unexplained phenomena | The Unnormalparanormal Podcast — For Those Interested in Spirits, Hauntings, Mysteries, UFOs and the Unexplained

The vampire figure represents FAR more than what we have seen in the cinema -- it has profoundly influenced the cultural history of civilizations for thousands of years.

Does the ancestral memory of man still hold remnants of yesteryear’s bogeymen? Taking a page from the works of psychiatrist Carl Jung, many researchers believe that cryptids and accounts of seemingly impossible creatures are not beyond the realm of reality: they auditioned for, but never quite got the part in a movie known as evolution.

Today we speak with cryptozoologist Ronald Murphy, author of the new book: “On Vampires”. As you will soon learn, the “vampire” figure represents FAR more than what we have seen in the cinema — it has profoundly influenced the cultural history of civilizations for thousands of years.

A fortunate confluence of environment (Ron is a native of western PA — home to legends such as Bigfoot) and natural curiosity jump started Ron’s worldwide trek in search of the “‘other’: creatures of the periphery, who haunt the liminal regions of our civilized world “.

Links to our guest ~

Ronald Murphy Website

Ronald Murphy Facebook Page

Books Authored by Ronald Murphy (including new book, “On Vampires”)

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Larry Arnold discusses a lifetime of investigating the phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion

Within the mosaic of the paranormal resides a particularly troubling phenomenon – not a fleeting spirit but one that nonetheless induces profound emotional shock to all who are witness to it. Today we speak to the world’s foremost expert on Spontaneous Human Combustion, Larry Arnold. Trained as an engineer, Larry tirelessly seeks to explain – “ just how can a human body reduce itself to component ashes in a fraction of the time required by modern, dedicated crematoriums?”

Later on, Larry recounts his provocative 1978 literary article entitled Meltdown: Tomorrow’s disaster at Three Mile Island, which uncannily foreshadowed the months-later nuclear crisis at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.