Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf

<div> <em>“It was ten feet away, slick dark-brown hair. And it’s going up this ridge. The cop in me kicks in and I decide I’m going to follow it. I just wanted to see it again. In retrospect it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life. It was totally unsafe. I do not recommend it to anybody who’s listening.”</em> – Bigfoot researcher Brian King-Sharp<br> <br> What is it like to come face-to-furry-face with Bigfoot?  Today you’ll find out.  My friend Brian King-Sharp, host of the popular <em>Sasquatch Odyssey </em>podcast<em> </em>has been on the trail of Bigfoot for forty years.  And he’s here to answer our questions -- and spill his secrets: Why haven’t we ever found a Bigfoot body?  Is the Patterson-Gimlin film a hoax?  Why do hunters never seem to shoot a Bigfoot?  What is the best evidence we have that Bigfoot exists?  And what does it feel like to finally encounter one up close?  <br> <strong>LINKS &amp; NOTES<br> </strong><br> Support RHPB on Patreon here! <a href="https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink">https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink</a> <br> <br> Get RHPB merch here! <br> <a href="https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/">https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/</a>? <br> <br> Listen to Brian King-Sharps podcast <em>Sasquatch Odyssey </em>here:  <a href="https://pod.link/1552990311">https://pod.link/1552990311</a> <br> <br> Buy all of Brian’s books here: <br> <a href="https://paranormalworldproductions.com/store">https://paranormalworldproductions.com/store</a> <br> <br> Find out more about Sasquatch Research at the Olympic Project here: <a href="https://www.olympicproject.com/">https://www.olympicproject.com/</a><br> <br> "Get your tickets to 'Merry Queerness' -- the cabaret show Susan's producing -- here!<br> <a href="https://lalgbtcenter.org/event/merry-queerness-a-wildly-inappropriate-holiday-show/">https://lalgbtcenter.org/event/merry-queerness-a-wildly-inappropriate-holiday-show/<br> </a><br> </div>

<div>Today I’m excited to bring you an episode of the brilliant new podcast <em>Gods, Ghosts &amp; UFOs – </em>with their special guest, ME!  You’ll recognize co-host Tom Maxwell from his appearances on <em>Astonishing Legends </em>Episodes 291 &amp; 292, “American Bloodfalls”.  (You might also know him as the frontman for the 90s band Squirrel Nut Zippers. He wrote their hit song “Hell”).  <br> <br> On <em>Gods, Ghosts &amp; UFOs, </em>Tom – along with co-hosts J.E. Peterson and Mallory Everton – does a weekly round-up of weird and obscure paranormal news stories.  Their conversations are hilarious, probing, provocative – and refreshingly intelligent.  If you’re a fan of <em>RHPB</em>, <em>Astonishing Legends </em>and <em>Scared All The Time, </em>you’ll love this too. So enjoy this episode where they welcomed me as their guest – and we talk about haunted Las Vegas Casinos, the Fresno Night Crawlers and a YouTube UFO mystery that might already have been solved… <br> <br> <strong>LINKS: <br> </strong><br> Listen to “Gods, Ghosts &amp; UFOs” here: <a href="https://www.tommaxwell.com/gods-ghosts-ufos">https://www.tommaxwell.com/gods-ghosts-ufos</a>  </div>

<div>“I feel that it hates me sometimes. It can move objects. I heard it speak once, or try to speak. It sounded like somebody underneath the water. It’s never really touched me and I don’t want to see what it actually looks like. I was afraid it was going to look like a corpse.”<em> </em> <em>-- Tom Ross, poltergeist experiencer. <br> </em><br> Have you ever heard someone describe what it’s really like to live with a poltergeist?  Today you will.  When Tom Ross was thirteen, he spent four terrifying days in what seemed to be a haunted condo in the Mammoth Ski Valley.  Years later, he and author Jenny Ashford met, fell in love – and ended up writing about his experiences in a book I covered in Season 2 of RHPB – <em>The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist.</em>  <br> <br> In this fascinating interview, Tom Ross and Jenny Ashford share stories from the front lines of the boundary between this world and the next.  We talk about everything from how Tom and Jenny met, to <em>The Shining, </em>to<em> </em>Tom’s poltergeist theory, to Ed &amp; Lorraine Warren, to <em>The Enfield Poltergeist, </em>to flying remote controls, to <em>Mad Max: Fury Road,</em> to “Case Managers from the Afterlife” and finally: <em>what do you do with a poltergeist with unlimited strength -- that wants to kill you?</em><br> <br> <strong>Notes &amp; Links:<br> </strong><br> Go to Jenny Ashford’s website to buy <em>The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist </em>and all her books: <a href="http://www.jennyashford.com/books.html">http://www.jennyashford.com/books.html</a> <br> <br> Check out Jenny’s Amazon Author Page here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jenny-Ashford/author/B003WN5M32?ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true&amp;ccs_id=537b3ef0-a46b-436d-bfa3-f61ee4bcd411">https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jenny-Ashford/author/B003WN5M32?ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true&amp;ccs_id=537b3ef0-a46b-436d-bfa3-f61ee4bcd411</a> <br> <br> Visit Tom &amp; Jenny’s Youtube channel here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@13OClockPodcast">https://www.youtube.com/@13OClockPodcast</a> </div>

<div> <em>“When I was six years old, on Christmas Eve, I had an encounter with a little gnome that walked into my bedroom. I don’t recall any fear.  But after that, I don’t remember anything.” </em>– Rob Kristoffersen<br> <br> Rob Kristoffersen is not only an expert on UFOs and UFO cases and host of the <em>Our Strange Skies </em>podcast – he’s also one of my best friends.  In this wide-ranging interview we get progressively weirder and wilder, touching on everything from Bigfoot to elves to ghosts to crop circles to UFO cults to alien abductions – and all the way to the mysterious creature Rob saw on his neighbor’s lawn that completely changed his life.<br> <br> <strong>Links:<br> </strong><br> Support RHPB on Patreon here! <a href="https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink">https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink</a> <br> <br> Get RHPB merch here! <a href="https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/">https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/</a>? <br> <br> Check out Rob’s podcast <em>Our Strange Skies</em> here: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-strange-skies-ufos-throughout-history/id1546735571">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-strange-skies-ufos-throughout-history/id1546735571</a> </div>

<div> <em>“They’re demons.  You’re talking to demons.  And I don’t like the sound of it one bit.” </em>-- The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts<br> <br> Joe Fisher falls further into darkness as he attempts to prove the earthly existences of his spirit guides.  But once he realizes that his otherworldly lover Filipa has lied to him, all bets are off.  A late-night meeting with a friend who warns Joe about “the other side of the spirit guides” puts the communications he’s been receiving in a new -- and terrifying -- light.  The only remaining question is: can Joe get out in time to save himself?<br> <br> Meanwhile, Richard makes some discoveries of his own about his best friend Michael Principato.  Can a friendship survive betrayal?  And can you ever really go back to high school, reclaim the past, and fix something that seems forever broken? Something that you yourself broke?  <br> <br> <strong>Links:</strong>  <br> <br> Support RHPB on Patreon here! <a href="https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink">https://patreon.com/RichardHatem?utm_medium=unknown&amp;utm_source=join_link&amp;utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&amp;utm_content=copyLink</a> <br> <br> Get RHPB merch here! <a href="https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/">https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/</a>? <br> <br> Buy <em>The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts </em><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts-a-riveting-investigation-into-channeling-and-spirit-guides-joe-fisher/1cb4282a7d49b9fc?ean=9781944529505&amp;next=t"><em><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts-a-riveting-investigation-into-channeling-and-spirit-guides-joe-fisher/1cb4282a7d49b9fc?ean=9781944529505&amp;next=t">https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-siren-call-of-hungry-ghosts-a-riveting-investigation-into-channeling-and-spirit-guides-joe-fisher/1cb4282a7d49b9fc?ean=9781944529505&amp;next=t</a></em></a> </div>