MUFON Radio with Rick Wood

Has exploring the paranormal become an exercise in stumbling around in dimly lit "haunts", waiting for a beep or a spike on an electronic specter detector? Are we completely missing evidence that could be detected by the 5 senses while bathed in the glow of an LCD? More importantly, are we having any fun?

Jeff Belanger of Ghost Village suggests that we put down the gadgets and go"legend tripping". All we need is a pen, paper and the use of our native abilities. ET. Casper or Sasquatch...doesn't matter, according to Jeff.

Is collection of anecdotal stories and personal experience really evidence? Belanger makes his case that these are the most important pieces of the puzzle.

This is installmet number 2 of my visit to the 41st Annual MUFON Symposium. I talk with Nick Redfern about what the U.S. and British governments know (and don't know) about the UFO phenomena. Kevin Randle talks anout the state of Ufology and Cliff Clifford takes the helm of MUFON.

Billy Booth has been a UFO researcher and writer for over 30 years and has contributed to a number of television programs on the Discovery Channel, A & E, and the History Channel. He has contributed to several books on the subject of UFOs. Among them are : Without Consent: Abduction and Mexico's Roswell, The Chihuahua UFO Crash.

Billy is the wedbmaster for the New York Times owned about.com:UFOs/Aliens site as well as the wildly popular ufocasebook.com site

Join Billy as he discusses the history of areial phenomena in the United States and it's potential implications in the future.

Dr. Robert LeLieuvre, Professor of Psychology at the University of Great Falls, reveals the results of an in-depth psychological study of those who report that they have been taken by aliens. The commonly held perceptions that "experiencers" are delusional and fantasy prone are apparently untrue.

Are these real events? Dr. LeLieuvre thoughts may surprise you.

We follow up with an interview with someone who is convinced that she has been taken. Is all this fact or fantasy? Will your mind be changed?

Rick performs an hypnosis regression session with a subject that claims an alien encounter with missing time from 30 plus years ago.Can hypnosis recover meories lost to time or are they merely recovered fantasises?

Be forewarned, the audio is rough on this one but it is fascinting listening, nonetheless.

We head back to Ramblewood for a weekend of Neo-Pagan festivities and an attempt to set the Guiness Book of World Records mark for skinny dipping with the Maryland Naturalist Association.

Here's the payoff from our interview at the X-Conferencce

A VERY unusal conversation from X Conference 2010

How did the archaic practice of exorcism become so commonplace that literally thousands are performed each year in the United States alone?  Many would lay the blame at the foot of the popular 1970s novel and movie "The Exorcist". Many people claimed that they themselves were possessed after viewing the film.  At the very least, an entire nation became aware of a practice that had been performed only once in this country until 1949.

This exorcism, performed in a post war Washington, DC suburb, became the inspiration for the aforementioned novel.  This week's guest, Tom Allen, has written his book "Possessed" which chronicles the day to day events of this extraordinary event.  Amazingly, Tom was able to obtain a copy of the diary of Father Halloran, one of the attending priests.

Was this a titanic struggle between Satan and God or the psychotic thrashings of a fevered and tortured young mind?