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Conspirituality

Brief: The Ghost Lab

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Cable travel channels are filled with haunted houses and other paranormal activity, beyond History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and cryptozoology content. The more radicalized Gaia TV has close to a million paid subscribers gobbling up content about yoga, meditation, and psychedelic consciousness alongside accounts of inter-dimensional cryptids, Q-adjacent vampire reptilians, and channeled messages from benevolent ETs. Julian’s talk with Pulitzer-nominated journalist Matt Hongolt-Hetling about his new book, The Ghost Lab, How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts are Wrecking Science. In it, he explores the history of ghost hunting and asks if failing trust in educational, religious, and government institutions is fueling a burgeoning obsession with the paranormal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7

Do you want to know what it's like to hang out with MS-13, El Salvador? How the Russian

0:34.9

mafia fought battles all over Brooklyn in the 1990s.

0:37.9

But what about that time I got lost in the Burmese jungle hunting the world's biggest meth lab?

0:42.0

Or why the Japanese yakuza have all those crazy dragon tattoos?

0:45.2

I'm Sean Williams.

0:46.3

And I'm Danny Golds. And we're the host of the Underworld podcast.

0:49.6

We're journalists that have traveled all over reporting on dangerous people and places.

0:53.8

And every week we'll be bringing you a new story about organized crime from all over reporting on dangerous people and places. And every week

0:54.6

we'll be bringing you a new story about organized crime from all over the world. We know this

0:58.7

stuff because we've been there. We've seen it and we've got the near misses and embarrassing

1:02.5

tales to go with it. We'll mix in reporting with our own experiences in the field and we'll

1:07.3

throw in some bad jokes while we're at it. The Underworld podcast explores the criminal underworlds that affect all of our lives,

1:13.0

whether we know it or not.

1:14.6

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

1:20.1

Hi everyone.

1:21.0

Welcome to Conspiruality, where we investigate the intersections of conspiracy theories

1:25.3

and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience,

1:28.8

and authoritarian extremism. Today, I have an interview for you with journalist and author Matt

1:35.3

Hongoltz Hetling, who embedded himself with a paranormal research group for almost two years in New Hampshire.

1:42.6

And he's written a really interesting book

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