The Paranormal Factor Podcast

21/11/2024

THURSDAY NEWS is a regular feature covering paranormal, eerie, and weird recent news items.

From our friends at "Coast To Coast AM" comes this story from Tim Binnall:
A pilot with the Spanish Air Force recently shared an intriguing account of an incident wherein fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a UFO. The curious event reportedly took place sometime in 2023 and came to light this past April by way of a Spanish journalist who published a letter that he received from the unnamed witness.
Indicating that the incident occurred at the Morón Air Base near the city of Seville, the pilot explained that "our squadron was on operational alert when we received a detection signal from an unidentified flying object."

In response to the presence of the UFO in the airspace near the base, "the scramble protocol was immediately activated" and the squadron of Eurofighter jets quickly took flight in search of the mysterious aerial interloper. "Upon arriving in the designated area," the pilot recalled, "we observed an unidentified flying object that exhibited erratic behavior and did not respond to standard identification signals."

When they tried to approach the mysterious object, he wrote, "the UFO demonstrated a maneuvering capability that defied the capabilities of any known conventional aircraft, and eventually quickly disappeared from our sight at a speed that far exceeded any known operating parameter."

Upon their return to the air base, the squadron attempted to decipher what it was that they had just encountered, however a "thorough process of analysis of the data collected during the mission" left them with no answers as to the "nature or origin of that UFO."

Insisting on the veracity of his account, the pilot astutely observed that the incident "raises significant questions about the security and defense of our airspace," which is presumably why he came forward with the fantastic tale.

20/11/2024

WEDNESDAY BOOKS & FILMS

Communion: A True Story – Book

Communion: A True Story is a book by American ufologist and horror author Whitley Strieber. Communion was a nonfiction best seller for six months in 1987.

The book is based on the experiences of author Strieber, who experiences "lost time" and terrifying flashbacks, which hypnosis undertaken by Budd Hopkins later links to an alleged encounter with aliens.

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early. Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake...and forever changed.

The book is Strieber’s account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from "elsewhere"... how they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why.

It also resulted in a film being made from the book, starring Christopher Walken. The book is creepy and scary in its depiction of abductions. Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t be reading it alone late at night!

19/11/2024

TUESDAY'S QUESTION is a regular feature and will be answered on the next podcast episode. Today's question:

The Rougarou is what kind of creature?

A. A French Phantom Cat
B. A Mississippi Gator Man
C. A Louisiana Werewolf
D. A Haitian Witch

18/11/2024

MONSTER MONDAY!
Every Monday we present a monster of the week post.

This week’s monster is The Awful.

The Awful was a winged cryptid reportedly sighted in the towns of Richford and Berkshire, Vermont, by several people. The first sighting involved two sawmill workers who were crossing a bridge when they saw the beast glaring menacingly down at them from a rooftop. One of the men was so frightened that he immediately had a heart attack.

Whatever this creature was it was said to closely resemble the mythical Griffin. With a grayish color, 20 foot wingspan, serpentine tail, it had claws big enough to grasp the girth of an old style milk can with ease. With these features, it’s no wonder the people of Northern Vermont lived in terror of this menacing new neighbor who moved into town.

As recently as 2006, it seems the Awful may have returned to Northern Vermont with a handful of new reports. We have a full episode on The Awful. Check out Season 3, Episode 14!

14/11/2024

THURSDAY NEWS is a regular feature covering paranormal, eerie, and weird recent news items.

From our friends at "Coast To Coast AM" comes this story from Tim Binnall:
Mourners at a wake in the Dominican Republic were astounded when a wreath of flowers began eerily rocking back and forth seemingly by way of some unseen force. The spooky scene reportedly unfolded at a memorial service in the municipality of Villa González and footage of the eerie event popped up online in early April of this year.

In the video, which has gone viral on social media in the country, the wreath can be seen inexplicably and repeatedly moving on its own as a crowd of astounded mourners watch in awe and discuss the mystifying sight with one mourner proclaiming that the flowers are being moved by the deceased woman that they have gathered to remember.

As one might imagine, the video has sparked considerable discussion online with many viewers agreeing with the assessment that something otherworldly occurred at the service. Meanwhile, more skeptical observers argued that the motion was brought about by the wind or perhaps it was a clever prank. While one cannot discount that possibility, it sounds rather unfathomable as a wake would be a rather distasteful setting for such a hoax.

As for the possibility that it could have been moving due to the wind, that explanation is also somewhat lacking as surely the mourners would have determined that as the cause rather quickly. What do you think of the strange video?

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13/11/2024

WEDNESDAY BOOKS & FILMS

Men In Black – Film

Supremely entertaining, this film actually comes from the equally enjoyable “The Men In Black” Comics series, originally published by Aircel Comics. So, no, it’s not based on the “real” MIBs. In this setting the MIBs are hero agents working for a secret government group and are guardians of our planet, rather than the creepy and sinister entities they are purported to be in real life.

The 1997 American science fiction action comedy film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as the MIB agents K and J. The chemistry between the two leads is a key factor in its success – and it was wildly successful! It even won an Academy Award for Best Makeup. It would go on to spawn three more films in the series that all made money at the box office, though none were as successful or as good as this first film.

While not the “real” MIBs, there is still lots of the MIB legend here – black suits, a clandestine organization, missing time…and LOTS of aliens! We have a full episode on the real MIB. Check out Season 2, Episode 46.

12/11/2024

TUESDAY'S QUESTION is a regular feature and will be answered on the next podcast episode. Today's question:

The White Screamer can be found where?

A. White Bluff, Tennessee
B. Whitehaven, England
C. Whiteriver, Arizona
D. White Oaks, Canada

The answer in Friday's episode!

11/11/2024

MONSTER MONDAY!
Every Monday we present a monster of the week post.

This week’s monster is the White River Monster.

A strange creature is said to lurk within the White River outside Newport, Arkansas. The White River Monster is an aquatic cryptid. The first recorded sightings of "Wh**ey" are from 1915, but the creature has allegedly been seen since the American Civil War. On July 1st, 1915, a landowner spotted Wh**ey, stating that it had gray skin and was "as wide as a car and three cars long."

Sightings didn't happen again until 1971, when a variety of descriptions emerged. One witness said that the creature was gray and had a horn protruding from its forehead, while another description made note of a spiny back.

Other features, such as three or five-toed footprints measuring fourteen inches long and unidentified sounds had been reported as well... lucky for you, recent sightings are scarce.

07/11/2024

THURSDAY NEWS is a regular feature covering paranormal, eerie, and weird recent news items.

From our friends at "Coast To Coast AM" comes this story from Tim Binnall:
A former CIA psychic, who helped inspire the film "The Men Who Stare At Goats" claims he discovered the body of a missing two-year-old in France using remote viewing.

Major Ed Dames said it took him two days to trace the missing youngster to the area where the body of Emile Soleil was eventually found. Dames showed the Sun newspaper, in the UK, emails he sent to police in December alerting them to the area where believed the boy would be found. Emile disappeared from the French alpine village of Le Vernet last July.

His skull and some of his bones were spotted by a hiker over the weekend, in an area that had previously been searched; leading some to speculate the body may have been placed in the area after the boy was taken and killed. Dames said his emails to police indicated a field immediately adjacent to the area where the body was found on Saturday.

AN ex-CIA psychic has told The Sun how he identified the area where the body of a two-year-old was found — in a mysterious case that is gripping France. Major Ed Dames, who was in a secret project …

06/11/2024

WEDNESDAY BOOKS & FILMS

The Everything Ghost Hunting – Book

From the Amazon description:
"All you need to track and record paranormal activity! Ectoplasm...cold spots...orbs...everyone loves a real-life ghost story! …You'll learn about the most up-to-date technology, such as motion sensors and highly sensitive digital cameras, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves…"

With expert advice on everything from picking a haunted location to setting up cameras and dealing with unwieldy ghosts, The Everything Ghost Hunting Book, 2nd Edition shows you how today's investigators use the tools of modern science to study a wide range of paranormal activity.

Ghosthunter Melissa Martin Ellis is the author. While this book is somewhat dated (published in 2014) and could use an updated reissue, there is still a lot of valuable information and insights if you’re thinking of becoming an investigator of hauntings.

05/11/2024

TUESDAY'S QUESTION is a regular feature and will be answered on the next podcast episode. Today's question:

The Beast of Bladenboro is what kind of creature?

A. Bigfoot Creature
B. Large Wildcat
C. Black dog
D. Giant bird

04/11/2024

MONSTER MONDAY!
Every Monday we present a monster of the week post.

This week’s monster is the Rougarou!

If you are a Francophile, perhaps you have heard of the similar Loup-garou, French for werewolf. Essentially that is what a Rougarou is - a Cajun or bayou werewolf in Louisiana. The legend was brought to the Louisiana region by early French settlers.

It was a common tale to ensure Cajun children behaved or the Rougarou would get them. And there is a legend that Catholics who break Lent seven years in a row will turn into a Rougarou. Most frighteningly, the Rougarou can be anyone – even your next door neighbor!

One thing is for sure - it would be unwise to wander in the Louisiana swamps at night on a full moon! If you’d like to hear more, we have a terrific – and terrifying – full episode. Check out Season 1, Episode 11.

31/10/2024

THURSDAY NEWS is a regular feature covering paranormal, eerie, and weird recent news items.

From our friends at "Coast To Coast AM" comes this story from Tim Binnall:

An airline passenger flying out of New York City captured remarkably clear footage of a saucer-shaped object zipping past the plane at an incredible speed. The tantalizing video was reportedly recorded at the end of March of this year on a flight from NYC to Florida and subsequently popped up on Reddit by way of a friend of the person who filmed the peculiar anomaly.

In the footage, as the airliner ascends over the city, there is a split-second moment wherein something strange crosses the sky outside the window of the plane. When the footage is slowed down or paused, one can see that the oddity is a black, saucer-shaped object.

As one might imagine, there has been considerable feedback to the footage online with all manner of theories being put forward as to what the weird anomaly could have been. Beyond the extraterrestrial hypothesis, some have suggested that it could be some kind of clandestine military craft, while others have argued that it might be a balloon that appears to be moving fast due to the speed of the aircraft.

Another possibility is that the UFO is a small piece of the plane that somehow came flying off, which is a scenario that might be more worrisome than an alien invasion these days. What do you think the passenger filmed over the Big Apple?

This fast moving object was only seen for a couple of seconds in the original clip and it haves the appearance of the classic "Flying Saucer" type UFO. As we...

30/10/2024

WEDNESDAY BOOKS & FILMS

Lost in Space 1965 – TV Show

“Danger, Will Robinson!” What a great show in its day! The 1960s was THE time for classic TV sci-fi fare. And this show had it all – a family in space trying to find a way home, a great robot helper, alien threats every week, and the wonderfully deceitful and devious Dr. Zachary Smith!

The special effects at the time were pretty good – especially the robot. The family members were all tech savvy and handy with a ray gun. The cast was good and interactions among the characters was always interesting. And there was a nice dash of humor added in – especially by Jonathan Harris’s portrayal of cowardly Dr. Smith screaming as he ran from the latest threat or using poor youngster Will Robinson (actor Billy Mumy) as a human shield.

Lost In Space ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The show is still a great joy to watch if you can find episodes! Lost In Space was rebooted by Netflix for a three-season run in 2018, with Mumy coming full circle and playing the new iteration of Dr. Smith.
Trivia Note: The theme song was written by John Williams (credited as “Johnny Williams”), renown for later work on Jaws, Star Wars, and others.

29/10/2024

TUESDAY'S QUESTION is a regular feature and will be answered on the next podcast episode. Today's question:

The Marfa Lights are located in which U.S. state?

A. Montana
B. Washington
C. Texas
D. Vermont

The answer in Friday's episode!

28/10/2024

MONSTER MONDAY!
Every Monday we present a monster of the week post.

This week’s monster is the Big Muddy Monster.

Murphysboro Mud Monster is a mysterious large beast sighted at midnight in 1973, when a young couple was parked by a desolate riverside for a romantic interlude and came face to face with a huge, wet, hairy, mud-slathered beast with a penchant for disturbing teenagers.

During two harrowing weeks in the summer of 1973, the rural town of Murphysboro, Illinois became the epicenter of a terrifying series of encounters with a huge, albino beast, which would come to be known as the “Murphysboro Mud Monster” or the “Big Muddy Monster.”

This bizarre cryptid worried the citizens of this small community — which is tucked away in southwestern region of the state — for approximately fourteen days before its reign of terror abruptly ended, resulting in one of the strangest and, in some ways, most frightening cases in the history of bigfoots.

While there are some who suggest the first account of this creature came from an unnamed man who claimed to have seen the thing while gardening outside of his isolated Westwood Hills area home before it was developed into a neighborhood in the 1950s, most agree that the first official encounter with this creature occurred at approximately midnight on June 25th, 1973.

The first known eyewitnesses were a youthful couple — Randy Needham and Judy Johnson — who were parked at the foot of 23rd Street, in Riverside Park, near the town’s old boat ramp overlooking the Big Muddy River.

It was later dubbed the Big Muddy Monster because of its indefinable features and mysterious presence. It set off a media frenzy after the initial reports on those two days.

24/10/2024

THURSDAY NEWS is a regular feature covering paranormal, eerie, and weird recent news items.

From our friends at "Coast To Coast AM" comes this story from Tim Binnall:

A Slovakian UFO enthusiast who regularly watches the sky for weird objects recently captured footage of what appears to be a triangular UFO in the night sky.

The intriguing sighting reportedly occurred in the country's capital city of Bratislava and was shared on the Instagram account ufoslovakia shortly thereafter. In the footage, a set of three lights in an unwavering triangular formation slowly moves across the sky until disappearing from sight. Given how the trio of illuminated orbs never break from their alignment, it would seem that they constitute one singular craft.

As for what the object could have been, setting aside the extraterrestrial hypothesis, some have put forward the possibility that the UFO was the apocryphal spy plane known as the TR-3B, which many researchers believe to be a clandestine craft often confused for something alien by virtue of its triangular shape and the fact that it has never been revealed to the public. That said, why such a secretive vehicle would be cruising over Slovakia is anyone's guess.

More skeptical observers, on the other hand, have suggested that the trio of lights could have been a drone or perhaps a plane that appeared fantastic due to the perspective of the witness. What do you think of the weird footage?

This footage was captured in Ružinov which is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia On March 14, 2024 just before 11pm. The footage was taken by ufoslovakia who ...

23/10/2024

WEDNESDAY BOOKS & FILMS

National Geographic Supernatural Places – Book

Amazon description: Witches and demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirits? From spooky to chilling to downright weird, signs of the supernatural have terrified -- and fascinated -- people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world's most puzzling enigmas in this remarkable book, which reveals a dazzling array of haunted castles, forbidden hideaways and otherwise eerie landmarks.

Packed with rich illustrations, National Geographic's first-ever guide to the world's supernatural places showcases more than 250 spooky destinations around the globe. The book has great coverage of many aspects of the paranormal with vivid and often dramatic photos. It is full of inside information on when to visit the locations.
The book is sold on Amazon for a very good price for a hardcover book. This is a nice addition to any personal paranormal library.