The Paranormal Rundown
David Griffith, JJ Johnson, 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; JJ Johnson, an academic scholar in theological studies and host of Southern Demonology; Father Michael Birdsong, a priest and exorcist for the Charismatic Episcopal Church and author of the book Becoming a Hou...
Usually I see Shadow People...
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 the
Apr 15, • 2:23:26
Satanic Consecration and Golden Hemorrhoids
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 Soa
Apr 1, • 2:02:10
The Paranormal Rundown Breakdown - Thomas Campbell and his Big TOE
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, flush
Mar 16, • 2:00:11
The First Paranormal Rundown Smackdown
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 topi
Mar 1, • 2:30:41
Father Justin Allen - Thinking Outside the Fundamentalist Box
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!&
Feb 17, • 2:25:00
Father Michael Pacella - The Soulless Mind and The Evidence of Residence
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
Feb 3, • 2:27:04
Speaking of Evil Kids...
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 13 of The Paranormal Rundown! For our first episode of 2025, we have the full gang! It was great to have everyone together again. This certainly isn't our longest Rundown, but we did cover some great topics. We have a pretty in depth talk on Haunted Real Estate in Japan, with JJ's personal experiences and David's idea of creating a new business: Haunted Property Insurance! We also have some interesting ideas about how a child could be born ev
Jan 18, • 1:40:08
The Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025, Part 4
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 12 of The Paranormal Rundown! This is our final installment of the Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 16-20. We have one guest at the beginning, the Esteemed Poetic Soul, Dr. Bert. The rest of the episodes are just the Gang of Nerds. Even so, there is quite a range of topics in this one, including Foreign Accent Syndrome, Omm Sety, Universal Intelligence, Epigenetics, a full telling of each cohost's UFO
Dec 31, 2024 • 3:12:15
The Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025, Part 3
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 11 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are no on Part 3 of our Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 11-15. Lots of guests on this episode, including Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road podcast, Canon Father Dr. Robert Wills, Father Birdsong's own daughter Jessica, and the scientifically and philosophically minded Gus Frankenmeir. We get into some pretty deep thinking on how reality works, with discussions on Consciousness and Simulation Theo
Dec 20, 2024 • 3:24:40
The Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025, Part 2
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we continue our Countdown to 2025 series with the best of Season 1, Episodes 5-10. We have some great discussion, along with interviews with Chris James and Sylvia Shultz. The topics include Gnosticism, Walmart Heaven, Gilgul, Reincarnation, Ghosts, Demons, Bigfoot, The Priming Effect, EVPs, Djinn, Self Mummified Monks, Theodicy, Exorcisms, ZoZo, the Ouija Board, and more.The link to the book Vic mentions in our discussion
Dec 13, 2024 • 2:29:56
The Paranormal Rundown Countdown to 2025, Part 1
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of The Paranormal Rundown! The Gang of Nerds has been obliterated this month, Vic has Covid, David has neck problems, Fr. Mike is in a lot of pain, and JJ is taking in the fine dining and culture of Japan. Since we weren't able to get together and record a new episode, we thought we would do a recap of Season One. This started out as a simple idea of pull the top clips out of the season and make an episode out of it, but it turned into having about 9 hour
Dec 6, 2024 • 2:43:11
Derriere Divination and Theories of Magic
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we have just the original crew, Vic, David, and JJ, but we still cover quite a bit of ground, with a fascinating mix of real life topics and fictional universes. We delve deep into the practice of Rumpology. After that we have a discussion theories of how magic works, both in fantasy fiction and then real life. We end with a detailed interview with JJ on The Great Old Ones and the Lovecraftian universe. Al
Nov 16, 2024 • 2:10:53
Spookarific Paranormal Tales, with Chris James
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of The Paranormal Rundown! For our Halloween episode this year we are very excited to have Chris James back with us. Chris is the host of the Strange Things with Chris James podcast, and author of paranormal and horror books. His most recent is a compilation of UFO stories, called UFOs.We had a great Rundown tonight, covering a wide selection of Spookarific topics! We took some pretty deep dives on the Hopkinsville Goblins Case, Satanists in the Dese
Nov 1, 2024 • 2:25:48
Sylvia Shults - Shy Babies Don't Get Any Sweeties!
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of The Paranormal Rundown! We have our first return guest this week, Sylvia Shults has joined us for another round of fun filled Paranormal Dork Talk! Sylvia has written many books in the genres of Paranormal Non-Fiction and both Romantic and Horror Fiction. She is also has a podcast called Lights Out. As a librarian, she has deep knowledge on many paranormal (and other) topics, and is an absolute joy to talk to.Due to a slight technical (Vic) problem, and a f
Oct 16, 2024 • 2:39:07
Griffith's Razor: The More Paranormal Word Salad, the Less Likely it is to be Real.
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week Vic, JJ, and David have a great deal of conversation about ghost hunting equipment, specifically Spirit Boxes, during which a new scientific principle is proposed about Paranormal Word Salad. JJ gives us a very welcome update on his Nightmares, and we bounce all around the topic of Animal Ghosts. Along the way we discuss Flat Earthism, The Heart of the Paranormal, Martin Heidegger and Sein Und Zeit, Instrumental T
Oct 1, 2024 • 1:56:55
Quantum Entanglement, Psychics, and the Probable Death of Dave
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we have the full crew, with an episode that goes really deep on Icons, Idols, and Prayer. We discuss an interesting theory of Icon Driven Probability Waves, tying blessing of a medallion to physical changes at the quantum level. Other topics include The Foot Stamping Manifestation, Emotionalism, The Princeton Egg Experiments, The Observer Effect, Haunted Objects, Haunted Dolls, Thrift Store Haunted Object Hunting,
Sep 19, 2024 • 2:35:31
Tracie Bush - Shining A Light In The Dark
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Paranormal Rundown! This week we are a man down, as Fr. Mike is having some health problems, but we are fortunate to have with us Tracie Bush, from the In The Dark - All Things Supernatural podcast. We get pretty deep into pondering the nature of God, but also cover a bunch of other topics including: Did Sin Come From God, Can Satan Win, Zoroastrianism, Ahriman, What Is a Ghost, Ghost Stories, Astral Projection for Soul Rescue, Birthday of Jesus, Genera
Sep 3, 2024 • 2:32:45
Seance Insurance is Very Expensive!
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of The Paranormal Rundown! We hope you enjoyed last weeks Rundown with very special guest Jim Harold, I know we did! This week it is just the Gang of Nerds, but we dive in deep right off the bat with a highly philosophical conversation on Thought Forms, Paranormal Activity that is thought induced, and the connection of Daemon to Demons. As typical with the Rundown, we then drive down a winding road of topics including Tulpamancy, Sredni Vashtar, Sean
Aug 15, 2024 • 2:08:57
And you don't mess around with Djinn! With special guest Jim Harold.
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of The Paranormal Rundown! We are back, and starting off the season with a bang! Tonight our guest is Jim Harold, host of The Paranormal Podcast, Jim Harold's Campfire, and several other podcasts. Jim has been hosting paranormal podcasts since 2005, starting with The Paranormal Podcast, which is the oldest running paranormal podcast on the internet. In addition to his podcasts, he is the author of the bestselling Campfire series, compiling paran
Aug 1, 2024 • 1:56:05
SHOCKER! Unusual brains found in the Gang of Nerds!! Film at 11!
Hello Paranormal Rundown Listeners! We know you have been anxiously awaiting a new Rundown. The Gang of Nerds has been very busy over the past two months, cleaning out the dungeon, interviewing temporary backups for our Disembodied Consciousness Teammates. (because even a disembodied consciousness needs a vacation every now and then), and working hard to find us top rate guests for your enjoyment!We are not quite ready with Episode 1 yet, but it is coming soon. In fact, one of those top rat
Jul 16, 2024 • 45:04
Yowie! What's that on the trail ahead?!
Welcome to Episode 20 of The Paranormal Rundown! We wrap up our first season with a special treat! Vic is going to finally give us the full details of the incredible cryptid experience he had years ago in Australia. Hard to say if it was a Yowie, Bigfoot, Lougarou, Dogman or what. It doesn't quite fit any specific one perfectly, so you decide. Father Birdsong also retells a recent, very vivid, Dream of Hell or Sheol. Other topics include Things in the Woods We Don't
May 5, 2024 • 2:26:31
Chicken Feet make the absolute BEST Spaceships!
Welcome to Episode 18 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode starts out with a fairly deep discussion on lost books of the Bible, in the middle of which we are given revelation about why Father Birdsong says he was the King of Protestantism, along with details of his journey to the Catholic faith. Deacon Josh gives us a rundown on The Book of Tobit, Vic tells us all about Goofer Dust, JJ gives us the aerodynamic benefits of Chicken Feet as Spaceships, and David introduces the concept of having
Apr 15, 2024 • 2:05:21
Not going down THAT Rabbit Hole...
Welcome to Episode 19 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode, Father Birdsong is back, so we have the full Gang of Nerds together again! At the time of the recording we had all had a pretty taxing week, so we were ready to cut lose and have a little fun. We get into a whole slew of topics, like different Books of the Dead, The Bandlet of Righteousness, Jellyfish UFOs, Roswell Rods, Termite Queen Teleportation, Memento Mori, Fayyum Mummy Portraits, and more. We also get into a not
Apr 2, 2024 • 1:48:21
You've gotta sacrifice your Teddy Bear?! And other fun party games.
Welcome to Episode 17 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we tackle several key topics, like Bob Lazar, Names of the Enemies of God, and The Elevator Game. Along the way we tell some of our own UFO Encounters, discuss Hypnosis and Alien Abduction, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Zoroastrianism (and their Burial Practices), and Scary Games People Play. So hang on to your teddy bear, you might just need him to play Hide and Seek By Yourself!If you have your own paranormal or scary game story,
Mar 15, 2024 • 2:19:44
Psychoanalyzing the Paranormal
Welcome to Episode 16 of The Paranormal Rundown! This episode we head across the pond, and then some! Our special guest is Dutch psychiatrist Dr. Bert, and as JJ puts it, an Esteemed Poetic Soul! Bert is a very kind person who is extremely enjoyable to talk to, and has a very poetic way of describing some of these concepts. Our conversation spans topics including Foreign Accent Syndrome, Possession of Anneliese Michel, Omm Seti, Universal Intelligence / Memory, Hundredth Monkey Ef
Mar 1, 2024 • 2:12:04
Quantum Physics, Consciousness, and The Great Melon Head Experiment
Welcome to Episode 15 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our Guest tonight is Gus Frankenmeir, who is a deep thinker and prolific reader on many paranormal and philosophical topics. Our conversation spans topics including Random Number Generators and Princeton Eggs, Time Travel, Ghosts and Quantum Computers, Consciousness, Experience of Time, Simulation Theory, is God an Alien, The Nature of Evil, Ezekiel's Wheel, and more. But be warned, Gus starts out by breaking the rules right out of the g
Feb 16, 2024 • 2:16:58
God Doesn't Ravish, He Can Only Woo
Welcome to Episode 14 of The Paranormal Rundown! Our Very Special Guest tonight is Father Birdsong's daughter, Jessica Birdsong Clay. We have a very enjoyable conversation, covering topics from The Dead Sea Scrolls to The Screwtape Letters to Ghosts. Jessica even tells us about her own paranormal experience with a haunted house! And Vic starts up an especially morbid conversation about horrific methods of execution (I'm a little worried about that guy, and definitely going to stay
Feb 1, 2024 • 2:28:01
Father Bob's Mission From God
Welcome to episode 13 of The Paranormal Rundown! In this episode we have our first listener question, about God's Judgement and whether he punishes us before or after death. We also have special guest Canon Father Dr. Robert Wills, of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. In addition to hearing the fascinating journey Fr. Wills took to get to Georgia, we cover topics such as Meeting God is a Baaaad Day, What Angels Look Like, Swedenborgians, How do Proph
Jan 15, 2024 • 2:17:44
The Single Greatest Rundown List EVER!
Happy New Year!!! And welcome to Episode 12 of The Paranormal Rundown! In our last episode, we drew what we considered to be one of the Best Rundown Topic Lists Ever! So instead of just discussing one topic and throwing the rest away, we decided to continue that same list in this episode. The list was: Zozo the Ouija Board Demon, Flat Eartherism, The Cronovisor, Malachi Martin, Why wasn't the Risen Christ Recognized, Pope Leo hearing argument between Satan and Jesus, and finally,
Jan 1, 2024 • 2:12:07
The Rundown Less Wandered
Welcome to Episode 11 of The Paranormal Rundown! First, let us wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Yuletide season! We hope you have all had a wonderful year and are getting ready for the holidays.Our guests in this episode are Chris and Dean from The Wandering Road podcast. Their podcast has great in-depth discussions on many topics similar to what we discuss here, making them a perfect fit for the Rundown! While we only hit a few topics on the list: Yokai, Ogres, and S
Dec 15, 2023 • 2:16:02
Watch out for those MSLUEs!
Welcome to Episode 10 of The Paranormal Rundwn! In this episode we take on the core topics of Have Exorcisms Become Harder?, the Screwtape Letters, and ZoZo the Ouija Board Demon. Of course we wander our way through many other topics, like the Strength of the Church impacting the Sacrements, the Pope and Heresy, Hidabehinds, the Internet and the Demonic, JJ's Haunted Cabin, the Pufferbelly Demon, Multiple Symbolic Language Usinge Entities (MSLUEs), and Pazuzu. So join us on this j
Dec 1, 2023 • 2:32:46
Rundown Roundup 2 - Philosophical Nerd Talk
Welcome to our second Paranormal Rundown Roundup! In this episode we tackle the core topics of Incorruptible Bodies, Theodicy, Bob Larson charging for Exorcisms, and the Brain in a Vat. Of course we wander our way through many other topics, like Buddhist self-mummification, Ethiopic and the not so lost Arc, Evil and Free Will, Post Modernism, Simulation Theory, and Authority to Perform Exorcism. Enjoy this deep and interesting discussion.If you would like to get in touch with us,
Nov 15, 2023 • 2:44:40
Paranormal Dork Chat!
Welcome to episode 8 of The Paranormal Rundown!Halloween is upon us, and we have something really special for you! We have two great episodes recorded in the past month that we just could not decide between for Halloween. So we are going to publish both! This second episode is with Sylvia Shults, author, podcaster, and paranormal investigator. Sylvia has a vast amount of experience in the paranormal field, investing multiple locations and doing wide amounts of research for her books. Our discuss
Oct 31, 2023 • 2:40:51
Is that Really a little girl haunting Laredo?
Welcome to episode 7 of The Paranormal Rundown!Halloween is upon us, and we have something really special for you! We have two great episodes recorded in the past month that we just could not decide between for Halloween. So we are going to publish both! This first episode is with Chris James, author and host of the Stranger Things with Chris James podcast. Chris has tons of stories to tell, from his time as a Border Patrol agent up to his experiences with the Laredo Paranormal Research Soci
Oct 27, 2023 • 2:34:09
Walmart Heaven and the Return of Father Michael Birdsong
Welcome to the 6th episode of the Paranormal Rundown!Here at The Paranormal Rundown we have been making some changes. You may have noticed! We have settled on a more standard intro and outro, music, some very creative characters (Cedric and Avalon Lee) from the depths of Vic's super creative mind, and even an email for feedback (where we would LOVE to hear from you!). But something was still missing. There is a certain feel that we have all noticed about some of the Rundown e
Oct 16, 2023 • 2:18:54
How to insult Bigfoot and survive to tell the tale!
Welcome to the 5th episode of the Paranormal Rundown! In case you missed Episode 4, be sure to go back and check it out. We had our first Paranormal Rundown Roundup, where we have a much deeper discussion on a few topics we had previously tabled, including Folk Magic and the Antichrist.For this episode, our guest is Bigfoot data miner and retired police officer, Val Zavala. Val profiles Bigfoot Sasquatches and has his own Facebook group: Michigan Bigfoot Report and Data: Gumshoguy’s Co
Oct 1, 2023 • 2:38:00
The First Paranormal Rundown Roundup
Welcome to the 4th episode of the Paranormal Rundown! In case you missed Episode 3, be sure to go back and check it out. Our guest was Anna Maria Manalo, a paranormal author, covering topics from Alien Abduction to Demonic Cockroaches to Haunted Objects.For this episode we do not have a guest. We decided to take some time to cover a few topics we had set aside before, so that we could have more time to dig deeply into them. The main topics are Folk Magick, The AntiChrist, and
Sep 15, 2023 • 3:05:57
Writing through the Lens of the Supernatural
Welcome to the 3rd episode of the Paranormal Rundown! This episode our guest is paranormal author Anna Maria Manalo. She has written multiple books on the paranormal, her latest being The Night Visitants, based on true memoirs, that intertwines stories of both alien abduction and activity around a haunted pistol from World War 2. Check out all of her books at https://www.annamariamanaloauthor.com/, where you can also read her blog and subscribe to her newsletter. You can also find
Aug 15, 2023 • 1:59:12
Portrait of Azazel in Blue
Welcome back to The Paranormal Rundown! Episode 2 is chock full of paranormal craziness, including Spells and Curses, the Evil Eye, Hollow Moon, Faked Moon Landing, Life on Mars, the Demon Azazel and the Kingdom of Hell, The Book of Job, Bamboo Chicken, Cyber Ghost Jokes, and even Jason the Horse!We also have our first guest, Father Michael Birdsong , the the pastor of St. Michael and All Angels Church in Thomaston, GA, a member of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. He also serves as th
Jul 9, 2023 • 2:41:05
