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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

June 15, 2014 — James Renner

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2014

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Chris present freelance journalist, novelist and blogger James Renner, author of "It Came from Ohio." The book contains "true tales of the weird, wild, and unexplained," including the famous 1966 case involving Ohio deputy sheriff Dale F. Spaur, who, along with a fellow officer, Wilbur Neff, chased a UFO across state lines. The UFO was dismissed as conventional by the Air Force, but Spaur's life was essentially ruined in the aftermath of the sighting. The chase formed the basis of one of the early scenes in Stephen Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Renner will also discuss reports of strange creatures, including Bigfoot and werewolves. According to his bio, "In his spare time, he hunts serial killers."

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0:00.0

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

0:27.9

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:33.9

Okay, this week on the Paracast, it's just me, Gene Steinberg.

0:37.5

Chris O'Brien is on assignment, and he'll be back next week.

0:42.0

In the meantime, and we'll introduce him in just a moment,

0:44.8

but we have a guest who's written a fascinating book called It Came from Ohio,

0:49.8

and when I saw that title, I first thought of a movie from the 1950s called It Came From Outer Space.

0:56.7

But maybe there's a slight connection we're going to find out from James Raner.

1:00.5

But right now, let me just tell our listeners that we've gotten some just really good reactions to recent shows.

1:07.1

It's been all-star all the time.

1:09.7

Last week, for example, we had Ted Rowe of Narcap,

1:13.4

the National Aviation Reporting Center on anomalous phenomena, where they call, you've heard of them,

1:20.0

right? They call UFOs UAPs, Unidentified Aerial Phnomina, and really gracious guests, a lot of good information. We had the wild

1:29.7

outspoken guest George Wingfield the week before. But a little bit later, early in July,

1:36.5

we're going to be featuring our old friend Nick Redfern, who we've made a guest co-host,

1:42.0

because sometimes he comes back and serves in that capacity.

1:45.1

But every year he comes out with a couple of really fascinating books, and his latest one is called

1:49.7

Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind, Subtitled Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances

1:59.0

in UFO History. That's coming in early July, Nick Redfern.

2:03.4

But today, it came from Ohio. The author is James Renner. He's a journalist. He's a blogger,

2:10.5

a novelist, and in his spare time, it says here, he hunts serial killers. Better you than me, James. Let me ask you before we go on with a few

2:22.1

other things. How does one get involved in the hobby of chasing after a serial killer? And do you ever

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