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RHPB Season 3 Preview -- with Susan Lambert!
Get the inside scoop of all to come in S3, launching June 2025!
S3E1: Communion — Part One
Join Richard as he navigates the rough waters of screenwriting, alien abduction – and tries to figure out how to make the great film Die Hard even greater (as if that were possible).
S3E2: Communion — Part Two
Join Richard as he continues to navigate the rough waters of screenwriting, alien abduction, and more in Communion — Part Two
S3E3: Monsters, Giants and Little Men From Mars
Join Richard on a trip back to April 1975, when he was still that lonely, haunted little kid we met in RHPB Ep.1: Ghosts & Specters.
S3E4: A Christmas Carol
Join Richard and Dickens as they each face down their Christmas ghosts -- and hope to wake up the next morning transformed...
S3 Bonus: The Fortean and the Skeptic Should Be Friends: My Conversation with Blake Smith
In this conversation we cover everything from Whitley Streiber’s Communion to the Heaven’s Gate tragedy; from exploding lightbulbs to snake-handling cults; and from “the hard problem of consciousness” to the one kind of paranormal experience that might change Blake’s skepticism forever.
S3E5: The Premonitions Bureau
What would you do if you could see the future? Would you even want to? Join Richard as he explores Sam Knight’s The Premonitions Bureau, in which British psychologist Dr. John Barker learns the hard way that the privilege of seeing around corners comes with an unusually high price tag.
S3E6: Forty Years of Psychic Research
Richard struggles to finish his final semester at USC and nothing is going his way. His scripts aren’t selling, his girlfriend Michelle is dating some other guy -- hell, he can’t even pass basic algebra. If Hamlin Garland can’t succeed in his quest after forty years, what makes Richard think he can achieve his meager dreams -- especially when all the evidence seems to prove otherwise? But then a friend shows up and throws down a terrifying challenge -- and it will only take five minutes. Will Richard accept? And if he does, will it redeem him -- or lead to the worst failure of all?
S3E7: The National Directory of Haunted Places -- Part 1
When Richard found The National Directory of Haunted Places at a small bookstore in Taos, New Mexico, it was like finding an enchanted treasure map. It seemed to promise a world filled with magic, all yours for the asking -- if you could find it. Right now, Richard needs magic more than ever.
S3E8: The National Directory of Haunted Places -- Part 2
Richard prepares for the biggest, most important and most personal pitch of his life. It’s the one that could change everything -- if he doesn’t screw it up.
S3: TThe Light In The Dark Tour” Wrap-Up! Part 1
Ten Days. Five Shows. Four Cities. One Mothman. No Regrets.
