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July 16, 2023
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Explore the Myths and the Legends and the Reality Behind Dogmen and Werewolves with Aaron Deese on The Paracast!
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz explore the myths and reality of dogmen and werewolves with researcher Aaron Deese, who has had an interest in the unsolved for most of his life. He is the author of "The Texas Dogman Triangle" and the former Editor in Chief of Paranormality Magazine; he and his wife Sara host the podcast "Hey Strangeness" and live in Austin, Texas with too many cats. He has created two movies about "The Dogman Triangle" at YouTube and Tubi. Raised in central Florida and immersed in traditional Christian ideology, Aaron also has a background in martial arts and a passion for all things weird. He has appeared on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, Bigfoot Society with Jeremiah Byron and as a featured guest at Small Town Monsters' Monster Fest. He also appears in the film "The Dogman Triangle: Werewolves in The Lone Star State" from Small Town Monsters.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 16: Researcher and author Aaron Deese continues to explore reports of dogmen and werewolves. He talks to Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the possibility that strange creatures may actually blink in and out of this reality from the multiverse. Or does psychiatrist Carl Jung’s collective unconscious theory explain the cause behind strange creatures, ghosts and even UFOs? There’s even a discussion about the Men In Black legend, with a focus on one of the first to report visits by the MIB, none other than Albert K. Bender, a key figure in Gray Barker’s 1956 book, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.” Aaron has had an interest in the unsolved for most of his life. He is the author of “The Texas Dogman Triangle” and the former Editor in Chief of Paranormality Magazine; he and his wife Sara host the podcast “Hey Strangeness” and live in Austin, Texas with too many cats.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel.
It’s Not All About Spaceships
By Gene Steinberg
One thing that makes The Paracast different from lots of other radio and TV shows that cover the paranormal is that we often run views counter to conventional wisdoms. Obviously, a key example is the UFO saga.
So while a high percentage of people who believe that UFOs are or might be real consider them extraterrestrial. That’s true of many of the guests we’ve had on the show.
The theory would seem perfectly reasonable. We know there are many planets out there that may have surface conditions that would support life as we know it. So it would make sense that advanced civilizations might have arisen on some of them.
As those civilizations grow in technology, space exploration would seem to be in the cards. Sure, we cannot expect to understand the motivations or lifestyles of ET, but it’s nonetheless a reasonable conclusion.
The next step requires taking a leap: Not that they have perfected space travel, but that they’d have any interest in traveling to another planet in another star system. It would also be a matter of technology. What’s involved in making multi-lightyear trips. Assuming travel at near the speed of light, we’re talking of a trip involving several years at the very least.
So how would a crew manage a trip that long, or would they build an AI system to handle the chores? Assuming living beings are aboard, perhaps they could remain in stasis to reduce demands on the support systems. This is a common sci-fi trope. Another is a massive mothership that’s literally a city in space, in which two or more generations of the crew would live and die before their descendants reach their destination.
Obviously there are complications. If a crew takes a journey that consumes decades, they have to give up their lives on their home worlds. Their friends and families would be long gone, and their civilization might have been destroyed for one reason or another.
In Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry and his people employed warp drive as a scheme to exceed the speed of light and shorten trips from years or decades to, at most, a few hours or a few days. Both Star Wars and the Stargate movie and TV shows got into the act with their hyperdrives. But Stargate added to the mix with the entitled device, which was essentially a network of circular doorways to other planets via a wormhole.
Of course, the stargate would be the most elegant method, since the trip takes a few seconds and doesn’t require the means to sustain crews on long trips.
In the real world, scientists have done mathematical speculations on the possibilities of warp drive. But that’s a far cry from actually having a device on which to test the technology. But their ongoing efforts might someday lead to a workable method that will power a starship.
Success, however, might be decades away. In the Star Trek universe, they predict it’ll happen in 2063. That may actually appear possible if Planet Earth survives in reasonable form till then.
A related theory to ET is the multiverse. Basically it means having multiple realities that can be penetrated under the right conditions or with the right equipment. It’s perhaps roughly akin to switching from one channel on your TV set to another. Each broadcast — or in this case reality — is totally separate.
The multiverse is a common trope in the super hero comic book world, and we’ve had screen and TV presentations of DC’s The Flash traveling from one reality to another. In the Marvel “universe,” a recent Spider-Man film, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” from 2021, depicts the webbed one encountering two of his counterparts from other universes. It gave the producers a chance to reintroduce two previous actors who played the role, Andrew Garfield and Toby Mcguire.
All right, I thought the last two Spider-Man flicks were dreadful, but they earned huge box office money and got high ratings from audiences and critics, so clearly lots of people disagreed with me.
On a practical level, assuming the multiverse exists past theoretical models of the concept, it could mean that a UFO might instantaneously blink in from another dimension, and return just as quickly. As some suggest, there may be dimensional portals that allow for strange creatures to arrive and return.
But whether a UFO comes from another planet in this reality, or another planet in another reality, is just about transportation. The core concept is that entities or beings from elsewhere are coming to Earth to check us out. So I’d put the two theories in the same camp.
Another theory postulates the existence of time travelers who come here from the future either to check us out or, perhaps, to change something that negatively impacts their civilization.
As the sci-fi stories go, interfering in a previous timeframe can have unexpected and sometime unpleasant consequences. It was played out in a recent movie, “The Flash” and also in the TV version, along with another show, “Legends of Tomorrow.” In these cases, traveling back through time and manipulating a thing or two had unpredictable and often negative consequences.
The 1990’s film and TV show, “Timecop,” dealt with a team of police officers who went back in time to undo the damage wrought by people deliberately or accidentally altering the timestream.
Yet there is another theory that time travel will not cause such nasty consequences. So it may be that the time intervention was meant to be, or that a separate reality is created, so an existing reality is untouched.
Again, it’s still about physical beings or AI devices traveling to our world in physical aircraft from a physical source.
Other theories are more diffuse.
So there is the collective unconscious, based on the writings of psychiatrist Carl Jung; in essence a shared reality. It may manifest itself as an archetype, prototypes that form the basis of myths and stories — and perhaps what appears to be physical phenomena.
UFO researcher Greg Bishop often referred to his co-creation hypothesis, a related concept in which we are all responsible for the persistent phenomenon that appears in forms that our culture accepts. So in the modern world, it’s spaceships; in ancient times it might be mythical creatures, such as leprechauns.
The long and short is that we simply have no idea of the true causes of UFOs. It’s all speculation, so spaceships are possible, but so are inter-dimensional visitors or time travelers. Or it may be that we are all somehow creating a shared reality in which the phenomenon is present.
Regardless, The Paracast exists to explore different possibilities, not just stick with ET. That includes the presence of other phenomena, such as strange creatures, and perhaps even poltergeists. Consider the so-called hitchhiker effect, in which UFO witnesses are sometimes infected or followed by other strange occurrences.
But after all these years, it’s still too early in the game to truly know what’s really going on.
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July 16, 2023
www.theparacast.com
Explore the Myths and the Legends and the Reality Behind Dogmen and Werewolves with Aaron Deese on The Paracast!
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
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 podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. And PayPal now accepts cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in payment. And if you don't want to use PayPal, we now also offer a second payment option, from Stripe, which accepts major credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. For "qualified users," you can also take advantage of Pay Later options, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz explore the myths and reality of dogmen and werewolves with researcher Aaron Deese, who has had an interest in the unsolved for most of his life. He is the author of "The Texas Dogman Triangle" and the former Editor in Chief of Paranormality Magazine; he and his wife Sara host the podcast "Hey Strangeness" and live in Austin, Texas with too many cats. He has created two movies about "The Dogman Triangle" at YouTube and Tubi. Raised in central Florida and immersed in traditional Christian ideology, Aaron also has a background in martial arts and a passion for all things weird. He has appeared on Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis, Bigfoot Society with Jeremiah Byron and as a featured guest at Small Town Monsters' Monster Fest. He also appears in the film "The Dogman Triangle: Werewolves in The Lone Star State" from Small Town Monsters.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 16: Researcher and author Aaron Deese continues to explore reports of dogmen and werewolves. He talks to Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the possibility that strange creatures may actually blink in and out of this reality from the multiverse. Or does psychiatrist Carl Jung’s collective unconscious theory explain the cause behind strange creatures, ghosts and even UFOs? There’s even a discussion about the Men In Black legend, with a focus on one of the first to report visits by the MIB, none other than Albert K. Bender, a key figure in Gray Barker’s 1956 book, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.” Aaron has had an interest in the unsolved for most of his life. He is the author of “The Texas Dogman Triangle” and the former Editor in Chief of Paranormality Magazine; he and his wife Sara host the podcast “Hey Strangeness” and live in Austin, Texas with too many cats.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel.
It’s Not All About Spaceships
By Gene Steinberg
One thing that makes The Paracast different from lots of other radio and TV shows that cover the paranormal is that we often run views counter to conventional wisdoms. Obviously, a key example is the UFO saga.
So while a high percentage of people who believe that UFOs are or might be real consider them extraterrestrial. That’s true of many of the guests we’ve had on the show.
The theory would seem perfectly reasonable. We know there are many planets out there that may have surface conditions that would support life as we know it. So it would make sense that advanced civilizations might have arisen on some of them.
As those civilizations grow in technology, space exploration would seem to be in the cards. Sure, we cannot expect to understand the motivations or lifestyles of ET, but it’s nonetheless a reasonable conclusion.
The next step requires taking a leap: Not that they have perfected space travel, but that they’d have any interest in traveling to another planet in another star system. It would also be a matter of technology. What’s involved in making multi-lightyear trips. Assuming travel at near the speed of light, we’re talking of a trip involving several years at the very least.
So how would a crew manage a trip that long, or would they build an AI system to handle the chores? Assuming living beings are aboard, perhaps they could remain in stasis to reduce demands on the support systems. This is a common sci-fi trope. Another is a massive mothership that’s literally a city in space, in which two or more generations of the crew would live and die before their descendants reach their destination.
Obviously there are complications. If a crew takes a journey that consumes decades, they have to give up their lives on their home worlds. Their friends and families would be long gone, and their civilization might have been destroyed for one reason or another.
In Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry and his people employed warp drive as a scheme to exceed the speed of light and shorten trips from years or decades to, at most, a few hours or a few days. Both Star Wars and the Stargate movie and TV shows got into the act with their hyperdrives. But Stargate added to the mix with the entitled device, which was essentially a network of circular doorways to other planets via a wormhole.
Of course, the stargate would be the most elegant method, since the trip takes a few seconds and doesn’t require the means to sustain crews on long trips.
In the real world, scientists have done mathematical speculations on the possibilities of warp drive. But that’s a far cry from actually having a device on which to test the technology. But their ongoing efforts might someday lead to a workable method that will power a starship.
Success, however, might be decades away. In the Star Trek universe, they predict it’ll happen in 2063. That may actually appear possible if Planet Earth survives in reasonable form till then.
A related theory to ET is the multiverse. Basically it means having multiple realities that can be penetrated under the right conditions or with the right equipment. It’s perhaps roughly akin to switching from one channel on your TV set to another. Each broadcast — or in this case reality — is totally separate.
The multiverse is a common trope in the super hero comic book world, and we’ve had screen and TV presentations of DC’s The Flash traveling from one reality to another. In the Marvel “universe,” a recent Spider-Man film, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” from 2021, depicts the webbed one encountering two of his counterparts from other universes. It gave the producers a chance to reintroduce two previous actors who played the role, Andrew Garfield and Toby Mcguire.
All right, I thought the last two Spider-Man flicks were dreadful, but they earned huge box office money and got high ratings from audiences and critics, so clearly lots of people disagreed with me.
On a practical level, assuming the multiverse exists past theoretical models of the concept, it could mean that a UFO might instantaneously blink in from another dimension, and return just as quickly. As some suggest, there may be dimensional portals that allow for strange creatures to arrive and return.
But whether a UFO comes from another planet in this reality, or another planet in another reality, is just about transportation. The core concept is that entities or beings from elsewhere are coming to Earth to check us out. So I’d put the two theories in the same camp.
Another theory postulates the existence of time travelers who come here from the future either to check us out or, perhaps, to change something that negatively impacts their civilization.
As the sci-fi stories go, interfering in a previous timeframe can have unexpected and sometime unpleasant consequences. It was played out in a recent movie, “The Flash” and also in the TV version, along with another show, “Legends of Tomorrow.” In these cases, traveling back through time and manipulating a thing or two had unpredictable and often negative consequences.
The 1990’s film and TV show, “Timecop,” dealt with a team of police officers who went back in time to undo the damage wrought by people deliberately or accidentally altering the timestream.
Yet there is another theory that time travel will not cause such nasty consequences. So it may be that the time intervention was meant to be, or that a separate reality is created, so an existing reality is untouched.
Again, it’s still about physical beings or AI devices traveling to our world in physical aircraft from a physical source.
Other theories are more diffuse.
So there is the collective unconscious, based on the writings of psychiatrist Carl Jung; in essence a shared reality. It may manifest itself as an archetype, prototypes that form the basis of myths and stories — and perhaps what appears to be physical phenomena.
UFO researcher Greg Bishop often referred to his co-creation hypothesis, a related concept in which we are all responsible for the persistent phenomenon that appears in forms that our culture accepts. So in the modern world, it’s spaceships; in ancient times it might be mythical creatures, such as leprechauns.
The long and short is that we simply have no idea of the true causes of UFOs. It’s all speculation, so spaceships are possible, but so are inter-dimensional visitors or time travelers. Or it may be that we are all somehow creating a shared reality in which the phenomenon is present.
Regardless, The Paracast exists to explore different possibilities, not just stick with ET. That includes the presence of other phenomena, such as strange creatures, and perhaps even poltergeists. Consider the so-called hitchhiker effect, in which UFO witnesses are sometimes infected or followed by other strange occurrences.
But after all these years, it’s still too early in the game to truly know what’s really going on.
Copyright 1999-2023 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
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