Behind the Paranormal with Paul and Ben Eno

#25 NOVEMBER 30, 2008

SPIRIT GUIDES ON THE HOTSEAT

Time spent with our guest allowing, Paul and Ben plan to discuss these fascinating, probably paranormal, photos.

Immediately below is an infrared photo (scan of a print) submitted by a listener from New York State, whom Paul knows and trusts, and that has been examined by photo experts. One usually super-skeptical expert described the photo as "full of people" whom the photographer vows were not there.

Taken in the photographer's storage room, the actual scene contained very little of what turns up in the photo. Even the apparent wooden doorway and fixtures at left are not in the actual room, the photographer attests. Every other frame on the film roll was blank, according to the photographer.

FROM RHODE ISLAND

What seems to be a "cowled figure" appears at right in the above photo, taken on Fairmount Hill in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The camera was pointed at the sky, and the photographer was trying to get a shot of the constellation of Orion.

HERE IS THE SAME PICTURE WITH CONTRAST AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED:

This area of Woonsocket is mentioned in the works of Charles Fort, and Fairmount Hill itself is believed to be the scene of the old New England story of the "Devil's Hole," where a clergyman is said to have done battle with the Devil in a story involving small, dark, hooded, human-like figures and even werewolves! Guess who lives on the side of the hill, only a few hundred yards from the "Devil's Hole" cave? Paul Eno and his family!

Paul says: "While our house and land have always been peaceful havens, with a great deal of 'protection,' the rest of the hill has always been pretty odd. Ben has lived here most of his life, and he and his friends have seen some pretty strange things in the woods here. Our house is one of the last before the town ends and the woods begin, reaching up to the hilltop. But the area isn't rural."

Paul says the "cowled figure's" presence is interesting, given his recent cases involving parasites harassing people who have left cults.

"Cowled figures feature prominently in several of these cases, two involving famous people. I've had the strong impression over the past few months that I'm not the most popular human when it comes to the 'parasite community!'"

HERE IS THE SAME PICTURE INVERTED:

In a remarkable shot caught at the home of a resort manager and his family in York County, Paul believes there is a "world boundary" (the light-like plasma) with the face of a person "from elsewhere or elsewhen" behind it and to the left.

The drama comes from Paul's belief that the family in the house is the victim of a very clever parasite of a high order. At the same time, Paul felt the strong, positive presence of children in a parallel world at the spot where the photo was taken. He has set out not only to help the family learn to defeat the parasite, but to help protect the children as well.

Paul says, "I've had many cases in which parasites seems to be able to reach into several parallel worlds at a time to feed, almost like octopi."

In the same case, this doll has been caught on video moving, at the apparent behest of the parasite, a number of times.

#24 NOVEMBER 23, 2008

THE DARK SIDE REVISITED

"X," a prominent figure in American cultural life who wishes to remain anonymous, makes a return visit to the show. X has been the victim of a paranormal parasite for well over 25 years and is now working with Paul Eno. After X's initial appearance in show #5 (June 29, 2008), many listeners were shaken up over the possibility that everything that comes through mystics, spiritual leaders, psychics and mediums might not always come from where it says it does, and could even be dangerous. X will fill us in on the latest developments in the case, and discuss with Paul and Ben some of the deeper implications.

Here is X's written testimony:

Three decades ago, I visited India with a family friend and heard about a so- called guru named Sathya Sai Baba. Less than a decade later, I returned to India to visit his ashram in Puttaparthi. I was very young and naïve about true evil. I thought that spirituality was about goodness, kindness and helping others. I was very naïve about how much a person would lie to become famous, rich and diabolical, feeding on people’s altruism and the centuries-old myths about religion, God, goodness and the nature of evil. My experience as the result of being in Sai Baba’s presence was so evil that I can barely comprehend how I have survived all of these years. I touched his feet, as was the practice of his devotees, and an evil that is beyond evil descended on me. I have been fighting it for over two decades. It was more evil than my naive concept of Satan or the Devil. During my time on the ashram, a local woman, at 3 a.m. one morning, walked across the ashram yelling loudly that Sai Baba was the devil.

I was just learning how true her words were and will always wonder what happened to her. I have been told by both priests, psychologists and psychiatrists that I have a case of demonic possession or oppression. I have worked with over 10 healers and none of them has been able to rid me of it. (I have heard of one person who went to healer who was able to minimize it.)

One recently was able to lift it enough that I have started to feel some of my original energy. It has been so bad that I have been barely able to walk. I have been sexually assaulted and sodomized by something unseen. I have been stung, burned and been given excruciating pain throughout my body. I have been tortured. I have been beaten, burned, bitten, punched and kicked by something unseen. All of a sudden after I touched Sai Baba’s feet, I was constantly, most of the time, hearing a male voice calling me filthy names, and demanding that I obey it or it would hurt me. It would do so if I did not do what it said.

It attacks me when I have any professional success in my field. It tells me I should not read, think or live anywhere but on the streets, homeless and in rags. It somehow is able to injure me physically. It constantly hits me and berates me if I drop something, cannot find something quickly enough, cannot remember something fast enough, or look for something fast enough. It is constantly mocking me and making fun of me. It fills me with a strong, overwhelming sense of its insane rage and contempt if I feel a sense of affection for anyone, pet or friend. In fact, I was wide awake when I felt a burning sensation on my arm and scratches appeared on both arms.

It even attacked a friend who was not aware of my whole story. She called me to say that she woke up with long scratches on her arms and legs that appeared from nowhere at night.

I have had the following injuries:

A rotation-cuff injury of the shoulder from being forced to fall as I was rushing so quickly to get away from its torment that I fell and injured my shoulder. I have fallen more times than I can count. So far I have not broken anything. I have had a heart murmur develop as a result of the stress, and went into heart failure a number of years ago from the stress and was hospitalized for it. The doctors could not figure out why I had heart failure as I was too young for the problem. Recently, I heard it threatening me with hurting my hands, and as I was pouring a cup of hot water, the boiling water went the wrong way and burned by thumb. The skin is now in the process of falling off.

I have also experienced being threatened with falling down the stairs if I did not wear the clothes it told me to wear. I refused, and I was thrown down two flights of steep stairs by an unseen force. There is an injury to my leg that is still clearly visible after over three years. I am now classified as disabled. It attacks me if I have friends, when I eat a meal, and it attacks at night when I try to sleep. It always attacks before I have guests in my home.

It is constantly trying to merge with my mind, my thoughts, and it feels as if it is lodged in my physical brain as there is a strong sensation of pressure inside my head or a strong sense of a vise-like grip around my head, painfully squeezing it. (Sai Baba was always saying and wrote that the ideal was to merge with him.)

It tries to stop me from thinking critically. There is often a horrible sensation of stinging and slight burning on the surface of my scalp, and sometimes a feeling of electrical energy like static on my scalp and in my hair. It tries to make my body and voice some kind of puppet, trying to force me to do actions against my will, including hurting myself (or trying to make me hurt others) and saying foul things.

It also tries to channel through other people. Many years ago, when this first started, I went to a chiropractor. While he was working on me, he went into a trance and started to hurt me, resulting in dark bruises on my arm. I never went back to him. Once, when I was returning from overseas, a U.S. Customs officer started yelling at me and had to shake his head to snap out of it, after which he was helpful.

I have found some relief recently because Paul Eno suggested that I put holy water on my body (all the chakras). I also sprinkle my bed with holy water (as well as my office) and have finally been able to get a good night’s sleep. I also find that making loud noises, like clapping hands loudly and popping balloons or paper bags, or any unexpected sound, temporarily scares it off.

In my imagination, I am not polite to it, based on the advice of a psychologist who treated people like myself and who had the same or similar condition as the result of meditating and being in Eastern religious groups and going to so-called gurus in India. (I have heard that some Catholics have this problem also.) I imagine punching it back and fighting back with all of my strength. It seems to help me fight it off, although temporarily… but too many times it seems to overwhelm me with sheer malice. It is evil beyond my wildest imagination and the worst horror the movie industry could dream up. It is a criminally insane fiend.

It tries to block and stop anything and everything in my life. It is best that I do not isolate myself from people or do anything that it tells me to do. (It is constantly telling me to commit suicide). I used to have terrible dreams, and when I was on the ashram I had horrible dreams about women being burned to death and had a sense of a horrendously malevolent presence in my room.

Its violence seems to be against creative human thought or existence. It will say to me that I should not help others or, for that matter, use any form of critical thought and make decisions that would allow me to think or vote intelligently. I guess the key term would be “abject, violently focused hate.” It is constantly obsessed with sexual sadism and violence.

After what I have been through, I no longer can hear the word “God” without actually gagging. It is amazing that I am still alive. I know others who have died and know that others have similar torment as a result of being in Sai Baba’s presence. It also affects my memory in terms of it wanting to block me from remembering and telling what it has done to me.

I have had things appear and disappear, like checks, work-related documents and a list of possible recipients of this testimony. It also has caused to disappear essential heart medicine, that could lead to serious consequences if I did not take it. I have had odd noises in my home, such as a rumbling wall, and have recorded unearthly guttural sounds on a tape recorder in my bedroom.

I know of one person who was institutionalized after going to Sai Baba meetings for just two weeks. The individual did not even need to be in his presence to have this horrendous torment descend on him. In order to stay alive and sane, I have had to learn as much as I could about human behavior especially criminal psychopaths and what they demand of their victims. I have read as much as I have been able to find about the true origins of religion. I have also read a great deal about how the human brain functions and how it copes with stress.

I feel there is a strong possibility that there is no God and that when we open ourselves in mediation or prayer, malevolent forces step in to fill the vacuum. They can mimic goodness and fool you. There seems to be no spiritual law as there are various human laws on Earth that restrict and condemn criminal behavior. The spiritual realm seems to be the realm for committing the perfect crime without consequence to the criminal and severe consequences to the victim.

It often will say to me that it has no karma… that only good people have negative karma for all and any imperfections. Perhaps if there is a God, it is malevolent and all suffering is for its amusement. When Sai Baba says he is love and wants people to be good, loving, kind and non-violent, he is setting them up so they cannot fight back. He is, it appears, actually setting a trap to single out the people to mark for demolition. He does ask you to bring to him your worst fears, and the biggest joke is that he says he will protect you. What a laugh. It would be enlightening to see who else has this horrible torment on them. Are they exceptionally good and giving people, or is this a random occurrence that has nothing to do with anything other then one being there?

I understand that being religious often holds the key to the possibility of having this torment and that people who have this are ones who believe strongly in God, expecting it or him/her to be good when the opposite may be the case or there is nothing there and evil fills the void. One may pray constantly or meditate often… and may as a result get this torment, however some children, even infants can be plagued by this, even if temporarily. I know of three such cases.

Sadly, this has been my experience… however I did not encounter this horrific malevolence until I was in the presence of Sathya Sai Baba and read something about him. I read about him in a book by an American psychiatrist who praised him, and later in a book by another American psychiatrist who also praised him. I felt very set up because I trusted their professional judgment. A belief in God or praying to Saint Michael has not helped me or spared me this suffering. It has actually made it worse.

It has been recommended to me to bathe in Epson salts, sea salt or baking soda. I also have been told to put a sea-salt cross under my mattress. One could put it in envelopes to prevent children or pets from being harmed. It was also recommended that I put sea salt in all corners of the rooms in my home and to put blessed wooden crosses over all of my entrances and blessed religious medals on or over all windows and mirrors. In spite of all of this, it is still around… although somewhat less. I now, however, have malevolent manifestations in my home, such as the unexplained appearance of rat poison in a block (see photograph) and in a granulated form on the floor, which could hurt or kill children or pets. I have had these objects photographed and have collected the physical evidence. It has threatened to manifest even worse things in my home if I tell the truth about what has happened to me. It has also severed the wires of my modem to prevent me from using my computer and sending out e-mail.

I know this sounds outrageous, but this is what has happened. I am constantly having computer problems and computer problems mysteriously happen in business matters relating to professional activities. (I have noticed that if I place Bibles on the computer and printer, the interference stops temporarily.)

This thing has actually told me that it would hurt me badly if I told the truth, including attacking me with burning, disfigurement and death. I have had burn holes appear in my cloths, and no one smoked near me. It has recently threatened that if I cook a meal, it would blow up my gas stove and burn me to death.

This is my true experience for the past two-plus decades as a result of going to see Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, India and attending meetings of his organization.

As mentioned earlier, it often tells me that the only way I can stop the pain is to commit suicide. I, of course, know that that is an absurd lie and have no intention of taking my life. I wonder when I hear that there are suicides associated with him… how many had the situation that I have been faced with for so many years and felt such deep guilt and shame that they could not tell anyone what they were suffering?

I have often noticed that truly evil people do not have this kind of interference, in fact it seems as if they are actually given free rein.

X's appearance has attracted the ire of Sai Baba supporters. X directs all who "want to know the truth about Sai Baba" to www.exbaba.com.

Here is a letter from one Sai Baba devotee, who identifies herself only as "Lisa." We suspect that she is the well known (infamous to ex-devotees) Sai Baba defender Lisa de Witt of Arizona USA (in spite of her British spellings). Paul Eno's responses are included:

Dear Mr. Eno,

I find it highly disturbing that you are trying to pass off a person who appears in all probability to be a schizophrenic making a public "testimonial" against Sai Baba in order to garner ratings for your show.

(Paul responds: With all due respect to your opinion and beliefs, Lisa, I and several other people, including doctors, have been working with X for a year and a half and more, and you have not. She is not schizophrenic.)

If this anonymous person is so very "prominent" and therefore credible, why are you hiding his name?

(Paul responds: I’m not hiding anything, Lisa. X wishes to remain anonymous, and as far as Ben and I are concerned, that’s that. We’d do the same for you. And what makes you think that public prominence equals credibility? I guess you don’t watch television.)

I also find it highly suspicious that so many Baba-bashers just happen to have backgrounds as Catholics and obviously understand very little about Hinduism. Perhaps you should do better research and learn some facts about Hinduism before you ignorantly fan the flames of religious bigotry and fear.

(Paul responds: Whoa! X was never a Catholic, so I suppose you are referring to me, who spent many years studying for the priesthood. How is it “obvious” that anybody with a Catholic background wouldn’t understand Hindusim? A little “bashing” on your part, maybe? In fact, I studied Hinduism and other religions on the graduate level, AND made it a point to get to know a number of Hindus and their many forms of worship. Had you done the same, Lisa, you might realize that Hinduism is NOT one religion, but many different sects with many different beliefs. The very term Hindu is actually a European invention because Westerners couldn’t deal with its diversity.

As for religion in general, I’ve dealt with hundreds of cases in which Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, neo-pagans and whatever else you can think of, have picked up PARANORMAL PARASITES, just like X has, either because of or in spite of their religions, and NEEDED HELP because of it. Parasites are a universally human problem.

That’s why I’m far more interested in God than I am in religion.

The fact is, AT THE MOMENT, I DON’T CARE ABOUT SAI BABA OR ANY OTHER SELF APPOINTED MESSIAH. I’m interested in X, a good, honest person who is the victim of a PARANORMAL PARASITE and doesn’t deserve it. X believes that it was picked up because of involvement with Sai Baba. That may or may not be so. But I’ll tell you this, Lisa, sooner or later I’m going to find out where this parasite came from. And if it came from Sai Baba, I’m going to tell the world about it, and I don't care who's listening.

And as far as fear is concerned – I assure you that THERE IS PLENTY OUT THERE TO BE AFRAID OF – EXCEPT FOR THE TRUTH).

I have to question your claim of being psychic when there are so many famous psychics who are on record as saying Sai Baba is a Divine Being. This includes Armande Marcotte who was John Wayne's personal psychic whom I talked to in the early nineties. At that time Mr. Marcotte gave a public speech in which he talked about Sai Baba.

(Paul responds: Well, I’ve got news for you, Lisa, EVERY ONE OF US IS A DIVINE BEING!

As far as psychics go: You seem anxious to trash our show, but if you actually listened to us regularly you’d find a recurring theme: THINGS IN THE PARANORMAL ARE ALMOST NEVER WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE. Are you naive enough to think that just because someone was John Wayne’s personal psychic or is some kind of darling of the laughable media, that their SOURCES OF INFORMATION can necessarily be trusted, even if they themselves are sincere and honest?

Sure, I practice as a psychic on a limited basis with a very different theory of how it works and a very different method. But I struggle with that question of legitimacy every time I prepare to do a reading. And so should every psychic.)

Craig Hamilton-Parker of the UK is also on record as stating such. A clairvoyant whose abilities were tested in the university laboratory, Dr Frank Baranowski also made astounding comments regarding Sai Baba.

(Paul responds: SO WHAT?)

According to a January 24, 2002 obituary in the Arizona Republic, Dr. Baranowski Ph.D.:

"appeared on the Larry King Show and was tested at four colleges and six clinics, including the famous Schmertz in Basel, Switzerland, for his amazing ability to see the human aura. He was featured in the motion pictures 'Mind, Body & Spirit,'' ''The Psychic Connection'' and has appeared on ''Sightings' ' and ''Unsolved Mysteries.'' Dr. Baranowski was covered by all major networks, the BBC and Canadian television. The consummate radio professional, Baranowski had a faithful and enormous audience on his ''Mysteries Around Us'' program."

(Paul responds: My opinion of Larry King isn't much better than my opinion of Baranowski.)

Dr. Baranowski made the following statement about Sathya Sai Baba:

"Now, I have always been able to see the human aura. The auras around average people extend as much as three to five feet. Auras are composed of every imaginable colour and these colours change as a person's emotional, physical and mental states change. In general, whenever the colour blue is evident in a person's aura, it is an indication of deep spirituality; green is a healing color; yellow indicates high intelligence; and red means anger or frustration.

The colour pink, which is rarely seen, typifies a person capable of selfless love, and this was the colour that Sathya Sai Baba had around Him. The aura around Sathya Sai Baba went beyond the building reaching thirty or forty feet in all directions. Never having seen any aura like this before, my first reaction was to look for fluorescent lights, which may have been shining on Him. But as I watched, the beautiful pink energy pattern moved as He moved; there was no doubt that this was His aura.

Entranced by this remarkable sight, I barely heard the devotional songs that were being sung, and before I knew it, Sathya Sai Baba had gone. The crowd settled in the now-familiar cross-legged positions and prepared themselves to wait until Sathya Sai Baba's next appearance, four hours later.

I have had the pleasure of meeting such personalities as ex-president Gerald Ford, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, and Pope John Paul II, and I have studied their auras as well as tens of thousands of others, I say this not as a testimonial but as a fact; not one person I have ever seen has an aura to compare to the size and colour of Sathya Sai Baba's aura."

(Paul responds: The whole business of auras is up for debate. So again, so what? EVEN INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. And my standard question to cultists: The world is always full of messiahs who say and do seemingly great things and make grandiose claims. What makes yours better than any other?

In my opinion, your messiahs are nothing but bait dangled by parasites.)

#23 - NOVEMBER 16, 2008

BOOKS BY THIS SHOW'S DISTINGUISHED GUEST:

PAUL DEVEREUX

THE LONG TRIP

A Prehistory of Psychedelia

ISBN: 978-0-9757200-5-9

The Long Trip lays bare the evidence for the psychedelic experiences of prehistoric societies and ancient, traditional cultures worldwide. It is probably the most comprehensive single volume to look at the use of mind-altering drugs, or entheogens, for ritual and shamanistic purposes throughout humanity’s long story, while casting withering sidelong glances at our own times now.

Author and this week's guest Paul Devereux says that our modern mainstream culture is eccentric in its refusal to integrate the profound experiences offered by mind-altering substances into its spiritual life.

"The Long Trip is an informed study of an inﬂuential, yet still under-explored experience, and is revelatory in its ﬁndings, invaluable in its research, and important in its attempts to address deep questions confronting our culture," one reviewer said.

Paul Devereux is a founding co-editor of the peer-review publication, Time & Mind – The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Berg Publishers, Oxford) and has written or co-written some 26 books for general readerships. He has also authored many articles for both popular and specialist publications, together with a range of peer-reviewed academic papers. He can be contacted at: pdevereux@onetel.co.uk

THE LONG TRIP, 2008, Daily Grail Publishing, Australia. (A revised and re-edited edition of the 1997 Penguin Arkana Original, New York, 1998.) [Prehistoric magico-religious usage of hallucinogens.]

SPIRIT ROADS, 2007, Collins & Brown, UK. (New edition of FAIRY PATHS & SPIRIT ROADS, 2003, Vega/Chrysalis Books UK; Sterling-Barnes & Noble, USA.) [Conceptual folk geography in the Old and New Worlds.)

MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT AMERICA, 2002, Vega/Chrysalis Books,UK; Sterling, USA. (The genetics, ethnology, archaeology, and ritual life of the pre-Columbian Americas.)

STONE-AGE SOUNDTRACKS, 2001, (TV tie-in title), Vega/Chrysalis Books, U.K. (Archaeoacoustics)

ARCHAEOLOGY- THE STUDY OF OUR PAST, 2001, Ticktock Publishing, U.K. [For children 11-14 years]

THE SACRED PLACE, 2000, Cassell, London; Sterling, USA; AT Verlag, “Die heilige Ort”, 2006, Germany. (Development of prehistoric monuments from natural venerated places)

RE-VISIONING THE EARTH, 1996; Simon & Schuster/ Fireside Original, New York, 1996. (Ecopsychology.)

THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF THE STARS AND PLANETS [with Geoffrey Cornelius], 1996; Pavilion UK, Chronicle USA. (From astrology to archaeoastronomy.)

http://www.pauldevereux.co.uk/

#20 - DECEMBER 28 & 19 OCTOBER 2008

When it comes to UFOs, Stanton T. Friedman has a decades-long history of debunking the debunkers. Here is only one example: His 1997 challenge to the U.S. Air Force to debate him and simply to come clean on flying saucers.

Scientist Challenges Air Force
Regarding UFOs

Nov. 13, 1997

"Frankly I am sick and tired of the US Air Force lying to the public, the press, and members of Congress about UFOs," said nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman at a public lecture "Flying Saucers ARE Real" in Albuquerque. "I have had a serious interest in UFOs for 39 years, lectured in a dozen countries, and visited seventeen document archives," he continued. "For 50 years there has been massive misrepresentation about UFOs in general, and in recent years the Roswell Incident in particular. The Air Force has come up with four different answers for Roswell:

A flying saucer

A radar reflector and weather balloon

A Mogul balloon train over 500 feet long with 23 balloons, sonobuoys, etc.

And most recently, a Mogul balloon train plus crash test dummies dropped at least six years AFTER the 1947 crashes Southeast of Corona and West of Magdalena."

Friedman, who spent fourteen years as an industrial nuclear physicist working on a wide variety of classified, highly advanced nuclear systems for major corporations, was the first civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident.

"I hereby challenge Colonel Richard Weaver, author of the outrageously misleading huge volume 'The Roswell Report: Fact Vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert', and USAF Captain James McAndrew, author of the 1997 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed', toa formal debate.

"These two officers have made a mockery out of serious investigation. They have used all the tools of the propagandist with selective choice of data, false reasoning, false claims, positive and negative name calling. These reports should be listed under fiction in the library.

"The Mogul explanation doesn't fit. There are gross differences among the testimony of their witnesses, and they ignore the testimony they don't want to consider while claiming falsely that they have talked to all the original witnesses still alive who handled material totally different from the Mogul explanation.

"They left out vital aspects of quotes from the FBI. They falsely tried to claim the Roswell story came to light because of a story in a tabloid in 1978. That story didn't appear until 1980 after a colleague and I had talked to 60 people connected with the case. I was falsely portrayed as somebody who gets his UFO stories from tabloids.

"The fact is in 1978 I was the first to talk to a key witness, Major Jesse Marcel the intelligence officer for the only atomic bombing group in the world in 1947. I was referred to him by an old ham radio buddy of his who had seen the press stories in 1947. Jesse never sought publicity. I discussed many of these false charges in my book TOP SECRET MAJIC.

"One of the silliest official USAF stories is the crash test dummy nonsense. I spoke in person with Colonel Madson, whose picture is in the Case Closed volume and was heavily involved in the research program. He is adamant that the explanation doesn't fit. Remember that the dummies had to be the same height and weight as air force pilots. None were dropped anywhere near the two crash sites and none were dropped earlier than 6 years AFTER the 1947 events.

"They used a crazy explanation for the red-headed officer observed independently at the Roswell Base Hospital, and in the Plains of San Augustin. World class pilot, Joseph Kittinger, was a redhead and was at the Roswell base hospital after a ballooning accident. But it was twelve years later! If the explanation doesn't fit, one must acquit. As it happens, I was the first to hear the two independent stories about the nasty red haired officer and the black sergeant, an unusual combination for 1947. The Air Force says nothing about the black sergeant, or the two independent stories.

"There are many other examples of massive misrepresentation by the Air Force about UFOs. The USAF Office of Special Investigations even told its own units to ignore their own regulations if they received an FOIA request from me about UFOs. The USAF apparently even lied to the CIA recently, falsely claiming that half the UFO sightings after 1955 were the results of observations of super secret reconnaissance aircraft, the U-2 and later the SR-71. But there was no increase in the number of sightings after 1955. Why would anybody report a very high flying aircraft moving in a straight line and never making right angle turns, as stopping on a dime, instantly reversing direction, or silently landing and taking off in the middle of nowhere, like UFOs so often are observed to do???

"The Pentagon based Air Force Liaison officer has written numerous one page letters in response to constituent requests for information about Roswell to congressman. It took me five pages to correct all the false claims he made.

"Colonel Weaver wrote a researcher that the Operation Majestic 12 Documents, which are the subject of TOP SECRET/MAJIC are known by everybody to be BOGUS. In response to my Freedom of Information Act request for any memos, letters, documents, etc. supporting this ridiculous and baseless claim, I was told, "There are no records available." This is a clear case of research by proclamation.

"Doesn't the Air Force have a responsibility to those who pay the bills to be honest? Or are they above the law? I repeat my challenge:

"USAF officers McAndrew and Weaver, do you have the courage of your convictions? Name the date and place. Perhaps Larry King or Walter Cronkite or Ted Koppel would be willing to act as moderator."

Stanton Friedman

#9 & #19 - 27 JULY 2008, 12 OCTOBER 2008

On the July show, host Paul Eno talked about the startling evidence for the influence of the paranormal in the origins of the human species, its affect on our history and our religions, and its influence in our everyday lives. This was part 1. Part 2 will take place October 12.

#1: How Paul believes the "multiverse" -- the "engine" of the paranormal and key to understanding reality, actually works.

#2: Part of the Qadisha Valley of Lebanon, known from time immemorial as "the Holy Valley." Paul believes this was the location of "Eden."

#3: The ruins of the ancient city of Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan. Several unorthodox scholars believe the city was destroyed in an ancient nuclear explosion.

#4: A Polynesian war god. Paul speculates about the true origins of these beings: "Who could accept such loveless gods unless they felt they had no choice.?"

#5: What Paul describes as a paranormal "parasite," arms and all, flees from him during a case in Rhode Island.

#6: The famous "flying witch" of Mexico. A modern parasite?

#12 & # 18 - 17 AUGUST & 5 OCTOBER 2008

Jeff Wamsley, West Virginia author and expert on the "Mothman" terror of the 1960s, joins Paul and Ben as "Behind the Paranormal" takes another foray into cryptozoology, "men in black" and related areas of the unexplained.

Here is some Mothman background, taken from the back cover of John A. Keel's book, "The Mothman Prophecies," basis for the 2002 motion picture of that title, starring Richard Gere and Debra Messing.

The History of the Mothman

For thirteen months the entire town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia was gripped by a dark terror that culminated in a tragedy that made headlines all over the world. This is a story that contains all the elements of a modern science fiction movie but every single word is true and fully documented by famed journalist John A. Keel.

Homes throughout the little towns were plagued with unearthly noises and ghostly manifestations while mysterious aerial lights traveled silently overhead seemingly on a regular schedule. Winged monsters and frightening apparitions terrified the population as automobiles stalled and telephones and TV sets ran amok. A Red Cross Bloodmobile filled with fresh blood was pursued along a darkened highway by a weird flying machine. Domestic animals were found slaughtered and mutilated in pastoral farm fields. Innocent people lived in surrealistic horror, haunted by the fearsome demonic "Bird" and besieged by legions of strange beings (some of which arrived in ordinary-looking automobiles)."

An artist's conception of Mothman

as seen by residents of the Ohio Valley in 1966.

(Courtesy www.mothmanlives.com)

Check out Jeff Wamsley's excellent Mothman "sightings" page

Paul & Ben visit the Mothman Museum

in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in July 2007 while on a speaking tour.

On the October 5 show, after the Mothman discussion, Paul updated listeners

on a new case in Maine. On his first visit to the site the previous day, Paul got this picture (no flash used) in the house, where he sensed the presence

of children in a close parallel reality. The picture is now being analyzed.

Also on the show, Paul mentioned this picture of a patch of ice on the sidewalk

as an example of how the mind will assemble apparently coincidental features into

something it can understand. In this case, look at the picture long enough

and you'll see Santa Claus!

#17 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2008

Co-host Paul Eno will review some of his most exciting cases. From 1971, there's the classic "Village of Voices" case.

This is the famous "baby in the tree" photo. Some members of the expedition reported seeing this baby-like figure with the naked eye that night. the picture had not yet been developed. Paul later uncovered a book of local history in which people around the time of the American Revolution reported the same apparition.

This bizarre photo, taken by Paul at the "Village of Voices" in 1971, is mechanically impossible: It was taken with an old Kodak 126 Instamatic camera, which was not capable of double-exposing photographs. Controversial early paranormal investigator Ed Warren once pronounced this "one of the most remarkable psychic photographs of the 20th century."

#15 - 14 SEPTEMBER 2008

After we visit with Danish paranormal researcher Shane Eno, we'll talk with an Illinois photographer about this remarkable -- possibly paranormal -- photo from the grave of Elvis Presley. Note the "angel" figure over the "Presley" name.

#10 - 3 AUGUST 2008 and September 21, 2008

Murray Silver, "ghost hunter with depth," author, PBS show host, Mensa speaker, promoter and associate of the rich and famous, is the guest. Below is a picture of Murray with Brad Pitt surrounded by "orbs" in New Orleans at the site where the actor was helping to build homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The site was obliterated by the storm, killing many people, and is built atop an old plantation site.

#7 – 13 JULY 2008

COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER WORLDS

Among the many topics we will discuss with our guests, REVS. DONNA AND DUDLEY VOLL, will be angels and this photo:

An unmistakable, white-clad figure appears in the right sunglass lens. In the left lens, what could be other white-clad figures seem to be near the water's edge in the distance. The photo was taken in April 2008 on the banks of the Potomac River in the western part of the State of Maryland, USA, by someone Paul Eno knows and trusts. The two fishermen at the scene (the reflection of the blue-shirted photographer can been at the center of the sunglasses) testify that there was no-one else present. The photo was taken by Paul Smith with a cell-phone camera.

Both men state that they fish in the area frequently, but that it has a "weird feel." The entire area was one of frequent conflict during the American Civil War (1861-1865). One man present speculated to Paul that the figure might be the ghost of a man who drowned during a baptism at the river, something Paul considers unlikely.

Paul Eno's opinion: "The 'weird feel' of this site could indicate that it's what Native Americans call a 'thin place': a place where the boundaries between two or more of the worlds that always surround us in the multiverse intersect or are 'thin.' In such places, the camera -- which can 'see' more light spectra than the human eye -- sometimes picks up the inhabitants (human or otherwise) of intersecting worlds. What's more, I have encountered these white-clad people on a number of occasions. Without fail, I have found them to be kin to us, full of kindness and willing to help. I believe that theirs may be the world or worlds -- just as physical as ours -- from which ancestors, other loved ones, and even other ('higher') facets of ourselves can help us. They may very well be responsible for many of our ideas about angels. This man may well have a photograph of his own 'guardian angel.'"

Send your comments to Paul at paul@behindtheparanormal.com or call in to the show toll-free (U.S. and Canada) at 888-235-7374.

Show #6 - 6 July 2008

PSYCHIC NIGHT

Listeners were shaken up by the warnings of both Paul Eno and the mystery guest on Show #5 that bad or incompetent psychics and mediums, paranormal parasites and other dead ends can lead to big spiritual trouble. Among other things, Paul on this show suggested some general guidelines about choosing a good psychic. Per listeners' request, we reprint them here:

1) We live in a time when any crook or fool can get a fake academic degree or ordination certificate online for a few bucks...or take a course offered by such a person. If you feel you need to consult a psychic, medium, counselor, guru or anyone else who claims to be a spiritual leader, find out all you can about his or her background and training first. Who did they study under? Was that person or institution legitimate in your estimation? What experience do they have? How long have they been "in practice"? Do your homework -- don't just believe their bios, books or websites. Ideally, ask for references, but that can be very difficult because of confidentiality. Do what you can to find out the person's reputation and history. And don't necessarily trust someone who wears a clerical collar.

2) The number one ingredient for a good psychic, medium, counselor, etc., is COMPASSION. If you don’t sense this right off the bat, or do not feel comfortable with the person, look elsewhere.

3) A willingness to listen is crucial. If the person yaks all through your session, is bossy and “I’m right,” they have the wrong perspective. Move on.

4) One thing that can throw you in a psychic situation: If you don’t recognize information the person is giving you, that doesn’t necessarily mean the person is wrong. You could meet the people or situations the person describes tomorrow or next week. But beware MAKING YOURSELF BELIEVE IT HAPPENED through suggestibility or wishful thinking. Keep your mind open but your feet on the ground. Does the psychic or medium explain this to you -- and his or her own limitations? That's an important clue to credibility!

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TALKING POINTS

Quick Find:

Nov. 30 show: Bizarre photos from New York and New England

Nov. 23 show: Parasite victim "X" returns

Nov. 16 show: Paul Devereux and prehistory's psychedelic mysteries

Dec. 28 and Oct. 19 show: Stan Friedman's Challenge to the Air Force

July 27 and Oct. 12 shows: The Paranormal in Human History

August 17 and Oct. 5 shows: Jeff Wamsley and Mothman

Sept. 28 show: Paul Eno's Paranormal Case Review

Sept. 14 show: The Elvis grave photo

August 3 and Sept. 21 shows: Orbs, Murray Silver & Brad Pitt

July 13 show: Angels in Maryland?

July 6 and Aug. 10 shows: Evaluating a Psychic, Medium, Counselor etc.

June 29 show: Mystery guest's written testimony