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May 4, 2025
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Incredible Bigfoot Sightings Revealed by Monster Hunter Kenney W. Irish, the One and Only ”Cryptopunkologist," 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 (May 4, 2025): Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Kenney W. Irish, the one and only ”Cryptopunkologist.” He is an author, hardcore/punk musician, and sales/marketing professional. Originally from the northern parts of Vermont, he relocated to the beautiful Adirondacks area of upstate New York. He has a lifelong love of folklore, legends, monsters, and UFO stories. Kenney has regularly attended and spoke at writers’ groups, conferences, festivals, and various other platforms across the country representing The New York Bigfoot Society. He has a passion for writing young readers chapter books. The two most recent released via Hanger 1 Publishing, owned by the creator, and producer of the hit TV show, Monster Quest. His “monster” books include “American Cryptids: In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures, released in 2021. This book became a six-time #1 bestseller on Amazon, and has outperformed all other material in its genre. In late summer of 2022, “International Cryptids and Legends,” the follow-up, was released , and remained in the number 1 bestseller spot for two weeks straight and is now a two-time bestseller. Kenny’s latest book is “American Monster Hunters.” His website: https://www.kwirish.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 3: Kenney W. Irish, the “Cryptopunkologist,” returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the investigators he honors in his book, “American Monster Hunters.” He also talks about his family background and why he believes that people are no longer excited by UFOs despite the surveys. There is also a discussion about the future of cryptid research. An author, hardcore/punk musician, and sales/marketing professional, Kenney has a lifelong love of folklore, legends, monsters, and UFO stories. Kenney has regularly attended and spoke at writers’ groups, conferences, festivals, and various other platforms across the country representing The New York Bigfoot Society. He has a passion for writing young readers chapter books. The two most recent released via Hanger 1 Publishing, owned by the creator, and producer of the hit TV show, Monster Quest. His earlier “monster” books include “American Cryptids: In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures, released in 2021. This book became a six-time #1 bestseller on Amazon, and has outperformed all other material in its genre. In late summer of 2022, “International Cryptids and Legends,” the follow-up, was released , and remained in the number 1 bestseller spot for two weeks straight and is now a two-time bestseller. His website: https://www.kwirish.com
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.
The Milton Keynes MIB
By Tim R. Swartz
Several of our guests on The Paracast have recently brought up the Men-In-Black, the infamous “UFO silencers.” This little-known MIB incident was originally written up in Timothy Green Beckley’s Curse of the Men-in-Black: Return of the UFO Terrorists (Global Communications, 2010). I have followed up on the original story and uncovered some additional information that has never been published before.
At the time of the incidents in 1980, Maria Korn was a 14-year-old boarder at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain. As reported by researcher Robert Bull, Maria was receiving psychological counseling from a Dr. Black for acute anorexia and sleeping difficulties.
One night Maria couldn't sleep and got up, at about 1:00 AM to look at the stars. She stood by the window overlooking the tennis court and was surprised to see a large, ball-shaped flashing light inside the court, which was completely surrounded by wire netting.
She looked at it for about five minutes, and then went back to bed. About a half an hour later, she heard a strange whirring sound. Returning to the window, the now dark object was hovering just outside the window. The object then moved off rapidly and disappeared into the dark.
The next morning, none of the other girls mentioned having seen or heard anything strange, and Maria kept her experience to herself. Later that morning, a large, shallow, circular depression was discovered seemingly burnt onto the tennis court. The next day the police arrived to inspect the damage, but Maria didn't tell anyone what she had seen two nights before.
Three or four months later, Maria was in a math class when one of the nuns, Sister Jennifer, took her out, saying that she had a visitor. Maria thought at the time that it was unusual for the class to be interrupted, visitors normally came only at weekends, and she was worried in case the visitor was bringing bad news.
Maria was taken into a dining room where, sitting at a large table, was not one visitor but two men dressed in black. The heat was on and the room felt warm as Maria entered it, but as soon as she saw the two men she felt cold, and she put on the jacket that she was carrying.
Maria had never seen her visitors before, and she asked them who they were. They told her they were with Dr. Black, her psychiatrist. She stared at their eyes, which weren't brown or blue, but a strange brownish grayish color. She found the experience frightening, and looked away.
The men asked her how she was and how she was doing at school, just a normal, polite conversation. As they talked Maria noticed several other strange things about her visitors. They looked the same, as if they were identical twins, their skin was smooth and featureless, no beard and no sign that they ever needed to shave at all.
Their hair was shiny black, each brushed in the same style and not a hair was out of place, their black suits, seemingly brand new, fitted perfectly as if tailor-made and having razor-sharp creases. Their ties and socks were also black, exactly the same black as their trousers and jackets.
One of the men then asked Maria if anything strange had happened at the convent recently. She instantly thought that they must mean what she had seen at the tennis court – but she was afraid to admit anything she knew to the strangers, so she said no.
The two men obviously knew she was lying as they continued to press the question. Just then the school lunchtime bell rang. The man asked what the bell was for and then told Maria she had better go to lunch, adding that they had to leave. Although the men looked to be like businessmen, they didn't appear to be wearing watches as one of them asked Maria the time.
The men had been drinking coffee during their talk with Maria, but when she shook hands with them as she was saying goodbye she noticed that their hands were ice cold, despite the fact that they had been holding hot cups of coffee during most of the conversation.
One of the men asked Sister Jennifer if Maria could show them the way out, saying finally that: “we'll be back to see you again.”
She walked to the doorway and was amazed to see that the two men were walking and swinging their arms exactly in step with each other. They walked outside to their waiting black car and Maria noticed that, although it was a windy day, their hair didn't move, as if it was glued down.
The car had a chauffeur, also dressed in black, who must have been waiting all this time. As the car moved off, Maria noticed that the number plate had white characters on a black background, which she thought was strange. It also had mirrored windows so Maria couldn't see into the car, but she thought that the men could see out.
She caught a glimpse into the car when one of the men opened a door, but all she could see was black, no seats, and no dashboard. It was as if she was looking into a black hole.
The car moved off silently. There was no sound of an engine being started, no exhaust fumes. She was also mystified that although she saw the car turn out of the convent gate, she didn't see it moving up the hill that led to the convent. It had completely disappeared on the only road leading to the convent.
Maria stood where she was for several minutes, unable to move. She could hear Sister Jennifer calling to her, but she couldn't turn around and go to her. Sister Jennifer asked her if she was all right, at which point she “snapped out of it” and was able to move again. She asked Maria who the men were and Maria replied, saying that they were from Dr. Black; although they were both surprised that Dr. Black hadn't warned them that the men would be coming.
A few weeks later, when Maria saw Dr. Black, she asked her about her strange visitors. Dr. Black was shocked and informed Maria that she hadn't sent the men and would never send anyone without informing her first. Although Maria never saw her MIBs again, she did begin to develop psychic powers and have extraordinary experiences.
After Maria left the convent her strange experiences and abilities continued. She found that she could make things disappear and reappear by just thinking about them. She could make light bulbs burn out; she started a stalled car engine (with a jammed starter motor and a totally dead battery) just by willing it.
Strangely enough, Maria also experienced several episodes where she was unexpectedly teleported over the distance of several miles. Once, she stepped out of her front door to get the mail and found herself standing on the sidewalk in a neighborhood over five miles from her home. This happened without any warning and, as far as she could tell, was instantaneous.
Marie could offer no explanation on why these strange events centered on her. Many of the things that happened were witnessed by others. The UFO she saw left a depression and burn marks on the ground; her MIBs were seen by other people and they drank coffee that had been given to them.
Marie would later tell investigators that she is certain the UFO somehow exerted a weird type of mind control on her. But she has no idea why she was visited by the MIB. Whatever happened to her, it was not a figment of her imagination.
Tim R. Swartz is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer, and is the author of a number of popular books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, Gef the Talking Mongoose, and is a contributing writer for such books as, Brad Steiger's Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, and Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places. His most recent books, along with author Sean Casteel are Weird Time – Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics — The Others Among Us.
As a photojournalist, Tim Swartz has traveled extensively and investigated paranormal phenomena and other unusual mysteries in such diverse locations as the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Great Wall in China. He has worked with major television networks both national and international.
Tim has appeared on the documentary “The Myth of Tesla,” as well as The History Channels programs "Ancient Aliens,” “Evidence," "Ancient Aliens: Declassified,” "The UnXplained,” and the History Channel Latin America series "Contacto Extraterrestre.”
His articles have been published in magazines such as Mysteries, FATE, Strange, Atlantis Rising, UFO Universe, Flying Saucer Review, Renaissance, and Unsolved UFO Reports.
Tim is also the co-host/co-producer of The Paracast with Gene Steinberg at: www.theparacast.com
His website is: www.weirdtimebook.com
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May 4, 2025
www.theparacast.com
Incredible Bigfoot Sightings Revealed by Monster Hunter Kenney W. Irish, the One and Only ”Cryptopunkologist," 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! 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 (May 4, 2025): Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Kenney W. Irish, the one and only ”Cryptopunkologist.” He is an author, hardcore/punk musician, and sales/marketing professional. Originally from the northern parts of Vermont, he relocated to the beautiful Adirondacks area of upstate New York. He has a lifelong love of folklore, legends, monsters, and UFO stories. Kenney has regularly attended and spoke at writers’ groups, conferences, festivals, and various other platforms across the country representing The New York Bigfoot Society. He has a passion for writing young readers chapter books. The two most recent released via Hanger 1 Publishing, owned by the creator, and producer of the hit TV show, Monster Quest. His “monster” books include “American Cryptids: In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures, released in 2021. This book became a six-time #1 bestseller on Amazon, and has outperformed all other material in its genre. In late summer of 2022, “International Cryptids and Legends,” the follow-up, was released , and remained in the number 1 bestseller spot for two weeks straight and is now a two-time bestseller. Kenny’s latest book is “American Monster Hunters.” His website: https://www.kwirish.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 3: Kenney W. Irish, the “Cryptopunkologist,” returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about the investigators he honors in his book, “American Monster Hunters.” He also talks about his family background and why he believes that people are no longer excited by UFOs despite the surveys. There is also a discussion about the future of cryptid research. An author, hardcore/punk musician, and sales/marketing professional, Kenney has a lifelong love of folklore, legends, monsters, and UFO stories. Kenney has regularly attended and spoke at writers’ groups, conferences, festivals, and various other platforms across the country representing The New York Bigfoot Society. He has a passion for writing young readers chapter books. The two most recent released via Hanger 1 Publishing, owned by the creator, and producer of the hit TV show, Monster Quest. His earlier “monster” books include “American Cryptids: In Pursuit of the Elusive Creatures, released in 2021. This book became a six-time #1 bestseller on Amazon, and has outperformed all other material in its genre. In late summer of 2022, “International Cryptids and Legends,” the follow-up, was released , and remained in the number 1 bestseller spot for two weeks straight and is now a two-time bestseller. His website: https://www.kwirish.com
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.
The Milton Keynes MIB
By Tim R. Swartz
Several of our guests on The Paracast have recently brought up the Men-In-Black, the infamous “UFO silencers.” This little-known MIB incident was originally written up in Timothy Green Beckley’s Curse of the Men-in-Black: Return of the UFO Terrorists (Global Communications, 2010). I have followed up on the original story and uncovered some additional information that has never been published before.
At the time of the incidents in 1980, Maria Korn was a 14-year-old boarder at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain. As reported by researcher Robert Bull, Maria was receiving psychological counseling from a Dr. Black for acute anorexia and sleeping difficulties.
One night Maria couldn't sleep and got up, at about 1:00 AM to look at the stars. She stood by the window overlooking the tennis court and was surprised to see a large, ball-shaped flashing light inside the court, which was completely surrounded by wire netting.
She looked at it for about five minutes, and then went back to bed. About a half an hour later, she heard a strange whirring sound. Returning to the window, the now dark object was hovering just outside the window. The object then moved off rapidly and disappeared into the dark.
The next morning, none of the other girls mentioned having seen or heard anything strange, and Maria kept her experience to herself. Later that morning, a large, shallow, circular depression was discovered seemingly burnt onto the tennis court. The next day the police arrived to inspect the damage, but Maria didn't tell anyone what she had seen two nights before.
Three or four months later, Maria was in a math class when one of the nuns, Sister Jennifer, took her out, saying that she had a visitor. Maria thought at the time that it was unusual for the class to be interrupted, visitors normally came only at weekends, and she was worried in case the visitor was bringing bad news.
Maria was taken into a dining room where, sitting at a large table, was not one visitor but two men dressed in black. The heat was on and the room felt warm as Maria entered it, but as soon as she saw the two men she felt cold, and she put on the jacket that she was carrying.
Maria had never seen her visitors before, and she asked them who they were. They told her they were with Dr. Black, her psychiatrist. She stared at their eyes, which weren't brown or blue, but a strange brownish grayish color. She found the experience frightening, and looked away.
The men asked her how she was and how she was doing at school, just a normal, polite conversation. As they talked Maria noticed several other strange things about her visitors. They looked the same, as if they were identical twins, their skin was smooth and featureless, no beard and no sign that they ever needed to shave at all.
Their hair was shiny black, each brushed in the same style and not a hair was out of place, their black suits, seemingly brand new, fitted perfectly as if tailor-made and having razor-sharp creases. Their ties and socks were also black, exactly the same black as their trousers and jackets.
One of the men then asked Maria if anything strange had happened at the convent recently. She instantly thought that they must mean what she had seen at the tennis court – but she was afraid to admit anything she knew to the strangers, so she said no.
The two men obviously knew she was lying as they continued to press the question. Just then the school lunchtime bell rang. The man asked what the bell was for and then told Maria she had better go to lunch, adding that they had to leave. Although the men looked to be like businessmen, they didn't appear to be wearing watches as one of them asked Maria the time.
The men had been drinking coffee during their talk with Maria, but when she shook hands with them as she was saying goodbye she noticed that their hands were ice cold, despite the fact that they had been holding hot cups of coffee during most of the conversation.
One of the men asked Sister Jennifer if Maria could show them the way out, saying finally that: “we'll be back to see you again.”
She walked to the doorway and was amazed to see that the two men were walking and swinging their arms exactly in step with each other. They walked outside to their waiting black car and Maria noticed that, although it was a windy day, their hair didn't move, as if it was glued down.
The car had a chauffeur, also dressed in black, who must have been waiting all this time. As the car moved off, Maria noticed that the number plate had white characters on a black background, which she thought was strange. It also had mirrored windows so Maria couldn't see into the car, but she thought that the men could see out.
She caught a glimpse into the car when one of the men opened a door, but all she could see was black, no seats, and no dashboard. It was as if she was looking into a black hole.
The car moved off silently. There was no sound of an engine being started, no exhaust fumes. She was also mystified that although she saw the car turn out of the convent gate, she didn't see it moving up the hill that led to the convent. It had completely disappeared on the only road leading to the convent.
Maria stood where she was for several minutes, unable to move. She could hear Sister Jennifer calling to her, but she couldn't turn around and go to her. Sister Jennifer asked her if she was all right, at which point she “snapped out of it” and was able to move again. She asked Maria who the men were and Maria replied, saying that they were from Dr. Black; although they were both surprised that Dr. Black hadn't warned them that the men would be coming.
A few weeks later, when Maria saw Dr. Black, she asked her about her strange visitors. Dr. Black was shocked and informed Maria that she hadn't sent the men and would never send anyone without informing her first. Although Maria never saw her MIBs again, she did begin to develop psychic powers and have extraordinary experiences.
After Maria left the convent her strange experiences and abilities continued. She found that she could make things disappear and reappear by just thinking about them. She could make light bulbs burn out; she started a stalled car engine (with a jammed starter motor and a totally dead battery) just by willing it.
Strangely enough, Maria also experienced several episodes where she was unexpectedly teleported over the distance of several miles. Once, she stepped out of her front door to get the mail and found herself standing on the sidewalk in a neighborhood over five miles from her home. This happened without any warning and, as far as she could tell, was instantaneous.
Marie could offer no explanation on why these strange events centered on her. Many of the things that happened were witnessed by others. The UFO she saw left a depression and burn marks on the ground; her MIBs were seen by other people and they drank coffee that had been given to them.
Marie would later tell investigators that she is certain the UFO somehow exerted a weird type of mind control on her. But she has no idea why she was visited by the MIB. Whatever happened to her, it was not a figment of her imagination.
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Tim R. Swartz is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer, and is the author of a number of popular books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, Gef the Talking Mongoose, and is a contributing writer for such books as, Brad Steiger's Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside, and Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places. His most recent books, along with author Sean Casteel are Weird Time – Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics — The Others Among Us.
As a photojournalist, Tim Swartz has traveled extensively and investigated paranormal phenomena and other unusual mysteries in such diverse locations as the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Great Wall in China. He has worked with major television networks both national and international.
Tim has appeared on the documentary “The Myth of Tesla,” as well as The History Channels programs "Ancient Aliens,” “Evidence," "Ancient Aliens: Declassified,” "The UnXplained,” and the History Channel Latin America series "Contacto Extraterrestre.”
His articles have been published in magazines such as Mysteries, FATE, Strange, Atlantis Rising, UFO Universe, Flying Saucer Review, Renaissance, and Unsolved UFO Reports.
Tim is also the co-host/co-producer of The Paracast with Gene Steinberg at: www.theparacast.com
His website is: www.weirdtimebook.com
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