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January 26, 2014
Explore Strange and Unknown Events at the Four Corners on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Important — Please Read! In a separate email, Paracast host Gene Steinberg has made a personal appeal for emergency financial assistance. Please check that message for further details. If you’re able to assist, please note that we have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present everyone's favorite crypto-chaser J.C. Johnson. J.C. has been keeping busy with his research into the paranormal, and has quite a number of updates about his various projects and trip reports to reveal since his last visit to the show. You'll hear about the latest sightings of Bigfoot, dog men, possible wolf men and other strange creatures, and J.C.'s ongoing research into these and other strange mysteries.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
J.C. Johnson’s Facebook Page: CRYPTO FOUR CORNERS | Facebook
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Sponsored Message: Don’t get ripped off when you need to liquidate your precious jewelry and silverware. Call Steve at Numis Gems at (480) 878-7678 and get the straight scoop!
About Shape Shifters
By Gene Steinberg
As much as UFOs have captured our imaginations over they years, the ability to make yourself look like someone—or something—else, has really taken the world of entertainment by storm. It’s all about humans being able to turn themselves into other creatures, and sometimes the morphing process isn’t voluntary.
Among the most popular are werewolves, basically men and women who can become wolves, or something with wolf-like characteristics. The traditional legend is that someone has to be turned, usually with a scratch or a bite from one of these creatures, to become a werewolf, but the makeup artists in such classic movies as “The Wolf Man,” in 1941, simply appended wolf-like appendages and a monstrous face onto a human performer.
Later movies, such as “An American Werewolf in London,” released in 1981, depicted a more frightening changeover, quite graphic in fact, designed to make the creature, more wolf-like, all the more terrifying.
I will avoid the pathetic remake of “The Wolf Man,” in 2010, and not just because the screenwriters and director Joe Johnston decided to make Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays the wolf man’s father, the being who turned his own son.
More recent stories about werewolves have offered a more thorough morphing process, usually quite painful. The end result may be an overgrown wolf, or, as depicted in such TV shows as “True Blood” and “Bitten,” a creature that looks perfectly normal in most respects. Well, there are those glowing eyes, of course, to indicate a supernatural creature. Indeed, these creatures appear to be born into the clan. It’s not about the bite or the scratch.
But the ability to change one’s shape is not just the province of authors and screenwriters. The concept of somehow shifting one’s shape is part and parcel of myths and folklore. Early concepts, in Greek mythology, spoke of men changing into women and vice versa. But you have to wonder, nowadays, whether these legends are based on people who would today be regarded as transgender. For now, I’ll just regard all this as myth and nothing more.
In more recent literature, you had shapeshifting in L. Frank Baum’s “The Marvelous Land of Oz,” so there was no stopping this sort of magical speculation. When it wasn’t werewolves or sex changes, there were always cats. The atmospheric movie thrillers, “Cat People,” both the 1942 and 1982 versions, were about women who could assume feline form, although the earlier film more or less hinted at the process rather than display it graphically.
Native Americans also have their own versions of the shapeshifting legend, the skinwalker, but it’s still about people who have the power to take the form of an animal. To me, it sounds like an interesting method to camouflage oneself to spy, for example, on the enemy. Being mistaken for a wild animal could, I suppose, also put someone in the crosshairs of a rifle too, so maybe it’s not such a good idea.
While such legends may seem very fanciful and all, and certainly shapeshifting of one sort or another is strongly present in our pop culture, it’s also true that strange creatures have been seen not just in the U.S. but around the world.
From Bigfoot, to the mothman and various and sundry wolf men and women, you can find a wealth of such reports to chew over. But is any of it real, or just people mistaking quite ordinary creatures for something strange or even paranormal? If such creatures do exist, are they of this world, or somewhere else? And can they simply change back into normal humans at will?
Certainly scientists will admit that not all of the creatures of this planet are known, though you may look at it in terms of another species of fish or possibly a previously undiscovered insect. Anything as large as the legendary Bigfoot would surely have been confirmed by now if they were real. Or at least that’s the impression scientists choose to convey.
It doesn’t help when some publicity-seekers claim to have shot and killed a strange creature, yet when you look at their evidence, it’s all a fake. Hoaxes of this sort work against convincing traditional scientists to examine eyewitness reports. Maybe they feel it’s all about people drinking or smoking the wrong things around the campfire.
Now on The Paracast, we’ve featured a number of guests discussing a fascinating part of the U.S. known as “Four Corners,” a region where four states merge: the southwest corner of Colorado, the northwest corner of New Mexico, the northeast corner of Arizona, and the southeast corner of Utah. As the Wikipedia entry states, Four Corners is the only place in the country where the borders of four states meet. Native Americans are prominent in the region, including Navajos, Hopi, Ute, and Zuni.
Legends are, therefore, plentiful, and there’s plenty to consider. But it’s not just folklore, but the ongoing reports of strange creatures, strange objects in the sky and other unusual events. Now I suppose you can argue that state borders are arbitrary, set by governments over the years due to negotiations, traditions, and so on and so forth.
The more fascinating issue is whether conditions at the Four Corners are ripe for the presence of paranormal events. Are there characteristics, both land mass and climate, which would attract unusual forces and events? Certainly the traditions are there, and we have continued to explore them over the years with all those fascinating guests who have done extensive on-the-scene research.
To be fair, I’m not the exploring member of The Paracast team. Chris O’Brien and his colleagues have spent years getting to know Four Corners and surrounding areas, and they’ve discovered a rich collection of legends and first-hand experiences that, at times, may seem downright frightening.
Some UFO researchers talk of those “window areas,” or portals, which seem to attract an unusual number of paranormal events. This would include not just UFOs, but those strange creatures and ghostly apparitions. And maybe even a few shapeshifters.
So is the Four Corners region home to a window area or dimensional portal?
Of course, you first have to separate the real from the fanciful, and the prevalence of such creatures in our modern fiction may be just a phase, but what if those influences are, themselves, all too true?
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January 26, 2014
Explore Strange and Unknown Events at the Four Corners on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Important — Please Read! In a separate email, Paracast host Gene Steinberg has made a personal appeal for emergency financial assistance. Please check that message for further details. If you’re able to assist, please note that we have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present everyone's favorite crypto-chaser J.C. Johnson. J.C. has been keeping busy with his research into the paranormal, and has quite a number of updates about his various projects and trip reports to reveal since his last visit to the show. You'll hear about the latest sightings of Bigfoot, dog men, possible wolf men and other strange creatures, and J.C.'s ongoing research into these and other strange mysteries.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
J.C. Johnson’s Facebook Page: CRYPTO FOUR CORNERS | Facebook
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Sponsored Message: Don’t get ripped off when you need to liquidate your precious jewelry and silverware. Call Steve at Numis Gems at (480) 878-7678 and get the straight scoop!
About Shape Shifters
By Gene Steinberg
As much as UFOs have captured our imaginations over they years, the ability to make yourself look like someone—or something—else, has really taken the world of entertainment by storm. It’s all about humans being able to turn themselves into other creatures, and sometimes the morphing process isn’t voluntary.
Among the most popular are werewolves, basically men and women who can become wolves, or something with wolf-like characteristics. The traditional legend is that someone has to be turned, usually with a scratch or a bite from one of these creatures, to become a werewolf, but the makeup artists in such classic movies as “The Wolf Man,” in 1941, simply appended wolf-like appendages and a monstrous face onto a human performer.
Later movies, such as “An American Werewolf in London,” released in 1981, depicted a more frightening changeover, quite graphic in fact, designed to make the creature, more wolf-like, all the more terrifying.
I will avoid the pathetic remake of “The Wolf Man,” in 2010, and not just because the screenwriters and director Joe Johnston decided to make Sir Anthony Hopkins, who plays the wolf man’s father, the being who turned his own son.
More recent stories about werewolves have offered a more thorough morphing process, usually quite painful. The end result may be an overgrown wolf, or, as depicted in such TV shows as “True Blood” and “Bitten,” a creature that looks perfectly normal in most respects. Well, there are those glowing eyes, of course, to indicate a supernatural creature. Indeed, these creatures appear to be born into the clan. It’s not about the bite or the scratch.
But the ability to change one’s shape is not just the province of authors and screenwriters. The concept of somehow shifting one’s shape is part and parcel of myths and folklore. Early concepts, in Greek mythology, spoke of men changing into women and vice versa. But you have to wonder, nowadays, whether these legends are based on people who would today be regarded as transgender. For now, I’ll just regard all this as myth and nothing more.
In more recent literature, you had shapeshifting in L. Frank Baum’s “The Marvelous Land of Oz,” so there was no stopping this sort of magical speculation. When it wasn’t werewolves or sex changes, there were always cats. The atmospheric movie thrillers, “Cat People,” both the 1942 and 1982 versions, were about women who could assume feline form, although the earlier film more or less hinted at the process rather than display it graphically.
Native Americans also have their own versions of the shapeshifting legend, the skinwalker, but it’s still about people who have the power to take the form of an animal. To me, it sounds like an interesting method to camouflage oneself to spy, for example, on the enemy. Being mistaken for a wild animal could, I suppose, also put someone in the crosshairs of a rifle too, so maybe it’s not such a good idea.
While such legends may seem very fanciful and all, and certainly shapeshifting of one sort or another is strongly present in our pop culture, it’s also true that strange creatures have been seen not just in the U.S. but around the world.
From Bigfoot, to the mothman and various and sundry wolf men and women, you can find a wealth of such reports to chew over. But is any of it real, or just people mistaking quite ordinary creatures for something strange or even paranormal? If such creatures do exist, are they of this world, or somewhere else? And can they simply change back into normal humans at will?
Certainly scientists will admit that not all of the creatures of this planet are known, though you may look at it in terms of another species of fish or possibly a previously undiscovered insect. Anything as large as the legendary Bigfoot would surely have been confirmed by now if they were real. Or at least that’s the impression scientists choose to convey.
It doesn’t help when some publicity-seekers claim to have shot and killed a strange creature, yet when you look at their evidence, it’s all a fake. Hoaxes of this sort work against convincing traditional scientists to examine eyewitness reports. Maybe they feel it’s all about people drinking or smoking the wrong things around the campfire.
Now on The Paracast, we’ve featured a number of guests discussing a fascinating part of the U.S. known as “Four Corners,” a region where four states merge: the southwest corner of Colorado, the northwest corner of New Mexico, the northeast corner of Arizona, and the southeast corner of Utah. As the Wikipedia entry states, Four Corners is the only place in the country where the borders of four states meet. Native Americans are prominent in the region, including Navajos, Hopi, Ute, and Zuni.
Legends are, therefore, plentiful, and there’s plenty to consider. But it’s not just folklore, but the ongoing reports of strange creatures, strange objects in the sky and other unusual events. Now I suppose you can argue that state borders are arbitrary, set by governments over the years due to negotiations, traditions, and so on and so forth.
The more fascinating issue is whether conditions at the Four Corners are ripe for the presence of paranormal events. Are there characteristics, both land mass and climate, which would attract unusual forces and events? Certainly the traditions are there, and we have continued to explore them over the years with all those fascinating guests who have done extensive on-the-scene research.
To be fair, I’m not the exploring member of The Paracast team. Chris O’Brien and his colleagues have spent years getting to know Four Corners and surrounding areas, and they’ve discovered a rich collection of legends and first-hand experiences that, at times, may seem downright frightening.
Some UFO researchers talk of those “window areas,” or portals, which seem to attract an unusual number of paranormal events. This would include not just UFOs, but those strange creatures and ghostly apparitions. And maybe even a few shapeshifters.
So is the Four Corners region home to a window area or dimensional portal?
Of course, you first have to separate the real from the fanciful, and the prevalence of such creatures in our modern fiction may be just a phase, but what if those influences are, themselves, all too true?
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