Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking to ghost hunting's most dynamic duo, Dana Matthews and Greg Newkirk.

Greg and Dana have almost four decades combined experience in paranormal investigation and are the proprietors of the

world's only traveling museum of the paranormal and the occult. One quick note

before we begin I recorded this chat from Hobart Tasmania so there are one or two audio

wubbles on my end rather than the guest end but other than that it is an

absolutely fantastic conversation so listen along and enjoy. New Kirk's welcome aboard.

Hello!

I'm looking forward to this. I like when we get, when there's two people at once because the traditional first question I can't

decide who to go with first so I'm going to say Dana were you a weird kid? Uh, yes.

It was definitely a weird kid.

And I'm still a weird kid, so there's pretty much, I'm not growing out of this phase, I guess.

All right, what kind of specific weird?

I mean, well, from a small age I was sort of obsessed with ghosts and all things paranormal and so you know I would always

be trying to get my friends to go to weird places and most of them thought I was insane so I mean

that's pretty much the origin of my interest in the paranormal. It really goes all the way back to kind of being like a little kid watching too much unsolved mysteries.

Right, so did you grow up somewhere where there were lots of abandoned amusement parks and mental hospitals and things?

Were you legitimately insane?

Unfortunately, I didn't. I actually grew up in the suburbs, which makes for really crappy ghost hunting because there's really nothing abandoned and nothing has been around for very long.

Unfortunately, Greg on the other hand grew up in an awesome situation for all that kind of stuff so I've always been a bit jealous.

Okay to jump in there Greg? Yeah I mean I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and I mean I cut my teeth in these really crazy

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