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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

In recent weeks, we've had some really fascinating guests on the paranormal that focus on not just a lot of investigations,

but taking a measured, skeptical approach.

They don't take everything that comes down the pike.

They don't accept every claim.

In that tradition, this week, Randall and I are proud to bring on Sharon A. Hill,

a geologist, who's author of a book called Scientific Americans, The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers.

And I notice here, she's written for both the skeptical inquirer and 40 in times.

So Sharon, that means you kind of like straddling both ends of the picture here?

That's exactly right.

So why? What got you interested in the subjects?

Well, like lots of people, I've been interested in it since I was a kid since I can remember picking up books in the library.

It was always about ghosts or monsters or UFOs or psychic powers, things like that.

And, you know, you go to college, you get a science degree, and those things kind of fall to the background for a while while you're busy doing other

things. But then I had some time and a different perspective on the world. And I started looking

back into the subjects again. I still enjoy the stories that people tell and I don't disbelieve

everything. But I understand that there is a different method we could apply

to the evidence now. So that's what I try to do. That must be pretty tough for you sometimes

being caught right in the middle between the scientific community and what the scientific

community would call the woo factor.

It is. It's very much so.

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