In August of 1963, three men were buried alive 300 feet under a Pennsylvania mountain. Two of them came out 14 days later. Separately, without ever comparing notes, both described the same impossible thing waiting for them down there in the dark. The man who spent years chasing that story holds a degree in psychology. He knows every clinical word for what those miners reported. Hallucination. Confabulation. Sensory deprivation. He knows them all, and he chose not to use them. Maxim W. Furek has traveled the strangest road in American nonfiction. Rock journalism. Addiction research. Bigfoot. Flying saucers. He interviewed Ed and Lorraine Warren. He interviewed a small town Pennsylvania doctor who was also the high priest of a coven. He met Annabelle's handler, Dan Rivera, the day before Rivera died in Gettysburg. His new book is Paranormal Apocalypse: Is This How It Ends? It asks something harder than whether the world is ending. It asks why we have needed the world to be ending for 3,000 years. Furek calls it Apocalyptic Awe. The moment terror turns into fascination. A song about human extinction climbing to number one during the summer of the moon landing. A preacher selling 28 million copies of a prophecy that never arrives, and his readers lining up for the next one. Tonight we climb the whole ladder. The Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. The deep water fish that folklore says appear before earthquakes. The believers who sold their homes in 1844, climbed the hills, and waited, and the church of 23 million that grew out of their disappointment. Jim Jones, who poisoned 909 people and would not drink it himself. The drones over New Jersey. And the thing Furek says frightens him more than any of it, the thing that lives in your pocket and calls itself the truth. Tonight he tells us where a vision ends and a symptom begins.
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