June 29, 2025 — Paranormal Researcher Fred Andersson

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz feature Fred Andersson, a renowned researcher, television freelancer, author, and podcaster from Sweden. With a focus on high strangeness, the paranormal, and UFOs, he has carved a niche for himself as an out-of-the-box thinker and explorer of the weird. In 2023 “Northern Lights: High Strangeness in Sweden,” was published, which is the first book written in English entirely devoted to the subject of high strangeness, UFOs, and other mysteries in Sweden. Fred has worked on UFO-Mysteriet, the first Swedish documentary series on the UFO phenomenon, and, in the fall of 2025, will see the release of a new series about hauntings and other strange things around in Sweden. He's currently researching conspiracy theories for an upcoming television project and is researching a unique form of historical ghostly mass hysteria.While Sweden is known as a secular, rational country, where stories of the paranormal are considered something of the past, the truth is quite the opposite. According to Fred, the country has a long history of weirdness, unexplained observations, and eerie encounters, often connected to the countryside, desolate roads, and empty fields. From gnomes, elves, and trolls of the past to UFOs and aliens in modern times, are they perhaps all connected, just different perceptions of the same underlying phenomenon? And what about sightings of purported werewolves? His website: fred-andersson.medium.com

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.3	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:33.0	Before we get with our guest, Fred Anderson, on this episode, the powercast with Gene and Tim,
0:39.1	we do have some sad news to report. We learned very recently that Ray Stanford had died,
0:47.7	and I think many of you remember he's been on the powercast a number of times.
0:51.9	He got started with his brother Rex in the UFO field as followers of contactees back in the 1950s.
1:02.0	He wrote a very popular book on the Sakaro, New Mexico case. He had very provocative views.
1:09.0	And if you ever read a different perspective, the Kevin Randall blog,
1:13.4	you'll get an indication of where he stood with regard to the book on that case.
1:20.1	Tim, did you know, Ray?
1:21.8	No, unfortunately, I never had the pleasure to actually meet him. I mean, it seems to me that we corresponded briefly
1:30.7	through somebody else.
1:33.4	It may have been Chris even, Chris O'Brien, who knew Ray quite well.
1:36.9	But I'm just so sad to hear of Ray's passing.
1:40.3	And now I'm wondering what is going to happen to his UFO presentation that he would never release except for a very limited audience.
1:54.5	What's going to happen with that now?
1:56.6	And of course, the other complication is his very close friend, Chris O'Brien, died some
2:02.2	months back.
2:03.4	So these two sources of Ray's information are no longer around.
2:08.1	I have no idea.
2:09.2	We're going to have to find out.
2:10.6	Maybe someone's in touch with his wife and see if she could help guide us towards a solution.
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