Gods, Ghosts & UFOs

• 34 | UFO/USO Updates and Robot Joe Rogan

  This week we’ve got updates from James the UFO-Tuber, those photographic telescope plates from the mid-20th century, and Enigma’s recent USO report. All that ends up kicking off a deeper conversation about ontological wheel-spinning, and how a guy named Reed Summers is trying to help move the conversation about UFOs and NHIs in a more practical, impactful direction, especially against a chaotic informational landscape and the potential (probable?) manipulation of NHIs themselves. Highlights: James keeps on keepin on An update on those photographic plates from Project VASCO Enigma’s USO report - 9000 cases of unidentified submerged objects, with multiple incidents of craft entering and exiting water at impossible speeds An introduction to Reed Summers, and his approach and methodology The hazards of NHI emotional manipulation (with a reference to James Barber’s experiences - the clip we used starts around the 50-minute mark) How to see through telepathic and/or emotional manipulation The witness/observer behind emotions Society as a “narcissist factory” that makes us feel we need to earn our right to exist Meditation and ego dissolution — losing the stories, not the self Mal’s friend’s wisdom: “If you could lose it, then it wasn’t everything” Tom’s closing anecdote And in the epilogue: The etymological history of our names One of Mal’s unique professional hazards An existential fear of losing communal identities in whatever collective consciousness turns out to be Last thing! Here’s the link to check out Anomalie - use code MAGIC for 60% off the full experience. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 33 | Lisa's (Very) Haunted House

  Welcome to our (very) haunted Halloween Special. We’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right time. In the first half, listen to the chilling, remarkable story of a childhood haunting. What starts as an early encounter with a long-haired figure in the shadows escalates into possession, physical attacks, and a deeply unsettling episode of missing time in a bathroom. (Good luck sleeping tonight.) Then, in the second half, we talk to the woman that child became. Highlights! Lisa’s experience with a shadowy figure who watched her motionless from the doorway so often that she got used to it. A seance that went wrong (do they ever go right?) Billy (6’7”, 300 pounds) gets possessed The introduction of two distinct entities - the peaceful long-haired man (the shadow watcher) who apologized for his aggressive companion, and a “bored and angry” spirit responsible for years of harassment Another friend lifted off his feet and slammed into a wall The thing that happened in the bathroom The motive behind Lisa’s extraordinary documentation, what Tom calls “a PhD thesis” of paranormal data Lisa’s affinity for horror movies (she doesn’t scare easily) Why the haunting makes no sense (the house was new when they moved in) Ghosts are just “people you don’t see” who can be jerks or peaceful observers Why most of her experiences were alone or with her friends, without the parents around Tom shares his partner’s auto-writing experience that produced Victorian-era cursive spelling “Jeffrey C U” Links! Anomalie - The project Jordan talked about at the top of the episode The original letter about Lisa’s experiences Those 18 pages of documentation If you’ve got ghost stories, share them at godsghostsufos.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 32 | Cryptids and Comets (3I/Atlas, obviously)

  This is what you might call a sequel episode, since we’re not only revisiting the Fresno Nightcrawlers (thanks to some hot tips from a listener), we’re also checking in on “just James,” the anonymous UFO-Tuber. Also, yes, we’re finally covering 3I/Atlas. Sometimes, you gotta hold your nose and jump onto the bandwagon. Highlights: Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful” But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine! An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope) The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it) What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful Highlights:And in the epilogue: A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome” The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless How to find truth at the intersection of contraries P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons. *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 31 | Radioactive Metal Pill and Walking Pants Cryptids

  Mothman Prophecies screenwriter and fellow podcaster Richard Hatem (!!!) joins us this week to tunnel down into some of the weirdest stuff on the Internet. First up, the Fresno Nightcrawler, followed by a sketchy Las Vegas ghost hunt email scam, and finally a lively discussion about whether “James” the YouTuber actually found a flying, radioactive metallic pill in the desert, or if he’s creating the world’s most tedious ARG. Bizarre leggy creatures first appeared on surveillance footage in early 2000s Fresno — not biological, not mechanical, but…kind of cute? The cognitive dissonance of watching something that looks “so janky and fakey” while simultaneously looking completely real Also: Yosemite National Park footage, a sighting in Poland, another in Billings Montana in 2020, and the “Carmel Area Creature” in Ohio A “$5,000 ghost hunt contest” at El Cortez Hotel in Vegas is actually just an email scam But actually lots of hotels and casinos in Vegas are haunted (and some theories as to why) The Venetian’s Whispering Hallway MGM Grand/Bally’s Flickering Ghosts A (probably) Canadian named James posted over 40 YouTube videos since last month about finding a shiny metallic pill-shaped object in the desert A very small but very dedicated audience The object is magnetic, burned his hand (he says), weighs 15.8 pounds, has crude markings, causes lights to flicker (??), and allegedly moved itself 10 feet from sawhorses to the ground when he wasn’t watching The Geiger counter subplot Is it real??? (Probably not, but we don’t know!) How younger generations’ first instinct is to post online and crowdsource help rather than calling authorities — a counter-argument to what might look like performative attention seeking to old people like us Inevitable comparisons to the Dear David thing on Twitter eight years ago (which resulted in a movie deal) Richard Hatem’s anecdote about how the Blair Witch Project got the smartest and most effective gorilla marketing campaign in Hollywood And in the epilogue (for paid subscribers only): Mallory’s existential fear that we’ll eventually discover some kind of “God formula” that solves all the mysteries How and why people closest to paranormal phenomena sometimes go insane and die, i.e. Keel’s paranoia in Mothman Prophecies, and Blake Smith’s fear of becoming vulnerable to cults like Heaven’s Gate The great atheist hypocrisy - how materialist skeptics claim their worldview is rational while it’s really just their own “comfortable smugness” and personal opiate Wanna hear it? Head over to godsghostsUFOs.com *** SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 30 | Baseball Betting and Accidental Volcanic Prophecy

  We’re thrilled to welcome Mark Turner to the show. A Navy veteran, Rhine Research Center volunteer, and experienced remote viewer, Mark helps us dig into one of the most rigorously studied and widely dismissed phenomena in modern history. Find out how the CIA and military spent decades proving remote viewing works, why your ego is the biggest obstacle to accessing non-local information, and the potential consequences of RV destigmatization. (For access to the spicy epilogue, go to godsghostsufos.com) HIGHLIGHTS: How a two-day workshop at Duke’s Rhine Research Center fundamentally changed Mark’s understanding of reality The Two Core Rules of Remote Viewing Why people who don’t believe in remote viewing are often the best at it The Left Brain Trick That time Mark had to prove it to his own son Accidentally predicting the Cumbre Vieja eruption That time Mark bet the under on an 8-run baseball game and doubled his money What the military had to do with remote viewing (it was a reaction to the Soviets, naturally) Ingo Swann, etc Steven Schwartz’s “Alexandria Project” in the 1970s, locating actual lost Egyptian cities When RV habits started to bleed into Mark’s everyday life in disturbing ways The risks of bi-location experiences Stuff that’s tough to remote view (like SPACE), and a reaction to Birdie Jaworski report on 3I/Atlas Remote viewing crime work, and why Mark doesn’t do it A future without secrets Also! After we ended this episode, we left the mics on for 30 minutes just to see what would happen. Well, what happened was a lot. Among many other things, Mark told us how some non-human intelligences are “master hypnotists”, and we talked about why people claiming contact with angels or aliens or whatever might actually be getting catfished by trickster entities. We’re calling these post-episode, hot-mic hangouts “Epilogue,” and they will only be available to paid subscribers. Why? Two reasons: We know the thing some of you want most is longer episodes, so hopefully this scratches that itch. This might surprise you, but there are actually a lot of things we’re careful not to talk about in our regular weekly episodes. So if you want to see what it’s like when we’re not being careful, head over to godsghostsufos.com and fondle the right button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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