Paranormal in the Hudson Valley, also known as Professor WHAM, and the trio discuss the similarities and differences between the Athens Ohio and Hudson River Valley window areas. There is a great emphasis placed on Native American knowledge, history and lore in this episode.
Kendra and Barbara welcome noted Near Death Experience researcher Barbara Mango back to the podcast. She and Kendra discuss how their experiences of sitting with parents while they are in the process of dying has affected them and has led both of them to an interest in working for more widely available compassionate end of life care.
Morganna and Barbara welcome Shamanic Practitioner and teacher Bekki Shining Bearheart, who's spent much of her life in Athens, to talk about contacting and communing with the spirits of place. As always, the conversation takes a few turns and twists, but it all comes back around in the end.
Kendra and Barbara talk about their 1994 graduation party in Athens, and how some uninvited guests arrived and everything took a turn for the weird. A cautionary tale about the Good Folk, and what happens if you forget to honor Them with libations.
