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This week I'm talking to Kara Chilento and Gail Gamble about their book, Out of Darkness, Into the Light.

Life Lessons from the Paranormal.

Gail Gamble runs nine lives paranormal with Kara Chilento.

She works closely with equipment developers in

Italy hoping to bring international knowledge of paranormal to the United States. Gail can be seen

on haunt TV and in search of hauntings. Kara Chilento is a paranormal researcher, investigator and author. She is part of a team of exorcists and is

the co-owner of nine lives paranormal. Kara has been featured on haunt TV in search of hauntings and

countless podcasts. Hi, Kara and Gail. Thanks a lot for coming on the podcast. Thank you, Simon. It's great to be here.

You have a book. It's called Out of Darkness, Into the Light, Life Lessons from the Paranormal.

So this whole paranormal thing, have you guys always been interested in this stuff since you were small?

I'll go first. So this is Gail. I actually grew up in a little town in Missouri called Joplin,

and it was very much steeped in folklore. It's in the middle of Missouri Ozarks. So we had a lot of

high strangeness there. You know, the Missouri

Howler, the spook light of Hornet, the Peace Church Cemetery. So from a very young age, yes, my,

it was kind of part of our culture and our family. It was a ride of passage to get in the car

and go drive down a dark

road to try to see the spook light. So I grew up, you know, investigating with my brother.

And then fast forward, I moved here to New Jersey about six years ago. And I found out New Jersey

was just as strange as Missouri, and I met Kara. And one

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