OUT THERE

MAKING A CONNECTION

I am always getting emails or calls to talk to certain guests, usually they are paying someone to promote them.  I don't have a problem with that, it's hard to get the word out.  My problem is that I don't want to promote someone who I don't think is authentic just for the sake of having an interview.  So how can I be sure?  I can't.  But what's really cool is that during the interview if we make a connection.  I'm not talking about a friendship, I'm talking about a similar wavelength.  I am looking for certain criteria:  Is the guest geniune?  Is their product or book something that could help others.  As an added bonus, are they spiritually aware?  Now that may seem a bit silly but this show has more going on than it appears and to be honest almost all of my guests have shared something unique about themselves whether during the interview, or after.  That is the connecting fabric in all (well maybe most) of my shows.  Above is a picture of an elderly confused man.  Some may think it's funny and perhaps at times it can be.  However it isn't a whole lot of fun for the caretakers and family.  This week I talk to Mark Underwood out of Madison Wisconsin who is the driving force behind a product called Prevagen.  What is Prevagen?  Good question.  It is a product taken from jelly fish that is supposed to help with memory loss.  It's all natural and the only side effects it has is that it helps people sleep better and dream more.  If that is true, then that is a great bonus.  I feel dreaming is very vital to us, I (not necessarilly Mark) believe it opens the doors to the other side for possible communication from time to time.  I only believe this because it has happened to myself and several others that I have spoken to.  One guy I work with actually had his mother communicate through a dream telling him to get his health checked, good thing too, he had several arteries that were blocked and that could have led to a stroke or heart attack.  It took Mark Underwood 15 years to develope his product.  Years of research went into this supplement before it was released for purchase.  Mark told me originally he was driven to do this to help a friend with M.S.  He also told me he may be a scientist but he also has a belief in a higher power and that the higher power put things here on Earth for us to find so we can stay healthy.  Interesting.  Mark did agree with me that it seems there may be some who are only in it for profit regardless of what kind of side effects their product may have.  Finally we talk about dreams, Mark has some background in dream analysis so I find that interesting.  www.prevagen.com

THE MESSENGER

This week it gives me great joy to bring back Debi Tibbles and the story of her son Ollie.  It is a remarkable story that transends the flesh.  Imagine losing your son to cancer at age 7, your life spinning out of control, and then getting a message from the other side.  Then you watch events unfold and you begin to realize this is part of a bigger plan, even though you still don't have all of the answers.  Is this what lays ahead for all of us?  Not necessarily.  How come this happens to others and not me?  Maybe because you don't want it to.  Maybe it does and you don't even recognize it. Throughout our history we have had many Messengers, those that came only in love and stayed for usually a short time.  From my perspective, I believe Ollie fit that category.  He chose to leave at an early age, then he chose to come back and make contact, and finally he chose to be a part of a material object that would serve as a reminder for all of us.  Now, does this seem a little bizarre?  Do you believe in spirits or ghosts, or that we go on from our physical bodies?  Where do we go?  Good question, where do we go?  I am fascinated by this.  Now some of you would say, Heaven or that other place.  Perhaps so, but how do you explain those that come back to visit or even be a part of your life?  Many people I have talked to over the years have told me that everything is by choice.  We choose to be here, we choose to come back, we basically are given total freedom to do as we wish.  The only problem is that we get a bit lost along the way and sometimes we need reminders to help us find our way home, if we choose.  How could I possibly think this way?  From all of my own experiences from seeing an actual spirit or ghost leaning over my wife while she was sleeping, to a lantern turning on by itself, to my dad's very unusual visit in 1996- 12 years after he passed, to having my own private communication with a chickadee a week after a friend passed.  Do you see why I think this way?  Should I be in a padded room? Debi Tibbles feels the need to tell Ollie's story, wouldn't you?  Furthermore, she was instructed by Ollie to do so.  It doesn't come easy.  I can still see pain in her face at times when she talks about her son, yet I see great joy in his message.  It takes some courage to step and say you think your son has been communicating from beyond the grave, imagine how others will respond.  Why would someone even do this?  To help others, to open the door for someone else.   Does pay it forward ring a bell? Debi's site:  www.debitibbles.com Her book:  All Aboard, How Ollie Tibbles Became A Train

ALIENS AMONG US/WAS I TAKEN?-MARILYN RUEBEN

Thanks to my buddy David Twichell for this weeks show.  David had Marilyn Rueben on his show recently and I got in contact with her to do yet another show about aliens and ufo's.  Too much?  I know I try to vary the shows so it's not always one topic but sometimes things just line up a certain way.  Last week I had a really nice chat with Jim Moroney, this week from Lansing Michigan it's Marilyn Rueben.  Like myself, and so many others, Marilyn had her own strange encounters that got her seeking answers.  About 15 years ago she started a website:  www.abduct.com to record supposed interactions with alien beings.  Sound weird?  What I find interesting is that so many from all over the world are reporting strange interactions.  All they all crackpots?  Are they all halucinating?  Are they all on drugs?  A couple of things in my own life.  When I was four or five I had these strange events happen to me, and it was at least a dozen times.  At the time I had no idea what it was.  Years later I thought it was some sort of out of body experience, could it have been something else?  I am just realizing that as I write this, wow!  Could it be, hmmm?  In 1968 I saw a strange oval object, that my parents witnessed as well, move slowly accross the eastern horizon.  In 1992 I had what I believe was a visitation from what is termed a grey when I was sleeping at my mothers house.  In 2005 I saw a gray metalic object traveling west at low elevatation into the sunlight and it only was visible when it turned and the sun caught it just right.  I don't know what that was, I figured a plane of some sort.  Before my mom died in 1997 she said there was a strange light outside of her home and it wasn't the moon.  My son saw a ufo split into two right above his head when camping in the early 90's.  My wife saw a ufo with a friend while driving back on a highway one night.  My mother in law saw a craft land with her sister as a witness.  Plus many friends have told me many stories as well.  Do you see why I believe?  Are we all nuts?  Listen, none of these people including myself have gone around telling others or talking about this a lot, well maybe I have quite a bit.   Marilyn operated her website out of her own time and pocket, similar to what I'm doing with this site.  Are we making money from this?  Um, can't you tell by looking at my site?  No.  Why do we do this?  We feel the need to connect with others and allow what may be a form of the truth to be presented.  In this weeks show we get into a lot of Alien topics, for me it's second nature, I have heard most of this before.  For some of you this may be new, please proceed with caution.  I am not doing this to create fear, instead by accepting what may be going on we can move past fear.  I think.  What is going on?  Well, unlike our gentle approach by Jim last week (which I totally support) this weeks show is a little more to the meat, shall I say.  It deals with abductions, implants, hybrid babies, even knowing if you may have been taken, typical ufo stuff which Marilyn speaks of so casually since she's been around it for so long.  I see a lot in the ufo community as being leary of doing interviews because so often they are not taken seriously.  I also see them as being a bit negative at times because so often they are duped or tired of disinformation.  I don't share all of their opinions but I do believe that something weird is going on.  As you may have heard me say before, to me it's all connected and it's part of the greater, there are no accidents even when dealing with any of the unknown.  Furthermore, I don't approach these things with fear, perhaps those that experience uncomfortable events are seeing it through their own fear. I will say this.  You will hear it from Marilyn herself.  If you are taken, you can make the experience more pleasant or less pleasant depending on your response and attitude.  Perhaps we have more control of these situations than we realize? Marilyn's site:   www.abduct.com

A STRANGE TALE FROM 1987

I guess I've always been a believer that life could exist elsewhere, why not?  When I was in the third grade I saw an oval craft move slowly across the eastern horizon.  I could not identify it, neither could my parents.  It was huge and it slowly moved north to south, until it faded from view.  Nothing, right?  In 1992 I had what I would call a visitation from some thing that woke me up from a sound sleep.  Since then many family and close friends have had similar if not even more bizare events.  Someone real close to me saw a craft land.  Another person was followed by one, it would actually dissapear into the woods when another vehicle approached from the opposite way.  Sound nutty?  Well, I'm sure some will dismiss without even listening, those are the ones who have all the answers, although they really don't.  Who does?  I know I don't.  But I do have my own experiences along with friends and family that I trust.  While some can be explained away, perhaps, most of it can't!  So think what you will, it is your choice, but this week's show is about an alien abduction. At left is Jim Moroney, an average guy who in 1987 was traveling across Canada when he chose to get some shut eye at a truck stop in a remote area.  Jim has vivid recollection of what took place while he was awake, but what he found out under hypnosis was even more shocking!    Before you pass judgement as to whether he is a crackpot maybe it wouldn't hurt to listen to his story.  I have heard many stories before, and seen many shows and documentaries on the subject, even read many books, but I really have no great desire to make this my only mission in life.  It is part of what I talk about, or part of a greater truth as I would call it.  Now I will tell you this, what these beings said to Jim was very interesting.  It's funny because if you go back in my archieves to one of my first shows you will find a local woman and her husband discussing basically the same thing.  Interesting.  At the time when I did the interview with the couple I didn't know what to think because I had never heard of these beings having this kind of contact before.  Jim's contact with these beings is very unique I will say, and while many may have a similar experience- most don't remember or it's not as clear.  Jim has a book out called The Extraterrestrial Answer Book.  This book is based on his own first hand knowledge from these beings.  I think his message from whatever these are was real simple, and it had to do with our own spritual evolution.  Now wait, no cattle mutilations?  No.  People being used for experiments or procreation purposes?  No.  Then why are they here and what do they want?  I don't know.  Perhaps Jim's story will shed some insight.  Jim has been on several shows including Coast To Coast and feels the need to spread the word.  Even if all of this is made up, it's still a pretty good message.  Are  you a believer?  Or, do you think it is all a hoax?  Why do you believe the way you do?  Did something happen to you to shake you to the core to change your way of thinking?    Jim's site:  www.aufosg.com

WEATHER PATTERNS

 What is going on with our weather?  Are we doomed with global warming?  Is there misinformation regarding global warming?  Is someone profiting from it?  Are we actually heading into a cooling trend?  Could another ice age not be that far away?  Is our weather influenced by sun spots, and what are we seeing with the sun right now?  Did they count sun spots back in the days of Copernicus?  Is there a possible conclusion to draw from that history?  There are so many opinions, who can we trust? Karl Bohnak has been a meteoroligist at WLUC TV 6 in Marquette Michigan for 23 years.  Marquette is on the south side of Lake Superior and receives more than their share of snow.  If you like snow, Marquette (or Negaunee where the tv station is actually located) is a great place to live.  I like snow, but not that much.  That's why I live in the banana belt of Upper Michigan, the Escanaba area.  We don't get hardly any snow thanks in part to the fact that we are not directly south of a Great Lake.  Karl has authored two books:  So Cold A Sky and Upper Michigan Almanac.  The latter was co-authored with Ron Jolly.  I thought this interview would be about some history, some strange accounts (believe it or not bigfoot sightings) and weather analysis.  However, like many interviews, this one took on a life of it's own and we got into a discussion about global warming.  Do you believe in global warming?  I can't say I buy into it, I see a lot of people profiting from it and that always makes me leary.  Karl has a somewhat different outlook than many, he doesn't buy into the global warming theory, and yes it really hasn't been proven.  He is very passionate about his profession and believes that global warming may not exist at all, he has even been banned from some area schools for his beliefs.  You've got to be kidding, right?  What happened to having an open mind and presenting an opposing argument?  For some reason there seems to be a media agenda to get us to believe in saving the Earth.  What if the Earth doesn't need our help?  I'm not saying we shouldn't take care of the planet but what if some are seeking to gain profit from all of this, follow the money trail.  Karl also suggests that our weather could be affected by sun spots, something I heard a long time ago.  What are the sun spots telling us now?  Could we be going in the opposite direction of global warming?  This interview is not meant to scare anyone, and it will not hype up what you've already heard.  Instead, I see this as a chance to hear someone speak out against what is considered the popular viewpoint.  See what you think. Some of you may think this conflicts with some of the 2012/Earth change guests I've had on before.  It does.  It's good to get varying opinions, especially from those who work within the profession.   Upper Michigan is sparsely populated.  Some of us might be considered hicks.  Some of us may also be considered down to earth/connected.  Some of us may also be considered fortunate to live in an area surrounded by so much nature and 2 great lakes, and by some accounts, sasquatch!

HAUNTED WISCONSIN AND THE MICHIGAN DOGMAN

A week or two ago Linda Godfrey appeared at a paranormal event at the Kewadin Casino in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan.  The Sault is about 150 miles from Escanaba Michigan, where this broadcast originates from.   Also at this event were people from T.A.P.S, Paranormal State, and other shows that have become somewhat popular on Sci Fi and History Channel.  A lot of people turned out, it was a very successfull event.  I didn't think it was going to go over that well, are that many people into the paranormal?  Apparently.  Linda then told me she proceeded to come down U.S. 2 and went out to Fayette State Park to investigate a strange report.  Linda talks about this and a few others in her new book:  The Michigan Dogman. (due out soon)  What creeps me out is that some of these reports are coming from areas fairly close to where I've camped before.  Zoinks!  To quote a famous paranormal investigator.  I had no problem talking about the Dog/man or Man/wolf because it was somewhere else, but now Linda tells me there are sightings fairly close to me.  And what's really weird is that a few years ago I heard a similar story from a local family and dismissed it.  It just seemed looney.  But if you know anything about Linda she was a reporter in a small town years ago and was assigned to cover story about a man like-wolf like creature.  That in turn let to her book The Beast Of Bray Road, which in turn led to many other books and paranormal investigations.  What's cool about all of this is that Linda has had her own weird experiences.  She was a non believer and really isn't sure what this creature may be.  It's not a wolf, I can tell you that.  Linda also talks about these strange stones that seemed to have some kind of unusual powers.  The stones may have been connected to a group of Masons.  We also go down the road of ghosts, sasquatch and many other bizarre topics.  This show is a little creepy so proceed at your own speed.  Linda has been on many programs, Coast To Coast, Monster Quest, and many others.  Is she for real?  I really think so after talking with her before, during and after our interviews.  Please check out her link on my page if you  want to see more about her.  Has she made a lot of money doing this, no, hardly any.  It's not about the dough. Haunted Wisconsin and Michigan Dogman are her latest books, Michigan Dogman will be coming out soon.

U.P.

To me growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was a pretty good experience.  I lived in the country, just outside of a town called Norway, and my brother and I found ways to entertain ourselves and not get into trouble.  As I went through school there were some kids that harassed and bullied me from time to time and just eventually let it go.  My experience is that these kids usually backed off after a while.   I thought that was the advantage of small town life, people had more compassion for each other.  Maybe that wasn't so.  About 90 miles from where I grew up and roughly 9 years later a boy by the name of Ron Reiki was growing up and living in Negaunee Michigan.  Many made their living in the mines in that area and many had rough lives.  Why?  Ron Reiki believes it had to do with depressed communities, long winters, and also a macho mentality.  I can agree with that.  I grew up and always heard that your weren't a man unless you met certain requirements.  The thing is that those requirements changed from one person to another.  I pretended for a while to be that man, eventually I guess I chose to be myself.  My guest this week is Ron "R.A." Reiki who used to live in Negaunee Michigan.  Ron has done many things in his life, completed his education, served in Desert Storm and written some books.  This is his first book to be published.  It is a fictional tale of some young teens living in Negaunee Michigan and dealing with a lot of darkness.  Like many authors Ron may draw from his own experience. How can there be such darkess in small town U.S.A.?  Good question.  My own personal belief is that darkness is drawn to us in many ways.  The use of drugs and alcohol open the door to what I term negative beings.  Once you give up your power it is easy for them to take control.  Is this why alcoholism and other addictions are so hard to kick?  Can these beings hover in an area and effect the attitudes of a community?  Ron doesn't go into that in this book but he does raise some interesting questions.  Plus his book is a very good (adult) read and has gotten the attention of some of those in Hollywood.  So we'll see.  This week it's R.A. Reiki from Florida, on his way to California.

THE PIONEER SPIRIT & ATTITUDE

 Thanks to the tv show Deadliest Catch you may be able to identify with what my guest this week does for a living.  My wife and I see that show from time and to time and you really get a feel for what some people will do in order to feed their families.  This week I talk to Tom Ranguette from Garden Michigan who spends a couple of months out of the year fishing for salmon in Alaska near Cook Inlet on a boat similar to the one pictured.  Now the Deadliest Catch is filmed on Bristol Bay in the Bering Sea where the waves and weather can be deadly and the boats are much larger than the one that Tom guides.  Tom has a 32 foot vessel and from time to time does face some pretty rough seas, sometimes 20 foot seas, and he does pretty much everything on his own ship.  He's the captain, the mechanic, and the deck hand all rolled into one.  Tom will usually have one of his sons accompany him, but other than that these fishermen are pretty much on their own.  There is a fair amount of danger in this job and it sounds like this work can be physically demanding.  It takes a true pioneer spirit, the kind that founded our nation, and it takes the right attitude.  Is attitude everything in life?  It seems to have a lot to do with who we are and our surroundings.  I don't think I could do Tom's job, maybe when I was younger, or maybe I'd have to go into serious physical training.  Tom doesn't get sick, why is that?  He tells himself he doesn't have time for that, you know that is the second person to tell me that.  Speaking of illness, Tom recalls a story that his mother told him about a doctor in the 1930s who used to cure peoples skin cancer with a natural treatment he developed.  Really?  I believe it, a friend who is in her 80's told me a similar story when she was a girl during the depression.  These two stories are not related, they are seperated by a distance of close to 200 miles.  It's possible they may be two different remedies.  Now how come most have not heard of these remedies?  What's changed in our nation? What goes around comes around.  We've heard this all before but what does it mean?  I hear many people say that but they can't go into detail when asked for an example.  Tom is willing to share a story that some could see as coincidence and others could see as part of a divine plan of giving and receiving.  A volitale world.  Alaska for all it's beauty has more volcanos, more earthquakes, and more deadly cold weather than any other state in the union.  Yet hardy souls are drawn to it because of it's rugged beauty and pristine wilderness.  People from the south tell me I live in a rugged area, I just laugh.  Heck, people from Lower Michigan can't imagine living up here.  And while it's cold from time to time and some parts of the U.P. get a fair amount of snow, it's nothing compared to Alaska.  Alaska is probably nothing compared to Siberia.  So perhaps it's all perspective and attitude.  If you look at the map you can see where Tom goes to fish every year in Cook Inlet.  Tom, his wife Lynn and their 3 sons reside in Garden Michigan, which is on the Garden Peninsula on Lake Michigan.   I always wondered how frontiersmen lived into their eighties or nineties and survived all the hazards.  People like Daniel Boone.  What was it that they possesed?  Really, really good genes?  Or was it their Spirit?

JENNIFER CUPPLES- PARANORMAL RESEARCHER

Is Marilyn Monroe's ghost haunting a spot in northern Lower Michigan?  Did Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn have a fling, did she get pregnant and go to a clinic to have the baby aborted?  Was that clinic in northern Lower Michigan?  Jen Cupples from Pellston Michigan told me a story, although not something she witnessed first hand, about some people hearing voices at an old building.  The voices were said to be of that of Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.  The story goes that Bobby and Marilyn had a fling and she got pregnant and they were searching for a remote place where they could have an abortion.  I don't know if there's any truth to that story but it's fun to ponder.  If you had to put a label on Jennifer Cupples it would be that she is a Paranormal Researcher.  She investigates but also takes delight in directing people to the right expert, she has created a network of like minded people who all bring something different to the table.  Some have knowledge of Sasquatch, or UFO's or whatever.  There are people out there that take a scientific viewpoint in trying to prove or disprove the paranormal.  What I really like about Jen is that she has had many many things happen to her and she has an interest in all things.  Like myself, she started to look around her when strange things started to happen. Jen told me a couple of years ago she was canoeing with a group of others in an area in northern Lower Michigan that has had reported bigfoot sightings.  At one point a tree that was sticking out over the lake started shaking violently.  Now what caused that?  Some of Jen's friends who've had contact with this before felt it was a bigfoot marking it's territory or saying hello.  I had never heard that before.  I had heard that some people claim that bigfoot may throw rocks or sticks at you to get your attention, or scare you, or mess with you, or who knows.  Jen also told me a few years ago she saw a white bigfoot in the woods not far from her home.  She had another witness with her at the time.  Do you believe she saw something?  Other topics this week:  Communal living, The Shift, Spirit Guides, Intuitive Healing, and more.  Jen is a gentle and joyfull spirit, that is why I enjoy talking to her.  Jen doesn't profess to have all of the answers but will try to put you in touch with someone who can assist you.  She has many connections, so don't be afraid to contact her if you have something strange happen to you. www.michiganwildernessparanormalclub.com

UNBELIEVEABLE STORY? PART TWO

Regardless of what is true or not, what Charles Lindbergh did was amazing.  I recall he had to do everything he could to stay awake.  No one had ever done what this before, can you imagine the courage and determination that it took? What was he thinking or feeling on the day of his historic flight?  This interview is not meant to hurt the Lindbergh name.  I will never do a show that was out to attack someone.  How is anything gained from that?  Instead, this show was done because a woman just happened to be coming to see a friend of mine who has some connections and in turn she was introduced to me.  My friend suggested that I might be interested in what she had to say.  I was.  I find it more than a coincidence that I had heard a little bit about this story almost ten years ago.  I never got to meet Harold Olson but perhaps I met his spirit.  Anita, my guest, feels that his spirit has been near her in the last couple of weeks as she finally got a chance to tell Harold's story to someone.  Then, last week it hit me.  This isn't just about Harold, it's about all of us.  Huh?  Where did that come from?  If you heard last weeks show then you know that Harold Olson claims to be the kidnapped Lindbergh baby.  He spent a good part of his adult life trying to find out who he really was.  As he dug more and more the evidence seemed to support that he was the son of Charles Lindbergh.  Now that may seem a bit crazy,  but why would a man spend over $100,000 of his own money to try to prove it.  Why did the state of New Jersey mislead him?  Why did Charles Lindbergh's other son (John) believe Harold to be his brother.  I guess my point in all of this is that this is a story about a man who was trying to find his true identity and felt he was being lied to.  Couldn't that be the story with all of us?  What do I mean?  I'll let you ponder that if you want.  I welcome back Anita, from Escanaba Michigan and part two of our interview about Harold Olson, who may have been the Lindbergh baby.  She chooses to just go by her first name because in the past her phone has been bugged and someone from the U.S. government was sitting outside by her home.  Now why would they do that?  So she was a little afraid to do this inteverview initially.  We were even going to disguise her voice and call her Madam X.  (Pretty funny, huh?)  But in the end, she decided that wasn't necessary.  By the way Anita mentions a book that may shed some insight and I posted a picture of it in case you want to check it out.  In no way is she connected with the book or promoting a website or anything else.  The book is not about Harold Olson.  It is about some unanswered quetions involving the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.