A special guest, master storyteller, Dark Waters.

I told people a thousand times, you know, most people who tell stories, they try and talk about whatever this monster or a creature is.

The problem is people can't relate to some unknown entity. They can only relate to each other.

Once you focus on the human emotions and the person, that's what really puts you in the story.

It's because you have to relate to the individual because that's who I focus on the people, because that's the only thing we can relate to in the situation. I like the fact that the number one thing I like about doing this is that I get the opportunity to interact with so many people. When I say people from around the world, I end up talking to them, you know, via the phone or sometimes on Skype, and you get to just meet people all around the world. And that's one of the things that growing up in New Orleans, we have this kind of way with people. I guess you're kind of forced because it's a tourism city to kind of get along with different people from all over the world. So if you really move around in the city, you meet people from everywhere. And I think it's just natural for me to make friends.

So, and that's what it is. I'm just making friends with people all over the world who just will happen to have some type of paranormal experience.

You've got an episode about a vampire, haven't you, that you just brought out recently?

Yes.

Yeah. You know, it reminds me of kind of like a film noir.

You've got the really rich jazz music in the background.

You've got all the sound effects.

And you literally feel like you're there and you're walking through the streets or you're being taken to these places.

You know, with all the music.

And then the scary ones,

of course, the Dogman ones. That's just chilling with the sound effects. You're a natural born

storyteller. You've got an amazing voice. And it has got this dark kind of feel to it. How did you

start? I've heard you say something about your own family. I don't know if you want to

talk about that. Something to do with your grandmother. Yeah, well, I mean, I'll start with telling you how

the storytelling came about. And then I'm more than happy to go into my background, my family. So I really,

I was asked the question on Heather Wade show a while ago about, you know, how did you get to be such a good storytelling? And over time, I really kind of took time to sit down and really think about where I picked it up at. And then it all led back to this guy who was a mentor of mine when I was in my early 20s. And I remember this guy always telling me, he would say, hey, when you want to tell someone something, you have a way of being direct. I need you to stop being so direct. I need you to explain it to them in a story. And I completely forgot that he's the one who actually taught me how to when I was relaying a point to a person, instead of arguing with that person, I would break into a story about something that happened in my life that would relate a message.

And so I started that in my early 20s.

It picked up going through my late 20s drinking and hanging out with friends and, you know, kind of having an audience and telling stories that happened to us.

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