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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George, nor

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Speaker 1: with you, John Russell Back with us. Became aware of

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Speaker 1: his psychic abilities at around the age of six years old,

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Speaker 1: starting giving psychic readings to friends and families at about fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and by the age of eighteen he was reading professionally.

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Speaker 1: He eventually became internationally known and has more than forty

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Speaker 1: five years of expertise as a professional psychic or the

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Speaker 1: worldwide clientele. As a paranormal investigator. He has witnessed over

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Speaker 1: eight hundred supernatural manifestations as well. He's got several books out,

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Speaker 1: including A Knock in the Attic, Writing with Ghost, Angels

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Speaker 1: and Spirits of the Dead, and his websites are linked

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Speaker 1: up at Coast to coastam dot com and Merry Christmas, John.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you back with us. Merry Christmas, Georgie.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be back. I always live being with

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Speaker 1: my coast family. They love you. And how have you been.

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Speaker 1: I've been pretty good. I've been very busy, a little

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Speaker 1: bit tired, as everybody is with the season. The other

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Speaker 1: them that can complain does the Christmas season bring out

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Speaker 1: any special ghost or strange stories, you know, it does.

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Speaker 1: I think that any holiday that we focus on and

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Speaker 1: kind of raise our vibrations too and increase the energies

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Speaker 1: thinking about it, whether it's Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, even New Years,

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Speaker 1: I think that we focus our energies more and become

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Speaker 1: more aware of the paranormal possibilities, the spiritual possibilities around holidays,

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Speaker 1: just simply because we're more focused, and so that gives

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Speaker 1: us a greater opportunity to have experiences. So you think,

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Speaker 1: beyond the rest of the year, the holiday season, the

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Speaker 1: Christmas season is a better time to communicate with the

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Speaker 1: other side. I think it is simply because we focus more,

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Speaker 1: we're more aware because especially during the Christmas season, we

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Speaker 1: try and focus on the spiritual qualities of kindness, receptivity, giving, compassion, love,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we're focused on that Christmas story, the

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Speaker 1: Christmas miracle and the miracles that accompany Christmas and angels

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Speaker 1: and all of these things, and so we're expecting of that,

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Speaker 1: we're hopeful about that, We're focused on that, and that

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Speaker 1: creates a more receptive atmosphere where the other side can

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Speaker 1: communicate more easily. John with the new folks who joined

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Speaker 1: the team here and they haven't heard you before. Tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more about yourself. Ah, well, I

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Speaker 1: became aware of my gift when I was about six

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Speaker 1: years old, as you said, and around the age of eleven,

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Speaker 1: I started doing paranormal investigations, and the reason for that

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Speaker 1: was I wanted to discover what was real and what wasn't,

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Speaker 1: what worked and what didn't end the paranormal world in

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Speaker 1: the spiritual world. And as my gift developed, I began

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Speaker 1: to do readings for friends and family, and then about

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Speaker 1: the age of eighteen, I began to read professionally, and

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Speaker 1: I've I've read now for fifty years. I've got a

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Speaker 1: as you said, I've got a worldwide client. Tell got

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Speaker 1: a couple of books out, and one of the works

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Speaker 1: that I hope is going to be out around February

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Speaker 1: March this coming year. A little slow working on that

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Speaker 1: because I've been so busy with my clients and everything.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's kind of me in a nutshell. Did

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Speaker 1: your family your parents encourage you? My mother did. My

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Speaker 1: mother was a believer and her family had had a

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Speaker 1: lot of paranormal experiences, and so it was just kind

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Speaker 1: of status quo for me to come along and step

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Speaker 1: into that. My father, on the other hand, was kind

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Speaker 1: of a I think a closet believer. He didn't want

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge it, and he was a little bit skeptical. Scared, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: scared of the paranormal. It was something that he couldn't control,

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Speaker 1: you know, It manifested whether he wanted it to or not.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't explain it away, and I think it scared

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Speaker 1: him a little bit. John, did you ever have a

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Speaker 1: bad paranormal experience yourself? You know, I haven't in all

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Speaker 1: these years, and during the introduction you mentioned eight hundred

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Speaker 1: I've had by now well over a thousand, and that's conservative.

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Speaker 1: That's just kind of hitting the high points of a

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Speaker 1: thousand physical paranormal manifestations that have actually occurred on the

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Speaker 1: physical realm. A lot of times. Others have witnessed them

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Speaker 1: with me, We've recorded them, we've videoed him, we've photographed him,

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Speaker 1: we've got him on audio. And never had anything negative,

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Speaker 1: never had anything bad. I'm aware that there are people

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Speaker 1: the psychic. We're going to talk about some Christmas events

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Speaker 1: that have occurred this hour, next hour, we'll take your calls,

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Speaker 1: your readings with John, and all he'll need from you

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Speaker 1: is a question. I'll tell them who you are, and

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Speaker 1: you ask a specific question about just about anything, John,

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Speaker 1: about some of these events that have occurred in your life.

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Speaker 1: What's the story about the closet door that made a

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Speaker 1: closing and latching rule. That was when I was a

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Speaker 1: young child, and this was at Christmas time. We had

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Speaker 1: and you know what a wonderful time. And my mother

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Speaker 1: of those guys, John, that can't sleep with your arm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm okay. I don't think there's any I don't

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Speaker 1: It's great. Friday Night. During the program, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: you do? I do. Yeah, one of the most amazing ones.

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Speaker 1: And I write about this in my second book, A

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Speaker 1: Knock in the Attic, and I'll give you the highlights

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Speaker 1: of it here. We had I had moved back to

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Speaker 1: our entire lives, even as a young kid, my mother

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Speaker 1: put that sulfur smell in gas because natural gases orderless,

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