Darkwoods Paranormal
Our mission isn’t to convince you what to believe. It’s to ask better questions.
Hosted by Raven Knight and Gabriel von Graves, Darkwoods Paranormal is an interview-driven paranormal series that explores the world’s greatest mysteries through investigation, conversation, and firsthand experience.
Every Thursday and Sunday at 7:00 PM Central, we go live with investigators, authors, researchers, historians, cryptozoologists, psychics, experiencers, and other respected voices from across the paranormal community. Together, we examine the stories, evidence, and discoveries shaping the unexplained.
But we don’t just talk about the paranormal—we go looking for it.
Join us as we travel to haunted locations, investigate reports of unexplained activity, document our experiences, and bring you along for the journey.
From ghosts, hauntings, and historic locations to Bigfoot, UFOs, folklore, psychic phenomena, and true crime, every episode is an opportunity to explore the unknown with curiosity, healthy skepticism, and an open mind.
Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, you’re welcome here.
Because the greatest mysteries aren’t the ones we’ve solved… they’re the ones we’re still trying to understand.
New episodes LIVE every Thursday & Sunday at 7:00 PM Central.
Darkwoods Paranormal
The Legends We Grew Up With: Author J.R. Macho Turns Minnesota Lore Into Fiction.
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What happens when the strange stories you hear as a kid never really leave you?
On this episode of Darkwoods Paranormal, Raven Knight and Gabriel Von Graves sit down with author J.R. Macho to explore the inspiration behind his writing and the legends, lore, and stories that helped shape his imagination.
Growing up in small-town Minnesota, J.R. was surrounded by the kinds of stories that seem to take on a life of their own — local legends, childhood tales, unexplained mysteries, and pieces of folklore passed from one person to another. Years later, those influences would find their way into the fictional worlds he creates.
We talk about where his ideas come from, how real places and local lore can become the foundation for fiction, the process of taking an old story and making it your own, and why the legends we grow up hearing can stay with us long after childhood.
Because sometimes the best fictional stories begin with something that people once whispered might actually be true.
Join Raven Knight and Gabriel Von Graves for a conversation about writing, imagination, Minnesota lore, and the stories that refuse to be forgotten.