From Rock Journalism To Paranormal Research: Interview With Maxim W. Furek

Send us Fan MailA rock journalist walks into the paranormal and doesn’t come back out the same. I’m joined by author and researcher Maxim Furek, and we start with the kind of background you can’t fake: writing from childhood, underground papers, major music interviews, and the moment a real-world coal mine disaster story opened a door into something far stranger than a rock biography. We talk about the 1963 Sheppton Mine rescue, how myth and history braid together, and why reports of Pope John XXIII appearing to trapped miners still spark debate around miracles, hallucinations, and what “evidence” even means in paranormal investigation.Then we zoom out to the bigger, human side of high strangeness. Maxim shares what he learned working in addiction recovery, where so many people describe the switch to sobriety as a “miracle,” and we explore the idea that spirituality, psychology, and science might be describing the same underlying forces with different vocabularies. I also share some of my own experiences with precognitive dreams during a terrifying time in my family, plus the odd, intuitive moments that show up as feelings, symbols, and signs like crow behavior that seems loaded with meaning.We also dig into modern paranormal culture and how it spreads now: Maxim’s upcoming book The Scream of the Haunted House, ethical questions around ghost hunting and dark tourism, and why he wants the paranormal taken more seriously by academics. From Bigfoot research and the legacy of scientists like Jeff Meldrum to UFO disclosure fatigue, Roswell mythology, the Kecksburg UFO case, and even theories about UAPs coming from the ocean, this conversation keeps pulling the thread. If you’re into haunted houses, demonology, precognition, Bigfoot, UFOs, or just honest storytelling about the unknown, you’ll feel right at home.If you enjoy the show, subscribe, share it with a friend who loves weird truth, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. What’s the one paranormal topic you want us to go deeper on next?Support the show