October 9, 2022 — Shane Cashman with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 9 October 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce Shane Cashman, host of the paranormal podcast Tales From the Inverted World, which investigates the mysteries that lie beneath the surface of everyday life. Shane searches for answers concerning UFO encounters, cryptids, ghosts, inter-dimensional beings, secret government experiments — just to name a few topics. This episode will focus on his 2021 book, "Tales From the Inverted World: Close Contact with Ghosts, UFOs Serial Killers and Simulation Theory Volume 1," released in 2021. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, BBC Travel, Atlas Obscura, Narratively, VICE, Salon, The Los Angeles Review of Books Blog, and elsewhere. In 2015, he received first place in the PEN Center USA 500-word short story contest. He is a Glimmer Train short fiction finalist, and his nonfiction has been featured as an Editor’s Pick at Longreads.com.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:02.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.3	Don't you know that it's been a few years since I've actually gone to a UFO convention?
0:37.2	So I got word here from Alejandro Rojas
0:40.4	that the international UFO Congress is going to be held in Mesa, Arizona,
0:48.1	from the 12th, 16th of October.
0:51.0	This is at the Sheraton at Wrigleville West, if you're interested.
0:55.0	More information is available at UFO congress.com, UFO congress.com.
1:00.0	And of course, the featured guests include a number of people that you might recognize from the power cast.
1:07.0	So, for example, James Fox, Micah, Hanks, David Marler, Dr. Michael Masters, Travis Walton, and TV producer
1:16.8	Bryce Abel. So you never know who's going to show up at one of these events. So we're doing
1:23.9	this show in autumn, and I quickly repeated the mantra from the 1941's
1:30.4	horror classic, The Wolfman, which I shall not do here. But then our guest, Shane Cashman,
1:37.5	tells me, you've got a poster for The Wolfman? It was actually my friend. I was in a bandwidth.
1:43.0	He had a room filled with horror posters, and that was one of them.
1:46.9	That is probably one of the best horror films made.
1:49.6	I know they did a new version, but I didn't like it.
1:53.8	I thought all the efforts to duplicate the original horror films are bad.
1:59.3	There was one of the Georgia Merrill ones. They re-did in the early 2000s that I remember liking,
2:05.1	but it's rare.
2:06.4	I feel like it was maybe Day of the Dead or Dawn of the Dead.
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