August 21, 2022 — Bill Kousoulas with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Bill Kousoulas, whose life-long interest in the paranormal began in the late seventies with the original “Project UFO” series that aired on Sunday night television. In 2003, he was introduced to “The Mothman Prophecies” movie, and it truly changed his life. Since then, he has read nearly all of John Keel’s research, as well as the works of related authors including Gray Barker and Andy Colvin. Since 2016, he and his wife Jaci have visited Point Pleasant, West Virginia regularly, and they have become friends with several area residents, including the late Carolin Harris, co-founder of the Mothman Festival. This episode explores not just on the mothman mystery, but the background and culture of Point Pleasant and the details behind the collapse of The Silver Bridge. Bill holds a doctorate in psychology, with a focus on post-traumatic growth. He and Jaci are currently examining the correlations between paranormal experiences and post-traumatic growth.

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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.
0:32.0	Now, when he first appeared on the Paracast in 2020, Bill Kuselis was telling us about his introduction to the
0:39.3	amazing world of the paranormal and particularly the Point Pleasant West Virginia events back in the
0:48.0	60s, the mothman. And as I recall Bill, you got your start from the movie, The Mothman Prophecies, or the book?
0:57.2	Well, you know, I started Gene with the movie itself.
1:00.7	So that's where it began about 2003.
1:04.2	Now, what impressed you so much about the movie?
1:08.0	You know, and I think it's a great question because it's not a phenomenal movie.
1:12.5	I mean, it's a good movie.
1:14.4	It's entertaining.
1:15.5	It's authentic.
1:16.5	I mean, the thing that really drilled me in was the mystery of the lead character, what
1:21.7	he was going through, all these different things that were happening with this manifestation of a mothman type creature, which is new.
1:31.3	I mean, it was new to society anyhow.
1:33.5	People didn't really have any history on that.
1:35.9	But there were UFOs in Point Pleasant.
1:38.1	There were men in black.
1:39.3	There was indrid cold.
1:41.1	There were so many different things that were going on.
1:43.2	But what really got me at the end
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