May 14, 2023 — Maxim W. Furek and Tim Swartz

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

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🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz are joined by Maxim W. Furek on a fascinating pop culture and paranormal journey. He considers himself a student of the paranormal and has explored and published numerous articles on what some have called “The Coal Region Hoodoo.” With “Coal Region Hoodoo: Paranormal Tales from Inside the Pit,” Furek continues his sociological exploration of high strangeness inside the Pennsylvania wormhole that gave birth to “The Night of the Living Dead,” “The Blob,” and “The Philadelphia Experiment.” His book takes us beyond the netherworlds of Centralia, Sheppton, Chestnut Ridge, and The Pennhurst Asylum. It looks into the eyes of demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren and the twisted souls of serial killer Gary Heidnik and controversial artist and experiencer Richard S. Shaver, while exploring the preternatural secrets of Bigfoot, cryptids, Kecksburg and other strange events.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:18.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.7	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.0	We're talking about strange places, strange people.
0:37.0	And our guest this week is Maxim Furik.
0:40.4	And it has an extensive background
0:44.0	in psychology, in communications, all this other stuff.
0:49.5	But we're here to focus on a book he wrote called,
0:53.3	I'm gonna really take this to the nth degree
0:56.5	Cole region hoodoo paranormal tales from inside the pit I really want to sound like
1:06.0	Vincent Price when I say that maximum I like the way you're doing that, Gene. I mean, it comes across.
1:11.5	It resonates.
1:12.3	So, yeah.
1:13.4	And I could use a manager, too.
1:15.3	So, you know, I know if you have any free time, maybe we could talk about that.
1:19.2	Well, I charge 97%.
1:22.2	It's kind of like the Beatles song, Taxman.
1:27.4	It was written in the 1960s by George Harrison, and the tax rate in the UK then was 95%.
1:34.9	So one of the lyrics in the song, it's one for me, 19 for you, I think is the proper lyric there.
1:41.7	And that's what they were complaining about.
1:43.8	Yeah, sure.
1:45.9	And one reason why punk rock was so popular, I mean, they were just pissed off at the government and the taxes and everything else.
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