I have got a very special episode for you this week, just in time for Halloween! As we are now firmly entrenched in the Halloween Season, you might be wondering what it's all about. How did this crazy, magical holiday come to be? I have author and Halloween Historian Lisa Morton on to discuss its origins in Samhain and it's evolution into Halloween as we know it today. So don't you dare go anywhere, Lisa Morton is about to drop some knowledge!

This week on brillyant I'm talking haunted dolls and Poppet Magick with good witch a psychic medium Patti Negri!

This week on brillyant I've got a fatal feline, a most tedious tapping, a young mother who tells me about a series of dream visitations and I'll look at a strange case of teleportation from Buenos Ares. So kick back and relax while Uncle Allen tells you all about this week's bizarre offerings.

I was fortunate enough to have the amazing opportunity to have a conversation with Jeff Belanger! He has a new book out, Wicked Strange, available on September 2!

On this week's romp through the bizarre tangles of my mind I present the long awaited, much anticipated 2nd installment of the Monsters of the Midwest with Murphysboros, Illinois' own: Big Muddy Monster.

I talk to John Sellars, Executive Director Emeritus of the History Museum on the Square in Springfield, Missouri about the Great Cobra Scare of 1953.

I give you a new edition of Brillyant After Dark! Perhaps the most romantic one yet.

These curiosities and more await you.

Fog. It has a way of capturing our imagination. It is mysterious and romantic. It also has a history of being deadly. This week I look at the Donora Death Fog.

I'll look at a phone booth in the desolate Mojave Desert, and how it has been connecting strangers around the world.

I'll also examine a most curious haunting that will leave you scratching your head and possibly questioning the nature of reality as we know it.

Warning: It gets dark in here.

This week on brillyantpodcast we look at the desert rampage of the murderous Red Ghost!

Also, we travel to Scottland to learn more about the bizarre the mysterious Loch Ness...Camel?

All this and more, stick around folks its going to get wild.

As always, it gets dark in here.

In this episode I explore the evolution of funerals in America. A couple of listeners share their ghostly encounters and a new edition of Brillyant after dark. Warning it gets dark in here.