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Para(normal) is a weekly entertainment, comedy, and non-investigative paranormal podcast where hosts, Marie Adoranti & Nicolina Savelli share tales of ghostly experiences – from famous hauntings to listener submitted hometown haunts, and special guest encounters – it’s like listening to spooky stories at a slumber party with your best friends.
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The girls are back from a holiday hiatus. In this episode we dive into two dark stories: the haunted asylum of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in Montreal and the chilling case of the New York Zodiac, a killer who claimed to target victims by astrological sign.
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This week, we cover Nellie Bly’s undercover visit to Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum, a brutal look at abuse, inhumane conditions, and how her exposé helped spark reform. Then we dive into Union, Missouri’s "Screaming House," a rented duplex where a single father’s family reports escalating paranormal activity, from foul smells and violent noises to shadows, scratches, and terrifying screams.
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First is “This House Murdered Me,” the real haunting of April Miller’s family in a Victorian Salt Lake City home filled with whispers, moving objects, a child’s unseen “friend,” a bathtub attack, and a hidden basement room revealing the house’s dark past.
Then Marie uncovers the disturbing reality of MKUltra, the CIA’s mind-control program involving secret LSD dosing, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, and illegal experiments in both the U.S. and Canada.
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In this episode, Marie tells the terrifying story of Julie Weinstein’s haunted Ontario farmhouse—complete with footsteps, whispers, bleeding walls, and a violent entity tied to the land’s dark past. Nicolina follows with the true-crime case of Issei Sagawa, the “Kobe Cannibal,” exploring his unsettling crime, the international legal loopholes that set him free, and the importance of remembering victim Renee Hartevelt.
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This week, Marie and Nicolina dive into a 4,500-year-old mystery at Mohenjo-daro and the terrifying San Pedro haunting. Ancient engineering, vanished civilizations, floating heads, and a cameraman nearly hanged by a ghost — it’s a lot.
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Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of suicide, child abuse, death, and religious violence.
This week, Marie and Nicolina bring a bizarre yet deeply heavy episode.
First, Marie revisits Heaven’s Gate, the 1997 cult whose 39 members died believing they were boarding a UFO behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Then, Nicolina covers a devastating 2025 case from Fort Pierce, Florida, where a six-year-old boy, Ramil, was found dead after his mother attempted what she believed was a divinely ordered exorcism.
Dark, unsettling, and unforgettable.
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In this episode of Para(normal), Nicolina and Marie unravel two of the most perplexing true stories ever investigated — where science, spirit, and secrecy collide. From the House in Between’s decades of paranormal footage to the eerie “Lead Masks” deaths of 1966, we explore what happens when the truth is stranger than fiction.
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In 1864, the Sisters of Loretto built a girls’ school on the Denver frontier—and met something dark. Decades later, a Florida killer inspired Scream. Two true stories, one chilling theme: when faith and fear collide, monsters—real or imagined—come alive.
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Uncover the real horrors behind A Nightmare on Elm Street and Japan’s mysterious Devil’s Triangle. Discover how true reports inspired Freddy Krueger and how Japan’s “Dragon’s Triangle" mirrors humanity’s deepest fears of the unknown.
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Ed Gein: the butcher who inspired Psycho. The Alaska Triangle: where people vanish without a trace. Marie & Nicolina uncover two of history’s darkest, most chilling mysteries.
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In this episode of Para(normal), Nicolina uncovers the eerie history of Johann Conrad Dippel, an alchemist said to have inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Marie investigates the rise and fall of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his commune in Oregon.
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Discover the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast that sparked alien panic and uncover the mysterious origins of the Men in Black. Hosts Marie and Nicolina explore UFO myths, government secrecy, and the stories that shaped modern paranormal lore.
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After a two-year hiatus, Para(normal) is finally back.
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Fantasy brought to you by late-stage capitalism. Starring Bobby Moynihan & Rhea Seehorn, with Jon Hamm, John Waters and more!
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Hey gabaghouls! You already love Para(normal), so you're gonna love this new show from The Sonar Network, The Funny Thing About Ghosts!
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Can the devil really drive someone to commit murder? Well, according to these cases it can.
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On this week's episode of Para(normal), Marie and Nicolina are back with a theme: disaster ghosts. Marie shares ghost sightings since the Halifax explosion in 1917. Nicolina shares the tales of the ghosts that haunt Japan after the Tōhoku tsunami in 2011.
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Let Para(normal) take you to school with an episode all about haunted universities. Nicolina tells us the stories of the extremely haunted University of Toronto. Marie talks about the confederate ghosts of Montevallo University.
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Nicolina does her first solo episode for Valentine's Day. She shares a heartfelt story of a women who lost her husband suddenly in his 30s and a collection of locations where spirits who have loved and lost come back to remind us of their tragic tales.
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In this hometown haunts episode Marie and Nicolina take us down a spiral of spooky reddit stories from a potential portal, haunted pub, a rural demon and much much more. Listen for a good spook and a good chuckle!
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