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.

00:00 - Intro 06:19 - Tuba, Bigfoot & Growing Up Paranormal-Friendly 13:19 - The Patterson Film, High Strangeness & Believing Experiencers 17:34 - The Honeymoon Bigfoot Rock 20:41 - Rehab, Synchronicities & the Road to Sobriety 25:54 - The Aesop's Fables Synchronicity & Retrocausality 29:57 - Archetypes, Odin & the Birth of A Trojan Feast 42:28 - Food Offerings, Fairy Folklore & the UFO Connection 49:03 - What Fairies Actually Are: Darker, Stranger & Deeply Misunderstood 52:55 - Fairies, the Dead & Burial Mounds Across Cultures 1:04:40 - The Brimstone Deceit: Why Paranormal Smells Matter 1:16:16 - Faith, the Trickster & the 2017 NYT Article 1:24:05 - George Hansen's Trickster and the Paranormal 1:30:46 - Ecology of Souls: NDEs, Shamanism, DMT & the Threshold 1:57:52 - Fourth Wall Phantoms: How the Book Saved His Life 2:10:00 - When Fiction Bleeds Into Reality 2:40:09 - What Happens When We Die & Closing Thoughts