In this episode, we travel to Pittsburgh to see horror movie sites connected to George Romero and Tom Savini, while waxing (and waning) nostalgic on how much has changed at both the sites and in my own life since my original 2006 visit to the place back in the first days of OTIS.

• See photos from my trip here.
• See photos from the Living Dead Museum here.
• Read my original OTIS piece on my first visit to the Dawn of the Dead Mall.
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In this episode, I read the introduction to my book, "The United States of Cryptids," as well as an entry on one of the weirdest cryptids in its pages: The giant sky clams of Nevada. Come for the bigfoot parties. Stay for the flying mollusks.

• Buy The United States of Cryptids here.
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• Check out my other spooky books,

I have visited probably a dozen movie monster museums across this country in my time searching out oddity. Three of these museums stand out as my favorites--one in Nevada, one in Connecticut, and one in Massachusetts. Come with me and let's be old-fashioned Monster Kids for a while.

• See photos from my visit to Tom Devlin's Monster Museum here.
• See photos from my visit to Cortlandt Hull's Witch's Dungeon here.
• See super-out-of-date photos of my visit to Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery here.
• See photos from my visit to the Twilight Zone paintings on the carousel in Rod Serling's hometown of Binghamton, New York, here.
• Support this podcast and other of my oddity initiatives on my Patreon.
• Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
• Preorder my next book, Cult Following: The Extreme Sects that Capture Our Imaginations and Take Over Our Lives. (buying through my bookshop store maximizes support for me and for indie bookstores).
• Check out my other spooky books,