August 13, 2023 — Dennis Stamey with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce Fortean researcher Dennis Stamey, someone Gene first met 50 years ago. Dennis became interested in UFOs in 1966 during the worldwide flap of the late 1960s, immersing himself in magazine articles written by John A. Keel. As well he studied the works of Charles Fort, and Gray Barker. Eventually he started churning out a cheap mimeographed newsletter entitled Spacecraft Review and also contributed articles to Gene Steinberg's Caveat Emptor. He also took up a correspondence with Richard Shaver, who often called him an "idiot." By the 1970s, life called and Dennis set his interests in UFOs and the paranormal aside. However, starting in the early 1980s, he began looking up Fortean articles in the N.Y. Times from 1870-1890, growing intrigued with phantom snipers and slashers. His first fact book, "Mysterious Snipers, Slashers, and Animal Rippers: A History of Paranormal Assailants," was co-authored with his children, Jillian and Jesse Stamey.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:18.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.1	So on this episode, the Paracast, we're going to start by taking a journey through time.
0:38.0	Now, before we do that, I was thinking maybe I would get a time machine kind of sound.
0:43.3	Unfortunately, the TARDIS sound is copyrighted.
0:48.3	Therefore, we can't make it like a TARDIS.
0:51.0	As they say, imagine we're back in the early 1970s.
0:55.0	And I am co-editor of a magazine called Caviott M-Tor
1:01.0	and with my first wife, Geneva.
1:05.0	And one of our writers for this magazine,
1:08.0	Caviott M-Tor, was Dennis Stamey.
1:14.5	A fellow at that time he was living in North Carolina, as I recall.
1:18.8	And then after a couple of articles, he stopped writing and perhaps pursued things elsewhere.
1:22.8	And then, not more than a few months ago,
1:26.5	I get a message out of the blue on Facebook.
1:32.3	It's him. After 50 years, I guess therein lies a tale.
1:38.3	The other thing, of course, is that among all the other things he's done, he's retained his
1:43.3	interests in the world of the paranormal,
1:46.0	and he's written some books,
1:48.1	one of which we'll be talking about here
1:51.2	called mysterious snipers, slasher's and animal rippers.
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