Hosts

J. Scott


J. Scott, a graduate of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, first became interested in the paranormal as a child. This interest led him to start a radio show in college dubbed “J. Scott’s World of the Unexplained.” Airing in 2002, the show became an instant local success on the college’s FM station, 90.9 WQFS.
The show focused on such issues as vampires, ghosts, werewolves, UFOs, space travel conspiracies, and others. Some of J. Scott’s previous guests have included Lorraine Warren, of Amityville Horror fame and Fordham Professor, Michael Cuneo speaking about his book on exorcism.
After college, J. Scott decided that law school was the path for him to take and moved to Jacksonville, Florida. He graduated with his Juris Doctor in December 2005. While finishing his last semester of law school, the idea of internet radio came to him while at a friend’s house listening to music. He decided that this new forum was just the fix for his long lost and defunct paranormal radio show.
The idea of running the show appealed to him even more after one of his childhood friends, Trent Lackey, agreed to co-host the new show. After almost a year with the Omnisound Radio One Network, "World of the Unexplained" decided to break its affiliation with Omnisound and join Planet Paranormal radio. J. Scott holds the rank of 1st Dan (1st degree blackbelt) in Tae-Kwon-Do and is also the lead vocalist for the rock group
Blackbook Romance and sings in the U2 tribute band, Almost U2.

Trent Lackey

Trent Lackey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in a degree in International studies with a concentration in Russian studies. He is also an amateur scholar in a wide variety of subjects such as anthropology, history, geopolitics, as well as a number of paranormal disciplines. Especially interested in the fields of cryptozoology and cultural anthropology, he has read and researched topics ranging from Nan Madol and the Moai in Polynesia, to legends of Grendel and the Golem in Europe and everything in between. His first love remains the great mythic creatures of our collective past, such as Nessie and Sasquatch, and he has held such stories as the Mothman and the Kraken near to him from an early age. Having conducted several ghost hunts with varying degrees of success, he is certainly open minded when it comes to the supernatural forces that may or may not govern our world manifested in the form of spirits and the restless dead. Sharing these interests with his childhood friend J. Scott,Trent was more than happy to join him as a host for the new paranormal talk show experiment. He enjoys the ongoing dialogue between the broad spectrum of belief systems and theories that make up the paranormal world as well as offering such topics to an audience who might share an interest in them unbeknowst.


Crew
Chuck Browder

 

Chuck Browder is a high school graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.  He is also a Guilford College graduate of the same 2003 class as J. Scott, holding degrees in both Music and Political Science.   During his matriculation through higher education, Chuck has had the pleasure of studying with individuals such as: Los Angles recording engineer Thomas “T.J.” Johnson, Vietnam advisor and German history expert Dr. Louis B. Fike, and world-renowned composer Kenneth Frazelle.

      Chuck is a classical guitarist and a fan of music from classical and progressive to hip-hop and heavy metal.  His interests are not limited solely to music, but also include politics, science fiction, and conspiracy theories.  Some of the domestic political figures he finds most fascinating range from contemporaries like former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former Senator John Edwards to historic figures such as former President Richard M. Nixon and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

      He is also a fan of Oliver Stone as well as Star Trek and the X-Files.  His love for science fiction and conspiracy theories motivated him and his college roommate to travel to Rachel, NV.  There they purchased a map of the Area 51 facility and were careful not to trespass.  There they conducted a visual investigation of Area 51 taking several pictures, unfortunately all to no avail.  No aliens or UFOs were observed, however, the trip back to Las Vegas included a stay at the Star Trek Hilton.

      Chuck began his stint at WOTU in June of 2006.  His study in the field of recording engineering has contributed in some part to the continued success of the show.  He got his first shot on-air at WOTU during the Alice Krige, A.K.A. the Borg Queen, interview.  During this interview, Chuck revealed his fanaticism for the Star Trek franchise.  He went as far as to reveal he had been to the Smithsonian exhibit for the 25th anniversary of Star Trek, where he was privileged to sit in the original Captain’s chair. (Yes, his butt was actually in contact with a piece of television history).


Dee Clements

Dee Clements is currently a student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (where Trent Lackey graduated) , majoring in Art Education. He has been friends with J. Scott and Trent Lackey since high school. He has always been interested in mythology and ancient history, which lends itself to stories of werewolves, ancient beasts, and other unexplained phenomenon. He is skeptical of many things labeled "paranormal" but does believe in spirits and other extraordinary events such as miracles.