The Paracast

The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

New episodes of The Paracast are posted every Sunday at 1:30 AM Pacific Time. We are also heard on the IRN Internet Radio Network.

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All episodes from 2022 and later feature better audio and fewer ads: The Paracast — the “gold standard” of paranormal radio — takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot and other strange phenomena have been reported by millions across the globe, and there are personal encounters with other realms such as NDEs. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives. The Paracast asks the questions that others are afraid to touch, and helps to expose the fakers and frauds that sometimes interfere with the serious study of the unknown.

Join long-time paranormal writer and researcher Gene Steinberg, and a team of knowledgeable guest cohosts, including Curt Collins, Tim Swartz and Bob Zanotti, as they present a panel of special guest experts and experiencers to explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories about the amazing history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.

When strange things occur that confound traditional scientific dogma, from strange objects speeding across our skies, to frightening creatures in remote areas of the world, and incredible reports of haunted houses, The Paracast will be there to separate the signal from the noise.

Latest Weekly Episode — April 6: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a special appearance from veteran UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski, who offers a really check about the current state of research into the phenomenon. He has expansive credentials as an investigator and writer, including: contributing editor of International UFO Reporter and was the editor of the Swamp Gas Journal, an occasional Ufozine first published in 1978 when he was part of Decadent Winnipeg Fandom. He is a past-president of the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society and was part of the Winnipeg SF community that gathered Saturdays at the home of the legendary “first fan” Chester Cuthbert. He is also a past-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada — Winnipeg Centre and has degrees in science and education. Chris Rutkowski blogs at: uforum.blogspot.com. Rutkowski also has nine published books, including: Visitations? (1989); Unnatural History (1993); Mysterious Manitoba, co-authored with Dave Creighton and Brian Fidler (1997); Abductions and Aliens (2000); The Canadian UFO Report, co-authored with Geoff Dittman (2006); A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009), The Big Book of UFOs (2010) and When They Appeared, co-authored with Stan Michalak (2019). His last book was Canada’s UFOs — Declassified (2022), and he has been working on a new book.

Coming April 13: Decades before the 1997 sci-fi comedy “Men In Black” launched a multibillion dollar film franchise, a young folklorist, UFO promoter Gray Barker helped to spread the original MIB concept in a book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. The details about Barker’s colorful life is told in Gabriel Mckee’s book, The Saucerian: The Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker (MIT Press). It’s the strange, but true biography of a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century. Known mostly to people in the UFO field, Barker (who died in 1984) was an eccentric literary outsider, filled with ideas that were out of step with the world. An author and unreliable narrator of implausible stories, Barker founded and operated Saucerian Books, an independent publisher of books about flying saucers and other ideas at the fringes of popular discourse. In The Saucerian, Gabriel Mckee tells the fascinating story of Barker’s West Virginia–based press, the unique corpus of materials it published, and how office-copying and self-publishing techniques influenced the spread of paranormal beliefs and conspiratorial worldviews over the last century. Following the development of UFO subculture, Mckee explores the life and career of a larger-than-life hoaxer and originator of pseudoscientific ideas. In return, Gene and cohost Tim Swartz talk about their own encounters with Barker and his friends over the years. This is an episode you won’t want to miss. Gabriel’s site: https://gabrielmckee.com/

After The Paracast: Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Gabriel Mckee, author of The Saucerian: The Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker (MIT Press), returns to discuss how the subject of his book impacted UFO culture over the years. Selling sensationalism and paranoia to his fans, the books released by Barker’s small publishing company covered a variety of UFO-related topics. Speaking with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz, he traces Barker’s life after the early days, how he eventually acquired Saucer News from his pal, editor/publisher Jim Moseley, and soon ran it into the ground. Also discussed is how the ongoing reports of Men In Black essentially did not influence the film franchise, except for the name. Though Barker himself was a skeptic, he viewed the world of occult believers as a source of ongoing entertainment. From his place on the fringes of mid-century American culture, Barker left an unmatched legacy in conspiratorial concepts that have become prominent pop-cultural folklore, that, in addition to the MIB, included Mothman, and the Philadelphia Experiment. As a mastermind behind the fantastical, Barker’s promotional efforts were the precursor to contemporary conspiracism. Gabriel Mckee is the Librarian for Collections and Services at New York University Institute For the Study of the Ancient World. He holds master’s degrees in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and in Library and Information Science from Long Island University. His areas of research include the intersection of theology and popular culture, patristics and church history, parahistoriography, and small press bibliography. Gabriel’s site: https://gabrielmckee.com/

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