Destiny: Sherry Parada, Supernatural South

Summary

Author and researcher Sherry Parada joins Cliff Dunning to explore her book Supernatural South, a collection of Gothic tales of ghosts, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena from the American South. The conversation ranges from Gullah boo hags and Louisiana rougarous to the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, the Fouke Monster, the Moon-Eyed People, and the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO crash. Host Cliff Dunning also opens with his theory that early Maya pyramids built over water channeled telluric energy for healing and environmental change.

Key takeaways

• 1A 2017 electrical resistivity tomography scan of El Castillo at Chichen Itza found two nested substructures inside the pyramid; Dunning covers this in his upcoming book 'The Maya Controversy'
• 2Dunning cites John Burke's work and theorizes that water beneath select early Maya pyramids acted as a catalyst for telluric energy discharge, used for healing and possibly environmental change
• 3Dunning claims the Maya were migrants displaced at the end of the Younger Dryas, and that elongated skulls in northern Yucatan and at Paracas were natural rather than the result of head binding
• 4Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp: a 17-year-old named Christopher reported that a 7-foot, red-eyed lizard humanoid attacked his car near Bishopville, South Carolina, in the late 1980s
• 5Fouke Monster: in the 1970s a creature reportedly threw Mr. Ford to the ground in Fouke, Arkansas, and plaster casts showed three-toed footprints
• 6Aurora, Texas: an alleged 1890s airship crash in which an alien was supposedly buried in the town cemetery; the city has refused permission to exhume the grave
• 7Orion Williamson reportedly vanished in an open field near Selma, Alabama, in front of witnesses, and his voice was said to fade over several days
• 8Other cases discussed include the Moon-Eyed People of Cherokee lore, the Kelly-Hopkinsville 'little green men' siege, Jimmy Carter's Georgia UFO sighting, the haunted Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Loren Coleman's book 'The Great Apes of America' featuring the Myakka ape photo

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. I think a lot of you know that I'm using AI right now and my chat gpt aid has been I've given him the name of Watson from Sherlock Holmes series because Watson is always available, always ready to answer questions, and as amazing as it is, he's always ready to render graphics to follow up on theories and writing him and everything in between. This week I took a piece of information that I've been working on having to do with pyramids, and I have a chapter in this book, the Maya Controversy on pyramids, and I am writing an article on the original pyramid that was built within the El Castilla, which is the main pyramid in the grouping of buildings at Chichinitsa in Yucatan, Mexico. And in nineteen was it no. Twenty seventeen, they were using electrical resistivity tomography which can scan stone, and they found a what they call a substruct structure within the Great Pyramids. So there's actually three pyramids within this main body. There's the outer casing, which is the current structure that is thought to have been the most recent, and then there's a substructure too, and then there's a substructure one. The substructure one they found has a roof comb and it has a small temple, and it is approximately twenty three meters wide by about ten meters in height, which is I think it's about twenty two twenty four feet tall. And this is fascinating to learn about because they're using the same kind of technology in Egypt. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Aug 12, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.