DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE? WIDOWED MEN AND WOMEN BELIEVE THEY ARE COMMUNICATING WITH THEIR SPOUSE? DO WE REALLY NEED A FEMALE PRESIDENT? (END OF DAYS)

Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University, where she also served as a lecturer in ethnolinguistics. She is the book review editor at the Academy of Spiritual and Consciousness Studies and the author of The Psychic Life of Abraham Lincoln, The Hidden Prophet, Time of the Quickening, and The Lost History of the Little People. A contributor to Forbidden Science and Darklore, her work also appears in Atlantis Rising, FATE, and New Dawn magazines. She lives in Clayton, Georgia.

We are spirits housed in a body, and just as houses can be haunted, so can people. When the living succumb to dissociative states of consciousness, they become a magnet for lost but clinging spirits. Known as jinn, dybbuk, daemon, wuqabi, or simply the undead, they hover unseen on the earth plane, ready to inhabit the most suitable body available. 

After the break,

Myke Hideous stayed for round 2 of the program. He discussed his background and starting his old band back up.  He is an American gothic rock singer and songwriter from New Jersey.

He is the founder and frontman of the East Coast gothic rock band The Empire Hideous, which was active throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s. He also performed with The Bronx Casket Co., Spy Society 99 and the Misfits as a fill-in vocalist (May–July 1998: South American and European tours).

Myke Hideous formed The Empire Hideous in 1988, for which he was the lead singer and songwriter. The group issued its first recording, a 12″ EP entitled “The Empire Hideous” in 1990. Although the band went through numerous personnel changes throughout the 1990s, they released two subsequent EPs, a live album (“I’m Dead, You’re Dead, We’re All Dead”, 1998) and a live studio recording (“Victim Destroys Assailant”, 1998). The band toured throughout the USA during the 1990s. Myke crafted an enigmatic and brooding stage persona and would become known among fans for his often shocking stage antics, including being whipped in between songs, donning a crown of thorns, and inserting hypodermic needles into his flesh.

Performing with the Misfits

Hideous auditioned for the Misfits’ original reformation in 1995, losing out to Michale Graves.

The following year, Mark Steiner released a documentary film entitled To Build an Empire, about The Empire Hideous.

In 1998, he was hired as a fill-in vocalist for the Misfits when Michale Graves took an indefinite hiatus because he did not want to go on an extensive tour outside the United States. He did vocals at all the group’s shows on the Europe and South America tours that summer, but Graves returned to the band later that year after the tour was completed.