Lunatic Soup

Spooky States: Alaska 👻❄️Alaska may be known for its breathtaking wilderness, freezing temperatures, and endless darkness, but apparently the ghosts didn't get the memo that it's too damn cold to haunt people.This week on Lunatic Soup, Meg and Reyna are heading to the Last Frontier for another installment of Spooky States! From the ghostly guests who allegedly never checked out of Anchorage's historic haunted hotel to eerie encounters and chilling legends scattered across the state, we're exploring the paranormal side of Alaska.Grab a blanket, pour yourself something strong, and prepare for some spine-chilling stories from a state where the nights are long, the wilderness is vast, and apparently even death isn't enough to convince some residents to leave.Welcome to Spooky States: Alaska. Where the temperatures are below zero, but the paranormal activity is heating up. 👻🥶

We are going local on today’s episode  on the Bothell Hell House. One of Washington State’s most violent modern hauntings—a suburban Bothell rental where strange knocks escalated into burning Bibles, flying objects, and walls carved with chilling messages. We follow Keith Linder as his quiet home turned into a battleground of shadow figures, spontaneous fires, and poltergeist activity so intense it drew in paranormal teams from around the world, including investigators who left with scorched equipment and unanswered questions.

This week on Lunatic Soup, Meg and Reyna took the show on the road to Nightmare on Main Street and handed the mic over to the people with the creepiest stories of all: YOU.We collected real-life paranormal encounters from attendees, including ghostly sightings, unexplained noises, strange experiences, and those moments that still make people wonder, “What the hell was that?”Some are spooky. Some are weird. Some might make you rethink every creak you hear in your house tonight.Grab a drink, turn the lights down, and join us for a special collection of true paranormal stories told by the people who experienced them firsthand.👻 Have a paranormal story of your own? Send it our way—we’re always looking for more reasons to never sleep again.

Today we are going to discuss one of Pennsylvania’s most disturbing hauntings—a suburban Pittsburgh home where a family’s dream house turned into a battleground of violent manifestations, sulfuric smells, shadow figures, and an entity that seemed determined to break them down piece by piece. We’ll talk about the chilling experiences of Bob Cranmer and his family as their once‑ordinary home became a hotspot for scratches, apparitions, and psychological torment, drawing in priests, paranormal investigators, and skeptics who all left shaken.

A Lunatic Soup episode on will‑o’‑the‑wisps and jack‑o’‑lanterns drifts into the eerie glow of folklore’s oldest phantom lights—those flickering blue flames that lure travelers off safe paths and into marshy danger. We trace the wisps’ roots from medieval Europe’s ghost‑fire legends to global sightings of strange lights dancing over bogs, graveyards, and lonely country roads. Then we follow the trail into Ireland, where the tale of Stingy Jack gave birth to the jack‑o’‑lantern: a cursed wanderer doomed to roam the night with only a carved ember to guide him. Blending history, superstition, and modern eyewitness accounts, this episode explores why these glowing apparitions still appear—and why humanity keeps carving faces into pumpkins as if trying to ward off something that once led us astray.

Headless Horseman episode gallops straight into the accounts of people who swear they’ve met a rider with no head—today we read people's real life accounts about coming face to face (or not face to… bust?) with a decapitated rider.  From Sleepy Hollow to across the USA- maybe legends have some truth to them?

In today’s episode we discuss the Cooneen Poltergeist, one of Ireland’s most unnerving rural hauntings, where the Murphy family’s isolated farmhouse became a stage for pounding walls, phantom footsteps, and a malicious force that followed them even after they fled. We unravel the eerie 1913 case that drew priests, neighbors, and investigators who all left shaken, convinced something in Cooneen wanted the family gone.

This one will be a two parter! Today we discuss  the Illuminati and plunge straight into the tangled web of history, myth, and modern paranoia surrounding the world’s most infamous secret society.  We trace the leap from documented history to conspiracy lore, exploring claims about Freemasons, celebrity symbolism, political puppeteering, and the cultural obsession that keeps the Illuminati alive in memes, music videos, and late-night rabbit holes.

This one will be a two parter! Today we discuss  the Illuminati and plunge straight into the tangled web of history, myth, and modern paranoia surrounding the world’s most infamous secret society.  We trace the leap from documented history to conspiracy lore, exploring claims about Freemasons, celebrity symbolism, political puppeteering, and the cultural obsession that keeps the Illuminati alive in memes, music videos, and late-night rabbit holes.

Today we dive into the Ariel School sighting, unpacking one of the strangest, most compelling mass‑encounter cases in UFO history: a quiet 1994 morning in rural Zimbabwe when more than sixty schoolchildren reported a hovering craft and non‑human beings communicating warnings about humanity’s future. We trace the raw, emotional eyewitness accounts, the baffled teachers, the arrival of John Mack—the Harvard psychiatrist who believed the kids—and the decades of follow‑up interviews that show their stories never faded.