Friday Night Frights

Friday Night Frights

Host: M. C. Ashley

Friday Night Frights is here to terrify and instruct you all on the weird, unusual, fascinating, fantastical, and unexplainable things that may or may not lurk out there in the world. Join hosts Christian Ashley (also of Systematic Geekology, Let Nothing Move You, and Why I Don't Like...) and Joe Dea (also of BuddyWalk With Jesus and Kingdom on the Road) as they unpack the countless mysteries of history, the natural world, the supernatural realm, and beyond utilizing a healthy amount of belief and skepticism to ask the hard hitting questions and wrestle with the hard truths of reality. Once...

Episodes

Dialoguing with Joe and Christian about the Nephilim - My Seminary Life
01September 13, 2025 5:00am

Dialoguing with Joe and Christian about the Nephilim - My Seminary Life

Welcome back to My Seminary Life. In today's episode, I am joined by Joe Dea and Christian Ashley of Friday Night Frights to discuss the identity of the Sons of God and Nephilim in Scripture. As we look at various takes on this debate, we…

Friday Night Frights: The Weird and the Unexplained: Did King Arthur Exist?
02May 23, 2025 5:00pm

Friday Night Frights: The Weird and the Unexplained: Did King Arthur Exist?

This month Christian and Joe explore the debate behind the legend and the myth of King Arthur and whether he existed or not? Was there a real Arthur? Is he simply created by ancient fan-fiction? If he did exist what did he actually do? How …

Friday Night Frights: Religious Strangeness: A Former Occultist Talks About Aleister Crowley
03April 18, 2025 5:00pm

Friday Night Frights: Religious Strangeness: A Former Occultist Talks About Aleister Crowley

This month Christian and Joe discuss the controversial and enigmatic man known as the wickedest man in the world: Aleister Crowley. Who is he and what did he believe? What can we learn from his beliefs? Is there anything wrong with them?

Friday Night Frights: Paranormal: Black-Eyed Kids
04March 28, 2025 5:00pm

Friday Night Frights: Paranormal: Black-Eyed Kids

Join Christian and Joe as they delve into the phenomenon behind the appearances of Black-Eyed Children/Kids. Are they real or just a fabrication of the Internet? Could they be demons, vampires, djinn, fairies, or something else?

Friday Night Frights: Cryptozoology: The Chupacabra
05February 21, 2025 4:00pm

Friday Night Frights: Cryptozoology: The Chupacabra

We're back! Christian and Joe explain the reasons for their absence and then get into the mystery of the Chupacabra, disagreeing heavily on what it is, where it came from, and how we best study it. Did the Chupacabra simply appear one day? …

Our Martial Art Horror Movie Pitches - Kung Fu Pizza Party
06December 13, 2024 8:00am

Our Martial Art Horror Movie Pitches - Kung Fu Pizza Party

Welcome to my dojo, this is Kung Fu Pizza Party. In this episode, I am joined again by Christian Ashley to pitch around our own ideas for martial arts based horror movies. Christian impresses us with his knowledge on Japanese folklore, Br…

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Kung Fu Pizza Party
07November 22, 2024 8:00am

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Kung Fu Pizza Party

I am afraid you do not capture vampires. Welcome to my dojo, this is Kung Fu Pizza Party. in today's review, I am joined by author and podcaster Christian Ashley of Why I Don't Like to review the Hammer/Shaw Brothers joint production, The …

Why "Some Joyful Noises"? - Some Joyful Noises
08October 02, 2024 11:00pm

Why "Some Joyful Noises"? - Some Joyful Noises

This is a music podcast with no rhyme, no rhythm, and no reason! But really it's a podcast about community! We have no host, no schedule, and no format! This is a place for the leaders of the Anazao Podcast Network to discuss music and we w…

Friday Night Frights: The Weird and the Unexplained: The Lost Colony of Roanoke
09September 27, 2024 5:00pm

Friday Night Frights: The Weird and the Unexplained: The Lost Colony of Roanoke

On August 18, 1590, three years after he had last been able to reach the area, John White discovered that the colony he had briefly governed was no more. While he had spent years stuck in England attempting to gather supplies, the people of…

The Perron Family Haunting
10September 06, 2024 5:00pm

The Perron Family Haunting

This week, Joe leads the discussion for Christian as they tackle the paranormal hauntings around the Perron Family. While covered in Hollywood under The Conjuring franchise, the real case behind the movies is so much more in-depth and terri…