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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.

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Speaker 2: Eric Mantel with us acclaimed jazz musician with his group,

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Speaker 2: the Eric Mantel Quartet at Night. Eric Mantel Investigates the Paranormal.

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Speaker 2: Eric was invited to perform twice at the White House

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Speaker 2: for President Clinton back in nineteen ninety eight and for

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Speaker 2: then President Barack Obama in twenty eleven. Interested in the

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Speaker 2: paranormal from a very young age, Eric has led the

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Speaker 2: Eric Mantel Investigates since twenty sixteen, seeking out strange stories

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Speaker 2: to tell, whether it's ghosts, UFO's Bigfoot, or even the

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Speaker 2: dog Man. Fans of his music have eagerly followed him

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Speaker 2: into the paranormal world as well, and on many investigations,

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Speaker 2: Eric and his team have gotten groundbreaking video and captured

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Speaker 2: strange pernormal activity. Eric, welcome back. Have you been hey, George?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man. You have to thank you for

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Speaker 3: having me back.

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Speaker 2: And you have a new book. I'll call it Eric

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Speaker 2: Mantel Investigates.

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Speaker 3: I know, man, I it was a long time coming.

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Speaker 1: It was yeah.

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Speaker 3: Eric intelling investigates, casebook investigations, encounters, stories and other worldly

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Speaker 3: contact and other wise all the stuff, all the stuff

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Speaker 3: in that book is true. That you can't write this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It just happened and it all flows perfectly. I've got

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Speaker 2: your CD by the way, that you send along with

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Speaker 2: the book. You guys do a good job.

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Speaker 3: Thank you man. Well, I knew you were a jazz

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Speaker 3: fan too, so I said, I wanted to send that

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Speaker 3: to you. And yeah, we thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: We do.

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Speaker 3: You know, thirty one years as a band leader, I

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Speaker 3: always say in this this group of mine's been together

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Speaker 3: twenty of those years. I always say that to my audience.

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Speaker 3: We've been together longer than most marriages.

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Speaker 1: So how did we still like each other?

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Speaker 2: How did you get involved in paranormal investigating from your

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Speaker 2: music career?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Man, you know, I being an only child, you know,

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Speaker 3: my father had so many stories as I was growing

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Speaker 3: up of things that he encountered and things here in

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Speaker 3: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where where we're talking from. Bucks County

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Speaker 3: has a really rich history of a lot of paranormal activity,

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Speaker 3: ghost stories, and even Bigfoot sightings and a lot of

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Speaker 3: UFO sightings as well. So I kind of grew up

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Speaker 3: with that and that was always in the background, like

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Speaker 3: always in the periphery. And then of course, you know,

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Speaker 3: when I was like fourteen, I found the music of

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Speaker 3: Dave Brubeck, and you know, usually other fourteen year old

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Speaker 3: kids were listening to heavy metal and whatnot. I'm listening

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Speaker 3: to day Brewed Beck, you know, Oscar Peterson and Duke

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Speaker 3: Gallington and all these great cats. And then went into

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Speaker 3: the jazz career, but always loved the paranormal and that

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Speaker 3: was I was something that was I was always fascinated with.

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Speaker 3: And like you said, in twenty sixteen, I was looking

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Speaker 3: at a lot of paranormal shows on TV. And I

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Speaker 3: had always been a filmmaker too. I was like film

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Speaker 3: and editing, and I said, you know, I could do that.

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Speaker 3: I could probably do something like that. And we started

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Speaker 3: out as Bucks County Paranormal Investigations and quickly changed it

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Speaker 3: to Eric and Tell Investigates because we're doing a lot

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Speaker 3: of traveling all over the country and it's been an

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Speaker 3: incredible journey and we're only getting started. Just some of

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Speaker 3: the stuff that we've encountered is so we're still you know,

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Speaker 2: Do you primarily investigate cryptids and creatures or do you

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Speaker 2: touch the ghost stories too?

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Speaker 3: Oh, George, we cover it all, man, it's everything. And

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Speaker 3: I worked with my He went to high school with me,

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Speaker 3: Dominic Seatel. He's our spirit medium, although in high school

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Speaker 3: I never knew he was a medium. You know, we

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Speaker 3: used to practice martial arts and stuff together, and we

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Speaker 3: He still has his nineteen eighty Firebird, and so we

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Speaker 3: I never knew that. You never told me that. And

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Speaker 3: lot of the stuff that like, I'll get a lot

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Speaker 3: with Julie Krause, who is another psychic medium as well.

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Speaker 2: It looks like you've got about seventeen different stories in

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Speaker 2: this book. The Eric Mantel investigates where did you get them?

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Speaker 2: How did they come to you?

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Speaker 3: They well, one was actually the very first story in

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Speaker 3: that is something that actually happened, and all of those

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Speaker 3: cases that are in the book are cases that we

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Speaker 3: have been asked to investigate. I have to make a

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Speaker 3: distinction that when I get people calling, like I get

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Speaker 3: a lot of people messaging me saying, you know, please

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Speaker 3: help us, our house is haunted and and things like that,

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Speaker 3: I don't do that. We don't go into people's homes

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Speaker 3: and and exercise the demon, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: But we will.

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Speaker 3: I will refer them to somebody that could go in

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Speaker 3: and you know, cleanse the house if need big, you know,

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Speaker 3: lot of those stories in the book are like bed

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Speaker 3: this investigation of this farmhouse, the woman in there said

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Speaker 3: feeling this energy and she completely had a meltdown on

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Speaker 3: like my show is completely unscripted. It's, you know, whatever

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Speaker 3: whatever is going on, we're capturing that on video, whether

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Speaker 3: the book. I kind of like reiterated and kind of

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been scared on a paranormal investigation?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's funny. I just was talking to

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Speaker 3: to have, you know, great documentary. We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: to some great people and get this really great documentary happening,

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Speaker 3: never thinking once that we'd actually encountered this thing. And

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Speaker 3: a howl, that sounded like a man screaming in this

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Speaker 3: was when Dominic said, and Dominic was with us on

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Speaker 3: looking at us, And like that was when I said, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we're out of here. I said, and was basically saying,

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Speaker 3: But so things like that, you know, it's not so

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Speaker 3: was more curious, like, you know, what is this thing?

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Speaker 3: And so you know, it was just a crazy, crazy night.

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Speaker 3: And then after that, a week later, after that Elkhorne investigation,

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Speaker 3: that bigfoot researcher that I know, Eric Spinner and his

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Speaker 3: the New Jersey Pine barons. No people will associate the

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Speaker 3: we're getting whoops and hollers in the woods. And if

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Speaker 3: and I mean all hell broke loose, like twenty minutes later.

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Speaker 3: It was crazy, and we got these whoops on video

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Speaker 3: and you could hear it plain a day on our

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Speaker 3: it's called Pine Baron's Bigfoot. And then we did another

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take a couple of stories from your book,

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Speaker 3: Oh, man, man, this is something that happened to me,

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Speaker 3: and I still, you know, can't believe it. So back

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Speaker 3: So I'm going down. All of a sudden, a deer

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Speaker 3: And now I'm a piano player, you know, as as

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Speaker 1: She did.

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Speaker 3: It was a physical thing. It was a physical person.

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Speaker 3: was something I consider her my guardian angel. But here's

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Speaker 3: the thing, George, this is the most incredible thing. Now,

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Speaker 3: let's just put it that way. And he'd come home

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Speaker 3: He swears he was stone sober this night. And so

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Speaker 3: And then she turned her head and looked at him,

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Speaker 3: she's saying, I'm going home, I'm going home. And he said,

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Speaker 3: I asked him, even on his deathbed a couple of

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Speaker 3: it because it was just, you know, that's something that

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Speaker 3: And then also here in Bucks County there's a restaurant

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Speaker 3: she found her husband cheating Back in eighteen hundreds, she

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Speaker 3: wondering if there's a connection there, so that we've been

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Speaker 2: Did she look angelic to you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know a little bit. You know, in the book,

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Speaker 3: I put some pictures, and it was hard to describe

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Speaker 3: was more like it's hard to describe like how she

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Speaker 3: I couldn't see physical features. I could see the I

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Speaker 3: could see the blurriness that the outline of this person

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