The Spooktator

The Spooktator

The podcast which examines the stranger elements of life, society, international culture, and the media from a rational perspective.

Episodes

The Creep of the Para-Parasocial (2023)

July 11, 2023 • 47 mins

The Spooktator is back! In this episode, Hayley, Paul, and Charlie talk about parasocial relationships in paranormal media, asking whose interests are being served, and who is really your spooky friend?

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Afterlife in Lockdown

August 28, 2020 • 34 mins
Breaking out of quarantine to ask: does the Black Lives Matter movement affect paranormal research? Was there an increase in paranormal activity during lockdown? Was a ghost cyclist really caught on camera? Where did all of those UFOs come from? This episode also features an interview with Lancashire Anomalous Phenomena Investigation Society
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Exploring Hellier with Blake Smith & Jeb Card

March 28, 2020 • 67 mins
Hayley is joined for this episode by Blake Smith and Jeb Card to discuss S1 & S2 of Hellier (produced by Planet Weird), and the shifting landscape of paranormal research. Blake Smith is a writer, researcher, and podcaster and hosts the MonsterTalk Podcast and the In ReSearch Of Podcast which he co-hosts with Jeb Card, an Archaeologist and author of 'Spooky Archaeology'. Episode notes: https://spooktator.co.uk/index.php/2020/03/28...
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"What about Sam?"

February 16, 2020 • 61 mins
Did you miss us? The Spooktator is back in this extra long episode. The team discuss the latest in the Dear David saga, the ghost of Lauriston Castle, an update on a haunted Witches Prison and the death of Derek Acorah...
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Stephen Volk Drops By for Halloween

October 29, 2019 • 40 mins
What's a paranormal podcast to do to celebrate Halloween? Why, sit down and interview award-winning horror and paranormal writer Stephen Volk of course!
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Spooktator Mini: The Lancashire Witch Trials

October 26, 2019 • 11 mins
Welcome to this Spooktator Mini in which Hayley interviews Julie Aspin about her work to eradicate the myths and mistruths that surround the 1612 Lancashire Witch Trials. This is part of The Spooktator collab. with LAPIS Paranormal ahead of their LAPIS conference 2019. Check out www.lapisparanormal.com for details.
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S5E3: Phantom Hitchhikers

October 17, 2019 • 49 mins
What's with all the houses with infamous histories in the news this month? Including one which is... legally haunted? PLUS we interview Rob Gandy about Phantom Hitchhikers!
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S5Ep2: The Frighteners

September 30, 2019 • 46 mins
This episode features the first collaboration between The Spooktator and LAPIS. Hayley interviews Peter Laws ahead of the LAPIS Paranormal Conference in November. Laws is the author of 'The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore'. PLUS: Wrinkles The Clown, Eels in Loch Ness and much more!
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S5Ep1: Myra Hindley's Ghost

September 16, 2019 • 41 mins
Should you go hunting for the ghost of Myra Hindley? What do YOU believe about UFOs? These are some of the questions we ponder in this episode of The Spooktator!
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From The Cutting Room Floor

August 12, 2019 • 30 mins
Surprise! While we're on a between-season break, we thought we'd share this episode full of bits that didn't make final episodes, including real-life spooky experiences from listeners. Enjoy! We'll be back in September, until then remember - spooky is in the eye of the beholder.
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S4E8: Return Of The Minerva Monster

July 15, 2019 • 39 mins
While Nessie makes waves in Scotland, there's something creeping through the woods of Minerva, Ohio... and it has a pet cat? The Spooktators explore the resurfacing of the legend of the Minerva Monster...
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S4E7: The FBI stans Bigfoot?

July 1, 2019 • 43 mins
What do the FBI reaaaally know about Bigfoot? What might they be covering up? Why? What happens to a house when somebody dies there? How easy is it to sell a haunted house... what about a cursed one? The Spooktators discuss all of this and much, much more...
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S4E6: Gannon's Ghoulish Gossip

June 16, 2019 • 42 mins
Gannon brings us up-to-date on all the latest ghoulish gossip from the paranormal media, plus the spooks discuss things that prowl in the wilds of England... and Hayley's shed...?
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S4E5: Spooky Skies!

June 2, 2019 • 37 mins
We look to the weird skies over America in this episode with news of flying humanoids and military plans to investigate UFOs...
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S4E4: Frogman and the Vampire Hunter

May 4, 2019 • 53 mins
Join us as we explore the legend of The Loveland Frogman and it's connections to Kentucky Goblins. This episode also features a discussion about Ed and Lorriane Warren, and an interview with the late David Farrant about the Highgate Vampire.
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S4E3 The Spooktator Goes True Crime

April 8, 2019 • 46 mins
As the first issue of a new True Crime magazine hits the shelves in the UK, here at The Spooktator we couldn't help but wonder what exactly it is that makes societies around the world so obsessed with True Crime in the first place. With this question in mind, welcome to The Spooktator goes True Crime (aka. Making Gannon a Murderer.)
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S4E2 La Llarona & The Holograms

February 28, 2019 • 52 mins
Hayley and Charlie discuss listener feedback, upcoming 2019 horror movies, the legend of La Llorona, and holographic ghosts of the future. PLUS something spooky happens during the recording which is picked up by the mic! With cursed Maria coming for your children, it's another episode of The Spooktator podcast!
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S4E1: ...is that a Thylacine???

January 28, 2019 • 55 mins
This episode we discuss the return of Dear David, Ghost divorce, the latest drama in the Rendelsham Forest UFO case, and our predictions for 2019. With Tasmanian Tigers on the prowl, it's another episode of The Spooktator!
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S3E5: Lotsa Lake Monsters...

October 15, 2018 • 36 mins
In this episode, we discuss the haunted accident hotspot on the M6, the latest Lake Monster sightings from around the globe, and revisit listener feedback with an update.
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S3E4: The Birmingham Beast!

September 24, 2018 • 52 mins
The Spooktators discuss Killing people for science, ghosts on the battlefront, the Angel of Mons, Big Cats roaming the British countryside. Plus, it's Round 2 of X is for the Unexplained!
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