Oh my lord, here's a just reward. Bring me my devil. Just behind the door she said and flies down the road.

I'm pretty one of 11 calls from somebody named Alex Regan. It's Richard Span. Okay, goodbye.

Now we're recording. Cool. And I'm gonna do the intro part as well. My emphasis I think was just a little bit too much like, dun dun. I don't know. Let me just do it again.

I'm doing it again.

She said she saw some standing over his bed. It gets really disappeared for five days.

I know. I know. It's like adding another layer of green on top of green.

Bye.

The Black Tapes podcast is an exploration of life, belief, faith, and occasionally the paranormal.

This season we're focusing our lens on the work of the Strand Institute and its enigmatic founder and president, Dr. Richard Strand.

This week we'll be digging into two of my least favorite aspects of paranormal investigation. Demons and psychiatric hospitals.

Sometimes I wish I had Dr. Strand's certainty to keep me safe. Speaking of Strand, he had a few concerns regarding this podcast.

A few days ago he stopped by our offices unannounced. I'm just not sure I understand. What is there to understand? It's harassment.

Because of this podcast? Yes. What's happening exactly? People are asking me questions. They wanted to speak on their programs. I was invited to debate a creationist on CNN and to participate in a celebrity podcast version of something called Chopped.

Can you cook? What does that have to do with anything?

Strand went on to explain that he'd been receiving these requests because of interest generated by this podcast.

People didn't really want to talk about skepticism. They wanted to talk about Strand himself. More specifically about Core Elise disappearance.

A subject Strand didn't seem interested in discussing. At least not on television.

I agreed to participate in your program in order to increase awareness and foster critical thinking when it comes to the paranormal. Not dig up the past.

I understand and I believe we've provided a forum and support for you to do that. But if you remember, I did come clean about my interest in you and your personal story.

I had no idea that discussion would lead to this level of personal harassment.

I'm sorry that this is happening. Are you? Yes, of course.

Why can't you keep the focus on my work while the solaceous attention mongering?

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