Octavian of the Strange Dominions Podcast talks magic with Barbara. A wide range of topics including Western Ceremonial Magic, the conjuring of spirits, Traditional Witchcraft and folk magic, Bigfoot the Fae, blood, Hecate and more are discussed in this meeting of magical minds.

Author, artist, avid hiker and folklorist Mike Clelland talks with Barbara about the mystical connection between owls, UFO's and synchronicities.

Morganna and Barbara talk with David Perkins who has been studying the paranormal in the context of Gaia for decades. The three discuss Gaian consciousness, communication, and cattle mutilations.

Barbara and Morganna and special guest Stephanie Burnham settle down to talk about Jordan Peele's new film, "Nope." It's not just another UFO movie, but it's still a UFO movie, so of course, we had to see it. Movie nerding commences.

Morgannna leads the episode with what she's been learning in her history classes in regards to conspiracy theories, and she and Barbara show how the same motifs with slight variation appear over and over and over up to the modern day.

Your friendly neighborhood book nerds, Barbara and Morganna talk about one of their favorite novelists, Graham Joyce. His deft and folkloric treatment of The Other in his works is very similar to how the book nerds both experience weirdness in their lives. They describe 4 books that listeners may want to read.

Allison Jornlin comes back and talks about another unsung woman in paranormal history: anthropologist, author, actress and educator, Zora Neale Hurston. Listen for literary history, ghost stories, the Frog Whisperer, descriptions of where zombies come from and what is laundry bluing and what it was used for!

Barbara and Morganna get to chat with Dr. Russ Jones, a local Bigfoot researcher who investigates in West Virginia and Appalachian Ohio.

Joshua Cutchin talks with Barbara about his new book, The Ecology of Souls, which is available this week in both print and as on Kindle.

Susan Demeter and Kiki Dombrowski join Barbara for another Witchy conversation, this time on the energies of the Summer Solstice, and what sorts of magicks are best woven on this day!

Barbara talks with Darwin--that's the pseudonym of a fellow paranormal podcaster--and the two discuss how James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis may be the key to understanding paranormal phenomena.

Barbara talks with an astrophysicist and a witch who have teamed up to investigate anomalous light phenomena.

Barbara talks with Tad; in 1989, he and his wife had a high-strangeness experience in Wales that involved anomalous lights, a strange mist and various orbs and solid craft. The details are fascinating and hold bits to the puzzle of the UFO enigma.

Barbara and Morganna nerd hard on science fiction and its relationship to and treatment of the idea of the Other.

Barbara and Morganna discuss the intersection between fiction, folklore, imagination and the Other.

Paul talks with Barbara about his lifetime of mysterious experiences that include a three dimensional shadow person, fairies, ghosts, time slips, magick and a UFO.

In 1895, in Ballyvadlea, Ireland Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband Michael in the presence and with the help of her own family. Her crime? She was ill, and was suspected of being a changeling. Warning: this episode deals with talk of violence, abuse and murder.

Experiencer. Green Witch and Artist, Sam, tells of her many interesting wanderings and adventures in the woods of the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Ghosts, spirit lights, ghost cats and much more are described in a cosy chat.

Marco returns to the show to talk about a long term project he's been working on: an audio-visual streaming presentation called The Spark and the Vessel: Reverse Engineering the Flying Saucer Archetype. Check the show notes for when this event takes place and how to get tickets.

Stephanie Quick returns and talks with Barbara and Morganna about the issues of gender, sexuality, biology that swirl around Sasquatch as a cultural icon in modern America. Warning: we talk about bodies and parts of bodies and what they do, so if female biology squicks you, and you don't want to listen to mature themes, skip this episode and come back next week for something a little bit less biological.