This weekend we did our first live podcast from a convention! Allison from Milwaukee Ghosts , Scott from WhatsYourGhostStory.com , Wendy, and I did a panel on  EVIL at Wizard World Madison and it was a fantastic experience. Here’s how they described the panel in the literature:

From urban legends to comic books to true crime, evil permeates our pop culture. Hear about real cases of evil and how they influenced movies and TV with Madison haunted historian Mike Huberty, Milwaukee paranormal researcher Allison Jornlin, Waukesha Ghost tour guide Wendy Lynn Staats, and Chicago ghost story author, Scott Markus. From Ed Gein and Psycho to John Wayne Gacy and evil clowns, the Slenderman to famous demonic possessions, the crew behind Wisconsin paranormal and pop culture podcast,  See You On The Other Side,  discuss the real life evils hiding under the fiction.

So, we each took a topic that had a Wisconsin connection (since we were in Madison) of evil in real life that had paranormal implications and also had a ton of pop culture connections.

• Occult Rituals / Serial Killer – Jeffrey Dahmer
• Demonic possession / Mental Illness – Father Theophilus Riesinger, Wisconsin’s exorcist!
• Calling Spirits / Death by misadventure – The La Crosse Drownings
• To do the bidding of an evil master / Bullying – The Slenderman Stabbings

It was a great crowd and a lot of fun and if we met you at the convention, then thanks for coming to visit us at  See You On The Other Side for the first time!

Wendy giving us the “skinny” on Slenderman

Evil often hides in the form of good intentions. For the song this week, we go back to this worn-out, but still valuable quote:

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

Nietzche, Beyond Good and Evil