According to Yokai.com, "The baku is a strange, holy beast that has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the eyes of a rhinoceros, the tail of an ox, and the legs of a tiger. Despite their monstrous appearance, baku are revered as powerful forces of good and as one of the holy protectors of mankind." However it goes deeper then that. These things legit eat nightmares caused by evil spirits. However, if you summon a Baku, you best have legit bad nightmares. For if it is not satisfied? The Baku will consume your hopes and dreams instead. Also in this recording, Bob shares his fears over a creepypasta. This story is about the Pokémon, Hypno, whom was based off the legendary Baku. Bob plays the terrifying song based off the story as well. This episode is a quickie since just recorded by himself due to bad weather keeping Count Panek and Bob out of the studio. Bob read from this article here from Ancient Origins.net written by M R Reese https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/baku-legend-dream-eater-002383

According to the Cryptid Wiki, "First reported in July 1971, near Louisiana, Missouri by Joan Mills and Mary Ryan, Momo has been spotted up and down the Mississippi River. It is supposedly a large, 7 ft (~2.1 m) tall, hairy, black, manlike creature that eats dogs and cats, and emits a terrible odor. Some suggest it was a rogue black bear. Following sightings in 1972 beginning at 3:30 p.m. July 11, first reported by Terry, Wally, and Doris Harrison, and lasting for about 2 weeks, tracks were found and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, director of the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks to be a hoax." But, was it a hoax? One of the witnesses went to her grave believing what she saw was real. Read from an amazing article describing the creature from Missouri Life Magazine here: https://missourilife.com/the-legend-of-mo-mo-the-missouri-bigfoot/ . So what is Momo? Hoax or real?

If you read Sylvia's about me on her website, it would say, "Sylvia Shults is the author of several books of paranormal nonfiction, including 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and Grave Deeds And Dead Plots. She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don’t have to. She has spent the last twenty-five years working at a public library, slowly smuggling out enough words in her pockets week after week to build a book of her own. She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride away from the haunted asylum that features in so many of her books. She considers it the highest privilege to share the incredible, compassionate history of the Peoria State Hospital. After battling an intense, lifelong fear of the dark, Sylvia decided to become a ghost hunter. (What WAS she thinking?) As a paranormal investigator, she has made many media appearances, including a tiny part in the Ghost Hunters episode “Prescription for Fear”, about the Peoria State Hospital." However, if you ask Bob, he'll tell you she is just one of the nicest people he's ever had the pleasure of interviewing. Sylvia comes on the show to talk about her life in the paranormal experiences while investigating, her books, and her background as an author. You can find out more about her her on her website here: https://sylviashults.wordpress.com/ and links to buy her books here: https://sylviashults.wordpress.com/paranormal-nonfiction/

You know Dasher, Dancer, Pranser, Vixin, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen...but do you recall, the most famous Holiday scare of all? Drones! That's right folks, over the weekend, we had drone footage going on and national scare of things. So, Bob did the best he could to wrap everything in a box wrapped with a nice ribbon. We look at NPR articles, even looking at a government issued statement from a general in our military. Then we take a look at the holiday season and tell some brief excepts from stories that involve ghosts and the holiday season.

According to Joseph Sherwood, "In the Thai version of the story, the krasue was originally a normal human woman who lived a very sinful life. Because of her transgressions during her previous life, she is reborn as a ghost that must live off of rotten or uncooked food. The krasue is cursed to always feel hunger and to only be able to feed at night. To satisfy its ceaseless hunger, the krasue flies around in the night looking for blood and raw flesh to devour. It is known to attack cows and chickens while their owners are sleeping. The krasue will also eat carrion or even feces if there is no fresh blood and flesh to eat." The best part? When it feeds? It legit is a floating head with entrails dangling from it's neck. We also talk about the December 3rd alien attacks, jogging robots, and mass graves.

Meet John Harrison. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Doctor of Theorical Physics. John came on to the show to talk about Thermodynamics and ghosts. If ghosts were to exist, how would they appear? Would it suck up a lot of energy? He also talks about the belief in orbs, and how they could be more plausible than actual full body apparitions. The most interesting question asked is how science can or can not explain away an after life. Also, John is asked about how spiritual photography, spirit boxes, and EVPS work in the actual science behind it. This is one episode you won't want to miss.

So, you want to talk to the dead. Well, you have tons of options to try. Some may hire a psychic, or perhaps a paranormal investigation team. Or maybe you want to take matters into your own hands. This week, Count Panek and Bob look at 3 different methods of spiritual communication.

1. Estes Method: A technique that allows investigators to sensory deprecate themselves into a channel in which they could communicate with the dead. They use a blind fold and listening blocking muffs, and filter white noise into it.

2. Pendulums: A crystal that dangles by thread. Can be used to make the spirits move it in a direction to answer a question.

3. Ouija Boards: A piece of wood with letters and phrases on there. Idea is that people use a planchette to move around the board guided by spirits.

These are just three quick tools or methods people use to communicate with the dead.

Coast 2 Coast calls it, "Open Lines" when they just have time dedicated to fans calling into the show. We call it, "It's our anniversary. Please call in." Well, it was indeed our anniversary, and we had a bunch of callers calling in with their spooky tales, and encounters they could not explain. There's also some news, and a brief history of Halloween.

Thanks for sticking by us all these years later.