In the first half, Jimmy Petonito — better known as "Mr. Haunted" — joined host Connie Willis (info & X) on her 10th anniversary with C2C to discuss his many spooky encounters. Mr. Haunted revealed that his fascination with the supernatural began in childhood. "My mom loved thrillers, and my dad was huge on UFOs. They kind of started me off like this," Petonito recounted. He shared a chilling moment from his childhood, recalling how "the radio started changing stations by itself... and something threw my legs down really hard on the bed." This incident sparked his lifelong quest to document the paranormal.
Mr. Haunted, who has assisted in over 50 exorcisms, recounted how his professional journey really began when a chance encounter led him to share his ghost photographs with the Warrens, legendary figures in paranormal investigation. "I started accumulating so many of these ghost pictures... and one day, a woman approached me saying, 'I work with Ed and Lorraine Warren. They would love to see these,'" he recalled. "I [then] had a phone conversation with Lorraine Warren that felt like we were best friends forever."
Petonito told listeners about a particularly harrowing exorcism where a woman he was recording would not stop screaming bloody murder. He said he documents these events to prove they're authentic. "I don't lie, I don't embellish... this is what it is. There's no spinning heads," he swore. As for the name "Mr. Haunted" — Petonito revealed that the title came from teaching ghost-hunting classes at a local high school.
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In the second half, cryptid researcher Paul Sinclair delved into the world of strange creatures, particularly focusing on werewolves and Dogmen. He emphasized the interconnectedness of these entities, stating, "I think we're talking probably about one and the same." Sinclair highlighted accounts from the UK that date back centuries, particularly a fascinating tale from a village called Flixton, where werewolf sightings have persisted for over a millennium.
The gripping story was from a witness named Drew, who had a chilling encounter in 2003. "She saw what she could only describe as a werewolf," Sinclair relayed. "It locked eyes on her and came bounding down the road towards the house." He noted the creature's eerie grace, revealing that "it went down the side of the house like a spider."
He shared another frightening encounter from a woman named Wendy, who saw an unknown creature while traveling on a train. She described its glowing amber eyes and human-like legs, exclaiming, "It was the strangest animal I'd ever seen." The creature seemed to focus on her, intensifying her fear as it charged through the crops beside the train.
Sinclair concluded by pondering whether these various phenomena — cryptids, UFOs, and ghosts — are manifestations of a singular intelligence, asking, "Are we dealing with many facets of the unexplained... one that's portraying itself as many things?"
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6-10pm PT: Art Bell - Somewhere in Time returned to 10/24/96 for a night of Open Lines, including such topics as Martian anomalies and the Egyptian pyramids.