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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Speaker 2: Eric Mantel with us acclaimed jazz musician with his group,
Speaker 2: the Eric Mantel Quartet at Night. Eric Mantel Investigates the Paranormal.
Speaker 2: Eric was invited to perform twice at the White House
Speaker 2: for President Clinton back in nineteen ninety eight and for
Speaker 2: then President Barack Obama in twenty eleven. Interested in the
Speaker 2: paranormal from a very young age, Eric has led the
Speaker 2: Eric Mantel Investigates since twenty sixteen, seeking out strange stories
Speaker 2: to tell, whether it's ghosts, UFO's Bigfoot, or even the
Speaker 2: dog Man. Fans of his music have eagerly followed him
Speaker 2: into the paranormal world as well, and on many investigations,
Speaker 2: Eric and his team have gotten groundbreaking video and captured
Speaker 2: strange pernormal activity. Eric, welcome back. Have you been hey, George?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man. You have to thank you for
Speaker 3: having me back.
Speaker 2: And you have a new book. I'll call it Eric
Speaker 2: Mantel Investigates.
Speaker 3: I know, man, I it was a long time coming.
Speaker 1: It was yeah.
Speaker 3: Eric intelling investigates, casebook investigations, encounters, stories and other worldly
Speaker 3: contact and other wise all the stuff, all the stuff
Speaker 3: in that book is true. That you can't write this stuff.
Speaker 2: It just happened and it all flows perfectly. I've got
Speaker 2: your CD by the way, that you send along with
Speaker 2: the book. You guys do a good job.
Speaker 3: Thank you man. Well, I knew you were a jazz
Speaker 3: fan too, so I said, I wanted to send that
Speaker 3: to you. And yeah, we thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 3: You know, thirty one years as a band leader, I
Speaker 3: always say in this this group of mine's been together
Speaker 3: twenty of those years. I always say that to my audience.
Speaker 3: We've been together longer than most marriages.
Speaker 1: So how did we still like each other?
Speaker 2: How did you get involved in paranormal investigating from your
Speaker 2: music career?
Speaker 3: Oh? Man, you know, I being an only child, you know,
Speaker 3: my father had so many stories as I was growing
Speaker 3: up of things that he encountered and things here in
Speaker 3: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where where we're talking from. Bucks County
Speaker 3: has a really rich history of a lot of paranormal activity,
Speaker 3: ghost stories, and even Bigfoot sightings and a lot of
Speaker 3: UFO sightings as well. So I kind of grew up
Speaker 3: with that and that was always in the background, like
Speaker 3: always in the periphery. And then of course, you know,
Speaker 3: when I was like fourteen, I found the music of
Speaker 3: Dave Brubeck, and you know, usually other fourteen year old
Speaker 3: kids were listening to heavy metal and whatnot. I'm listening
Speaker 3: to day Brewed Beck, you know, Oscar Peterson and Duke
Speaker 3: Gallington and all these great cats. And then went into
Speaker 3: the jazz career, but always loved the paranormal and that
Speaker 3: was I was something that was I was always fascinated with.
Speaker 3: And like you said, in twenty sixteen, I was looking
Speaker 3: at a lot of paranormal shows on TV. And I
Speaker 3: had always been a filmmaker too. I was like film
Speaker 3: and editing, and I said, you know, I could do that.
Speaker 3: I could probably do something like that. And we started
Speaker 3: out as Bucks County Paranormal Investigations and quickly changed it
Speaker 3: to Eric and Tell Investigates because we're doing a lot
Speaker 3: of traveling all over the country and it's been an
Speaker 3: incredible journey and we're only getting started. Just some of
Speaker 3: the stuff that we've encountered is so we're still you know,
Speaker 3: wrapping our heads around.
Speaker 2: Do you primarily investigate cryptids and creatures or do you
Speaker 2: touch the ghost stories too?
Speaker 3: Oh, George, we cover it all, man, it's everything. And
Speaker 3: I worked with my He went to high school with me,
Speaker 3: Dominic Seatel. He's our spirit medium, although in high school
Speaker 3: I never knew he was a medium. You know, we
Speaker 3: used to practice martial arts and stuff together, and we
Speaker 3: worked on cars. I had like a seventy one Camaro.
Speaker 3: He still has his nineteen eighty Firebird, and so we
Speaker 3: used to work on cars together. But when he came
Speaker 3: back into the mix back in twenty seventeen, he said,
Speaker 3: you know, I might be good on some of your
Speaker 3: investigations because I'm a spirit medium. And I'm like, wait minute,
Speaker 3: I never knew that. You never told me that. And
Speaker 3: he has been great on it. It's like ninety nine
Speaker 3: percent of the time, right on the money with a
Speaker 3: lot of the stuff that like, I'll get a lot
Speaker 3: of the history from the people that are at these venues,
Speaker 3: whether it's a bed and breakfast or a restaurant or
Speaker 3: an inn, and I'll keep everything to myself as far
Speaker 3: as the paranormal activity goes. And when he comes into
Speaker 3: the location, he goes right to those hotspots. So it's
Speaker 3: amazing to get that on camera and then we can
Speaker 3: confirm what he's sensing to what is actually going on
Speaker 3: as well. So he's kind of giving us a preview
Speaker 3: for what's going on and you know, in what we're
Speaker 3: in store for. So it's been amazing, and we work
Speaker 3: with Julie Krause, who is another psychic medium as well.
Speaker 2: It looks like you've got about seventeen different stories in
Speaker 2: this book. The Eric Mantel investigates where did you get them?
Speaker 2: How did they come to you?
Speaker 3: They well, one was actually the very first story in
Speaker 3: that is something that actually happened, and all of those
Speaker 3: cases that are in the book are cases that we
Speaker 3: have been asked to investigate. I have to make a
Speaker 3: distinction that when I get people calling, like I get
Speaker 3: a lot of people messaging me saying, you know, please
Speaker 3: help us, our house is haunted and and things like that,
Speaker 3: I don't do that. We don't go into people's homes
Speaker 3: and and exercise the demon, so to speak.
Speaker 1: But we will.
Speaker 3: I will refer them to somebody that could go in
Speaker 3: and you know, cleanse the house if need big, you know,
Speaker 3: and and that's that way. But we are Basically, we're
Speaker 3: kind of like a like a paranormal tourism and we're
Speaker 3: we're going into a lot of these investigations and a
Speaker 3: lot of those stories in the book are like bed
Speaker 3: and breakfast. There was an inn, a seventeen fifty nine
Speaker 3: farmhouse that we investigated which has a business attached to it,
Speaker 3: which is an architectural salvage company. And when we did
Speaker 3: this investigation of this farmhouse, the woman in there said
Speaker 3: that her, you know, that there was a spirit in
Speaker 3: the that she felt in the home and she really
Speaker 3: couldn't put her finger on it. She knew it was
Speaker 3: coming from the bedroom upstairs in one of these rooms,
Speaker 3: and you know, so things like that, like we were
Speaker 3: on the investigation and we're in the bedroom where she's
Speaker 3: feeling this energy and she completely had a meltdown on
Speaker 3: camera because it was like she got bum rushed by
Speaker 3: the spirit that was in there. So things just and
Speaker 3: like my show is completely unscripted. It's, you know, whatever
Speaker 3: whatever is going on, we're capturing that on video, whether
Speaker 3: it's ghosts or when we were out in Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Speaker 3: investigating the Beast of Prey Road and capturing what we
Speaker 3: captured on video there and Bigfoot in the New Jersey
Speaker 3: Pine barrens. So I captured what I did was in
Speaker 3: the book. I kind of like reiterated and kind of
Speaker 3: recap what those like in short form, what those investigations
Speaker 3: were like, and what actually happened on the on the
Speaker 3: investigations and what we captured on video truly remarkable.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been scared on a paranormal investigation?
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's funny. I just was talking to
Speaker 3: somebody about this, and it's when we had the encounter
Speaker 3: with the Beast of Bray Road now the Beast of
Speaker 3: Bray Road for your listeners, and I'm sure they know this,
Speaker 3: but it's a supposed to be an upright canine on
Speaker 3: that walks on two legs and that has red glowing
Speaker 3: eyes or yellow glowing eyes, and people have seen this
Speaker 3: for years. So when we're on that investigation, and I
Speaker 3: had gone out there thinking that we weren't really going
Speaker 3: to see anything. I just thought that we were going
Speaker 3: to have, you know, great documentary. We're going to talk
Speaker 3: to some great people and get this really great documentary happening,
Speaker 3: never thinking once that we'd actually encountered this thing. And
Speaker 3: the Night of October third. And I know I've said
Speaker 3: this before, but it's just some something that I'll never
Speaker 3: forget because my whole world changed that night when we
Speaker 3: heard this thing and that made a sound, that made
Speaker 3: a howl, that sounded like a man screaming in this
Speaker 3: field that we were in. It was this like low
Speaker 3: guttural scream, growl yell combination. And the fear factor was
Speaker 3: there of like what are we hearing? You know? It
Speaker 3: was like we were kind of stunned. And then what
Speaker 3: really got me? And then what and again, George, we
Speaker 3: had no protection either. We had like a flashlight and
Speaker 3: a radio, that was it. But what really got me
Speaker 3: was when Dominic said, and Dominic was with us on
Speaker 3: this investigation as well, he said, shine the light over
Speaker 3: to where we just heard the hell We shined it
Speaker 3: over into the corn and there's two yellow eyes about
Speaker 3: seven feet up in the corn, darting back and forth, yeah,
Speaker 3: looking at us, And like that was when I said, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're out of here. I said, and was basically saying,
Speaker 3: this is my territory. Get out of here. And so
Speaker 3: we hopped on the four wheelers and got back up
Speaker 3: up to Lee Hample's farm and we got back to
Speaker 3: the bar, and Lee couldn't believe we were back so soon.
Speaker 3: But so things like that, you know, it's not so
Speaker 3: much scared, it's like the the I guess you could
Speaker 3: say it's scared, but I wasn't scared, per se. I
Speaker 3: was more curious, like, you know, what is this thing?
Speaker 3: What are we hearing? And you know, and you go
Speaker 3: to a point of like trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: it is. And when you cross that one line where
Speaker 3: you think, Okay, now we're getting into some territory. Who
Speaker 3: knows what this thing is going to do. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to go there because look again, we had nothing
Speaker 3: to protect ourselves. And I've had other people call, you know,
Speaker 3: message me and say you definitely need to get out there,
Speaker 3: and next time you do that, you have to have protection.
Speaker 3: And so you know, it was just a crazy, crazy night.
Speaker 3: And then after that, a week later, after that Elkhorne investigation,
Speaker 3: we did the U Bigfoot in the New Jersey Pine
Speaker 3: Barns because we were getting a lot of reports of
Speaker 3: that bigfoot researcher that I know, Eric Spinner and his
Speaker 3: partner aren't Mack. They do incredible research of bigfoot in
Speaker 3: the New Jersey Pine barons. No people will associate the
Speaker 3: Pine barrens with the Jersey Devil, But the Jersey Devil
Speaker 3: is I think is a misidentification of bigfoot because you know,
Speaker 3: there's always been inconsistent reports with the Jersey Devil. It's
Speaker 3: either a big wings type horse or you know, it
Speaker 3: could be small as small as a turkey or as
Speaker 3: you know, like a medium sized dog. So the reports
Speaker 3: are inconsistent sometimes. But people have been seeing these creatures
Speaker 3: going in neighborhoods on two legs, getting the garbage and
Speaker 3: bringing it back out into the woods. So there had
Speaker 3: been and they range in sizes from like you know,
Speaker 3: four and a half five feet seven feet, so there's
Speaker 3: been a lot of juvenile bigfoot sighting. So we went
Speaker 3: down there and did an investigation, and again it was like, no,
Speaker 3: sooner do we get there. Of twenty minutes into it,
Speaker 3: we're getting whoops and hollers in the woods. And if
Speaker 3: people know anything about the Pine barrens, it's thousands and
Speaker 3: thousands of acres of just dnse bars. And we were
Speaker 3: about five miles in on the into the barrens, and
Speaker 3: we got out of the truck and went about six
Speaker 3: hundred yards into where we set up base camp, into
Speaker 3: the woods in this area in the Wharton State Forest,
Speaker 3: and I mean all hell broke loose, like twenty minutes later.
Speaker 3: It was crazy, and we got these whoops on video
Speaker 3: and not and no disrespect to any of the bigfoot
Speaker 3: researchers out there or anything like that. But when I
Speaker 3: was watching those big foot shows back in the day
Speaker 3: and I would hear these guys whooping and hollering for
Speaker 3: these creatures, I would always have a little chuckle and say,
Speaker 3: is that what they really sound like? But my whole
Speaker 3: perspective changed that night when we heard when we heard
Speaker 3: the same thing so and then and then Eric's wife
Speaker 3: answers it back, and they're having a conversation back and forth,
Speaker 3: and you could hear it plain a day on our
Speaker 3: video on our YouTube channel, and Eric and Tell investigates
Speaker 3: it's called Pine Baron's Bigfoot. And then we did another
Speaker 3: follow up last year as well. But so many things, George,
Speaker 3: I mean, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a couple of stories from your book,
Speaker 2: not all of them, because I want to leave something
Speaker 2: left for the reader. Of course, tell us about Lady
Speaker 2: in the Woods.
Speaker 3: Oh, man, man, this is something that happened to me,
Speaker 3: and I still, you know, can't believe it. So back
Speaker 3: in I want to say November of nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 3: that's what it was. I was on my way to
Speaker 3: a gig. And you know, we live here in Bucks
Speaker 3: County and there's a lot of back roads and things
Speaker 3: like that. So I'm on this back road in Bucks
Speaker 3: County going to this gig in Wycomb, Pennsylvania, and I
Speaker 3: I'm traveling down this road and you know, it's fall
Speaker 3: so it's dark, and I'm going at a pretty good
Speaker 3: clip down this one road. It's called Pine Lane in Whitecomb.
Speaker 3: So I'm going down. All of a sudden, a deer
Speaker 3: runs down in front of me. Boom, and I hit
Speaker 3: it and I was like, oh my god. So I
Speaker 3: slid with the deer. We're sliding probably about sixty feet
Speaker 3: and came to a stop and I felt terrible. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, man, you know, I got
Speaker 3: out of the car. I'm looking at this port thing
Speaker 3: just hit it dead. And I'm looking at this thing.
Speaker 3: And now I'm a piano player, you know, as as
Speaker 3: jazz musician, and I'm looking at this thing and it's dark,
Speaker 3: and the lights are on it. From the car and
Speaker 3: out of the woods. From behind me, I hear a
Speaker 3: woman's voice say, house your hands. And I turned around
Speaker 3: and here it was this one, this woman in white.
Speaker 3: It was like floating like white robes and flowing ropes
Speaker 3: like that kind of thing. And she moved in front
Speaker 3: of the car. And when she did you know, when
Speaker 3: if you if someone was standing in front of the
Speaker 3: car and you get like a silhouette of that person,
Speaker 3: that's what she looked like, just this kind of blurred
Speaker 3: image in front of the car. But what really got
Speaker 3: me was when she bent down and took this two
Speaker 3: hundred pound deer by the ear and dragged it off
Speaker 3: the road like it was like light as a feather,
Speaker 3: and then turned around and said, you better get your
Speaker 3: car and get off the road.
Speaker 2: Did she look Did she look physical to you, Eric?
Speaker 1: She did.
Speaker 3: It was a physical thing. It was a physical person.
Speaker 3: And you know, the voice kind of cut through the
Speaker 3: noise of the motor and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: and I just I got back in my car. I
Speaker 3: didn't say a word, I didn't say anything. I just
Speaker 3: kind of got in the car and I left and
Speaker 3: I went that and I went to the gig and
Speaker 3: told the guys what happened. They were freaked out. I
Speaker 3: went back the next day. The deer's gone, and I
Speaker 3: was thinking to myself, well, maybe there's a house back here.
Speaker 3: Maybe somebody was in the woods and they spooked the
Speaker 3: steer out and that's why I hit it. But then
Speaker 3: I went back to that that part of the road.
Speaker 3: I was looking around. There was no houses anywhere. It
Speaker 3: was all nothing but woods. There's houses now, you know
Speaker 3: since then that have been that have been built, but
Speaker 3: but back then there was nothing there, and so it
Speaker 3: was something I consider her my guardian angel. But here's
Speaker 3: the thing, George, this is the most incredible thing. Now,
Speaker 3: come to find out there is a lady in white
Speaker 3: that has been seen in Bucks County that I didn't
Speaker 3: even know about at that time. And I only found
Speaker 3: out about this, you know, maybe just a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. But but my father also had this this
Speaker 3: encounter in the mid seventies and also here in Upper
Speaker 3: in uh Bucks County, in Upper Black Eddy with the
Speaker 3: same well I don't know it was the same thing,
Speaker 3: but he you know, he uh. Let's state that my
Speaker 3: dad was a little bit of a partier in the seventies,
Speaker 3: let's just put it that way. And he'd come home
Speaker 3: late at night and it was about two in the morning.
Speaker 3: He swears he was stone sober this night. And so
Speaker 3: he's he's sitting on the front porch of our We
Speaker 3: had like a little house, little apartment type house, and
Speaker 3: there was we were on the bottom floor, there was
Speaker 3: a family on top floor. And we lived across the
Speaker 3: street from the Delaware River, you know where Washington cross
Speaker 3: the Delaware. So we're in upper Black. Eddy he's sitting
Speaker 3: on the porch and he's cooking a steak on this
Speaker 3: little grill, this little habachi grill, and he's looking at
Speaker 3: the water, and all of a sudden he sees this
Speaker 3: white something or other on the water, and he's as
Speaker 3: he's looking at it's floating down the river and he's looking.
Speaker 3: It's about a half a mile away, and he's looking
Speaker 3: at this thing and here it's he says, oh my god,
Speaker 3: it so it looks like a woman all in white.
Speaker 3: And then she turned her head and looked at him,
Speaker 3: and when she turned her head, her face came right
Speaker 3: up to his form, like a quarter a mile away.
Speaker 3: And then she turned back went and it went back
Speaker 3: to the water and as she's got floating down the river,
Speaker 3: she's saying, I'm going home, I'm going home. And he said,
Speaker 3: you could hear these words echoing through the valley. Now
Speaker 3: I asked him, even on his deathbed a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago, I said, Dad, is did that story? Did
Speaker 3: that really happen? And he swears that it happened, And
Speaker 3: so he had an encounter with her too, or something
Speaker 3: of that nature. And I'm just getting goosebumps talking about
Speaker 3: it because it was just, you know, that's something that
Speaker 3: I had heard my entire life, and then they had
Speaker 3: that happen to me, which was which was really crazy.
Speaker 3: And then also here in Bucks County there's a restaurant
Speaker 3: called the Black Bess in there is a story in
Speaker 3: there about a woman in white who was I guess
Speaker 3: she found her husband cheating Back in eighteen hundreds, she
Speaker 3: caught her husband cheating on her. She went out of
Speaker 3: killing the husband and the mistress and herself. And I'm
Speaker 3: wondering if there's a connection there, so that we've been
Speaker 3: looking into that as well.
Speaker 2: Did she look angelic to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know a little bit. You know, in the book,
Speaker 3: I put some pictures, and it was hard to describe
Speaker 3: how to how she looked, but she did. And it
Speaker 3: was more like it's hard to describe like how she
Speaker 3: looked because it was it was a physical form, but
Speaker 3: I couldn't see physical features. I could see the I
Speaker 3: could see the blurriness that the outline of this person
Speaker 3: that was there, but it was it was more of
Speaker 3: like an obscure kind of like physical form.
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