March 22, 2026 — Paranormal Shop Talk: Geneva Hagen and Tilly Treadwell

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🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Our newest cohost, Geneva Hagen joins us with our very special guest Tillie Treadwell for a very special shop talk episode. A lifelong activist, Geneva grew up in the foothills of Appalachia with an extended family that practiced folk magic such as dowsing, table rapping, precog dreaming and psychic healing. She was coeditor of Caveat Emptor and Crossroads Quarterly zines and on staff at High Times, Beyond Reality, two community newspapers and the BC Legislative Assembly. Geneva was a hatha yoga instructor and a certified NLP (neurolinguistic programming) practitioner. She moved to Canada in the mid 1980s and spent six years off the grid in a log cabin, until all the chopping of wood and carrying of water had wrecked her shoulders. Tillie is an American author and experiencer. Her very earliest memories include what seem to be paranormal encounters, and the other side has always played a central role in her life. She was co-lead of an exorcist and investigative team with the Catholic church, has worked as an independent tarot interpreter, healer, medium and advisor, and today is an author for Zontar Press, a publishing house run by Tim R. Swartz, co-host on The Paracast.

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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.
0:33.6	This is very interesting episode of the Paracast, partly because we have been away for six and a half months.
0:41.3	And there lies a tail.
0:43.3	And this is where I fell and I couldn't get up.
0:47.3	Called 911.
0:49.3	And through the next six and a half months, I went to back and forth, four hospitals, two recovery centers.
0:58.4	I'm at the second one right now. I'm actually in a wheelchair, but I do walk around a little bit,
1:03.2	and physical therapy will straighten me out eventually, and went through a host of things
1:08.3	that made me very much distrust the American medical system.
1:13.7	And a major reason for this is the fact that the American medical system is oriented towards
1:19.4	profit margins. They don't give a wit about your health except to a limited degree.
1:27.4	Not that doctors stuff. Doctors in America have to hospital. about your health except to a limited degree.
1:28.8	Not that doctors don't.
1:35.6	Doctors in America have to hire huge staffs to fight with the insurance industry.
1:36.5	I mean, it's a mess.
1:41.7	Our guests, our new co-hosts, we like to welcome to the Paracast.
1:46.9	Geneva Hagan, somebody I've known for 65 years, and we'll get into that in a moment,
1:52.2	and Tilly Treadwell, who's been on the show, and was a guest's co-host in the past, and these two will be rotating co-host, as so much about rotating is.
1:57.9	Geneva, tell on this news how we actually met.
2:00.4	As I recall, it was around 1961 or 62, and we became pen pals through a letter column in
2:10.2	Forbidden World's comic books, and we exchanged letters for, well, I was 12 at the time, so we wrote to one another for six years.
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