Topic: Paranormal

Ned Jeffery is knighted as the "Knight of the Convict Broadcasts" from Australia. Producer Chris plugs his own show, "Our Big Dumb Mouth," which utilizes the same value-for-value model to cover news and paranormal topics without traditional advertising.

The Today Show aired a segment featuring news readers visiting the "haunted" Eastern State Penitentiary for Halloween. The segment, which included the use of dowsing rods and "ghost-hunting" gadgets, is criticized for its lack of intellectual substance and for promoting paranormal nonsense as news. The hosts also note a recurring media theme regarding the psychological effects of solitary confinement in the American prison system.

Dvorak plays clips from the Travel Channel show "Ghost Adventures" filmed on the USS Hornet in Alameda. The hosts mock the paranormal investigators' claims that ghosts use the local electrical power grid as a "food source" to manifest.

Tens of thousands of dead herring washed up on a beach in northern Norway on New Year's Eve, only to disappear shortly after. While scientists suggest predators or storms, Adam Curry proposes a "stargate" theory, suggesting the fish were transported through a portal.

A ghost hunter was killed by a train on a railway trestle in North Carolina while investigating a local legend from 1891. Three other members of the group escaped, and one man pushed his girlfriend to safety before being struck. The hosts use the story as a cautionary tale about the dangers of trespassing on active train tracks.