The Paranormal Rundown

Ep 55 - Sylvia Shults shares ghostly experiences at Billy Creek Village, Whispers Estate, the Villisca Axe Murder House, and discusses other paranormal topics. Welcome to The Paranormal Rundown! For our final episode of season 3, Sylvia Shults joins us for more entertaining stories and discussions on the paranormal. Sylvia's latest book, Gone on Vacation: Endless Summer, details haunted museum...

Ep 56 - Ryan Kralik performs a Remote Viewing Session and discusses Emergence of Consciousness, Alien Minds, UFOs, and more. Welcome to The Paranormal Rundown! For this episode, Ryan Kralik joins us once again to discuss more paranormal concepts through the lens of his Information-First framework of consciousness and reality. This episode also features a real-world remote viewing session, where Ry...

Ep 54 - Paranormal explorations of Drugs and Demonic Influence, Negative Near Death Experiences (NDEs), & the megalithic underground structure at Khara Khora. Welcome to episode 54 of The Paranormal Rundown! We have a small crew this time, just Vic, David, and Randy, but we have some wide ranging discussion! We consider the possibility of drugs and alcohol creating a vulnerability to Demonic I...

Ep 53 - Samuel Chong tells The Paranormal Rundown how the Thaioouba Prophecy explains aliens, abduction, space travel, and even Jesus Christ! Welcome to episode 53 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have Samuel Chong with us, one of the most knowledgeable researchers of the Thaioouba Prophecy. Samuel is an attorney, translator, and motivational speaker, with a masters degree in financial a...

Ep. 52 - The Paranormal Rundown welcomes Randy as a new co-host & discussion on why we do this podcast. Welcome to episode 52 of The Paranormal Rundown! The Gang of Nerds wishes you a Very Merry Christmas! 2025 has been a year full of exciting guests, deep conversations, and a fair amount of change for the podcast. We have covered a wide range of topics, such as Bigfoot Abductions, PSI, Crypti...

Ep 51 - Returning guest Randy discusses topics from Dogman & Werewolves to Lake Monsters to Fae & the Green Children from Woolpit. Welcome to Episode 51 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have an excellent return guest, Randy, who has thoughts on many different aspects of the paranormal. You may remember him from episode 42, Pale Crawlers and Paranormal Manifestations. This time ar...

Welcome to Episode 50 of The Paranormal Rundown! Father Mike is out this week, but we have Vic, David, and Fr. Josh, and a special guest, Barry Maher. Barry is a motivational speaker, who has recently written a book called The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon, and he has a fascinating story to tell about his inspiration for the book! (hint: it involves brain surgery) He also talks about expe...

Welcome to episode 49 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our guest this episode is Ryan Kralik, the author of a forthcoming book called It From Us – An Information-First Framework and the Purpose of Consciousness. Ryan has a fascinating theory about reality, where existence is built on information, not matter or consciousness. He has shared his ideas and incorporated feedback from people like Ha...

Welcome to Episode 48 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode our Very Special, Skeptical Guest is David's oldest son Jacob! He digs into paranormal ideas with us, offering clear, non-paranormal alternatives. We dive into Clowns and Coulrophobia, Masks, Haunted Dolls, and the experiences of Fr. Mike at a New Orleans Voodoo Shop and with a Witch Doctor in Belize. Along the way, Vic s...

Welcome to Episode 47 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode is just the 3 of us, as Fr. Josh is a little under the weather. Still, we manage to get into some deep discussions around Star Wars and the Sith, as compared to paranormal topics like PSI, and Vic and Fr. Mike do a little educating of Dave on the physics of gravity, velocity, and resistance, using the parable of the Bowling Ball a...

Welcome to Episode 46 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are back! This is the beginning of Season 3, and we are very exited to have such a great guest to start back with. Maxim Furek is an author of books on a variety of paranormal topics, the latest of which released yesterday, Paranormal Apocalyse: Is This how It Ends? Maxim is a great Rundown guest, he has interests all over the paranormal wor...

Welcome to Episode 45 of The Paranormal Rundown! This is the final episode of Season 2, which we wrap up with just the Gang of Nerds. We have some pretty interesting discussion around the life of an Exorcist, Fr. Mike and David strike up a debate on Nephilim and the Demonic, we take a wide detour on the food and critters in the South, and eventually get to different ideas around Bigfoot Attac...

Welcome to Episode 44 of The Paranormal Rundown! In this episode we have Jeff join us from Falling Knife Films. Jeff has an extensive background in paranormal investigation and research, including multiple investigations with David. He also has a very creative side, now with a focus on AI generated video. Additionally, Jeff has had some fascinating results using AI as a psychic! Lat...

Welcome to Episode 43 of The Paranormal Rundown! Bert, the David Bowie look-a-like Dutch psychiatrist, is back with us again to discuss all things paranormal and psychological. Bert did his best to keep us on track, but I think he is going to have to schedule us for several more rounds of group therapy. We managed to cover Psychology vs Parapsychology, PSI, Tenhaeff, Nostradamus, Handling Par...

Welcome to Episode 42 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our guest this week is Randy, who has had a great number of experiences and a lifelong interest in the Paranormal. We have some great discussion around The Crawfordsville Monster and other biologic UFOs, his experiences with Astral Projection and a Spider-like Crawler that terrorizes his parent's house, and paranormal experiences he has had in...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 20 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have several great topics to explore. First, we discuss The Old Icehouse, and how Vic grew up around several perfect paranormal locations, including Waverly Hills. We also discuss Phantom Social Workers and child trafficking, and Tears in Reality. Along the way we wander through  Haunted Tourism Causing...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 19 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week our guest is Roddy, from the Destination Nightmare B-Movie Podcast. We start off with a deep dive into the idea of marrying non-traditional objects (ie: not human), then we do some interesting analysis of magnetic pole shifts, but we definitely get into 'bad' paranormal and horror movies for a bit. Roddy also recou...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 18 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we have a deep discussion around the Satanic Grotto's proposed consecration of Kansas to Satan, as well as Vic's experience with both the Marfa Lights and the Brown Mountain Lights. Josh also tells us about a Georgia legend of The Lady of Lanier Lake! Other topics we hit include Golden Mice and Hemorrhoids, Why Bec...

Season 2, Episode 17 is a bit of a different adventure for us. We have decided to break down the concepts presented in a Joe Rogan interview with Thomas Campbell, author of My Big TOE (Theory Of Everything). Campbell is a physicist who began experiencing the paranormal in college. Because of those experiences, he has gone on a life long quest to understand and explain them from a sc...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 16 of The Paranormal Rundown! The Gang of Nerds is down to a Duo tonight, just Vic and Dave. So we decided to do something a little different (unusual for us, right?!) Vic is going to take the role of the Atheist, Material Reductionist, and Dave is going to be the Everything is Paranormal, God Loving Hippie. The goal was to debate the possible reali...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 15 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have Father Justin Allen join us. Fr. Justin is a priest with the Charismatic Episcopal Church, and fellow seminary student with Deacon Josh. His perspective is especially interesting for the Rundown, as he has not spent any significant time in his life thinking deeply on the paranormal or supernatural. ...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 14 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are down a man or two on this episode, but that is ok, because we have a fantastic guest: Father Michael Pacella! He brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and ideas to the discussion. Father Michael has experience as a military chaplain, a PhD in Philosophy, experience as an exorcist, and 45 years of ministry. No...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 13 of The Paranormal Rundown! For our first episode of 2025, we have the full gang! It was great to have everyone together again. This certainly isn't our longest Rundown, but we did cover some great topics. We have a pretty in depth talk on Haunted Real Estate in Japan, with JJ's personal experiences and David's idea of creating a new business: Hau...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 of The Paranormal Rundown! This is our final installment of the Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 16-20. We have one guest at the beginning, the Esteemed Poetic Soul, Dr. Bert. The rest of the episodes are just the Gang of Nerds. Even so, there is quite a range of topics in this one, including Foreign...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are no on Part 3 of our Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 11-15. Lots of guests on this episode, including Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road podcast, Canon Father Dr. Robert Wills, Father Birdsong's own daughter Jessica, and the scientifically and philosophically minded Gus Frankenmeir. We get into s...