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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

October 7, 2018 — Paul Kingsbury

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2018

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Randall present Paul Kingsbury is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. In 2015 Paul succeeded in winning a four-year SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Insight Grant for a project called: "Situating the Growth of Paranormal Investigation Cultures: A Critical Study of the Lived Spaces of Organizations and Conferences.” That's right folks, a bona fide University professor who thinks the cultural aspects of the paranormal are worthy of serious academic study. During this interview, you'll learn how Paul became immersed in a number of areas of paranormal research, including crop circles, Bigfoot, UFOs and more.

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The You're in the You're in the

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The gold standard of paranormal radio You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

0:58.3

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

1:02.1

In our continuing study of different areas of paranormal research and studies, we bring on another genuine academic professor Paul Kingsbury.

1:15.7

He's a professor of geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

1:21.2

And we're going to focus on a specific project he did regarding the paranormal culture.

1:32.0

And before I ask you about that, Paul, can you tell us what got you interested at all in these subjects to pursue this further?

1:41.2

Well, first of all, Gene, thanks for having me on the show.

1:45.8

I think I'm pretty orthodox, quite normal in terms of how I got into these topics, because ever since I was a

1:52.6

child, I was very interested in the mysterious, the paranormal. I grew up in the southwest of

1:59.5

England, in a town called Gloucester in the near

2:04.3

crop circle country. So most of the crop circles, as many of your listeners may know, occur in

2:10.0

the county of Wiltshire. So during the 80s, this was a really big phenomenon in England,

2:16.8

and so there's a geography right there.

2:19.4

I was proximate to that phenomenon.

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