March 16, 2024 — Legend Hunter Joe Kistner

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz feature Joe Kistner. He is an author and host of the Shadows of the Midwest podcast, and describes himself as a public servant, writer, dad, legend hunter, and a proud distinguished ruffian. Currently, Joe is working on the book "Minnesota Legend Hunters: A Travelogue," which he hopes will be released in the summer of 2025. He describes the book as compiling and investigating the strange and unusual people, places, things, and events around Minnesota. The iconography of the American heartland is often made up of rolling fields, hard work, family values, rural communities, and a sense of innocence. For many that truly sums up the whole of their existence. However there is no immunity from darker thoughts that lie at the edge of the light. Join in as we travel into the shadows with those who harbor dark thoughts, and deeds. In this epi

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.2	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.5	This week of the Paracast, we try our second week using Zoom to organize this meeting with the various people
0:39.8	who are participating. Of course, myself and Tim, and our guest this week, Jill Kistner,
0:46.1	who is host of the Shadows of the Midwest podcast. Of course, Shadows were not talking about
0:53.0	this wealthy man about town who has the power
0:57.0	to cloud men's minds, are we? Well, no, but he knows what evil lurks in the minds of men.
1:04.9	That's what we're here to discover, I guess. My only skill with regard to the shadow, I think I can do the laugh very well.
1:15.0	Oh, wow.
1:16.0	One of the people who played the shadow on radio, Orson Welles, a very well-known actor, of course,
1:21.6	he couldn't do the laugh.
1:23.4	So they had to use the previous person's laugh in a recording.
1:28.1	He couldn't do the shadow laugh, they say.
1:31.0	The laugh, kind of like the great gilder sleeves.
1:33.2	Do you remember him?
1:34.8	Oh, yes.
1:36.1	Yeah, he had that particular.
1:37.2	Was it Willard Waterman was the guy's name?
1:40.0	Yeah, Willard Water.
1:40.7	There was actually two of them. Willard Waterman, I think, was the guy who had that laugh that you'd end up hearing on some of the Warner Brothers cartoons and stuff, too.
1:49.1	There was another guy who had a similar kind of style, Frank Nelson.
1:53.0	And I remember he'd be on these shows, and his face would be turned away from the camera.
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