Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium

Professor Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium

by Prof. Gruntsplatter

Music Society & Culture

Season 4

Spookatorium 036

In 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.A

Spookatorium 035

Episode 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.

Spookatorium 034

In 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.

Spookatorium 033

In 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.

Spookatorium 032 - Halloween Episode

An 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 Fate

Spookatorium 031

In 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.

Spookatorium 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.

Spookatorium 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.

Season 3

Spookatorium 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, Carpathian Forest, The Cramps, Trial, King Diamond, The Rohan Theatre Band

Spookatorium 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 collection Omens published by Mythos Books, and gives a reading of his vignette Notes On The Aztec Death Whistle. Featuring music from... The Birthday Party, Westering, Rasputina, Pain Teens, Celtic Frost, Phallus Dei, Faith & The Muse, Sloppy Seconds, Goatvargr, God Bullies, Abandoner & Angel Of Decay, Malaria!

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