Latest Backmasking Podcast Episodes
217 Speaking with Spirits (again)
Spooky Times with Eric D - January 03, 2023 00:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric discusses the history and meaning of attempting to communicate with the dead. Then he sits down for an almost honest to goodness seanse late at night with some coworkers while they are out of town on a business trip on Cape Cod. They will attempt communication methods both ancient a...
More Halloween Collecting and Mortal Kombat with Richard Divizio
Spooky Times with Eric D - October 08, 2022 12:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric welcomes actor, stuntman, graphic artist and vintage Halloween collector Richard Divizio to the show. If you're a 90's kid, you'll know Rich best as the man who portrayed the evil Kano in the original Mortal Kombat. He's also played various other characters in the franchise and has ...
215 More True Werewolf Stories
Spooky Times with Eric D - August 25, 2022 01:43 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIt's no secret that Eric loves him some werewolves! Tonight he's got 3 supposedly true werewolf stories to share with you! You'll learn about the town that decided their former mayor must be a werewolf...and how they treated it's corpse! You'll learn about the Holy Werewolf who swore in cou...
214 Inner Sanctum
Spooky Times with Eric D - May 15, 2022 23:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn this episode we learn all about the grand daddy of modern horror anthologies, Inner Sanctum Mystery!!! What started out as a book series became a radio show, tv show and series of films. Horror hosts such as Vampira, Elvira and The Crypt Keeper all owe a debt to the host of Inner Sanctum, ...
Remix: The Fox Sisters
Spooky Times with Eric D - April 15, 2022 19:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsEric and Tom discuss the lives of the Fox Sisters and how their childish talking-to-the-dead prank invented a new religion: Spiritualism! Also on this episode Eric discusses meeting Patch Adams and becoming The Witchfinder...for the first time! patreon.com/witchfinder Music by Occult...
213 Eileen Dietz 2
Spooky Times with Eric D - March 24, 2022 00:23 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsPart two of Eric's interview with actor Eileen Dietz from The Exorcist, Helter Skelter and about a million other things. Tonight, we'll clear up some issues raised on the last episode, talk more about Eileen's pre-Exorcist career, and talk about working with Anthony Perkins, Dick Smith and Rob Z...
212 Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist) Interview
Spooky Times with Eric D - February 28, 2022 23:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWe are thrilled to welcome our first celebrity guest, Eileen Dietz! Eileen has an expansive career that covers many genres, but horror fans know her best for her work on The Exorcist. She was the face of Captain Howdy aka Pazuzu and filled in for Linda Blair for some of the scenes that were too ...
Remix: Jack-O-Lantern
Spooky Times with Eric D - February 21, 2022 00:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsExplore the history and hysteria around the Halloween icon, the Jack-O-Lantern
211 Morristown UFO
Spooky Times with Eric D - February 08, 2022 00:46 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsEmily is back to learn all about The Morristown UFO! In the begining of 2009, there was something strange in the sky over NJ and residents were torn over what it could be. An alien invasion? Probably. Secret military aircraft? Possibly. Road flares? No way; where were the trails??? The sighti...
ReMix: Creepy Backstories Behind Popular Songs
Spooky Times with Eric D - January 23, 2022 21:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn this Remix episode from 2016, Eric presents The Creepy Backstories of Popular Songs! More than one pop hit has been written about suicide and car accidents, But did you here the one about the elderly couple who simply disappeared? Or the world famous icon who died before finishing vocals for ...
210 Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
Spooky Times with Eric D - January 08, 2022 15:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn December of 1910, aspiring author and wealthy socialite Dorothy Arnold bought a book, a pound of chocolate and vanished. Her family, being members of NYC's social elite, was well known and Dorothy's disappearance became headline news. Many theories have been pondered and many suspects brou...
ReMix Christmas Ghost Stories vol 1
Spooky Times with Eric D - December 24, 2021 19:23 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsGhosts of Christmas past return as we revive the tradition of telling Christmas Ghost Stories!
209 Tallman Haunting
Spooky Times with Eric D - December 22, 2021 00:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsIn the late 80's a family in Wisconsin came to believe that there home was haunted by a fire witch who lived in their daughter's furniture. If that opening doesn't catch you, I don't know what would! Tonight Eric tells the tale of The Tallman Haunting. A well known little tale that was featur...
ReMix Strange Disappearances
Spooky Times with Eric D - December 10, 2021 21:19 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsin this classic episode, Eric and Tom Cole examine Strange Disappearances! Did a young mother end up buried under a Massachusetts highway? Was a missing college student kidnaped and sold into white slavery? How did five children disappear during a fire and leave no trace? Did Bigfoot kidnap a te...
208 Ghost Hunt: Sterling and Natick
Spooky Times with Eric D - November 21, 2021 14:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHigh school pals EricD and Alex Macleod go Ghost Hunting Sterling and Natick, Massachusetts! They see strange lights, police, donuts, yellow dots, used drug bindles...but do they see any ghosts??? pattern.com/witchfinder spookyas.com Music by Occultic Overtones
ReMix: The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
Spooky Times with Eric D - November 11, 2021 12:04 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWe know that The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and it's Headless Horseman were a work of fiction written by Washington Irving. But where is the line between fact and fiction blur? Tonight, Eric and Jennie Blades try to piece it all together and give you the stories behind the story. spookyas.com ...
207 Halloween 2021
Spooky Times with Eric D - October 29, 2021 01:44 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHere it is! Our first Spookaroos Halloween Party! Let's talk about our favorite Halloween costumes, candy, movies and more! And we'll have special guest cameos from Zach Galligan (Gremlins/Waxwork), Charles Wright (Papa Shango/WWE), Robyn Lively (Teen Witch), Nell Campbell (The Rocky Horror P...
206 Ghosts of Massachusetts
Spooky Times with Eric D - October 22, 2021 20:48 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric and his nephew, Tyler Clapp, are reading user submitted stories from ghostofamerica.com and all these stories are said to be true stories of The Ghosts of Massachusetts! This website and the submitted stories are...entertaining. Some are legit interesting, some are strange, some ...
205 Vintage Halloween Collecting
Spooky Times with Eric D - October 08, 2021 11:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsMark Ledenbach has been collecting Halloween memorabilia and ephemera since the late 80's. He's learned a lot in that time. He's learned so much that he has become one of the go-to experts on truly Vintage Halloween Collecting. Tonight he shares his expertise with us and shares what he enjoy...
204 Halloween is Forever pt 2
Spooky Times with Eric D - October 01, 2021 11:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsEric continues his conversation with Brian Reed, 1/3 host of the Halloween is Forever podcast! They are still talking about sitcom halloween episodes...and so much more! Listen, when two Halloween nerds get together, conversations can take some turns. Its hard to stay on topic. But they do di...
203 Halloween is Forever pt 1
Spooky Times with Eric D - September 23, 2021 23:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsEric doesn't know Brian Reed, but he knows his podcast, Halloween is Forever, and he likes his Instagram posts so he just knew he'd like him! In fact, they got along so well discussing Halloween and Halloween sitcom episodes that this unexpectedly became a two-parter! In the first half of the...
ReMix: The Grim Reaper
Spooky Times with Eric D - September 17, 2021 11:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric and Tristan Sepersky sit down and discuss The Grim Reaper! What does it do? Where did it come from? What is it??? Plus Eric tells about hoe the Grim Reaper was the one "monster" that never failed to freak him out as a kid. Yes even back then Eric's biggest fear was his own mortal...
Bonus: Zombies and Mister Rogers: A Pittsburgh Story
Spooky Times with Eric D - September 09, 2021 11:13 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsHere's a bonus mini ep for all you patient Spookaroos! Eric and Fatima talk about their recent trip to Pittsburgh, Monroeville, and Evens City! They visit The Living Dead Museum, the filming locations of the original Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead and even visit the super not spoo...
202 Lyndhurst and more about The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
Spooky Times with Eric D - September 01, 2021 10:31 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsBelieve it or not, Eric has MORE to say about The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (aka The Night Dracula Saved the World)! This time he's roped Fatima Elmi in to discuss it with him. Join them as they discuss their trip to the classic Halloween special's filming location: The Lyndhurst Mansion whic...
ReMix The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
Spooky Times with Eric D - August 19, 2021 20:35 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsEric will be a cheerleader for this made-for-tv Halloween special for as long as he lives (and then some)! It's The Halloween That Almost Wasn't! This classic 1979 ABC special ended up on the infamous Halloween 1986 VHS tape that Eric's mother made for him so he's been watching it at least once ...
201The Cottingley Fairies
Spooky Times with Eric D - August 04, 2021 22:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric and his guest, Spookaroo Susan Barrett, discuss The Cottingley Fairies! In 1917, two English girls, Elsie Wright and Francis Griffiths, claimed to have met a band of fairies while playing near a brook...and they had pictures to prove it! Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sh...
ReMix: International Cryptozoology Museum
Spooky Times with Eric D - July 23, 2021 11:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsOn this episode Susan Barret helps me introduce a 2016 episode about my first visit to The International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. The museum is a lot of fun...if you go in the right frame of mind. In fact, I returned for a second visit less than a year ago with my family and you'...
200 Ghostwatch
Spooky Times with Eric D - July 04, 2021 16:08 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight host Eric D is joined by three guests: Emily Ferguson, Brian Toney and Tom Cole to watch and discuss the landmark 1992 BBC Halloween special: Ghostwatch! Ghostwatch was a show about a "live" investigation of a haunting, but it was presented as real. Reality TV is nothing new these day...
199 Looking Back
Spooky Times with Eric D - June 24, 2021 13:13 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsTonight Eric and the Spookaroos look back at some of their favorite moments and episodes from the first 198 of Spooky Times (aka Spooky AS). as and added bonus, hear Brian Toney, Eric Dwinnells, Fatima Elmi and Kat Lee cover The Beatles' Helter Skelter! spookyas.com pattern.com/witchfin...
ReMix: Cheesy 80's Horror (Kinda)
Spooky Times with Eric D - June 18, 2021 10:33 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsI LOVE 80's horror and basically I did this episode as an excuse to bring up some 80's movies that I might not have discussed otherwise. But these are far from the worst or most cheesy 80's horror movies. One or two of them are actually all-time greats! See if you can pick them out. PATREON.C...
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