Discover the legacies of some of the most influential women in the paranormal field.

Sharing the stories of over 35 groundbreaking women in a male-dominated field, paranormal researcher Alex Matsuo excavates the buried legacies of women in the paranormal who were often overshadowed and almost forgotten in her book, 'Women of the Paranormal Volume I.'

From paranormal investigators to parapsychologists to psychic mediums to cryptozoologists, you’ll discover an incredible world where women not only inspired the paranormal world, but set the very foundation for modern-day investigation and psychic practices.

My Special Guest is Alex MatsuoAlex Matsuo is a paranormal researcher, social media influencer, and author. She is the founder of the Association of Paranormal Study and runs “The Spooky Stuff.” If it’s weird, spooky, unusual, scary, macabre, or haunted, she wants to write and talk about it!

Alex was recently seen on the third season of Haunted Hospitals in Episode 12 titled, “It Followed Me Home.” The episode can be seen on Discovery Plus!. She has also been seen on Travel Channel’s “Most Terrifying Places in America.” In addition, she is the host of the podcast, The Spooky Stuff. Alex has written several books about the paranormal including, The Hamptonville Hauntings: Ghosts of the Trivette Clinic, One Bed Over: A Hospital Haunting, The Brave Mortal’s Guide to Ghost Hunting, The Haunting of the Tenth Avenue Theatre, More than Ghosts: A Guide to Working Residential Cases in the Paranormal Field, and The Haunted Actor. Her latest book, Women of the Paranormal Volume I, is now available.

Eleanor Sidgwick

Most of Eleanor's writings related to psychical research, and are contained in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. Eleanor was highly critical of physical mediumship and in 1886 and 1887 a series of publications by S. J. Davey, Richard Hodgson and Eleanor in the Journal for the Society for Psychical Research exposed the slate writing tricks of the medium William Eglinton. Eleanor regarded Eglinton to be nothing more than a clever conjurer. 

In 1891, Alfred Russel Wallace requested for the Society to properly investigate spirit photography. Wallace had endorsed various spirit photographs as genuine. Eleanor responded with her paper On Spirit Photographs (1891) which cast doubt on the subject and revealed the fraudulent methods that spirit photographers such as Frederic Hudson, William H Mumler and Édouard Isidore Buguet had utilised.

Aiko Gibo

The renowned Japanese psychic, Aiko Gibo, was one of the first to create a ghost hunting segment on TV. She came to visit The Real Mary King’s Close while making a film about the haunted places of Britain. When it came to stepping inside a room off Allan’s Close, she could barely enter the 17th-century room for the pain and unhappiness she could feel there: ‘I cannot enter this room… it is too strong… there is a child beside me, her little hand is clutching my trouser leg. I… I just cannot go into this room… she was separated from her parents. She wants to go home and see her family… her desire haunts this place very strongly.’

In this episode, you will be able to:

1. Delve into some of the lives and legacies of some of the incredible women featured in the book.

2. Discover some of the reasons why these women were overlooked and forgotten.

3. Explore the place women have had in the paranormal field.

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