This is a show about all the things they said weren't real. Guided by strange headlines and ancient mysteries, Jordan and Mal explore the paranormal, metaphysical, and supernatural with all the earnestness and insight two big-hearted nerds can muster. If you don't have a good time, then you don't know what a good time is. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent pa...
Latest episodes
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39 min
Are we living in the corpse of Lucifer?
For almost all of human history, nobody had a word for animism, because they just intuitively knew everything in the world is alive. Enter: science, which is very good at taking th…
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59 min
Fact, Fiction, and Fairies with Josh Cutchin
Joshua Cutchin has spent more than a decade exploring the wide territory of the paranormal — fairy food, brimstone smells, Bigfoot, the dead.… What do most people think isn’t real,…
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1 h 01
Tom Maxwell and the Night Parade
Tom returns! Mostly to tell us about his new show (the one he left us for), which tbf is straight fire. Then, honestly it’s just the three of us hanging out for like an hour, just…
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47 min
Daniel Noah on the memory of rocks
Daniel Noah co-founded SpectreVision with Elijah Wood, and then spun up SpectreVision Radio Network. Also, he thinks rocks are alive. This episode is full of wonderful stories. Roc…
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54 min
Can consciousness exist without a body?
We discuss a recent claim by a prominent scientist that consciousness can't exist outside a flesh-and-blood body, whether uploading your mind would capture you or just a copy of yo…
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45 min
Is certainty a type of psychosis?
This week we’re joined by a bonafide listener! Elliott Chadwick emailed us a story about a young man on anti-psychotic meds who turned out not to be psychotic. We had to know more,…
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47 min
Mike Clelland on Owls and Death
Mike Clelland is the owl guy. For fifteen years, people have been sending him their stories — owls and UFOs, owls and meditation, owls and mushrooms, owls and shamanic initiation.…
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51 min
Do religious people actually believe in the unseen?
Kelly Chase (Inquiry with Kelly Chase) is back, which makes her the default president of the GGU returning-guests club. This week, we ask the question we’re asking everyone: what d…
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37 min
Scientism Is Anti-Science | Robert Frederick on Francis Bacon
Our guest today, Robert Frederick, studies Sir Francis Bacon — the Elizabethan lawyer, spy, and philosopher usually credited as the father of modern science. Robert claims that Bac…
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1 h 06
Are soulmates real?
Mal asks: Is there such a thing as soulmates, or love at first sight? Are we doomed to magical thinking on the subject of love? The conversation turns toward revelation, relationsh…
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43 min
Richard Hatem thinks therapy is real
This week, the return of Richard Hatem, the screenwriter behind The Mothman Prophecies and host of Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf. In response to THE QUESTION (what’s somethi…
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35 min
Experiencers are the Disclosure | Courtney Buterbaugh on Alien Contact, the Body, and Buried Memory
We’ve been wanting to talk to Courtney Buterbaugh since we first heard her on Robin Lassiter’s show Earth: A Love Story. Courntey is a lifelong experiencer and writer of The Uniden…
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35 min
Contact as Initiation with Meredith Spearman
This week we’re joined by Meredith Spearman MSN, RN, the writer behind The Maze to Metanoia. She takes us back to the night she was eight, speaking to the universe outside her bedr…
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43 min
A Curry Demon, a Palm Reader, and the Internet's Deepest Conspiracy
Jordan and Mal are back from a longer-than-planned summer break with a revised format and a great story. Going forward, the show will be people telling stories about the things the…
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45 min
Was Disclosure Day good?
Jordan was more excited for this movie than any movie in years. A Spielberg film (written by the same guy who wrote Jurassic Park, for crying out loud) called Disclosure Day, about…
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51 min
Is Claude Conscious? Anthropic, Safety Tests, and AI Spirituality
Get that Spiritual Bliss Mal is back from the film shoot. Which is good because Jordan’s got a story he’s been dying to share. About a year ago, Anthropic published safety document…
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58 min
How to actually meet the fae | Jo Hickey-Hall on Modern Fairy Sightings, Orbs, and Sacred Place
What’s Jo’s Favorite Fairy Sighting? This week, Jordan finally gets to ask the host of the singular Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast the most annoying question he can come up with, a…
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48 min
Is Earth Alive? Gaia, Volcanoes, and the Will to Life
The Will to Life We’ve got a very special guest this week. You’re going to have to tune in to find out who it is. We’re covering a Ukrainian UFO video, Military-origin, recently de…
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1 h 06
God's Eye View - Quantum physics, daddy issues, and faith
Scientism to Scripture Trevor was deep in the trenches of science—cellular biology, bioinformatics, a PhD in aging research, chasing longevity and the promises of the Human Genome…
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48 min
Ego Death, Buddhism, and the Vampire Problem: What's so scary about Pluribus?
Losing Ourselves in Good TV Ever since we watched Pluribus, we’ve been wanting to talk about it on the pod. Both of us have been wrestling with the concept of ego-death and the ult…