Oddball Guests: Jeff Belanger On Lore and Life Lessons
Oddball Guests: Jeff Belanger On Lore and Life Lessons
Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Adventurer, Author, Speaker, And So Much More - Jeff Belanger!
What if the ghost’s unfinished business isn’t theirs at all, but ours? We sit down with author, researcher, and longtime Ghost Adventures writer Jeff Belanger for a fast, funny, and deeply humane tour of the paranormal that treats legends like cultural sermons. Jeff traces his path from teenage encounters near the Warrens’ Connecticut home to crafting TV stories that ask the only question that matters: why here?
We wander into folklore’s global rhyme scheme: puckwudgies matching fae and Inuit little people before descending into winter with Grýla, Krampus, and Jeff’s Fright Before Christmas, where fear becomes the lever that shifts us back toward redemption. Then we tilt our eyes to the sky: if “aliens” look and breathe like us, maybe they’re future humans: time travelers with a vested interest in our better choices.
Whether you come for Ghost Adventures secrets, New England legends, or a smarter way to think about hauntings, you’ll leave with more than goosebumps. Subscribe, share this with your favorite oddball, and tell us: which legend still won’t let you go?
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Oddball Guests: Jeff Fent and His Haunted Hardware
Oddball Guests: Jeff Fent and His Haunted Hardware
Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Investigator And Haunted Hardware Creator - Jeff Fent!
Jeff Fent is a respected paranormal investigator, preservationist, and caretaker known for his dedicated work maintaining and restoring historic haunted locations such as Madison Seminary, The Enchanted Church, and several other reportedly haunted properties.
Beyond caretaking, he’s also recognized for his craftsmanship in creating specialized paranormal investigation equipment, like custom ghost boxes, and for his appearances in documentaries and TV programs including Portals to Hell and Fairfield County Infirmary: The Forgotten.
We have a lovely conversation from the start of his interest in the paranormal, to working with The Haunted collector. Jeff shares how we came to start making his Ghost Boxes, and shares plenty of spine chilling stories of the properties he investigates and deeply cares for
Time's SlipINN: Time Slips, Disappearing Inns, and Liminal Spaces
Time's SlipINN: Time Slips, Disappearing Inns, and Liminal Spaces
What happens when the places we visit completely vanish from reality? That's the unsettling question at the heart of our exploration into time slips - those rare moments when people seem to step briefly into another era.
The story of two British couples vacationing in France in 1979 serves as our central mystery. After staying overnight at a quaint, rustic inn with oddly outdated features, they were shocked to discover on their return journey that the entire place had disappeared without a trace. Not only was the road gone, but all photographs they'd taken at the location had mysteriously vanished from their developed film.
This isn't just about a missing building – it's about what happens when reality itself seems to shift around us. We dive into several other firsthand accounts from people who've experienced similar phenomena