HORRORble Podcast

Askia "The Boogeyman" Booker

Hosted by Askia “The Boogeyman” Booker, this show dives into the real, raw, and unexpected stories of fear—from industry insiders to everyday people with terrifying tales.

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Scary personal experiences

Surprising confessions about fear

Unique insights and behind-the-scenes stories

🎧 Whether they live in the horror world or are just visiting, every guest brings a new nightmare to the mic.

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20 episodes
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Wednesday · 1 hr 25 min
Why I'm a Devotee of Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death
Askia sits down with Conjuring Cass, a curandera, biologist, master herbalist, and devotee of La Santa Muerte. They cover childhood paranormal encounters (The Hat Man, duendes, shadow figures), the real truth behind Santa Muerte devotion, and how quantum physics ties into traditional Mexican healing. ______________________________ Connect with Cassandra: https://www.instagram.com/conjuring_cass https://www.tiktok.com/@conjuringcass SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Cassandra grew up between the U.S. and Mexico in a deeply conservative household where the paranormal was never supposed to exist. Except it did. Shadow figures, a rotating cast of duendes, and a Hat Man wearing the face of someone she knew. That was just childhood. Now she runs a full curanderismo practice rooted in biology, quantum physics, and devotion to La Santa Muerte. And no, before you ask, is Santa Muerte evil? Short answer: no. Cassandra breaks down what Santa Muerte protection actually looks like in practice, what devotion costs you (hint: accountability), and how unresolved emotional trauma becomes chronic physical illness. She also explains what happens spiritually during an alcohol blackout, the difference between a soul liberation and an exorcism, and why she accepts donations instead of charging set fees. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Conjuring Cass 04:05 - Is Santa Muerte demonic? 07:09 - Meeting duendes, Mexican gnomes 16:26 - Connecting with Santa Muerte 22:53 - What really is Santa Muerte? 27:15 - Can Santa Muerte end your life? 32:06 - Amulets of protection 38:19 - Santa Muerte and the cartel 42:51 - Witchcraft attacks on Cass 48:19 - What is a curandera? 52:40 - What really are demons? 55:54 - Death work 59:08 - Generational curses 1:03:02 - Connecting with your higher self 1:04:59 - Performing exorcisms 1:11:27 - Harmful spirit work 1:18:15 - The cost of working with Santa Muerte
July 22 · 1 hr 14 min
EXORCIST Exposes Real Life Demons & How to SELL YOUR SOUL
Askia sits down with Brian from Demon Erasers, a former exorcist and demonologist who breaks down what does selling your soul mean, the occult origins of English words, and why schizophrenia might be a spiritual issue. From the etymology of demons to Nephilim lore, nothing is off the table on this one. ______________________________ Learn more about Demon Erasers https://www.youtube.com/@demonerasers https://www.instagram.com/demonerasers SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Brian is a California-based content creator, researcher, and former Christian exorcist now teaching about the occult, fallen angels, psychology, and ancient folklore. In this episode, he walks through his unorthodox theories on occult etymology and language, arguing that everyday words like spelling, grammar, screen, and even Siri trace back to witchcraft and scrying traditions. He also gets into why he thinks traditional views of hell are fear-based control mechanisms, what astral projection actually is (and isn't), and how trauma creates the psychological openings that make hypnosis and spiritual susceptibility possible. On top of that, Brian unpacks the linguistic roots of alcohol, profanity, and holiday figures like Santa Claus and Krampus, connecting them to Basque mythology and Nephilim lore. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Demon Erasers 01:06 - Is schizophrenia demonic? 04:04 - Why demons give you knowledge 07:26 - The secret pyramids of the Bible 16:02 - You don't need to read the Bible? 21:04 - What really is Hell? 24:04 - Demonic entertainment 28:26 - The Catholic Church is demonic? 34:54 - Possessions via alcohol 38:11 - Brian's spiritual warfare journey 42:43 - How to eat correctly 44:43 - Has the Bible been corrupted? 48:07 - Trauma and mind control 53:55 - What are fallen angels? 55:03 - Is yoga demonic? 57:45 - Why do we have free will? 1:02:55 - Brian's insane exorcism experiences 1:06:16 - How drugs let demons in 1:08:29 - Santa Claus is a demon?
July 15 · 2 hr 6 min
New Orleans Voodoo, Incubus Encounters, and the Katrina Cannibal
See if your SSN is for sale right now. My sponsor Cloaked will tell you for free in 2 seconds here: https://cloaked.com/horrorble Askia sits down with New Orleans Voodoo Queen Bloody Mary to break down the real difference between voodoo and hoodoo, the truth behind how voodoo dolls work, and what actually happened to the "Katrina Cannibal." Bloody Mary also shares personal encounters with incubus and succubus spirits, Mothman, and an ancient entity that nearly stopped her heart. This one gets dark, deep, and wildly educational. ______________________________ Take a tour with Bloody Mary: https://www.bloodymarystours.com https://www.instagram.com/bloodymarynola SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Bloody Mary's family roots in New Orleans go back to 1699, she is connected to Marie Laveau, and she has spent decades as a practicing Voodoo Queen and self-described Necro-therapist who helps both the living and the dead find peace. In this conversation, she unpacks the real history behind Marie Laveau and Madame LaLaurie, corrects what American Horror Story got wrong, and explains why the Voodoo Queen Bloody Mary moniker connects to mirror scrying and Mary I of England. She walks through the mechanics of spiritual energy harvesting, explains voodoo possession stories from Bourbon Street tourists to full ceremonial Mambo initiation, and breaks down a voodoo wedding ceremony she legally performed. She also clears up the Hollywood myths around voodoo dolls (they are not just for curses), animal sacrifice, and the rougarou legend lurking in the Louisiana swamps. The conversation gets especially heavy when Bloody Mary recounts the true story of Zach Bowen and Addie Hall, two bartenders who stayed in New Orleans through Katrina and descended into tragedy. She debunks the "Katrina Cannibal" myth and explains why she preserved artifacts from the crime scene in her museum as a memorial. If you have ever wondered about incubus and succubus encounters, the Casket Girls of New Orleans, or what it actually feels like when a spirit tries to occupy your body, this episode answers all of it with zero filter ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Bloody Mary 01:06 - Is Bloody Mary related to Marie Laveau 02:05 - Leaving offerings for fairies 04:56 - How to see spirits 08:24 - Bloody Mary's spirit guides 12:13 - Succubus and incubus encounters 24:21 - The true history of Madame LaLaurie 29:35 - The origins of the Bloody Mary game 36:18 - How possessions actually work 41:04 - Voodoo initiations 46:43 - The truth about the Katrina Cannibal 1:02:33 - Bloody Mary's most insane exorcisms 1:12:19 - Voodoo weddings 1:14:13 - Demystifying voodoo dolls 1:22:37 - What are jujus? 1:26:35 - Different types of voodoo 1:30:30 - What is speaking in tongues? 1:31:55 - Sacrifice in voodoo 1:37:14 - Are cats spirit guides? 1:40:19 - Why Mothman appeared after Katrina 1:47:48 - Performing an exorcism on a cat 1:52:19 - The vampires of New Orleans 02:01:29 - Bloody Mary's near death experience
July 8 · 1 hr 3 min
Reincarnated Gods, Atlantis Secrets, and the Secret History of Jesus
Askia sits down with La'Rasha Washington, a Texas psychic and Starseed, to talk reincarnated Egyptian goddesses, dialysis centers as secretly maintaining cloning factories, and that your world leaders are sea creatures gearing up for an underwater war. This one goes places. ______________________________ Learn more about La'Rasha https://www.youtube.com/@GoddessQueenJustMe23 https://www.instagram.com/GoddessQueenJustMe23 SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ La'Rasha Washington grew up seeing spirits and connecting to her inner past life as an Egyptian goddess. By the time she hit her spiritual awakening in 2017, she had a lot to say, and none of it matches what your history teacher told you. La'Rasha breaks down the six alien bloodlines running Earth, why you shouldn't eat catfish (hint: Atlantis), past life regression rituals involving crowns and golden gates, and her take on the Jesus and Lucifer same person theory. This episode covers everything from the Starseed blueprint to cloning systems in hospitals and prisons, the "They Cloned Tyrone" conspiracy played out in real life, mantis aliens as the referees of the entire universal game, and her tarot "treasure box" reading system. She also recounts handing a scroll to a mermaid in a past life, and then meeting that mermaid's reincarnation at a rock store in a mall. The views and opinions expressed by the guests of this show do not necessarily reflect the views of the HORRORble Podcast. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing La'Rasha Washington 02:32 - Is seafood really alien meat? 06:52 - Are we living in a dome? 08:00 - Who are the real Native Americans? 10:13 - What alien race are you? 15:13 - Are Jesus and Lucifer the same person? 22:08 - Is La'Rasha a reincarnated Egyptian goddess? 32:54 - Is the US the real Egypt? 34:22 - Tarot reading 41:06 - Real life clones 49:13 - What is Atlantis really? 50:48 - How to know if you're a Starseed 55:01 - Mermaids
July 1 · 1 hr 10 min
Bigfoot, Wendigos, and the Michigan Dogman w/ a REAL LIFE Cryptozoologist
Go to https://trypsychicsource.com/horrorble to try up to 40 minutes with a Psychic Source advisor for $19.80. Get the clarity and guidance you need today! #sponsored ______________________________ Askia sits down with Allen Hopps, co-owner of Dark Hour Haunted House and the North American Cryptid Museum, to dig into cryptid lore, the evolutionary science of fear, and the wild reality of running a professional haunted house. Highlights include Allen scaring Shaq into a full crab-crawl and breaking down the histories of dogmen and Bigfoot. Allen Hopps has been scaring people since he was 10 years old, literally stuffed inside a ceiling tile with a fishing pole and a fake spider. Now he co-owns one of Texas's most respected haunted houses and a cryptid museum, and he's still obsessed with monsters for the same reason he was as a kid: they make the world more interesting. In this episode, Allen breaks down the actual mythological difference between werewolves and wolfmen, traces Bigfoot sightings back to Neanderthal encounters, and explains why the Orang Pendek of Sumatra might be the cryptid closest to official scientific recognition. He also gets into the Wendigo, the Ojibwe winter spirit born from cannibalism, and why the theme of his cryptid museum leans hard into the viral National Parks missing persons rabbit hole. On the haunted house side: Allen explains how his team dismantles "tough guys" every single night, and why he genuinely recommends couples visit a haunted house within their first three dates. Plus, the full story of scaring Shaquille O'Neal into a crab-crawl. He also shares how he met his wife while on 7.5-foot stilts in a gargoyle costume, the dark fantasy creative philosophy behind Dark Hour, and how his YouTube channel Stilt Beast Studios grew into Monster Camp, a hands-on school for mask-making and creature design. ______________________________ Learn more about Allen and the North American Cryptid Museum: https://www.northamericancryptidmuseum.com https://www.darkhourhauntedhouse.com https://stiltbeaststudios.com SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Allen Hopps 02:24 - Childhood fears 04:23 - Werewolves vs wolf men 11:09 - Why there are so many dog men 18:53 - What really is Bigfoot? 25:25 - How Bigfoot hides from us 31:24 - Cannibalistic origins of Wendigos 37:57 - Ancient animals that HUNTED humans 39:57 - Deconstructing cryptids 45:38 - Bringing prehistoric animals back to life 47:36 - Why haunted houses are so important 49:59 - When Allen SCARED Shaq 55:15 - Dark Hour haunted house 56:39 - A**holes and walk outs at haunted houses 1:02:43 - Intense reactions to haunted houses
June 24 · 1 hr 51 min
Voodoo Assassinations, WitchTok Psychosis, and My HAUNTED DOLL Collection
Askia sits down with Judie Burroughs, a third-generation spiritual practitioner, for one of the darkest episodes yet. They cover exorcisms gone wrong, celebrity court case spellwork, surviving a spiritual burial in Haiti, and a live paranormal communication session with two haunted dolls. Oh, and there's another doll so haunted that it's locked alone in a storage unit with the key thrown away. You'll understand why. ______________________________ Learn more about Readings by Judie https://www.readingsbyjudie.com https://www.instagram.com/readingsbyjudieteam SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Judie Burroughs has been neck-deep in the spiritual and darker arts since birth. She grew learned from her grandmother, used her Baby Alive doll as a voodoo doll at age five, and currently owns a real human skull. Normal stuff. In this episode, Judie breaks down the real mechanics of candle work, root work, hoodoo, voodoo, and hexing, including why botching a hex can literally kill you or destroy your mind. She walks through a chaotic exorcism where the spirit body-jumped three people including herself, leaving her blacked out behind a tree for seven hours. She explains why alcohol is literally called "spirits" and shares a case where a woman killed her child after a spirit attachment during a drinking binge. Judie also gets into her celebrity clientele: spellwork for rappers and athletes involving bones, blood, automatic writing, and jars buried in her backyard. She talks about the dangers of TikTok tarot readers opening portals they can't close, a 15-year-old who stopped speaking English after going too deep into YouTube tarot, and a local preacher who hired her to help him quietly divorce his wife and move to California with his secret boyfriend. Then there's Joy, a haunted doll that put Judie's son in the ER as a DOA within hours of arriving at her house. Joy now lives alone, bound, in a storage unit. Her store assistant went insane trying to work with Joy, ended up in the woods ripping the head off a white pigeon and pouring its blood on herself. The episode ends with a live session: Judie sets up Zanzibar the Clown and Faith on camera and uses a ghost communicator. The responses "you shouldn't be here," "leave me alone," "play with me" come through clear enough to make your skin crawl. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Judie Burroughs 03:08 - Placing curses 05:27 - The 7 hour exorcism 08:04 - Possessed by Satan 12:48 White people practicing root work 16:55 - Animal sacrifice 24:55 - Love spells 32:46 - Judie's court of spirits 42:21 - Work that Judie WON'T do 46:37 - Voodoo assassination attempts 52:49 - The haunted racist Airbnb incident 1:01:19 - Judie's magic work for celebrities 1:08:04 - TikTok witchcraft gone wrong 1:12:49 - Why Judie buys haunted dolls 1:22:41 - Communicating with Judie's haunted dolls 1:33:46 - Our most haunted items 1:38:04 - Why we're afraid of these haunted dolls
June 17 · 1 hr 5 min
Why You Should NEVER Do Seances at Home
Askia sits down with Jake & Albert of Austin Seance to talk a decade of real seances, a voodoo encounter in Haiti involving a severed human head, a full-blown possession at a haunted attraction, and a phantom wolf that showed up in Jake's bedroom a week later. No theatrics, no stage magic, just two facilitators who've seen some genuinely unsettling stuff. ______________________________ Join a seance hosted by Jake and Albert: https://austinseance.com https://www.instagram.com/theaustinseance SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Jake and Albert don't call themselves mediums, they call themselves facilitators. Their whole philosophy is about creating a structured, historical, and sincere environment where the sitters tap into their own intuitive energy. Over ten years, they've watched skeptics bolt from rooms in panic, witnessed participants drop to the floor during apparent possessions, documented a mysterious noise-canceling effect during rituals, and experienced a simultaneous physical 'blast' that hit both of them in the chest at the same moment. Jake also pulls back the curtain on a wild chapter from his journalism career: a trip to Haiti during the 1990 coup where he ended up face-to-face with what appeared to be a voodoo curse ritual, complete with a severed human head in a hole in the ground. Albert walks through his history with sleep paralysis, demonic silhouettes, and the time he screamed at his roommate thinking he was a demon. They also cover the ethics of seances, why they refuse to exploit grief, how to spot a fraudulent show, the real history behind spoon bending, and why spiritualism was once arm-in-arm with women's suffrage and abolition. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Jake and Albert 01:57 - Sleep paralysis demons 04:37 - Encounters with Haitian Voodoo 12:17 - How to run a seance 18:12 - INTENSE seance experiences 24:34 - How to protect against dark entities 32:32 - Possessions and ghost contact 45:46 - How to communicate with passed loved ones 53:11 - Spoon bending and ectoplasm
June 10 · 1 hr 10 min
Hollywood Indoctrination, Evil Mermaids, and the Secrets of the Denver Airport
Askia sits down with Maverick Approach, a conspiracy "realist" and former Hollywood child actor who's seen things most people couldn't dream up. From watching Diddy serve spiked drinks at an $80M Beverly Hills mansion to breaking down how your birth certificate is literally a maritime cargo manifest, this episode goes places. ______________________________ Follow Maverick: https://www.youtube.com/@MaverickApproach https://www.instagram.com/maverickapproach SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Growing up as a child actor in Hollywood, Maverick got a front-row seat to an industry most people only see from the outside. Underage drug use, inappropriate relationships, elite parties. He witnessed it early and it woke him up fast. In this episode, Maverick breaks down the hidden architecture of control hiding in plain sight: the etymology of the word 'government' (spoiler: it literally means mind control), how spelling is actually spell-casting, why your school was modeled after a Prussian military prison, and how the publisher of your childhood textbooks was owned by the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. He goes deeper: flat earth vs. round earth? Neither. Try holographic simulation, backed by declassified CIA Gateway Process documents and a string theorist who found error-correcting computer code embedded in the equations of the universe. Then there's the moon (hollow and artificial), NASA (the Hebrew word for 'to deceive'), the Cold War heart attack gun that left zero forensic trace, Directed Energy Weapons deployed in Venezuela, Project Blue Beam's fake alien invasion playbook, $21 trillion missing from government books, and underground civilizations being built right now for the ultra-elite. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Maverick 02:09 - The dark side of child acting 05:15 - Diddy parties 11:52 - Mind control 14:11 - Is college a scam? 16:47 - Battling Satanism 21:26 - Is outer space fake? 25:11 - The moon is a military base 28:29 - What they don't tell you about the ocean 32:35 - Are mermaids and sea monsters real? 36:14 - Bigfoot is an interdimensional being 38:08 - Direct Energy Weapons 41:41 - Real life zombies 43:28 - Simulation theory 45:47 - The Galactic Federation 48:58 - Project Blue Beam 50:29 - The truth about the Denver Airport 51:50 - Underground civilizations 56:06 - Dicyanin dye demons 58:58 - Telepathy is real? 1:03:01 - What they don't tell you about Mars 1:04:03 - Secret spy drones
June 3 · 1 hr 1 min
MallWorld, CIA Dream Experiments, and the Terrifying Reality of Fairies
Askia and professional witch Celeste break down shared dream experiments, government psychic programs, and the original terrifying lore behind fairies. They dig into MallWorld, a hyper-specific 1980s shopping mall thousands of people across the globe claim to dream about, and how Celeste ran a 1,000-person psychic experiment to test it. Plus: CIA psyops, the GATE program conspiracy, lucid dreaming herbs, and why you should never say 'thank you' to a fairy. ______________________________ Follow Celeste! https://www.instagram.com/celestemott https://www.celestemott.com Special thanks to the Abita Springs Hotel for hosting our podcast! https://www.abitaspringshotel.com SUBMIT YOUR SHORT SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Celeste's viral TikTok lucid dreaming experiments kicked off 2026 with a bang: over 1,000 people tried to psychically meet inside Mall World on the same night using a meditation guide, a sigil, and the symbol of moths and butterflies. The results? Hard to explain away. From there, the conversation goes deep: declassified CIA programs like Project Stargate and MK Ultra, the GATE school program conspiracy (pink liquid, audio tone tests, and psychically implanted dream spaces), and the science behind why your brain invents disgusting bathrooms in your sleep. Celeste also breaks down how to actually achieve lucid dreaming. Askia opens up about years of childhood nightmares, and Celeste shares why just talking about your dreams out loud might make them stop. The back half goes full folklore: fairies aren't cute. Original European and Irish fairy lore describes them as dangerous, amoral beings, and spirits of the dead, land entities, or ancient Celtic royalty. Celeste ties fairy sightings to UFO encounters and angelic visitations, then closes with strict rules of engagement: if you see one, pretend you didn't. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - The MallWorld shared dream phenomenon 18:55 - CIA dream experiments 26:24 - Are dreams a connection to the spirit world? 27:56 - How to lucid dream 36:38 - The real reason behind recurring nightmares 43:40 - Why fairies are worse than you think 48:11 - Are all paranormal phenomena the SAME THING? 52:52 - Separating reality from the paranormal
May 27 · 1 hr 5 min
Dark Witchcraft, Real Life Cults, and the Vampiric Energy of New Orleans
Askia sits down with witch and returning guest Celeste Mott live from New Orleans. They expose a real vampire cult that tried to get this episode taken down, dive into cursed candles, spirits wearing masks, shotgun house ghosts, and the vampiric energy grid of the French Quarter. Then they get brutally honest about mental illness, self-harm, addiction, and the line between paranormal experiences and spiritual psychosis. ______________________________ Follow Celeste! https://www.instagram.com/celestemott https://www.celestemott.com Special thanks to the Abita Springs Hotel for hosting our podcast! https://www.abitaspringshotel.com SUBMIT YOUR SHORT SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ The cult is real. The cult is culting. After Celeste's first appearance on the show, members of her former vampire cult contacted Askia demanding the episode come down. Instead of folding, Askia doubled down and brought Celeste back for round two. This episode goes deep. Celeste breaks down how she builds a spirit court, what happened when she slapped a tree during a solstice ritual and found the letter 'A' carved in bark, and why spirits wear masks to manipulate practitioners. She walks through two of the most concrete paranormal encounters she's ever had: a full-body apparition witnessed by two people simultaneously, and a witch candle she bought locally that invited a skeletal shadow entity AND a ghost into her bedroom the same night. Then it gets personal. Celeste opens up about the fine line between schizophrenia and spiritual psychosis and how the vampiric energy of the French Quarter can keep you addicted. The episode wraps with major red flags for identifying cults and high-control groups, and a teaser on Celeste's viral TikTok lucid dreaming experiments inside a shared dreamscape called Mall World. STAY TUNED FOR PART 2, NEXT WEEK! ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Celeste Mott 02:15 - Vampire cults are real 06:38 - Celeste's personal Court of Spirits 12:41 - Spirits vs evil entities 16:03 - Celeste's ghost encounters 22:32 - Bad witches 28:22 - Celeste's alien encounter 33:04 - What is spiritual psychosis? 40:33 - Demons aren't what you think they are 44:28 - The vampiric energy of New Orleans 58:38 - How to avoid joining a cult
May 20 · 58 min
An Interview with the VAMPIRE KING
Askia continues New Orleans Month, sitting down with fangsmith and Vampire King Maven Lore to break down the real life Vampire Community: cult escapes, blood raves, vampires hunters, and all. From 17 years inside a cult to the truth about blood-drinking, this one goes places most podcasts won't. ______________________________ Follow the Vampire King and Fangsmith Maven Lore: https://www.instagram.com/mavenlore https://www.thefangsmith.com Special thanks to the Abita Springs Hotel for hosting our podcast! https://www.abitaspringshotel.com SUBMIT YOUR SHORT SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Maven Lore has been in the Vampire Community since the 90s, long before it was an aesthetic. He coined the term "fangsmith" in 1998, ran blood raves with stage blood, witnessed actual wood-stake attacks from self-proclaimed vampire hunters, and spent 17 years inside a cult he had to claw his way out of. Pixie brings her own harrowing story of escaping a predatory religious group that targeted her family after her father's death. Together, they dismantle Hollywood vampire mythology, explain why New Orleans sits at a spiritual crossroads, and make a case for why being weird is not only okay, it's worth protecting. This episode covers vampire folklore across global cultures, the very real dangers of cheap permanent fangs, how cult behavior sneaks up on even the most skeptical people, and why the Vampire Court of New Orleans was structured like a town hall, not a throne room. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing the Vampire King 02:18 - The dark energy of New Orleans 03:38 - Real life vampire communities 16:33 - Vampirism vs Satanism 18:56 - How to escape a cult 30:01 - A day in the life of the Vampire King 32:01 - Becoming a fangsmith 40:07 - What vampires ACTUALLY look like 42:57 - Blood drinkers 48:47 - Real life vampire hunters 54:17 - Secret vampire groups
May 13 · 1 hr 36 min
My Life as a Voodoo Priestess
Askia sits down with Voodoo Priestess and scholar Lilith Dorsey to break down the real history of Voodoo, its West African roots, and why Hollywood keeps getting it wrong. Lilith shares chilling personal stories including telepathic voices in the Pine Barrens, a ghost knocking a cheater's phone into a toilet, firewalking on 1300-degree coals, and the dark truth about fairies and changelings. Plus, practical tips on spiritual protection and why asking for the wrong thing might cost you everything. ______________________________ Learn more about Lilith Dorsey: https://www.instagram.com/lilithdorsey https://lilithdorsey.com Special thanks to the Abita Springs Hotel for hosting our podcast! https://www.abitaspringshotel.com SUBMIT YOUR SHORT SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Lilith Dorsey is a Voodoo priestess, author, and practitioner. In this episode she dismantles every misconception Hollywood has built around Voodoo, explaining that it's a religious system rooted in Benin, West Africa, developed by and for the Black diaspora. She gets into the real mechanics of ancestral veneration, what initiation actually looks like, and how spells born from slavery and oppression were tools of justice. not evil. She also goes full paranormal: a haunted Brooklyn basement, a spirit named Peter, zombie origin stories from Haiti, and real vampires walking the streets of New Orleans. Lilith's path isn't a hobby. It's a calling with a cost. Topics covered: Voodoo vs. witchcraft, spirit attachments, ancestral veneration, initiation, possession, fairies and changelings, spiritual protection, Pine Barrens, zombies, vampires, Hollywood vs. reality, and more. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Lilith Dorsey 01:29 - What is Voodoo? 03:21 - Lilith's first contact with spirits 08:38 - The Gift 11:37 - Using magick 16:59 - Voodoo initiation 20:08 - Lilith teaching Voodoo 24:05 - Voodoo is NOT evil 29:37 - Hollywood vs Voodoo 32:03 - Voodoo vs Hoodoo 34:48 - Voodoo as a religion 40:11 - Possessions in Voodoo 47:22 - What fairies actually look like 51:24 - How to protect yourself from negative spirits 55:37 - Dangers in the magick community 1:02:10 - Types of witches 1:03:22 - The haunted Pine Barrens 1:10:13 - Using bodies in Voodoo practices 1:14:40 - How to create a zombie 1:17:27 - Vampires in New Orleans 1:21:13 - Working with the dead 1:26:09 - Feminine energy 1:28:06 - The cost of magick 1:33:03 - What does the afterlife look like?
May 6 · 1 hr 17 min
The Dark Truth About the Vampires of New Orleans
Askia sits down with Rose Sinister, a New Orleans vampire historian and tour guide, to dig into the real history of vampires, debunk Hollywood myths, and get into some genuinely dark territory. From Nazi propaganda creating the werewolf-vampire feud to the vampiric Casket Girls locked in a convent attic, this one goes places. Plus, Rose shares the wild story of surviving a 70 mph crash with a broken back. ______________________________ Learn more about Rose Sinister: https://www.instagram.com/rosesinister https://rosesinistermedia.com Special thanks to the Abita Springs Hotel for hosting our podcast! https://www.abitaspringshotel.com SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Rose Sinister is a professional vampire tour guide in the French Quarter, author of 'This Crimson Debt,' and host of the Rose Sinister: Vampires podcast. In this episode, she breaks down the Eastern European origins of vampire hysteria in the 1730s, explains why New Orleans became the vampire capital of America, and gets into the deeply queer roots of vampire literature from 'Carmilla' to Anne Rice's Castro-district-inspired work. She also calls out the tourist behavior happening on cemetery graves (you know who you are). This isn't your basic vampire explainer. Rose brings the receipts: historical, folkloric, and personal. And yes, she'll tell you why you should never leave a crystal ball uncovered. "Vampires are us. They reflect our fears and our dark desires." ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Rose Sinister 01:42 - What makes New Orleans haunted 03:32 - Interview with a Vampire, Vlad the Impaler 04:59 - Weird fears 05:56 - How to become a vampire 08:56 - Anne Rice changed everything 10:20 - Earliest vampires in New Orleans 14:27 - Vampires vs werewolves 17:55 - The legacy of Dracula 20:59 - The scariest NOLA vampire story 28:39 - Misconceptions about vampires 35:56 - Where did vampires come from? 41:09 - Vampires and the LGBT 44:28 - Meeting real life vampires 55:45 - Why vampires don't have reflections 1:00:13 - The allure of vampirism 1:04:33 - Rose's near-death experience
April 29 · 54 min
Real Curses, Witchcraft Initiations, and the Horrifying History of New Orleans
Askia sits down with Sen Elias, a spiritual practitioner, High Priest, and owner of Crescent City Conjure in New Orleans to unpack Hoodoo, Voodoo, possession, exorcisms, zombies, and the real cost of walking a spiritual path. This one goes deep, fast. ______________________________ Learn more about Sen Elias: https://www.instagram.com/crescentcityconjure https://www.crescentcityconjure.us SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Sen Elias doesn't sugarcoat anything. From breaking down the difference between Hoodoo and witchcraft, to describing what possession actually looks like in person, this episode pulls back the curtain on a world most people only think they understand. Elias traces his Hoodoo lineage, explains why New Orleans is a living spirit that 'needs to eat,' and lays out the five signs you might be cursed. He also gets into the ethics of placing curses, the chilling reality of exorcisms, and why your ancestors outrank everything when you're in danger. The episode closes with a gut-punch: the cost of this path is normality. Ignorance is bliss, and he can't go back. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Sen Elias 01:55 - What is Hoodoo? 03:47 - What REAL witchcraft looks like 05:55 - Sen Elias's spiritual journey 09:21 - Reincarnation is real? 11:22 - How to connect to other realities 14:48 - Demystifying Hoodoo 17:48 - Initiation into witchcraft 20:25 - Why New Orleans is haunted 29:19 - Cursing people 34:30 - How to know if you've been cursed 37:03 - What possession really looks like 41:03 - Real life exorcisms 45:15 - Bringing people back from the dead 50:05 - Connecting to your ancestors
April 22 · 1 hr 52 min
Secret Christian Witches, Paranormal PTSD, and Cursed African Death Masks
Askia sits down with Dona Strohbehn, a supernatural investigator and 'Paranormal Therapist.' They dig into paranormal PTSD, why the mental health field keeps getting it wrong, and what it actually takes to heal someone who's been attacked by a shadow person. Yes, that happened to her. ______________________________ Learn more about Dona and paranormal therapy: https://www.instagram.com/theparanormaltherapist https://theparanormaltherapist.com SUBMIT YOUR SCARY STORIES: https://forms.gle/sQJhS31p7oMoG9tv6 Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Dona Strohbehn has been seeing, hearing, and feeling things since she was two years old. What started as 'imaginary friends' her parents dismissed turned into a 40-year career bridging clinical mental health therapy with paranormal investigation. She holds a Master's in therapy, specializes in trauma and PTSD caused by anomalous events, and uses real clinical tools to separate a spiritual experience from a psychotic break. This episode goes deep. Dona breaks down why mainstream mental health practitioners are quick to slap a psychosis label on paranormal experiences without asking a single follow-up question. She talks about her Pagan practice, Celtic protective magic, and why she keeps Archangel Michael on speed dial during channeling sessions. She recounts being locked in a bathroom at the Lizzie Borden house, channeling three separate entities at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, and getting physically attacked at the Tremont House in Galveston by a shadow person. If you've ever had something happen in your home you couldn't explain, this one hits different. Dona's message is clear: your experience is real, your experience is valid, and there is no holy water required. "If your therapist is close-minded, find a new freaking therapist." ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Dona Strohbehn 12:45 - Mental health vs the paranormal world 14:38 - Speaking directly to ghosts 16:25 - Paganism and Christian Witches 20:51 - Becoming the Paranormal Therapist 24:38 - What therapy actually looks like 34:18 - The haunted Lizzie Borden house 38:15 - The haunted Waverly Hills Sanatorium 44:18 - Protector spirits 49:16 - What is Paranormal PTSD? 52:21 - Attacked by ghosts in the Tremont House 57:57 - What paranormal therapy looks like 1:06:41 - Losing sense of reality 1:16:59 - Religious trauma 1:23:33 - Reliving paranormal experiences 1:25:45 - Ouija boards 1:31:45 - African death masks 1:39:44 - Entities following you home 1:43:12 - Curing paranormal trauma 1:45:49 - Dealing with skeptics
April 15 · 1 hr 30 min
Solo Ghost Hunting, Dark Crystals, and the Midnight Man Ritual
Askia sits down with Lindsey AKA Phantomette, a solo paranormal investigator, to dig into her most terrifying experiences, from demonic presences at the Patterson House to a possessed doll that wrecked her apartment. They also get into the real dangers of investigating alone as a woman, the Midnight Man game, and whether ghosts are actually interdimensional beings. ______________________________ Watch Lindsey's paranormal investigations! https://www.youtube.com/@Itsphantomette https://www.instagram.com/itsphantomette Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Lindsey has been crawling through abandoned asylums since she was a teenage, and she hasn't stopped since. Now she investigates some of the most notorious haunted locations in the country, alone, with a camera and zero backup. In this episode, she breaks down what it's actually like to sleep in haunted buildings, why she gets better results solo, and the one time she threw her entire camera setup and ran out of the haunted Hill House in a full panic. She also gets into the haunted doll that caused chanting and cost her $666 in car repairs, and the room key from Hotel Apache that brought home a spirit from the 1800s. On top of the ghost stuff, Askia and Lindsey get into self-defense, personal safety as a female investigator, shamanism, crystals, psychic mediums, interdimensional theory, and Lindsey's dream of making it to the Doll Island in Mexico. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Phantomette 09:26 - The haunted Yorktown Memorial Hospital 10:59 - What it's like doing solo investigations 13:08 - The haunted Mizpah hotel 18:18 - The Haunted Hill House 20:01 - Speaking to demons 24:03 - Paranormal investigation equipment 27:03 - Ghost encounters 31:39 - Real life horror 40:27 - Entities following you home 42:26 - Haunted dolls 53:06 - How to protect yourself from evil entities 1:03:26 - What are ghosts really? 1:04:51 - The Midnight Man 1:08:36 - Are dreams actually visions? 1:10:13 - How to find a real psychic medium 1:13:04 - Moldavite and dark crystals 1:19:33 - Spirit attachments 1:20:32 - Shamans are real 1:27:09 - The Island of the Dolls
April 8 · 1 hr 36 min
Project Blue Beam, Simulation Theory, and the "Lechuza" Owl Witch
Askia sits down with Davyid from "Down the Rabbit Hole" for a no-holds-barred conversation covering haunted houses, Project Blue Beam, Bigfoot theories, alien weaponry, and surviving a fire that may have pulled Dayvid into a different universe. These aren't experts, just two dudes swapping wild stories and opinions in the dark. Highlights include a marine confessing alien weapon secrets during a ride-share and Dayvid waking up with actual gills after nearly dying. ______________________________ Watch "Dayvid Don't Know" https://www.youtube.com/@DayvidfromDTRH Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Dayvid joins Askia to unpack decades of paranormal obsession, starting with a childhood near a naval air station and a haunted rental house cursed by a gypsy, complete with a La Lechuza sighting by his dad. From there, the conversation spirals into simulation theory, DMT encounters, Project Blue Beam false flag conspiracies, a heart attack gun used on journalists, and Betty & Barney Hill allegedly abducted by humans pretending to be aliens. They get into Bigfoot being interdimensional slave labor, astral projection warnings, psychics trapped on the moon, and deja vu as proof of alternate lives. Dayvid also opens up about surviving an apartment fire, waking up with unexplained gills, and how a brush with death completely rewired how he moves through the world. Raw, strange, funny, and oddly motivating. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Dayvid from Down the Rabbit Hole 03:02 - La Lechuza 08:40 - DMT creatures 10:16 - Simulation theory 14:24 - Project Blue Beam 19:00 - The Phoenix Lights 20:55 - Energy weapons 29:03 - Alien abductions 37:07 - Human alien hybrids 40:44 - Is Bigfoot an interdimensional being? 49:13 - The Akashic Records 51:29 - Astral projection 59:25 - Are dreams alternate realities? 1:05:01 - Are serial killers all around us? 1:08:25 - Dimension hopping 1:23:25 - Dayvid's ghost encounter 1:29:50 - Choosing to be happy
April 1 · 1 hr 7 min
What They Don't Tell You About the Satanic Temple
Askia sits down with Io Locke, an ordained Minister of Satan from The Satanic Temple Austin, to cut through the noise on what Satanism actually is. From a Mormon farm in Oregon to leading a congregation in Austin, TX, Io breaks down the Seven Tenets, Baphomet, religious trauma, bodily autonomy, and why Christian nationalism is way more dangerous than anything The Satanic Temple is doing. ______________________________ Learn more about the Satanic Temple: https://thesatanictemple.com https://thesatanictempleaustin.com Get Yumwoof, the healthiest food for dogs, for 20% with our code HORRORBLE https://yumwoof.com/HORRORble Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Io Locke doesn't worship the devil, they don't even believe in one. What they do believe in: empathy, science, personal sovereignty, and making the world better for everyone. This episode digs into the real story behind The Satanic Temple, from its origins fighting abortion bans in Texas to running food drives and menstrual product collections under the name "Menstruating with Satan." Io walks through the difference between theistic and non-theistic Satanism, why the organization's name is intentionally provocative, and what the Baphomet statue is actually about. If you've ever been curious, or just wanted to argue at Thanksgiving, this one's required listening. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Io Locke 03:31 - Discovering the Satanic Temple 06:20 - Defining atheism 10:08 - Types of Satanism 12:22 - The Seven Tenets 13:31 - Anton LaVey 16:33 - Using "Satan" as a protest 19:22 - Religious trauma 24:27 - Kicking people out of the Temple 28:04 - Community outreach 34:33 - Protesting religious groups 36:05 - The pentagram 38:01 - Being provocative on purpose 39:59 - Becoming a Minister of Satan 45:23 - Reactions to being a Satanist 46:48 - The danger of organized religion 49:29 - The Apocrypha 51:08 - Evil on earth 54:40 - Christian nationalism 56:47 - Rituals in the Satanic Temple 59:56 - Misconceptions about Satanism
March 25 · 1 hr 53 min
Demonology, Real Life Possessions, and the DEADLIEST Cults Ever
Professor Joseph Laycock joins Askia to break down demonology, exorcism, and the academic study of spirit possession. They cover the real history behind "The Exorcist," the global prevalence of demon beliefs, the Satanic Panic, and why unregulated exorcisms can get people killed. ______________________________ Check out some of Joe's books! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2206651/joseph-p-laycock/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002I728MQ?ccs_id=290752eb-287c-4dff-b55c-e86b6ce01b23 Get Yumwoof, the healthiest food for dogs, for 20% with our code HORRORBLE https://yumwoof.com/HORRORble Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Joseph Laycock is a religious studies professor that gets roughly two calls a month from people convinced they're possessed (he stays out of it, because he's not a mental health professional, and he's definitely not an exorcist). This episode goes deep on the etymology of the word "demon," the Nephilim, books that got cut from the Bible, and why "The Exorcist" triggered a wave of real exorcism requests that still hasn't stopped. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Joseph Laycock 01:48 - Growing up with religion and horror 03:40 - Alien abductions 05:53 - Demons in modern society 10:21 - Religious studies vs theology 12:59 - Exorcisms gone horribly wrong 14:20 - What really is a demon? 18:36 - Animal sacrifice 23:27 - Nephilim and the Book of Enoch 31:08 - Possessions and inherited demons 35:28 - Santería 38:20 - Santa Muerte 42:58 - Spirit possessions around the world 50:16 - What does Hell look like in other religions? 56:01 - The impact of The Exorcist (1973) 1:06:43 - The Satanic Panic 1:14:44 - Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) 1:15:12 - 764 criminal organization 1:19:46 - What exorcisms actually look like 1:32:15 - What is a cult? 1:38:18 - Jonestown cult 1:40:10 - Branch Davidians cult FBI standoff 1:42:26 - Order of the Solar Temple cult 1:42:42 - Aum Shinrikyo cult 1:42:58 - Heaven's Gate cult 1:45:10 - The occult
March 18 · 1 hr 38 min
The Secret Demonic History of the Ouija Board
Askia sits down with Brandon Hodge, an expert on the history of spirit communication devices, to trace the dark, fascinating history of the Ouija board and everything that came before it. From the Fox Sisters and table tipping to planchettes, spirit rapping, and the unexpected origins of modern spiritualism, this one goes deep. ______________________________ Follow Brandon and check out his book "Supernatural Machines" https://a.co/d/0eKkVRH9 https://www.instagram.com/mysteriousplanchette Get Yumwoof, the healthiest food for dogs, for 20% with our code HORRORBLE https://yumwoof.com/HORRORble Go check out Warming Trends, the company that built the amazing fire centerpiece on our set! https://www.warming-trends.com Produced by Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________ Brandon Hodge is the real deal. With thousands of artifacts and hundreds of Ouija boards, he has dedicated his life to understanding why humans have always tried to talk to the dead. This episode covers the birth of American spiritualism in 1848, the Fox Sisters' infamous spirit rappings, how table tipping became a nationwide craze, the planchette's Parisian origins, and why the Ouija board, introduced in 1890, wasn't even considered special at the time. We also get into the demonization of these tools, what Hollywood got dead wrong, and why Brandon still says everyone should try a Ouija board at least once. ______________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing Brandon Hodge 01:42 - Introduction to the paranormal 03:27 - Sleep paralysis 04:16 - Spirit communication devices 08:19 - Why do people talk to the dead? 13:01 - The Fox sisters, the start of spirit communication 20:20 - Spiritualism 21:18 - Andrew Jackson Davis and hypnotism 23:53 - Table tipping 29:37 - How to hypnotize people 33:34 - Automatic writing 36:39 - The invention of the planchette 40:16 - Is spirit communication demonic? 49:09- The secret history of the Ouija Board 59:40 - Brandon's haunted Ouija Board experience 1:09:49 - Haunted items 1:13:00 - Should you use an Ouija Board? 1:16:20 - Hollywood and the Ouija Board 1:24:32 - Brandon's ectoplasm experience 1:28:08 - The Marfa Lights 1:30:51 - Children sensitivity to spirits