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January 30, 2022
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Paranormal Researcher and YouTube Star Zelia Edgar Reveals a Broad Range of Personal Paranormal Encounters and Classic Cases 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.
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, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz present Zelia Edgar, author of Just Another Tin Foil Hat Presents. A lifelong Wisconsin resident, she was born in Green Bay, the state’s first city. Her family is from Southwestern Wisconsin, and the folklore of that region was a strong influence on her upbringing. Inspired largely by the rich history of weirdness throughout the Midwest, she has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and has been seriously researching it for over a decade. In that time, she has worked as a certified field investigator and state director for Wisconsin MUFON, and currently runs the YouTube channel JustAnotherTinFoilHat. In addition to hosting a biweekly podcast by the same name on the Paranormal UK Radio Network, Zelia has also appeared as a guest on multiple podcasts and radio shows.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on January 30: Paranormal researcher Zelia Edgar rejoins Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz to talk further about her possible conclusions about the forces behind paranormal events, which is the focal point of "Speculations," a chapter in her book, Just Another Tin Foil Hat Presents. Her views encompass a wide variety of strange events, as she wonders whether UFOs, cryptids and ghost phenomena are all part of the puzzle. She has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and has been seriously researching it for over a decade. In that time, she has worked as a certified field investigator and state director for Wisconsin MUFON, and currently runs the YouTube channel JustAnotherTinFoilHat. In addition to discussing the paranormal, she also reviews horror films.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. 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
Of Time Travel and Do-Overs
By Gene Steinberg
I’m sure just about everyone out there would love a do-over. Perhaps you said something wrong, did something wrong that hurt someone’s feelings. I can make a large list, but wouldn’t it be simply wonderful to be able to revisit such episodes and set things right?
That, of course, means time travel, and it’s become a staple of sci-fi. Perhaps the most famous story of its kind was “The Time Machine,” an 1895 novel from H.G. Wells that showed the way.
But rather than go back through time, Wells had his character, “The Time Traveler,” take his device to the far future, A.D. 802,701, where he meets the childlike Eloi, living in a beautiful garden-like environment. The villains in this tale are the evil subsurface dwellers, the Morlocks, ape-like cannibals who have raised the Eloi as their main food source.
I remember when Richard Shaver, the man who talked of real-life evildoers, the dero, residing in caverns around the planet, said Wells’ Morlocks were based on these creatures.
It’s interesting to note that the protagonist is never named in the story, though he was known as “George” in the 1960 movie based on the novel, starring Rod Taylor. Indeed, “George,” for Herbert George Wells, was later used as a time-voyaging character in such TV shows as “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.”
For some, the most famous time traveling story is the 1985 classic sci-fi/comedy film, “Back to the Future,” featuring Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) as the time traveler who goes back 30 years, before his parents first met. It’s all due to an experiment from mad scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) that went wrong.
For some, it’s just silly fun, but it makes a clever point or two about the consequences of time travel. So after he goofs up in a way that threatens to prevent his parents from coming together, he’s about to disappear until he sets things right. But the dangers of thoughtless time travel are front and center when he boosts the confidence of his dad to meet the woman who will become his mom.
In other words, he changes something critical that impacts his own time.
So when he returns to his own time, he finds a very different home environment as his parents reveal a surprising level of confidence and control. The lesson learned is that if you alter anything when you visit the past, it can change the future in unpredictable ways.
This is a major theme of a comic book TV adventure series on TheCW network, “Legends of Tomorrow,” where a group of grade-C super heroes travels through time and space in a vessel known as Waverider. The show is at its wacky best when our hapless heroes mistakenly alter an event while trying to fix things, thus setting up unpredictable and not always pleasant consequences.
Indeed, this all-too-common sci-fi trope is meant to demonstrate the potential dangers of time travel. You could very well force yourself out of existence if you go back in time and try to change something. Even a tiny change, such as influencing a kid to attend school when he or she wanted to play hooky that day, can impact their future life. And possibly yours!
Now the consequences of changing things formed a key plot point in the 1999 sci-fi send-up, “Galaxy Quest,” very much meant as a satire of Star Trek. So towards the end of the film, the hero, Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) engages a device, the "Omega 13", which pushes them 13 seconds into the past and allows them to defeat the enemy alien who has taken control of their starship.
In passing, I highly recommend this film. In addition to really well-done special effects and a smart script, you’ll enjoy the marvelous performances from its stellar ensemble cast that includes Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell and Daryl Mitchell. And let’s not forget the humorous and sometimes touching turn by Enrico Colantoni as Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians.
In any case, one of the theories presented about UFOs is that they are time travelers from our future. They are here either for a visit, or to make certain critical changes in the time-stream to undo events that might have negatively impacted their own civilization in their own time.
Or perhaps the so-called grandfather paradox, the consequences of changing a past event, do not even exist.
One of the most intriguing guests on The Paracast was biological anthropologist Dr. Michael P. Masters, author of “Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon.”
Dr. Masters theorized that UFOs might indeed by piloted by humans from our future. But rather than confront the consequences of changing time, his theory is that what happens is already meant to be. In other words, nothing is actually changed, and there is no danger of negatively altering world events or putting yourself out of existence.
Yet another time travel theory has it that the act of going back through time will create another or parallel reality if you do change something. So act of altering reality serves as the jumping off point. There will be one Earth, for example, where nothing is altered, and another, a new Earth (Earth-2, etc.), where the changes provide the expected (or unexpected) consequences.
In passing, I wonder if any of that is related at all to the so-called Mandela Effect, where people remember events differently from what actually occurred.
A common example is the belief that South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison. But in fact he actually survived and even served as president of the country from 1994 through 1999.
Many of you recall the cult character Jaws that appeared in two James Bond films that featured Roger Moore as 007, The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977, and Moonraker in 1979. Played by seven-foot two-inch actor Richard Kiel, the positive audience reaction evidently spurred the producers to feature the character in a second film, where he is reformed and takes a heroic turn.
Jaws super power, so to speak, is his metal teeth. And in Moonraker, he meets and falls in love with Dolly.
Now many of you will remember her character as also having metal teeth, thus being the perfect match for Jaws.
That’s how I remember it.
But, as confirmed by actress Blanche Ravalec, who portrayed Dolly, she did not wear braces in Moonraker.
So that, as they say, is that. But why would so many people recall things so differently? Was it wishful thinking, the result of our relatively imperfect human memory, or the result of somehow being transported to another reality, another Earth, at some point in our lives?
Inquiring minds might want to know, but this is likely a question that can never be answered in a way that will fully satisfy most people. After all, can our memories really be that bad?
I can give you some examples from my own life other than Dolly, but I’ll end it here. At least for now.
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January 30, 2022
www.theparacast.com
Paranormal Researcher and YouTube Star Zelia Edgar Reveals a Broad Range of Personal Paranormal Encounters and Classic Cases 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.
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, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz present Zelia Edgar, author of Just Another Tin Foil Hat Presents. A lifelong Wisconsin resident, she was born in Green Bay, the state’s first city. Her family is from Southwestern Wisconsin, and the folklore of that region was a strong influence on her upbringing. Inspired largely by the rich history of weirdness throughout the Midwest, she has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and has been seriously researching it for over a decade. In that time, she has worked as a certified field investigator and state director for Wisconsin MUFON, and currently runs the YouTube channel JustAnotherTinFoilHat. In addition to hosting a biweekly podcast by the same name on the Paranormal UK Radio Network, Zelia has also appeared as a guest on multiple podcasts and radio shows.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on January 30: Paranormal researcher Zelia Edgar rejoins Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz to talk further about her possible conclusions about the forces behind paranormal events, which is the focal point of "Speculations," a chapter in her book, Just Another Tin Foil Hat Presents. Her views encompass a wide variety of strange events, as she wonders whether UFOs, cryptids and ghost phenomena are all part of the puzzle. She has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and has been seriously researching it for over a decade. In that time, she has worked as a certified field investigator and state director for Wisconsin MUFON, and currently runs the YouTube channel JustAnotherTinFoilHat. In addition to discussing the paranormal, she also reviews horror films.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. 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
Of Time Travel and Do-Overs
By Gene Steinberg
I’m sure just about everyone out there would love a do-over. Perhaps you said something wrong, did something wrong that hurt someone’s feelings. I can make a large list, but wouldn’t it be simply wonderful to be able to revisit such episodes and set things right?
That, of course, means time travel, and it’s become a staple of sci-fi. Perhaps the most famous story of its kind was “The Time Machine,” an 1895 novel from H.G. Wells that showed the way.
But rather than go back through time, Wells had his character, “The Time Traveler,” take his device to the far future, A.D. 802,701, where he meets the childlike Eloi, living in a beautiful garden-like environment. The villains in this tale are the evil subsurface dwellers, the Morlocks, ape-like cannibals who have raised the Eloi as their main food source.
I remember when Richard Shaver, the man who talked of real-life evildoers, the dero, residing in caverns around the planet, said Wells’ Morlocks were based on these creatures.
It’s interesting to note that the protagonist is never named in the story, though he was known as “George” in the 1960 movie based on the novel, starring Rod Taylor. Indeed, “George,” for Herbert George Wells, was later used as a time-voyaging character in such TV shows as “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.”
For some, the most famous time traveling story is the 1985 classic sci-fi/comedy film, “Back to the Future,” featuring Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) as the time traveler who goes back 30 years, before his parents first met. It’s all due to an experiment from mad scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) that went wrong.
For some, it’s just silly fun, but it makes a clever point or two about the consequences of time travel. So after he goofs up in a way that threatens to prevent his parents from coming together, he’s about to disappear until he sets things right. But the dangers of thoughtless time travel are front and center when he boosts the confidence of his dad to meet the woman who will become his mom.
In other words, he changes something critical that impacts his own time.
So when he returns to his own time, he finds a very different home environment as his parents reveal a surprising level of confidence and control. The lesson learned is that if you alter anything when you visit the past, it can change the future in unpredictable ways.
This is a major theme of a comic book TV adventure series on TheCW network, “Legends of Tomorrow,” where a group of grade-C super heroes travels through time and space in a vessel known as Waverider. The show is at its wacky best when our hapless heroes mistakenly alter an event while trying to fix things, thus setting up unpredictable and not always pleasant consequences.
Indeed, this all-too-common sci-fi trope is meant to demonstrate the potential dangers of time travel. You could very well force yourself out of existence if you go back in time and try to change something. Even a tiny change, such as influencing a kid to attend school when he or she wanted to play hooky that day, can impact their future life. And possibly yours!
Now the consequences of changing things formed a key plot point in the 1999 sci-fi send-up, “Galaxy Quest,” very much meant as a satire of Star Trek. So towards the end of the film, the hero, Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) engages a device, the "Omega 13", which pushes them 13 seconds into the past and allows them to defeat the enemy alien who has taken control of their starship.
In passing, I highly recommend this film. In addition to really well-done special effects and a smart script, you’ll enjoy the marvelous performances from its stellar ensemble cast that includes Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell and Daryl Mitchell. And let’s not forget the humorous and sometimes touching turn by Enrico Colantoni as Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians.
In any case, one of the theories presented about UFOs is that they are time travelers from our future. They are here either for a visit, or to make certain critical changes in the time-stream to undo events that might have negatively impacted their own civilization in their own time.
Or perhaps the so-called grandfather paradox, the consequences of changing a past event, do not even exist.
One of the most intriguing guests on The Paracast was biological anthropologist Dr. Michael P. Masters, author of “Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon.”
Dr. Masters theorized that UFOs might indeed by piloted by humans from our future. But rather than confront the consequences of changing time, his theory is that what happens is already meant to be. In other words, nothing is actually changed, and there is no danger of negatively altering world events or putting yourself out of existence.
Yet another time travel theory has it that the act of going back through time will create another or parallel reality if you do change something. So act of altering reality serves as the jumping off point. There will be one Earth, for example, where nothing is altered, and another, a new Earth (Earth-2, etc.), where the changes provide the expected (or unexpected) consequences.
In passing, I wonder if any of that is related at all to the so-called Mandela Effect, where people remember events differently from what actually occurred.
A common example is the belief that South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison. But in fact he actually survived and even served as president of the country from 1994 through 1999.
Many of you recall the cult character Jaws that appeared in two James Bond films that featured Roger Moore as 007, The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977, and Moonraker in 1979. Played by seven-foot two-inch actor Richard Kiel, the positive audience reaction evidently spurred the producers to feature the character in a second film, where he is reformed and takes a heroic turn.
Jaws super power, so to speak, is his metal teeth. And in Moonraker, he meets and falls in love with Dolly.
Now many of you will remember her character as also having metal teeth, thus being the perfect match for Jaws.
That’s how I remember it.
But, as confirmed by actress Blanche Ravalec, who portrayed Dolly, she did not wear braces in Moonraker.
So that, as they say, is that. But why would so many people recall things so differently? Was it wishful thinking, the result of our relatively imperfect human memory, or the result of somehow being transported to another reality, another Earth, at some point in our lives?
Inquiring minds might want to know, but this is likely a question that can never be answered in a way that will fully satisfy most people. After all, can our memories really be that bad?
I can give you some examples from my own life other than Dolly, but I’ll end it here. At least for now.
Copyright 1999-2022 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
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