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Splintered Spirits

with Gary and John

What are spirits, really? Splintered Spirits explores the afterlife, ghosts, and the mysteries of human consciousness. Hosted by producer Gary Shapiro (the uneasy novice) and his nephew John Santa of Santa Paranormal (the experienced researcher), this podcast bridges the gap between the physical and spiritual worlds. Tune in for unnerving, funny, and thoughtful interviews or on-location experiments with psychic-mediums, parapsychologists, ghost hunters, witches and everyday people who have pierced

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01:03:28

Spirit Maxin' with Spooky Melanin Magic: Live with...

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2026/10/09

Do ghosts have a message for the living? Paranormal investigator and empath Bianca Pierre-Louis, known as Spooky Melanin Magic ( @spookymelaninmagic ) joins Gary and John for a ghost-hunting conversation that’s funny, eerie, and eye-opening. From the most haunted places in America to the feelings that follow her home, Bianca shares what it’s really like to sense the spirit world.This episode dives into empaths and psychic intuition, haunted history, paranormal evidence, and the stories that never

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01:05:32

Splintered Spirits Live with Kelsi Davies,...

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2026/10/02

She sees the dead. She collects haunted dolls. And ten million people can't stop watching.Clairvoyant, actress and paranormal powerhouse Kelsi Davies joins Gary and John to talk about growing up with spirits, the family gift nobody wanted to talk about, and what really happens when she walks into the most haunted places in America. Plus her new Tubi series, a trip through a past life, and the question we ask everyone: what are ghosts?It's funny, it's dark, and it gets a little cosmic.New

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01:21:02

Ep 54: Spirits as Information with John Kruth,...

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2026/09/29

John Kruth runs one of the strangest labs in America, and he's got the data to prove it. As executive director of the Rhine Research Center, the oldest continuously operating parapsychology lab in the country, with roots tracing back to a 1930s Duke University basement, Kruth has spent over fifteen years running ESP, psychokinesis, and psychic phenomena through controlled, peer reviewed, double blind experiments. He grew up doing meditation and healing work before he could ride a bike, and a

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00:58:39

The Lizzie Borden Family Curse: Splintered Spirits...

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2026/09/25

Paranormal author and investigator Sam Baltrusis joins Gary and John Santa from @santaparanormal live with a reveal they didn’t see coming. Sam’s distantly related to Lizzie Borden. With his new book, Lizzie Borden and the Family Curse coming out October 13, Sam digs into the Borden family tree and its unsettling ties to other infamous names, including Aileen Wuornos and Marilyn Monroe. He also traces an ancestor whose father was executed on spectral evidence, begging the question whether a family

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01:31:15

Ep 57: A Crash Course in Tarot with Beck Ravenswood

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2026/09/18

Tarot cards get a bad rap in the movies: dramatic candlelight, a mysterious stranger, and a death card that spells doom. The reality is a lot more interesting, and a lot less scary, and in this episode we're getting the real story straight from someone who reads professionally and is currently fighting a legal battle over it.Beck Ravenswood, the Hanover, Pennsylvania witch making headlines as the plaintiff in a landmark court case over Pennsylvania's fortune telling laws, joins Gary for a

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01:12:44

Ep 53: The Warren Legacy with Chris McKinnell

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2026/09/15

Chris McKinnell, grandson of legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, joins Splintered Spirits for a conversation about ghosts, consciousness, fear, and the real stories behind the Warren legacy. With more than four decades of fieldwork across 10,000 cases in 18 countries, Chris brings a perspective shaped by firsthand experience, psychology, religion, cultural anthropology, and a lifetime spent around the unexplained.Chris discusses why he moved beyond the demonology framework

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00:57:12

Splintered Spirits Live - September 10, 2026!!!

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2026/09/11

John Santa has a big problem this week. After a few too many cocktails at the haunted Tarrytown House Estate, a flirtatious spirit named Lily got a little too comfortable on his live stream. Then she followed him to home. Gary and John discuss the consequences of altered states of "intent,” why alcohol and ghost hunting don't mix, and whether it can be considered cheating if it’s with a ghost.From there the guys dig into some genuinely wild paranormal theory: entities that evolve over time,

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01:02:17

Splintered Spirits Live with Fuel Neve!

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2026/09/04

This episode of Splintered Spirits welcomes viral paranormal reaction creator Fuel Neve, for a funny, thoughtful, and unexpectedly personal conversation about ghost encounters, horror, social media, and why the paranormal does not always have to be deadly serious. Fuel shares how his loud, hilarious reactions to strange internet videos helped build his following, and why John Santa’s ghost-hunting clips are perfect material.Then things get genuinely spooky. Fuel recounts the shadowy figure known as

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01:17:27

Ep 52: Shari DeBenedetti from Ghost Hunters

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2026/09/01

What happens when a terrifying encounter in your own bedroom becomes the beginning of a life in paranormal investigation? On this episode of Splintered Spirits, Ghost Hunters and Ghost Nation investigator Shari DeBenedetti shares the chilling story that changed everything: unexplained activity in her family home, a physical encounter she still cannot explain, and a faceless doppelgänger that looked exactly like her then-boyfriend.Long before joining Jason Hawes and The Atlantic Paranormal Society,

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01:05:44

Splintered Spirits Live with Reverend Meg

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2026/08/28

Reverend Meg joins Splintered Spirits for a grounded, funny, and deeply personal conversation about psychic mediumship, spiritual awakening, spirit guides, and the nature of the nonphysical world. An ordained minister and licensed psychic medium through the Chapel of Awareness, Meg shares how a former atheist began experiencing powerful intuition, déjà vu, and encounters she could not easily explain, eventually leading her into years of spiritual study and ministry.We talk about ADHD and learning to

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01:22:58

Ep 58: Much Ado About Bullying

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2026/08/21

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary sits down with Mizz Paranormal, Cat, and Luna for an unfiltered conversation about paranormal experiences, ghost hunting ethics, and the growing fight for civility in the paranormal community. The three guests share the personal experiences that shaped their beliefs and drove them to speak publicly about what they see happening in the field.But this is also a conversation about accountability. Mizz Paranormal, Cat, and Luna break down what they feel is the

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01:40:31

Ep 51: The Oman House

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2026/08/18

The Oman House is a three story home on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills, built in 2002 on a vacant lot just feet from where the Sharon Tate and Manson family murders took place in 1969. Owner David Oman has spent decades living with unexplained phenomena in the house, from phantom footsteps and vanishing tools during construction to figurines and large dolls that topple on their own in rooms packed with cameras, all against a backdrop of Native American and old Hollywood history.In this episode I join

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01:17:19

Splintered Spirits Live with Nine Lives Paranormal

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2026/08/14

What happens when a love of haunted history, horror movies, folklore, and ghost hunting brings two people together? In this episode of Splintered Spirits, we sit down with Cara Cilento and Gail Gamble of Nine Lives Paranormal to explore their path from Italian folk magic, Ozarks legends, abandoned asylums, and a first ghost hunt to becoming paranormal investigators, authors, educators, and creators of one of New Jersey’s most ambitious paranormal events. From ghost cats at the Conjuring House and

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01:20:43

Splintered Spirits Live with Kaedrich Olsen and Ten...

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2026/08/07

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John sit down with paranormal mentor and Norse mystic Kaedrich Olsen, a man who quite literally says he was “born into the paranormal.” From growing up in a haunted house and attending spiritualist church as a kid to teaching seances and Norse mysticism, Kaedrich has spent decades refining a practical set of “10 rules” for dealing with ghosts, spirits, and the unseen. Instead of rehashing ghost stories, we dig into the real question: what actually

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01:22:00

Ep 50: Sean Austin - Medium, Demonologist, Ghost Hunter

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2026/08/04

In this episode of Splintered Spirits, Gary and John dive into the strange and spiritual world of demonologist, paranormal investigator, musician, medium, tech developer, and all around Renaissance Man, Sean Austin. From Catholic school memories and horror movie nightmares to actual field work with dark entities, Sean walks us through how a flip phone EVP and a very skeptical waiter blew his life wide open to the paranormal. It is part theology chat, part quantum physics, part campfire story. And it

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01:08:57

Splintered Spirits Live with Brian Cano!

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2026/07/31

Splintered Spirits welcomes veteran paranormal investigator, TV analyst, and author Brian J. Cano (Travel Channel's Paranormal Caught on Camera, SyFy's Haunted Collector) for a deep dive into his personal research philosophy he calls “Paralosophy.” Brian breaks down why he refuses to research a location's history before investigating, why he thinks the Estes Method is little more than a placebo dressed up in headphones, and why the biggest source of ghostly EVPs might actually be us, not

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01:06:55

Are You A Ghost Magnet? Splintered Spirits Live with...

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2026/07/24

What happens when you put a data-driven parapsychologist in the same room as two loud-mouth ghost enthusiasts trying to figure out what spirits are? In this episode, Gary and John sit down once again with Professor Brian Laythe to unpack his groundbreaking work on “Haunted People Syndrome” and why some people seem to live in a constant swirl of weirdness while others barely see a flicker. They dig into the idea of transliminality, thin psychic boundaries, and how your personality, your beliefs, and

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01:30:25

Ep 49: Haunted People Syndrome and Other Studies with...

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2026/07/21

If you’re into haunted houses, real-life ghost research, Western occult history, psychic phenomena, or just want to know what serious scientists actually think about spirits, this is the episode you don’t skip. Step into one of the most mind-bending episodes of Splintered Spirits yet, as Gary and John sit down with Dr. Brian Laythe, social psychologist, parapsychologist, Director of the Institute for the Study of Religious and Anomalous Experience, and co-author of Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting

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01:20:37

The Business of Ghosts: Splintered Spirits Live with...

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2026/07/17

Splintered Spirits sits down with Tim Nealon, the software engineer and entrepreneur who turned a “joke” ghost tour in Savannah into Ghost City Tours, one of the most recognizable brands in haunted tourism. This conversation starts out funny then dives into how Tim built a real world business around phenomena most people still consider unreal.Across the episode, Tim talks candidly about his universe and his competitors. He breaks down why most ghost tour operators may be passionate, but not great

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01:35:53

Splintered Spirits Live: Balesky's Back!!!

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2026/07/10

Amie Balesky returns to Splintered Spirits for a conversation that pushes past easy labels like "spirit" and into deeper territory. She shares how her understanding of energy, vibration, and connection has evolved since her last visit, offering a fresh lens on how she experiences and interprets the unseen. Gary and John dig into what's changed for her, and how those shifts are shaping the way she works and sees the world.The conversation moves through some heavier moments, including

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