Holy Paranormal Radio, Batman!

Lately I’ve been receiving a lot of requests for interviews on new paranormal talk shows. I’m dumbfounded at how many of these programs I hadn’t heard of before. I knew there were many out there, but I had no idea just how many until this morning. I ran an experiment to see how many I could find online within a five minute Web search. Below is a list in no particular order. Most of these programs can only be heard on the Internet, and most of them make their shows available for download/podcast after. This is by no means an all-inclusive list (sorry if I forgot your show, no offense intended)…

Spooky South Coast
Coast to Coast AM
Speaking of Strange
Ghost Chronicles
The ‘X’ Zone
Darkness Radio
Paranormal Radio with Captain Jack
Voices Carry Radio
PIR
Binnall of America
KAPS Paranormal
Black Cat Lounge
Lights Out Radio
Spooks R Us
Reflections / Rick Hayes
KOZ Brothers
Haunted Down Under
Beyond Ghosts
The Ghost Mafia
Shadow Talk Radio
Ghost Chatter
AsylumCam Radio
Paranormal Power Hour
The Sacred Division
The Ghost Divas
Paralore Podcast
Whispers in Darkness
Stirring the Cauldron
Positively Psychic
Man Talks to Angels
Conversations / Dead
Soulseekers Radio
ParaVision Radio
The Paranormal View
Intl Paranormal Radio
The Other Side
Ghostology
Shadows in the Dark
Strange Frequencies
Ghostly Talk Paranormal Radio
Southern Ohio Paranormal Radio
The League Of Extraordinary Paranormal Women Radio
Crossroads Paranormal Radio
Dark Matter
The Unexplained World
Ghostman & Demon Hunter Show
The Ryan Lindsay Show
SNEP Live Radio
Dead Science Podcast
Mass Paranormal Talk
Paranormally Challenged Radio
Night Watch
The Ryan Lindsay Show
The Paranormal Zone
Shadow Talk Radio
Peace, Luv & Lipgloss Hour
Hauntings Radio
The Cari Stone Show
Ghost Divas Live!
Shadows Of Doubt Paranormal Talk
Crossroads Paranormal Radio
Psytalk
Darker Side Of The Moon
Parawomen Radio
The Ryan Lindsay Show
Haunted Voices Radio
Supernatural News
Beyond Reality
After Hours Asylum
Altered States
Audio Martini
Beyond Reality
Dead Famous Commentaries
Demonology Today
A Glimpse Through the Veil
Haunting Existence
Hauntings Radio
A Link to Heaven
New Age Today
Parahub Radio
Paranormal Cafe
Paranormal Reality
Paranormal News
Paranormal Soup
Spirit Talk
TAPS Family Radio
TrueForm Within

Next, I went to BlogTalkRadio and selected their “Paranormal” category and saw that they have 184 different paranormal shows. I listed 86 shows above, and I’m sure there are a few duplicates with BlogTalk Radio, but no matter, we’re still looking at over 250 ghostly radio programs! Some of these programs run five days per week for four hours per day, some run one hour, once per week.

There are only 168 hours in a week (assuming you don’t sleep, work, or shower for even one minute), which means even if you wanted to, it’s impossible for you to listen to all of these programs.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these programs are excellent. I’ve been on quite a few of them, but my concern is that many people are starting a new paranormal audio show because they’re trying to keep up with the other groups and not because they are passionate about producing great audio content with a purpose. The easiest way to figure out if the show is serious is to ask a few quick questions:

Do they take what they do seriously enough to own their own Web site and domain name for their show?

If they produce a weekly show, can you scan through their archives and see that in fact they have put out a show every single week for a while? Or do they go weeks (or months) before getting around to doing another show?

I think it’s wonderful that the subject is so popular that there are over 250 shows now, I can’t help but wonder if there are enough guests and listeners around to support that much audio content?

To quote Charles Osgood, “I’ll see you on the radio.”