Matt HongoltzHetling
@hh_matt
Chronologically: Stockboy to server to business owner to poker player to cabbie to social worker to Pulitzer finalist & award-winning journo.
New Hampshire's hottest town is Grafton. This place has everything: survivalists, bottle rockets, llamas fighting bears, a mail order bride business owner, greazzing. Greazzing? It's that thing when you guzzle old french fry grease. #Stefon @atavistmag bit.ly/2LJZbZb
Ghost hunters. Bigfoot bros. UFO grifters. @PulitzerPrizes finalist @hh_matt joins us live to explain how paranormal belief is evolving into a full-on worldview. 📅 July 24 | 7PM ET 🎟 Free @SkeptInquirer Presents stream, reg req’d: ow.ly/nlhf50WtJ8Q
Hey, New England peeps: On Sunday at 2 p.m., I'll be speaking about ghosts, aliens, and the potential collapse of our democratic experiment at the Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH. Would love to meet you there. waterstreetbooks.com/event/2025-07-…
Alien whisperers. Mediums w/ merch. When ghost hunters have more cultural capital than scientists, we’re in trouble. Investigative journalist @hh_matt joins @SkeptInquirer 7/24 to explain how paranormal peddlers are ruining science + what to do about it: ow.ly/O3yx50WrARs
Don't forget to register for our next FREE Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling on July 24. skepticalinquirer.org/video/the-ghos…
Hey Friends! Please join me Thursday at this gem of an independent NH bookstore. I'll tell you why that guy you make fun of for hunting Bigfoot is actually the key to saving (or is it now restoring?) science and democracy.
We speak with @hh_matt about the war inside MAGA over the failure to release the Epstein files as promised and try to understand why Trumps base is bothered by not providing the "smoking gun" that proves the "Deep State" is run by a cabal of pedophiles. soundcloud.com/user-830442635…
The Gospel Coalition (@TGC) calls Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's (@hh_matt) THE GHOST LAB "an alternately fascinating and disturbing portrait" on the relationship between conspiracy theorists and science. Check out the full review → bit.ly/4kxDDOK
Scientists have been kicking people out of the tent. It's been OK, because they've also been making the world better. But there's a point at which so many have been kicked out of the tent that the scientific community has to worry. Thank you @Snail_Nina! open.spotify.com/episode/2lF8rV…
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What podcast would be a good venue for a conversation between me and @hh_matt on the topic of Christianity, skepticism, institutional trust, and the paranormal?
I've been a fan of journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling @hh_matt ever since I read his hilarious A LIBERTARIAN WALKS INTO A BEAR. I just devoured his latest book THE GHOST LAB, about the world of paranormal believers. amazon.com/Ghost-Lab-Bigf…
In an interview with @hh_matt, @bigthink says, "THE GHOST LAB is like a season of your favorite spooky, ghost-hunting television show, in which you grow to know and like the hunters, and maybe even understand what drives them." Read the full interview: bit.ly/3T3NyAn
‘Those who believe they have encountered a spirit are faced with a mystery: why does the scientific establishment dismiss the existence of something that seems self-evident to a majority of Americans?’ Read @hh_matt 👇buff.ly/hjvW8xY
Surveys suggest that nearly two-thirds of Americans hold supernatural beliefs. @hh_matt on why the paranormal has such power 👇buff.ly/hjvW8xY