Dark Matters Radio

I started radio hosting back in 1991 and found it fascinating. Interviewing folks about many different subjects was a kick and I got a chance to meet people from many different fields. Past and present Government officials, Hollywood directors, actors, UFO researchers, folks on the cutting edge of conspiracy research, hell I was like a kid in a candy store.

Over the years I’ve done 4 different gigs with now I suppose over 10 years on the air. My first show was called UFOs Tonite! that ran on the Cable Radio Network. That ran from about 1991 until 1996. It was coast to coast carried on cable television companies. I finally had a falling out with station management because they had continually broke their promise that the show would be syndicated. The fans didn’t care, they loved it. One funny incident happened when my show was pre-emptied because of a “VOLLEY BALL” tournament. Being a smart ass the next week I told my audience to send FAXes to the station Fax machine if they had a complaint, and they burned the damn thing up. The guy that ran CRN chewed on my ass about that, so still being a smart ass I then told my audience that they should no longer FAX anything to areacode 818 and then I gave the number about 4 or 5 times. I don’t think they appreciated my sense of humor!

The next gig was called STRANGE DAZE. It ran on the Liberty Works Radio Network. This show ran for about 7 months, 5 nights a week until the network ran out of money. It was a new start-up effort and the guys in charge didn’t quite know how to pull it off.  Big Bummer.

Later, I was to start a new show on satellite called Dark Matters Radio. You know, all those stories that run “under the radar” that straight media usually doesn’t cover.

I have tons of shows in the can, so to speak. If you want to hear some unusual radio with some very fascinating topics that I did, you can right now! Gene Steinberg of the Paracast gave me my own forum where I am currently uploading shows today. As a matter of fact I just uploaded one that I did with George Knapp, KLAS Channel 8 TV in Las Vegas, back in March of 2007.

A fascinating show. If you don’t know who George is, have you ever heard of the top secret Area 51 story out in Nevada? Well, almost everybody has heard of it by now and George was the guy that broke that story all the way back in 1988. He is also the guy that introduced a guy by the name of Bob Lazar. Google it.

At anyrate, go to The Paracast and click on the link to hear the show. Actually I have several programs there that will blow your mind, like the Vito Saccheri Moon special. Gotta get the word out don’t you know. And in the meantime, remember to keep looking up!!

Okay, July is moving right along, I got another birthday in a couple of days and we are still scrambling to keep the old head above water.

I haven’t been writing as much as I should have, but it has been hotter than the hinges of hell around here in Southern California. Trying to keep expenses down Vicki and I haven’t been running the AC as much as we could have, but we did break down a couple of times in the last couple of days just for the pure relief of it.

I have been using computers since 1987 but just this past week I finally broke down and opened a Facebook account. Well, not only Facebook but also I ended up opening a Twitter one too. Geeze, I must admit that if you are not careful with those they can eat up a hell of a lot of your time. I have been playing around with FB, uploading some photos and what have you but today I thought I should update the blog here and then maybe do some additional writing on my next project with is titled “A Person of Interest.”

Person of Interest is a cop story with some science fiction overtones. The story opens up with the main character, Detective Nicolas Black in a hospital room. He is … ah let me have him tell you.

Excerpt from Person of Interest –

“Okay, I was lying in my hospital bed pondering what my Lieutenant had told me, wondering if they would prosecute. I had been in here about a week and was finally to the point where I could think without the excruciating pain. I looked up and could see the uniformed cop they had guarding my door, and except when I had been in the Gulf during the war in my recon platoon, could not remember ever feeling as alone.

I must have drifted off when the sound of the door opening caused me to open my eyes and look up. A rather plain looking younger woman walked in carrying what I thought was a legal pad of yellow paper.

“Can I help you?” I said. She looked at me and smiled, walking over to the side of my hospital bed, pulled the single chair to the side and sat down.

“Ah, Detective Black, I’m Kimberly Bradley of the Daily News. I was assigned to cover your story and was wondering if you felt up to an interview?”

Now, I gotta tell you that I was surprised. Except for my ex-wife being allowed in to see me when I was first brought in, no one had been allowed in here except for the medical staff or the police brass. I looked at my door and the cop on duty wasn’t there.

“How did you get in here? Didn’t that cop stop you?” She looked at me with a question mark on her face.

“What cop? There wasn’t any cop at the door.”

Now, what I thought next came to me in a flash, but will probably take a little longer to explain to you.

After I got to the point where I could speak again, one of the guys in to see me was my union rep. He told me that I should keep my mouth shut until a lot of this “shook out.” As a matter of fact, he “thought” I should have a lawyer present when the brass decided to “debrief” me. The fact of the matter was that this whole thing was so “off the wall” and unbelievable, I thought rightly or wrongly that I should get my side out sooner than later. I looked at this woman and nodded my head. “No cop at the door, huh? Okay, what do you want to know? And before we start, is there any word about Dick?” Dick, or detective Richard Baker had been my partner and went missing during this fiasco.

She shook her head “no” and I nodded. “So, where do you want to begin?”

“Well Detective, lets start at the beginning. When did this whole thing land on your desk?”

I had stopped smoking after I got back from the “sandbox”, or Desert Storm. It had been rough but I finally kicked the habit. Except for when I had a beer or six, I didn’t miss it but now I wanted a smoke and I knew I wouldn’t get one.

“This case landed on Dick and me a little over two months ago when the Ramirez girls went missing. You will remember the big search and when nothing turned up we were assigned. Dick and I ruled out the parents almost immediately. The dad was at work and their mother was working as a volunteer at St. Francis’s Church. Father Hernandez swore up and down that the family was as close knit as could be imagined. The two girls were 14 and 12, were like twins, and considering what things are today, were “dream kids.” Well behaved, polite and considerate. We started looking at the possibility of sexual predators, assholes jus.. oops, guys just out of jail, you know?” I thought I should probably watch my language with this reporter.

She gave me a half smile at my “profanity” slip and nodded. “Please continue detective.”

I closed my eyes for a second thinking back, drew a deep breath and continued.

“Well, at first we thought we might have something with a guy just out of the state prison, but when we checked his story it was air-tight. Just when we thought we might be at a dead end, the Morris kid went missing. He was a 15 year old kid that was in his sophomore year at Central High School. He was on the football team and flat disappeared on his way home from a practice. That’s when Dick and I knew we had a very serious problem. Lt. Barnes then took this “upstairs” and we put a task force together to try to get this nipped in the bud. Dick and I were the lead investigators on this. The state police became involved and we also contacted the FBI. It suddenly became top priority and as you know, the news blackout began. The brass became very hinky with any information released to the press.” I lay back on the bed and took a deep breath. It was at that instant I remembered something Dick had said back then. “Christ Nick, I got a feeling! This is a “weird one” and damn!, I hate the weird ones!” Boy, did he get that one right I thought.”

Well, this started out as a “short” and I actually finished it but then somebody that read it suggested I should expand it. Perhaps even take it into novel territory. I picked up 3 months later after the original story played out. Still working on it and if anyone is interested, drop me a note and I will fill you in on where I’m at.

My published novel “Past Sins” is still selling on Amazon and is also in the Kindle format. Sales of the Kindle edition are still flowing along. I recently spoke to someone in the graphic novel business that expressed an interest in taking a look at Past Sins and I got a copy off to him. He told me he had read an excerpt of the book on the publishers website and liked what he read. Who knows? Stranger things have happened so we are keeping fingers and toes crossed.

There is only one more thing I wanted to mention today, maybe someone out there can give me a hint. For the longest time now I have been coming in here to delete 20 and 30 spam messages from the blog daily. Most of those messages seem to come from Russia, and the rest from different parts of Europe. Like what is the damn deal? No, I don’t need a penis enhancement ad, nope, not interested in seeing the love relationships between woman and dogs, nor am I interested in looking a young girls on the silver screen being taken advantage of by their high school teachers. Anybody have a hint, I’m starting to get pretty pissed. Well in that case … until next time ….

So, there I was doing some research on the web when I discovered this very interesting website. Exposing Online Predators & Cyberpaths

Damn, that was interesting so I clicked on it and there he was! Although I can’t say I was really that surprised but there that asshole was. Huh, your asking? Yup, Kalvin K Korff.

Okay, don’t know this guy? Well then allow me to tell you a story. A couple of years ago, not too long after I left the wonderful and wacky world of UFO research, I received an email from somebody asking me if it were true that Kalvin K Korff had worked as a Level 3 Analyst at Lawrence Livermore Labs. This was just after another brief flurry of reports coming out of Phoenix, Arizona of unknown lights. You may remember the big UFO case back in 1997 that happened there, even the Governor of the state chimed in. Well, my email questioner wanted to know if Korff had the credentials to declare this case as phony. Like a dummy I wrote him back telling him I had serious doubts about Korff. Why? Well at this time a friend of mine, then Major Kevin Randle, of the National Guard, just back from Iraq had been on the receiving end of a hate campaign from Korff who claimed he was a Captain in the Israeli SPECIAL SECRET SERVICES. Huh? Like, WTF?? Never heard of it but wait . . . there was MORE. He was a SAPSTOE in the Israeli SPECIAL SECRET SERVICES.

Well, let me let this moron tell you himself. The following is from the UFO Watchdog website, a wonderful no punches pulled website that takes a look at the wild and wonderful world of UFOs and folks like Kalvin.

” I remind everyone I AM a SAPSTOE and the fact none of you seem to know what this means will remain a liability to you until you start to factor it into everything I do. IF you do, or when you do, you won’t be so “surprised.” You’ll say instead, like they did today at the Embassy where two new contacts and liaisons had to be briefed, “Wow, I had no idea, but that sounds like something Korff would do.”

Here was Korff’s claims that started it all.

“What Arizona residents reported What Arizona residents saw – V-lift platforms

Prague, Czech Republic, European Union – Colonel Kal K. Korff, a former Senior Systems Analyst, Level III, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the original “Star Wars” program, has confirmed that some of the so-called “UFOs” which were reported over Arizona on March 13, 1997 were in fact NOT “extraterrestrial” spacecraft, but were large triangular-shaped experimental transport craft developed by the military.

“While the later individual lights which were reported and filmed were unquestionably flares launched by the Air National Guard, the earlier reports of a large triangular craft, seen for over an hour in the skies, have never been explained, — until now that is,” declared Kal Korff.

“I am officially confirming now, that the large triangular-shaped craft that people saw, inclduing several eyewitnesses that I personally met and questioned, was in fact made by the U.S. government. These amazingly large aircraft are a preview of some of the new, large scale aerial platforms which are a key future to aviation technology and science.

Kal Korff will disclose more of this startling information about this new revelation, as well as provide “smoking gun” evidence that key people in the UFO field KNEW about this facts years ago, on Rob McConnell’s “X” Zone Radio Show this Thursday evening October 4, 2007 at 1-2AM Eastern Standard Time, 10-11PM Pacific Standard Time, — Friday, October 5, 2007 at 0700-0800 Central European Time.”

When it got back to this guy what I had written my doubts on his work background, suddenly I was hit with a flurry of email hate and threats not only from Kalvin K Korff but his “staff.” According to Korff, one of his staff was a former Czech SUPERMODEL named Lieutenant Martina Tycova! Of course no one ever heard of this SUPERMODEL but apparently she to was a part of the Israeli SPECIAL SECRET SERVICES! Hey, “she” wrote me! Here, take a look . . . . .

“Dear Mr. Ecker,

My name is Martina Tycova. I know you have heard of me.
Because of your behavior, and refusal to face facts, I am now publishing
my magazine exposing you. It will be out after the weekend, I am giving
you 48 hours to respond, to include some sort of reply to “defend”
yourself if you wish. This is most reasonable.
Included in it is the evidence you “missed” which proves that Kal Korff
worked at LLNL. This would be a newspaper article which was written
specifically on Korff because of him getting hired there, so your claim
“it could be wrong” is IRRELEVANT and is NOT true in this case.
Had you bothered to check the newspapers for 1988 you would have seen this article, among others.
Mr. Ecker, I have only one question for you. If you refuse to answer it,
I’ll let the media know. If you answer it, I will also let them know.
Here is my question: WHAT EVIDENCE DO YOU HAVE THAT KAL KORFF DID NOT WORK AT LLNL?
The answer is NONE. Because there is NONE. There is ONLY EVIDENCE HE
WORKED THERE.
What you CANNOT “escape” from, Mr. Ecker, is the FACT that you made
allegations which were NOT true, and they were NOT based on any FACTS.
Regardless of the subject, this is WRONG.
So please provide your “evidence Korff did NOT work there” or please be
HONEST and admit you were all too human and blew it.
Please contact your attorneys if you wish. I would be happy to engage them.
Your attempt to worm out of this is disgusting. You made accusations
WTIHOUT EVIDENCE. That is NEVER right.
Furthermore, Kal Korff has NOT “threatened” you. He made that clear.
Yet this is not what you have told people. You are guilty again, of
misrepresenting the truth.
Today, Mr. Ecker, four million more readers of the newspapers will be
updated on what you have done. Whatever your response is or “defense” of
yourself, we will publish it.”

Oh my God, threatened with exposure in Czech newspapers. Oh . .  .the shame!

Of course Kalvin proceeded to “threaten me.” Here is a sample. (Now you can see why I mentioned the Cyberstalking website.) Oh, I was cc:ed on this as if he sent it to others.

” Dear Warant Officer Avimi Askenazi,
Dear Lt. Martina Tycova,

I enclose for your info Don Ecker’s “reply” — you are both right, he is
playing games and has refused to either accept evidence which is
undeniable and has been in the public record FOR 19 YEARS, and he has
asked for “evidence” I cannot supply and could easily be faked.
I thought I knew Don, but I must admit I am wrong here.
Since I cannot “protect” Don from the media exposing him anymore, and Don has refused to admit he made allegations WITHOUT first checking his facts, you may now “deal” with Mr. Ecker as per your orders from Tel Aviv, since I cannot protect him anymore.
You were BOTH right, Avim and Martina, Ecker should NEVER have made
allegations without first checking his facts, and then he tries to shift
the “burden” on me, IGNORING lots of undeniable evidence that has been in
the public record for 19 years.
Inexcusable, but that’s UFOOLogy, as you have aptly noted Martina.
I am steeping aside, I REALLY tried, Avim…
Tonight on the XZone Ecker will get his “evidence” at his rightful
expense, unless we receive a formal retraction before air time.
I am alerting the media NOW and within an hour the first stories will
start to appear about this. Avim, the PRESS RELEASE you wanted to release
about Ecker, I cannot stop it now.
To the both of you, please do not worry about any more “Kal Korff
considerations,” you may do as both of you see fit.
Sometimes it takes the dropping of a nuke to wake some people up to the
obvious, and I will make sure that the relevant issue is focused on here:
Ecker made allegations WITHOUT EVIDENCE AND WITHOUT CHECKING HIS FACTS, AND NOW HE REFUSES TO ACCEPT EVIDENCE WHICH HAS BEEN IN THE RECORDS FOR 19 YEARS.
Kal”

Now, for a couple of years Korff had a weekly spot on a crappy radio show out of Canada called the X-zone. You know the type, listen to what the Astrologers have to sayabout YOU, YOUR GUARDIAN ANGELS, and how they can help, how Fairy Dust can improve your sex life, yeah, that kind of crap. Korff, the dumb ass was going to “expose” me on the air so I wrote the station and told them my attorneys will be very interested in what Kolonel Kal had to say. He said nothing. However, I was not the only guy on this moron’s hit list.

As I said, Kevin Randle, David Biedny, Paul Kimball and Royce Myers were all receiving hate mail and You Tube rants by this delusional little man. Oh yes, he tapes himself ranting against all of us INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED to the Attorney General of Oregon, and the DA of Josephine County and two cops. Why? Well it appears that Korff’s dirt-bag brother, with a rap sheet THIS LONG was shot by cops after a burglary. Here is the news story . . . . but first, the dirt bag.

“Police arrest man shot in the head by deputies
A 39-year-old Cave Junction man who was shot in the head by at least one Josephine County deputy was released from the hospital and arrested Tuesday on an outstanding warrant, Oregon State Police reported.

Kurtis Korff was wounded in the head Sunday night when two deputies responded to a report of a burglary and assault at a Cave Junction home. Korff was in a car near the home and appeared to accelerate the car toward one of the deputies after being ordered to stop, police said.

Both deputies fired at him. He was treated at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland for the head wound and released Tuesday. He was then arrested on a state parole and probation warrant for failure to appear and taken to the Multnomah County Justice Center, police said. They didn’t have any other information on the warrant.

The two deputies involved in the shooting were identified as: Jim Geiger, 30, who has worked for the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office for eight and a half years and Brad Johnson, 44, who has worked for the sheriff’s office for five and a half years.”

Well, not only myself and the other guys I listed are on Kalvin’s list, there is a dedicated website called Kal Korff Is An Idiot that for the last couple of years has detailed Kal’s crazy antics. Here, better this than me telling you, allow me to give you Kalvin’s bio written by Kalvin for Kalvin and all about Kalvin.

” Armed with an IQ of 219, according to the Omni Magazine’s World’s Hardest IQ Test; known worldwide for solving numerous mysteries, whether they are criminal, historical, scientific, or even “paranormal,” – Kal Korff is an Author, Broadcaster, Columnist and Investigative Journalist known for his hard-hitting exposes and doing original research. Korff’s enormously popular column, “Kal’s Korner”, appears at least three times a day in print and is read by millions around the world each week in several languages. In addition, “Kal’s Korner” also appears on the popular syndicated radio program The “X” Zone Radio Show, hosted by famed Canadian Broadcaster, Rob McConnell. Kal Korff has pioneered original concepts and techniques in several fields of study. These include archaeology, artificial intelligence, computing, criminology, forensics, graphical user interfaces, historical research, human interface design, hypermedia, multimedia, nanotechnology, physics, and weaponry. Kal has written and has had published more than 5,000 articles and materials in 64 magazines and newspapers around the world. Since 1975, he has lectured to more than 300,000 people in the United States and Europe. A passionate and driven researcher, Korff has worked for companies such as Atari, Xerox, Apple Computer, Claris, The Boeing Company, and was a security-cleared Senior Systems Analyst, Level III, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the original U.S. Government-funded Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars” program. A Broadcaster, Lecturer, Producer and Teacher, Korff devotes his life to humanitarian causes and issues of universal importance. Kal’s original insights and expertise have allowed him to contribute content or appear on virtually every major talk show and TV network, including ABC, CNN’s Larry King Live!, FOX, Discovery Channel, MSNBC, National Geographic TV, Entertainment Tonight and NBC’s Leeza. Additionally, Kal has been featured or quoted in scores of newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Metropolitni Expres, Skeptical Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News, Indianapolis Star, Skepter, Stanford Daily, Oakland Tribune, Yakima Herald, Phoenix New Times, Fortean Times, Saga, Omni, The Prague Post, True, Plus, the South China Daily”

Whew! What a guy, huh? Kalvin, if you are interested I have the telephone number of a very nice psychologist you could talk to. He has a very nice couch and from what I hear some fuzzy little bunnies you could pet while you talk. Get some help Kalvin!

And, if you can believe it, it would appear David Bowie wrote a song about our favorite chubby loser. For your listening pleasure!!

DAVID BOWIE on the Chubby Little Loser

This past week I found out that several people I knew from my time in UFO research died and yes, I was very upset. One I knew slightly and the other one I had known very well.

Back in 1987 when I bought my very first computer system, as I’ve stated before, I discovered the old Compuserve system and then the Issues forum on it. The Issues forum was where I first met Jim Speiser. Jim was very active there and I found out he was the founder and administrator of Paranet. When Jim decided he had other things more pressing to do, you know like eating, paying bills and so on, he turned the reins of Paranet over to Mike Corbin. Mike became the administrator and director of Paranet Alpha.

Back in those days, around 1988, Paranet was a giant presence for anyone interested in the weirder side of things like UFOs, and other assorted oddities in the soon to be accessed Web. Mike Corbin and I hit it off and we became very good friends even though at that time we had not yet met face to face. I became the Paranet’s Public Relations director and later Security director for the service. We even busted some big stories like my finding the U.S. Air Forces text book that the USAF had been using at their Military Academy. USAF textbook chpt. As I became more involved in research and writing I moved to California and began my career with UFO Magazine.

Mike and Paranet became closely involved with UFO Magazine and he even wrote for the publication. When I began broadcasting UFOs Tonite on the Cable Radio Network, some of the very first guests I interviewed were Jim Speiser and Mike Corbin. In 1992 Mike asked me if I would be interested in doing a public debate with Phil Klass, (1919-2005) the noted UFO skeptic (and debunker according to some).

I knew Phil Klass and actually kept him from being assaulted by a drunk at the MUFON Symposium in Pensacola, Florida in 1990. When we weren’t talking UFOs Klass could be quite charming, talk about UFOs however and I found Phil disingenuous.

In 1992 Parnet/MICAP (MICAP was begun my Mike) flew me and Klass into Denver. There was surprisingly quite a bit of publicity given this event on local media. Also, another old friend, Russ Estes was there to film this debate.

Russ was a videographer then working on a massive multi-part TV series on the UFO topic and he and I first met when he had called me up about being interviewed. Russ and I also became very close.

The debate itself became very infamous because of something Phil Klass alleged. We were discussing several then well known UFO events and the case of Fredrick Valentich was raised. (Valentich on Wikipedia) Klass claimed that Valentich was smuggling drugs because he had 4 life preservers on board his aircraft. I landed on Klass Hard in the debate. This totally unsubstantiated claim by Klass was eventually discovered by Valentich’s family who were rightly outraged. Mike Corbin made all this possible and Russ captured all this for posterity.

Speaking of Russ Estes, Russ passed away in January of 2005 mostly of complications of diabetes. Russ Estes on UFO Watchdog Brash, outspoken, and not one to suffer fools gladly, Russ brought a breath of fresh air into the media and UFO topics. He was not always appreciated for that but allow me to say this because I knew Russ well, “Quite frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn!” That pretty well sums up Russ Estes. Russ, rest in peace.

Jim Speiser wrote me two days ago with an obituary on Mike Corbin. (1955-2008) Mike Corbin Obit I was shocked. I had not heard a thing about Mike’s death, which occurred in March of 2008. Mike had sort of drifted out of UFOs and landed in the even murkier field of conspiracies. According to medical reports Mike died of a massive stroke at age 52. Rest in Peace Mike.

Another Luminary passed this past week. Internationally famous author, investigator and Fortean, John A. Keel. (1930-2009)

It was a couple of years after I returned from Viet Nam that I had read in an issue of FATE Magazine that John Keel had a new book about to be published titled “The Mothman Prophecies.” I recalled that I had even witnessed news reports in my hometown in Pennsylvania about this famous case when it was happening around 1966. I went to my local bookstore and ordered a copy. When it arrived I devoured the thing, and was very unsettled. That book later helped ignite my interest in the UFO topic. Keel was a prolific writer, “Disneyland of the Gods”, “Operation Trojan Horse”, “Strange Creaturs from Space and Time” to name a few books.

Vicki and I met Keel at some nameless UFO conference on the east coast back around 1991 or so. Later, as recounted in my last blog posting I loaned by copy of “Mothman” to my friend Richard Sarradet and Richard asked me to call John to see if the rights to it were available. Quite honestly John didn’t seem to care one way or the other and many thought John to be somewhat of a curmudgeon. I suppose John figured he had paid his dues and didn’t give a damn one way or another. Oh yes, Mr. John Keel was quite a character. I interviewed John on UFOs Tonite and will have to find that show, there are probably many who would like to hear what John Keel had to say on the UFO topic. John, rest in peace.

Wow, a posting like this one really grabs hold of you and forces you to confront one’s mortality. I recall when I first entered the UFO fray back in the late 1980’s the giants from the last generation were passing on. Folks like Donald Keyhoe and J. Alan Hynek were all leaving the stage. To be honest, right now I am feeling a bit depressed so I think I will end this post now. I didn’t mean for this posting to be a downer, but I felt I had to report on these fellows because they deserve that. Until next time, and remember to keep looking up.

PS As I was getting ready to post this entry, I decided I did not wish it to be totally a downer, so here goes. Perhaps a bit of humor is needed!

Well, the 4th of July is now history. Summer moves along and Vicki and I spent the holiday with some friends from years past, Richard and Gloria Sarradet. Rich and I go way back to the very early 90’s and back in those days, Richard was getting his feet wet trying to do something in the entertainment media with the UFO subject. Richard had been a huge star on daytime TV’s General Hospital playing a lawyer  Howard Lansing.

Richard appeared with me on UFOs Tonite on a number of occasions and back in those days we had occasion to make business trips over to Las Vegas a number of times. On one of those trips Richard and I had a UFO sighting. The damn thing was flying in circles (just a pin-point white light) and during our viewing two jets from LA flew through and the damn thing stopped and froze until the jets were gone. Weird huh?

Well, back to the 4th. I had not had any contact with Rich for a long time and on July 2nd I called him. We got together for brunch on Friday (it lasted 5 hours) and he invited Vicki and I over to his beautiful home in Topanga to share the 4th with his lovely wife Gloria and family. We had a 5 Star Bar-B-Que, ribs grilled to perfection by another old friend, Steve McMahon. Damn, what a great day. But back to business ….

In my last posting I mentioned my great buddies Gene Steinberg and David Biedny over at the Paracast inviting me to make use of Paracast for my past radio programming.

Well, today, July 7th, Gene gave me a separate forum ( The Best of Dark Matters Radio ) just for those shows. My God, talk about a generous man and great friend. I just uploaded one a Magnum Opus of investigations on The Paracast, a show that I had to wade through 20 years of records, audio tapes and past issues of our magazine on a certain Milton Wm. Cooper. In just one day this two hour show has been accessed literally hundreds of times. Good Lord, I told Gene and folks I feel like jumping back into the radio fray right now. However I have hundreds of shows, which have the added benefit of being a great historical database, that I will go through and the gems I will add to the list. What a great bunch of folks are Gene and David.

Oh, I almost forgot so let me tell you now before I do. Another show I uploaded to the Paranet is one titled “VAMPIRES & Tits and Ass.” It is concerned with the Highgate Vampire Case I’ve talked about before, right here. There are some absolutely hilarious website out there dealing with this case.

A couple that have featured stuff I’ve written or sites dealing with the silliness of this are John Baldry’s Cat. Silly name right? However if you are familiar with The Onion, you will have an idea. Another is Net Curtains Lurker, The Human Touch by David Farrant and finally Did a Wampyr Walk in Highgate? All great fun, much silliness AND this all details the Worlds longest running internet feud. Geeze, how can you lose with that? Okay, that is it for now, check out The Paracast and the other sites I’ve mentioned, check out some of my radio shows and please … let me know if you would like to see a continuation of Dark Matters Radio. Drop me a note here.

Until next time ……

Wow! Today, we are 233 years young. Damn, just looking at the Flag and Eagle makes me damned proud to state “I am one Proud American.” It’s not always easy to state that. I recall returning from the war in Viet Nam how we Vet’s were often treated coming back from South East Asia. Today it is much different and I and most of my friends go out of our way to make damn sure the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces KNOW how much we APPRECIATE their service. Oooo RAH!

Once upon a time I was a fairly well known radio broadcaster. I had several different radio programs that went coast to coast and even around the globe. The various shows were UFOs Tonite! on the Cable Radio Network, Strange DAZE on the Liberty Works Radio Network, Dark Matters which aired on satellite and the net’ and Dark Matters Radio on the net’. I covered everything from UFOs, the paranormal, things that went bump in the night, conspiracies, man you name it. I have not broadcast my own show now for a couple of years although I do find myself being asked to guest on shows from time to time. Recently Gene Steinberg, radio host and website Guru of The Paracast invited me to place past programing into his site for the listening pleasure of his audience and anyone who enjoys listening to shows dealing with the paranormal, posting, reading etc. Now, a good deal of the Paracast deal with the UFO phenomena, but not all. Since I have taken advantage of Gene’s generosity I have uploaded several radio programs dealing with … Moon phenomena, the JFK Conspiracy, ready for this one? Vampires, (Read a former blog post here titled Vampires & Nasties PLUS British Nancy Boys) and most recently the Hidden History of the Human Race. A great way to pass some time and maybe even learn something. I will include the links to get to the right place, then just check the first message in each thread and there is a link to click on and the show will start playing asap.

Talk About The Forum This is the section you need, scroll down and you will see the radio shows messages. Just open the first message in thread and you will find the links.

In the mean time Ladies and Gentlemen, have a fantastic 4th of July, don’t drink too much and DRIVE, a No-No, and remember to Keep your eyes pointing UP!