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November 3, 2024
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Long-time Paranormal Investigator James Creachbaum Warns of the Dangers of Such Phenomena on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz take you on a fascinating, sometimes frightening journey through the strange and the unknown with James Creachbaum (Doctor J.C.), who has been investigating the paranormal for over 30 years all over the U.S. He says there is nothing in the field that he hasn’t seen or done to help people with paranormal problems. The “Paranormal Doctor” retired from boots on the ground helping people in 2019, and has been on cable TV shows and paranormal radio shows. His experiences include participating in exorcisms, closing spirit portals, detaching spirits from people and objects. James has seen spirits since a very young age. Over the years, he has helped paranormal teams and families with paranormal problems, and he tries to educate people on the dangers of messing with this field. James is the Monday host on Night Dreams Talk Radio Network which airs at 9 pm Eastern with guests covering all things paranormal. His website: jcthehitmanshow.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on subscribers on November 3: “Paranormal Doctor” James Creachbaum continues his exploration of the sometimes frightening, dangerous world of the paranormal. He talks with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about such topics as the process of conducting an exorcism, the possible consequences of a paranormal date, and the overall dangers of exploring the unknown and bringing forth evil entities. James (also known as Doctor J.C.), has been investigating the paranormal for over 30 years all over the U.S. He says there is nothing in the field that he hasn’t seen or done to help people with paranormal problems. The “Paranormal Doctor” retired from boots on the ground helping people in 2019, and has been on cable TV shows and paranormal radio shows. James has seen spirits since a very young age. He is the Monday host on Night Dreams Talk Radio Network which airs at 9 pm Eastern with guests covering all things paranormal. His website: jcthehitmanshow.com
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There Sure is a Lot of Strange Stuff Going On
By Gene Steinberg
Having followed the paranormal mess since childhood — so very long ago — I’ve read about literally thousands of cases. Many involve UFOs, but others involve possible ghosts, cryptids and other weird creatures, and let’s not forget those so-called hitchhiker effects.
Thousands of books have been published worldwide on these subjects. Some of those books merely relate the most fascinating paranormal stories, cases that appear to be unexplainable with little connection to what most of us regard as the real world. Others attempt to provide answers as to the sources of such phenomena.
And I haven’t begun to consider magazines and other publications on these subjects. Some are just two-page newsletters, while a few, such as the late Flying Saucer Review from the UK, released many issues on expensive, slick paper. Indeed, I produced one issue of my magazine, Caveat Emptor, on slick paper. Except that, partly as a result, we ran out of money and had to halt publication for a number of years.
In any case, I won’t even begin to estimate how many people around the world have confronted the unknown. It is quite possibly millions of people from all walks of life. The paranormal doesn’t appear to discriminate on the basis of class, income, or any specific human factors.
On the other hand, some people literally grow up exposed to the strange and the unknown. They dimly recall strange beings nearby when they were toddlers, though I wonder just how many people can remember events that far back, at a time when they could barely say no more than a few words.
My childhood memories are vague. I do recall lying in a crib, hearing the sounds of people in the living room (I presumed), and feeling unhappy. My next memories involve spending a few days vacationing in New York’s Catskills when I was maybe five or six years old.
My interest in the paranormal specifically involved flying saucers, having read Major Donald Keyhoe’s “Flying Saucers From Outer Space” at the tender age of 11. I was hooked.
But with all that strange stuff going on around me, it’s not that I was necessarily rewarded with such experiences.
Well, let me amend that. There was a time where, over a few weeks, I had frequent nightmares about large dark “things” speeding rapidly towards me. I was probably nine or ten years old, and I would always wake up in a cold sweat. At the time, I compared the look to the awning in front of an apartment building located around the corner. In those years, I lived in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY.
Around the same time I began to sense the odor of burning sulfur when walking around the neighborhood. It may have just been a sinus-related thing, but most of you know how such odors may signal the presence of a paranormal encounter. And let’s not forget those nightmares.
It did seem that both the nightmares and the pungent odors disappeared at around the same time.
Then there was that time, in my mid-2os, when my first wife, Geneva, woke me up at around 3:00 AM to tell me she had seen what she called a “water elemental.”
Except that, when I asked her about the experience a few years back, she had no memory of it. So maybe we did live in two different worlds, but isn’t that true of most people?
While I have been mostly out of the loop when it comes to experiencing the paranormal, that’s not true about other people. Some of you have loads of experiences to talk about. Maybe you shared them with friends or family. Maybe you were all alone, hoping against hope that someone else would come along and assure you that you weren’t just seeing things.
The usual explanations for such phenomena are favored by most people. Flying saucers, UFOs, UAPs or whatever you want to call them, are likely visitors from other planets. Sightings of various sorts of entities, from humanoid to insect-like, also seem to buttress that view.
Ghosts? Surely visions of the after life, where people who have died and not yet entered “the light” hang around for reasons best known to themselves. The concept has also fueled plenty of fiction. One popular example is the 1990 film “Ghost,” where a banker, portrayed by Patrick Swayze, stumbles upon a shady business deal staged by his business partner, portrayed by Tony Goldwyn, and is soon murdered.
But rather than just go on to his ultimate “reward,” he becomes a restless spirit that tries to find out who killed him and why, and perhaps save his girlfriend (Demi Moore) from a similar fate. While on his quest, he can only been seen and heard by a previously fake psychic (Whoopi Goldberg).
That’s the common meme of ghost phenomena. The spirit has a task that must be fulfilled before going to heaven — or wherever. By the way, “Ghost” was directed by Jerry Zucker, best known as one of the three directors of the classic comedy film, “Airplane.”
But what about Bigfoot and other strange creatures? Are they missing links, remnants of a species that no longer exists in large numbers, or possible drop-ins from other dimensions?
As I said, these represent the common views of such phenomena. For the most part, you have to be in the right — or wrong — place when it happens. Or maybe not, because same people report a lifetime of such encounters, almost as if some mysterious Force is following them around for reasons best known to themselves, or perhaps no reason at all. And even when strange beings communicate their motives to the percipients, there’s no reason to believe them.
That ET, for example, is concerned about the human penchant for violence, and warns the experiencer about it, it’s not as if they actually care about doing anything to deal with the situation.
Now most people who have had encounters with the unknown never tell anyone about it, except, in some cases, to family members, friends, or fellow employees.
Consider the late UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, who lectured worldwide on the topic. It was a common occurrence at his lectures for him to ask his audience whether they had seen a flying saucer. A decent number would raise their hands. But when they were asked if they reported the sighting to anyone, most of those hands went down.
So there you are. One thing is certain: We live in a paranormal world where lots of strange and sometimes frightening things occur. There are plenty of investigators around trying to figure it all out.
But, alas, it’s fair to conclude that they aren’t making much progress. At least we have lots to talk about, but I long ago gave up hope for any final answers to these incredible mysteries.
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November 3, 2024
www.theparacast.com
Long-time Paranormal Investigator James Creachbaum Warns of the Dangers of Such Phenomena on The Paracast!
The Paracast is released every Sunday and available from our site, https://www.theparacast.com, your favorite podcast app, and the IRN Internet Radio Network. All episodes from 2022, 2023 and 2024 now feature better audio and fewer ads. We are also re-releasing some of our most popular classic episodes.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to an exclusive bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus a special version of The Paracast with all the ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Episodes are now released 12-24 hours earlier. Flash! Take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz take you on a fascinating, sometimes frightening journey through the strange and the unknown with James Creachbaum (Doctor J.C.), who has been investigating the paranormal for over 30 years all over the U.S. He says there is nothing in the field that he hasn’t seen or done to help people with paranormal problems. The “Paranormal Doctor” retired from boots on the ground helping people in 2019, and has been on cable TV shows and paranormal radio shows. His experiences include participating in exorcisms, closing spirit portals, detaching spirits from people and objects. James has seen spirits since a very young age. Over the years, he has helped paranormal teams and families with paranormal problems, and he tries to educate people on the dangers of messing with this field. James is the Monday host on Night Dreams Talk Radio Network which airs at 9 pm Eastern with guests covering all things paranormal. His website: jcthehitmanshow.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on subscribers on November 3: “Paranormal Doctor” James Creachbaum continues his exploration of the sometimes frightening, dangerous world of the paranormal. He talks with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about such topics as the process of conducting an exorcism, the possible consequences of a paranormal date, and the overall dangers of exploring the unknown and bringing forth evil entities. James (also known as Doctor J.C.), has been investigating the paranormal for over 30 years all over the U.S. He says there is nothing in the field that he hasn’t seen or done to help people with paranormal problems. The “Paranormal Doctor” retired from boots on the ground helping people in 2019, and has been on cable TV shows and paranormal radio shows. James has seen spirits since a very young age. He is the Monday host on Night Dreams Talk Radio Network which airs at 9 pm Eastern with guests covering all things paranormal. His website: jcthehitmanshow.com
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
There Sure is a Lot of Strange Stuff Going On
By Gene Steinberg
Having followed the paranormal mess since childhood — so very long ago — I’ve read about literally thousands of cases. Many involve UFOs, but others involve possible ghosts, cryptids and other weird creatures, and let’s not forget those so-called hitchhiker effects.
Thousands of books have been published worldwide on these subjects. Some of those books merely relate the most fascinating paranormal stories, cases that appear to be unexplainable with little connection to what most of us regard as the real world. Others attempt to provide answers as to the sources of such phenomena.
And I haven’t begun to consider magazines and other publications on these subjects. Some are just two-page newsletters, while a few, such as the late Flying Saucer Review from the UK, released many issues on expensive, slick paper. Indeed, I produced one issue of my magazine, Caveat Emptor, on slick paper. Except that, partly as a result, we ran out of money and had to halt publication for a number of years.
In any case, I won’t even begin to estimate how many people around the world have confronted the unknown. It is quite possibly millions of people from all walks of life. The paranormal doesn’t appear to discriminate on the basis of class, income, or any specific human factors.
On the other hand, some people literally grow up exposed to the strange and the unknown. They dimly recall strange beings nearby when they were toddlers, though I wonder just how many people can remember events that far back, at a time when they could barely say no more than a few words.
My childhood memories are vague. I do recall lying in a crib, hearing the sounds of people in the living room (I presumed), and feeling unhappy. My next memories involve spending a few days vacationing in New York’s Catskills when I was maybe five or six years old.
My interest in the paranormal specifically involved flying saucers, having read Major Donald Keyhoe’s “Flying Saucers From Outer Space” at the tender age of 11. I was hooked.
But with all that strange stuff going on around me, it’s not that I was necessarily rewarded with such experiences.
Well, let me amend that. There was a time where, over a few weeks, I had frequent nightmares about large dark “things” speeding rapidly towards me. I was probably nine or ten years old, and I would always wake up in a cold sweat. At the time, I compared the look to the awning in front of an apartment building located around the corner. In those years, I lived in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY.
Around the same time I began to sense the odor of burning sulfur when walking around the neighborhood. It may have just been a sinus-related thing, but most of you know how such odors may signal the presence of a paranormal encounter. And let’s not forget those nightmares.
It did seem that both the nightmares and the pungent odors disappeared at around the same time.
Then there was that time, in my mid-2os, when my first wife, Geneva, woke me up at around 3:00 AM to tell me she had seen what she called a “water elemental.”
Except that, when I asked her about the experience a few years back, she had no memory of it. So maybe we did live in two different worlds, but isn’t that true of most people?
While I have been mostly out of the loop when it comes to experiencing the paranormal, that’s not true about other people. Some of you have loads of experiences to talk about. Maybe you shared them with friends or family. Maybe you were all alone, hoping against hope that someone else would come along and assure you that you weren’t just seeing things.
The usual explanations for such phenomena are favored by most people. Flying saucers, UFOs, UAPs or whatever you want to call them, are likely visitors from other planets. Sightings of various sorts of entities, from humanoid to insect-like, also seem to buttress that view.
Ghosts? Surely visions of the after life, where people who have died and not yet entered “the light” hang around for reasons best known to themselves. The concept has also fueled plenty of fiction. One popular example is the 1990 film “Ghost,” where a banker, portrayed by Patrick Swayze, stumbles upon a shady business deal staged by his business partner, portrayed by Tony Goldwyn, and is soon murdered.
But rather than just go on to his ultimate “reward,” he becomes a restless spirit that tries to find out who killed him and why, and perhaps save his girlfriend (Demi Moore) from a similar fate. While on his quest, he can only been seen and heard by a previously fake psychic (Whoopi Goldberg).
That’s the common meme of ghost phenomena. The spirit has a task that must be fulfilled before going to heaven — or wherever. By the way, “Ghost” was directed by Jerry Zucker, best known as one of the three directors of the classic comedy film, “Airplane.”
But what about Bigfoot and other strange creatures? Are they missing links, remnants of a species that no longer exists in large numbers, or possible drop-ins from other dimensions?
As I said, these represent the common views of such phenomena. For the most part, you have to be in the right — or wrong — place when it happens. Or maybe not, because same people report a lifetime of such encounters, almost as if some mysterious Force is following them around for reasons best known to themselves, or perhaps no reason at all. And even when strange beings communicate their motives to the percipients, there’s no reason to believe them.
That ET, for example, is concerned about the human penchant for violence, and warns the experiencer about it, it’s not as if they actually care about doing anything to deal with the situation.
Now most people who have had encounters with the unknown never tell anyone about it, except, in some cases, to family members, friends, or fellow employees.
Consider the late UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, who lectured worldwide on the topic. It was a common occurrence at his lectures for him to ask his audience whether they had seen a flying saucer. A decent number would raise their hands. But when they were asked if they reported the sighting to anyone, most of those hands went down.
So there you are. One thing is certain: We live in a paranormal world where lots of strange and sometimes frightening things occur. There are plenty of investigators around trying to figure it all out.
But, alas, it’s fair to conclude that they aren’t making much progress. At least we have lots to talk about, but I long ago gave up hope for any final answers to these incredible mysteries.
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