Live from Liverpool, the Dark Paranormal, Season 22 Hello, everyone, and finally, welcome back to both Halloween and the start of season 22 of the Dark Paranormal.

Yes, we are now in the growth phase of this entire community,

experiment, wonderful situation that I never thought I'd be privileged enough to be the host of.

And that is 100% down to you wonderful people. And I thank each and every one of you for subscribing,

for sharing the show, becoming patrons, or even leaving a nice comment. You have made this show.

You are the dark paranormal. And those words are easy for podcasters to say. I like to think

I show evidence of those words, i.e.

You guys told me you didn't like the long introductions.

So from now on, we do not read out Patreon's names,

not as a disservice to the Patrients,

but as a service to everyone who wants to get to the crooks of the story.

Secondly, some of you did mention the sound quality last season, wasn't up to scratch.

We have invested heavily in some new recording equipment.

Hopefully that shows.

And from a Patreon perspective, our Patriots have asked for different things such as an actual forum to discuss ideas and theories, and potentially new shows from me for Patreon's, to discuss my ideas about what we've covered that week.

Now, this will be arguably the longest intro of the entire season, but still shorter than your average one,

because we're not reading Patreon names. However, now is the time to sign up to Patreon.

We've amended the tiers. There's a slight price increase for the simple reason.

Our prices have remained the same since 2020. Regardless of inflation, regardless

of the fact that my costs keep going up, but I want to do and always have wanted to do my best

by my listeners and absorb the costs as best I could. Apple's move last year to remove 30%

from anybody who purchased a subscription to Patreon via their app

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