On High Strangeness and Creativity with Daniel Noah

Nov 20, 2025

Daniel Noah, co-founder of SpectreVision and the creative mind behind the High Strangeness comic series, dives into the intersection of creativity and the paranormal. He shares his journey from skeptic to experiencer, revealing how encounters at iconic sites transformed his artistic perspective. Their discussion highlights how art can facilitate deeper connections with the uncanny, and the challenges of portraying supernatural themes within narrative frameworks. Daniel also reflects on the emotional responsibilities of being a public experiencer and the communal support needed in this unique space.

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INSIGHT

Genre As A Trojan Horse

SpectreVision uses genre as a Trojan horse to explore complex spiritual, emotional, and social themes.
Expanding to podcasts, comics, and records lets them engage audiences across mediums instead of staying film-bound.

ANECDOTE

Stanley Hotel Moment That Changed Everything

Daniel Noah describes a Stanley Hotel Ouija-board event that changed his skepticism into conviction about the paranormal.
A later Queen Mary episode confirmed the pattern and revealed these experiences had occurred throughout his life.

ANECDOTE

Public Confession Led To Connection

After a Spooked episode, Daniel's secret became public and his creative community responded mostly positively.
The exposure connected him to experiencers and led to unexpected opportunities like starting the podcast network.

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In this episode of Cosmosis, Kelly and Jay sit down with someone who has become a true kindred spirit on their path: Daniel Noah, co-founder of SpectreVision, filmmaker, experiencer, and the creative force behind the new High Strangeness comic series.

This conversation moves through the deep waters where creativity, anomalous experience, and vocation meet. Daniel opens up about his lifelong relationship with horror and the supernatural, his unexpected awakening as an experiencer, and how that realization reshaped both his inner world and his creative life. He shares what it meant to come out publicly as an experiencer, the responsibility he now feels to others on the path, and why art—and vulnerability—are central to making sense of the anomalous.

Together, Kelly, Jay, and Daniel explore:

How SpectreVision grew from an indie genre studio into a multiformat home for creators working at the edges of experience
Why paranormal phenomena resist traditional narrative structure—and what that means for artists
The surprising synchronicities behind Daniel’s work on High Strangeness
Creativity as a channel for contact, transmission, and the “central source” John Keel wrote about
The emotional reality of being a public experiencer, and the mission that quietly forms around those called into this work
Daniel’s reflections on SpectreVision’s newest film, Rabbit Trap, and its unsettling, initiatory portrait of fairy lore
You’ll also hear about Kelly’s essay on synchronicity for issue #3 of High Strangeness, the story that changed the trajectory of her entire life, and how collaborative creativity has opened new doors for all three of them.

This is one of our most intimate and expansive conversations—an exploration of what happens when artists stop compartmentalizing the anomalous and instead allow it to shape their work, their worldview, and their calling.

Music for Cosmosis is by Michael Rubino. The show is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.

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