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parareality Wins 3 podcast excellence awards!
Best Paranormal Podcast, Best Podcast Host & Best Podcast Cohost
The ParaReality Podcast is the winner of 3 awards at the inaugural Podcast Excellence Awards!
I have won for Best Paranormal Podcast, Best Podcast Host & Best Podcast Cohost.
I'm very honored to have been nominated and to have received these awards. I wasn't expecting to win anything at all. It's very nice to see all of the hard work that I've put into this podcast finally pay off in some way.
I want to thank the people at the Podcast Excellence Awards for honoring me; my former part-time cohost John Harrison; all of the loyal listeners who faithfully stick with the podcast, and finally, but importantly, my wife for putting up with this side-gig of mine for all of these years. I couldn't have achieved this without each and every one of you.
I'm so humbled and honored. Let's make 2025 a big year for ParaReality!
Best Paranormal Podcast & Best Host Awards
parareality returns to the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot festival
May 3rd, 2025 in Beautiful Townsend, TN.
The ParaReality Podcast is returning to the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival this May! I am excited to be invited back as a podcaster again this year. I had such a great time meeting everyone and collecting their stories that I just had to do it again!
Join us for the ultimate "Legendary Family Reunion" at the 2025 Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival in Townsend, TN, on May 3, 2025!
Bigfoot is bringing along some special guests—his legendary cousins Yeti, Mothman, Dogman, and more! Enjoy a day filled with live music, tasty food trucks, and unique vendors offering collectibles celebrating these legendary figures. Plus, you’ll get to watch epic competitions, hear from famous Bigfoot researchers, and dive deep into the mysteries of these mythical creatures. Bring the whole family for a reunion like no other, where cryptids and fun collide!
I'll have my tent set-up in the podcasters area again this year, so if you've going and have had an unusual experience of any kind, stop by and tell me your story. Get it on the podcast!
Purchase your tickets here: Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival.
5th Annual Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival
Season 19, episode #10
The Covenant School Tragedy - Inside the Mind without a Manifesto
This episode is a harrowing deep dive into one of the most tragic and chilling events in recent history—the March 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. With the release of the official MNPD investigative summary, we now have a clearer—yet deeply disturbing—look into the mind of the shooter, Audrey Hale.
March 27, 2023. A quiet Monday morning at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Parents dropping off children. Teachers preparing lessons. Just another spring day—until it wasn’t.
By 10:13 AM, shots rang out inside the school. Six people—three children and three staff—would never go home again.
The shooter was a former student. But this was not an impulsive act. What investigators uncovered in the days that followed would reveal chilling preparation… hours of surveillance… and the disturbing writings of a deeply troubled mind.
According to the final case summary published by the Metro Nashville Police Department, the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, spent monthspreparing for the assault. She was obsessed... methodical... and very, very quiet about it.
Hale created maps—detailed ones—of the school, including entry points, possible blind spots, and schedules. She even diagrammed her own movement through the building. Investigators discovered this along with 16 journals and notebooks filled with handwritten notes, calculations, and violent ideation.
She recorded video—footage captured from her car, from the parking lot, and even while walking around the building. She monitored school activity from afar, planning the timing of her attack to coincide with what she perceived as vulnerabilities in the morning routine.
This was not spontaneous. This was a slow burn.
This wasn’t a moment of madness. It was a long, deliberate descent into darkness.
This is not easy material. But it's important. It reveals how far someone can go to conceal their intentions… and the catastrophic consequences when red flags are missed.
To read the entire Metro Nashville Police Department final report on the Covenant School Shooting, click here.
To learn more, you’ll have to Turn On, Tune In, & Find Out!
Covenant School