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Eric Mintel is an internationally recognized jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and paranormal television host whose career spans more than three decades in music, broadcasting, and entertainment.

Mintel is also the creator and host of Eric Mintel Investigates, a popular paranormal and unexplained phenomena series exploring haunted locations, UFO sightings, cryptids, and local legends across America. The program has developed strong partnerships and collaborations with Pocono Television Network, Beyond Paranormal Network, Lehigh Valley Service Electric Cable TV, Temple University Television, and numerous community television stations that carry the series to audiences throughout the region and beyond.

Through his unique combination of artistic excellence, storytelling, and investigative journalism, Mintel has built a distinctive brand that bridges the worlds of music, history, and the unexplained.

Watch ERIC MINTEL INVESTIGATES here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ericmintelinvestigates

His new book - ERIC MINTEL INVESTIGATES: PARANORMAL IN THE POCONOS - is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8TQKZ1F

Join lead investigator Eric Mintel as he takes readers behind the scenes of the most unforgettable cases from Eric Mintel Investigates. From the haunted halls of the Harry Packer Mansion and the eerie cells of the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe to the historic Deer Head Inn, Skytop Lodge, Shawnee Inn, La Posada, and many other legendary locations throughout the Pocono Mountains, each chapter reveals what really happened when the cameras were rolling and what occurred after they stopped.

The investigations don’t stop with haunted hotels and historic mansions. Eric and his team also venture into the mountains and skies of the Poconos to investigate compelling reports of UFOs, Bigfoot, and other unexplained phenomena, interviewing eyewitnesses and documenting cases that remain unsolved to this day.

Eric returns to Talking Weird to chat about this fantastic new book, and his many investigations into the unknown. He is always an amazing guest, so do not miss this fascinating and spooky episode!

Greg Howse, Flatrock, Bama Murdock and Mark Green join us from Alabama to discuss Bigfoot in their area.

Deep in the shadow of Mount Adams, on more than a million acres of Yakama Nation forest, something has been leaving 22-inch tracks — and the man whose job it is to walk that country has spent three decades trying to make sense of it.

This week on Untold Radio AM, MonsterQuest producer Doug Hajicek and Jeff "The Big Ragu," joined by guest host Roger Williams, sit down with prominent Bigfoot researcher Mel Skahan. An enrolled Yakama tribal member and forestry expert, Mel has become the person people go to when they see something they can't explain out in the timber — and the reports have piled up into the hundreds.

Mel takes us from the 1995 day he and a coworker cut timber and found footprints with a five-and-a-half-foot stride, to the 2006 sighting of something large, black, and glistening moving through the trees, to the rocks thrown out of the dark, the vocalizations, and the smell he still calls unforgettable.

He also talks about the turn his research took after a tribal medicine man gave him some advice — trading thermal cameras and night vision for a far more respectful approach rooted in Yakama tradition.

This one goes past footprints and into something older.
⚠️ Some of these accounts are not for the faint of heart.
WHAT YOU'LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE

The 1995 timber-cruising encounter — 22-inch tracks, converging trails, and the feeling of being watched Mel's 2006 daylight sighting near Mount St. Helens country Rock throwing, tree knocks, howls, growls and whistles from the deep timber Why hundreds of reservation sighting reports rarely make it to the public

The Native perspective: Sasquatch as a spiritual presence, not just an animal
What a tribal medicine man told him — and why he put the trail cams away
Doug Hajicek on how these accounts line up with what he filmed during MonsterQuest

ABOUT OUR GUEST — MEL SKAHAN Mel Skahan is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and works in the tribe's Forest Management Section, helping oversee roughly 1.2 million acres of tribal land in Washington State. Over the years he's become the primary point of contact for Sasquatch reports on the reservation, personally collecting hundreds of firsthand accounts. He has appeared on Coast to Coast AM and in numerous documentaries, and is widely respected for bridging field research with traditional Indigenous knowledge.

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**EP 312 – The Things That Hide Beyond the Trail with Julia Ronan and Dave Rogers**

What happens when a Bigfoot research outing in the Arkansas Ozarks turns into something far stranger than tracks, howls, or wood knocks?

This week on Untold Radio AM, hosts **Doug Hajicek** and **Jeff Perrella** welcome **Julia Ronan** and **Dave Rogers**. Julia, a Central Texas researcher and longtime research partner of Dave, has been in the field with Matt Lankford experimenting with the Snellgrove hum and Karl Sup hum. Together, she and Dave bring a story that goes far beyond typical cryptid encounters.

In March 2026, near Ozark, Arkansas, Julia and Dave experienced a “time slip” event that defies easy explanation. Julia doubts your audience has heard anything like it — and after you hear their firsthand account, you may never look at a Bigfoot investigation the same way again.

Tune in for an episode packed with cryptid fieldwork, cutting-edge audio experiments, and one of the most unusual stories we’ve featured on the show.

**About Untold Radio AM**
The Untold Radio Network explores interesting new science, genomic studies, odd wildlife research, strange disappearances, cryptids, mysteries, life after death, interesting celebrities, UFOs, and other unexplained events — plus whatever topic we feel is truly UNTOLD.

Hosted by Doug Hajicek and Jeff Perrella.

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Two hunters get chased out of their area by a Bigfoot in East Tennessee.