The Paranormal Rundown

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we continue our Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 5-10. We have some great discussion, along with interviews with Chris James and Sylvia Shultz. The topics include Gnosticism, Walmart Heaven, Gilgul, Reincarnation, Ghosts, Demons, Bigfoot, The Priming Effect, EVPs, Djinn, Self Mummified Monks, Theo...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of The Paranormal Rundown! The Gang of Nerds has been obliterated this month, Vic has Covid, David has neck problems, Fr. Mike is in a lot of pain, and JJ is taking in the fine dining and culture of Japan. Since we weren't able to get together and record a new episode, we thought we would do a recap of Season One. This started out as a simple idea of pull t...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have just the original crew, Vic, David, and JJ, but we still cover quite a bit of ground, with a fascinating mix of real life topics and fictional universes. We delve deep into the practice of Rumpology. After that we have a discussion theories of how magic works, both in fantasy fiction and then real life. W...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of The Paranormal Rundown! For our Halloween episode this year we are very excited to have Chris James back with us. Chris is the host of the Strange Things with Chris James podcast, and author of paranormal and horror books. His most recent is a compilation of UFO stories, called UFOs. We had a great Rundown tonight, covering a wide selection of Spookarifi...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of The Paranormal Rundown! We have our first return guest this week, Sylvia Shults has joined us for another round of fun filled Paranormal Dork Talk! Sylvia has written many books in the genres of Paranormal Non-Fiction and both Romantic and Horror Fiction. She is also has a podcast called Lights Out. As a librarian, she has deep knowledge on many paranormal (a...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week Vic, JJ, and David have a great deal of conversation about ghost hunting equipment, specifically Spirit Boxes, during which a new scientific principle is proposed about Paranormal Word Salad. JJ gives us a very welcome update on his Nightmares, and we bounce all around the topic of Animal Ghosts. Along the way we di...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we have the full crew, with an episode that goes really deep on Icons, Idols, and Prayer. We discuss an interesting theory of Icon Driven Probability Waves, tying blessing of a medallion to physical changes at the quantum level. Other topics include The Foot Stamping Manifestation, Emotionalism, The Princeton Egg Experim...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we are a man down, as Fr. Mike is having some health problems, but we are fortunate to have with us Tracie Bush, from the In The Dark - All Things Supernatural podcast. We get pretty deep into pondering the nature of God, but also cover a bunch of other topics including: Did Sin Come From God, Can Satan Win, Zoroastrianism, A...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of The Paranormal Rundown! We hope you enjoyed last weeks Rundown with very special guest Jim Harold, I know we did! This week it is just the Gang of Nerds, but we dive in deep right off the bat with a highly philosophical conversation on Thought Forms, Paranormal Activity that is thought induced, and the connection of Daemon to Demons. As typical with...

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are back, and starting off the season with a bang! Tonight our guest is Jim Harold, host of The Paranormal Podcast, Jim Harold's Campfire, and several other podcasts. Jim has been hosting paranormal podcasts since 2005, starting with The Paranormal Podcast, which is the oldest running paranormal podcast on the internet.&nb...

Hello Paranormal Rundown Listeners! We know you have been anxiously awaiting a new Rundown. The Gang of Nerds has been very busy over the past two months, cleaning out the dungeon, interviewing temporary backups for our Disembodied Consciousness Teammates. (because even a disembodied consciousness needs a vacation every now and then), and working hard to find us top rate guests for your enjoyment!...

Welcome to Episode 20 of The Paranormal Rundown! We wrap up our first season with a special treat! Vic is going to finally give us the full details of the incredible cryptid experience he had years ago in Australia. Hard to say if it was a Yowie, Bigfoot, Lougarou, Dogman or what. It doesn't quite fit any specific one perfectly, so you decide. Father Birdsong also retells...

Welcome to Episode 18 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode starts out with a fairly deep discussion on lost books of the Bible, in the middle of which we are given revelation about why Father Birdsong says he was the King of Protestantism, along with details of his journey to the Catholic faith. Deacon Josh gives us a rundown on The Book of Tobit, Vic tells us all about Goofer Dust, JJ gives us...

Welcome to Episode 19 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode, Father Birdsong is back, so we have the full Gang of Nerds together again!  At the time of the recording we had all had a pretty taxing week, so we were ready to cut lose and have a little fun. We get into a whole slew of topics, like different Books of the Dead, The Bandlet of Righteousness, Jellyfish UFOs, Roswell Rods, Ter...

Welcome to Episode 17 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we tackle several key topics, like Bob Lazar, Names of the Enemies of God, and The Elevator Game. Along the way we tell some of our own UFO Encounters, discuss Hypnosis and Alien Abduction, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Zoroastrianism (and their Burial Practices), and Scary Games People Play. So hang on to your teddy bear, you might j...

Welcome to Episode 16 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we head across the pond, and then some! Our special guest is Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Bert, and as JJ puts it, an Esteemed Poetic Soul! Bert is a very kind person who is extremely enjoyable to talk to, and has a very poetic way of describing some of these concepts. Our conversation spans topics including Foreign Accent Synd...

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our Guest tonight is Gus Frankenmeir, who is a deep thinker and prolific reader on many paranormal and philosophical topics. Our conversation spans topics including Random Number Generators and Princeton Eggs, Time Travel, Ghosts and Quantum Computers, Consciousness, Experience of Time, Simulation Theory, is God an Alien, The Nature of Evil, Ez...

Welcome to Episode 14 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our Very Special Guest tonight is Father Birdsong's daughter, Jessica Birdsong Clay. We have a very enjoyable conversation, covering topics from The Dead Sea Scrolls to The Screwtape Letters to Ghosts. Jessica even tells us about her own paranormal experience with a haunted house! And Vic starts up an especially morbid conversation ab...

Welcome to episode 13 of The Paranormal Rundown! In this episode we have our first listener question, about God's Judgement and whether he punishes us before or after death. We also have special guest Canon Father Dr. Robert Wills, of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. In addition to hearing the fascinating journey Fr. Wills took to get to Georgia, we c...

Happy New Year!!! And welcome to Episode 12 of The Paranormal Rundown! In our last episode, we drew what we considered to be one of the Best Rundown Topic Lists Ever! So instead of just discussing one topic and throwing the rest away, we decided to continue that same list in this episode. The list was: Zozo the Ouija Board Demon, Flat Eartherism, The Cronovisor, Malachi Martin, Why...

Welcome to Episode 11 of The Paranormal Rundown! First, let us wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Yuletide season! We hope you have all had a wonderful year and are getting ready for the holidays. Our guests in this episode are Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road podcast. Their podcast has great in-depth discussions on many topics similar to what we discuss here, making the...

Welcome to Episode 10 of The Paranormal Rundwn! In this episode we take on the core topics of Have Exorcisms Become Harder?, the Screwtape Letters, and ZoZo the Ouija Board Demon. Of course we wander our way through many other topics, like the Strength of the Church impacting the Sacrements, the Pope and Heresy, Hidabehinds, the Internet and the Demonic, JJ's Haunted Cabin, the Pufferbel...

Welcome to our second Paranormal Rundown Roundup! In this episode we tackle the core topics of Incorruptible Bodies, Theodicy, Bob Larson charging for Exorcisms, and the Brain in a Vat. Of course we wander our way through many other topics, like Buddhist self-mummification, Ethiopic and the not so lost Arc, Evil and Free Will, Post Modernism, Simulation Theory, and Authority to Perform E...

Welcome to episode 8 of The Paranormal Rundown! Halloween is upon us, and we have something really special for you! We have two great episodes recorded in the past month that we just could not decide between for Halloween. So we are going to publish both! This second episode is with Sylvia Shults, author, podcaster, and paranormal investigator. Sylvia has a vast amount of experience in the paranor...

Welcome to episode 7 of The Paranormal Rundown! Halloween is upon us, and we have something really special for you! We have two great episodes recorded in the past month that we just could not decide between for Halloween. So we are going to publish both! This first episode is with Chris James, author and host of the Stranger Things with Chris James podcast. Chris has tons of stories to tell, from...