Strange Things with Chris James

There are things living in the swamps that some folks wish they'd never seen. Here are a few stories about what is living in these isolated places. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

What is in the food some people are eating? Food manufactures aren’t concerned with your health, their job is to sell food products. If you have a health problem as a result, that's your problem, you probably grew up down wind of a nuclear plant. You won't find food companies offering to pay for your medical bills if you have a heart attack from eating hydrogenated oils. They are basically passing...

Paracelsus was born in 1493 in Egg, a village close to the Etzel Pass in Switzerland. Once Paracelsus was a physician he worked for the Venetian military from 1517 until 1524. Alchemy was an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, originating in Hellenistic Egypt, primarily Alexandria between the 4th and 3rd...

I’ll start right off by saying ghost hunting isn’t nearly as exciting as it looks on T.V. Those guys on the T.V. shows do a lot of investigating and researching and studying that never makes it onto the screen. I’ve been on some ghost hunts that took four or six hours. There were eight people on one and twenty something on another. Everyone had equipment to record or photograph or video tape as th...

Back in the 40s, people living in San Ygnacio didn’t have plumbing. If you needed the facilities you had to walk out the back door and use the little building in the far corner of the yard. You put the outhouse as far away from the main house as you could because in the summer time, you didn’t want that smell invading your living space. At night it was necessary to use a kerosene lantern to light...

John Hutchison was born on October 19, 1945 in Canada. He attended North Shore High School up until the eighth grade, then he received some private tottering for the next three years. You can find a lot of information on just about everything by searching the internet. I tried but could find very little on John’s early life. Maybe there is just nothing worth reading. In 1955 John showed an early i...

Who was martin Luthor King Jr. and why was he killed? Who really did the shooting? Why did the authorities make such a mess of the investigation? Here you will find more questions than answers. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

My wife joins me in the studio to talk about what Christmas really means. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

To start right off I don’t want anyone to get the idea I’m idolizing Hitler. He was an evil person who did a lot of nasty things. He was also the product of his environment not that he was a victim. Adolf was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary, close to the border with the German Empire. He was christened as Adolphus Hitler. His dad was a nasty person who drank and...

If you're looking for number 3 don't bother, I missed it. November 12, 1945 when 74-year-old Middie Rivers disappeared while out hunting. Rivers was guiding a group of four hunters up the mountains. After getting to the hunt site and spending the day it was time to get back to camp. Rivers got ahead of the group as they were coming down the trail on Long Trail Road near Vermont Route 9. He was sti...

The Air Force started out looking into flying disc sightings with Project Sign. In 1948 this was just about all the government was willing to do if you saw something that looked odd. In 1949 Project Sign was done away with and Project Grudge came into being. The standard operating thought was Flying Discs didn’t exists and any reports were by uneducated or delusional people. A bunch of Colonels an...

There are strange things going on under our feet, deep under our feet, that are unexplained. Miners hear sounds coming from the rock walls around them. Tapping sounds. These are referred to as being the Tommyknockers. Here are a few stories about the things going on under the ground. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/suppo...

Cliff Barackman was born and raised in Long Beach California. Cliff became an elementary teacher and he is a jazz guitarist. He appeared in “Monsterquest” Legend of the Hairy Beast in 2007. In 2010 he accompanied Bob Saget on a trip to Washington where they were filming “Strange Days.” Cliff can be seen on T.V. each week on the show “Finding Bigfoot.” Become a supporter of this podcast: https://ww...

I’ve heard about time slips on many occasions. This isn’t time travel where you plan to visit another time but an accidental slip to another time period. I have often wondered what and how this happened and how would I handle something like it. Folks tell me all the time they would be prepared to handle just about anything. Until you find yourself in some unknown situation you don’t know what you...

Back in the 19th century, there were a set of bizarre occurrences that still to this day have not been explained. A bizarrely dressed man was attacking people on the streets of England Vigilante groups were formed to apprehend the attacker, but he was too fast for them. They said he could leap over hedgerows and walls, in his flight to evade them. Authorities believed the assailant had some kind o...

The term "witchcraft" in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) mostly refers to women who used spoken curses to injure other people or destroy their property. The term, "witchcraft" in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) refers to murderers who use poisons to kill people. In North America, "Witch" and "Witchcraft" most often refer to Wiccans and Wicca. Wiccans are modern-day Neopagans. They f...

Ruben Uriarte has been a member of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for over 20 years and is currently state director for Northern California. He was formerly a state coordinator for Crop Circle Phenomena Research International and research director for Beyond Boundaries, a UFO tour company. He also serves on OPUS (Organization for Paranormal and Support Understanding) as a board member. Ruben is now th...

Daniel Alan Jones loves to explore the dimensions of scientific mystery & spiritual philosophy. He is the creator of a conscious media network called VORTEXAS which focuses on alternative sciences, metaphysics, the paranormal, and beyond. Having helped organize & host events like the Texas Paranormal Unity Fest, the Aurora Alien Encounter, and others, Daniel has connected with several people that...

In 1890 Abraham Stoker decided he wanted to become a writer. His first book was the Snake's Pass. Then in 1897 Abraham began to research Eastern Europe looking for a suitable location to set his next story. He became interested in the Carpathian Mountains and began his story there. The main character, Jonathan Harker, is visiting a castle in the Transylvanian Mountains which are a part of the Carp...

Here are a few scary stories to go along with the Halloween season. A Police Officer received a creepy call from his own home phone. A student ran into a ghost at the Laredo Junior College. The ghost of a little girl is seen hanging out at the local shopping mall. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

The Basques come from the north parts of Spain and the south part of France where the two counties meet. They are an indigenous ethnic group characterized by the Basque language, a common culture and shared ancestry to the ancient Vascones, who were a pre-Roman tribe who inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro river and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees, an...

I'll talk about my book, "The Laredo Paranormal Research Society." Things like the things that took place that got me to write a book. The history of the LPRS. They started out looking into ghosts. From there they began looking into UFO sightings. There are quite a few haunted locations in Laredo and the LPRS has looked into many of them. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.co...

We’ve all heard of haunted houses, haunted places even, but how about things that seem to be haunted that don’t make any sense. Things like furniture or toys. How about haunted vehicles? Let’s take a look at just a few of these. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

Way back when I was in grade school, I remember being told the Earth had two moons. There was the one we could see at night and then there was a second moon that circled the earth but was too small to see with the naked eye. This came up on many occasions as we moved from year to year. Then it just kind of faded away. No one mentioned it after that. I used to wonder what happened to our other moon...

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, or book, hand-written in an unknown writing system. Vellum is prepared animal skin or "membrane" used as a material for writing on. The vellum on which the Voynich manuscript is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century or about 1404 to 1438. It may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is n...