The Psychic and The Skeptic

On this episode, the hosts explore folklore, paranormal claims, cryptids, and true crime tied to the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail, outlining its route, history, management, and the hiking culture that helps legends spread. They discuss published lore like Madeline Vinton Dahlgren’s 1882 book South Mountain Magic may shape experiences. Featured stories include the Wampus Cat (Cherokee-based legend and newspaper panics), the gh...

On this episode, Christy and Kathy launch a new series on Appalachian Mountain ghosts by focusing on northeastern Alabama and its mix of documented history, folklore, and paranormal claims. They outline Appalachian geography and ancient formation, then discuss stories including Cherokee spirit guardians tied to sacred ridges, caves, and burial grounds (plus a personal family tale about a treasure map and a Native American guardian ...

On this episode, Christy and Kathy continue the conversation on past life regressions while they play an interview with Wilhelmina Stöcker, a certified hypnotist and past life regression practitioner who founded Exist in 2003 and has worked as a life coach, author, healer, radio host, and intuitive artist. Wilhelmina describes her early openness to guidance, her spontaneous past life experiences, and how she formally began hypnothe...

On this episode, Christy and Kathy discuss past lives and reincarnation, questioning whether reported memories, emotions, phobias, and skills are genuine or better explained by psychology, culture, suggestion, coincidence, and how memory is constructed. They define reincarnation as the soul or consciousness surviving death and being reborn to learn lessons, note its ancient roots and prominence in Indian and Buddhist traditions, an...

On this episode of The Psychic and the Skeptic, the hosts discuss how paranormal belief remains woven into American culture—shaping entertainment, technology, social media, spirituality, and tourism—despite controversial or unproven evidence. After noting the show is moving to a bi-weekly schedule and reflecting on Fourth of July celebrations, they focus on how TV and movies popularized modern ghost hunting, teams, and ...

On this episode, Christy and Kathy mark America’s 250th anniversary by exploring Revolutionary War history and the paranormal legends tied to it. They trace key events leading to the conflict after the French and Indian War, including British debt, colonial taxation without representation, the Boston Massacre (with Crispus Attucks), and the Boston Tea Party, before covering Paul Revere’s warning and the shot heard round...

On this episode, Christy and Kathy discuss lucid dreaming, defining it as awareness of dreaming with potential control, and contrasting it with astral projection as leaving the body. They review sleep stages, explaining lucid dreaming as an overlap of REM and waking consciousness and linking it to sleep paralysis. They cover why people dream and research evidence including a 2012 study using prearranged eye signals to prove lucidit...

In this case file episode, Christy and Kathy revisit The Wind and Stone in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, a historic and antique amusement park and racetrack in the Quartz Mountains that now operates as a campground and event center, and review its layered history including Native ceremonial grounds, a former Army post, and a fatal July 4, 1964 racetrack accident that killed a four-year-old spectator. They outline reported activity—ite...

On their one-year anniversary episode, Christy and Kathy reflect on how the podcast grew from 2:00 AM debates, and their goal of balancing psychic and skeptical perspectives across case files, cryptids, and broader “abnormal” topics. They thank listeners and share statistics such as the top countries that have downloaded episodes. They answer questions and discuss popular episodes (Episode 1, Kendall’s, The Psychi...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy explore automatic writing—writing perceived as guided by spirits, the subconscious, or other external forces—and debate paranormal versus psychological explanations like the ideomotor effect, dissociation, cryptomnesia, and altered states. They trace the practice chronologically from ancient Chinese fuji spirit writing and the Oracle of Delphi’s trance traditions through medieval...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy continue their Civil War Ghost series on Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland, pairing battle history and eyewitness testimony with modern paranormal reports and skeptical explanations. They outline Antietam (Sept. 17, 1862) as the deadliest single day in American military history—and trace key phases from the Cornfield and Dunker Church to the Sunken Road (“Bloody Lan...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy open another cryptid file featuring The Slender Man. They contrast the well-known 2009 origin—Eric Knudsen (“Victor Surge”) creating unsettling Photoshop images and captions on the Something Awful forum—with a darker “Watcher in the Woods” concept and the idea that Slender Man “feeds” on attention as modern folklore blurs fiction and plausibility. Th...

In part two of their Yorktown Memorial Hospital case file, Christy and Kathy rejoin Afterlife Paranormal Investigations for an overnight investigation, starting with a basement sit-down in the “Cage Room,” described as a prison-like enclosure once used for at-risk patients. While monitoring with EMF devices, a motion-sensing music box, light-up cat balls, and a laser grid. They review audio captured elsewhere in the bui...

Christy and Kathy open their case file on Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Yorktown, Texas, joining their sister team API for a March 2025 overnight investigation, though they sleep in their cars due to the building’s disrepair, dust, mold, animals, and limited electricity. Kathy reviews the hospital’s history: built in 1950–1951 as a 20-bed facility run by Felician sisters, dedicated to 49 local war dead, with staff...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy open another “Cryptid File” to examine worldwide stories of “little people,” contrasting European fairy/brownie lore with Indigenous North American traditions where they are seen as real watchers, protectors, teachers, or tricksters. They focus on three tribal traditions—Cherokee (Yunwi Tsunsdi), Algonquian/Wampanoag (pukwudgies), and Lakota (Canotila)—and discu...

In this episode of Psychic and the Skeptic, Christy and Kathy continue their Civil War Ghost Series with Part 3 on the Battle of Shiloh (April 1862), discussing its heavy casualties and how traumatic battle sites fuel reports of hauntings while separating documented history from psychological, environmental, and cultural interpretations. They thank a growing international listener base, invite emails and cryptid suggestions, and pr...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy continue with their “Civil War Ghosts” series, covering the history of the Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas (July 21, 1861) and the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 1862) They explain key leaders, such as Stonewall Jackson, and the Confederate victories, casualties, the role of railroads, and how the battle shattered expectations of a quick war. They then explore reported hauntings a...

In this episode, Christy and Kathy launch a multi-part series on Civil War history and alleged hauntings, debating whether “vibes” at historic sites reflect paranormal activity or emotional responses to tragedy. They discuss personal connections to Gettysburg, Oklahoma’s Fort Washita (now owned by the Chickasaw Nation), and a visit to the Andersonville POW camp in Georgia, describing its harsh conditions and solem...

Christy and Kathy open one of their best case files on the McInteer Villa Mansion in Atchison, Kansas, sharing reported paranormal claims such as rocking chair movement, slamming doors, footsteps, uneasy feelings, shifting items, cold spots, disembodied voices, shadow figures, perfume/cigarette smells, and so much more! Kathy outlines the town’s history and the mansion’s documented deaths. During their July 20, 2023 two...