Current Season
RHPB Season 3
Preview -- with Susan Lambert!
Get the inside scoop of all to come in S3, launching June 2025!
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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).
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Communion — Part Two
Join Richard as he continues to navigate the rough waters of screenwriting, alien abduction, and more in Communion — Part Two
303
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.
304
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.
305
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 psychologistDr. John Barker learns the hard way that the privilege of seeing around corners comes with an unusually high price tag.
306
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?
307
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.
308
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 Bonus
The Light In The Dark Tour” Wrap-Up! Part 1
Ten Days. Five Shows. Four Cities. One Mothman. No Regrets.
S3 Bonus
The Light In The Dark Tour” Wrap-Up! Part 2
Ten Days. Five Shows. Four Cities. One Mothman. No Regrets. Part 2!
309
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts Part 1
On July 20th, 1984, journalist and paranormal researcher Joe Fisher witnesses the phenomenon of channeling for the first time -- and his life changes forever. What if spirit guides really do exist?
310
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts Part 2
On July 20th, 1984, journalist and paranormal researcher Joe Fisher witnesses the phenomenon of channeling for the first time -- and his life changes forever. What if spirit guides really do exist?
Bonus Episode
UFOs and High Strangeness with Rob Kristofferson
“When I was six years old, on Christmas Eve, I had an encounter with a little gnome that walked into my bedroom. I don’t recall any fear. But after that, I don’t remember anything.” – Rob Kristofferson
Bonus Episode
“The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist” with Jenny Ashford & Tom Ross
“I feel that it hates me sometimes. It can move objects. I heard it speak once, or try to speak. It sounded like somebody underneath the water. It’s never really touched me and I don’t want to see what it actually looks like. I was afraid it was going to look like a corpse.” -- Tom Ross, poltergeist experiencer.
Bonus Episode
Bigfoot 101:
A Sasquatch Odyssey with Brian King-Sharp
Bonus Episode
Night Stalking with Author David Dawidziak
“I became a journalist because of Carl Kolchak. He was my idea of what a journalist was and should be, and he remains that to this day.” -- Mark Dawidziak, author of The Night Stalker Companion
Bonus Episode
Bridging the Mothman Tragedy with Bill & Jaci Kousoulas
It was Christmas time. It was supposed to be a time of happiness, but we had funerals in town. We couldn’t put off the funerals until after Christmas. They said later, they found a hairline crack in an eyebolt, and once one part went down, the whole bridge went down.” – from the book Bridging The Tragedy by Bill & Jaci Kousoulas
