Haunted Objects with Greg and Dana Newkirk was an amazing show that set the mood for the oncoming spooky season.
Dana Newkirk started her paranormal investigations with a show called The Girly Ghosthunters. The show started six months before the well-known show Ghost Hunters. As for Greg Newkirk, he and a group of his friends walked around cemeteries, amateur ghost hunters. The two admitted they hated each other for a while, but they eventually turned a new leaf and married. With their team up, they found themselves as a traveling paranormal museum. They met and connected with many different people, and people began to send Greg and Dana Newkirk items the sender believed were haunted.
The duo also has a show on Amazon Prime called Hellier, where they document their paranormal investigations. Greg and Dana Newkirk were also in an episode of Kindred Spirits on Discovery+. They also have a podcast called Haunted Objects, where they explain the history and lore of haunted objects they have encountered. The podcast episodes also cover the objects they showcased in the live show.
Below I will go through a summary of the show. Greg and Dana Newkirk are on tour with their show still, so I want to avoid spoiling the flow of the live event as much as I can. This is my warning to you if you plan on seeing Haunted Objects live.
The show started with the story of The Crying Boy, a painting that was believed to be the cause of dozens of fires across Britain, and rumors of the painting only grew worse because of a tabloid called The Sun. Then, we heard the story of The Cracking Man, a porcelain clown doll said to make cracking sounds. From this story, Greg and Dana Newkirk moved on to an object called The Amityville House Plank, a piece of the original house, but it was not the actual piece that was the focus of the story, but what was attached to the object. The next object they featured was The Dark Mirror. This was one of the objects where they began to show the audience videos of people’s reactions to looking into the mirror and told stories of their experiences with it. Another object I want to highlight is an item called Hatred. The story behind him was chilling, especially as Greg Newkirk noted that Hatred is not the only object to come into existence in the same, special circumstances he shared with the audience. The final object they shared with us was one they called The Crone. The evidence the Newkirk shared with the audience was astonishing, and the story behind The Crone, as well as the journey they went on because of this object was both incredible and hair-raising.
There was so much more to the live event than just these stories. Between these stories, Greg and Dana Newkirk spoke about their colleagues and the ideas everyone has as to why these objects or places are haunted. They theorized about everything from ESP, and extrasensory perception, to how the human mind can alter what we perceive. The amount of human interference there can be to a haunting was eye-opening. They did not talk about their theories as a way to disprove whether or not ghosts were real but presented these ideas to try and explain why these things might occur.
I found myself invested in their story. The experiences they had and shared with everyone were not meant to scare the audience, but to inform us. Greg and Dana Newkirk wanted to pull our curiosities, and they succeeded. The show did not feel like they were trying to prove the paranormal existed but to provide ideas as to why these supernatural experiences occur. Each part of the show always connected to the next thing Greg and Dana Newkirk talked about, and later stories tied back to the beginning of the show as well. By the time the event was closing, the stories shared that night came full circle.
As the show was ending, Greg Newkirk said something incredibly memorable, “If you can make friends with monsters under your bed, your neighbor isn’t so scary anymore.”