The Whispering Gallery
Spooky, supernatural, unexplained, paranormal art
The Whispering Gallery podcast explores spine-tingling and hard-to-believe spooky art stories; including cursed paintings, paintings prints of monsters, hauntings, UFOs and more. I look at art history a little differently.
Learn about the spooky side of art guided by artists from around the world, and throughout history. Suzanne Nikolaisen sparks -your- imagination with spooky art stories that are best told after dark!
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- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 52
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
S7 Ep2: The Night Watch Mystery, Part 1
The Night Watch Mystery, Episode 1: Something’s Not Right in the Painting
In this haunting first chapter of The Night Watch Mystery, we begin our journey into the depths of Rembrandt’s 1642 masterpi…
00:31:59 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
S7 Ep1: Mothman Metamorphosis: Steel & Paint, Part 2
Part 2 about the Mothman legend and subsequent art. Stories about the area the legend grew up in, Point Pleasant, West Virgina. Learn about artists Frank Frazetta and Bob Roach and their iconic mothm…
01:05:07 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
S6 Ep4: Stay Spooky Phenomecon, Part 1
Nick Pope from Ancient Aliens gave a lecture at PhenomeCon 2024 in which he offered "what if's" about sentient artificial intelligence (AI) scenarios. So when Eric told me about Google Notebook LM, a…
00:11:35 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
S6 Ep3: Mothman Metamorphosis: Steel & Paint, Part 1
Introduction to a multi-parter about the Mothman. Listen to descriptions of the Mothman and sightings during 1966-67.
00:18:01 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
S6 Ep2: The Clue of the Crumbling Cake Paintings
Hi there spooky art loving friends! Welcome to the WGP (The Whispering Gallery Podcast). I’m your docent, Suzanne Nikolaisen. Let’s begin our story tonight by following the shadows draping the galle…
00:41:07 |
Fri 03 May 2024
S6 Ep1: Unreal Hollow Earth Drawings, Part 2
There’s Admiral Byrd’s strange stories with a lot of ties to sci fi and politics of the time, and then the imaginings of John Symmes drawn as a kind of diagram of the workings of his “Symmes holes” a…
00:28:01 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
S5 Ep6: Unreal Hollow Earth Drawings, Part 1
Welcome to the Whispering Gallery podcast! I’m Suzanne Nikolaisen and if this isn’t your first rodeo - er, time listening, you know that together we seek out the spooky, unusual and fascinating stori…
00:27:52 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
S5 Ep5: Ghosts of Legendary Labyrinths, Part 2
Continuing our story about the labyrinth at Knossos and other labyrinths including the one in the movie The Shining.
...On the island of Britain, between the Atlantic ocean and the North Sea, lies …
00:23:08 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
S5 Ep4: Ghosts of Legendary Labyrinths, Part 1
So, what about the ghosts in the depths of the legendary labyrinth, in the deep dark, below the palace?—The place where Theseus and the Minotaur had their showdown? Where does myth end reality meet? …
00:22:49 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
S5 Ep3: The Cursed Painting, Part 2
We left off with two abandoned ships (from the Franklin expedition), no survivors and the terrible story that the officers and crew of the ships had perished in the hostile environment of the polar d…
00:20:10 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
S5 Ep2: The Cursed Painting, Part 1
Before I go any farther, there is a painting of a scene of one of the ships from the Franklin expedition. The ship is deserted, polar bears are scavenging, it’s gross. We’ll get into the painting a l…
00:24:39 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
S5 Ep1: Secret Recipes of Unusual Headstones
Brooklyn NY, Logan Utah and Castor Louisiana have something in common--a small but unique, could we call it a micro trend--of recipes being engraved on headstones. The usual details are there, but s…
00:25:33 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
S4 Ep8: The Proof is in the Pudding-Paintings
Gnomes are all the rage where I live. Big hats shifted down over their eyes, held up by their nose, huge beards coming down to their stomach. They’re currently “in style” so to speak as decor. Not me…
00:29:57 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
S4 Ep7: The Sweet Mystery of Sugar Skulls
We’ve talked sugar skulls, skull imagery, history, myth… but we’re respectful visitors to where the dead ones are remembered and invited home when the veil is thin.
00:21:21 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
S4 Ep6: Vaporous Prophecy & Gossamer Magic, Part 2
Who did Circe turn into pigs? What specialty of magic could have done that? Did she really lived alone on an island? Find out next on the Whispering Gallery!
00:27:41 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
S4 Ep5: Vaporous Prophecy & Gossamer Magic (Mini Episode)
This mini episode (in-between Part 1 and Part 2) delves a bit further into the research to answer some additional questions about the Oracle of Delphi.
00:14:06 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
S4 Ep4: Vaporous Prophecy & Gossamer Magic, Part 1
Did you know the Oracle of Delphi was more than one woman? Much like the maiden, the mother, the crone, it turns out she wasn't always the young version of the oracle. Laws were passed to protect the…
00:21:03 |
Sat 01 Oct 2022
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00:01:13 |
Sat 03 Sep 2022
S4 Ep3: The Ghost of the Clay Tablet
Ancient Mesopotamians believed in ghosts and even had special exorcists with how-to guides (including an illustration of a ghost) to send them away.
00:19:33 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
S4 Ep2: Scary Tales of Pigments Past, Part 2
Learn about where some of the pigments, that color artist's paints, come from and what they're made up of.
00:43:39 |
Fri 08 Jul 2022
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