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Paranormal history, argued in long form.
The Paracast treats the strange as a subject with history, personalities, arguments, and unfinished business. Its conversations move from UFO origin stories and Shaver lore to cults, AI, secret space claims, B movies, and personal anomalies.
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The Paracast is a veteran paranormal talk show with an unusually deep sense of continuity. It treats UFOs, occult mysteries, strange creatures, secret programs, hauntings, and personal anomalies as parts of a long-running cultural record rather than as isolated curiosities. The show often begins with banter, memory, or technical fussing, then works its way into older arguments about what people saw, who shaped the story, and why certain claims refuse to disappear. It is patient radio. Conversations with figures such as Red Pill Junkie, Dean Bertram, Walter Bosley, Brian Young, Paul Dale Roberts, Xandine, Geneva Hagen, Tilly Treadwell, and Tim Swartz move through evidence, speculation, folklore, show-business trivia, and personal history without trying to sand off every odd edge. Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver loom especially large in the recent episodes. So do John Keel, flying saucer mythology, lost archives, secret space program claims, cattle mutilation theories, AI, cult psychology, and the stubborn pull of old B movies. The show is not afraid of a long setup. A question may arrive after a memory about a file cabinet, a movie reference, a hospital stay, or a story about a missing family record. That gives the program a lived-in texture: part interview, part shop talk, part oral history of paranormal subcultures. Its best moments come when the conversation circles a claim from several angles, neither swallowing it whole nor dismissing it before the guest has finished building the case. The tone can be dry, amused, grave, or enthusiastic, but it usually stays conversational. The Paracast suits listeners who enjoy UFO lore with names, feuds, archives, and recurring characters attached. It is also a fit for people who prefer exploratory paranormal discussion over tidy debunking or breathless certainty. The show’s world is crowded, digressive, and unresolved, which is exactly where much of its value lies.
Made for: For listeners who like UFO and paranormal discussion with archival memory, recurring personalities, and room for uncertainty. It suits people who enjoy long, winding conversations more than clipped case summaries.
What sets it apart: The Paracast stands apart through its continuity: old saucer lore, vanished documents, pop-culture side roads, and returning guests all stay in play. It sounds less like a paranormal news cycle than an ongoing conversation among people who have lived with the material for decades.
All episodes starting in 2022 feature better audio and fewer ads! The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives. Join long-time paranormal writer and researcher Gene Steinberg, a team of knowledgeable guest cohosts, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories about the amazing history of the paranormal field in the 20…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Paracast traces paranormal claims through the people, archives and institutional histories that keep them alive.
Gene Steinberg treats paranormal culture as a living archive, using conversational interviews to connect UFO lore with the people, publications and institutions that kept it circulating.
Ray Palmer, ghost rockets, and secret payloads give your paranormal rabbit hole a surprisingly historical backbone.
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A cattle-mutilation mystery widens into UFO theory, disease claims, and a government-tracking hypothesis.
A cattle-mutilation theory becomes the episode's odd center of gravity, with Red Pill Junkie linking UFO speculation, crop circles, disease, escaped lab animals, and a surgical device allegedly found inside a carcass.
A wide-ranging paranormal discussion that moves from UFO history to Jim Jones before closing on courage, kindness, and shared good.
Paranormal history sets the path as Gene Steinberg and returning co-host Tim Swartz welcome Maxim Furek for a conversation that runs from Ray Palmer and Richard Sharpe Shaver to Furek's shared Berwick, Pennsylvania birthplace with Shaver.
A slow, archival look at how Ray Palmer helped push flying-saucer lore into the culture.
Dean Bertram appears in a documentary-style conversation about Ray Palmer and the long argument over how flying saucers entered popular folklore.
A loose, circular conversation that slides from radio glitches to secret launches and the men in black joke.
The episode opens in a deliberately scrappy register, with Gene Steinberg and Walter Bosley moving from Skype to telephones to Zoom while the running men in black joke sets the tone.
James Carrion ties ghost-rocket reports to wartime deception and the murky handoff in intelligence work.
The Paracast follows James Carrion into the argument behind The Rosetta Deception, using ghost-rocket reports as the episode's main pressure point.
A thoughtful, wide-ranging UFO discussion links environmental concern, collective consciousness, and interdimensional possibilities.
This Paracast discussion approaches UFOs less as a hunt for tidy answers than as a way to think about how people make sense of the living world.
A UFO-history discussion that gradually turns toward mortality, kindness, and belief.
The Paracast brings Maxim Furik back for a compact, wide-ranging look at where the modern UFO era may have taken root. Gene Steinberg and Tim Swartz begin with Ray Palmer and Richard Sharpe Shaver, touch on a Berwick, Pennsylvania, connection, and let the discussion expand into…
Gene Steinberg and co-host Tim Swartz welcome back author Maxim W.
This classic 2007 episode of The Paracast features two segments exploring UFOs and paranormal research.
Red Pill Junkie tells Gene Steinberg and Geneva that he has used 'red pill' since at least 2003, tying it to The Matrix and the Wachowski siblings before QAnon absorbed the phrase.
Gene Steinberg opens by asking whether Ray Palmer, not Kenneth Arnold, started the modern UFO era, and Maxim W.
Dean Bertram joins Gene Steinberg and Geneva to discuss his documentary on Raymond Palmer.
This episode features paranormal investigator Paul Dale Roberts discussing a recent mysterious phone call about a neighbor with paranormal activity, alongside AI topics with Xandine and Tim Schwartz.
Gene Steinberg returns to The Paracast after a six-and-a-half-month medical ordeal, introduces new rotating co-hosts Geneva Hagen and Tilly Treadwell, and critiques the profit-driven American healthcare system.
This episode features a discussion with Brian Young about good and bad B movies, focusing on guilty pleasures like 'Rhinestone' starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton.
This episode explores the concept of time travel and altered memories through personal anecdotes about inheritance and paranormal phenomena like the Thunderbird photo.
Gene Steinberg opens with the Paracast's familiar technical hiccups.
Gene Steinberg and Christopher O'Brien welcome James Carrion for a discussion of his book The Rosetta Deception.
This episode discusses UFO hoaxes with guest John Keeling, author of a book on British flying saucer spoofs, and addresses controversy from a previous episode featuring Ella Labain.
This episode features a debate between David Biedny and Michael Horn, the authorized American representative for the Billy Meier UFO contact case, revisiting their previous email disagreements.
This episode features co-host Tillie Treadwell and guest Artemis Treadwell discussing paranormal experiences including UFO sightings and connections to Egyptian gods, while exploring the paranormal aspects of creativity with references to a Beatles documentary.