Welcome back to The Q Files and to 2021. We again begin this episode at dinner. (There seems to be a theme here.) But this time to celebrate and honor the long-forgotten holiday of "Twelfth Night" which you might have heard alluded to in a Christmas carol or are familiar with it as the title of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. 

In this episode, we will dig deep into the darker, more unnerving and more confounding elements of this age-old tradition. And on the lighter side, we'll even try to persuade you that just maybe we have indeed re-discovered the most appropriate of queer holidays.

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Welcome to a special holiday haunts edition of The Q Files. In this specter spectacular we'll partake in the holiday tradition of telling ghost stories. To make that happen, we invited some of our friends to share a story with all of you.

In this creepy holiday treat, you'll hear from: Sapphire Sandalo of Stories with Sapphire (2:01), Bucky Cutright of Booze and Boos (22:33:50), Ryan Sprague of Somewhere In The Skies (29:35:25), Alex Matsuo of The Spooky Stuff (39:31), and Jim Perry of Euphomet (59:21).

Co-host Lori Gum provides a particularly special story in this episode as well (42:28:50).

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Welcome back to The Q Files, in this episode, we will be looking to clouds above us, while we ponder the many historical accounts of very bizarre things that have fallen...from the sky. Particularly, we will examine one of the oddest events we have ever come across in our search for the weird and unknown - The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.

To this day, it remains one of the great unexplained mysteries of the last 150 years. So, put up your umbrellas and open your mind to this episode of epic high strangeness.

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In this special Thanksgiving episode of The Q Files, we will be examining the American pop-culture trope of "Ancient Indian Burial Grounds" and how it has deeply woven its way into countless horror films and books since the late 1970s. We'll investigate how it even seems to have infiltrated the oral histories of our local communities and how it undeniably influences our own individual attempts to explain the unexplainable around us, often,  even,  when it happens in our own backyards.

We were lucky enough to get writer Colin Dickey to talk with us. He is the author of four books, two of which we will discuss here, "Ghostland" published in 2016 and "The Unidentified" released just this year. Both of his books thoroughly break down the roots and causes of tropes like the Ancient Indian Burial Grounds.

Dickey is a regular contributor to the LA Review of Books, and is the co-editor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology. He is also a member of the Order of the Good Death, a collective of artists, writers, and death industry professionals interested in improving the Western world's relationship with mortality.   And Dickey's own website describes him as a....  "Cultural Historian and Tour Guide of the Weird."

The Q Files is a personal, purposeful, paranormal podcast about the highly strange and weirdly unknown. Join us on our queer adventures as we explore the people, places, and phenomena, outside popular consciousness.

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Welcome back to the The Q Files. On this episode we're hitting the road in search of UFOs, and joining the Roundtown UFO Society (RUFOS) in Circleville, Ohio.

Circleville is home to a fascinating, but somewhat forgotten, history of UFO sightings. Lucky for us, RUFOS invited us to their annual meeting on the Stevenson Farm. The location of an iconic Ohio UFO event, and arguably the first classic UFO sighting in history.

Listen in, because you'll never believe the adventure we had.

The Q Files is a personal, purposeful, paranormal podcast about the highly strange and weirdly unknown. Join us on our queer adventures as we explore the people, places, and phenomena, outside popular consciousness.

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The Q Files is created and produced in Columbus, Ohio by Shane McClelland and Lori Gum.

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Welcome back to the The Q Files. Bring an appetite for this episode as we explore the long forgotten tradition of cemetery picnics.

During the 19th century, beneath towering pines and sturdy oak trees, people - both living and dead - would literally rest (and dine) in peace, in the new park-like cemeteries and graveyards that were spreading across America.

In this episode we're joined by local Columbus, Ohio legend, expert storyteller, and folklore aficionado, Bucky Cutright of Columbus Ghost Tours and Booze & Boos. You can connect with Bucky or schedule a tour, through his website: ColumbusGhostTours.com

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Welcome back to the Q Files.  In the second part of the Donner Dinner Party,  we'll continue to tag along on the snowy trail with our unlucky pioneers. We'll share the rarely examined Native American perspective of this epic American tale and finally, conclude our own dinner party with our Donner-inspired main dish and...a little desperation pie.

At the end of our last episode, we left the band of our desperate immigrants seeking relief, lost deep in the unrelenting blizzards that had covered the Sierra Nevada mountains in 20 ft. snow drifts.  They called themselves, "The Forlorn Hope". They were out of food. They were dying. So... on Christmas Day, after almost nine days without sustenance, they succumbed to only thing that could save them. Cannibalism.

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Welcome back to the second season of the Q Files. In our first episode, we will give you plenty of fascinating food for thought and more than a few human conundrums to chew upon. There are few stories that have captured the American imagination like the tragic and horrifying story of the Donner Party. We'll explore the tale of their cannibalistic nightmare...and host our own Donner dinner party.

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Are you ready? In Season one, we took you on many adventures - we conducted seances, hunted ghost trains, sought out demons and even dug up the dead. But we were just getting started. Now, on The Q Files, Season 2, we’re going to fully embrace the notion that "not all those who wander are lost".

The Q Files is a personal, purposeful, paranormal podcast about the highly strange and weirdly unknown. Join us on our queer adventures as we explore the people, places, and phenomena, outside popular consciousness.

The Q Files documentary series will feature astonishing stories about the paranormal, the supernatural, occulture, forgotten history, and the strange.

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In this special episode, we'll share with you a brand new story related to Digging Up The Dead. This time covering the story of Dorthy Parker - an American writer of short stories, poetry, critical essays, and most notorious for her clever and biting wit and wise-cracks.

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