The Paranormal Rundown
The Paranormal Rundown

The Paranormal Rundown

David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, Vic Hermanson

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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 author of the book Becoming a House of Prayer, and David Griffith, a long time paranormal investigator. For many shows we have a guest join us, bringing extra experiences and stories to the table. Come join us as we take a stroll through the wacky universe in which we live!

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Recent Episodes

Ep. 051 - Randy: Not So Human-Centric
DEC 10, 2025
Ep. 051 - Randy: Not So Human-Centric

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 interesting story about something his parents caught on their security camera! Later we get into Lake Monsters and the idea that they are protecting the body of water. This of course, leads us to the Fae. We cover a wide range of topics on this one, including Bigfoot, Hypertrichosis, Lycanthropy, Porphyria, The Berlin Wall Werewolf Patrol, The Anomalous Creature Population Tracker, Champ from Lake Champlain, The Green Children of Woolpit, even Miniature Ents! Too many topics to list them all, so get comfortable, this is going to be a good one!


The Wolf Gate: https://imgur.com/a/4BL71Qt


Link to Humans in Space thread: https://www.boredpanda.com/humans-are-weird/


If you have your own Dogman, Fae, or Miniature Ent story, contact us at [email protected] We would love to have you on to talk about it!


The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.


Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:


You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson


You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com, as well as hear his new podcast Ending the Curse at:


https://open.spotify.com/show/5yL7ZAN4wcRKnMPAlalVXW


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154 MIN
Ep. 050 - Barry Maher: How to Dance with Reality
NOV 26, 2025
Ep. 050 - Barry Maher: How to Dance with Reality

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 Faeries, Huldufolk, Ghost Stories, Machine Elves, Dreams, the Akashic Record, Quantum Immortality, The Mandela Effect, Bigfoot, Magic, Tricksters, and Podcast EVPs.


You can find out more about Barry at www.barrymaher.com , be sure to sign up for his monthly Slightly Off-Kilter Newsletter!

You can find The Great Dick: And the Dysfunctional Demon at Amazon.


Also, this is our first release after moving our hosting to the Spotify platform, so please send us any feedback about issues you may have getting the episode on your preferred platform. If there was a long delay, audio problems, subscription issues, or anything else you think we should know. You can reach us at [email protected]


The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.


Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:


You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson


You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com, as well as hear his new podcast Ending the Curse at:


https://open.spotify.com/show/5yL7ZAN4wcRKnMPAlalVXW



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99 MIN
Ep. 049 - Ryan Kralik: Don't Anthropomorphize the Substrate!
NOV 12, 2025
Ep. 049 - Ryan Kralik: Don't Anthropomorphize the Substrate!

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 Origins and on his website, itfromus.com. Our conversation takes a deep dive into paranormal phenomena, quantum mechanics, and even social structures and religions as a way to manage coherance within the system. We learn a little about Vic's mind as a child, Ryan's personal experiences with Remote Viewing, and even how Star Trek is Information First! Along the way we discuss UFO, Being Antitheist, Santa Clause, Remote Viewing, Rewriting Reality, UAP Materials, Religious Dogma, Human Motivations, Frank Tipler's Omega Point, and more. While this isnt a typical Rundown, full of random selections from The List, we think you will really enjoy this discussion on reality, the paranormal, and how it all might just be founded on an Information First Substrate.


You can find Ryan's contact information, articles, and latest blog posts at https://www.itfromus.com/


You can also join his Substack at https://ryankralik.substack.com/



If you would like to give us your perspective on reality, or discuss anything else paranormal, please email us at [email protected] to be a guest on the show!


The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.


Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:


You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson


You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com, as well as hear his new podcast Ending the Curse at:


https://open.spotify.com/show/5yL7ZAN4wcRKnMPAlalVXW


David is still too distracted to get his act together and start his own podcast... maybe someday.





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183 MIN
Ep. 048 - Jacob Griffith: A Skeptic's Take on the Paranormal Rundown
OCT 29, 2025
Ep. 048 - Jacob Griffith: A Skeptic's Take on 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 he can be on Facebook, with both he and Fr. Mike trying their best to corrupt a very smart, innocent young man! Additional topics include The Uncanny Valley, Steven King's Writing Process, Cryptid Clowns, Genetic Memory and Butterflies, Victor's Fraudulent Haunted Doll, Facebook's Haunted Doll Community, Anabelle, Robert The Doll, VooDoo Shop Sickness, St. Augustine Haunts, UFOs, Belize Witchcraft and Garifuna, Physical vs Spiritual Presence, and much more. We are sure you will enjoy the thoughtful consideration Jacob brings, so be sure to let us know if you want him to come back in future episodes (Not to replace David).


Also, we want to make you aware of some changes taking place in the near future. First, we will be migrating our podcast to Spotify in the next week or so. So please contact us if you have any issues with downloads or episodes. This should be transparent, but you never know. In addition, we will be changing the cadence of episodes from bi-monthly to bi-weekly. So there will be a couple more episodes a year, and we will shoot for a consistent rollout of every other Wednesday. We have a lot of great episodes coming up, so please tune in!


If you would like to have a fun, deep, wandering discussion on the paranormal, please email us at [email protected] , and be a guest on the show!


The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.


Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:


You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson


You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com, as well as hear his new podcast Ending the Curse at:


https://open.spotify.com/show/5yL7ZAN4wcRKnMPAlalVXW




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128 MIN
Ep. 047 - Darth Birdsong, and a Star Wars View of the Paranormal
OCT 15, 2025
Ep. 047 - Darth Birdsong, and a Star Wars View of the Paranormal

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, Dying Alien, 3IAtlas, The Yank It Out Of Your Kazuni School of Statistics, the NASA Vacuum Chamber Drop, Foucault's Pendulum, the Light and Dark Side of the Force, Diogenes, and of course, the Great Cicada Robbery Wave of '96. So dust of that physics textbook and get your Star Wars universe map ready to go!


As we are ramping up episodes for season 3, we would love to have you on the show if you are interested! All we ask for is an interest in all things paranormal, and a good sense of humor. Please email us at [email protected]


The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.


Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:


You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson


You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com, as well as hear his new podcast Ending the Curse at:


https://open.spotify.com/show/5yL7ZAN4wcRKnMPAlalVXW


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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100 MIN