ABOUT VIN SMITH...

Internationally recognized multimedia artist, Vin "Doc" Smith, is a longtime broadcaster, freelance writer, novelist, poet, pianist, singer, songwriter, composer, orator, ventriloquist, entertainer, journalist, piano technician specializing in concert tunings, and is a talented hypnotist. In addition he is president of his own company, Midnight Bookworm Chocolate Piano Studios, and vice president of Bruce Merrin Agencies in Las Vegas (Bruce Merrin Public Relations, Bruce Merrin's Celebrity Speakers and Entertainment Bureau, and Bruce Merrin Literary Agency)


Degrees & Certifications:
Graduate Cuesta College, Columbia School of Broadcasting, New York Institue of Photography, Cronemiller School of Music, American School of Piano Tuning. Awarded provisional Doctor of Divinity Degree, September 9, 2002, and perfected September 9, 2003, Queensland University School of Divinity Studies.


Born in Whittier, California on May 19, 1944, Vin Smith grew up in the midst of orange and avocado groves in Pico, California, later to incorporate as Pico Rivera in 1958. Back in those days, Los Angeles County sported thousands of acres of citrus. Vin loved to climb every orange tree in the grove, when he wasn't playing baseball and rooting for the Hollywood Stars of the of the Pacific Coast League. His earliest demonstration of writing talent came in the third grade, when he wrote a science fiction story about cruising through the universe in the space ship he had built himself out of old lumber and construction paper.

He has always loved horses. Back in the early fifties, Vin would punch cattle, right along with his brother-in-law on the Starr Ranch, which is now the city of Rancho Santa Margarita, and also on Rancho Mission Viejo, which is now the city of Mission Viejo. He always found himself closest to God while herding cattle, or sitting next to a campfire.

Recently Smith said, "One of my fondest memories was following the football fortunes of my alma mater, El Rancho High School during the 1965 and 1966 seasons. In 1966 they actually won the National Championship, as awarded by a high school sports magazine. Coach Ernie Johnson always put together good squads. That '66 team was awesome, quarterbacked by Rick Pope. The '57 squad was quarterbacked by Bill Nelson, who later starred with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. I have always been amazed by El Rancho High School. The kids were terrific. I felt privileged to be a student there."

Vin's interest in literature began in the third grade in Mrs. Brunhill's class at Rio Vista School in Pico Rivera. Suddenly, the whole world opened up to him. And things out of this world, such as astronomy. While in Mrs. Brunhill's class, he made a space ship out of wood and paper and soared through space, all over the galaxy. This memory would spill over Vin as he reported the news of Neil Armstrong's moon walk in 1969 over KOCY radio in Oklahoma City some sixteen years later.

In the mid-sixties, Vin began his radio career at the small 250 watt station in Frederick, Oklahoma, KTAT. "When I first saw that wonderful town, I almost cried," Vin said a few years ago. "America's heartland at last. I quickly fell in love with the people of Oklahoma, and the wheat and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye could see."

Later, Vin would move to Oklahoma City to star on KOCY as the first midnight radio personality in the station's history. His show was sponsored by Spectro Theaters and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. "One of my duties was to go to the movies every single night of the year. Of all the films that came through town on a sneak preview, the one that sticks in my memory the best is John Wayne in True Grit. Nobody realized at the time that True Grit would be Wayne's masterpiece." While at KTAT, Vin invented the Countrypolitan Radio Format. It was one of the most successful radio formats ever developed, incorporating music that would one day fuel the crossover movement.

In 1986, Vin won the first of three straight writing awards from the National Writers Club in Aurora, Colorado. Those three books, Arena of the Mind, Goodbye Stress, and The Adventures of Timothy Turtle will soon join Vin's nine published books to make it an even dozen books in print.

Vin would spend the next few years doing a variety of things, always keeping his finger in broadcasting and music. His career would eventually land him in all of the Who's Who publications. Always one to want to help people, Vin acted as an informal counselor for many years before he broke on the world scene as the Internet's premier Theosophic Mystic.

Vin performs many times a year as a pianist and ventriloquist, delighting audiences near and far. He is also an accomplished orator, novelist, singer and songwriter, as well as many other areas of artistic pursuit.

Vin works in all three divisions of Bruce Merrin Agencies in Las Vegas, Nevada.

ABOUT OCCASIONAL CO-HOST TOM CLANIN...

Tom Clanin is an avid researcher in his spare time and concentrates on the UFO question. He studies the great communicators in the field of paranormal activity, including Zecharia Sitchen, Ricard Hoaglund and his co-author, Mike Bara, and Stanton T. Friedman, amongst others. His insights are often pure gold.

ABOUT OCCASIONAL CO-HOST BRAD SMITH...

Brad Smith is a top investigator for API (American Paranormal Investigations) in Sacramento. He works mainly as a debunker. Most reportings can be explained as normal, everyday factors, such as things as simple as the settling of a structure. However, some five percent are beyond explanation. Brad Smith is the one who weeds out the false reports and helps to clarify what phenomenon might well be from the other side.

SCHEDULE...
Vin and paranormal investigator Tom Clanin interview the world's leading ufologist, Stanton T. Friedman, author of Flying Saucers and Science. Stan's new book is the best selling UFO tome since Col. Phillip J. Corso's The Day After Roswell. We asked Stan right off the bat whether or not alien spacecraft are real... You won't want to miss his answer! Friedman, expounds on everything from the SETI program to possible power sources needed for intergalactic travel. Stan Friedman has appeared on all the leading shows, including Bill Birnes' UFO Hunters on the History Channel. In fact, speaking of Bill Birnes, he will appear on Beyond the Paranormal in just a few weeks. Bill and Nancy Birnes are also publishers of UFO Magazine.



ABOUT BEYOND THE PARANORMAL...
If it's a mystery, the unknown, the paranormal, or the unexplained that fires your imagination, then Beyond the Paranormal is for you. Vin Smith and paranormal investigators Brad Smith and Tom Clanin explore the burning issues of the day when it comes to UFO's, ghost busting, crop circles, or things that go bump in the night.

Beyond the Paranormal features the finest guests in the field, including publisher of UFO Magazine, and star of the History Channel's UFO Hunters, Bill Birnes; top ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, top MUFON investigator Alejandro Rojas, movie producer and paranormal investigator Todd Sheets and many other famous voices in the world of the unexplained phenomenon.

Tom Clanin is a longtime researcher into the things that baffle us. "Tom is so well-read it is almost scary," Vin Smith said recently. "When we had Mike Bara (co-author with Richard C. Hoagland of Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA) on the show, Tom seemed to know the book as well as Bara did.

Within days of writing a story for a local newspaper about a flying saucer sighting, Brad Smith joined Beyond the Paranormal as a paranormal editor. Within weeks of that he joined up with American Paranormal Investigations (API) in Sacramento, and is now a top in-field debunker.

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