Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch

Actor Frank Whaley (“Swimming with Sharks” “The Doors”) had an encounter with a ghost. Or rather, his toddler did. And we can all agree, that's the creepiest way to learn that you are living in a haunted house. This story will blow your mind! We’ll leave it at that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor (and author!) Julianna Margulies joins Woo Woo to share the story of her dad, who was very much a believer in reincarnation. Turns out he tried out hypnosis on Julianna to take her back in time, and let’s just say…it worked! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roz Hernandez, host of her own podcast “Ghosted!” and co-host of “Living for the Dead” on Hulu, brings the fun to Rachel and Irene in a meeting of the woo woo minds! Hear her discuss the creepy Ouija board she took home from a vintage shop, as well as the hilarious world of haunted dolls for sale on eBay! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Writer and improviser Ali Davis has an extra talent—reading Tarot cards. Ali shares different approaches to the cards, and does a reading too! Plus, a creepy tale from a cursed LA apartment building involving…a smoky orb. That’s pretty woo woo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor/writer/director James Morosini (“I Love My Dad,” “Sex Lives of College Girls”) joins Woo Woo to talk about a 10-day silent retreat he did. Listen in so you can hear his takeaways and keep talking all you want! You’ll also hear about his father the trickster, who inspired his first film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know Jesse Tyler Ferguson as a TV star and Tony-winning actor. But he was once an aspiring teen who saw a Broadway show he loved so much, he vowed to one day work with the writer and director. Listen in to find out if he MANIFESTED! Also, a chat on what personality traits get passed down from your DNA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel and Irene are joined by Derek Hayes, host of the popular podcast "Monsters Among Us." Derek has both experienced and heard his own share of paranormal stories over the years; he shares a highlight reel of sorts, and well, Bigfoot enters the chat! But never in all your days did you dream of hearing a Bigfoot story quite like this. You’ll have images in your head that you may not shake anytime soon. Trust us, it will be weird and fun! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve got ghosts! While chatting at a school field day Rachel discovered fellow mom Lauren Robins has not one but THREE ghost stories, all from various phases of her life. Join to hear her fascinating tales, which culminate in a phone call from…the Other Side! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actually, we are not believers in this ol’ cliche. However, Frank Conniff’s tale of how his intervention led to first big job (on "Mystery Science Theater") is an interesting look into how we view the adversity in our lives. Plus, a special investigative report on how Penjy the Pendulum cursed Rachel’s vacation! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seth drops by to chat with Rachel about their days together back on SNL, and where he is on the Woo Woo scale of believing. He starts at a 1 but Rachel and Irene are determined to get him to at least an 8 by the end of the show. Plus, Seth discusses the idea of emotions surrounding nostalgia. Isn’t there a German word for that? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedian, singer, and Broadway performer Rick Younger got into comedy quite by accident, and it turns out a real accident informed his decisions on what to do with the rest of his life. Come join Rachel and Irene as we hear how a brush with danger informed Rick's future choices and made him into the person he is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artist Rachel Feinstein joins the show to share the literal fairy-tale story of how she met her husband, during her live-in art installation. Plus, we talk Jungian psychology and using our dreams to do “work” while we are sleeping. Come listen to our woo woo exploration of the art world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedy writer John Solomon (Last Man on Earth, MacGruber) joins the ladies to share the story of his great uncle who survived the Titanic, a gentleman named Washington Dodge. Upon returning home to San Francisco, Mr. Dodge became the subject of rumor and suspicion. And here’s where the story goes woo woo! Let’s just say, his death wasn’t the last the world saw of Washington Dodge… Ostler, Scott. "Ghost of Titanic Survivor Haunts Cellar on Nob Hill." SFGATE. Dec 2, 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Broadway star Lilli Cooper talks to Rachel & Irene about their life path numbers, reveals their Hogwarts house predictions, and tells them about a familial miracle that occurred in her devout Catholic ancestry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Will Ferrell joins Rachel to reminisce about their time together on SNL and then get into the woo woo of it all. He shares his ingenious system for reading horoscopes and an anecdote of how a SIGN brought him onto this podcast. It’s always a delight to hang out with Will, so come listen to his chat with the ladies, and maybe you’ll leave with a tip on how to control your ghost encounters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is it possible to talk to the animals? Barbara Goodfriend has had this ability since she was a young child. She even reads Rachel’s dog Ruffles and recounts stories of creatures large and small. But before we get started with Barbara, Rachel talks to her old pal Esther about the time she used a pet psychic to locate a lost mouse named Catalina. It doesn’t get much more woo woo than that! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Broadway’s own Julie White joins Rachel and Irene to talk about the meaning of dreams and a particular dream of hers that predicted a slice of her future. Did Julie bend the space/time continuum? Well, we’d like to think so! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedy legend Amy Sedaris joins Rachel and Irene to regale them with tales of ghosts, mediums and dream visitations. Amy thinks she will make a fun ghost someday and we had so much fun talking to her, we have to agree! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Award-winning documentary filmmaker (and long-time friend of Rachel’s) Ricki Stern joins the ladies to talk about what she learned doing her Netflix documentary series “Surviving Death,” as well as her CNN series “UFO’s: Investigating the Unknown.” Near-death experiences, reincarnation, mediums, UFO’s - oh it’s all there! Does consciousness exist outside the brain? Duuude, we still don’t know but we had fun talking about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For someone who studies the heavens, Aliza Kelly is very down to earth. Recurring guest astrologer on The Drew Barrymore show, Aliza interprets Rachel and Irene's charts and answers all the burning questions you may have about astrology. But will she answer Rachel’s question of which sign is the biggest a-hole? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Broadway veteran Christopher Fitzgerald (Spamalot, Waitress) joins the show to share a tale from his childhood, a genuinely creepy ghost story that takes place on an island in Maine. Gasps! Chills! Suspense! Stephen King didn’t cook this one up but he may wish he did… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Renowned make-up artist Carmindy (What Not to Wear) joins Woo Woo to talk about her strange experience in the middle of the night in a Dublin Hotel. Plus, she discusses a few woo woo workshops she attended that actually make a lot of sense in their healing ideas. Hey, some woo woo actually carries a lot of wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nia Vardalos from My Big Fat Greek Wedding (1, 2 AND 3!) stops by Woo Woo to talk to Rachel and Irene (in Greek of course) about her uncanny ability to predict her own life events. It’s pretty cool and may just want to make you run out and get a Moleskine notebook of your own! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor and comedian Suzy Nakamura (Dead to Me, Avenue 5… and POTUS on Broadway) joins Rachel and Irene this week to discuss looking for signs, a cursed apartment, and her experiences with mediums who don’t quite reach the beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedian and commentator John Fugelsang joins Rachel and Irene to discuss what he saw in the night sky in a remote area of Peru. And yes, he was sober! He’s also seen Uri Geller bend a spoon and chatted with Shirley MacLaine. But he scares Irene the most with a story about his kitchen cabinets. Tune in to hear all about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You know Vanessa Williams as a beautiful actor and singer. But did you know she has all sorts of woo woo tales? Join Rachel and Irene as they discuss Vanessa’s haunted house and the time she had an “expert” come in to determine with whom she was sharing her home! They also talk pet psychics, past lives… the list goes on! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here’s a quick little mini episode where Rachel and Irene conduct some woo woo field research. Back next week with a full episode after the holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ok, this story is our creepiest yet. Join Rachel and Irene as they talk to writer and actor Liz Cackowski. Liz has the unenviable tale of being haunted by an evil spirit who came into her room every night when she was 15 years old. But when the year was over, the ghost mysteriously stopped. And, like all the best stories on Woo Woo…THERE’S A TWIST! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor Thomas Lennon from The State and Reno 911 joins Rachel and Irene to share his various ghost stories. Some are funny. (If someone knowingly sells you a haunted house and you see them at a party, is it awkward?) And some, like the story of a special child, are quite moving. Thomas runs the gamut of the eerie and unexplained, here on Woo Woo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Rachel and Irene as they welcome Rachel’s old pal Tina Fey to the show! After chatting about their days together in the Chicago improv scene, Tina shares some woo woo tales of her own – ghost stories from the little town of Cape May, NJ. And to Rachel’s delight, Tina will tell them in the local accent! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you believe in past lives? Join Rachel’s friend Michael Thomas, who did a past life regression and came out quoting Shakespeare and more! There’s also the time Rachel brought a Ouija board over and they summoned a singing spirit. Oh, there’s all kinds of woo woo in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actor and writer Craig Chester joins Rachel and Irene for a tale about the time he met a fellow who could astral project to Chicago, Europe, and beyond. We’re talking way beyond! Craig’s fascinating tale will make you question time, space, and lobsters. Tune in to hear it all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode Rachel shares her own ghost story, the story that was a major factor in her own woo woo journey. Back in 2006 she stayed in a hotel in LA for a month and experienced…nightly visitors. Some seemed harmless enough but one, not so much. Years later Rachel happened to meet the hotel’s concierge and was astounded by what she heard! So check in yourself to Rachel’s hotel ghost story, on Woo Woo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachel catches up with her old pal Ana as they reminisce about their time together on SNL, then move to the topic of picking up on energy. Ana shares the incident when her husband was this close to renting a house, but her vibes said “No way!” and, she later discovered…with good reason! Then later…did Ana really see a ghost? Tune in to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join Rachel and Irene as they talk to Rachel’s pal Tara, who shares her story about... time travel. YES WE SAID TIME TRAVEL! A vivid dream that takes Tara into the past turns into reality as she learns that what she saw there can actually be corroborated. Things get stranger and stranger from there! This story might just blow your mind and make you a believer in all things woo woo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We love visiting with Lea DeLaria, and, apparently so do ghosts! They love her! Join Lea, star of “Orange is the New Black” and the Broadway stage, as she shares her stories of haunted hotels with Rachel and Irene. Just think! The next time you are lying in a hotel bed and hear “tap tap tap tap tap” it might be housekeeping, or it just might be a ghost. Mwah ha ha haaaa… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amy joins Rachel to talk about their showbiz beginnings together in Chicago and then moves on to the world of woo woo. While Amy is a self-proclaimed skeptic about ghosts, it turns out she is way into the enneagram, manifesting, and…crystals? Hey! Maybe she’s more woo woo than she first thought! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Broadway star Kevin Cahoon gets woo woo with Rachel and her co-host Irene to talk about his ghostly sighting...with a twist! But that’s not all! Rachel shares her experience with an eerily accurate channeler and a bonus ghost sighting comes up in conversation…with photographic proof? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join comedian Rachel Dratch as she gets a little Woo Woo, discussing stories of the unexplained, the eerie and other-worldly. Rachel has gathered these tales from her funny friends over the years and invites you to listen in to the stories they may only tell to a trusted pal who will not judge. Psychics? Spirits? Astral Projection? Check, check, and check! Sure, we may live in a completely rational world where there’s no such thing as any of this stuff, but after you spend some time with Rachel, her co-host Irene Bremis, and pals, you might have your doubts, and find that… you too are WOO WOO! ~~ Follow Rachel Dratch on Instagram: @raedratch Twitter: @therealdratch ~~ Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch is brought to you by QCODE. To advertise on the show, contact us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices