June 8, 2025 • 46 mins
Rockers and Horror Lovers alike! Today my guest Charles Rosenay is here to talk about all of the incredible things he's done and continues to do in the world of Rock n Roll and Horror/Paranormal. Charles is a producer/actor/author/entertainer/paranormal investigator with four pop-culture books out: on Horror Movies, on The Beatles, on Ghost Stories, and on The Turtles (band). He is the host/organizer of the "Magical History Tour to Liverpool" for Beatles Fans, and "Dracula Tours to Transylvania" Vampire-themed Vacations. He is also a paranormal investigator! So we have a lot to discuss and this interview is a perfect follow up to our History of Metal and Horror episode! So sit back and enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
What's up, rock soldiers. This is the rock star Robbie Vegas.
Thank you once again for tuning into the All Bets
Are Off Podcast Today. My guest is Charles Rosney. And
for all of you listeners who don't know who that
is yet, if you are a listener of this podcast,
you are going to love this interview because Charles is
into everything that we talk about. He's into music, he's
in the horror movies. And I'm talking like this guy
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does tours of Dracula's Castle in Transylvania, and he does
Beatles tours in Liverpool, and and you know, he does
paranormal investigations. And I don't want to spoil everything that
we're going to talk about here, but I'm super excited
about it. And we tried to cram as much as
we could into a little less than an hour here,
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So stick around, check it out, and then of course
give him a follow on all of his socials. At
the end of this interview, all right, Charles, thanks so
much for being here on the All Bets Are Off podcast.
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Same here thanks to our friend who mutually introduced us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah. Yeah, Kathy is fantastic and she'll actually be on
the show right after you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh great, well, I'm saying hello to her, Kathy de
dal Hello, I'm saying hello to you in advance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I want to jump right in because there's a
million things that you do and they are all things
that interest me oddly enough. So here's where I want
to start. First is the music, more specifically the Beatles,
because you actually do a Beatles tour in England, and
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I just want to know before you get into that.
Let's zoom in on that. There we go. I love that.
So before we even you know, get into the tour specifically,
tell me where your love of the Beatles starts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm an old guy, so you know I saw them
on My first memory life is seeing them on the
At Sullivan Show February nineteen sixty four, and I was hooked.
You know, I didn't have the chops to be a musician.
I didn't have, you know, the talent to do what
I needed to do to be either a musician or
an a Beatles tribute band. I did, like everything else.
Became a party DJ, start publishing a magazine on the
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Beatles for many years, started producing Beatle conventions and festivals,
and the Beatles tour to Liverpool every summer since nineteen
eighty three.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh my god, since nineteen eighty three, and you're still doing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It, still doing it forty years plus, going strong, and
you know, people absolutely love it. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And for the people listening who are unfamiliar, can you
give us just a rundown of like, what are they
going to see on this tour?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's literally everything you've ever all, what you've heard in
the song Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Abbey Road, It's the
postcards you've seen, the pictures of the Beatles at their homes.
It's ten days of London, Liverpool and everything Beatles. You know,
if you've ever been to a Beatles convention, you think, wow,
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this is it, man, nothing could be better than this,
Or you've seen Ringo or Poland concert, No, this is it.
This is the ultimate. Because we literally visit every possible
place connected to the Beatles. You're traveling in the footsteps
of the Beatles and Liverpool Tours dot Com is my
company that we deal with, and people go and they
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have such a great time. Five years later they come back,
you know, and and things are different because even though
the place as we visit are the same, the activities
we do are always changing. We might go to, you know,
a Leting tribute concert that's put on one night. Another
one might be the Traveling Wilberry's if you're familiar with,
you know, the Harrison Project and all that. Another time
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we'll go to go inside Strawberry Fields, and a time
we'll go inside the Kasmo Club. So we mix it
up so that if people are coming for the first time,
they're getting everything they need to do. They get to
cross Abbey Road and they do Penny Lane story, I
feels all those places, and they go to the Cavern Club.
But if they're repeating, they're now also getting new stuff.
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So it's a I'm just I love doing it and
I host it. I mean I'm there, you know, front
person and tour guide and I make sure everyone has
a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Wow, I love that. That's so cool. And to stay
on the topic of the Beatles, you're also an author
and you have a Beatles book, you want to tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We do, thank you. You know, I thought when I
was publishing a fanzines for twenty years, I said, I'm
gonna double book. I've been writing, you know, on the
Beatles for twenty I've done enough. And then COVID hit
and I have myself eating stuff to do. So I
put out a horror book first, the Book of Top
Ten Horror Lists, and all my Beatle people were like, hey,
how dare you put out a horror book before the
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Beatles book? And sure enough we follow it with the
Book of Top ten Beatles Lists, where celebrities, rock stars, actors, athletes,
you name it gave their top ten Beatle lists and
it could have been their favorite you know, concerts they
saw of the Beatles. It could have been their favorite
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you know, single releases, their favorite songs, their favorite album,
favorite solo, whatever they had free reign to come up
with a top ten list. And people love the book.
It's just such a fun read.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh that's really cool. And you know, before we move
on from the Beatles book topic, can we tell everybody
where they can get that?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, well it's Amazon, is always the best place to
get it, you know, if you have Amazon Prime to
get free shipping. But there's a website for it if
they want to read more about the book and if
they want to get a signed copy, and it's basically
the title of the book www. Book of Top ten,
the number ten, not to end book of top ten
Beatles lists dot Com.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right, awesome, And and you know, again staying on
music and on books, you actually have a book two
on the Turtles.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's crazy, right, yeah? Why the Turtles? And I'll tell
you it's all in the title, not just happy Together.
Everybody knows imagine me and you sing it with me.
I do, absolutely everyone knows that song. But go deeper, man,
these guys had top ten hits, they were amazing concert performances,
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performance they performed, They backed up Springsteen on t Rex.
I mean, if you read deep into their history, it's
like what And there was never a book on them
and they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
There was never this amazing complete anthology, discography, everything, and
almost six hundred pages worth of material. And I was
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put out by Genius Books. That's my most recent book.
And uh not it's the website is the kind of
the title of the book. It's www. Not just Happy
Together dot com. And the Turtles a to z AM
Radio to Zappa because when they when they stopped being
the Turtles for a while and they were flowing Eddy
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touring with Frank Zappa, people don't understand, you know, the
multitude of this band's creativity. And I always get into
this that the you know, questions, well, why are they
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? And my
I think there's an answer, and it makes sense when
I look at the other bands that should be an aren't,
Like the Monkeys, like the povere and the Raiders. These
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were top ten hit bands. You know, they didn't put
out uh. They didn't have their Sergeant Pepper, they didn't
have you know, their classic uh Dark Side of the Moon.
They didn't have these incredible albums. They had hit after
hit after that people sang in love. But they were
also funny, that personality. They were on TV a lot,
and it seems like you know, the Monkeys, the Turtles,
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these bands that had the personality and the humor maybe
that sometimes overshadowed their great music and great vocals and
all the stuff that they did musically. So anyway, I
think they were the ones that deserved a book, and
I'm really proud of what we created with it.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know what I love about that is uh so
I'm actually a Turtles fan. So it was when I
said that you you know, you're into everything that I
love this. This just couldn't worked out better. And actually
a few months back, I interviewed a friend of mine,
Joe Hoakstra, who was actually in the Turtles for a while,
and he had a wild career and ended up in
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the Turtles for for a handful of years. Obviously not
an original member, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Was he was he an East Coast or a West
Coast Turtle? And the reason I asked is this band
was brilliant. They had a West Coast cast that when
they went out it was and Eddie, Mark and Howard
and a backing up West Coast bit they come to
they come to New York in the East Coast, they
had guys here who were playing well.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Joel was a New York guy, so he was he
was out this way.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So if I knew, I would have included him in
the book. Because some of the people who we included
were people who played in you know as Turtles through
the Years. One of them was a Mitch Weissman, who
was the original McCartney in Beatlemania. Another one is Greg
Hawks from the Cars was their keyboard player. So yeah,
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I would have loved to have gotten him in the book. Well,
I thought it was the most complete book ever missed him.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, now he's out there jamming with Transferbarian Orchestra and
Cheron White Snake and all these these other bands. So
so I want to stay on your books because you
did already mention that you have a horror book, which
is another one of my favorite things. So what's what's
the premise behind the horror book? Is it kind of
like the Beatles book. It's the top ten celebrities ranking.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, so it's celebrities do the ranking. And with the
Beatle Book, it was sixty four celebrities, you know, when
I'm sixty four, and that magical year for this one hit,
we hit one hundred. I mean there was one hundred
top lists from different.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh wow, yeah, I'm assuming on that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, one hundred top ten horror lists from celebrities. And
there's a lot of classic photos on there. But the
people who were in the book I mean again, rock stars, actors, actresses, athletes, DJs,
famous people who you know you wouldn't even think were
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horror people. And each of them had give me, Well,
they could give me their top ten favorite movies, their
top ten favorite horror actors, their top ten favorite TV
shows of a horror nature had to be horror themed.
But I gave Carte Blanche. With the Beatles, it was
mostly their favorite songs. With this one was mostly movie
And as such, what I did in both books is
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I did a really cool index. So if your favorite
song was while my guitar Jentlee weeps, you can flip
right to it and say, oh, wow, that's so cool.
So and so you know from this band picked that
as his favorite. Oh dick hab it really he picked it.
And with the Horror book, it's the same thing. You
pick a horror movie, you go in the back the
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exer says, oh, this person liked it. No, hard to believe,
you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. The funny
one is we got Boris Karloff's daughter to give a list,
Sarah Carloff, and a friend of mine. So it was
it was you know, it's easier to get these lists
when you have friends in the business. But she hates
horror movies. I don't even want I didn't even used
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to watch my dad's movie shows. I'll come up with something.
And her list was top ten things that scared her
and number ten was having to do this list.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Good answer, right, So tell me some one to read.
Tell me, then, where your love of horror stems from?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Where?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Where did that come from for you?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I mentioned one of my first memories in life,
I was seeing the Beatles on Insolvent. One of my
other first memories in life is my mom sitting us
down and I don't want to say forcing me, but
persuading me with force to watch Brida Frankenstein. She loved
those universal horror movies. She loved and you can see
Frankie behind me. Frankenstein drafted wolf Man, Mummy, Creature from
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the Black Labooon And I mean she grew up and
loved those well, she saw those in the movies because
that was her, you know, growing up in those days.
So she wanted to impart her love of that onto me.
And it took a few sittings and a few watchings,
but my gosh, you know here I'm sitting next to
a preacher from the Black Lagoon model I got next
to me Horror. I'm surrounded by Beatles, surrounded by Beatles,
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and I'm surrounded by horror everything comics, just like the
pop culture guy who just those were my two loves. Yeah,
so probably passed down. I'll take credit for, you know,
fall in love with the Beatles on my own, but
I give my parents the credit for giving me the
influence of the horror monsters. It wasn't horror in those days.
It was monster movies, yes, And the only way we
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would know what was on TV because we'd have streaming.
I couldn't just type in, you know, Hereditary and watch
whatever movie I want on a streaming service. We would
have to refer to the Bible. You know what the
Bible was in those days. The TV guide.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You know, sometimes I kind of miss like sitting down
and opening the newspaper and going through the TV guide, like,
oh my god, we got to watch this at whatever
time because if not, who knows what it'll be on again.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That's exactly what it was in those days. So we
would go through the TV guide. It was a ritual
and we would circle oh whoa, it's a Bars Karlov movie.
I don't care how good it is. We got to
watch it. We have to watch a Bellago and all
that stuff. And yeah, and I imparted it onto my kids.
I mean, we just went to see Bring Her Back
and The Final Destination. So a horror movie doesn't come
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out that I don't go see with my kids now.
But now it's horror. Those days it was. You know,
you look back on the Frankenstein and Dracula movies and
then I don't say they're comical, but they're tame. And
in those days they were very scary and impactful. But
I still love them, still love seeing them, and still
love talking about them.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, those will always be, uh, in my opinion, they'll
they'll always be favorites, their favorites of mine. I'd rather watch,
you know, Dracula or Eben Costello, Meete Frankenstein or you know,
any of those movies, any Vincent Price movie, just like
those are the ones that you're like, oh my god,
there's just something about them that's just perfect. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, you mentioned I mean, people say what's your favorite
horror movie? And of course when you say they were horror,
I go right to the Exorcist. What's your favorite monster movie?
Abin Costello Meet Frankenstein. It brings a smile to your
face just mentioning it. You know, it's the perfect monsters
combined with comedy. And who didn't love who didn't love
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Abercastello growing up? Who didn't love mikersot treasuring them?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And you know they did. What was it four of
those movies? Aving Costello Meet Invisible Man, and like everybody
only talks about ab A Castello Meet Frankenstein. But they're
all good. And obviously that one's the favorite. It's still
my favorite too, but they're all good.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
All good. And I watched one and I can't remember
what it was and I'd forgotten that it was not
The Visible Man. Maybe meet Boris Karloff the Killer. Oh
there's four or five? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and but but
you know, when you have perfection, like it's the Beatles
and everything else, so it's aber Costello and everything Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And you know, again along those
same lines, horror and monster movies were so captivating that
you know, you would see characters like Don Knots who
did the Ghost and mister Chicken and like those those
comedy guys like Ada Cassello and Don Notts, they couldn't
wait to get their hands on the horror you know,
the universal monsters and things like that. Either.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know, I love the Don Naughts movie. That's to
this day. It's it's such a favorite. He's perfectly casting that.
But I don't think there was a comedy team that
didn't do Maybe maybe the Marx Brothers didn't, but Martin
Lewis did one, Bob Bob Hope and and Ben Crosby
did one. The Bowery Boys did them, and and the
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Three Stooges did a bunch of them where they even
repeated it. If one was with Curly one with a
chem same movie redone, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, And and that kind of stuff carried on as
we see in more recent years. I can't remember the
year that it came out, but it's not too long ago.
It was Tucker and Dale Versus Evil, which is another
updated comedy horror movie that's just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Fantastic, and it's a lot of people don't know about
it and should know about, you know, they know about
what was what was the ones that they were doing
for a while that were takeoffs on horror movies where
they would.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Do and scary movies, scary.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Movies, and those were fun and you know, and there
was a lot of thought went into them, and if
you knew what they were referring to, it even added
more to it. But for originality and for if someone
doesn't know Tucker Anddale, they have to look it up and.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
See it absolutely And you know, again staying on the
topic of the horror movies, is one of the original
universal monsters and probably you know, the most famous actor
who you know came from that was arguably bel Lagosi.
You could say Boris Karloff, which is again arguably also
could be true. But you do Dracula tours actually in Transylvania.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Let's just let's show, Baila he should be is he
behind me? Oh no, the Wolfman's behind me. Sorry, Bayla,
I don't know where you are. Dracula Tours did Pennsylvania,
so that's you know, you talk about the Beetle Tours
to Liverpool. And if my other love is monsters, yeah,
of course I'm doing Dracula Tours to Transylvania. And we're
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doing that since ninety eight ninety eight. Every year we
spend a week and what we do, and you'll appreciate
this because there's people who want if they're going to
Romania for the first time in their lives, they want
to see Romanian sites, they want Romanian history. Just like
if they're going on my Beatles tour, I'm going to
take them to Big Ben, Buckingham Palace. I'm going to
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take them to all the important London sites because it
might be the only time they're there. They're using Beetles
as their reason to go to England, well if they're
using Dracula as the only reason to go to Romania.
So we're mixing the history of Vlad, flat Tepesh, Flatley
and Paler, which is truth and its history and its actuality,
with the fiction, the lore, the fun if I nay
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of Dracula, and we follow in the footsteps of Jonathan
Harker in Dracula's novel, and we visit castles, we visited
Vlad's birth places, we visit where he was buried. It's
just the if you love vampires, if you love drag
and if you love any of this you know horror stuff,
the way I do this is the ultimate trip. So
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we brobab me for many years. I guess if you
wanted to go to Romania and taste something of what
Dracula had to offer, you would do one of these,
not insulting any one of a certain age, but you
would do these senior citizen type tours where you get
up at eight in the morning, breakfast tour for a
few hours, lunch tour for no two hours, dinner, and
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then go to sleep right and one day, one day
you might have touched on a Dracula castle or something
about the legend. Maybe go to brash Off where the
impellings took place. I said, no, if I'm a fan,
I gotta do this for fans. I got to do
it for how a Dracula person would want. And it's
how I based everything is how I would want it,
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and I wanted a fully immersive week long trip that
covered every aspect of it. And that's what we do.
We show Dracula films and horror films on board the coach,
We do trivia on board. We go to all the
places that are connected to Vlad, all the connected places
that connected to Dracula, and not in one day, not
one afternoon, because that would never touch upon Bramcastle will
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never touch upon the Carpathian Mountains, Borgo pass, all these
things you've heard about and all those movies. So yeah,
so we do all of it and people come back
just love. I'm so. I'll tell you I'm so. I
don't know, say lucky, but I did. I did on
the right thing with Beatles and the Dracula tours and
ghost tours, which I'll tell you about in a minute.
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Because the people who go are already in the mind
of wanting to have a great time. They're already loving
the theme, they were already loving what being presented, and
they're loving the host tour who are working with them.
When they come back. You know how you go to
a restaurant and by best restaurant ever, they have it
off day, you know, the super cold whatever. We come
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back and it's one hundred percent satisfaction. The people go
on the Beatle tours, the Dracula Tours, any of the
tours I do. We're just lucky that we've hit the
right elements of what to give them and how to
present it. And it's the right mix of people because
it's like minded people and they have the greatest time.
So the people go on Dracula Tour, which is wwwdractours
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dot com and we have space for this October, but
we do it every single year and it falls in
a Halloween time, so people can experience Halloween in Eastern
Europe once in their lives. But the people go have
such a good time at Charles, what else can you do? Well?
We started doing ghost tours wow, which were similar to
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the Dracula Tour in theme, similar in the people who
would go. And it's not just people, It's not just
people in Taharror. It's folks who've done every other tour
and they've done their Caribbeans and they've done this and
they want to go on something a little off the
beaten path that sounds like fun and it meshes so well.
So we started doing ghost tours. The first one we
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ever did was to England, which made sense because Jack
the Ripper and Towerland everything there is so haunted. And
then we did Ireland and Scotland and thought, well, the
the same people are coming with us there having such
a great time, we have to go to other places.
Where do we go? We took them to Eastern Germany,
Frankenstein's Castles, Israel. We took them to Cuba, Romania, the Hungary.
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So we've kind of ran out of places, so that
we're repeating the Ghost Tour to England again next summer
for the first time in ten years. Well, people who've
been to ten years now of Dracula who want to
do another tour with us, were finally finally heating the
Dracula Tour, the Ghost Tour to England, and it goes
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to places that you may have even heard of, like
Borley Rectory and if you ever google it, it's said
to be one of the most haunted places in the world. Uh,
the Old Pub at Jerusalem is the oldest pub in
the world. We go to all these really haunted, amazing
places and it's Tours of Terror dot com for the ghosts.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, so let me let me ask you this because
clearly I can tell by talking to you just in
this little bit that you're very knowledgeable about the history
of these places and you're very into it. So I
had always heard that Dracula or Vlad I should say
that the legend of Dracula came from him being a vampire,
because when they exhumed his grave, he wasn't there. Is
that true?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right, So why is he connected to that? Dracula
means draco, which is Romanian for dragon. So there's you
know that, there's there's history, there's legends, there's tales that
may or may not be true. We go to snag
Off Island where he was buried, and it's this you
have to It's a moat around the island. It's a
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little monastery that's run by this crazy monk with wild
chickens running round. It's an amazing scenario. And the setting
is it's like a movie in itself. And and uh,
I guess years ago when they were in a renovation,
they dug up the the you know, the grave and
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it was a combination of animal bones, human bones and
no head. Wow makes sense, no skull because if you're
if you're burying a vampire who's a true vampire, you're
gonna put that head somewhere else. You're gonna burn it.
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You're gonna just make sure it's not coming back when
we go on on the On some of these tours,
you know where witches were buried or where demonic people
are buried. There's sometimes chains over the graves and other
places they're not buried six feet under because that would
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be defacing and making the earth sacrilegious. They don't give
them the honor of being buried in They're buried outside
of the cemeteries. So it's a lot of crazy stuff,
but you hit on it. Yeah, there is something very
screwy about where the actual Vlad was buried. But we
go to that site where it is, and we go
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to where he was born. We go to a place
called Shigashaura, which is a walled city right in Romania,
not far from Bucharest, and it's just like it was
in ancient times. The wall is still the same as
it was. And we went there once and they were
the cemetery right in town is next to a big church,
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and the church was undergoing renovations and all these human
bones had come up from underground from a raine and
from them doing all this excavation. It was like the
freakiest thing. One year, we're bones everywhere the church, church
is there. It's it's the church is haunted, the cemetery
is haunted. And here we are in the building where
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Vlad was born. It's just amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Wow, that's incredible, and I want to point out too.
I don't know if we said it, or if you
said it. But you're a paranormal investigator, so you're you're
into these things, and you also have a book of
ghost stories. Are they your stories?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You're good? You have it all covered. So that's the
book that you know, I really get the most traction
from because I do a lot of investigations and I
do a lot of conventions, and that is it's you know,
it's evergreen. People want a copy of It's called True
Ghost Stories of Connecticut, and it's close to my heart
because I'm from Connecticut and I wasn't gonna do Two
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Ghost Stories from the Bronx because I moved out of
there too long ago. But the Two Ghost Stories of
Connecticut is came about because I'm I'm I consider myself
new to the paranormal field, only about you know, ten
years of really really being an investigator, partnering with you know,
mediums and investigators who are far far more knowledgeable and professional,
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if I can use that word than I am. And
I saw all these books. It was like ghost Stories
of Ashcot, ghost Stories of Buffalo, ghost Stories of hear that.
But what that did was it told the place and
its history that didn't interest me as much as what
happened when Robbie and Charles went to the place together,
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knew of its history, and then had an experience, had results.
That's what I wanted. So I went to all these
other paranormal investigators. I went to people who'd been, you know,
exploring places for everything. I said, give me your most story,
the one thing that happened to you that stays in
your mind that will blow everyone's mind. And my first
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response is like when you ask someone what's their favorite Beatles? Oh, man,
I got so many, I can't what's your favorite horror? Oh?
I got what's your favorite or most outstanding ghost story? Oh?
I've been on investigation fifty year. I don't want to
hear that. I want one. Give me the one baby,
and I would really put him to the test. And
thirty three chapters, thirty of which I got from others
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and that I edited, I added graphics, added photos, whatever
I needed to do, put in three of my own chapters.
And the book is it's a slammer it. Some people
love it and I'm really proud of it. And I'm
working on a second edition. Now, you know, when you
talk about the Beatles book, I get. I hear so much, Charles.
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I love the book, and I'm not that grade of
a Beatles fan, which is hard to believe that anyone's not.
And they say, well, I loved it because it was
nice reading what celebrities wrote. And I love top ten lists.
I heard that with the horror book. I love the book,
even though I'm not a huge horror fan. I don't
go see a lot of horror movies, but it was
great to read. You know what so and so said
(29:07):
about this movie in that movie, And I love Top
Towns with the Ghost Story book. Every town should have
this book, every city or every state, and someone should
follow my lead because this is what's really interesting. You've
heard of this place, this cemetery, this prison, this old
psycho ward that's now closed up. Yeah, you know it's history.
(29:30):
You know why it might be haunted or why it's
history is being one. But now you have a book
that tells you what happened to people who visited there,
who explored there. And that's the beauty of this book.
And it's people love it from everywhere. I mean, people
overseas have gotten this book and said, oh, I want
to visit Connecticut. You know, to see these places they go.
You don't have to just enjoy the book. It's true
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ghost Stories of Connecticut. But the website is www. Paranormal
Connecticut dot com.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Okay, so you kind of took my next question and
threw it out there already, because it's the same question
you were asking everybody else. Because I want to know
if you could give us one of your favorite stories
that happened to you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The one that I didn't put in the book, and
you can't tell anybody, right, this is just between me
and you. Of course, what happened in my home and
my wife did not want me to put it out there,
and the reason being she doesn't want wacky paranormal investigators
to come around at midnight with flashlights around our home.
(30:35):
So I kind of get it, because you know that's
not what we do. You know, we go to established
places and we ask permission and we do it professionally
and all that. But I get that. And she also says,
you know, when the kids grow up, and you know
you don't want them to have nightmare. So okay, I agreed.
I'll tell you the story that I had to put
in my book. And why do I put had to
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had to. My book was finished, and I did a
little chapter on a few places that I went to,
and the editor goes, wait, where's your wow story, where's
your unbelievable you know thing that happened to you? And
I I've only been you know, exploring for a little while.
I mean, I don't really have that. And I sat
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with it for a little while and to hit me,
oh my god. I had the most unbelievable experience when
I was in college and I'd forgotten it. I don't
know if this was a repressed a memory thing, but
I had this experience with a friend of mine, Eddie,
who I went to college with, and he took me
to the Pink Lady. I said, I'm never going to
(31:41):
the pink lady. I thought it was a hooker or
a stripper or the pink lady. What is this man?
And when we finally went, there's a whole story behind it,
and sure enough, it was the most unbelievable, surreal I
saw a ghost. I can't put it any other way,
and it blew my mind so much. And it's a
(32:02):
long story. I mean, I do a lot of library
appearances and I tell the story and I took my
parents the next night, and we had the same exact experience.
They saw it too, because they couldn't believe me. When
I came home and told him I saw ghoes, there
was oh yeah, sure yeah. The The ps to this
story is before I went to print with the book,
(32:25):
this was the very last chapter. I reached out to
this kid, Eddie, who I went to Odege with, and
I had spoken to him years and years and years.
How did I find him? Facebook? Of course found him
and I said, hey, how are you a little here
and there? What have you been up to? Married? Blah
blah blah? You still going to concerts? He always loved
the who, I love the Beatles, I love the Monkeys,
he loved Springsteen. So he was a little, you know,
(32:47):
a little more sophisticated than I have. But I said, Eddie,
there's one other thing I gotta throw by you. Do
you remember us going to see the Pink Lady? And
he didn't respond for a few days, and then he
wrote back, oh my god, I'd forgotten about that. What
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he also forgot about such a wow moment of our lives.
And I go, well, I wrote a chapter and I'd
like you to read it, and he wrote back, OMG,
word for word, verbatim, this is exactly how it did happen.
And I knew that was it, that would be the
chapter in the book. So yeah, the Pink Lady is
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my is my story. And you know, I'm you know,
I go to libraries and I mentioned this, and nobody's
heard of the Pink Lady. And you think that every
every town that has its legend, you know, every city
that has its mystery Midnight Mary or whatever. I don't
know about it. It's passed down from generation to generation.
(33:51):
And Pink Lady one old timer. One guy had a
library once I told the story and he goes, yeah,
I remember. I went he doesn't didn't talk like that.
Obviously wasn't from Alabama, but he said, yeah, I remember
the exact same thing. And I did visit it and
I saw the same go So got a little validation
from one person. But you would think that's twenty one
(34:13):
hundred people would have heard about it, and it's not.
So I'm glad it's in the book. So it keeps
the Pig Lady alive. And she ain't a stripper and
she ain't a hooker.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
All right, now, I want to stay on the paranormal
topic for just one more second, because I want you
to tell the listeners about para con.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, thank you, thank you. Five years now we've been
putting on Connecticut's original Paranormal Convention. This year we've added
a true Crimes element, so it's the Paranormal Convention and
True Crimes Conference. This is the first time we're bringing
in like a celebrity guest, and he's kind of off topic.
(34:54):
He's not paranormal, he's not crimes. But he's a friend
of mine. And I thought that's bringing Butch Patrick Eddie Munster.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Just here's my lily for you.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
That's it. The Mutual Admiration Society, that sealed it, that
stealed the deal. Oh my, that's very impressive. Yeah. Growing up,
if you love to have any good sound, that was
the next probably natural, you know, evolution. You love the
Adams family and the monsters, but maybe the monsters a
little more. Uh. And Eddie's he's come. He's come to
(35:32):
my Madracula tour with me, oh one of the years
as a special guest. And he's been a friend for
probably twenty years. So come on, come to the convention.
Whatever it takes, He'll put you off a fly or
whatever fear you want. And I said, of course, Charles,
I'd be honored to. So maybe this will branch it out.
You know, most of the people who come to the
paranormal conventions are either already believers or bringing friends who
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they want to introduce to it. I think this might
open it up to larger scope, the fact that it's
a true crimes conference, that we have guests in that
field as well, not just paranormal. But now it's more.
You know, there's some horror people, some monsters and having
Eddie Monster come on. But I would go. I would
spend the twenty bucks to go to a show just
to meet him.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Oh god, absolutely, I've been reaching out to that guy
for two years trying to get him on my podcast.
So I would absolutely spend the money to go meet him.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
For sure. Cool, very cool, thanks, because I you know,
people question at the beginning, they go, well, why don't
you get you know, a well known paranormal guest. Well
well known paranormal guest is well known only in the
paranormal field. Correct, And the people who have gone I
got most of them are ready. So it's you have
to sometimes reach. There's a very famous convention on the
(36:48):
East Coast called Chiller Chiller Theater. Yeah, started out as
a horror con you know, all the guests were monsters.
Well then it became so that now it's everything, and
it comes to a point where you know, you reach
the point where you think you've you know, maxed out
with the Beatle guests. Like I was the first one
to bring in people like Tommy Rowe who opened for
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the Beatles, Peter Torque, because I thought the monkeys and
the Beatles, you know, were transential type of acts. And
at that point it was the biggest reason was because
I didn't want to repeat guests and all the guests
were done, and all the guests were great, but I
if I opened it up that little more, that it'll
bring in more people who might not otherwise come. And
(37:32):
the same same logic, you know. Definitely, we do a
Salem Paranormal Convention on the Salem Paranormal and Horror Convention
and they're full. So we've had you know, Friday the
thirteenth guests, We've had the mom from U Silent Night,
Bloody Night, whatever that movie is. Uh, we tried to
you know, make that very much fifty percent horror, fifty
(37:54):
percent paranormal, but the connecting one we try to stay
a little more pure to the paranormal. But this is
just the few little surprised tidbits that we've been doing
to make it more mass appeal and just more fun
to the people who would be going otherwise.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
All right, that's awesome. Well, just to navigate just slightly
away from the paranormal, but not too much. I want
to mention that you've also been in horror films, and
I want the listeners to be able to check some
of these out. So do you know where they're streaming
at the moment?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
So right now, the most recent one I was in,
and it's an anthology of four or five horror shorts
with a wrap around, and it's called Halloween Candy, and
it's on tub and some other streaming platforms, and they're
just beginning work on Halloween Candy two. So we have
to find a way for me to somehow be in it,
(38:44):
even though I was killed in the first one. Robert,
why I'm killed in so many movies. There's a movie
called Pink Eye where I got the crowbar through the
neck into the where I'm killed in an insane asylum.
I am killed by a stapler through the head in
uh in Tiny's Halloween thirty, a bunch of no name movies,
(39:06):
but I'm most I'll tell you what I'm most proud
of is I was in The Sadist, which is a
movie with Tom Savini. Yeah, and I get to play
the dad, and I'm in the in the beginning, but
I'm the first voice you hear in the trailer. So
if you type in the Sadist Tom Savigni and you
play the trailer for it, that's my voice that you
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hear first.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And I'm in something called Zombie Chronicles where I get
shot in the head and that's that's a really that's
a good, uicy role. But my probably my most famous
and best known role is non horror. I played Elton
John in HBO's Flight to the Concords in the second season.
It's a show with our garfuncals on it and all
(39:52):
there's a Botto look alike. It's a really crazy, crazy episode.
But there's two Elton John's. It's Paton Oswald is one
of them, and I'm the and we go facing each other.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So that's really cool. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well, you brought the conversation back to music. So my
one of my final questions is gonna be I could
be wrong about this, but were you also putting on
a music festival at one point?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Well? Yeah, so I just recently did the Beatles. We
do the Fab four Music Festival, and I do that
in Connecticut for a long time. But in twenty twenty
I put on rock Con which a lot of people
who went to it, it's like, oh, that was the
Golden Goose of these type of conventions. What I thought, Robbie,
is this was gonna be the comic con of rock
(40:37):
and roll. I had one hundred. It was a weekend
of one hundred rock stars. Oh, one of the Beach Boys,
one of the Supremes, Tommy James. It was like I
forgot Bobby Steele from the Misfits. All over the place.
You know, heavy metal guys, old these guys, do wop guys,
rock and roll guys, everything in between, and and some
(41:00):
I didn't think people would know. Ron Dante, who was
the lead singer of the Archies, who's now one of
the Turtles, was there al Jardine from the Beach Boys,
Mary Wilson from the Supremes, Tommy James, Tommy James, and
Shot Ells. And it was a hundred rock stars sitting
at table, signing autographs, taking pictures of people, and it
made sense. There were horror conventions, there were comic cons
(41:21):
There wasn't anything like that for rock and roll. But
I lost a fortune. I took it. I took full
page ads in the New York Times, the Daily News,
the Post, USA Today, a CBO radio, and had I
had deep, deep pockets that advertising would have translated to
future shows, and each year I would have gotten different
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people and different rock stars and different you know, it
would have gone on and on. But it was the
one and only and there's never been one since, which
blows my mind. But twenty ten rock On. I'm very
proud of that. Thank you for mentioning that.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, yeah, of course. Now before I get you out
of here, two more things, and the first one is
I need you to play your social media, so everybody
listening who doesn't already follow you can start to follow you.
And anything that's upcoming that you want to talk about
that maybe we didn't get to or just plug one
more time.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Great, great, I appreciate it. So all the books go
under my last name, roseeney r O s E n
A Y. If you put it on IMDb, you'll see
my roles. If you want to watch any of the films,
if you want to go on Amazon, you'll see where
the books are. Each event has its own website. So
the one that's coming up, the soonest that we mentioned
(42:29):
earlier is July twelfth and thirteenth. It's Connecticut's of a
Paranormal Convention ct para con. The website is p A
r A C O N n as in Connecticut Parathon
dot org, www Paracon with two ends dot org. And
then right after that we have in August the Connecticut
(42:50):
Which Festival, which is a free admission event. It's in Hartford, Connecticut,
one of the places where unfortunately the trials took place
and all that nasty stuff, And we do that every August,
and then Salem is until November. But if you google
my last name, or if you do Instagram Rosne, you
Facebook Rosene, you'll find me and uh and you'll find
(43:12):
all these crazy things I do. The Beetles Tour, Beetle
Liverpool Tours dot com draculatur dractours dot com and they
can rewind it to hear the rest.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
All right, fantastic, Thank you so much for being here.
This was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Thank you. Thank you for finding ways to get me
to talk about stuff I don't usually talk about and
squeeze it into an hour. Amazing. You know. I was.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
I was like overly prepared because there was so much
stuff that you do that I'm interested in, and I
was like, all right, I got it, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You did it, all right, So take me out of
here by the hook and we bring in Kathy to
now and Bobby. Thank you so much, my friend. I
hope we can meet sometime.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Absolutely, Thank you again.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Cheers the.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
All right Rockers. Once again, Charles Rosney do one of
his tours, follow him on socials, check out a para con,
whatever you need to do. If you're listening to this
podcast and you're a fan of this podcast, I know
you're a fan of this interview, and I thank you
guys for joining me. And next week we have Kathy
Nadal who is a psychic medium, So come back next
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
What's up, rock soldiers. This is the rock star Robbie Vegas.
Thank you once again for tuning into the All Bets
Are Off Podcast Today. My guest is Charles Rosney. And
for all of you listeners who don't know who that
is yet, if you are a listener of this podcast,
you are going to love this interview because Charles is
into everything that we talk about. He's into music, he's
in the horror movies. And I'm talking like this guy
(00:51):
does tours of Dracula's Castle in Transylvania, and he does
Beatles tours in Liverpool, and and you know, he does
paranormal investigations. And I don't want to spoil everything that
we're going to talk about here, but I'm super excited
about it. And we tried to cram as much as
we could into a little less than an hour here,
(01:12):
So stick around, check it out, and then of course
give him a follow on all of his socials. At
the end of this interview, all right, Charles, thanks so
much for being here on the All Bets Are Off podcast.
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Same here thanks to our friend who mutually introduced us.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah. Yeah, Kathy is fantastic and she'll actually be on
the show right after you.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh great, well, I'm saying hello to her, Kathy de
dal Hello, I'm saying hello to you in advance.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So I want to jump right in because there's a
million things that you do and they are all things
that interest me oddly enough. So here's where I want
to start. First is the music, more specifically the Beatles,
because you actually do a Beatles tour in England, and
(02:03):
I just want to know before you get into that.
Let's zoom in on that. There we go. I love that.
So before we even you know, get into the tour specifically,
tell me where your love of the Beatles starts.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I'm an old guy, so you know I saw them
on My first memory life is seeing them on the
At Sullivan Show February nineteen sixty four, and I was hooked.
You know, I didn't have the chops to be a musician.
I didn't have, you know, the talent to do what
I needed to do to be either a musician or
an a Beatles tribute band. I did, like everything else.
Became a party DJ, start publishing a magazine on the
(02:44):
Beatles for many years, started producing Beatle conventions and festivals,
and the Beatles tour to Liverpool every summer since nineteen
eighty three.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Oh my god, since nineteen eighty three, and you're still doing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It, still doing it forty years plus, going strong, and
you know, people absolutely love it. Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And for the people listening who are unfamiliar, can you
give us just a rundown of like, what are they
going to see on this tour?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's literally everything you've ever all, what you've heard in
the song Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Abbey Road, It's the
postcards you've seen, the pictures of the Beatles at their homes.
It's ten days of London, Liverpool and everything Beatles. You know,
if you've ever been to a Beatles convention, you think, wow,
(03:30):
this is it, man, nothing could be better than this,
Or you've seen Ringo or Poland concert, No, this is it.
This is the ultimate. Because we literally visit every possible
place connected to the Beatles. You're traveling in the footsteps
of the Beatles and Liverpool Tours dot Com is my
company that we deal with, and people go and they
(03:52):
have such a great time. Five years later they come back,
you know, and and things are different because even though
the place as we visit are the same, the activities
we do are always changing. We might go to, you know,
a Leting tribute concert that's put on one night. Another
one might be the Traveling Wilberry's if you're familiar with,
you know, the Harrison Project and all that. Another time
(04:14):
we'll go to go inside Strawberry Fields, and a time
we'll go inside the Kasmo Club. So we mix it
up so that if people are coming for the first time,
they're getting everything they need to do. They get to
cross Abbey Road and they do Penny Lane story, I
feels all those places, and they go to the Cavern Club.
But if they're repeating, they're now also getting new stuff.
(04:35):
So it's a I'm just I love doing it and
I host it. I mean I'm there, you know, front
person and tour guide and I make sure everyone has
a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Wow, I love that. That's so cool. And to stay
on the topic of the Beatles, you're also an author
and you have a Beatles book, you want to tell
us a little bit about that.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
We do, thank you. You know, I thought when I
was publishing a fanzines for twenty years, I said, I'm
gonna double book. I've been writing, you know, on the
Beatles for twenty I've done enough. And then COVID hit
and I have myself eating stuff to do. So I
put out a horror book first, the Book of Top
Ten Horror Lists, and all my Beatle people were like, hey,
how dare you put out a horror book before the
(05:14):
Beatles book? And sure enough we follow it with the
Book of Top ten Beatles Lists, where celebrities, rock stars, actors, athletes,
you name it gave their top ten Beatle lists and
it could have been their favorite you know, concerts they
saw of the Beatles. It could have been their favorite
(05:34):
you know, single releases, their favorite songs, their favorite album,
favorite solo, whatever they had free reign to come up
with a top ten list. And people love the book.
It's just such a fun read.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Oh that's really cool. And you know, before we move
on from the Beatles book topic, can we tell everybody
where they can get that?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, well it's Amazon, is always the best place to
get it, you know, if you have Amazon Prime to
get free shipping. But there's a website for it if
they want to read more about the book and if
they want to get a signed copy, and it's basically
the title of the book www. Book of Top ten,
the number ten, not to end book of top ten
Beatles lists dot Com.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
All right, awesome, And and you know, again staying on
music and on books, you actually have a book two
on the Turtles.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That's crazy, right, yeah? Why the Turtles? And I'll tell
you it's all in the title, not just happy Together.
Everybody knows imagine me and you sing it with me.
I do, absolutely everyone knows that song. But go deeper, man,
these guys had top ten hits, they were amazing concert performances,
(06:39):
performance they performed, They backed up Springsteen on t Rex.
I mean, if you read deep into their history, it's
like what And there was never a book on them
and they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
There was never this amazing complete anthology, discography, everything, and
almost six hundred pages worth of material. And I was
(07:02):
put out by Genius Books. That's my most recent book.
And uh not it's the website is the kind of
the title of the book. It's www. Not just Happy
Together dot com. And the Turtles a to z AM
Radio to Zappa because when they when they stopped being
the Turtles for a while and they were flowing Eddy
(07:24):
touring with Frank Zappa, people don't understand, you know, the
multitude of this band's creativity. And I always get into
this that the you know, questions, well, why are they
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? And my
I think there's an answer, and it makes sense when
I look at the other bands that should be an aren't,
Like the Monkeys, like the povere and the Raiders. These
(07:45):
were top ten hit bands. You know, they didn't put
out uh. They didn't have their Sergeant Pepper, they didn't
have you know, their classic uh Dark Side of the Moon.
They didn't have these incredible albums. They had hit after
hit after that people sang in love. But they were
also funny, that personality. They were on TV a lot,
and it seems like you know, the Monkeys, the Turtles,
(08:07):
these bands that had the personality and the humor maybe
that sometimes overshadowed their great music and great vocals and
all the stuff that they did musically. So anyway, I
think they were the ones that deserved a book, and
I'm really proud of what we created with it.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know what I love about that is uh so
I'm actually a Turtles fan. So it was when I
said that you you know, you're into everything that I
love this. This just couldn't worked out better. And actually
a few months back, I interviewed a friend of mine,
Joe Hoakstra, who was actually in the Turtles for a while,
and he had a wild career and ended up in
(08:44):
the Turtles for for a handful of years. Obviously not
an original member, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Was he was he an East Coast or a West
Coast Turtle? And the reason I asked is this band
was brilliant. They had a West Coast cast that when
they went out it was and Eddie, Mark and Howard
and a backing up West Coast bit they come to
they come to New York in the East Coast, they
had guys here who were playing well.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Joel was a New York guy, so he was he
was out this way.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So if I knew, I would have included him in
the book. Because some of the people who we included
were people who played in you know as Turtles through
the Years. One of them was a Mitch Weissman, who
was the original McCartney in Beatlemania. Another one is Greg
Hawks from the Cars was their keyboard player. So yeah,
(09:34):
I would have loved to have gotten him in the book. Well,
I thought it was the most complete book ever missed him.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, now he's out there jamming with Transferbarian Orchestra and
Cheron White Snake and all these these other bands. So
so I want to stay on your books because you
did already mention that you have a horror book, which
is another one of my favorite things. So what's what's
the premise behind the horror book? Is it kind of
like the Beatles book. It's the top ten celebrities ranking.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Well, so it's celebrities do the ranking. And with the
Beatle Book, it was sixty four celebrities, you know, when
I'm sixty four, and that magical year for this one hit,
we hit one hundred. I mean there was one hundred
top lists from different.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Oh wow, yeah, I'm assuming on that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, one hundred top ten horror lists from celebrities. And
there's a lot of classic photos on there. But the
people who were in the book I mean again, rock stars, actors, actresses, athletes, DJs,
famous people who you know you wouldn't even think were
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horror people. And each of them had give me, Well,
they could give me their top ten favorite movies, their
top ten favorite horror actors, their top ten favorite TV
shows of a horror nature had to be horror themed.
But I gave Carte Blanche. With the Beatles, it was
mostly their favorite songs. With this one was mostly movie
And as such, what I did in both books is
(11:03):
I did a really cool index. So if your favorite
song was while my guitar Jentlee weeps, you can flip
right to it and say, oh, wow, that's so cool.
So and so you know from this band picked that
as his favorite. Oh dick hab it really he picked it.
And with the Horror book, it's the same thing. You
pick a horror movie, you go in the back the
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exer says, oh, this person liked it. No, hard to believe,
you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. The funny
one is we got Boris Karloff's daughter to give a list,
Sarah Carloff, and a friend of mine. So it was
it was you know, it's easier to get these lists
when you have friends in the business. But she hates
horror movies. I don't even want I didn't even used
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to watch my dad's movie shows. I'll come up with something.
And her list was top ten things that scared her
and number ten was having to do this list.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Good answer, right, So tell me some one to read.
Tell me, then, where your love of horror stems from?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Where?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Where did that come from for you?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I mentioned one of my first memories in life,
I was seeing the Beatles on Insolvent. One of my
other first memories in life is my mom sitting us
down and I don't want to say forcing me, but
persuading me with force to watch Brida Frankenstein. She loved
those universal horror movies. She loved and you can see
Frankie behind me. Frankenstein drafted wolf Man, Mummy, Creature from
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the Black Labooon And I mean she grew up and
loved those well, she saw those in the movies because
that was her, you know, growing up in those days.
So she wanted to impart her love of that onto me.
And it took a few sittings and a few watchings,
but my gosh, you know here I'm sitting next to
a preacher from the Black Lagoon model I got next
to me Horror. I'm surrounded by Beatles, surrounded by Beatles,
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and I'm surrounded by horror everything comics, just like the
pop culture guy who just those were my two loves. Yeah,
so probably passed down. I'll take credit for, you know,
fall in love with the Beatles on my own, but
I give my parents the credit for giving me the
influence of the horror monsters. It wasn't horror in those days.
It was monster movies, yes, And the only way we
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would know what was on TV because we'd have streaming.
I couldn't just type in, you know, Hereditary and watch
whatever movie I want on a streaming service. We would
have to refer to the Bible. You know what the
Bible was in those days. The TV guide.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You know, sometimes I kind of miss like sitting down
and opening the newspaper and going through the TV guide, like,
oh my god, we got to watch this at whatever
time because if not, who knows what it'll be on again.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
That's exactly what it was in those days. So we
would go through the TV guide. It was a ritual
and we would circle oh whoa, it's a Bars Karlov movie.
I don't care how good it is. We got to
watch it. We have to watch a Bellago and all
that stuff. And yeah, and I imparted it onto my kids.
I mean, we just went to see Bring Her Back
and The Final Destination. So a horror movie doesn't come
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out that I don't go see with my kids now.
But now it's horror. Those days it was. You know,
you look back on the Frankenstein and Dracula movies and
then I don't say they're comical, but they're tame. And
in those days they were very scary and impactful. But
I still love them, still love seeing them, and still
love talking about them.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Well, those will always be, uh, in my opinion, they'll
they'll always be favorites, their favorites of mine. I'd rather watch,
you know, Dracula or Eben Costello, Meete Frankenstein or you know,
any of those movies, any Vincent Price movie, just like
those are the ones that you're like, oh my god,
there's just something about them that's just perfect. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, you mentioned I mean, people say what's your favorite
horror movie? And of course when you say they were horror,
I go right to the Exorcist. What's your favorite monster movie?
Abin Costello Meet Frankenstein. It brings a smile to your
face just mentioning it. You know, it's the perfect monsters
combined with comedy. And who didn't love who didn't love
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Abercastello growing up? Who didn't love mikersot treasuring them?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And you know they did. What was it four of
those movies? Aving Costello Meet Invisible Man, and like everybody
only talks about ab A Castello Meet Frankenstein. But they're
all good. And obviously that one's the favorite. It's still
my favorite too, but they're all good.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
All good. And I watched one and I can't remember
what it was and I'd forgotten that it was not
The Visible Man. Maybe meet Boris Karloff the Killer. Oh
there's four or five? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and but but
you know, when you have perfection, like it's the Beatles
and everything else, so it's aber Costello and everything Frankenstein.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. And you know, again along those
same lines, horror and monster movies were so captivating that
you know, you would see characters like Don Knots who
did the Ghost and mister Chicken and like those those
comedy guys like Ada Cassello and Don Notts, they couldn't
wait to get their hands on the horror you know,
the universal monsters and things like that. Either.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know, I love the Don Naughts movie. That's to
this day. It's it's such a favorite. He's perfectly casting that.
But I don't think there was a comedy team that
didn't do Maybe maybe the Marx Brothers didn't, but Martin
Lewis did one, Bob Bob Hope and and Ben Crosby
did one. The Bowery Boys did them, and and the
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Three Stooges did a bunch of them where they even
repeated it. If one was with Curly one with a
chem same movie redone, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, And and that kind of stuff carried on as
we see in more recent years. I can't remember the
year that it came out, but it's not too long ago.
It was Tucker and Dale Versus Evil, which is another
updated comedy horror movie that's just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Fantastic, and it's a lot of people don't know about
it and should know about, you know, they know about
what was what was the ones that they were doing
for a while that were takeoffs on horror movies where
they would.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Do and scary movies, scary.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Movies, and those were fun and you know, and there
was a lot of thought went into them, and if
you knew what they were referring to, it even added
more to it. But for originality and for if someone
doesn't know Tucker Anddale, they have to look it up and.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
See it absolutely And you know, again staying on the
topic of the horror movies, is one of the original
universal monsters and probably you know, the most famous actor
who you know came from that was arguably bel Lagosi.
You could say Boris Karloff, which is again arguably also
could be true. But you do Dracula tours actually in Transylvania.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Let's just let's show, Baila he should be is he
behind me? Oh no, the Wolfman's behind me. Sorry, Bayla,
I don't know where you are. Dracula Tours did Pennsylvania,
so that's you know, you talk about the Beetle Tours
to Liverpool. And if my other love is monsters, yeah,
of course I'm doing Dracula Tours to Transylvania. And we're
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doing that since ninety eight ninety eight. Every year we
spend a week and what we do, and you'll appreciate
this because there's people who want if they're going to
Romania for the first time in their lives, they want
to see Romanian sites, they want Romanian history. Just like
if they're going on my Beatles tour, I'm going to
take them to Big Ben, Buckingham Palace. I'm going to
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take them to all the important London sites because it
might be the only time they're there. They're using Beetles
as their reason to go to England, well if they're
using Dracula as the only reason to go to Romania.
So we're mixing the history of Vlad, flat Tepesh, Flatley
and Paler, which is truth and its history and its actuality,
with the fiction, the lore, the fun if I nay
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of Dracula, and we follow in the footsteps of Jonathan
Harker in Dracula's novel, and we visit castles, we visited
Vlad's birth places, we visit where he was buried. It's
just the if you love vampires, if you love drag
and if you love any of this you know horror stuff,
the way I do this is the ultimate trip. So
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we brobab me for many years. I guess if you
wanted to go to Romania and taste something of what
Dracula had to offer, you would do one of these,
not insulting any one of a certain age, but you
would do these senior citizen type tours where you get
up at eight in the morning, breakfast tour for a
few hours, lunch tour for no two hours, dinner, and
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then go to sleep right and one day, one day
you might have touched on a Dracula castle or something
about the legend. Maybe go to brash Off where the
impellings took place. I said, no, if I'm a fan,
I gotta do this for fans. I got to do
it for how a Dracula person would want. And it's
how I based everything is how I would want it,
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and I wanted a fully immersive week long trip that
covered every aspect of it. And that's what we do.
We show Dracula films and horror films on board the coach,
We do trivia on board. We go to all the
places that are connected to Vlad, all the connected places
that connected to Dracula, and not in one day, not
one afternoon, because that would never touch upon Bramcastle will
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never touch upon the Carpathian Mountains, Borgo pass, all these
things you've heard about and all those movies. So yeah,
so we do all of it and people come back
just love. I'm so. I'll tell you I'm so. I
don't know, say lucky, but I did. I did on
the right thing with Beatles and the Dracula tours and
ghost tours, which I'll tell you about in a minute.
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Because the people who go are already in the mind
of wanting to have a great time. They're already loving
the theme, they were already loving what being presented, and
they're loving the host tour who are working with them.
When they come back. You know how you go to
a restaurant and by best restaurant ever, they have it
off day, you know, the super cold whatever. We come
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back and it's one hundred percent satisfaction. The people go
on the Beatle tours, the Dracula Tours, any of the
tours I do. We're just lucky that we've hit the
right elements of what to give them and how to
present it. And it's the right mix of people because
it's like minded people and they have the greatest time.
So the people go on Dracula Tour, which is wwwdractours
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dot com and we have space for this October, but
we do it every single year and it falls in
a Halloween time, so people can experience Halloween in Eastern
Europe once in their lives. But the people go have
such a good time at Charles, what else can you do? Well?
We started doing ghost tours wow, which were similar to
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the Dracula Tour in theme, similar in the people who
would go. And it's not just people, It's not just
people in Taharror. It's folks who've done every other tour
and they've done their Caribbeans and they've done this and
they want to go on something a little off the
beaten path that sounds like fun and it meshes so well.
So we started doing ghost tours. The first one we
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ever did was to England, which made sense because Jack
the Ripper and Towerland everything there is so haunted. And
then we did Ireland and Scotland and thought, well, the
the same people are coming with us there having such
a great time, we have to go to other places.
Where do we go? We took them to Eastern Germany,
Frankenstein's Castles, Israel. We took them to Cuba, Romania, the Hungary.
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So we've kind of ran out of places, so that
we're repeating the Ghost Tour to England again next summer
for the first time in ten years. Well, people who've
been to ten years now of Dracula who want to
do another tour with us, were finally finally heating the
Dracula Tour, the Ghost Tour to England, and it goes
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to places that you may have even heard of, like
Borley Rectory and if you ever google it, it's said
to be one of the most haunted places in the world. Uh,
the Old Pub at Jerusalem is the oldest pub in
the world. We go to all these really haunted, amazing
places and it's Tours of Terror dot com for the ghosts.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, so let me let me ask you this because
clearly I can tell by talking to you just in
this little bit that you're very knowledgeable about the history
of these places and you're very into it. So I
had always heard that Dracula or Vlad I should say
that the legend of Dracula came from him being a vampire,
because when they exhumed his grave, he wasn't there. Is
that true?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right, So why is he connected to that? Dracula
means draco, which is Romanian for dragon. So there's you
know that, there's there's history, there's legends, there's tales that
may or may not be true. We go to snag
Off Island where he was buried, and it's this you
have to It's a moat around the island. It's a
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little monastery that's run by this crazy monk with wild
chickens running round. It's an amazing scenario. And the setting
is it's like a movie in itself. And and uh,
I guess years ago when they were in a renovation,
they dug up the the you know, the grave and
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it was a combination of animal bones, human bones and
no head. Wow makes sense, no skull because if you're
if you're burying a vampire who's a true vampire, you're
gonna put that head somewhere else. You're gonna burn it.
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You're gonna just make sure it's not coming back when
we go on on the On some of these tours,
you know where witches were buried or where demonic people
are buried. There's sometimes chains over the graves and other
places they're not buried six feet under because that would
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be defacing and making the earth sacrilegious. They don't give
them the honor of being buried in They're buried outside
of the cemeteries. So it's a lot of crazy stuff,
but you hit on it. Yeah, there is something very
screwy about where the actual Vlad was buried. But we
go to that site where it is, and we go
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to where he was born. We go to a place
called Shigashaura, which is a walled city right in Romania,
not far from Bucharest, and it's just like it was
in ancient times. The wall is still the same as
it was. And we went there once and they were
the cemetery right in town is next to a big church,
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and the church was undergoing renovations and all these human
bones had come up from underground from a raine and
from them doing all this excavation. It was like the
freakiest thing. One year, we're bones everywhere the church, church
is there. It's it's the church is haunted, the cemetery
is haunted. And here we are in the building where
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Vlad was born. It's just amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Wow, that's incredible, and I want to point out too.
I don't know if we said it, or if you
said it. But you're a paranormal investigator, so you're you're
into these things, and you also have a book of
ghost stories. Are they your stories?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You're good? You have it all covered. So that's the
book that you know, I really get the most traction
from because I do a lot of investigations and I
do a lot of conventions, and that is it's you know,
it's evergreen. People want a copy of It's called True
Ghost Stories of Connecticut, and it's close to my heart
because I'm from Connecticut and I wasn't gonna do Two
(26:49):
Ghost Stories from the Bronx because I moved out of
there too long ago. But the Two Ghost Stories of
Connecticut is came about because I'm I'm I consider myself
new to the paranormal field, only about you know, ten
years of really really being an investigator, partnering with you know,
mediums and investigators who are far far more knowledgeable and professional,
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if I can use that word than I am. And
I saw all these books. It was like ghost Stories
of Ashcot, ghost Stories of Buffalo, ghost Stories of hear that.
But what that did was it told the place and
its history that didn't interest me as much as what
happened when Robbie and Charles went to the place together,
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knew of its history, and then had an experience, had results.
That's what I wanted. So I went to all these
other paranormal investigators. I went to people who'd been, you know,
exploring places for everything. I said, give me your most story,
the one thing that happened to you that stays in
your mind that will blow everyone's mind. And my first
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response is like when you ask someone what's their favorite Beatles? Oh, man,
I got so many, I can't what's your favorite horror? Oh?
I got what's your favorite or most outstanding ghost story? Oh?
I've been on investigation fifty year. I don't want to
hear that. I want one. Give me the one baby,
and I would really put him to the test. And
thirty three chapters, thirty of which I got from others
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and that I edited, I added graphics, added photos, whatever
I needed to do, put in three of my own chapters.
And the book is it's a slammer it. Some people
love it and I'm really proud of it. And I'm
working on a second edition. Now, you know, when you
talk about the Beatles book, I get. I hear so much, Charles.
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I love the book, and I'm not that grade of
a Beatles fan, which is hard to believe that anyone's not.
And they say, well, I loved it because it was
nice reading what celebrities wrote. And I love top ten lists.
I heard that with the horror book. I love the book,
even though I'm not a huge horror fan. I don't
go see a lot of horror movies, but it was
great to read. You know what so and so said
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about this movie in that movie, And I love Top
Towns with the Ghost Story book. Every town should have
this book, every city or every state, and someone should
follow my lead because this is what's really interesting. You've
heard of this place, this cemetery, this prison, this old
psycho ward that's now closed up. Yeah, you know it's history.
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You know why it might be haunted or why it's
history is being one. But now you have a book
that tells you what happened to people who visited there,
who explored there. And that's the beauty of this book.
And it's people love it from everywhere. I mean, people
overseas have gotten this book and said, oh, I want
to visit Connecticut. You know, to see these places they go.
You don't have to just enjoy the book. It's true
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ghost Stories of Connecticut. But the website is www. Paranormal
Connecticut dot com.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Okay, so you kind of took my next question and
threw it out there already, because it's the same question
you were asking everybody else. Because I want to know
if you could give us one of your favorite stories
that happened to you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The one that I didn't put in the book, and
you can't tell anybody, right, this is just between me
and you. Of course, what happened in my home and
my wife did not want me to put it out there,
and the reason being she doesn't want wacky paranormal investigators
to come around at midnight with flashlights around our home.
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So I kind of get it, because you know that's
not what we do. You know, we go to established
places and we ask permission and we do it professionally
and all that. But I get that. And she also says,
you know, when the kids grow up, and you know
you don't want them to have nightmare. So okay, I agreed.
I'll tell you the story that I had to put
in my book. And why do I put had to
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had to. My book was finished, and I did a
little chapter on a few places that I went to,
and the editor goes, wait, where's your wow story, where's
your unbelievable you know thing that happened to you? And
I I've only been you know, exploring for a little while.
I mean, I don't really have that. And I sat
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with it for a little while and to hit me,
oh my god. I had the most unbelievable experience when
I was in college and I'd forgotten it. I don't
know if this was a repressed a memory thing, but
I had this experience with a friend of mine, Eddie,
who I went to college with, and he took me
to the Pink Lady. I said, I'm never going to
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the pink lady. I thought it was a hooker or
a stripper or the pink lady. What is this man?
And when we finally went, there's a whole story behind it,
and sure enough, it was the most unbelievable, surreal I
saw a ghost. I can't put it any other way,
and it blew my mind so much. And it's a
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long story. I mean, I do a lot of library
appearances and I tell the story and I took my
parents the next night, and we had the same exact experience.
They saw it too, because they couldn't believe me. When
I came home and told him I saw ghoes, there
was oh yeah, sure yeah. The The ps to this
story is before I went to print with the book,
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this was the very last chapter. I reached out to
this kid, Eddie, who I went to Odege with, and
I had spoken to him years and years and years.
How did I find him? Facebook? Of course found him
and I said, hey, how are you a little here
and there? What have you been up to? Married? Blah
blah blah? You still going to concerts? He always loved
the who, I love the Beatles, I love the Monkeys,
he loved Springsteen. So he was a little, you know,
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a little more sophisticated than I have. But I said, Eddie,
there's one other thing I gotta throw by you. Do
you remember us going to see the Pink Lady? And
he didn't respond for a few days, and then he
wrote back, oh my god, I'd forgotten about that. What
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he also forgot about such a wow moment of our lives.
And I go, well, I wrote a chapter and I'd
like you to read it, and he wrote back, OMG,
word for word, verbatim, this is exactly how it did happen.
And I knew that was it, that would be the
chapter in the book. So yeah, the Pink Lady is
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my is my story. And you know, I'm you know,
I go to libraries and I mentioned this, and nobody's
heard of the Pink Lady. And you think that every
every town that has its legend, you know, every city
that has its mystery Midnight Mary or whatever. I don't
know about it. It's passed down from generation to generation.
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And Pink Lady one old timer. One guy had a
library once I told the story and he goes, yeah,
I remember. I went he doesn't didn't talk like that.
Obviously wasn't from Alabama, but he said, yeah, I remember
the exact same thing. And I did visit it and
I saw the same go So got a little validation
from one person. But you would think that's twenty one
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hundred people would have heard about it, and it's not.
So I'm glad it's in the book. So it keeps
the Pig Lady alive. And she ain't a stripper and
she ain't a hooker.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
All right, now, I want to stay on the paranormal
topic for just one more second, because I want you
to tell the listeners about para con.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yeah, thank you, thank you. Five years now we've been
putting on Connecticut's original Paranormal Convention. This year we've added
a true Crimes element, so it's the Paranormal Convention and
True Crimes Conference. This is the first time we're bringing
in like a celebrity guest, and he's kind of off topic.
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He's not paranormal, he's not crimes. But he's a friend
of mine. And I thought that's bringing Butch Patrick Eddie Munster.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Just here's my lily for you.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
That's it. The Mutual Admiration Society, that sealed it, that
stealed the deal. Oh my, that's very impressive. Yeah. Growing up,
if you love to have any good sound, that was
the next probably natural, you know, evolution. You love the
Adams family and the monsters, but maybe the monsters a
little more. Uh. And Eddie's he's come. He's come to
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my Madracula tour with me, oh one of the years
as a special guest. And he's been a friend for
probably twenty years. So come on, come to the convention.
Whatever it takes, He'll put you off a fly or
whatever fear you want. And I said, of course, Charles,
I'd be honored to. So maybe this will branch it out.
You know, most of the people who come to the
paranormal conventions are either already believers or bringing friends who
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they want to introduce to it. I think this might
open it up to larger scope, the fact that it's
a true crimes conference, that we have guests in that
field as well, not just paranormal. But now it's more.
You know, there's some horror people, some monsters and having
Eddie Monster come on. But I would go. I would
spend the twenty bucks to go to a show just
to meet him.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Oh god, absolutely, I've been reaching out to that guy
for two years trying to get him on my podcast.
So I would absolutely spend the money to go meet him.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
For sure. Cool, very cool, thanks, because I you know,
people question at the beginning, they go, well, why don't
you get you know, a well known paranormal guest. Well
well known paranormal guest is well known only in the
paranormal field. Correct, And the people who have gone I
got most of them are ready. So it's you have
to sometimes reach. There's a very famous convention on the
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East Coast called Chiller Chiller Theater. Yeah, started out as
a horror con you know, all the guests were monsters.
Well then it became so that now it's everything, and
it comes to a point where you know, you reach
the point where you think you've you know, maxed out
with the Beatle guests. Like I was the first one
to bring in people like Tommy Rowe who opened for
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the Beatles, Peter Torque, because I thought the monkeys and
the Beatles, you know, were transential type of acts. And
at that point it was the biggest reason was because
I didn't want to repeat guests and all the guests
were done, and all the guests were great, but I
if I opened it up that little more, that it'll
bring in more people who might not otherwise come. And
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the same same logic, you know. Definitely, we do a
Salem Paranormal Convention on the Salem Paranormal and Horror Convention
and they're full. So we've had you know, Friday the
thirteenth guests, We've had the mom from U Silent Night,
Bloody Night, whatever that movie is. Uh, we tried to
you know, make that very much fifty percent horror, fifty
(37:54):
percent paranormal, but the connecting one we try to stay
a little more pure to the paranormal. But this is
just the few little surprised tidbits that we've been doing
to make it more mass appeal and just more fun
to the people who would be going otherwise.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
All right, that's awesome. Well, just to navigate just slightly
away from the paranormal, but not too much. I want
to mention that you've also been in horror films, and
I want the listeners to be able to check some
of these out. So do you know where they're streaming
at the moment?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
So right now, the most recent one I was in,
and it's an anthology of four or five horror shorts
with a wrap around, and it's called Halloween Candy, and
it's on tub and some other streaming platforms, and they're
just beginning work on Halloween Candy two. So we have
to find a way for me to somehow be in it,
(38:44):
even though I was killed in the first one. Robert,
why I'm killed in so many movies. There's a movie
called Pink Eye where I got the crowbar through the
neck into the where I'm killed in an insane asylum.
I am killed by a stapler through the head in
uh in Tiny's Halloween thirty, a bunch of no name movies,
(39:06):
but I'm most I'll tell you what I'm most proud
of is I was in The Sadist, which is a
movie with Tom Savini. Yeah, and I get to play
the dad, and I'm in the in the beginning, but
I'm the first voice you hear in the trailer. So
if you type in the Sadist Tom Savigni and you
play the trailer for it, that's my voice that you
(39:28):
hear first.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Oh wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
And I'm in something called Zombie Chronicles where I get
shot in the head and that's that's a really that's
a good, uicy role. But my probably my most famous
and best known role is non horror. I played Elton
John in HBO's Flight to the Concords in the second season.
It's a show with our garfuncals on it and all
(39:52):
there's a Botto look alike. It's a really crazy, crazy episode.
But there's two Elton John's. It's Paton Oswald is one
of them, and I'm the and we go facing each other.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So that's really cool. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
It's so cool.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Well, you brought the conversation back to music. So my
one of my final questions is gonna be I could
be wrong about this, but were you also putting on
a music festival at one point?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Well? Yeah, so I just recently did the Beatles. We
do the Fab four Music Festival, and I do that
in Connecticut for a long time. But in twenty twenty
I put on rock Con which a lot of people
who went to it, it's like, oh, that was the
Golden Goose of these type of conventions. What I thought, Robbie,
is this was gonna be the comic con of rock
(40:37):
and roll. I had one hundred. It was a weekend
of one hundred rock stars. Oh, one of the Beach Boys,
one of the Supremes, Tommy James. It was like I
forgot Bobby Steele from the Misfits. All over the place.
You know, heavy metal guys, old these guys, do wop guys,
rock and roll guys, everything in between, and and some
(41:00):
I didn't think people would know. Ron Dante, who was
the lead singer of the Archies, who's now one of
the Turtles, was there al Jardine from the Beach Boys,
Mary Wilson from the Supremes, Tommy James, Tommy James, and
Shot Ells. And it was a hundred rock stars sitting
at table, signing autographs, taking pictures of people, and it
made sense. There were horror conventions, there were comic cons
(41:21):
There wasn't anything like that for rock and roll. But
I lost a fortune. I took it. I took full
page ads in the New York Times, the Daily News,
the Post, USA Today, a CBO radio, and had I
had deep, deep pockets that advertising would have translated to
future shows, and each year I would have gotten different
(41:42):
people and different rock stars and different you know, it
would have gone on and on. But it was the
one and only and there's never been one since, which
blows my mind. But twenty ten rock On. I'm very
proud of that. Thank you for mentioning that.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Yeah, yeah, of course. Now before I get you out
of here, two more things, and the first one is
I need you to play your social media, so everybody
listening who doesn't already follow you can start to follow you.
And anything that's upcoming that you want to talk about
that maybe we didn't get to or just plug one
more time.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Great, great, I appreciate it. So all the books go
under my last name, roseeney r O s E n
A Y. If you put it on IMDb, you'll see
my roles. If you want to watch any of the films,
if you want to go on Amazon, you'll see where
the books are. Each event has its own website. So
the one that's coming up, the soonest that we mentioned
(42:29):
earlier is July twelfth and thirteenth. It's Connecticut's of a
Paranormal Convention ct para con. The website is p A
r A C O N n as in Connecticut Parathon
dot org, www Paracon with two ends dot org. And
then right after that we have in August the Connecticut
(42:50):
Which Festival, which is a free admission event. It's in Hartford, Connecticut,
one of the places where unfortunately the trials took place
and all that nasty stuff, And we do that every August,
and then Salem is until November. But if you google
my last name, or if you do Instagram Rosne, you
Facebook Rosene, you'll find me and uh and you'll find
(43:12):
all these crazy things I do. The Beetles Tour, Beetle
Liverpool Tours dot com draculatur dractours dot com and they
can rewind it to hear the rest.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
All right, fantastic, Thank you so much for being here.
This was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Thank you. Thank you for finding ways to get me
to talk about stuff I don't usually talk about and
squeeze it into an hour. Amazing. You know. I was.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
I was like overly prepared because there was so much
stuff that you do that I'm interested in, and I
was like, all right, I got it, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
You did it, all right, So take me out of
here by the hook and we bring in Kathy to
now and Bobby. Thank you so much, my friend. I
hope we can meet sometime.
Speaker 3 (43:51):
Absolutely, Thank you again.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Cheers the.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
All right Rockers. Once again, Charles Rosney do one of
his tours, follow him on socials, check out a para con,
whatever you need to do. If you're listening to this
podcast and you're a fan of this podcast, I know
you're a fan of this interview, and I thank you
guys for joining me. And next week we have Kathy
Nadal who is a psychic medium, So come back next
(45:46):
week for I guess you could say a little bit
more of the paranormal. The preceding presentation has been brought
(46:18):
to you by the Gear Network
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