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Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 085This episode looks briefly at our dystopian sinkhole and features music from Wood & Wire, The Undone, Lebanon Hanover, Arrowounds, Just Mustard, Bird & Beast, Blankenberge, Cloverleaf, EERIÆRMOR, Urschaum and Desolation Colony.2025-07-131h 00
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 084Episode 84 of the Spookatorium I talk about the hiatus and a little bit about a conversation between Heather Cox Richardson and Gil Duran regarding the Dark Enlightenment and while it is current news, it is as strange as anything I would normally include in the show. Please seek out their interview here https://www.youtube.com/live/FWjR6_qYJAw?si=zHtInoSP6Jp8C6OPIn addition to that there is music from Isotropia, W424, Restive Plaggona, Tårne Spirer, Damad, Paranoia Keeps Crawling, State of Fear, Excess Blood, Cower, Bleib Modern, and Dead When I Found Her.2025-06-0858 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 083Episode 83 features just music, due to a chair malfunction. Enjoy the sounds of Allegory Chapel Ltd, Bestial Mouths, The Residents, Blackmouth, Rasputina, The Devil & The Universe, Nymph Faithest, Petit Mal, Antaeus, Goetic Equivalent, Vukari and Def.Master.2024-11-241h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 082Episode 82 is a post election come down with music from Form Null, Cardinal Noire, Le Syndicat, 6th Circle, Cazzodio, Theologian, State Vector Collapse, Nazca, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Shellac and Snog.2024-11-1059 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 081 - Halloween EpEpisode 81 of the Spookatorium – The Halloween episode, includes some George Lathrop and Edgar Allan Poe as well as tunes from Kip Tyler, Lee Ross, L'Enfant De La Forêt, Post Scriptvm, VHS Glitch, Part 1, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tom Waits, Aderlating, Mombi Yuleman, Ah Cama-Sotz, Mercyful Fate, Possessed, Morbid Saint, and Cutworm.2024-10-271h 37
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 080Episode 80 of The Spookatorium sinks in to the autumnal and lingers in October Country. With music from Pazuzu, Fields Of Mildew, First Human Ferro, William Ryan Fritch, Sonne Hagal, Nightmare Lodge, Karnnos, Strength Through Joy, I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness, Positive Centre, La Breiche and Hagalaz Runedance.2024-10-1359 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 079This episode is primarily music and some creative updates. Enjoy the sounds of Contagious Orgasm, Dachise, Unholy, Lvcifyre, Helel, Violent Grief, Umbrarum Tenebrae, Epignose, DA, Temple of Angels, Esses, Crimson Scarlet, and Cody Drasser.2024-09-291h 14
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 078Episode 78 of the Spookatorium features a reading of HP Lovecraft's The Cats of Ulthar and music dark electronics from Xenonics-K30, Carbon 14, Envenomist, Teatro Satanico, Mass Ejection, Spiritual Voices/Dreadmaul, The Conjured, ÐØRSÆL, Hydra's Nidus, Temple Destroyer, Harvestman. And Tunnels of Ah.2024-09-151h 14
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 077Episode 77 Of the Spookatorium features some vignettes from Franz Kafka that went unpublished during his life and the soothing tones of Bleak, Stone 588, Nuovo Testamento, Artery, Splintered, Subarachnoid Space, Gravitar, Wire, Deception Bay, God, Primitive Knot, and Moon Mourning Earth.2024-09-011h 11
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 076On Episode 76 of the Spookatorium we take a look at the Census of Hallucination, or rather try to, and there is music from Black Messiah, Fall Of The Bastards, F.ormal L.ogic D.ecay, Brooddark, No.Ba, Doubting Thomas, Numb, Noise Unit, Robert Rich, Semiomime, Tvlpa, and Greymachine.2024-08-181h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 075Episode 75 of the Spookatorium takes a look at the curious work of Charles Fort and his dedication to curious things. In addition to that there's music from Radiodrama, Black Mare, Skeptics, Rotting Yellow, Factrix, Suicide, DAF, GodheadSilo, Today Is The Day, Black Elk, Distorted Pony, & Stratvm Terror.2024-07-211h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 074Episode 74 of the Spookatorium we poke our heads into Magonia for a more metaphysical take on the UFO phenomenon and there is music from Hordes Of Satan, The Mind Parasites, Hedon, Negru Voda, MSBR/Blazen Y Sharp, RL Huber, Vhril, Blood Box, Bloodletter, Denuit, Börn, and Chris Connelly.2024-07-071h 08
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium Basement Show 073.5This is a bonus episode I'm calling The Spookatorium Basement Show. It's only on the audio feed, I didn't make a video for it. It's isn't a typical show. If you like punk you will probably find something you like here... Music from Aus-Rotten Whorehouse of Representatives, Crucifix, Christ On Parade, NoMeansNo, Rudimentary Peni, Die Kreuzen, From Ashes Rise, Conflict, Icons Of Filth, World Burns to Death, Antigen, Subhumans, Corrosion Of Conformity, Detestation, Oi Polloi, Crass, Th'Inbred, Mannequin Beach, and Stikky.2024-07-0451 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 073On This episode I ramble a bit about movies again, (Stop Motion and Dr. Caligari) and there are tunes from Parzival, Elektrode, Glacial Mass, Rot Coven, Discordless, Survive, Cyberian, Aeoga, Bonini Bulga, Deadwood, & Decline of The I.2024-06-231h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 072On Episode 72 of the Spookatorium we look at the life of Victorian Painter Richard Dadd who created his most enduring works while incarcerated in an asylum and there is music from Those Poor Bastards, Dry Wedding, DiNT, Einleitungszeit, Bloodflowers, Current 909, Dagda Mor, Daniel Menche, Click Click, Khylst Sect, The Klinik and Lavinia.2024-06-091h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 071Episode 71 of the Spookatorium has some rambling about movies and includes music from Ave Teth, Azoikum, S-Core, Kenotaph. Sectarian Bloom, Girls In Synthesis, New Skeletal Faces, Demonologists, Alapastel, Modir, Tommy Creep, Electric Dragon, Triptidon, and Fetish 69.2024-05-261h 08
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 070On this episode of the Spookatorium we pay tribute to musician, engineer and good human, Steve Albini by digging into his music, soundtrack work, and some great records he worked on beyond the high profile releases. It features music from Shellac, Whitehouse, Head of David, Bodychoke, Chesley/Albini/Midyett, Neurosis, Dazzling Killmen, Pigface, The Wedding Present, Murder Inc., Rapeman, The Jesus Lizard, UT, High On Fire, and Big Black.2024-05-121h 08
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 069On this episode of the Spookatorium we look at the folklore of the Bullebak and there is music from, Usurper, Hedorah, Philistine, Brainbombs, Terminal Cheesecake, Shrike Totem, Crawl Unit, Bonemoss, Killus, High Marks, Nadragea, Blacklist, and Flower.2024-04-281h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 068On episode 68 of the Spookatorium we look at the Resurrection Men of the Victorian Era and there is music from Techno Menses, Love Power Experiment, Matriarchy Roots, Simvlacrvm, SPK, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Exsanguinate, Sonic Violence, Oozepus, Zeni Geva and Public Image Ltd.2024-04-141h 04
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 067Just music on this episode from the likes of Grails, Orghanon, Maculatum, Lament Configuration, Forma4, The Great Tyrant, Product KF, Lila Ehjä, Sanr, Impact Test, Ornament, and Sol Invictus.2024-03-311h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 066This episode features a ghostly tale by J.S. LaFanu and includes music from Cruelty Campaign, Scratch Acid, Yellow Bulb, Chalk, Enola Gay, Svasti-ayanam, Sleeping With The Earth, Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar, Steel Hook Prostheses, Azar Swan, and Civic Center2024-03-171h 14
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 065On episode 65 Of The Spookatorium we look at the life of Cyrus Reed Teed and how he turned his Hollow Earth ideas into a utopian cult. In addition there is music from Body Clock, Desolation Swarm, Conversations About The Light, Yanai, Blessed Sacrifist, Locust Revival, Noir For Rachel, Glaring, Black Mayonnaise, Hallowed Butchery, Detritivore and Christdriver.2024-03-031h 09
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 064On This episode of the Spookatorium we look at the work of Norwegian Artists Odd Nerdrum and hear some music from the likes of Elysian, Cataphiles, Empathy Cell, Noiztatic, Orphx, Ruhr Hunter & Chaos As Shelter, The Phonometrician, Cloverleaf, The Vomit Arsonist, Wäldchengarten, Vitriol and Deceased.2024-02-181h 03
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 063On this episode we look at the demonology compendium, Dictionnaire Infernal and have music from Insekt, Headbutt, Infaust, Sanctum, Dernière Volonté, Alder & Ash, Ancestral Voices, Silence In The Snow, Hante., Boreal Massif, and Chaos Echoes.2024-02-041h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 062On This episode we look at the myth of Beira the Scottish Queen of Winter and revel in the sounds of Sigillum S, Hexsystem, Gavella Glan, Dense Vision Shrine, Skepticism, Slow Riot, Gyrate, Lasael, Moloch, Starfounder, and The Soft Moon.2024-01-211h 07
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 061On this episode we look at the beneficial possession case dubbed the Watseka Wonder and there is lots of great music from the likes of Shrouds, Fausten, Disposal Unit, Deafcult, Suicide Party, Sean Hølt, Corrado Maria De Santis, Exotoendo, Stereo Taxic Device, Lesa Listvy, Mazakon Tactics, and Mighty Sphincter.2024-01-071h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 060This episode we return to the tradition of Midwinter ghost stories with a tale from Algernon Blackwood, and feature music from Doc Watson, Cindytalk, Siglo XX, Quitter/Canady, Prophän, Unfeeling, Alio Die, Her Menacing Pet, Amazing Grace, Cryobiosis, and Carpathian Forest2023-12-241h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 059Call this the eulogy episode. We honor the passing of Shane MacGowan, Mark Samuels, and Geordie Walker, three people of significant creativity and influence that have passed since the last episode. There's music from The Pogues, Have Demons, Archaic Ruins, Rites Of Fall, The Legendary Pink Dots, These Immortal Souls, Leeches, I.Corax, ALC, Caul, and Killing Joke.2023-12-1059 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 058Episode 58 of the Spookatorium starts with some excellent modern post punk and takes a little trip back in time once it gets going. Lots of old experimental and Industrial from the late 80's to the mid 90's. I got carried away with that, so it's just tunes this time out, but they are good ones from the likes of. White Hex, Bambara, Ond Cirkel, Addremove, Blackhouse, VO.I.D., Borghesia, Echo West, Radiosonde, Runes Order, Soldnergeist, Deca and Dissecting Table.2023-11-261h 08
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 057On This episode we look at a few creatures from South American folklore and feature music from Hålbå, Megaptera, Silent Scream, Rotting Yellow, 2w, In Death It Ends, The Circular Ruins & Mystified, PBK, Oake, Endvra and Exit Electronics2023-11-121h 05
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 056It's another Halloween episode of the Spookatorium. This time we look at some ideas around death and the afterlife and check in with Lord Byron. in addition to music from Kay Starr, Thrill Kill Kult, Stilz, Terrortron, Nocturnal Emissions, Passed, Screening, Pessary, Daughters of Grief, Shinjuku Thief, The Spectre Collector, King Diamond, Sacrifice, Whiplash, Twisted Nerve, Vain Warr, Secret Shame, and Ausum.2023-10-291h 34
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 055This episode looks at the "Grand Traverse Stonehenge" in Lake Michigan and features music from Lemna, Nostalgia, Olhon, The Protagonist, The Black Monolith, Grabesmond, Blood Of The Black Owl, Ghostships, Golem Mechanique, and VRNA.2023-10-1559 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 054This episode of the Spookatorium we look at the recent film Moon Garden, and there is lots of music from Bestia Centauri, Aliquis, Overlook, Solypsis, Skullflower, Conflict Burning, Vengeance Space Quartet, Verge, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Hive Mind, and Aelter.2023-10-011h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 053On episode 53 of the Spookatorium we look at the concept of the Dweller On The Threshold and the book, Zanoni, that inspired it. In addition there is music from Scorn, Fragile Body, Lithivm, Marax, Dweller On The Threshold, Voidthrone, Merrimack, Black Magnet, Shadow Structure, Depressor, and Teeth Engraved With The Names Of The Dead.2023-09-171h 08
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 052This episode is mostly music from the likes of: ATT Corp, Blackwood, Dome Runner, Mental Destruction, Colossloth, Brooddark, Locust Reign, Sonic Oscillations, Daemonyx, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Divided Visions of Souls, and Jonathan Canady.2023-09-031h 07
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 051Episode 51 of the Spookatorium looks at the work of Theosophist Alfred Percy Sinnett and his book Esoteric Buddhism. In addition there are tunes from TOT, Sky Burial, Heldentod, Distortion Six, Yoke, 20.SV, Sa Bruxa, G.xist, Dead Man's Hill, Catal Huyuk, Mortifero, and Ogre.2023-08-201h 03
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 050This is episode 50, and we do a little state of the podcast check in and talk about perspective and truth in the paranormal. In addition there are tunes from Øne19, Paracusia, The Folks Below, Seelenlicht, The Spectral Light & Moonshine Snakeoil Firefly Jamboree, Carst, Cementation Anxiety, Kerovnian, Venetian Blinds, Ascetic:, The Angelic Process, and Control.2023-08-061h 09
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 049This episode looks at the idea of doppelgangers, and to keep the theme lively all the tunes are cover songs from the like of Pankow, Satori, Angel Hair, Death Method, Ataraxia, Beyond Dawn, Unto Ashes, The Ancients Rebirth, Shadow Of The Torturer, Red Harvest, Otyg, and Snog.2023-07-231h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 048On Episode 48 of the Spookatorium we explore the dark Expressionism of artist Hyman Bloom and hear the delightful sounds of Black Rain, Diasiva, Pact Infernal, Pterygium, Claustrum, Hybryds, GhostShips, Mandible Chatter, Kirchenkampf, Bad Sector, Noform, and Quelaag.2023-07-091h 05
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 047On this episode we look at the Nalusa Falaya and Bohpoli from Choctaw folklore and notice a few parallels with modern paranormal experiences. You will also hear the sounds of TenHornedBeast, Divinus Baal & Runa, Sciama, Dreadcore, MDS51, Nigh/T\mare, Noctilucant, Shinkiro, Noised, Aberva, Kletis, and Into The Pale Abyss.2023-06-251h 07
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 046I was pressed for time this episode, so there’s no stories this go, but still plenty of music from the likes of Reduction Plan, The Dead Mantra, Depther, In Search Of Shores, Narbenerde, Yen Pox, Sun Devoured Earth, Buried Alive, Garden of Myxini, Sator Absentia, Xiphoid Dementia and Pangaion.2023-06-111h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 045This time out we look at the folklore around The Devil’s Causeway, and Frog Well in England, and feature tunes from The Monochrome Set, Princess Tinymeat, Azfarat, Blac Kolor, Sleeprunner, Infinity’s Astrum, Last Life, Law, Nightmares, Urusai, Pyrophilus & Witch Bottle2023-05-2859 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 044In this episode we look at the life of Arthur Crew Inman and float on the sonic waves of Ex.Hale, The Doomed Bird of Providence, The Pessimist Chamber, Froe Char, Melanchoholics, Nastika, Theologian, Vile Temper, Death Librarian, Hitting Birth, Test Dept., and Controlled Opposition.2023-05-141h 03
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 043Back after a little hiatus. This episode includes a personal spooky tale, ghost? time slip? who knows... and music from Ah Cama-Sotz, Xoma, Terra Tenebrosa, Infinexhuma, Silence In The Snow, SNTS, Evitceles, Selofan, Hum Of The Druid, Inslavement, Cemento, and Deaf Machine.2023-05-011h 00
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 042This episode we take a look at the Maryhill Stonehenge, a scale replica of the original Stonehenge in Washington state, and the superstitious origins of Horse Brass Medallions. In addition there is music from Polevaulter, Plague Agent, Spectral Aeons, Tho-So-Aa, Akinsa, Anchient, Snowbeasts, Sword Volcano Complex, Terminal Sound System, Kollaps, and Gator Bait Ten.2023-03-051h 00
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 041In this episode of the Spookatorium we look at the weird fiction of lesser known writer Edward Lucas White and present his story “The Voices.” There is music from Olekranon, STCLVR, Torn, Violent Grief, Bract, Cranes, Isotropia, In Slaughter Natives, Still Und Dunkle, Grim Heka and High Strange.2023-02-191h 05
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 040Episode 40 of Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium looks at instances of phantom music across phenomena and through a modern scientific lens. In addition, there is music from She Spread Sorrow, Shimmer Crush, Skrol, Theta, Foreseer, Forndom, Them Teeth, Sonologyst, Blakk Harbor, Clay Rendering and TSOL.2023-02-051h 04
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 039This episode of professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium includes information on the Piasa, a giant bird(?) once believed to inhabit the Mississippi Valley, and a look at some of the more esoteric interests of Sabine Baring-Gould the priest behind the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers." And of course, there's music. This time from Rope Sect, The Ex, Head Of David, Dynastes, November Novelet, Grey Frequency, Caulbearer, The Moon And The Nightspirit, Le'Enfant Del La Foret, Mago, Tertium Non Data & Velum Sonus.2023-01-221h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 038This episode looks at a type of Fae called Night Elves, among other names, as possibly having a role in the Sleep Paralysis phenomenon. Beyond that, there is music from Masses, NoMeansNo, Hypsiphrone, Lot 49, Infestation Ritual, Delta Kane, Recant, Oureboros, Pain Emission, Swamp Terrorists, Controlled Bleeding, & Burial Hex.2023-01-0954 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 037This episode, we dip our toes into the Victorian tradition of holiday ghost stories with a reading of M.R. James "A School Story." Beyond that, there is lots of music from the likes of Badrich, Naxal Protocol, Never Worse, Murderous Vision, Hoducoma, Blackmole, Skinny Puppy, Khost, Luasa Raelon, Black Egg, Box and The Twins, Weever and Wilt. 2022-12-261h 18
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 036In this episode, we explore the idea of the Sin Eater and look at some of the superstitions surrounding the Hangman's Rope. And there is lots of great music from the likes of Intersigno, Ourea, Belt, Swarm Intelligence, Images In Silence, Tribe Of Circle, Volunteer Coroner, Drape Excrement, Pain Teens, Shallow Waves, Dismal Thoughts, and A.M.Q.A2022-12-111h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 035Episode 35 of the Spookatorium looks at Medium Helene Smith, who claimed to astral travel to Mars, and the work of macabre photographer William Mortensen. In addition, there is music from: The Handsome Family, Helge Sten, Hexvessel, IV Horsemen, Ivillion, Rituals, Second Spectre, Dark Circuitry, Coeur, Stefan Bachmeier, Stem Cell Research Project, & Council of Nine.2022-11-2759 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 034In this episode, we take a look at the idea of man-eating trees in remote parts of the world in the 1700 and 1800's. It occurred to me after I finished this episode how Lovecraftian some of the descriptions of these trees are prior to Lovecraft's writing. There is music from Antechamber, Black Mare, P.H.O.B.O.S., Haeretici 7o74, Ligeia, And Also The Trees, Reverence, Dreadmaul, The Chameleons, Geko, The Glass Beads, Funerary Call, Reptyla, Shadow Monument.2022-11-131h 12
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 033In this episode, we look at the rise and fall of a popular patent medicine from the late 1800s called Kickapoo Oil. Beyond that, there is lots of music. from the likes of Dav Dralleon, Hexmyr, Metadevice, Mayfairgrin, Cyclic Amp, Dailiv, Grotus, Black Lung, The Criminal World, Loss, GGGOLDDD, Moss Harvest, Snaig Tharta.2022-10-301h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 032 - Halloween EpisodeAn extended Halloween episode with talk about the role of fog and mist in paranormal experiences and a look at the Dark Watchers of the Santa Lucia Mountains. In addition to lots of music from the likes of...The Devil & The Universe, Electric Dragon, Aghast Manor, Splinterskin, The Hare & The Moon, Out of Hell, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Flatfield, Mordant Arrow, The Heartwood Institute, Incantor, None, Headless Horseman, Fields Of The Nephilim, Brotherhood of Pagans, Occults, Phelios, Asath Reon, Dusk, and Mercyful Fate2022-10-161h 32
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 031In this episode, we look at preserving the strange cures in medieval medical texts at Cambridge. There's a brief stop on Victorian medicine and the rise of antiseptics. We also dig into how a team in Canada built a better mental hospital by using LSD to help them understand the perceptions of the people who would be staying there.Also Features music from... A Tergo Lupi, The Northern Lighthouse Board, Holy Mountain Beast, The Fall, Lolita Black, No Mind, Clock DVA, Cober Ord, First Law, SIMM, The Sound, This Mortal Coil, and JK Flesh.2022-10-021h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 030 This episode gets a little further back on track, with consensus opinions as it relates to poltergeist activity and the mysteries of human energy fields.Beyond that, there's lots of music. From the likes of Fixions, Menace Ruine, Of The Wand & The Moon, Temple Destroyer, Ghost Actor, Sombre Lux, Cyan Revue, Imvixor, Lubricated Goat, Invercauld, Lucid Dreams, Vomito Negro, & Trust Crusher.2022-09-211h 00
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 029 - The Return!The first new episode in ages... This is a music episode and reintroduction, but elements of the old show will be back going forward.Featuring music from... Tear Garden, Empty Rituals, Killus, Anatomy Of, Screature, Lydia Lunch, Cuca Negra, Dark Leaves, Fvnerals, Missing Foundation, Moon Mourning Earth, Buio Mondo, The Cramps, Ritual Howls, Lebanon Hanover.2022-09-181h 06
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 028 - Halloween episode! (Orig 10/24/2011)Our 4th Halloween episode, and the last of the old episodes.This time we have fiction from Orrin Grey & Ambrose Bierce. In addition we look at the life of clairvoyant Marinus B. Dykshoorn.I read a short vignette by Bierce called “John Mortonson’s Funeral,” first Published in 1906.Orrin Grey, is a rising talent in the realm of supernatural horror. Orrin reads his vignette, “The Big, Dark House By The Sea.”Features music from... Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tom Waits, Jill Tracy, Metal Church, Fantomas, Shinjuku Thief, The Church, The Damned, Atrium Carceri, C...2022-09-181h 09
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 027 (Orig 9/27/2011)In this episode, we look at Cotard’s Syndrome a psychological affliction where the sufferer believes themselves to be dead, missing organs or simple non-existent.We’ve got some publishing news from Gray Friar Press, Dark Regions Press, Tartarus Press, and the new Phantasmagoria Journal.Then it’s into the catacombs beneath Paris, and a secret workshop in the dome of the Pantheon with UX an arguably secret society urban explorers and preservationists.Author Richard Gavin speaks on the ideas behind his bleak tale In The Shadow Of The Nodding God from his collec...2022-09-181h 09
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 026 - Halloween episode! (Orig 10/31/2008)Welcome to the 3rd annual Halloween episode. This time around we pay tribute to Harry Houdini who left this mortal coil on Halloween back in 1926. In addition to the stupefying feats of conjuring and illusion, he was best known for, Houdini spent 30 years exhaustively researching spiritualism and the paranormal.Next, we take a look at electro-magnetic fields as they relate to investigating the paranormal. Looking at the reality of what the fields are, and the leap of faith required to draw some of the conclusions that investigators seem to draw from them. Aside from that, there is...2022-09-171h 33
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 025 (Orig 8/13/2008)Out of the gate, we discuss the bizarre affliction that has come to be known as Morgellons disease. In some medical circles, it continues to be looked at as a psychological rather than a physiological condition. Then there are those that see the condition as a result of something more nefarious.After that, we take a look at a set of core components by which hauntings might be judged in order to come up with some type of standardized scientific perspective on what occurs in a haunting scenario.Finally, a piece on a supposed bigfoot...2022-09-171h 21
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 024 (Orig 6/14/2008)First up, we revisit the legend of “Oriuagor,” a tome purported to drive insane those who dare read it. First touched upon in Episode 19. I had largely written it off, but a submitter from Denmark suggests that the legends at least are known there.Next up we look at reports of a lake monster in Minnesota’s Lake Pepin, quaintly, if not predictably, known as Pepie. Next in Pennsylvania, there have been at least four reports of a large bird or bat-like creature stalking the back roads over the last year. The descriptions vary slightly, but the witnes...2022-09-171h 16
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 023 (Orig 4/12/2008)This time we take a peek at the life of Thomas Dyott. Dyott amassed a sizable fortune selling patent medicines under such tantalizing names as Roberton’s Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges & Vegetable Nervous Cordial.From there we peek behind the curtain of opportunist psychiatry and look at the phenomenon of Spirit Release, the process of psychiatric exorcism.Finally, we look at the Mormon theory that Bigfoot is actually the earthly incarnation of the biblical Cain.Featuring music from... Harvestman, Bad Sector, Hollenfurt, Garmonbozia, Belborn, Front Line Assembly, Impetigo, Lament Configuration, Goliah, Somewhere In Eu...2022-09-171h 15
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 022 (Orig 3/16/2008)We examine numerous instances of buzzing and grinding sounds that build to a crescendo and have been associated with everything from Near Death Experiences, Shamanic Rituals, Old Hag Syndrome, and other forms of transcendent consciousness.Then we travel to Ohio to review the story of the Loveland Frog. While evidence is limited to eyewitness testimony and there are reports that at least some of it may have been exaggerated or hoaxed it remains one of my favorite crypto tales.We take a look at the discredited work of Dr. Johann Beringer. He believed in the...2022-09-171h 15
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 021 (Orig2/28/2008)This episode we examine the Jewish ritual of Kapparot – the transfer of sins into the body of a chicken and the sacrifice of the chicken prior to Yom Kippur… I also juxtapose this with a sensational article from the Sioux City Journal regarding a reported ritual killing.We look at the hoax of the Jenny Haniver. Oddly named this crytpotaxidermy beast constructed from dried, rays, skates and cuttlefish has been passed off as a bona fide monster since the 16th Century, and continues to be despite widely being dubbed a hoax from early on.Finally a lo...2022-09-171h 17
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 020 (Orig 2/7/2008)This time we take a look at a rise in reports of possession, exorcisms, and the mark of the beast in the news. Next up we take a look at the legacy of John “Goat Gland” Brinkley. Finally, we look at George Daynor’s Palace of Depression in New Jersey.Featuring music from... Big Black, Cazzodio, Doubting Thomas, Blackhouse, Funeral Diner, Deinonychus, Echo & The Bunnymen, Impaled Nazarene, 16 Volt, Hagalaz Runedance, Black Flag, Pine Tree State Mind Control, Divinus Baal & Runa, Neurosis, Necrophorus, Hollow Earth2022-09-171h 12
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 019 (Orig 1/7/2008)This time out we take a look at an alleged forbidden tome called Oriuagor, and the superstitions and warnings associated with reading the work.Next we review the life and death of Anna Goldi who was immortalized as “The Last Witch of Europe” after her execution 1782 on bogus allegations of witchery in a small Swiss town.Lastly, we look into two fabled giant serpents, the Lindorm in Scandinavia, and the Tatzelwurm reported to live in the Alps throughout Bavaria, Austria and SwitzerlandFeaturing Music from... Naiandra Muriatica, Econocon, Kapo!, iBurn, Head of David, Veno...2022-09-171h 12
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 018 (Orig 12/16/2007)This time out we look at the legacy of Mary Toft, Her story is outlined further in the book “The Girl Who Gave Birth To Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery,”Next, we take a trip down south to check in on a couple of mysterious creature sightings. In addition, LiveScience.com ran a recent article on the possibility of using hi-resolution satellite imagery to search for elusive breeding colonies of various cryptids.Finally, we take a look at the theory of palingenesy, the alchemical idea inspired by the work of Greek philosopher Lucretious that sought to e...2022-09-171h 04
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 017 - Halloween episode! (11/3/2007)A double-length Halloween episode that looks into ghostly sightings and communication with the dead through various gadgetry from Frank's Box to talking boards.Featuring music from... Louis Armstrong, The Rohan Theatre Band, Black Mayonnaise, Hadit, The Dead Brothers, Ulthar, Mercyful Fate, Goatvargr, Bauhaus, Mondblut, Schloss Tegal, Darvulia, The Handsome Family, Those Poor Bastards, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Heid, Ah Cama-Sotz, Geomatic, A Murder of Angels, Innana, Brighter Death Now2022-09-171h 34
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 016 (Orig 10/1/2007)Escape artists are seeking to set the world record in a one day relay of over 80 escape performances, while a grizzled old school freak takes the law into his own hands. A pillar of the pharmaceutical industry is working on a virtual reality rig that gives the user a window into the schizophrenics world. Another team working on solving our world’s energy issues are looking at cow stomachs as the golden ticket to solve our woes… environmentalist/animal rights advocates' heads explode at the conundrum. There are a couple of stories about brain surgeries with unexpected results.Fe...2022-09-171h 16
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 015 (Orig 8/22/2007)You will hear the moving tale of the death of a vampire peacock struck down in one of the shadowy corners of New York City, and the citizen who would not let its passing go unnoticed. I have a haunted lighthouse to tell you about, and ladies and gentleman, you can buy it for a dollar! I also take a look at the alleged tales of haunting in a remote Michigan town. A small town in Mississippi sees a strange creature on the loose, and doesn’t jump to cryptoid conclusions! An amphibious giant from beneath the sea with a...2022-09-171h 05
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 014 (Orig 6/10/2007)Featuring music from... Grave, SPK, Cranes, Geisha, Hell Militia, Fetish 69, Sabbat, Mentallo & The Fixer, Mothra, 1000 Homo DJ’s, Steve Earle, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Old Scratch Revival Singers, Dive2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 013 (4/30/2007)Featuring music from... Swartalf, Wormwood, Destructo Swarmbots, Empyrium, Death In June, Carved In Stone, Tartaros, My Dying Bride, Post Scriptvm, Voivod, Philistine, Hum Of The Druid, Maruta Kommand, Thergothon2022-09-1759 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 012 (Orig 4/7/2007)Featuring music from... Young Gods, Cyberaktif, Pigface, Godheadsilo, Overkill, Dead Brain Cells, David E. Williams, Steve Earle, The Pogues, Hekate, Circle Takes The Square, Sine Nomine, Uranus, To What End?, Steroid Maximus, Memorandum, MZ.412, The Creatures, Guy Lafleur, Black Noise Cannon2022-09-171h 18
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 011 - Holiday episode! (12/25/2006)A special Spookatorium Xmas episode featuring music from... Social Skills Centre, Aborym, Samael, The Accused, Sonne Hagal, Truckstop Honeymoon, Charnel Valley, Atrium Carceri, The Handsome Family, Jason Webley, Abigor, The Iditarod & Sharron Kraus, Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Hellblinki Sextet, Rev. Glen Armstrong, The Mass2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 010 (Orig 12/14/2006)Featuring music from... Strength Through Joy, Tribe Of Circle, Somewhere In Europe, Agalloch, Backworld, Hagalaz Runedance, Geist, Kampfar, This Morn’ Omina, Alio Die & Mathias Grassow, Apoptose, The Carter Family, No Festival Of Light2022-09-171h 02
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 009 (11/24/2006)I think the country may have done something stupid this particular week to inspire this one. Featuring music from... Cress, 1000 Homo DJ’s, Militia, Moonsanto, Thralldom, Missing Foundation, Snog, Echo West, Craft, Luasa Raelon, Melek-Tha2022-09-1759 min
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 008 (Orig 11/17/2006)For some reason I decided to only play songs under 2 minutes this time.Features music from.... Captain Hook & His Crew, Leather Strip, Skinny Puppy, Cathi Stout, His Hero Is Gone, Paul Lemos, Alien Sex Fiend, Scorn, Proscenium, Akrabu, Death In June, Sapthuran, Those Poor Bastards, Laibach, Nicholas Slonimsky, Hoarstone, Teen Cthulhu, SPK, Happy Flowers, Svasti-Anyanam, Richard Cheese, Diallo, Sleeping With The Earth, The Buried Civilizations, Sharron Kraus, Agnes Bernelle, Sear Bliss, Old Man Gloom, Conversations About The Light, Echo West, Ashfordaisyak, Ocosi, Of The Wand And The Moon, Maschinenzimmer 412, The Pogues, Roberta Lee & Thurl Ravenscroft, Beneath The...2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 007 - Halloween Episode! (Orig 10/30/2006)A double length special Halloween edition that features music from...The Hellblinki Sextet, Mercyful Fate, Coil, Goblin, Jill Tracy & The Malcontent Orchestra, Rohan Kriwaczek, Blanche, Tombstone, Extinction, Nordvargr, The Handsome Family, Christopher Walken, Aghast, Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Stone Breath, Archon Satan, TSOL, The Accused, The Vanity Set, Endura, Galgeras, Nehëmah, The Dead Brothers, ClockDVA, American Sinner, Amber Asylum, Crepuscule, Schloss Tegal2022-09-172h 03
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 006 (Orig 10/18/2006)Features music from...Amber Asylum, Plan E, Murder Inc., SLAB!, Controlled Bleeding, Elhaz, David Chenery & The Lonesome Valley Singers, The Pine Box Boys, Steve Earle, Consono, A Split Second, Niko Skorpio, Summoning2022-09-171h 05
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 005 (Orig 10/8/2006)Features music from...Dream Into Dust, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fields Of The Nephilim, Negurã Bunget, Sator Absentia, Oil Seed Rape, Jill Tracy, The Pogues, The Rohan Theatre Band, Foetus, Blacklodge, Rabaue2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 004 (Orig 10/1/2006)Features music from...Kreator, Leather Strip, The Guild Of Funerary Violinists, Circus Contraption, Bill Lee, Samael, They Might Be Giants, Cranes, P.H.O.B.O.S., Rancid Hell Spawn, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Blanche, Satyricon2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 003 (Orig 9/24/2006)Features music from...The Creatures, Steve Earle, The Handsome Family, Of Unknown Origin, The Elemental Chrysalis, Mortifera, Scorn, Nazca, Split Lip Rayfield, Chris Connelly, Eileen Fulton, Forseti, The Legendary Pink Dots2022-09-171h 01
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 002 (Orig 9/17/2006)Features music from...The Tiger Lillies, Lord Wind, November Novelet, Celestiial, The Meat Purveyors, Donovan, Beyond Dawn, GGFH, King Diamond, Rudimentary Peni, God Bullies, Sharron Kraus, Janet Klein, The Accused2022-09-171h 00
Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 001 (Orig 9/10/2006)Features music from...Dr:Op:Fr:Am+E, Atrium Carceri, Alethes, Tenebrae In Perpetum, Lugubrum, Johnny Cash and Nick Cave, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Rohan Theatre Band, The Dead Brothers, Blut Aus Nord, Murderous Vision, The Handsome Family2022-09-171h 01
NOISEXTRA - The noise podcast.Fennesz – Endless SummerJune is calling so we thought it would be a great time to cover “Endless Summer” by Fennesz. It’s our first time highlighting a Mego album and this seminal disc is a fantastic marker of a particular branch of noise sounds. Melodic guitar swims under broken computer sounds and we are washed away in its waves. Note: apologies for some mic crackle and distortion on this episode.
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NOISEXTRA - The noise podcast.Seed Mouth – TitanicWe travel back to a fateful night in 1912 with Seed Mouth’s astounding “Titanic” CD from 1996. An incredibly unique and special Japanese project, Seed Mouth brings something ineffable to the noise landscape. In addition, we discuss the Titanic disaster and how we see it relating to the expanse of this album.
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NOISEXTRA - The noise podcast.Gruntsplatter – Pest MaidenNoise ambient plague sounds take hold as we discuss Gruntsplatter’s “Pest Maiden” from 1999 on Troniks. “Pest Maiden” exists in 3 forms, a two song 7”, a limited cassette, and a CD which features the complete picture. We go deep into the CD and it’s many references to the plague. Rounding out this episode, not only did we talk with Scott Candey, the man behind Gruntsplatter, but we also interviewed Jonathan Canady (Deathpile, Blunt Force Trauma) and Phil Blankenship (Troniks, The Cherry Point) to discuss working with Scott and their relationship to his work.
You can find Scott’s projects at th...2020-04-2200 min
NOISEXTRA - The noise podcast.Contagious Orgasm – Confession of MannequinWe head back to the 1980s and get completely knocked out by Contagious Orgasm’s “Confession of Mannequin” on SSSM. An incredibly unique band in the noise/industrial/experimental underground, Contagious Orgasm’s second release is gives us a lot of sounds and images that will continue throughout their decades of work. Not only is the tape a stunner, the packaging is a true ’80s cassette culture artifact. Join us and walk through the surreal world of sound created by Contagious Orgasm.
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Professor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 026Welcome to the 3rd annual Halloween episode, Episode 26. This time around we pay tribute to Harry Houdini who left this mortal coil on Halloween back in 1926. In addition to the stupefying feats of conjuring and illusion he was best known for, Houdini spent 30 years exhaustively researching spiritualism and the paranormal. Sitting with and studying the techniques of the best known mediums of the day, and ultimately being unconvinced that the were capable of their grandiose claims.Next we take a look at electro-magnetic fields as they relate to investigating the paranormal. Looking at the reality of what the...2008-10-3100 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 025Welcome to Episode 25, once again it has been too long... This episode features some potentially landmark news from the world of Cryptozoology, but first things first...Out of the gate we discuss the bizarre affliction that has come to be known as Morgellons disease. This condition as yet unrecognized by the medical establishment includes such symptoms as the growth of multi colored fibers from the body that have been reported to move autonomously, and strange crystalline or granular residue that appears within lesions all accompanied by the feeling of insects crawling under the skin. The CDC has begun...2008-08-1300 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 024Welcome back after a long delay with episode 24. Computer issues and chain stores downloaded their grief upon my doorstep in a flaming paper bag, but hopefully I will be able to get back to a proper schedule now. Hopefully some of you are still listening…First up we revisit the legend of “Oriuagor” a tome purported to drive insane those who dare to read it. First touched upon in Episode 19, an email submission cracks this one open again. I had largely written it off as a marketing gimmick for someone seeking to fabricate a new Necronomicon, but a submit...2008-06-1400 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 023Episode 23 has arrived... tin foil hats are optional but fashionable. This time we take a peek at the life of Thomas Dyott. Dyott amassed a sizeable fortune selling patent medicines under such tantalizing names as Roberton's Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges & Vegetable Nervous Cordial. The fortune was sizeable enough to enable him to build a “utopian” village, called Dyottville (what else?) that coincidently allowed him to skirt labor laws to perpetuate his business.From there we peek behind the curtain of opportunist psychiatry and look at the phenomenon of Spirit Release, the process of psychiatric exorcism. In fairness to t...2008-04-1200 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 020Greetings once again, episode 20 is now up for your consumption. It is nice to reach the 20 show landmark.This time we take a look at a rise in reports of possession, exorcisms and the mark of the beast in the news, and some things the Catholic church are doing to that end, including a treatment center for demonic possession being built in Poland.Next up we take a look at the legacy of John “Goat Gland” Brinkley. Brinkley was a medical huckster that made a fortune off the idea that goat testicles were an excellent cure for...2008-03-2900 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 022Episode 22 is upon us, this go around we examine numerous instances of a aural phenomenon described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead as the sound of the soul separating from the body. Buzzing and grinding sounds that build to a crescendo have been associated with everything from Near Death Experiences, Shamanic Rituals, Old Hag Syndrome and other forms of transcendent consciousness. An excellent article, called “Her Sweet Murmur” by Greg Taylor (which you can read if you click the link there) from the collection Dark Lore Vol. 1 summarizes these connections and we take a look at this one component of t...2008-03-1700 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 019Episode 19 is now up, this time out we take a look at an alleged forbidden tome called Oriuagor, and the superstitions and warnings associated with reading the work. We also look at the very real likelihood that it’s all a marketing hoax.Next we review the life and death of Anna Goldi who was immortalized as “The Last Witch of Europe” after her execution 1782 on bogus allegations of witchery in a small Swiss town.Lastly, we look into two fabled giant serpents, the Lindorm in Scandinavia, and the Tatzelwurm reported to live in the Alps throug...2008-03-1700 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 017Well, this was intended to be the second annual Halloween episode… it is a bit late I realize, however listen to it through pumpkin shaped headphones if you will. Halloween is a time of year and a feeling in the air, not simply a day on the calendar.This episode looks into ghostly sightings and communication with the dead through various gadgetry. Our first stop is among the urban legends and paranormal sightings on a secluded lane known as Zombie Road in western St. Louis County. And looks briefly at investigations by missourighosts.net and the Missouri Paranormal Re...2008-03-1700 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 021Welcome gawkers to episode 21 of the show! This episode we examine the Jewish ritual of Kapparot - the transfer of sins into the body of a chicken and the sacrifice of the chicken prior to Yom Kippur... as well as recent performance of it in New York and the aftermath left behind. I’ve also included a short PETA video here in the notes to further give you an idea of what we are talking about. I also juxtapose this with a sensational article from the Sioux City Journal regarding a reported ritual killing.Following this we look at...2008-03-0100 minProfessor Gruntsplatter's SpookatoriumSpookatorium 018Welcome to episode 18, some of the little improvements I have been hoping to do for awhile finally got taken care of, so hopefully you’ll like those.This time out we look at the legacy of Mary Toft, she was involved in a hoax in 1726 that drew the attention of the King of England and inspired perhaps the most famous of any trick in a magicians repertoire. Her story is outlined further in the book “The Girl Who Gave Birth To Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery,” which I am hoping to check out before too long.Next w...2007-12-2100 min