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Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf

Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf

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“Go inside the mind of one of television and movies’ wildest storytellers…” Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf is a podcast that feels like discovering a secret diary. Every episode unravels the mysteries of a book from Richard's bookshelf and a story from Richard’s life, weaving together the excitement of the supernatural and the warmth of personal storytelling.Summerland Entertainment, Inc Arte Biografías y Memorias Ciencias Sociales Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • S3 Ep6: Forty Years of Psychic Research

    S3 Ep6: Forty Years of Psychic Research
    Sep 5 2025
    “I became aware of an amazing world of hidden, outlaw forces. A world in which miracles were everyday occurrences.” Hamlin Garland, Forty Years of Psychic Research.

    It started out as a simple challenge from a friend: travel the country testing psychic mediums and see if you can figure out what they’re doing. Those words sent Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hamlin Garland on a 40-year quest to prove the existence of life after death. But sometimes, no matter how hard you try, the most important answers have a funny way of staying just out of reach.

    Richard struggles to finish his final semester at USC and nothing is going his way. His scripts aren’t selling, his girlfriend Michelle is dating some other guy -- hell, he can’t even pass basic algebra. If Hamlin Garland can’t succeed in his quest after forty years, what makes Richard think he can achieve his meager dreams -- especially when all the evidence seems to prove otherwise? But then a friend shows up and throws down a terrifying challenge -- and it will only take five minutes. Will Richard accept? And if he does, will it redeem him -- or lead to the worst failure of all?

    Links:

    See Richard Hatem LIVE! The “Light in the Dark Tour” tickets and news are all right here! https://www.eventbrite.com/o/richard-hatems-paranormal-bookshelf-podcast-90573788253

    And here! https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/events

    Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

    Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?

    Buy Forty Years of Psychic Research here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/forty-years-of-psychic-research-hamlin-garland/21385301?ean=9798869324399&next=t
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    1 h y 19 m
  • S3 Ep5: The Premonitions Bureau

    S3 Ep5: The Premonitions Bureau
    Aug 22 2025
    “Premonitions are impossible and they come true all the time.” -- Sam Knight, The Premonitions Bureau

    What would you do if you could see the future? Would you even want to? Join Richard as he explores Sam Knight’s The Premonitions Bureau, in which British psychologist Dr. John Barker learns the hard way that the privilege of seeing around corners comes with an unusually high price tag.

    Meanwhile, Richard has always seen his own life as a rollercoaster: a terrifying journey of sharp twists and turns and stomach-flipping plunges that feels like it will last forever -- but also like it will end too soon. Travel with him backwards and forwards through time, from 2022… to 1977… and the year 2000… as he travels from childhood to fatherhood and back again, trying desperately to answer the biggest question of all: what’s going to happen next? Pull down the safety bar and keep your hands and feet inside the car, because the answers he finds might just scare you -- to death.

    Links:

    See Richard Hatem LIVE! The “Light in the Dark Tour” tickets and news are all right here! https://www.eventbrite.com/o/richard-hatems-paranormal-bookshelf-podcast-90573788253

    And here! https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/events

    Support RHPB on Patreon here! https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

    Get RHPB merch here! https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/?

    Buy Sam Knight’s The Premonitions Bureau here: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=sam%20knight&ch_sort=t&cm_sp=sort-_-SRP-_-Results&ds=30&dym=on&rollup=on&sortby=17&tn=premonitions%20bureau

    The movie Rollercoaster isn’t available to stream, but you can buy a DVD copy here: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rollercoaster-DVD-Universal-Studios-Action-Adventure/1090301?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0
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    1 h y 1 m
  • S3: The Fortean and the Skeptic Should Be Friends: My Conversation with Blake Smith

    S3: The Fortean and the Skeptic Should Be Friends: My Conversation with Blake Smith
    Aug 8 2025
    According to Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma!, “The farmer and the cowman should be friends.” Shouldn’t it be the same for the Fortean and the skeptic? Is it even possible?

    My guest tonight is Blake Smith, the host of the MonsterTalk podcast, and a self-described skeptic. And I think you know how I take issue with a lot of skeptics and so-called skeptical arguments. But Blake and I are friends. Somehow, after a vulgar and insulting email blunder on my part, Blake kindly wrote back to me, a correspondence began, he invited me to be on his podcast, and the rest is history. The Fortean and the skeptic became friends. I think the reason we’re friends is that Blake has an honest interest in all things paranormal, but he also came upon his skepticism in a very human way. He doesn’t use it as a cudgel to beat anybody down. And best of all, ridicule is just not part of who he is. Also, the guy he has an amazing book collection, he loves to drink port, he’s quick with a pun -- and he’s just an all-around great guy.

    In this conversation we cover everything from Whitley Streiber’s Communion to the Heaven’s Gate tragedy; from exploding lightbulbs to snake-handling cults; and from “the hard problem of consciousness” to the one kind of paranormal experience that might change Blake’s skepticism forever.

    LINKS:

    Listen to Blake Smith’s award-winning podcast Monstertalk here: https://www.monstertalk.org/

    RHPB LIVE SHOWS are coming! Keep up as we add dates and locations at the RHPB website https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/

    And find out about upcoming performances and buy tickets at Eventbrite!: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dallas-richard-hatems-paranormal-bookshelf-live-tickets-1520485967459?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawMAjP9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv9pgzdQBIIpLfpidbEp2IzjboC0W1P-qf_l9kBsPY7aJHzO8jg-6rhKQEmQ_aem_-ogycSZIIOELXK6VHRuNMQ

    Want to support the show? Join us on Patreon here https://www.patreon.com/c/RichardHatem?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

    Buy Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf merch at https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/
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    1 h y 27 m
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We knew Richard Hatem was brilliant from his screenplay for The Mothman Prophecies. We knew he was entertaining and insightful from his numerous appearances on the Astonishing Legends podcast. Now with his own podcast that is a cross between a paranormal book club and a therapy session...we find out he's so much more and a little bit like each of us too! Five stars, two thumbs up, recommend to everyone who feels a connection to the spooky side of life!

Addictive from the start!

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Mr. Hatem sharing aspects of his life while discussing select books is, by far, one of the most grounding and comforting podcasts you'll ever hear. It's a don't-miss even for the skeptic. Thank you, Rich, for this masterpiece.

Podcast we can ALL relate to!!!

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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this. It's like this guy is a professional writer or something!

Entertaining listen

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