USA Today reports that belief in "The Beyond" has grown sharply since 1970. By 1998, 52% of adults believed in spirit contact, 39% of people believed in ghosts and haunted houses, and 89% believed in life after death. Today these numbers have no doubt increased, based on all the shows that deal with the topic. About a year ago we were amazed to see how many people responded to a show we did looking for haunted houses to broadcast from. So many intelligent and obviously serious people felt they lived in the presences of ghosts, that we promised to revisit the subject. This Sunday is the night.

Allan's first guest this week is Brad Steiger, one of the most widely known and respected investigators of the unexplained. Brad has authored or co-authored over 150 books with over 20 million in print. His latest, The Source: Journey Through The Unexplained which he co-wrote with Art Bell, comes out in July. So If you think you've had an encounter with an unknown entity, or if your just curious about this stuff, don't miss this week's Allan Handelman Show. Some of the topics we'll cover include:

• THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN ORIGIN
• THE ENIGMA OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
• VISITORS FROM OTHER WORLDS
• ABDUCTIONS & MUTILATIONS
• GOOD ALIENS VS BAD ALIENS
• GHOSTS, OBEs, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
• MIND TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE AND TIME.

Check out The Source at BradAndSherry.com or
browse through more than 100 Brad Steiger books at Amazon.

Also this week: Francesca Ciancimino Howell, author of Making Magic With Gaia: Practices To Heal Ourselves And Our Planet. She'll teach us how to make magic using centering, relaxation and visualization.

Francesca has presented her work on Earth-healing magic in the US, UK and Germany, and currently teaches classes on Wicca in the US. She has authored articles for the national Wiccan publication, Circle Network News , and was recently profiled in a Wiccan anthology Wiccan Wisdomkeepers , by Sally Griffyn, where she appears alongside Janet Farrar, Starhawk, Doreen Valiente, and other leaders of Wicca.

Also visit: OurFaiths.org and PaganInstitute.org