How to insult Bigfoot and survive to tell the tale!

10/01/23 • 158 min

Welcome to the 5th episode of the Paranormal Rundown! In case you missed Episode 4, be sure to go back and check it out. We had our first Paranormal Rundown Roundup, where we have a much deeper discussion on a few topics we had previously tabled, including Folk Magic and the Antichrist.

For this episode, our guest is Bigfoot data miner and retired police officer, Val Zavala. Val profiles Bigfoot Sasquatches and has his own Facebook group: Michigan Bigfoot Report and Data: Gumshoguy’s Corner. He also co-hosts the Rolling the Bones podcast with his good friend Grizzly Chris.

Val served two tours in the military as a combat infantrymen and military police investigator. He is a Bachelor of Science graduate of Central Michigan University, and retired after spending over 25 years in law enforcement, from city all the way up to federal agencies. When off duty, he was a licensed private investigator. He has been a police instructor, published articles, spoken at seminars, and been featured on History A & E channel as a subject matter expert. He was even a vetted member of an international intelligence group. Needless to say, Val has his share of experience investigating things!

Before retiring, Val's last curtain call was a humanitarian act of paying it forward, when he set out to search for a person missing for 30+ years, and reunite them with their Ohio family (at no charge). The successful search and recovery took almost 2 years, aided by a medium and DNA.

In 2014, Val had his first and only Bigfoot encounter in Waterloo State Park, Washtenaw County, Michigan. Since then he has spent his time reading, analyzing, comparing and quantifying then sorting hundreds and thousands of Bigfoot reports across the U.S. and North America.

In addition to his thoughts on bigfootery, we discuss Hollywood Overseers, AI, cross pollination of paranormal experiences, phantom 911 calls, spontaneous combustion, psychics, missing 411, Sasquatch the Thief, and more. So get ready for a wandering journey through Val's extensive experiences in the paranormal.

You can find Val at:

Michigan Bigfoot Report and Data: Gumshoguy's Corner:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/202167254236442/

Rolling the Bones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWueyXwvf8w

If you would like to get in touch with us, please email us at [email protected], we would love to hear from you!

The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, JJ Johnson, and Vic Hermanson.

Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:

You can find JJ at Southern Demonology, https://www.southerndemonology.com

You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson

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You can find Val at:

Michigan Bigfoot Report and Data: Gumshoguy's Corner:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/202167254236442/

Rolling the Bones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWueyXwvf8w

If you would like to get in touch with us, please email us at [email protected], we would love to hear from you!

The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, JJ Johnson, and Vic Hermanson.

Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:

You can find JJ at Southern Demonology, https://www.southerndemonology.com

You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

The First Paranormal Rundown Roundup

Welcome to the 4th episode of the Paranormal Rundown! In case you missed Episode 3, be sure to go back and check it out. Our guest was Anna Maria Manalo, a paranormal author, covering topics from Alien Abduction to Demonic Cockroaches to Haunted Objects.

For this episode we do not have a guest. We decided to take some time to cover a few topics we had set aside before, so that we could have more time to dig deeply into them. The main topics are Folk Magick, The AntiChrist, and The Invisible They. But we also wander our way through Haints, Folk Remedies and Psychosomatic Resolution, Star Trek and Vogon Poetry, Guardian Angels, Revelations, Artificial Intelligence, and much more. There is even a surprise addition of a discussion on EVPs, due to capturing one while recording. Enjoy the show!

If you would like to get in touch with us, please email us at [email protected], we would love to hear from you!

The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, JJ Johnson, and Vic Hermanson.

Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:

You can find JJ at Southern Demonology, https://www.southerndemonology.com

You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next Episode

Walmart Heaven and the Return of Father Michael Birdsong

Welcome to the 6th episode of the Paranormal Rundown!

Here at The Paranormal Rundown we have been making some changes. You may have noticed! We have settled on a more standard intro and outro, music, some very creative characters (Cedric and Avalon Lee) from the depths of Vic's super creative mind, and even an email for feedback (where we would LOVE to hear from you!). But something was still missing.

There is a certain feel that we have all noticed about some of the Rundown episodes. It is a feeling of excitement, a bit of a rush, a moment where we realize that we are way out on some crazy topic that is nowhere near where we started, but every step we took to get there was an absolute feast for the mind and soul. This is a feeling we would like to capture again and again. We want to set the show up in a way that gets us there regularly. It's not that the other episodes weren't great, as we have enjoyed all of them. But these episodes are, as Vic likes to say: Lightning in a Bottle!

To further that end, we have decided to expand the team. Not only would this give us a little broader set of experiences to pull from when we dont have a guest, it would also add an additional perspective for the many topics on our every growing list (1666 at the current count). The decision about who to ask was just about the easiest we have every had to make! Father Michael Birdsong. Father Mike had so much fun with us in episode 2, and his enthusiasm for the format of the show and the huge variety of topics was unparalleled. Fortunately, it seems like the decision to join us was as easy for him as it was for us.

So for episode 6, we bring back Father Michael Birdsong as a permanent member of the team. As mentioned in episode 2, Father Mike is the pastor of St. Michael and All Angels Church in Thomaston, GA, a member of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. In addition to his other duties, he functions as an exorcist for the Diocese as needed. His experience fighting evil and helping those who are Opressed or Possesed, along with the education and research he had to do for that ministry, gives him invaluable experience that touches a broad range of paranormal topics. Beyond his experience Father Mike has an energy to him, an enthusiasm for the show that is infectious. We know that you are going to love having him on future episodes as much as we do.

For this episode we discuss Gnosticism, Levels of Heaven (including Walmart Heaven), Gnostic Magick, Horror Movies Good and Bad, The Great Old Ones, Black Eyed Children, Midnight Ice Cream Trucks, The Paintings at the Denver Airport, Reincarnation, and more. So please help us give Father Mike a warm welcome, and enjoy the show!

If you would like to get in touch with us, please email us at [email protected], we would love to hear from you!

The Paranormal Rundown is a partnership between the hosts David Griffith, JJ Johnson, Father Michael Birdsong, and Vic Hermanson.

Be sure to check out our partner podcasts:

You can find JJ at Southern Demonology, https://www.southerndemonology.com

You can find Vic at Trailer Trash Terrors, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vic-hermanson

You can find Father Birdsong at https://www.becomingahouseofprayer.com

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