The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming

About this episode

Joshua Cutchin discusses the interconnectedness of various paranormal phenomena.

Get 25% off Cowboy Colostrum with code WHYFILES at https://cowboycolostrum.com/WHYFILES. Josh Cutchin is a researcher, author, and musician whose work occupies a rare space between rigorous scholarship and genuine open-mindedness. Josh Cutchin is a researcher, author, and musician whose work occupies a rare space between rigorous scholarship and genuine open-mindedness. Over eight books he has built a unified argument that Bigfoot, fairies, UFOs, near death experiences, and ghosts are not separate phenomena but facets of the same ancient, shape-shifting presence. His 2022 masterwork Ecology of Souls is considered by peers to be among the most important books in ufology in decades, and was included in Rice University's curriculum for first year PhD students in religion. His footnotes are legendary. His thinking is genuinely original. A trained tuba player who studied under Canadian Brass legend Fred Mills, Josh brings the same obsessive attention to detail to paranormal research that he once applied to music. And his central argument — that everything weird points back to the same door — is impossible to dismiss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: The Why Files

Guest: Joshua Cutchin

Topics covered

• Bigfoot
• fairies
• UFOs
• paranormal research
• near death experiences
• ghosts

Keywords

• Bigfoot
• fairies
• UFOs
• Ecology of Souls
• paranormal research
• ghosts
• near death experiences

Sponsors

Cowboy Colostrum

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rice University

Books & works: Ecology of Souls

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