Halloween Lore, Urban Legends, and the Paranormal, with Investigator and Research Fellow - Ben Radford

This episode is also available as a video here: https://youtu.be/hK9DaPsYgNA Writer, folklorist, and research fellow, and paranormal investigator Benjamin Radford discusses a history of Halloween; urban legends including organ theft and bad clowns; investigating ghosts and the paranormal; and more, much more! Benjamin Radford is one of the world’s few science-based paranormal investigators, and has done first-hand research into mysterious phenomena in sixteen countries on four continents. His research work has included psychics; ghosts and haunted houses; exorcisms; miracles; Bigfoot; stigmata; lake monsters; UFO sightings; reincarnation; crop circles; and many other topics. He is perhaps best known for solving the mysteries of the Santa Fe Courthouse Ghost, the Hispanic vampire el Choo-PAH-CAB-RAH, and his book Bad Clowns, the first to fully examine the evil clown phenomenon. He has written thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics, including urban legends, the paranormal, critical thinking, and media literacy and is the author of 13 books including: America the Fearful; Tracking the Choo-Pah-Cab-Rah; Bad Clowns; Scientific Paranormal Investigation; Media Mythmakers; Big if True; The Martians Have Landed - A History of Media Driven Panic, co-authored with Robert Bartholomew; and Investigating Ghosts - The Scientific Search for Spirits.