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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

Classic Episode: March 7, 2006 — Tim Beckley & Tim Swartz on UFO Legends

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

Science, News, Society & Culture

3.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Tim Beckley was known to many as "Mr. UFO" because of his long-standing interest and expertise on the subject; Tim Swartz (who later became cohost of The Paracast) is the outspoken editor of Conspiracy Journal. In this, our second episode, they reveal the legends of the Hollow Earth, the Shaver Mystery, Area 51 and other fascinating tales. Sadly, Tim Beckley died in 2021 and David Biedny died in 2024.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You've entered the Paracast with your host, Jane Steinberg and David Beetti. and berg and david

0:25.9

so david what is this thing about being eleven years old

0:30.5

and suddenly your mind is corrupted with new possibilities it happened to you

0:34.8

it happened to me and in fact it happened to one of our guests on the show today.

0:39.3

It's an impressionable age. That whole age range gene is one that leaves deep impressions on the psyche,

0:47.3

and especially because your mind at that age, I think, is really open to the kinds of experiences that as we become adults, we become very jaded.

0:56.0

And our appreciation of mysticism really seems to be affected in a detrimental way,

1:02.0

or we kind of veer that mysticism off towards religion, what we brought up in our first episode.

1:08.0

It's interesting that people seem to have these revelations at a

1:13.6

relatively early age and it affects the rest of their lives as it did you, as it did me.

1:19.6

And as it did Tim Beckley, sometimes known as Mr. UFO and we're going to find out why.

1:24.6

And he's going to be one of the guests we're going to have today. On the Paracast, you're in the Paracast with Gene Steinberg and David Bietney.

1:32.3

And since last week, we've gotten a lot of response and a lot of people who want to get on the show.

1:37.3

And we've also invited a lot of interesting people.

1:40.3

And just to give you an example, in a future episode, we're going to feature Larry Arnold,

1:46.8

who's written a book about spontaneous human combustion. Is that an urban legend, or is it real?

1:53.2

Are people just burning up? And we're not talking about burning up because they don't like someone's

1:57.8

politics or burning up because it's a hot room, but I mean

2:01.3

just bursting into flame. There's been a good bit of photographic evidence, Jane. So this is one

2:06.8

realm of the paranormal world, as it were, that does have fairly substantial photographic evidence.

2:13.7

And the evidence is very odd. You see a body all burned up laying on the, on a floor, on carpeting that is barely

2:22.5

burned around it.

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