Fact, Fiction, and Fairies with Josh Cutchin

Joshua Cutchin has spent more than a decade exploring the wide territory of the paranormal — fairy food, brimstone smells, Bigfoot, the dead.…

What do most people think isn’t real, but he does?

The line between fact and fiction is very, very blurry.

For example: stigmata. Christ would have been nailed to the cross through the wrists, but stigmatists bleed from the palms, which is where the wounds are in most paintings. Or fairies, who for centuries were human-sized and wingless, until broadly distributed storybooks gave them wings. Now, when people see fairies, they see wings.

So, uh, what’s going on here?

You might have to just decide for yourself.

Josh’s extensive bibliography

Creative pressure builds like a boil

Is writing a paranormal experience?

Academic vs fiction vs casual nonfiction

The thing Josh believes that most people don’t

Nobody is rational