Spectrevision Radio.

Welcome to Weird Studies. This is J.F. Martel.

Due to scheduling conflicts and a few unforeseen events, Phil, Meredith, and I have had to push the release of our next official

episode back by a week. This is a first for us, and we do apologize for the delay. Rather than leave

you hanging, we're unlocking a bonus episode previously available only to our patrons. The

short conversation you're about to hear was released on Patreon just last week.

We're calling it poltergeists, fairies, skeptics, and the managerial class.

And in it, we explore the ways in which the modern deals with anomalies that challenge its foundational assumptions.

From poltergeist infestations to UFO encounters, to outright fairies and goblins, to say nothing of out-of-body experiences and telepathic communication and actual medical miracles, life in this world seems to be chock-full of phenomena that simply don't fit into the sanctified categories.

How do we as a society handle such things? How does skeptics, believers, and those

caught in between negotiate the presence of the seemingly impossible? This conversation

serves as a kind of preface to what's coming next, a two-parter on precisely this question,

how we ought to talk about the paranormal, the supernatural, and all those things

we modern aren't supposed to talk about. Part one will drop next week on February 26th. Until then,

we hope you enjoy this unlocked content. Right now, one of the things that are keeping me very, very busy, one of a few things I'm juggling is, of course, the weirdosphere class that I'm doing on the supernatural, which started last week and is going very well.

And as part of that, I've been thinking about this article that came out several years ago in various.

It's hard to know where an article first comes out these days and use article because they seem to, you know, there's so many, what do you call aggregations and conglomerations of, so once an article appears in one place, it'll just metastasize.

It just kind of goes.

Yeah, so this article came out a few years ago, and it's been on my mind.

I read it to the students last week, and we talked about it just a little bit.

I just kind of read it as an example of, you know, something that's hard to accept happening

in our world, something that's hard for our metaphysical construals to accommodate.

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