SoulStream Radio is a weekly paranormal-themed broadcast that provides a platform for sharing UFO, Paranormal, Cryptid and the Strange and Unusual subjects with our audience.
SoulStream began it’s life in 2008 as a podcast called “Ghost Rider Paranormal Radio” on the Blogtalkradio broadcast platform. We started with an idea that we could share our exploits in hunting ghosts and sharing EVPs we recorded in the field in our trips through the Gold Country of Northern California via our group “Ghost Rider Investigations“.
In the beginning, we didn’t really know what we were doing and had to learn the business of podcast radio the hard way. And we’ve come a long way since those early days of a $10 used cardioid microphone from a Craigslist ad and a single mic mixer that we retired after we modernized the studios between 2020 and 2021. We have upgraded to commercial grade broadcast gear that has made the show audio and video quality top-grade and made the process of producing it much more efficiently.
In 2010, after much pressure and insistence from my dear friend, Cathy Bradshaw, we somewhat tentatively stepped into the world of On-Air mediumship and live demonstrations of EVP and had quite a run with the show which by then had been named SoulStream.
Cathy Bradshaw, a dear friend who left us all too soon and who convinced Jon to get into radio and mediumship. Jon is eternally grateful to her and she is very much missed.
Cathy was something of a force of Nature. I have never met a kinder and more experienced radio personality and she would simply not take no for an answer when she pushed me to do readings live on the air. Her show, “Cathie’s Distant Echos” was a immensely popular show on BlogTalkRadio and she remained active in helping new mediums and psychics find their voices, using her show as a conduit to bring the Other Side to the world with messages of love and life-changing affirmations.
Her death was a shock to many and I am glad many of her radio talent found new homes to continue the work she started. Cathie went home to be with her husband who came through repeatedly in many EVPs with friends at the now retired CJ-EVP site as well as on 1800Heaven.Org site and Listentothisforme.com that Debra Caruso (who unfortunately passed away in 2010) ran. You can also listen to Christine Lyon’s shows (who was a close friend of Cathy) for CJ-EVP on BlogTalkRadio to learn more.
Dad in 2006 before he became ill.
After the death of my father, Al Almada, in 2012, we slowly phased out of doing the show for a variety of reasons but chief among these was the grief of losing a close family member and I must say that while I had read many spirits for people in my time, I had no idea what kind of emotion grief was until I experienced it first hand. Life got in the way as well until my retirement from Aerojet in mid-2017 and I really didn’t know what to do with myself, but it seems that the Other Side had other plans in mind and made no bones about pushing on my getting back into the broadcast chair.
Our old shows on Blogtalkradio continue to be accessible and we are in the process of making the entire lot of them available to listen to here on this website.
I have chosen to focus the show on the key topics of paranormal, ufo, cryptid and other unusual phenomena. I will approach mediumship again at some point on-air in the future, but I have chosen to direct the show to interviewing amazing people and doing great work. I am also writing again and enjoying the process as well.
Here’s to great writing and shows for the future! I am glad you are along for the ride!