Episode #003 - Things go haywire!!

Today was an amusing show, to say the least. For one thing, our first guest was Stanford Physicist Dr. Robert Cooper. This was quite interesting to us because it allowed us to get outside the typical "ghost theory" discussion for a while, even though we did talk about ghosts. But, see, we also wanted to talk to someone who didn't believe in the paranormal - and who better than a physicist?

It worked out well because Dr. Cooper is a personal friend of Matt, our announcer, as they went to school together. It was terrific listening to him talk about scientific method, the boundaries of science, as well as discussing a couple different aspects of the paranormal that he could help shine some light on as far as investigating goes. For instance, he stressed the importance of having a lab type environment for use in recreation of different anomalous situations we may come across. It was kind of funny, because Bobby and I were a little intimidated at how smart this guy was. We were afraid to ask questions at first, for fear of coming across as morons. As the interview went on, though, I opened up. Well, for one question, haha. But it was a long question! Bobby kept his trap shut. And, after the show, Matt chided us both for being such weaklings, haha. All in all, though, it was very intriguing and I hope we can talk to him again sometime.

Our second guest was author and investigator John Kachuba. A few months back we actually had the pleasure of attending a lecture at the Maumee Branch Library given by Mr. Kachuba on his investigations, methodology, and his books "Ghost Hunting Ohio" and "Ghosthunters," in particular. Afterward, the show crew, as well as fellow investigator and friend Jeremy Dunbar were standing out in the parking lot having a discussion and saying our goodbyes to each other when I noticed John Kachuba walking out. He was heading for his car which was, as a matter of fact, the one we were standing behind. Out of fear of looking like a stalker, I asked everyone to move aside. The last thing we wanted to do was to make Mr. Kachuba think he had to start carrying pepper spray!

Anyway, these are the things we also focused the interview on. John, who calls himself "The Ghosthunter," had quite a few interesting stories from his casework at places around Ohio, particularly The Ridges and Toledo's own Collingwood Arts Center. Of course, things went haywire when, just about 10 minutes into the interview when I looked over at Bobby and seen his ashen face and his mouth muttering the words, "What the fuck?"

I could tell something was wrong because he was looking right at the computer. He could see that, for whatever reason, the sound board and the computer weren't connecting. Everything we were talking about with John wasn't being recorded! I didn't know what else to do so I just kept him talking. In hindsight, it was probably a dumb move. On the one hand, it kept the guest comfortable, but on the other, no one else would ever get to hear what he was saying!

I kept that up for about 10-15 minutes or so when Bobby told me to just have him hold the line. So I let him finish his latest thought and I asked him if he would please hold on for a moment. He said he would. Bobby then hung up on him and restarted the computer and was trying everything he knew in order to get the show back online. He was asking us to check cables, check connections, make sure this was plugged into that and that was plugged into this. Nothing was working! Then, out of nowhere...it began recording again. It was completely inexplicable. At least, we couldn't figure it out. In the meantime, though, John Kachuba was probably sitting at home wondering what the heck was going on. He was asked to hold on, then he had a dead line. What the hell?!?!

As scared as I was (it seems I'm always scared on this show, huh?) I called John back and explained what happened. He was very understanding. As Bobby and Matt kept telling me, "this type of thing happens all the time." Anyway, we got him back and he picked up where he left off, but about 30 minutes of his interview time was gone, never to be replaced. So, shittily, we had to post a podcast with about 20-25 minutes or so of John Kachuba's interview. Pretty horrible.

It was a crazy experience. My first in paranormal radio, and hopefully my last. My nerves were wrecked. My heart can't take this!!!