The Paranormal Rundown

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 shows us an unscrupulous delinquent ...

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 and the Feather. Along the way ...

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 world. We cover topics such as th...

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 Attacks. Along the way we touch on ...

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! Later in the episode we discuss our pl...

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 Paranormal and Spiritual Experiences i...

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 the medical laboratory setting.&nbs...

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 Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Dogs...

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 recounts his many, many experiences with...

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 Become a Satanist?, the Need to have a...

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 scientific perspective. Through ...

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 reality of the topic, and maybe choose a...

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. We also have a very lively discussi...

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 wonder this conversation was so in...

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: Haunted Property Insurance! We al...

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 Accent Syndrome, Omm Sety, Univers...

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 some pretty deep thinking on how rea...

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, Theodicy, Exorcisms, ZoZo, the Ouija Bo...

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 the top clips out of the season and ...