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Talking Weird #202 Folklore is not Phenomena with Jason McLean

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Show Notes

Author, illustrator, and Biblical paranormal researcher, Jason McLean lives in Waxahachie, Texas with his children and beautiful, long-suffering wife. Beyond his lifelong love of art and comics, Jason’s life has been consumed with the study of archaeology, cryptozoology, ufology, and astronomy in order to better understand the Bible, its teachings, and the One behind its creation.

Visit Jason's official website here: https://sirupapers.com/

That's right Dean's partner on the old Mysterious Library show returns once more to the Untold Radio Network for this special episode, where he addresses the topic "Folklore is not Phenomena".

As Jason suggests, "folklore tells us more about the worldview and assumptions of the culture encountering a phenomenon than the anything about the phenomenon itself."

Jason and Dean look at this conundrum, in the kind of fun, insightful, and fast-moving conversation which long time viewers/listeners have come to expect from from the duo.

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