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Just in time for Halloween….

It’s a ghost lore cliche: an old covered bridge. The ghost of a woman who committed suicide there shows up at midnight to unsuspecting travelers. Now imagine that you go there to see if it’s true and instead of finding a ghost, you find yourself on the human end of a completely different high strangeness experience. And then you realize… you’re at the wrong bridge on the other side of town. Meet Kellen….

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Paranormal investigator Sylvia Shults takes us through the notorious Peoria State Hospital, one of the world’s most haunted places, and the most haunted known insane asylum on the planet. And the ghosts are…strange.

In keeping with Dreamland’s tradition of broadcasting genuinely scary interviews on Halloween, this one is–well, genuinely scary!
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Do black cats, bats and witches have you on the run not just at Halloween but year-round? Do you always avoid walking under ladders and stepping on sidewalk cracks?

These behaviors can all be linked to a strong belief that has been embedded in human history — superstitions, according to a Kansas State University professor.

Don Saucier, associate professor of psychology, said superstitions are behaviors that people perform in an attempt to affect or control their future. Superstitious behaviors are a way people think they can control their fate by performing certain tasks in a certain way to either help alleviate anxiety or to simply better their chances in a certain situation.
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What draws us to the darker side? What compels us to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway and drives us to watch horror movies and television coverage of disasters? Eric G. Wilson, a literature professor and a lifelong student of the macabre, set out to discover the source of people’s attraction to the morbid, drawing on the perspectives of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians and artists.
Wilson shares his findings in his latest book Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck. He is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University.
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