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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast. George Norri with you,
Speaker 2: Maxim Firk with us Maximum in your book, Cole Regent Hodoo,
Speaker 2: you're right about a doctor Frederick Lamont Santi.
Speaker 3: Tell us about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, doctor Sant was. Actually he was my neighbor.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: I lived in Berwick, Pennsylvania, and he was right up
Speaker 4: the road in a place called walt Walapon. But doctor
Speaker 4: Santi was the high priest of the Covenan of the
Speaker 4: Catta that was in wolf Wallapon. He was a child prodigy.
Speaker 4: He could read English and German at the age of three.
Speaker 4: He could translate the Caesars Gaelic Wars at age a,
Speaker 4: you know, from Latin to England English. And he was
Speaker 4: the oldest person to attend Harvard University graduate at Magna Cumlada.
Speaker 4: He was called Bertram Russell said that he will be
Speaker 4: the greatest abstract thinker of the twentieth century. Time magazine
Speaker 4: called him a living child prodigy. And what he did
Speaker 4: was he befriended people like Alistair Krause or Alistair Crowley
Speaker 4: and George Kettteridge who was an English professor. He introduced
Speaker 4: him to the occult. But it was Civil Leak, you know,
Speaker 4: the world's most famous witch that he befriended. And in
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven she came to wop all of them
Speaker 4: and initiated his covenant the Cata. You know, she had
Speaker 4: the coven of the Horsa, well, he had the coven
Speaker 4: of the Cata. He loved cats, and she came to
Speaker 4: wop all of them with her son Julian and her publicist.
Speaker 4: She was really one thing about Civil Leak. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think that she introduced the world to witchcraft. She
Speaker 4: had a thing called Diary of a Witch that she published,
Speaker 4: and this is right after England repeating their Witchcraft Act,
Speaker 4: that was in nineteen fifty one. But simpilely claimed that
Speaker 4: she was a druid, not just a witch, but that
Speaker 4: the druids were like the priests class well, which is
Speaker 4: where the working class. So she came to walk ball
Speaker 4: up and initiated the coven with doctor santi and you know,
Speaker 4: just amazing the people he that gravitated to him, and
Speaker 4: that he gravitated too. Again, he was a genius and
Speaker 4: I just think maybe he had that higher vibration, that
Speaker 4: higher level of consciousness that he associated with people that
Speaker 4: you know, like minded people with the similar values. So
Speaker 4: just an amazing individual. He was my doctor, he was
Speaker 4: my friend. I interviewed him, I was there at his funeral,
Speaker 4: and you know, just an amazing individual, very kind. And
Speaker 4: he told me about the coven but the Wicca craft
Speaker 4: and you know, taught me a lot.
Speaker 3: What did he think of the paranormal?
Speaker 4: Well, what he said was this is a great question,
Speaker 4: thank you. He said that there was no difference between
Speaker 4: the paranormal and science. He said, the only thing is
Speaker 4: that we haven't found the laws that apply. And the
Speaker 4: example I use all the time is, you know, you
Speaker 4: watch an apple fall, so there, you know, and what
Speaker 4: you see is the apple falling, and you know what
Speaker 4: caused it is gravity, you know, so there's cause and effect.
Speaker 4: But with other things, lights in the sky, orbs, anomalies, spirits,
Speaker 4: whatever the other paranormal things are, they may have a
Speaker 4: scientific basis, according to doctor Santi, but we just haven't
Speaker 4: figured out what they are, or we misunderstand them or
Speaker 4: misrepresent them. So in my book, Coreach and who do
Speaker 4: I tried to do that. I try to nudge you
Speaker 4: know aspects of the paranormal and the spiritual to a
Speaker 4: closer to the scientific. Again, just as my contribution to
Speaker 4: the genre. You know, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm you know, I enjoyed doing this and
Speaker 4: I consider myself an academic and so anyway, but doctor
Speaker 4: Santi was a great individual and I was I'm really
Speaker 4: blessed been able to have met him and you know,
Speaker 4: spent some quality time with him.
Speaker 3: You also had a chance to meet the great Ed
Speaker 3: and Lorraine Warren. God rest their souls.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So back home in northeastern Pennsylvania, in West Pittston,
Speaker 4: we have a thing house called the Schmurle Haunted House,
Speaker 4: and it was sort of like Amityville in the case.
Speaker 4: In the case that it had. They were experiencing horrible
Speaker 4: odors in the house, grunning sounds, profanities being etched in
Speaker 4: the mirror. The collie was levitated and thrown across the room.
Speaker 4: And then Jack Schmurle, the husband, claimed that he was
Speaker 4: raped by a female demon, a succubus. So anyway, Ed
Speaker 4: and Lorraine Warren helped co write a book about called
Speaker 4: The Haunted, about the Schmurle Haunting, and they started a
Speaker 4: fifteen city tour back in nineteen eighty eight. So I
Speaker 4: got permission to go there and interview them, and I
Speaker 4: took these photographs, I mean, really great shots, interviewed them
Speaker 4: and over the years I would call them up and
Speaker 4: just ask and about how he fought the demons, you know,
Speaker 4: about demonology and about his beliefs. They were Catholic demonologists,
Speaker 4: you know, they were responsible for the con well because
Speaker 4: of their notoriety, the Conjuring franchise was put together. It's
Speaker 4: the most successful horror franchise out there. I think it
Speaker 4: netted something like two point one billion dollars. But again,
Speaker 4: here's really good example that the paranormal and slash horror
Speaker 4: has gone mainstream and that there's an appetite for that.
Speaker 4: I mean, to the to the tune of two point
Speaker 4: one million dollars or a billion dollars. So they were
Speaker 4: great people. They treated me with a lot of respect
Speaker 4: and helped walk me through a lot of this stuff
Speaker 4: and you know, answer a lot of my you know,
Speaker 4: you know, adolescent questions. But ed in Lorrain, they were
Speaker 4: good people.
Speaker 2: You wrote a book back not too far just a
Speaker 2: few months ago, called The Lost Tribes of Bigfoot that
Speaker 2: was banned an affair.
Speaker 3: What happened, Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Sure what happened. I have a chapter there called is
Speaker 4: Bigfoot the New Religion? And I believe that, you know,
Speaker 4: I have I put some some statistics together, and I'm
Speaker 4: a baby Boomer. My group was born between nineteen forty
Speaker 4: six and nineteen sixty four. And they compared Baby Boomers
Speaker 4: with Generation Z. The oldest Zoomer is twenty seven years old.
Speaker 4: They were born after I think nineteen ninety seven. But
Speaker 4: with my baby Boomer group, sixty four percent of us
Speaker 4: believed in God and organized relige. With the Zoomers only
Speaker 4: twenty four percent belief in God in organized religion. I
Speaker 4: believe that that human beings are our spiritual creatures. You know,
Speaker 4: we're made in the likeness of God. That's my personal belief.
Speaker 4: But I think we have to express that spirituality somehow,
Speaker 4: and if we don't do it by going to the church,
Speaker 4: the temple, the mosque, then some people, I think, do
Speaker 4: it by going out looking for sasquatch, which is their
Speaker 4: higher power. They sit around the campfire they have, you know,
Speaker 4: people like minded people, shared values, all of that. I
Speaker 4: spoke about that in my book and I believe that
Speaker 4: I stepped on some toes, maybe some right wing evangelicos
Speaker 4: who didn't like, you know, my tone, and I was
Speaker 4: specifically talking about the creationists, who I believe are very
Speaker 4: much anti science. And I think this being the Lost
Speaker 4: Stripes of fix of being banned from the fair was
Speaker 4: just payback for that. I mean, I can't prove it,
Speaker 4: but that's what I think. But I talked about that
Speaker 4: we stopped in Kentucky to see the Arc encounter, and
Speaker 4: this is the largest wooden structure. It's built, you know, Cuba,
Speaker 4: by Cuba, you know, to the Specs, and they had
Speaker 4: in the Arc they had the cages with the little animals,
Speaker 4: the giraffes and the sheep and the goats, but they
Speaker 4: also had cages for t rex and they had cages
Speaker 4: for stegosaurs. And it's my understanding that man did not
Speaker 4: walk the earth with the dinosaurs. You know, there was
Speaker 4: the K two event that was the asteroid, the meteorite
Speaker 4: that took out all those non avian dinosaurs, and then
Speaker 4: man came later. So I wrote about this in the
Speaker 4: Lost Tribes of Bigfoot in the chapter is Bigfoot the
Speaker 4: New Religion? And again I go against some of the tenants,
Speaker 4: the anti science tenants of the creationists, which you know,
Speaker 4: I think they need to go back to school and
Speaker 4: do some some learning. But again, that's my that's what
Speaker 4: I believe. I'll always speak out against the anti science
Speaker 4: people and the hoaxers. And if I get banned, if
Speaker 4: the book gets banned from a county fair, then so
Speaker 4: be it. You know, I could I could live with that.
Speaker 4: So I'm you know, I could really live with us.
Speaker 2: The hoaxers drive you nuts, don't they, maxim They sure do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they discredit us, you know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we try hard. You know, your your your coast to
Speaker 4: coast does what it can to go and educate the
Speaker 4: people about the paranormal and the spiritualism and all that.
Speaker 4: And there's hoaxers and anti science people that are just
Speaker 4: taking us back you know, another one hundred years. And
Speaker 4: uh and and and I believe they've sold their soul.
Speaker 4: They're just like not good people, you know, uh, you
Speaker 4: know I uh and we've I've seen this. I talk
Speaker 4: about this in my in the Lost Tribes of Bigfoot.
Speaker 4: I mean, there were hoaxers left and right. And I
Speaker 4: have a chapter on the Piltdown Man and also the
Speaker 4: Minnesota Iceman, and those were two examples of hoaxers and
Speaker 4: that that put out, you know, these lies, this this
Speaker 4: information that was bought that the scientific and the political
Speaker 4: communities bought into that for their own specific reasons. But
Speaker 4: you know too, you know, but the I do have
Speaker 4: a great uh uh dislike for the these hoaxers, and
Speaker 4: and they need to be called out. I mean, you
Speaker 4: need people like me to go and just like you know,
Speaker 4: to raise my voice and say that what they're doing
Speaker 4: is wrong. Uh. There has to be some truth that
Speaker 4: we're that we're finding and going towards, whether it's in
Speaker 4: UFOs or cryptozoology or whatever. So if we're not gonna
Speaker 4: if we're gonna deny that truth, and why even have
Speaker 4: these conversations.
Speaker 3: You write a lot about the Patterson Gimlin film. Tell
Speaker 3: us about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, I have a lot of references to
Speaker 4: that in the Lost Treasure of Bigfoot. But that was
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven and Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were
Speaker 4: riding their horses in northern California and they were going
Speaker 4: to make a documentary. So they were shooting film and everything,
Speaker 4: and they went to this area where there had been
Speaker 4: bigfoot sightings or maybe bigfoot prints. So they're going around
Speaker 4: the bend and Patterson's on the leaf horse. Giblin was
Speaker 4: behind him holding a pack horse.
Speaker 3: In northern California, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, northern California, and going around the bend, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden they see this sasquatch. It was a female,
Speaker 4: you could see the breast, and they called her Patty.
Speaker 4: She looked at Patterson and then starts taking off, and
Speaker 4: his horse bucked, and as he's falling down, he was
Speaker 4: able to get his camera out of the saddle bag
Speaker 4: and start shooting. And that infamous Patterson Gimlin film was
Speaker 4: only fifty eight seconds long. And this is probably the
Speaker 4: holy Grail, at least with the people looking for sasquatch.
Speaker 4: I mean, it has never been totally refuted. People look
Speaker 4: at it and say that it looks like it is
Speaker 4: a creature. It's not a man in a monkey suit.
Speaker 4: And when they looked at the tracks, the tracks were
Speaker 4: bigger than humans and bear and the stride was larger
Speaker 4: than anything a man or bear could do. So we
Speaker 4: believe that this is our equivalent to say, the two
Speaker 4: thousand and four UFO film The Tic tac film that
Speaker 4: the Navy pilot shot off the coast of San Diego.
Speaker 4: I mean, both of these are you know, the proof
Speaker 4: I mean, not tangible physical bodies, but proof that there's
Speaker 4: something there and you know, and we can't deny it,
Speaker 4: and neither can the scientific community. That Patterson Gimlin film
Speaker 4: is really the one that we all talk about, and
Speaker 4: you know, it's just an amazing piece of evidence, you know,
Speaker 4: for those that are you know, I believe have a
Speaker 4: belief in Fasquatch.
Speaker 3: It's the best bigfoot video and film out there.
Speaker 4: Yes, correct, I agree. I agree on One interesting thing
Speaker 4: is with John Napier. He was the British primatologist, and
Speaker 4: in nineteen seventy two Napier, who was working at the Smithsonian,
Speaker 4: thought that that Patterson Gimlin film was a hoax. And
Speaker 4: he said that because Patty's upper body was more ape
Speaker 4: like and the bottom portion was more a hominids, you know, bipedal.
Speaker 4: And then in nineteen seventy four, lo and behold, they
Speaker 4: discover Lucy the athri Opithecus in Ethelpia. And here Lucy
Speaker 4: which was man's oldest relative. Lucy that was discovered in
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy four had an a body, the top body
Speaker 4: like an ape and the bottom like a hominid. So
Speaker 4: John Napier changed his mind and said, you know what,
Speaker 4: I think that this Patterson Gimlin film is authentic. You know,
Speaker 4: he had scientific proof, you know, from these archaeologists in Ethiopia.
Speaker 4: So that was pretty interesting how that came together. You know,
Speaker 4: he from seventy two to seventy four, and they named
Speaker 4: Lucy after the Beatles Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Speaker 4: So that's where that name came from. Pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: What does your guy tell you about big Footpacksum, well.
Speaker 4: I know there's a lot of I straddle both sides
Speaker 4: of it. First of all, these bigfoot believers that believe
Speaker 4: in flesh and blood. You know, that's okay, But I
Speaker 4: mean when you look at what proof they have. They
Speaker 4: have eyewitness reports, they have the footprints, you know, the
Speaker 4: casts that are bigger than man or bear, and the
Speaker 4: strides they have, the sound, they have, the smell, there's
Speaker 4: always that smell. So you have all these things, put
Speaker 4: these things together and there's something there. There's something that
Speaker 4: j Allen Heinek would call, you know, elements of high strangeness.
Speaker 4: But I don't go there. I believe that, I say,
Speaker 4: if it's not flesh and blood, then what is it?
Speaker 4: And I believe that it's I believe in the inner
Speaker 4: dimensional theory that Bigfoot may be a shape shifter in
Speaker 4: between dimensions or parallel universes. I mean, we don't know,
Speaker 4: but I think that's the mechanism by which you know,
Speaker 4: we see them and then we don't. So I think
Speaker 4: there's a real high degree of of the paranormal involved
Speaker 4: with with Bigfoot, you know again, but we just don't
Speaker 4: know what that is.
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