Sideways Boulevard

What happens when you cross a gorilla with a wolf? Have you seen the bat that shoots laser beams out of its horns? What about a land-locked Lochness-style monster in a farmer's pond? Our motto should be "Kansas: As freaky as you think." Check out the discussion as John, Shelby, and Mark hash out their 3 favorite Kansas Cryptids (beyond Bigfoot) that put weird on the map, here at Sideways Boulevard. #kansascryptids --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

To celebrate Women In Horror Month, Sideways Boulevard is joined by 3 of the 5 female authors involved in "Black Buttons Vol. 3: A Family Affair," published by Magnificent Cowlick Media. Shelby Dollar, Denise Johnson, & Amelia Gorman discuss what it's like to be a woman horror writer in a Stephen King world. Plus they talk about the amazing stories they wrote in Black Buttons Vol. 3, and what's coming in their future as writers of dark fiction. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

The muse strikes artists in many ways. For John Kelley in Kansas City, his muse guides him to the beauty found in death and the rituals surreounding. He sees the touching humanity involved with the respect paid to those who have passed. And he can find a playful quality within the macabre. His paintings, drawings, multimedia works, and antique/junque store discoveries create a tapestry of dark art in Booth 1313 at Metcalf Antiques in the Kansas City area. Mark talks with him about art, death, creativity, working in theatre, and how a booth in an antique mall sells more art than at gallery exhibitions. John's house isn't there, but he definitely has an address on Sideways Boulevard. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

A 6-foot tall Raccoon Man...the press-hogging Momo stink ape...a screaming Ozark predator criss-crossing state lines...Missouri has mysterious, mythical monsters and we wanna talk about them! Join your Sideways Boulevard Hosts Mark, Shelby, & J.E. as we share insights on our 3 favorite Missouri Cryptids! From the state named after "town of big canoes" (thanks Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology), we find our next stop on Sideways Boulevard! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

It's a campground. IT'S A GRAVEYARD. It's a playground. IT'S A CRYPT! It's the Miller Mausoleum, one man's hand-built dream of a family crypt just east of Kansas City. This weird buildign was almost lost to time and decay; however, when a great-grandkid fought to fix the creepy-cool palace de mort, this generational tomb becane small-town-sensational place for people to meet. What else is cool? You can use it too! Find out more as Mark L. Groves interviews Carl Cranfill, great-grandson of Joseph M. Miller—builder of the Miller Mausoleum in Holden, Missouri. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Sideways Boulevard's Mark L. Groves shows up at the KC Spirit and Paranormal convention March 2022, and interviews members of this unusual, and kinda' awesome, community. In this third and final episode, hear from the caretakers of Beattie Mansion, St. Joseph, MO's very own, very haunted version of the "House on the Hill." Next, Carter Buschardt, author of the "Sasquatch: Evidence of an Enigma" books, shares his findings of Bigfoot communications and communities here in the midwest. We wrap up with Jeanne M. Walker, author of "Family Secrets," who shares her very, very intimate knowledge of alien abductions. Get ready for lots of twists and turns as we take a trip down Sideways Boulevard! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Sideways Boulevard's Mark L. Groves shows up at the KC Spirit and Paranormal convention, and interviews members of this unusual, and kinda' awesome, community. J.E. Peterson and Shelby Dollar couldn't make it- so Mark manned the mic and recorded the conversations as we talked about, and sometimes to, other planes, ether worlds, and aliens. Plus laughter and fun. Here's the second of 3 podcasts, this one including Akashic Grace from Kansas City, and Steve and Kyle from the Holosky Podcast out of Illinois. Join us, as we take a trip down Sideways Boulevard. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Sideways Boulevard's Mark L. Groves shows up at the KC Spirit and Paranormal convention, and interviews members of this unusual, and kinda' awesome, community. J.E. Peterson and Shelby Dollar couldn't make it- so Mark manned the mic and recorded the conversations as we talked about, and sometimes to, other planes, ether worlds, and aliens. Plus laughter and fun. Here's the first of 3 podcasts, this one including Psychic Medium Jo Flowers from Topeka, KS, and CE5 (Close Encounters of 5th Kind) representative Rupert Kortosh from Leicester, England. Join us, as we take a trip down Sideways Boulevard. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

In Ep. 002, Mark, J.E., and Shelby talk to April and Bettina, the twin forces behind the KC Spirit & Paranormal Convention, March 18th - 20th in Independence, MO. We find out about the readers and healers and dealers (oh my!) coming to this super-cool con, and then we meet Buck, the medium you know from www.tiktok.com/@Buckymanmedium. Buck talks about his growth as a spirit medium- and does a session, unrehearsed, live, with Mark. Join the fun roundtable discussion of contacting the beyond, and the beautiful, at the Kc Spirit & Paranormal Convention, in this episode of Sideways Boulevard. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

We're now Sideways Boulevard- your one-way street to Weirdsville, population: you. Join Mark, J.E., and Shelby as the laydown the lowdown on curses- what they are, how to fight them, plus cursed cars and corpses you probably haven't heard about, and Roman-clature that really upped the curse game, along with witches vs. Hitler. Ready, hex, go- in episode 001 of Sideways Boulevard! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

So this was the hardest Podenstein's Lab they've done yet. Mass murderers who sold the bodies to science? Sure. Gross infections? You bet. All the horrible stuff that can happen to you in space? Call it done. But hangings and executions go to some really, really dark places. J.E. Petersen, Shelby Dollar, and Mark L. Groves do their best with humanity's worst, and present it here, in Episode 11. Plus real headlines that are real weird (basement full of bowling balls, anyone?). Get the news you can use freak out your friends, right now, in Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

It's a hell of a vacation list, literally, in Episode 11 of Podenstein's Lab! Shelby, J.E., and Mark put together a time-off-that's-awful set of real places that are real nightmares for leisure plans: an Island getaway to get away from, a nightly firepit from the bowels of hell, and a famous river with the foulest flow. As always, you also get real news headlines of real news oddities. Pack your swimsuit, anti-venom, and flight bag, this episode is such a trip- in Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Edgar Allan Poe- prolific horror writer, yes...but did he commit a horror of which he wrote? Fiction is the way to tell truth through lies, and Podenstein's Lab takes a deep dive into the real story of Mary Rogers, victim in life- and in literature as "The Mystery of Marie Roget." Did Poe write a story, or a confession? Plus we look at Poe's other tales based on real life horrors, and look into his own terrible demise at the age of forty. And as always, real news headlines of real news oddities, all here in Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Buried treasure. It exists, but does it exist here in the Midwest? Episode 9 of Podenstein's Lab digs out stories of underground bounties- from 16th century Spanish riches in Arkansas, to a whole city of statues- and giants- under Moberly, MO, to where you might or might not find hidden gold from Jesse James. The truth is out there, even when it's lies. Plus real headlines of real weirdness, in Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

In Episode 008, there's a whole lot of shaking going on as the news team takes a deep dive into Earthquakes in the USA. First, find out about the big Missouri monster that rang bells in Boston. Next, get a happy thought with a possible future catastrophes stateside that could kill a lot- or everybody. Then discover how tremblors are being created- by the thousands- through the hand of humanity. And of course, real headlines that are real weird. It's news you can use to shake up your friends, in Podenstein's Lab! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

You might be innocent, but Podenstein's Lab is guilty of taking you behind bars in Episode 007. From the lingering mystery of what happened to the real "Escape from Alcatraz" trio, to truly amazing break-outs both artistic and yogatastic, to some truly crazy calabooses across the world. Plus real headlines that are real bizarre. What we have here, is NOT a failure to communicate, in this series of reports from Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

The Podenstein’s Lab news team loses their heads! At least, in the news they bring you in this episode. Mark L. Groves introduces the man behind “laughing your head off”- literally; Shelby Dollar discusses the science of slugs that love a good auto-decapitation; and J.E. Petersen revisits a Colorado chicken who takes a chopping- and spends the next 18 months headless pecking for paying audiences nationwide. It even has it's own festival...of course. These stories and more are on the chopping block, in Episode 6 of Podenstein’s Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

Episode 5 of Podenstein's Lab takes you to Sweden's Disgusting Food Museum for news on their barfy booze; goes behind the scenes for the hatchet/axe wielding, fuzzy suited, sorta' true Bunny Man Legend; and goes back in time to find out why a woman in England was busy birthing bunny bits, among other animal chunks. Proving truth is grosser than fiction, it's all the news you can use to freak out your friends, here in Podenstein's Lab. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

It's a no-go for the snow bro this year. Find out what Frozen Dead Guy Days is all about, in this special report- including an interview from 2018 with Amanda MacDonald, Event Coordinator for Frozen Dead Guy Days. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support

In Episode 4 of the Podenstein's Lab newscast, Mark L. Groves talks about quarantining alone- and how you may NOT be alone; Shelby Dollar takes us on a nature tour of gross, wriggling worm balls, and how high tech is working on mimicking them; and J.E. wraps up our deep dives with true stories of hidden rooms- and weird treasures- discovered recently inside people's homes. Plus the usual Real Headlines that are Real Weird. It's all the news you can use to freak out your friends, in Podenstein's Lab! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sidewaysboulevard/support