What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?

Join me, Sarah Marshall, of your wrong about.

And me, Chelsea Weber Smith of American Hysteria, for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic, spectacular for the living and dead.

Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist seance featuring mystifying tricks,

campfire conversation, special guests, and a dash of burlesque.

Plus, music from The Little Lies, the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be ghosts.

Join us to release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.

We promise that your mortal soul has never seen a podcast live show quite like this.

Unless it came last year. Then you've seen something like it.

Chelsea, when will we hold our seances and where? Well, Sarah,

December 3rd and 4th in Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theater, December 11th in Seattle,

Washington at the Moore Theater, January 11th in San Francisco, California at the Palace of

Fine Arts Theater, and January 24th in Los Angeles, California at the Regent Theater.

Warning, they contain exorcisms.

There is like so much going on in the world that's like not so great. So like to be able to focus on this fun little piece of community folklore, it feels like a breath of fresh air.

Patrick Scalisi and Valerie Ruby Oman are the creators of the 2023 book Connecticut Cryptids,

a field guide to the weird and wonderful creatures of the Nutmeg State. Pat, the author,

is an award-winning journalist and writer of young adult science fiction. And Val, the illustrator,

is a professional artist with a certificate encrypted, illustrative works from Constitution State College. How great is that? Together they have documented Connecticut's most important cryptids,

you know, those elusive, folkloric creatures

that have not been proven to actually exist, but that pop up in different forms throughout

time and all over the world. For this episode, Pat and Val tell me the wild story of the

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