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Strange Familiars

The Shadow's Ghost

Strange Familiars

SpectreVision Radio

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Alison and Timothy discuss Walter Gibson, most famous as the author of The Shadow - a proto-superhero; subject of radio shows, pulp magazines, comics, movies, and multiple novels. A strange figure reportedly haunts the New York residence where Gibson wrote The Shadow stories. Is it a tulpa of The Shadow? Jon and Sam from Riverbend Comics stop by to discuss the character of The Shadow and its influence in comics and pulp culture. (Listen for details on a Shadow giveaway from Riverbend Comics and Strange Familiars!) If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Our Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/strange-familiars?ref_id=14000 Episode 216 notes and links: Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Riverbend on Instagram: @riverbendcomics You could win one of two different Shadow graphic novels courtesy of Riverbend Comics and Strange Familiars. Just take a photo of a shadow (yours or someone else’s - get creative!) and tag us on instagram ( @riverbendcomics and @strangefamiliars ) - upload it to instagram by February 11 …we’ll choose our two favorites and send one of two different graphic novels to two winners. Make sure to follow @riverbendcomics and @strangefamiliars on Instagram! Episode artwork by Timothy - here is the original: You can purchase the original illustration in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/937305238/the-shadow-illustration-by-timothy 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Karmic Garden: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KarmicGarden Timothy’s book of paranormal illustrations, Apparitions, is available to order now… directly from us: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/home/apparitions-illustrations-of-the-other-book or, if you prefer, on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/877387099/apparitions-art-book-by-timothy-renner Timothy’s book, with co-author Joshua Cutchin, Where the Footprints End, Volume II, ordering information: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/home/where-the-footprints-end-volume-ii-available-now Strange Familiars Photo of the Week #58: Actor? You can purchase this photo in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/937301190/actor-strange-familiars-photo-of-the Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Chad’s etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoors To help with the Capuchin Day Center’s work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ie and here: https://www.cskdetroit.org Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is The Song of the Bone-White Bird by Stone Breath: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/the-shepherdess-and-the-bone-white-bird Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. They claim, they eyes was just to be created a slightly different from what they are.

0:27.0

We talked to see the same thing with the other world. So I'm saved. Welcome to Strange Familiars. If you have a story of an encounter with the paranormal you'd like to share with us, you can email it.

0:59.0

Strange Familiars Podcast at gmail.com.

1:02.0

Snow is coming down.

1:05.0

I'm hoping that that will act as a natural sort of sound barrier.

1:10.0

Yeah, that would be nice.

1:12.0

So when the trucks go by with their Jake brakes at twice the speed they should maybe it won't be so loud

1:18.8

So this is an episode. I've been wanting to do for a while at least since the spin drift episode because

1:26.0

Barbara contacted us a few people contacted us in the past about the story of the

1:31.6

Shadow's ghost right the ghost of the Shadow's ghost, right? The ghost of the

1:33.8

shadow, however you want to phrase it. But most recently, Barbara did and she's

1:39.1

like you know his house was only a walk away from the spin drift house and the author of the

1:45.7

shadow the author of the shadow where he was staying and much has been made which we

1:51.7

will hear of people seeing the Shadow's Ghost in the house in which he used to live.

1:57.0

But he had some other encounters with the paranormal too, which I've never heard anybody else talk about.

2:02.0

So we're going to talk about them tonight, along with the shadow.

2:06.0

Before we get to that, I just want to remind everybody that we cannot do strange familiars without our patrons. So if you like what we do, if you

2:15.1

like the content we make and you want to help us, please consider becoming a patron

2:18.6

at patreon. It's patreon.com slash strange familiars. You can check out all the different levels of

2:24.4

support there. Any level helps. There's monthly subscription options and

2:29.1

there's yearly subscription options. They all help. Go ahead check it out, Patreon.com slash Strange Familiars.

2:36.0

This month's patron episode is going to be related in a way to this episode. We'll get to a little bit more about that later.

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