The Higherside Chats Seriah Azkath | The Paranormal Subculture, High Strangeness, & Magical Practice
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Aug 20, 2025 Seriah Aszkath, host of the paranormal show Where Did The Road Go? and a longtime metal music presenter, dives deep into the intricacies of the paranormal subculture. They discuss the evolution of paranormal podcasts and the tensions within the community, including issues of plagiarism. Aszkath shares personal experiences with prophetic insights and the narrative complexities surrounding UFO phenomena. He also explores the challenges of interviewing figures in ufology and the importance of community dynamics in unraveling high strangeness experiences.
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Interviewing With Depth Wins
- Seriah Aszkath built a long-running paranormal platform by asking deep questions and letting guests explain their work.
- He modeled his approach on hosts who read guests' books and avoided shallow, lowest-common-denominator interviews.
Falling Out Over Missing 411 Claims
- Seriah described falling out with David Paulides over accusations and omitted case details he discovered.
- He found digitized newspapers revealing some missing-person cases were solved or misreported, which disillusioned him.
Wilderness Poltergeist Concept
- Seriah and colleagues reframed some Bigfoot cases as 'wilderness poltergeist' due to poltergeist-like effects in woods.
- Similar phenomena (knocking, rocks, mimicry) appear both indoors and outdoors, suggesting a behavior-based classification.
