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What are spirits, really? Splintered Spirits is the paranormal podcast that follows producer Gary Shapiro and his nephew, John Santa of Santa Paranormal, as they explore ghosts, hauntings, and consciousness from two perspectives: John as the experienced researcher and Gary as…
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Ep 54: Spirits as Information with John Kruth, Director of the Rhine Research Center (opens the original)
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John Kruth runs one of the strangest labs in America, and he's got the data to prove it. As executive director of the Rhine Research Center, the oldest continuously operating parapsychology lab in the country, with roots tracing back to a 1930s Duke University basement, Kruth has spent over fifteen years running ESP, psychokinesis, and psychic phenomena through controlled, peer reviewed, double blind experiments. He grew up doing meditation and healing work before he could ride a bike, and a sha
The Lizzie Borden Family Curse: Splintered Spirits Live with Sam Baltrusis! (opens the original)
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Paranormal author and investigator Sam Baltrusis joins Gary and John Santa from @santaparanormal live with a reveal they didn’t see coming. Sam’s distantly related to Lizzie Borden. With his new book, Lizzie Borden and the Family Curse coming out October 13, Sam digs into the Borden family tree and its unsettling ties to other infamous names, including Aileen Wuornos and Marilyn Monroe. He also traces an ancestor whose father was executed on spectral evidence, begging the question whether a fami
Ep 57: A Crash Course in Tarot with Beck Ravenswood (opens the original)
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Tarot cards get a bad rap in the movies: dramatic candlelight, a mysterious stranger, and a death card that spells doom. The reality is a lot more interesting, and a lot less scary, and in this episode we're getting the real story straight from someone who reads professionally and is currently fighting a legal battle over it. Beck Ravenswood, the Hanover, Pennsylvania witch making headlines as the plaintiff in a landmark court case over Pennsylvania's fortune telling laws, joins Gary for a full
Ep 53: The Warren Legacy with Chris McKinnell (opens the original)
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Chris McKinnell, grandson of legendary paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, joins Splintered Spirits for a conversation about ghosts, consciousness, fear, and the real stories behind the Warren legacy. With more than four decades of fieldwork across 10,000 cases in 18 countries, Chris brings a perspective shaped by firsthand experience, psychology, religion, cultural anthropology, and a lifetime spent around the unexplained. Chris discusses why he moved beyond the demonology framewor
Splintered Spirits Live - September 10, 2026!!! (opens the original)
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John Santa has a big problem this week. After a few too many cocktails at the haunted Tarrytown House Estate, a flirtatious spirit named Lily got a little too comfortable on his live stream. Then she followed him to home. Gary and John discuss the consequences of altered states of "intent,” why alcohol and ghost hunting don't mix, and whether it can be considered cheating if it’s with a ghost. From there the guys dig into some genuinely wild paranormal theory: entities that evolve over time, a p
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