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March 129, 2026
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Paranormal researchers Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine offer unique insights on ghosts, AI and other topics this week 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 and later now feature better audio and fewer ads. We are also re-releasing some of our most popular classic episodes.
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This Week's Episode (March 29, 2026: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a fascinating session featuring paranormal investigators Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine. Among the many topics: Emily, the persistent ghost, whether all ghost stories are essentially the same, occult religious practices and AI influences, both advantages and shortcomings. And where AI failed miserably for Gene. Roberts is an Fortean Investigator who investigates all things paranormal from ghosts to demons to cryptids to UFOs. Roberts has investigated paranormal hot spots like Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch, Stonehenge, Bridge over River Kwai in Thailand, Tower of London, the headless Knights Templar in Prague — Czech Republic, Paris catacombs, UFO activity in Belize, Cecil Hotel and victim locations of well-known serial killers. He has written for several paranormal publications. Xandine “Bluezy” Smith isn’t just a paranormal investigator — he’s a bridge between worlds. From working with Halo Paranormal Investigations to documenting mass UFO sightings, to now exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness — his work pushes into territory most people won’t even question.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Paranormal researchers Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine join Gene and cohost Tim Swartz to about whether UFOs software glitches? Is AI making it up, Naval intelligence and their investigation of UFOs, military UFO sightings, abductions, red or orange UFOs. And what about UFO disclosures? Has it really happened as some suggest? What about the involvement of indigenous people? oberts is a Fortean Investigator who investigates all things paranormal from ghosts to demons to cryptids to UFOs. Roberts has investigated paranormal hot spots like Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch, Stonehenge, Bridge over River Kwai in Thailand, Tower of London, the headless Knights Templar in Prague — Czech Republic, Paris catacombs, UFO activity in Belize, Cecil Hotel and victim locations of well-known serial killers. He has written for several paranormal publications. Xandine “Bluezy” Smith isn’t just a paranormal investigator — he’s a bridge between worlds. From working with Halo Paranormal Investigations to documenting mass UFO sightings, to now exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness — his work pushes into territory most people won’t even question.
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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
About the Long-Forgotten Shaver Mystery
By Geneva
There's a strange phenomenon where some people, after spending time in a prolonged coma, awaken to report having spent years in a different reality — as real to them as this one. Some mourn loved ones in that reality, spouses or children who don't exist in this one. One podcaster still feels profound grief for a child that died in his dream-world. In real life, he has no children. These experiences are not like dreams, but like vivid memories. And that could help to explain the stories of Richard Shaver, commemorated by Dean Bertram in his award-winning film The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers.
Born 1907 in a small town in Pennsylvania, Richard Shaver began attending an art school. He remarked on the sudden shift of consciousness when a student begins thinking and creating artwork in 3D. He worked for a while as an art model and eventually married one of his female instructors. Later, while working as a welder, he began having disturbing experiences where he seemed to be receiving telepathic broadcasts from people being held captive and tortured. I've read that people prone to epilepsy can be triggered into seizures or fugue states by the flickering of a welder's torch, and that "kidnapped and tortured" scenario is a common psychotic fantasy. Shaver had several such episodes, at least three of which resulted in prolonged periods of hospitalization. During those early years especially, time in a mental hospital probably felt exactly like being held captive and tortured!
Shaver's fate then intertwined with that of Ray Palmer, a science-fiction publisher. Palmer had a hunchback secondary to a childhood accident, and filmmaker David Lynch used him as an icon near the end of his Twin Peaks TV series. In one of the last scenes, a little man who is almost Ray's double greets the FBI agent in a bardo (transition zone between realities), introducing himself as "Laura Palmer's cousin"! During the second Twin Peaks series, Lynch continues with the Shaver theme by showing a creepy elevator that takes people to a room where a single bored soldier sits waiting for ... something ... to happen. And something eventually does.
Shaver claimed that some elevators have secret floors below ground and open into tunnels inhabited by strange creatures that survived Earth's last reset. They are remnants of a highly advanced civilization forced to take shelter underground after the sun's rays turned destructive. But since their devices — which included Telaugs, or telepathic augmentation equipment — were solar-powered, that wasn't a full solution. Some of the original inhabitants degenerated into malevolent "Deros," who entertained themselves by tormenting, and sometimes consuming, surface-dwellers. Others who had retained some benevolence were called Teros.
Shaver said the original language was called Mantong, and claimed that the elements of any word in any language could be analyzed to reveal its meaning by that code. Ray Palmer claimed to have cofirmed this. I have to wonder Mantong had any resemblance to Proto-IndoEuropean, which modern linguists believe to have been the original language of that continent. They reverse-engineered the way languages evolve over time, with sounds morphing into others that are easier to say. They don't explain why the original languages were more difficult than later ones!
After Ray Palmer published a science-fiction story by Shaver called "I Remember Lemuria," supposedly many readers wrote to him claiming that the story was not fiction at all — they had had similar experiences! The whole theme was very similar to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. People began complaining of being tortured by ray machines long before such devices actually existed. The QAnon conspiracy theories, and real crime networks like the one at Epstein's island, also had themes of secret tunnels, occult societies, abductions and cannibalism.
But a note of caution is in order. During the 1980s, a friend of mine from New York, exhausted by her struggle to maintain a part-time career while caring for a sickly newborn, was shocked to pick up a brochure naming herself as mastermind of a global kidnapping and pedophile ring! She had been interviewing a member of a fringe political group with the sincere intention of producing a "fair and balanced" radio news show about his movement, but apparently he'd had his own agenda. At that point my exasperated friend gave up on even thinking about cults or conspiracies — though we later found out that they do exist!
Shaver's original inhabitants were very long-lived, but grew larger for their entire lives, so that you could deduce a person's age by their size. The Telaug machine linked everyone into a global mind. He said that G.O.D. originally was short for Governor of District, a computerized traffic controller that kept everything running smoothly, without people interfering with one another. One of their few laws was "Nothing Twice Alike," so that every item was a work of creative art made by hand. This was particularly frustrating for the Dawn Master, whose job was to paint the sky at sunrise. He found himself having to resort to a computer to make sure that he wouldn't repeat a pattern, creating what passed for controversy in those quiet times.
Shaver believed that the history of that ancient civilization was recorded in what we now perceive as mere rocks. These were designed to be used with projection devices, but contained holographic images that could be viewed by us directly if we found one and sliced it smoothly just the right way. Otherwise, we'd just see a confusing jumble of crosswise slices. When Gene and I visited Shaver and his wife in 1972, he showed us his workshop, where he would project a slice of rock onto a paper and sprinkle a find powder of marine glue dust over the image. He claimed that pressure of the light beams would cause the dust to adhere more densely to the darker parts of the image, and he would then paint over this manually to reveal the image. We didn't ask why he didn't just use conventional photography! He did have smaller photographs of some of his rocks.
I later learned that Uranda, a former Methodist preacher who founded a spiritual sect called the Ontologists (later called the Emissaries), had also believed that he could "read" memories of Earth's history from rocks, some of them involving Lemuria, or Mu. Shaver believed that human life on Earth was a cyclical phenomenon, usually evolving to the point of space travel and global mind, and enduring until the sun entered another dangerous phase, when most surface life would die off again.
Shaver was a gracious and intelligent host. Except for his rock stories, during the short time of our visit he never gave any sign of being mentally unstable. However, he did decline our invitation to be a guest speaker at a UFO convention, out of fear that if he left his familiar surroundings, the Deros might make him disoriented enough to bring on another psychotic episode.
He began to hope that Gene and I might carry on his work, and began to send us a long series of letters — many typed pages a day. Though we wished him well, we were a financially struggling young couple who couldn't find time to read all that, let alone reply. After our divorce, when we finally looked through that stack of mail, we learned that his later letters had begun to warn us that the Deros were interfering with our marriage!
I deeply regret that most of Shaver's voluminous correspondence was lost along the way. I did send the remaining scraps of it to Richard Toronto (publisher of Shavertron zine) and Dean Bertram, and Gene and I published some of his essays in our zines Caveat Emptor and Crossroads Quarterly. Richard Shaver died in 1975 at age 68. He and Ray Palmer made a bigger cultural splash than most writers, and yet most of their work will be lost to history, as the ripples close around them.
Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Dean Bertram will guest on the April 5th episode of The Paracast.
Geneva grew up in the foothills of Appalachia with an extended family that practiced folk magic such as dowsing, table rapping, precog dreaming and psychic healing. She was coeditor of Caveat Emptor and Crossroads Quarterly zines and on staff at High Times, Beyond Reality, two community newspapers and the BC Legislative Assembly. Geneva was a hatha yoga instructor and a certified NLP (neurolinguistic programming) practitioner. She moved to Canada in the mid 1980s and spent six years off the grid in a log cabin, until all the chopping of wood and carrying of water had wrecked her shoulders.
She took part in Earth Day starting in 1971 as a passionate environmentalist and hosted a weekly cable TV talk show on world hunger issues in NYC and Atlanta. In Atlanta in 1982 She founded the first chapter of RESULTS, a citizens' lobby to end poverty, which continues to this day under new leadership. Geneva is author of one science-fiction novel and has lived on Vancouver Island since 1991. There are many tales of UFOs and paranormal activity here in BC, but her own experiences have been limited. Geneva also spent a decade or so shopping around for a cult or commune to join. None of them were a good fit, but she became superficially acquainted with many. She spent 23 years with a trainer for the Living Love method developed by Ken Keyes, author of Handbook for Higher Consciousness.
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March 129, 2026
www.theparacast.com
Paranormal researchers Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine offer unique insights on ghosts, AI and other topics this week 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 and later 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 for subscribers to The Paracast+ are now released 24 hours earlier. Flash! Now includes over 100 classic episodes, so 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 (March 29, 2026: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a fascinating session featuring paranormal investigators Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine. Among the many topics: Emily, the persistent ghost, whether all ghost stories are essentially the same, occult religious practices and AI influences, both advantages and shortcomings. And where AI failed miserably for Gene. Roberts is an Fortean Investigator who investigates all things paranormal from ghosts to demons to cryptids to UFOs. Roberts has investigated paranormal hot spots like Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch, Stonehenge, Bridge over River Kwai in Thailand, Tower of London, the headless Knights Templar in Prague — Czech Republic, Paris catacombs, UFO activity in Belize, Cecil Hotel and victim locations of well-known serial killers. He has written for several paranormal publications. Xandine “Bluezy” Smith isn’t just a paranormal investigator — he’s a bridge between worlds. From working with Halo Paranormal Investigations to documenting mass UFO sightings, to now exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness — his work pushes into territory most people won’t even question.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Paranormal researchers Paul Dale Roberts and Xandine join Gene and cohost Tim Swartz to about whether UFOs software glitches? Is AI making it up, Naval intelligence and their investigation of UFOs, military UFO sightings, abductions, red or orange UFOs. And what about UFO disclosures? Has it really happened as some suggest? What about the involvement of indigenous people? oberts is a Fortean Investigator who investigates all things paranormal from ghosts to demons to cryptids to UFOs. Roberts has investigated paranormal hot spots like Area 51, Skinwalker Ranch, Stonehenge, Bridge over River Kwai in Thailand, Tower of London, the headless Knights Templar in Prague — Czech Republic, Paris catacombs, UFO activity in Belize, Cecil Hotel and victim locations of well-known serial killers. He has written for several paranormal publications. Xandine “Bluezy” Smith isn’t just a paranormal investigator — he’s a bridge between worlds. From working with Halo Paranormal Investigations to documenting mass UFO sightings, to now exploring the intersection of AI and consciousness — his work pushes into territory most people won’t even question.
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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
About the Long-Forgotten Shaver Mystery
By Geneva
There's a strange phenomenon where some people, after spending time in a prolonged coma, awaken to report having spent years in a different reality — as real to them as this one. Some mourn loved ones in that reality, spouses or children who don't exist in this one. One podcaster still feels profound grief for a child that died in his dream-world. In real life, he has no children. These experiences are not like dreams, but like vivid memories. And that could help to explain the stories of Richard Shaver, commemorated by Dean Bertram in his award-winning film The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers.
Born 1907 in a small town in Pennsylvania, Richard Shaver began attending an art school. He remarked on the sudden shift of consciousness when a student begins thinking and creating artwork in 3D. He worked for a while as an art model and eventually married one of his female instructors. Later, while working as a welder, he began having disturbing experiences where he seemed to be receiving telepathic broadcasts from people being held captive and tortured. I've read that people prone to epilepsy can be triggered into seizures or fugue states by the flickering of a welder's torch, and that "kidnapped and tortured" scenario is a common psychotic fantasy. Shaver had several such episodes, at least three of which resulted in prolonged periods of hospitalization. During those early years especially, time in a mental hospital probably felt exactly like being held captive and tortured!
Shaver's fate then intertwined with that of Ray Palmer, a science-fiction publisher. Palmer had a hunchback secondary to a childhood accident, and filmmaker David Lynch used him as an icon near the end of his Twin Peaks TV series. In one of the last scenes, a little man who is almost Ray's double greets the FBI agent in a bardo (transition zone between realities), introducing himself as "Laura Palmer's cousin"! During the second Twin Peaks series, Lynch continues with the Shaver theme by showing a creepy elevator that takes people to a room where a single bored soldier sits waiting for ... something ... to happen. And something eventually does.
Shaver claimed that some elevators have secret floors below ground and open into tunnels inhabited by strange creatures that survived Earth's last reset. They are remnants of a highly advanced civilization forced to take shelter underground after the sun's rays turned destructive. But since their devices — which included Telaugs, or telepathic augmentation equipment — were solar-powered, that wasn't a full solution. Some of the original inhabitants degenerated into malevolent "Deros," who entertained themselves by tormenting, and sometimes consuming, surface-dwellers. Others who had retained some benevolence were called Teros.
Shaver said the original language was called Mantong, and claimed that the elements of any word in any language could be analyzed to reveal its meaning by that code. Ray Palmer claimed to have cofirmed this. I have to wonder Mantong had any resemblance to Proto-IndoEuropean, which modern linguists believe to have been the original language of that continent. They reverse-engineered the way languages evolve over time, with sounds morphing into others that are easier to say. They don't explain why the original languages were more difficult than later ones!
After Ray Palmer published a science-fiction story by Shaver called "I Remember Lemuria," supposedly many readers wrote to him claiming that the story was not fiction at all — they had had similar experiences! The whole theme was very similar to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. People began complaining of being tortured by ray machines long before such devices actually existed. The QAnon conspiracy theories, and real crime networks like the one at Epstein's island, also had themes of secret tunnels, occult societies, abductions and cannibalism.
But a note of caution is in order. During the 1980s, a friend of mine from New York, exhausted by her struggle to maintain a part-time career while caring for a sickly newborn, was shocked to pick up a brochure naming herself as mastermind of a global kidnapping and pedophile ring! She had been interviewing a member of a fringe political group with the sincere intention of producing a "fair and balanced" radio news show about his movement, but apparently he'd had his own agenda. At that point my exasperated friend gave up on even thinking about cults or conspiracies — though we later found out that they do exist!
Shaver's original inhabitants were very long-lived, but grew larger for their entire lives, so that you could deduce a person's age by their size. The Telaug machine linked everyone into a global mind. He said that G.O.D. originally was short for Governor of District, a computerized traffic controller that kept everything running smoothly, without people interfering with one another. One of their few laws was "Nothing Twice Alike," so that every item was a work of creative art made by hand. This was particularly frustrating for the Dawn Master, whose job was to paint the sky at sunrise. He found himself having to resort to a computer to make sure that he wouldn't repeat a pattern, creating what passed for controversy in those quiet times.
Shaver believed that the history of that ancient civilization was recorded in what we now perceive as mere rocks. These were designed to be used with projection devices, but contained holographic images that could be viewed by us directly if we found one and sliced it smoothly just the right way. Otherwise, we'd just see a confusing jumble of crosswise slices. When Gene and I visited Shaver and his wife in 1972, he showed us his workshop, where he would project a slice of rock onto a paper and sprinkle a find powder of marine glue dust over the image. He claimed that pressure of the light beams would cause the dust to adhere more densely to the darker parts of the image, and he would then paint over this manually to reveal the image. We didn't ask why he didn't just use conventional photography! He did have smaller photographs of some of his rocks.
I later learned that Uranda, a former Methodist preacher who founded a spiritual sect called the Ontologists (later called the Emissaries), had also believed that he could "read" memories of Earth's history from rocks, some of them involving Lemuria, or Mu. Shaver believed that human life on Earth was a cyclical phenomenon, usually evolving to the point of space travel and global mind, and enduring until the sun entered another dangerous phase, when most surface life would die off again.
Shaver was a gracious and intelligent host. Except for his rock stories, during the short time of our visit he never gave any sign of being mentally unstable. However, he did decline our invitation to be a guest speaker at a UFO convention, out of fear that if he left his familiar surroundings, the Deros might make him disoriented enough to bring on another psychotic episode.
He began to hope that Gene and I might carry on his work, and began to send us a long series of letters — many typed pages a day. Though we wished him well, we were a financially struggling young couple who couldn't find time to read all that, let alone reply. After our divorce, when we finally looked through that stack of mail, we learned that his later letters had begun to warn us that the Deros were interfering with our marriage!
I deeply regret that most of Shaver's voluminous correspondence was lost along the way. I did send the remaining scraps of it to Richard Toronto (publisher of Shavertron zine) and Dean Bertram, and Gene and I published some of his essays in our zines Caveat Emptor and Crossroads Quarterly. Richard Shaver died in 1975 at age 68. He and Ray Palmer made a bigger cultural splash than most writers, and yet most of their work will be lost to history, as the ripples close around them.
Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Dean Bertram will guest on the April 5th episode of The Paracast.
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Geneva grew up in the foothills of Appalachia with an extended family that practiced folk magic such as dowsing, table rapping, precog dreaming and psychic healing. She was coeditor of Caveat Emptor and Crossroads Quarterly zines and on staff at High Times, Beyond Reality, two community newspapers and the BC Legislative Assembly. Geneva was a hatha yoga instructor and a certified NLP (neurolinguistic programming) practitioner. She moved to Canada in the mid 1980s and spent six years off the grid in a log cabin, until all the chopping of wood and carrying of water had wrecked her shoulders.
She took part in Earth Day starting in 1971 as a passionate environmentalist and hosted a weekly cable TV talk show on world hunger issues in NYC and Atlanta. In Atlanta in 1982 She founded the first chapter of RESULTS, a citizens' lobby to end poverty, which continues to this day under new leadership. Geneva is author of one science-fiction novel and has lived on Vancouver Island since 1991. There are many tales of UFOs and paranormal activity here in BC, but her own experiences have been limited. Geneva also spent a decade or so shopping around for a cult or commune to join. None of them were a good fit, but she became superficially acquainted with many. She spent 23 years with a trainer for the Living Love method developed by Ken Keyes, author of Handbook for Higher Consciousness.
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