ISIS Paranormal Radio, Justin Blair, and Matthew Vincent

Documentary film directors Justin Blair and Matthew Vincent will be joining us tonight to discuss the creation of their independent film Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania. The film is a documentary on the Romanian strigoi, ghosts, and forest spirits. Justin and Matthew are American film makers that traveled to Romania to create their latest production to interview the local people and to collect and compile the legends and lore of the people related to vampires and supernatural happenings. Matthew Vincent and Justin Blair traveled to the west of the Carpathian Mountains in Romania to find out about Romanian supernatural beliefs. While the team was aware of the eerie reputation of Transylvania attributed to Bram Stoker and Dracula, they found the lore of the region much more exciting. The film makers documented stories about the strigoi, a creature with similar characteristics to the vampire, but also having characteristics similar to ghosts. The film examines countless strigoi reports, reports of strange abductions, reports on pricolici (a weredog), and more. After returning from Transylvania where the film was shot, the team faced more than forty hours of footage that required translation.