The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return appearance by Mark Olly, an internationally recognized author, TV producer/presenter, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, musician and artist. His recent book, “The Polychronicon of Merlin, Joseph & Arthur,” is real history and archaeology, not just the invention of creative minds. It reveals incidents and characters as they really were, listed in chronological order, leaving the impression that Britain has always been a very different place to the one painted by popular history. Merlin becomes one of an ancient line of Pythagorean scholars and political visionaries, Joseph of Arimathea a religious dissident fleeing persecution and death to far off foreign shores, Arthur a hardened womanizing battle leader who loses his entire family and culture to war and eventually natural disaster. And what about the legendary search for the Holy Grail?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Barbara DeLong and Ken Goudsward to talk about their backgrounds in paranormal research. The main focus of this interview includes Ken’s books on Ancient Astronauts, “UFOs In The Bible” and “Magic In The Bible.” You’ll also learn about the book they co-authored, “Before Roswell: The Secret History of UFOs,” which covers key sightings that range from the original 1947 cases of the modern UFO era way back those from the ancient world. DeLong is an internationally known radio/pod-cast host, spiritual empath, author, artist, lecturer and ordained minister. She has been working professionally in the spiritual field since the early 70’s in addition to being a full time special education teacher and a single parent. Goudsward is a systems analyst with expertise in industrial robotics, software engineering, and data design. He enjoys applying these skills to ancient Hebrew and Sumerian documents and the UFO phenomenon.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present an evening with Robert Davis and Dave Beaty. Davis served as a professor for the State University of New York for over thirty years, where he conducted research in the behavioral and neurosensory sciences. He has published three books: 1) “The UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe?” 2) “Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence” and 3) “Unseen Forces: The Integration of Science, Reality and You.” He also decided to turn his book, “Unseen Forces,” into a documentary called: “The Consciousness Connection” with Emmy Award winner, Dave Beaty of Dreamtime Entertainment. This film includes leading researchers from many disciplines, and is designed to help bridge the gap between science, consciousness, and spirituality by integrating current experimental research and theories with life-changing personal accounts of extraordinary experiences reported by millions worldwide.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present UFO researcher George Wingfield with a possible rational explanation to the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO encounter. His book on the topic is entitled: “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger,” which  examines the incident in considerable detail and reveals what appears to be extraordinary new evidence that proves exactly what this particular “UFO” really was. According to Winfield, previous claims by other authors that this UFO was a visiting alien spacecraft —  or else one piloted by time-traveling humans from Earth’s future— can now be firmly dismissed. He has a BA Hons Degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Dublin and once worked as an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux, UK, and then for many years with IBM UK Ltd in a variety of different roles.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

We present a very special fearless cohost roundtable, featuring Gene, Curt Collins and Tim Swartz. On this episode, we’ll cover the UFO field from the early days to the current Pentagon UAP program, with references to those curious balloons shot down by the U.S. government. After a career in retail management Curt began writing about UFOs, with a special interest in re-investigating the paradoxical 1980 Texas Cash-Landrum case. He is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines , a popular website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. He also runs The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focused on unearthing “tales that UFO history has overlooked, or would rather forget.” Tim is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer and videographer. He is also the author of a number of popular paranormal books, and is the writer and editor of the online newsletter Conspiracy Journal; a free, weekly e-mail newsletter, considered essential reading by paranormal researchers worldwide.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a very special evening with the one-and-only Allen Greenfield. One of the original teen Ufologists from the 1950s and 1960s, Allen is a world traveler and a long-time student of occultism, esoteric spirituality and Gnosticism, a study he began in 1960. A past (elected) member of the British Society for Psychical Research, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), he has twice been the recipient of the “UFOlogist of the Year Award” of the National UFO Conference (1972 and 1992), which ran continuously on an annual basis for 41 years. During this discussion, Allen will focus on the possibilities that UFOs are other than spaceships, perhaps emerging from an alternate reality. He’ll also discuss the legends of ancient astronauts, the theory that advanced extraterrestrials visited Earth more than two thousand years ago and inspired religious mythology. Allen is also one of Gene’s closest friends.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Brian Allan, who became involved in paranormal research as a result of a very early close encounter with the otherworld. So far he has written twelve books, all dealing with various aspects of paranormal in one way or another, and he is currently the editor-in-chief of the well-known international online publication, Phenomena Magazine. Some of his books include: "Heretics: Past and Present: Can We Now Explain the Unexplainable?," "Strange Skies: Strange Eyes: The Paranormal, Ufology and Everyday Magick" and "Project Phenomena: Evaluating the Paranormal." During this interview, he will reveal personal paranormal encounters that date back to his childhood, and discuss key portions of his recent book, "Book of Secrets: Aliens, Ghosts and Ancient Mysteries," published by Flying Disk Press.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz invite you to return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, the dawn of the modern UFO age, with Graeme Rendall discussing his recent book, “Dawn Of The Flying Saucers: Aerial UFO Encounters & Official Investigations 1946-1949.” In addition to being a full time author and a commentator on UFOs, he is also a contributor to the “The Debrief,” an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defense news, and a frequent guest on various podcasts dealing with UAP. He is also a member of UAP Media UK, a group advocating government transparency on the UAP issue. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the Editor of an amateur aviation magazine. Rendall has also written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944, as well as other books dealing with aerial UFO encounters between 1946 and 1954.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce researcher and podcaster  Peter William Shelley. Born in San Jose, California, hey has had an active interest in UFOs and the paranormal since the 1960s. While still a child in 1969, he had a UFO experience that convinced him that the phenomena was absolutely real. In the late 1970s, he moved to Los Angeles and worked in cartoon animation as an artist. Ultimately, he was employed at Hanna-Barbera Studios and worked on such TV series as “The Godzilla Power Hour” and “Jana of the Jungle." An avid listener to podcasts on UFOs and the paranormal, he became dissatisfied with the quality of many shows (except ours of course) and in 2020 started his own podcast on YouTube called “Shadowy Spectrums." His main focus consists of cases outside of the U.S., and he talks about the stories of Ghost Rockets back in the 1940s, and the infamous UMMO UFO hoax that persisted for several decades before its creator exposed it for what it really was.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present an evening with Mason Winfield, who was raised in the suburbs near Buffalo, NY, the only child of a middle-class family. Mason read voraciously in junior high and high school. Fantasy, history, adventure, science fiction, paranormal research, fantastic archaeology. His first book was "Shadows of the Western Door" (1997), paranormal survey of Western New York. “Shadows” features chapters on ancient mysteries (including giant skeletons), earth-energies, famous ghosts, occult societies, alternative cults and religions, Native American supernaturalism, and the mysterious Roycroft community in East Aurora. He has written or edited twelve books, including "Ghosts of 1812," a study of the Niagara war and its folklore (Western New York Wares, 2009), and (with Michael Bastine) "Iroquois Supernatural," a study of the traditions of the Six Longhouse Nations (Inner Traditions International/Bear & Company, 2011). He is a paranormal generalist, more of a historian/folklorist than he is a psychic or a ghost-hunter. He takes the broad field seriously.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-paracast-the-gold-standard-of-paranormal-radio--6203433/support.