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You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

So this appears to be one of the few episodes we've actually prepared for the Paracast in recent weeks,

where the friendly

neighborhood folks at Microsoft and Skype have not fouled us up, where maybe I am, shall

we say, challenging the powers it be.

I don't know.

Our guest this week is Michael May's first time of the power cast, but I gather he's listened to us before, which is always good to know.

Tim Swartz is our special co-host, and we're going to be exploring critters.

Okay?

Michael Mays is evidently an expert on out-of-place known animals or those that may or may not exist

for the past 15 years.

Now we know lots of species of animals are becoming extinct all the time. So is there any connection with that, Michael?

Maybe peripherally. Mainly I'm looking and involved in what would typically be considered

a cryptid, you know, an animal that, you know, the very existence of it anywhere at any time is debatable and has yet to be proven.

So that's where I spend the bulk of my time.

Now, there are, there's kind of a subcategory of out-of-place animals that sometimes I had a report a few years ago of an alligator in Cross Plains, Texas, which is way out west, nearly the Abilene.

They had no business being there, no doubt somebody's pet got released, but people were freaking out about, you know, this monster that we're seeing in their stockponds and stuff, and it turned out to be an alligator.

So sometimes the root of these things turned out to be something that's known but out of place.

So we try to get to the bottom of that.

And then I guess there's a third category, which would be animals that existed at one time, but are thought to be extinct now.

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