Shapeshifters - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 1/3/25

different take on it. So the story typically is that there might be a woman who is her husband cheated on her or whatever, and and you know, he kills her, so she's a she's a victim, right, So she's now a ghost and she comes back to seek revenge on

her husband or boyfriend whoever was. But in order to do that, she will she's a ghost because she comes back and she will shape shift into another person, like maybe the guy's new girlfriend, so he thinks he's with her, he's actually with his ghost of his wife, first wife, who is a shape shifter, and she will kill him. So yeah, stories, but yeah, it's it's crazy. So there's there's a bunch of Japanese also are very fond of

having shape shifters that change into inanimate objects. I mean things like a mop, you know, like, I'm not sure why a shape shift would want to change into a mop, but those existing Japanese full for.

a werewolf. Now you're not looking at a man anymore. So there's actually this physical transformation. So that's an external shape shifter. Internal when I was talking about here, we're shape shifters that don't actually shift physically as much as they do mentally. So what you have it's sort of like a you know, a sheep in wolf's clothing in a way you don't have You don't see a transformation. You don't see a physical change, but there is a change.

And I use that to explain possibly some people like you know, serial killers and people like this who for all practical purposes, well okay, think of Ted Bundy for instance. Ted Bundy, you know, is this serial killer, but for all practical purposes. When you saw him, he was this clean cut, sort of collegiate kind of guy, young guy. He was helpful, you know, he helped old ladies across the street. He helped you put your groceries into a car.

So for everything that you looked at him, you thought, oh, okay, this guy is fine, there's something wrong with him. But inside he was this murderous killer. And I consider that a shape shifter. You can say, well, there's psychological damage there. You know, he was a psycho or whatever. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know the exact term to use for that, but I still think that, in a way is shifting. That's something that takes you out of your normal,

everyday humanity. It makes you something else.

and belts in martial arts. He knows like any martial art in the world. But he also does a lot with things like remote viewing and that kind of stuff. And he's done work with Navy seals, with special Forces. He's done work for the government. And I remember talking to one of his students who said that he and guy were in a bar one time and they were just sitting there minding their own business, having a drink,

and some guy came over. He's the word guy. Guy with a small g here came over to the table, and he was totally drunk, and he just started, for whatever reason, insulting guy. Uh just you know, I don't know what it was. But the guy just stood up and he looked at the guy and the student. Guys student who are sitting at the table, said, I don't know what happened. He said, all I know is that this this drunk guy was standing there looking at Spinelly, and all of a sudden, he said, I saw something

in guy spinell his face. He said, I don't know how to describe it other than I think of a tiger. And he said, the drunk just kind of his eyes went wide and he just kind of raised his hand. He backed off like okay, man, okay, okay, and whoa.

of Spirits and on Vampires are Revenants. It was written by a Benedictine monk in seventeen fifty one, and this month his name was Augustin Kellman went around Europe, went so all the you know, various countries in Europe looking for vampires and ghosts and writing love and sort of this encyclopedia. So he had shape shifters and that was

a good place to start there for Europe. But I also traveled extensively, and I was in France, I was in Portugal, Italy, Romania, Belarus, Ukraine, just doing research on shape shifters and you know, especially ones that were sort

of known for that site. So, for instance, in France, I spent a lot of time in the countryside that was ravaged by what they called the Beasts of Jevadome in the eighteenth century, which was this huge, feral kind of animal they said, kind of like a wolf that basically massacred are killed over one hundred people in the

course of a couple of years throughout France. So I did that kind of research on the you know, on the ground wherever I could, at the locations where things were occurring, and that was fun doing that.

into Romanian roughly to devil. So here you have led the devil, right, that is where it comes down to. But he was pretty ruthless, and he was kind of blood thirsty, ruthless kind of medieval ruler in the fifteenth century, although probably no more than the other medievals who were also pretty blood thirsty as well. But he had his reputation, as I say, for impaling people and because of his his ferocity, I guess I would say, and his sadism.

There were stories about him later on after his death that perhaps he had been a vampire, and I think that's where you know, Stoker kind of went off on that and used those stories about him as a model for his count Dracula. But when I was in Romania, I went to the sites where that were historically associated with flood, so like the home that he was born in. I went to one of his old palaces, which is

now just ruined. I went to actually supposedly his burial site, which was on a little church, little tiny church on an island, and he went out to buy a clauseway. The interesting thing there actually on my website there's some pictures of me standing by their grave and people can see it. But so the grave is just this slab, a long slab or rectangular slab of stone in the

floor of the church. In the nineteen thirties, some anthropologists opened the grave and I'm not sure exactly what they were looking for, but what they found was that it was empty, and that was supposed to be where Vlood was buried. So now we have to wonder is he really a vampire and is he out of his grave someplace and somewhere else. So I don't know all kinds of speculation on that story.

screen people and they do it medically hygienic ways. But there are people that maintain they need human blood to survive. So you know, they don't respond well if you call them vampires, but they fit that mode. But they're sanguinarians. So yeah, there are communities.

I know him? Because in definitions, because you know, he's a different kind of person. Well, the translation in this Coptic text, according to this theologian says literally, and I'm going to paraphrase it because they don't have the actual words in front of me. But he says, the confusion was that Judas would not that the people who are going to rest Jesus would need some kind of a sign or some kind of a way of identifying him,

because he appears differently to different people. And the text says that sometimes he appears ruddy, meaning kind of you know, with like a reddish complexion. Sometimes they say he appears wheat colored, which would be kind of light, They say old, young. So what is this? Why why would this text say

those various things? I mean, those could just be metaphors, I suppose for saying that, well, Jesus appealed to a lot of people, so they saw in quotes, saw him differently or did it actually mean that he that he had the ability that he did appear to people differently depending on his audience and who he's speaking to and who who did he need to look like to maybe get his words across, his message across.