{"id":4374,"date":"2012-07-01T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T23:20:54","slug":"the-wizard-and-the-reality-ghosthunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard and the “Reality” Ghosthunters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oberon Zell, co-founder of the Church of All Worlds<\/a> and headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry<\/a>, looks to have a bit part in a reality TV series, Ghost Girls. <\/em>Its Facebook page<\/a> calls it “an off-beat Supernatural\/Reality Based TV show pilot about three ‘Real’ claravoyant [sic<\/em>], beautiful women, who also happen to be divas of the supernatural. They and thier [sic<\/em>] unusual friends commune with ghosts, and seek the unusual and unexplained mysteries.”<\/p>\n

“Uncle Oberon” hopes to see some product placement for some of his Mythic Images Collection<\/a> as well. And why not? They might as well decorate the set with real Pagan art, instead of something just “faked up” (to use Gerald Gardner’s phrase) for the filming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oberon Zell, co-founder of the Church of All Worlds and headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry, looks to have a bit part in a reality TV series, Ghost Girls. Its Facebook page calls it “an off-beat Supernatural\/Reality Based TV show pilot about three ‘Real’ claravoyant [sic], beautiful women, who also happen to be divas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,153],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ghosts","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-18y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5257,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5257","url_meta":{"origin":4374,"position":0},"title":"Ghost Girls: Witchcrap or Pop Occulture Fun?","author":"Chas S. 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