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The Paranormal Rundown

David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, Vic Hermanson

The Paranormal Rundown is a sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and sometimes astounding exploration of a wide variety of paranormal topics. From ghosts to bigfoot to aliens, we discuss it all! A random algorithm chooses the topic from a huge list we have specially created, and off we go! The hosts of the show are Vic Hermanson, the highly intelligent and creative host of the Trailer Trash Terrors podcast; Father Michael Birdsong, a priest and exorcist for the Charismatic Episcopal Church and

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02:26:39

Episode 54: The voices in Vic's head

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2026/02/06

Ep 54 - Paranormal explorations of Drugs and Demonic Influence, Negative Near Death Experiences (NDEs), & the megalithic underground structure at Khara Khora.Welcome to episode 54 of The Paranormal Rundown! We have a small crew this time, just Vic, David, and Randy, but we have some wide ranging discussion! We consider the possibility of drugs and alcohol creating a vulnerability to Demonic Influence, Negative Near Death Experiences, AI and the components of Consciousness, and finish with a trip

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02:40:38

Ep. 053 - Samuel Chong: The Thaioouba Prophecy

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2026/01/15

Ep 53 - Samuel Chong tells The Paranormal Rundown how the Thaioouba Prophecy explains aliens, abduction, space travel, and even Jesus Christ!Welcome to episode 53 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have Samuel Chong with us, one of the most knowledgeable researchers of the Thaioouba Prophecy. Samuel is an attorney, translator, and motivational speaker, with a masters degree in financial analysis from the London School of Economics. But Samuel's true passion is the paranormal! After

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Ep. 052 - The Gang of Nerds Grows!

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2025/12/24

Ep. 52 - The Paranormal Rundown welcomes Randy as a new co-host & discussion on why we do this podcast.Welcome to episode 52 of The Paranormal Rundown! The Gang of Nerds wishes you a Very Merry Christmas! 2025 has been a year full of exciting guests, deep conversations, and a fair amount of change for the podcast. We have covered a wide range of topics, such as Bigfoot Abductions, PSI, Cryptid Clowns, Consciousness & Reality, Remote Viewing, Machine Elves, Quantum Immortality, Lycanthropy,

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Ep. 051 - Randy: Not So Human-Centric

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2025/12/10

Ep 51 - Returning guest Randy discusses topics from Dogman & Werewolves to Lake Monsters to Fae & the Green Children from Woolpit.Welcome to Episode 51 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have an excellent return guest, Randy, who has thoughts on many different aspects of the paranormal. You may remember him from episode 42, Pale Crawlers and Paranormal Manifestations. This time around, we get into deep conversations about Dog Soldiers, Dogmen, and Werewolves. Including an

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Ep. 050 - Barry Maher: How to Dance with Reality

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2025/11/26

Welcome to Episode 50 of The Paranormal Rundown! Father Mike is out this week, but we have Vic, David, and Fr. Josh, and a special guest, Barry Maher. Barry is a motivational speaker, who has recently written a book called The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon, and he has a fascinating story to tell about his inspiration for the book! (hint: it involves brain surgery) He also talks about experiences with a shadow figure, a friends doppelganger, and psychedelics. Additional topics include

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Ep. 049 - Ryan Kralik: Don't Anthropomorphize the...

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2025/11/12

Welcome to episode 49 of The Paranormal Rundown!Our guest this episode is Ryan Kralik, the author of a forthcoming book called It From Us – An Information-First Framework and the Purpose of Consciousness.Ryan has a fascinating theory about reality, where existence is built on information, not matter or consciousness. He has shared his ideas and incorporated feedback from people like Hal Puthoff, Rupert Sheldrake, Dean Radin, and Ed Kelly, and published articles about this framework in Ancient

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Ep. 048 - Jacob Griffith: A Skeptic's Take on the...

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2025/10/29

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 he can be on Facebook, with both he and Fr. Mike trying their best to corrupt a very

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Ep. 047 - Darth Birdsong, and a Star Wars View of the...

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2025/10/15

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 we discuss A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift,Darth JarJar, Victor and the Sick,

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Ep. 046 - Maxim Furek: Stalked by the Paranormal

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2025/10/01

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 the Albert Ostman Bigfoot Abduction, Padre Pio, Amityville, and Addiction and the

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Ep. 045 - Meanwhile, Back at The Paranormal Rundown...

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2025/07/08

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 Insults to Exorcists, Preparing for Your First Exorcism, Exorcism Ministry Impact

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2:23:22

Ep. 044 - Jeff - AI, the New Spiritual Mirror of...

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/06/18

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 plans to validate some of this activity, with The Great Psychic Chat GPT Experiment, and

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Ep. 043 - Bert - Paranormal Rundown Group Therapy

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2025/06/04

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 in Therapy, Schizophrenia, The Mystery of Life Itself, The Castle of the

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Ep. 042 - Randy - Pale Crawlers and Paranormal...

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2025/05/16

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.He also came with a list of questions for Vic about his Yowie experience, from

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2:00:23

Childhood Adventures in an Almost Paranormal Reality

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2025/05/01

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 throughHaunted Tourism Causing Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Dogs, Demonic Obsession, The Demonic Long Game, Phantom Social Workers, Child Trafficking, a

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2:23:26

Usually I see Shadow People...

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/04/15

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 shadow figures, starting at a really young age, as well as seeing groups of them as an

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2:02:10

Satanic Consecration and Golden Hemorrhoids

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2025/04/01

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 God, Freedom of Speech, the Founding Fathers and Satanism, Holy Water Super Soakers,

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The Paranormal Rundown Breakdown - Thomas Campbell...

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/03/16

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 that study and experimentation, he has created a very rich, flushed out theory of how all of

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2:30:41

The First Paranormal Rundown Smackdown

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/03/01

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 winner.We did have a fairly decent list of paranormal topics, but in true Rundown fashion we

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2:25:00

Father Justin Allen - Thinking Outside the...

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/02/17

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 discussion about a green Tupperware lid that materialized in Vic's sink!The main topics discussed are

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2:27:04

Father Michael Pacella - The Soulless Mind and The...

The Paranormal Rundown ·

2025/02/03

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 interesting!We hit the main topics of Satanic Corporate Logos, Alien Minds, and a brief stint

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