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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

May 11, 2025 — Filmmaker Christopher Garetano

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

Science, News, Society & Culture

3.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return visit from documentary filmmaker Christopher Garetano. He is the creator and director of the award-winning docudrama, Montauk Chronicles (2015). He is also co-creator, co-director, executive producer and co-host of the History Channel’s The Dark Files (2017). In 2019, Christopher created, executive produced, directed and hosted his eight-episode investigative series, Strange World for the Travel/Discovery Channel networks. During this interview, Christopher will reveal his journey into films, and his various influences over the years. He'll also talk about what he sees as the future of the film industry in light of new technologies. Christopher is also the host and creator/producer of the ongoing weekly podcast, Off To The Witch and is preparing to release the first feature-length chapter (A Haunting We Will Go) of his new, TV docuseries. He is also the writer/creator South Texas Blues (originally published in Fangoria Magazine) comic and book. Christopher was born in New York and grew up marveling at the galaxy of discoveries within his parents’ video store; while immersed in special effects makeup, creature features and moviemaking since he was five years old. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a degree in film. One of his upcoming projects is a feature-length horror movie, Bury Me In A Nameless Grave.

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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

Back to movie makers this week at the Paracast.

0:36.3

Christopher Garantano returns to those

0:39.8

filling days of yesteryear. And that comes from another show. And we're going to talk about the

0:45.8

filmmaking, the TV showmaking he does that has weird stuff going on. So let's go into where he comes from, what he's doing,

0:57.4

and maybe reacquaint him to our listeners.

1:00.8

Christopher, welcome back.

1:03.0

Thank you.

1:04.1

It's good to be back.

1:05.1

I think it's been about a decade since I was on your show.

1:08.6

Yes, well, eventually we'll get it right.

1:11.7

Oh, no worries.

1:13.4

Okay, so obviously you go back to movie making, video.

1:21.0

Your parents had a video store?

1:23.4

They did.

1:24.9

Yep, they owned a video store in the 80s, And I had access to movies that most kids that I was growing up with didn't.

1:33.3

My folks just, you know, they would go to the drive-in and we would be in the backseat or on top of the station wagon.

1:39.3

So we got to see a lot of movies when we were kids.

1:43.3

My brothers and I and my sister is a little bit younger.

1:46.6

I was immersed in cinema. And the thing is, I was immersed in the cinema and television of my

1:52.8

grandparents, my parents, and the stuff that was current all at once. And that was hitting

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