Paranoid American

Are ghosts real? Can Marilyn Manson music send you to hell? Is reading Aleister Crowley compatible with being a good Christian? Who is Carman? In this episode of Paranoid American Podcast, I sit back down with Allen Marcus to discuss a truly paranormal experience he hasn't been able to shake for decades.
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An evergreen topic - is God real? More specifically is the historical Jesus Christ as an actual personification of God real? Like REALLY real? (No astrology or we-are-one stuff) If you saw our Zeitgeist review (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8QB-hPXeZg) then you already know about the gnostic concept that Christ is just an astro-theological mnemonic device. This documentary takes that small part of Zeitgeist and focuses on it fully. Here's our review of "The Pagan Christ"

No matter how depressed some of us get over the Winter, it's probably not even a fraction of how bad Joyce Vincent's Christmas was, when she died alone in her apartment in 2003 and wasn't discovered until 2006.

Back to our roots - conspiracy documentaries! This is the first of probably many more Puff Daddy documentaries to come. Sean has been following this case and Puffy in general for decades, so come listen to everything this documentary claims, and what it leaves out.

"Airplanes are not tools of war. They're beautiful dreams." That's the lie at the heart of The Wind Rises. We break down Miyazaki's most controversial film, the real history Japan wants you to forget, and what the documentary "Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" reveals about the man behind Ghibli.

In this hard-hitting review, we dissect the documentary The Perfect Neighbor (2025), directed by Geeta Gandbhir, which follows the June 2023 killing of Ajike Owens in Ocala, Florida and poses powerful questions about racial bias, unchecked grievance, and the controversial application of stand-your-ground laws. We’ll walk through how the film uses body-cam and 911 footage, why critics say it plays like a “documentary horror film,” and whether it succeeds in sparking the systemic change it demands.

Why are we building boring, simplistic buildings that barely last a century, when there are countless structures that have remained standing for thousands of years? Clearly humans are capable of more. So why are we settling for less? The documentary Architecton seeks to answer this question. More details on Architecton here: https://a24films.com/docs/architecton

We break down JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Mans Trick, the 3.5 hour documentary that connects every major conspiracy from the 20th century. Francis Conolly meticulously traces how international bankers and secret societies have profited from war since World War I, culminating in the JFK assassination where he actually names the shooters. This documentary keeps getting pulled from YouTube but we explain why it has an 8.5 rating and millions of views.

In this off-the-rails review, we dive into the 2009 documentary “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” directed by Julien Nitzberg, which shadows the notorious White family of Boone County over the course of a year. From mountain dance floors to drug deals, shoot-outs to hospital beds. The film doesn’t pull punches on poverty, addiction, outlaw culture, and a dying coal-country legacy, asking what happens when survival becomes spectacle.

This four part documentary examines the physical evidence that proves Lee Harvey Oswald could not have acted alone. With over 12 shots fired, multiple bullet holes in the street and sidewalk, and witnesses reporting shooters on the grassy knoll and overhead bridge, the lone gunman theory falls apart. Most damning is the footage showing Secret Service agents being ordered away from the presidential car just before the assassination, and the CIA immediately confiscating the vehicle to prevent forensic inspection.