@grimmlifecollective joins us in the Crypt for Episode 10, unveiling their journey from early struggles to iconic moments at horror conventions, and their ventures into the grim side of culture across the globe. Join us as we explore their artistic process, the emotional toll of delving into true crime, and their encounters with the paranormal. We’ll discuss the difficulties of covering cases like Ted Bundy, Michael’s harrowing near-death encounter, and a haunting glimpse of a real apparition. Afterlife theories, ghostly experiences, the magic of movies / filming locations, eerie adventures, and more!
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00:00 – Intro
01:29 – Destined Paths, How Michael & Jessica Met
03:54 – The Essence of Grimmlife Collective: The Travel Channel of Horror
05:18 – Tracing the Roots of Fear, exploring where Michael and Jessica’s fascination with fear began
09:28 – RL Stine’s Mysterious Gift to Michael and Jessica
12:02 – The early days: How Grimmlife started as a blog and transitioned to YouTube
13:40 – How Jessica became an integral part of Grimmlife Collective
15:50 – You never get used to being on camera
18:45 – One-Take Wonders: The Grimmlife Filming Process and Michael’s Computer Brain
23:49 – How Michael and Jessica Collaborate on Ideas
29:05 – Jessica wasn’t always Grimmlife’s co-host, “the nitty gritty”
31:57 – Overcoming challenges and almost quitting: The early struggles of starting a channel
35:29 – A Full-Circle Moment, Bridging the gap of the internet and horror conventions
36:59 – From interviewing celebs at horror cons, to being first YouTubers at conventions
40:11 – Exploring dark travels and history: The grim side of culture in the U.S. and abroad
43:36 – A mysterious trip to a German town that doesn’t exist and visiting the Nosferatu (1922) filming locations
48:12 – Keeping content fresh and the challenges of recreating movie magic
53:46 – Stanley Kubrick built an exact replica of The Ahwahnee for The Shining
55:12 – Addressing Shelley Duvall Controversy and Producing a new horror film “The Forest Hills”
1:01:42 – Getting kicked out of locations
1:07:08 – The delicate balance of exploring sensitive locations and where to draw the line
1:14:46 – Discussing the emotional toll of covering cases like Ted Bundy’s
1:20:09 – The complexities of covering sensitive murder cases like Ed Gein and Albert Fish
1:23:07 – Do Michael and Jessica believe in the paranormal? Insights from real experiences.
1:27:41 – Ghostly encounters and the history behind Grimmlife’s ghost tours
1:32:00 – The Haunting of The Old Sorrel Weed House, Michael shows a photo of him with a real apparition
1:33:23 – Questioning the validity of ghost stories and what it takes to believe
1:36:10 – Modern ghost hunting shows and their authenticity
1:40:01 – Jessica opens up about her sensitivity to paranormal activity
1:44:05 – Michael’s Near Death Experience and Insane Ghost Story
1:50:31 – Contemplating the afterlife: Theories and beliefs
1:54:45 – The Functionality of Horror – Lovecraft vs. King
1:58:32 – Michael almost became a catholic priest but was kicked out of the church
2:01:15 – Grimmlife Hits Hollywood – Moving to LA, when this became a real career
2:14:11 – LA’s Impact on Grimmlife Collective
2:19:37 – Richard Ramirez causes Michael and Jessica to change their residence
2:24:03 – Identifying the moment Grimmlife’s channel ascended to new heights
2:26:24 – Horror’s Inner Circle, Entering the Convention Scene, and Dealing With Inner Politics of the Industry
2:30:35 – The Grimmlife Philosophy, Embracing the Dark
2:36:29 – Outro
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34:29 So many picture frame moments in this AMAZINGLY in-depth interview. We love Michael's 'old fogie stogie' moment, imitating chomping down on a cigar. Suh-MOKIN'! 🚬🔥❤🔥
We adore that this podcast features CLIPS of moments that both Michael and Jessica describe–ILLUSTRATING what is said, engaging the viewer to seek out those episodes! Great!
1:23:12 Actually, the 'Clairs' can be split 6 ways: Clairvoyance (sight), Clairaudience (hearing), Clairsentience (the 'feels'), Claircognizance (knowing), Clairgustance (taste), and Clairailience (smell). Jessica's fine-tuned sense of empathy is Clairsentient–a quality that villains such as murderers entirely lack.
1:41:42 Further: the 'images' Jessica receives in her head = Clairvoyance; the information/data in her mental download? That's Claircognizance–not knowing how you know…You Just KNOW.
1L42L20 Every one of us has Spirit Guides, invisibly on hand to instruct, to protect, and to wallop us upside the head when we're getting it wrong. For whatever reason, Jessica's Guide(s) were providing information that either she, or those she was giving it to, needed to hear, at that moment. ('Proof', being a very personal thing–this would qualify as such.)
1:43:34 The presenter of this podcast ABSOLUTELY nails it here. (Sir: impeccable interview, imho. You let them speak without interruption, ask thought-provoking questions, and offer suggestions that are on point, as you do here. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎬Bravo! May your channel flourish!)
1:49:23 Michael receives a vision that shocks him so much, that it necessitates a medical intervention: IF THAT HADN'T TAKEN PLACE, HE WOULD HAVE DIED. The follow-up was the golden ghost of his grandmother, soothing him with an EGBOK message. It is amusing to discover that both Grimms continue to be skeptical of the 'Other Side', when they are continually reminded that this is where we come from. As Jessica says: 'the veil is very thin'. It is, indeed.
2:14:42 El Ay DOES have four seasons, and here they are: Drought, Fire, Pestilence and 'Plague' (earthquakes and tremors).
1:29:36 and 1:30:36 are remarkable images…
2:35:00 do you think, in the latter photograph (1:30:36), that the 'Lady Sorrell' ghost was imitating Jessica's 'hair-sniffing' tactic? If that was a 'thing' for Jessica in Savannah, Georgia, at that time, then imitation by the See-Through Grey Ghost is the sincerest form of paranormal flattery! 🤔💭
I love these guys! My husband and I love watching their videos together 😊🖤💀🦇🕸️
Hey Baby Ghoul Jessica is from right near me! So cool
I'm here bc of GLC 💀🎃… their videos are relaxing to me, intelligent, extremely thoughtful. Love the rules, they're working for a variety of people. Well done.
Michael I like your teeth. I need to get new teeth and I'm missing the ones in front. I have a 7/10 split. You can see why. Well it's looks. ❤
As a child remembering the night Stalker in the 1980's and my next store neighbor Mark Olivas saying that the night stalker liked yellow colored houses, and guess what when my grandmother Ruby house was the color yellow. In between the mid1980's through the early 1990's my friend Mark Olivas who was also my next store neighbor turned off the lights attached to the garage there was a back den room where I saw a shadow of someone holding a knife in the window but a sheet was covering my view that could have been one of Mark's older brothers friends named Raymond. Your friend, Stephen Perry
My Grandmother Ruby Jones who used to live in Oklahoma (maiden name) had an event that happened in her life back in November 1932 when her mother name Emma who could of had her eighth child that could have been a boy but the doctor give my great grandmother Emma something to Quicken the child birth and my grandmother Ruby remembers her mothers eyes rolling back into her head and my grandmother Ruby at the time being 14 of age at the time screamed had what happened to her mother. My grandmother Ruby had a dream about my mother after her mother Emma passing telling her not to touch her in a rocking chair or she will disappear. Your Brother-in-Christ, Stephen Perry
Here is something that I remembered as a Senior when attending West High School in Torrance, California an Economic class teacher telling about her experiences of an elderly woman ghost in the closet where she used to live and appearing as a ghost. Another time my mother friend who we thought like as a family member named Uncle Philip Rothschild who were both trying to have a ghost be released into the afterlife. What the difference between a ghost that can communicate and reoccurrence of certain timeline events that happened when a ghost shows up during a tragic event in time? Your friend, Stephen Perry
In my youth I remember watching Tales from the Crypt and I enjoyed the Victorian Mansion miniature at start of the show from the early 1990's based on the 1950's comic book series from E.C. Classics and it would be really cool to own a 3-D comic book from that time era presented in Anaglyph. There was also something I research that also a comic book from 1950's that was about Edgar Cayce that I also like to own a comic book from June 1954 titled, "House of Mystery" Give Edgar Cayce this title, "America's Most Mysterious Man!" Found that information in a book titled, " Edgar Cayce on Atlantis" based on my notes dated, 2-26-2015 in my Atlantis Folder. My father William Thomas Perry took a class at El Camino College in the 1960's and remembers one of the Instructor mentioning the name Edgar Cayce, and he bought a book called, "There is a River" I remember when my father used to talk about Atlantis when I was at the age of 12 years old.Your friend, Stephen Perry
Can't believe how good this interview is. Great all around. This will make Grimm fans love and respect this couple and channel even more.
Spooky Spooky yall ❤
Love these guys they're so down to earth and true to themselves. And now they've brought me to your channel so really looking forward to watching more of your content!
If anyone takes Ghost adventures seriously… I cannot take them seriously
I love the Grimm. Probably my favorite channel.
Came as a Grimm life loyalist… Subscribed because the host asked great questions and actually let his subjects answer them. (The rad set helped too) Looking forward to more!
great interview thank you
What happened to the first woman he made videos with? I don't remember her name, but she had black hair.
Damn they (hospital) had my mom on 4 mg of Haldol For alcohol withdrawal she was hallucinating before the medication medication actually made her normal I was disappointed when they stopped it and the 4 mg was a lot
This Grandma Boomer LOVES Grimm life collective
Looked up the why files and your channel got recommended. Absolutely awesome. Definitely subscribed
beautiful chat between brilliant people, greetings from Italy⭐
Love them. This interview was fantastic. Everyone came to slllaaayyyyyy!!!!
Just FYI, there is no eternal burning hell. That’s Catholic doctrine. The thought of someone being tortured for eternity while others in heaven are living a happy life with God is crazy. There’s no such thing as an endless-suffering hell. God would NEVER do that. 💚💚💚
Boring
Long time viewer of grimlife its really nice to see Jessica in this light i didnt realise she had adhd it was nice to hear her talk about it and it explained a lot i defiantly will view in a different way now i know these details. New sub to your channel aswell
Came here for the Grimm Life collective but I like some of your other videos. I'm looking forward to exploring more of your podcast.
This is great!
NGL I've never watched a YT video this long before (although it did take me 3 sittings to see it all). Michael and Jess are amazing. I love their channel. They're really respectful of the people and topics that they cover and find interesting ways to explore that I haven't seen before. I absolutely loved their videos from Europe and hope they can visit there again soon.
With people not knowing that Jess hasn't always been on Grimm Life, I didn't know that either until YT started recommending their older videos and got to see Michael's ex. TBH I think it's great that they haven't removed those videos because we get to see how the channel has progressed. Also as a counsellor I would love it if one of my clients told me that this is what they wanted to do for a living. Heck becoming a counsellor in midlife was a huge risk for me but it was my dream and it's hard work starting my own business but it's so worth it. We have to be practical and make money to live but the responsibilities of life need to be balanced out with the enjoyment of life. Too much of either and things can go downhill.
I also liked what they said about the paranormal. I agree that being a sceptical believer is a great way to approach it. I believe in the paranormal based on my own experiences (and no I don't automatically assume someone is experiencing psychosis if they say they experienced something but try to look at the entirety of their experiences), but I don't just automatically believe other people especially if they're making money off it. Chad Calek has been doing paranormal investigations for decades and he released a film of the evidence he captured over the years. Out of thousands of hours of footage and investigations he has 72 minutes that he couldn't debunk. That's it. I think the majority of paranormal shows are fake and the least interesting are probably the most authentic.
Love that this video popped up in my feed!! I had the absolute pleasure of meeting this amazing couple a few years ago at Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum. They are exactly like they are in their videos. So sweet and amazing. Got my Jessica hug. Great episode and it was awesome hearing their stories 🎉❤
Excellent podcast with one of the most sincere and humble couples to be found on YouTube. Happy Halloween.
I've been watching them for about two years now and idc if the video is 40 minutes or 10 I'm always super excited and satisfied. They're great people with good morals and values. And have tremendous respect for others. That anything they do couldn't possibly be anything but great. Thanks for this video. It was nice to get to know them on a different level.
Been watching Grimlife collective from the beginning ! They go to ALL of my favorite movie locations (many of those places I lived right in the same town and had no idea they were even filmed there ) Happy to see how many other people love them as well . If ya don’t know yet they do an homage to Up All Night where they host movies and talk live . It’s a lot of fun and you should definitely check that out !
Ooooooo lovely!! Absolutely love Mr & Mrs Grimm! ❤️🇬🇧🎃🎃🎃 happy Halloween!
This was completely amazing!
I'm from the Philippines and a big fan of Micheal and Jessica! Cheers to you guys!
Love you two !!! ❤❤
Now that's how you conduct an interview. Watched the entire thing and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ill be sure to catch your next podcast.
I am so happy for Grimmlifecollective.
You two are both so awesome, and I love, LOVE the work you, Michael and Jessica do.
I look so forward to each and every video/story you do
HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Brilliant. What an insight and back story to this amazingly entertaining couple.. As a Grimm life addict , now I know the collective origins . Thank you. To Mike And Jessica. Just please keep the magic coming. Much love and respect. Edd and Angie.🇬🇧
Awesome interview! Thank you for doing such a wonderful interview. Love GLC;)
My 9 year old shouts "it's the baby ghoul couple" 😂 love these 2 too much ❤
Dear Mr. Cryptkeeper:
Please let the Grimms know about this site, which is on their (current!) home turf in Hollywood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fomQzHe4qy4
The Sassafras Saloon is bang up against Paramount Studios, and incorporates a Georgia house (mansion?) that was shipped cross-country and reassembled within the Saloon, as part of the premises.
I hail from El Ay, and even I have never, ever heard of this place. It is a worthy addition to the Grimm Life canon.
Once again, thank you for your Grimm in-depth interview 🙌🏻🙌🏻 (and for 'pinning' my previous, extended comment, which I only just realized! 😊)!
Fantastic clip. Could listen to another 2 hours!
Glad I watched this. I'm a newer subscriber to grimmlife and I noticed how much Jessica dropped out of the more recent videos than the past ones. Good to have an explanation.