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
S4 Ep1: Scary Tales of Pigments Past, Part 1
Unnwrap the rich brown paint popular among the pre-raphelite brotherhood known as Mummy Brown. If your skin is crawling it’s for a good reason. This is the name of a color of paint. Couldn’t they hav…
00:13:25 |
Mon 16 May 2022
S3 Ep10: Yoshitoshi's 36 Ghost Stories
Art of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - 36 Ghosts wood block prints, Ukiyo-e
00:40:39 |
Fri 31 Dec 2021
S3 Ep9: Intro - Yoshitoshi's 36 Ghost Stories
Art of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - Thirty-six Ghosts, Japanese woodblock prints.
00:20:54 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
S3 Ep8: A Very Gorey Art Mystery
Edward St. John Gorey is known for his pen and ink drawings, and for authoring and illustrating short often disturbing books. Making the reader uneasy was intended! Listen to this episode to follow h…
00:32:56 |
Sun 31 Oct 2021
S3 Ep7: A Very Gorey Art Mystery - Intro
We start our investigation on the illustrations and books by Edward Gorey with his book The Doubtful Guest.
00:18:33 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
S3 Ep6: Phantom of the Arcade, Part 2
What made the Polybius arcade game strange, and so scary? Well, it’s not a real game. It’s fakelore, better known as urban legend...
00:25:37 |
Fri 13 Aug 2021
S3 Ep5: Phantom of the Arcade, Part 1
In the 1970's computer graphics (CG) were on the fast-track and video games were no small part of things! We’re not just talking Pong, but I won’t kid you, it's part of the story!
00:36:21 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
S3 Ep4: Dutch Art - The Secret of the Missing Flowers
Were these painters of flowers early fantasy-botanical artists?
00:25:42 |
Tue 01 Jun 2021
S3 Ep3: Sacred Sand Art Not Long for this World, Part 2
The mystery of the Kalachakra Mandala.
00:26:31 |
Fri 07 May 2021
S3 Ep2: Sacred Sand Art Not Long for this World, Part 1
Mysterious and sacred Navajo Dine’ healing sand paintings.
00:30:10 |
Sun 04 Apr 2021
S3 Ep1: Viking Time Warping Stone Ships
Why did the vikings create stone ship earth art?
00:20:03 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
S2 Ep9: The Painter’s Ghost or Le Fantome des Peintres, Part 3
Was Claude Monet’s ghost at the Cleveland Museum of Art?
00:23:33 |
Sun 20 Sep 2020
S2 Ep8: The Painter's Ghost or Le Fantome des Peintres, Part 2
A photo was taken of a ghost they say might be Claude Monet.
00:25:59 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
S2 Ep7: The Painter's Ghost or Le Fantome des Peintres, Part 1
Get to know Claude Monet and the lengths he went to for his garden.
00:10:34 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
S2 Ep7: The Painters Ghost - Prequel
Before the ghost story - the world in bloom, Persephone's return.
00:10:34 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
S2 Ep6: Fairy Circle on Midsummer Eve
The magic of a midsummer eve caught in painting influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism.
00:29:19 |
Sat 09 May 2020
S2 Ep5: Classic Science Fiction Book Cover Art
The unique art of sci-fi book cover art from the 1960s and 70s.
00:39:39 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
S2 Ep4: Vincents Mysteries, Part 2
Are the “facts” the truth about Vincent van Gogh?
00:42:19 |
Sun 23 Feb 2020
S2 Ep3: Vincents Mysteries, Part 1
Vincent’s intense paintings may reflect his inner storms.
00:17:31 |
Sun 16 Feb 2020
S2 Ep2: UFOs - Woodcut Prints of Celestial Phenomena - Part 2
The sightings take us through the Black Forest.
00:35:41 |
Sun 26 Jan 2020
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