Today, there seems to be a dating site for every conceivable type of person.
From the mega-sites like eHarmony, Match, Zoosk and PlentyOfFish, there are the obvious demographic spinoffs, like OurTime for “mature singles” and FarmersOnly for rural folk.
But then there’s “ConservativeDatingSite” and “SoberAndSingle.” There’s “VeganDatingService” and “DatingforHippings.” And “SinglesWithFoodAllergies” and “NaturistPassion,” whose home page would be X-rated were both the man and woman not facing away from the camera.
A Buzzfeed survey of dating sites even includes “BikerKiss,” “MillionareMatch” and “EquestrianCupid.”
Like golf? There’s a site for you. Mustaches? Got that too. There are sites for every match from goths to cat-lovers,” even “WomenBehindBars” where female inmates can meet men.
One site that is surging in membership is ParanormalDate.com, with nearly 20,000 having joined in just the past few months.
Of course, that may be because the site was launched in early June by George Noory, host of the “Coast to Coast AM” radio program that reaches millions of listeners each night.
The site’s homepage claims it is a “dating and friendship site” where members can find a man or woman who “shares an interest in the paranormal, science, life after death, ghost stories, Bigfoot, UFOs, alternative medicine and conspiracy theories.”
Noory said in June he started the website after getting requests from his listeners.
“They would come up to me at various speaking engagements all around the country,” he explained. “They’d come up and say, ‘George, we want to meet people of like minds, people who are into science, ghosts, UFOs, alternative medicine, conspiracies. We want to meet people like that. We might even want to date them, but we have no place to go.’
“I went, ‘Hmm, paranormal date dot com.’ That’s what I’ll put together, where people from all over the planet get together.”
Noory’s popular syndicated show reaches millions of listeners on more than 550 stations across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Guam.
He was recruited, while a host for “The Nighthawk” late-night program in St. Louis, by Premiere Radio Networks as a fill-in host on “Coast to Coast AM” for Art Bell. He became the permanent host in 2003.
His network notes he “captivates program listeners with his discussions of paranormal phenomena, time travel, alien abductions, conspiracies and all things curious and unexplained.”
Prior to his late-night show in St. Louis, he worked at WCAR-AM in Detroit and at WJBK-TV. At the age of 28, he was the youngest major market news director in the country, at KMSP-TV in Minneapolis.
WND reported last year Noory’s launch of “Beyond Belief,” a television program in which he hosts some of the world’s leading experts on the world’s most mysterious subjects. Readers can view Noory’s interviews on WND’s Diversions page.
