December 25, 2022 — John Kruse with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz explore the myths, legends and possible reality of fairies with author/blogger John Kruse, who has been fascinated by such lore since his early twenties. In mid-2016 he set up the WordPress blog "British Fairies" and started intensive fairy research and writing. In 2017 his themed examination of fairy-lore, "British Fairies," was published by Green Magic Publishing. His next book, "Faery" was published by Llewellyn Worldwide in April 2020 and "Beyond Faery," a companion volume on mermaids, hobgoblins and other faery beasts appeared in November that year. As of this interview, he was working on several other books on faery and he's published articles in various magazines, including Magical Times, Witches and Pagans, The Wild Hunt and Faerie Mag. And one more thing: Are such tales similar to reports of UFOs and UFO abductions?

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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	This is Gene.
0:33.5	Our co-host, of course, is Tim Swartz, along with his 28 personalities or voices.
0:39.4	John Cruz is our guest this week.
0:42.5	And when I verify, as I do, on a show how he pronounces his last name, he said Cruz.
0:48.5	And I said to him, and John, you can give me the answer you gave me before.
0:52.6	I said, you mean like Tom Cruise? Yeah, well that's how we pronounce it now.
0:57.0	A lot of people, I must say, you know, over my life,
1:00.0	a lot of people have misheard it and thought that they were going to be meeting Tom Cruise
1:05.0	and then had the disappointment of meeting John Cruz instead.
1:09.0	But there you go. Well, I realize you're $500 million
1:14.3	poorer. I am, I'm afraid, yes. I said it's not going to change now, I don't think.
1:21.8	Too late for you. Yep, I'd say. Well, you know, people do get rich later in life.
1:28.2	Of course, with me, it's pretty damn late, but then we don't want to get into that.
1:33.9	Seriously speaking here, you, it says here, have been fascinated by fairy lore since your early 20s.
1:43.2	And we look at that as culture, cultural, fairies and elves and myths
1:49.1	of the past. And they're related to paranormal events. What got you interested in it?
1:55.0	I think it was a slightly kind of roundabout route because I was originally,
2:03.4	I'm probably going back into my teens,
2:05.9	I was interested in the stories about King Arthur.
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