S4E9 It's Getting Paranormal In Here

THE BLURB: There's a difference between writing movies and TV shows about the PARANORMAL and living it. KYLE YATES is a PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR whose investigations overwhelmed his own initial skepticism. Meet a man whose willingly stood toe to toe with things that go bump in the night while they're bumping in the night!

SHOW NOTES

I tackled the paranormal more than a few times while I was making Tales From The Crypt and The Outer Limits and various other TV and movie projects. But I never went at it from the perspective of Paranormal Investigator Kyle Yates. Though a skeptic by nature, and despite coming to paranormal investigation as a kind of second career, as you’ll hear, Kyle may well have been born to it.

To be honest, I’m a little agnostic about things paranormal. I want everything rooted in what we can verifiably know. But, alas, we don’t verifiably know everything.

Consciousness, for instance, remains mostly a mystery to us. As you’ll hear, an awful lot of what we think is “paranormal” is absolutely explainable by organic means. Electricity and the magnetism electricity produces can create effects that do seem genuinely “ghostly” under the right circumstances.

But those ghostly effects are just electricity and magnetism. Or something else with a simple, logical explanation.

But, then stuff happens that can’t be explained. At all.

You start running out of “well, it could be this” or “it could be that’s” that sound like they maybe could be.

And that’s where people like Kyle step in - and explain it paranormally.

Like the episode’s title says: there’s something paranormal happening here!