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January 14, 2024
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The 10 Most Googled Monsters in the U.S. Revealed by Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker, Writer, Reporter Lee Vander Boegh on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Lee Vander Boegh, an Emmy Award winning freelance writer, reporter and filmmaker based in Boise, Idaho. He spent nearly a decade at a local TV news station, where he helped produce "Ida-Haunts," a series of paranormal news stories (the promos he created for this series earned him two Emmys). The main focus of this episode is an article he wrote about cryptids, 10 Most Googled Monsters in the U.S. A self professed "Paranormal Agnostic," Lee doesn't discount the possibility of such phenomena, but wants irrefutable proof before calling himself a true believer. That said, he's had his fair share of "Did you see that?" moments, including an incident with a night-time aerial light so bright it burnt up his vehicle's alternator, and a one-year residency in a house that went bump-in-the-night on an uncomfortably regular basis. In his spare time he enjoys making horror films, acting, playing music and writing about himself in the third person. His horror short film, "Hinsdale," has won multiple festival awards including Best Horror Short at the 2019 Action on Film Festival and Best Horror Film and Audience choice award at the 2019 Twin Falls Film Festival.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on January 14: Emmy Award winning writer, reporter and filmmaker Lee Vander Boegh talks with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about common memes about the shape of the flying saucers, his favorite trashy horror films and his favorite sci-fi films. So did James Cameron's 1984 hit movie, "The Terminator," predict the consequences of our AI culture? There's also talk about the sometimes unfortunate results if Hollywood buys the rights to a book. He was first introduced to the idea of Cryptids via a series of Time Life books published long before the term "cryptid" was even a thing, and still has the entire set on his bookshelf. A self professed "Paranormal Agnostic," Lee doesn't discount the possibility of such phenomena, but wants irrefutable proof before calling himself a true believer. That said, he's had his fair share of "Did you see that?" moments, including an incident with a night-time aerial light so bright it burnt up his vehicle's alternator, and a one-year residency in a house that went bump-in-the-night on an uncomfortably regular basis.
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.
The UFO Frustration Report
By Gene Steinberg
A story came my way the other day while I was checking out the news compilations at Google. It seems that some members of the U.S. House of Representatives had a 90 minute classified UAP briefing behind closed doors with one Thomas Monheim, inspector general of the intelligence community. The session occurred on January 12, 2024.
The lawmakers were members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. In political parlance, these titles appear to be oxymorons, but I’ll avoid the obvious political implications.
Instead, let’s look at the purpose of the session, which was to supposedly provide more clarity about the testimony from alleged UAP whistleblower David Grusch in a summer 2023 briefing.
In all, reactions were both positive and negative. One fairly optimistic view come from Republican Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri. He said those who attended got what he called, “a direction to go next, and that’s the key thing.”
“I think that some people were looking for things. This was not the venue to determine those things, but for me, I got a lot of clarity.”
Evidently the meeting didn’t resolve any lingering questions about Grusch’s claims that U.S. authorities are in possession of alien aircraft, perhaps alien bodies, retrieved over the years.
Grusch has yet to return to the Capital to provide secret testimony that would allegedly demonstrate that what he says is true.
As I said, it’s frustrating.
Still, the Pentagon’s reaction echos similar comments made over the decades about UAPs, or UFOs. In short, they aren’t extraterrestrial and do not represent a threat to our world.
Indeed, while rummaging through my old file cabinet the other day, I ran across an issue of Ray Palmer’s vintage newsstand magazine, Flying Saucers, dated April 1965. I will note, in passing, that he reprinted an article I wrote for a magazine I published back then, known as UFO Reporter.
Now as you listeners and forum members know, Palmer was legendary — or infamous — as one of the first people in the modern UFO era to report on the phenomenon. It all began when he was editor of a sci-fi magazine, Amazing Stories, publishing the original stories from Richard S. Shaver about alleged underground civilizations populated by what he called deros and teros.
You can find the fledgling UFO lore pieces in Amazing Stories. And when he and co-worker Curtis Fuller founded Fate magazine in 1948, the very first issue (still available from the publisher as a reprint) had a lead article entitled, “The Truth About the Flying Saucers” from Kenneth Arnold. As you know, his sighting of June 24, 1947 became legendary as the first well-publicized case.
Now Palmer was the sort who didn’t follow conventional wisdom. In Flying Saucers, he’d make controversial remarks presumably to attract readers to write letters, to which he’d respond. For one thing, it was be a clever way to fill the pages of the magazine with free content, his and the readers. In saying that, his saucer magazine didn’t pay writers.
That takes us to his comments in that old magazine. His editorial responded to an article in the same issue, in which the writer told of his visit to Project Blue Book headquarters in Dayton, OH.
There wasn’t much of significance to report.He got the typical excuse about the lack of UFO reality.
In referring to the trip, Palmer responded: “As we read the manuscript, we were struck with one thing: the inevitable repetition of the phrase ‘there is no evidence that Earth is being visited by extra-terrestrial beings, and there is no evidence of a threat to the security of the United States.’ As editor of FLYING SAUCERS, we have tried to counter this bit of misleading propaganda in various ways. We’ve likened it to the statement by the local game warden, who received reports of animals (they were deer) being seen by many persons. He finally issued a statement that there were no reports that offered evidence that elephants were visiting Wisconsin, nor did he believe they (the elephants) were any menace to hunting and fishermen and farmers who were seeing them.
“Of course not! We’re not speaking of elephants, we are talking about deer.”
Palmer’s point, of course, is that he evidently didn’t believe that we were being visited by spaceships from far off worlds. Over the years, he’d cite various possibilities of UFO reality that he may or may not have accepted. One was that the Earth was hollow, and that there existed an advanced civilization of humans miles beneath our feet that, from time to time, sent their aircraft to check things out on the surface.
It’s fitting to note that the very same issue of Flying Saucers that contained that editorial also featured an article entitled, “The Hollow Earth Hoax,” from one Delmar H. Bryant. The lengthy piece thoroughly disposed of those controversial claims about the supposed makeup of our planet.
Palmer eventually abandoned hollow Earth lore and suggested that our visitors came from the astral plane, supposedly a non-physical really that’s populated with such beings as angels, the souls of people who are dead, and those who haven’t been born.
This goes to common religious beliefs, but Palmer tried to paint the picture as a place you could visit courtesy of an out-of-body experience that wouldn’t impact your existence in the physical world.
The other possibility that Palmer didn’t dwell on in his all-too-brief lifetime is perhaps an extension of the astral plane concept. But instead of being a higher reality that is connected with ours in some fashion, there is one or more parallel universes. They may in some respects be mirrors to our own reality, but are only accessible if you somehow cross the dimensional divide.
One theory about the frequency of UFO encounters and other paranormal incidents is that the source is a parallel world. Perhaps there are portals in scattered places on our planet, created through technology or a force of nature, which allow travel from one place to another.
Then there is time travel, that our visitors might be humans from the far future here to check us out, or to right a wrong. But that raises all sorts of theoretical complications if the past is changed somehow.
The long and short is that the U.S. government has been consistent about the lack of proof of extraterrestrial UFOs and the lack of a palpable threat to the country’s security. The more exotic solutions that Palmer and others propounded over the years is never on their radar. Or if they are, they are clearly out of their element to confirm such possibilities, or even explain them.
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January 14, 2024
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The 10 Most Googled Monsters in the U.S. Revealed by Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker, Writer, Reporter Lee Vander Boegh 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 bonus 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! 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 present Lee Vander Boegh, an Emmy Award winning freelance writer, reporter and filmmaker based in Boise, Idaho. He spent nearly a decade at a local TV news station, where he helped produce "Ida-Haunts," a series of paranormal news stories (the promos he created for this series earned him two Emmys). The main focus of this episode is an article he wrote about cryptids, 10 Most Googled Monsters in the U.S. A self professed "Paranormal Agnostic," Lee doesn't discount the possibility of such phenomena, but wants irrefutable proof before calling himself a true believer. That said, he's had his fair share of "Did you see that?" moments, including an incident with a night-time aerial light so bright it burnt up his vehicle's alternator, and a one-year residency in a house that went bump-in-the-night on an uncomfortably regular basis. In his spare time he enjoys making horror films, acting, playing music and writing about himself in the third person. His horror short film, "Hinsdale," has won multiple festival awards including Best Horror Short at the 2019 Action on Film Festival and Best Horror Film and Audience choice award at the 2019 Twin Falls Film Festival.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on January 14: Emmy Award winning writer, reporter and filmmaker Lee Vander Boegh talks with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about common memes about the shape of the flying saucers, his favorite trashy horror films and his favorite sci-fi films. So did James Cameron's 1984 hit movie, "The Terminator," predict the consequences of our AI culture? There's also talk about the sometimes unfortunate results if Hollywood buys the rights to a book. He was first introduced to the idea of Cryptids via a series of Time Life books published long before the term "cryptid" was even a thing, and still has the entire set on his bookshelf. A self professed "Paranormal Agnostic," Lee doesn't discount the possibility of such phenomena, but wants irrefutable proof before calling himself a true believer. That said, he's had his fair share of "Did you see that?" moments, including an incident with a night-time aerial light so bright it burnt up his vehicle's alternator, and a one-year residency in a house that went bump-in-the-night on an uncomfortably regular basis.
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.
The UFO Frustration Report
By Gene Steinberg
A story came my way the other day while I was checking out the news compilations at Google. It seems that some members of the U.S. House of Representatives had a 90 minute classified UAP briefing behind closed doors with one Thomas Monheim, inspector general of the intelligence community. The session occurred on January 12, 2024.
The lawmakers were members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. In political parlance, these titles appear to be oxymorons, but I’ll avoid the obvious political implications.
Instead, let’s look at the purpose of the session, which was to supposedly provide more clarity about the testimony from alleged UAP whistleblower David Grusch in a summer 2023 briefing.
In all, reactions were both positive and negative. One fairly optimistic view come from Republican Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri. He said those who attended got what he called, “a direction to go next, and that’s the key thing.”
“I think that some people were looking for things. This was not the venue to determine those things, but for me, I got a lot of clarity.”
Evidently the meeting didn’t resolve any lingering questions about Grusch’s claims that U.S. authorities are in possession of alien aircraft, perhaps alien bodies, retrieved over the years.
Grusch has yet to return to the Capital to provide secret testimony that would allegedly demonstrate that what he says is true.
As I said, it’s frustrating.
Still, the Pentagon’s reaction echos similar comments made over the decades about UAPs, or UFOs. In short, they aren’t extraterrestrial and do not represent a threat to our world.
Indeed, while rummaging through my old file cabinet the other day, I ran across an issue of Ray Palmer’s vintage newsstand magazine, Flying Saucers, dated April 1965. I will note, in passing, that he reprinted an article I wrote for a magazine I published back then, known as UFO Reporter.
Now as you listeners and forum members know, Palmer was legendary — or infamous — as one of the first people in the modern UFO era to report on the phenomenon. It all began when he was editor of a sci-fi magazine, Amazing Stories, publishing the original stories from Richard S. Shaver about alleged underground civilizations populated by what he called deros and teros.
You can find the fledgling UFO lore pieces in Amazing Stories. And when he and co-worker Curtis Fuller founded Fate magazine in 1948, the very first issue (still available from the publisher as a reprint) had a lead article entitled, “The Truth About the Flying Saucers” from Kenneth Arnold. As you know, his sighting of June 24, 1947 became legendary as the first well-publicized case.
Now Palmer was the sort who didn’t follow conventional wisdom. In Flying Saucers, he’d make controversial remarks presumably to attract readers to write letters, to which he’d respond. For one thing, it was be a clever way to fill the pages of the magazine with free content, his and the readers. In saying that, his saucer magazine didn’t pay writers.
That takes us to his comments in that old magazine. His editorial responded to an article in the same issue, in which the writer told of his visit to Project Blue Book headquarters in Dayton, OH.
There wasn’t much of significance to report.He got the typical excuse about the lack of UFO reality.
In referring to the trip, Palmer responded: “As we read the manuscript, we were struck with one thing: the inevitable repetition of the phrase ‘there is no evidence that Earth is being visited by extra-terrestrial beings, and there is no evidence of a threat to the security of the United States.’ As editor of FLYING SAUCERS, we have tried to counter this bit of misleading propaganda in various ways. We’ve likened it to the statement by the local game warden, who received reports of animals (they were deer) being seen by many persons. He finally issued a statement that there were no reports that offered evidence that elephants were visiting Wisconsin, nor did he believe they (the elephants) were any menace to hunting and fishermen and farmers who were seeing them.
“Of course not! We’re not speaking of elephants, we are talking about deer.”
Palmer’s point, of course, is that he evidently didn’t believe that we were being visited by spaceships from far off worlds. Over the years, he’d cite various possibilities of UFO reality that he may or may not have accepted. One was that the Earth was hollow, and that there existed an advanced civilization of humans miles beneath our feet that, from time to time, sent their aircraft to check things out on the surface.
It’s fitting to note that the very same issue of Flying Saucers that contained that editorial also featured an article entitled, “The Hollow Earth Hoax,” from one Delmar H. Bryant. The lengthy piece thoroughly disposed of those controversial claims about the supposed makeup of our planet.
Palmer eventually abandoned hollow Earth lore and suggested that our visitors came from the astral plane, supposedly a non-physical really that’s populated with such beings as angels, the souls of people who are dead, and those who haven’t been born.
This goes to common religious beliefs, but Palmer tried to paint the picture as a place you could visit courtesy of an out-of-body experience that wouldn’t impact your existence in the physical world.
The other possibility that Palmer didn’t dwell on in his all-too-brief lifetime is perhaps an extension of the astral plane concept. But instead of being a higher reality that is connected with ours in some fashion, there is one or more parallel universes. They may in some respects be mirrors to our own reality, but are only accessible if you somehow cross the dimensional divide.
One theory about the frequency of UFO encounters and other paranormal incidents is that the source is a parallel world. Perhaps there are portals in scattered places on our planet, created through technology or a force of nature, which allow travel from one place to another.
Then there is time travel, that our visitors might be humans from the far future here to check us out, or to right a wrong. But that raises all sorts of theoretical complications if the past is changed somehow.
The long and short is that the U.S. government has been consistent about the lack of proof of extraterrestrial UFOs and the lack of a palpable threat to the country’s security. The more exotic solutions that Palmer and others propounded over the years is never on their radar. Or if they are, they are clearly out of their element to confirm such possibilities, or even explain them.
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