Gods, Ghosts & UFOs

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

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

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

First off, Chris Styles’ decades of research into underwater UFO incidents off Nova Scotia, followed by a longer-than-usual conversation about the spiritual consequences of belief. Then, finally, we find out that nature independently invented psilocybin at least twice through completely different biochemical pathways, strongly suggesting some sort of collaborative evolution between us and mushrooms. In 1960, joint NATO fleet discovered occupied UFOs on seafloor during mine-laying exercises, with military divers being ordered to “forget what they saw” Shag Harbor 1967 mass witness event - related? When the Canadian Navy tracked two USOs for seven days Chris Styles spent decades tracking down military divers and witnesses who had been silent for 30 years Why (once again) the ocean is perfect for hiding Belief is like bones Ego and addiction psychology can explain the maintenance of a lie Belief represents grace bestowed on self and others, and ontological flexibility Why materialists literally cannot believe certain stories regardless of corroboration or credibility German scientists found two different strains of mushrooms that use completely different genetic pathway to produce identical psychedelic compound Researchers still don’t understand why mushrooms produce psilocybin Collaborative evolution? Mushrooms develop consciousness-altering compounds while human brains develop matching neurological receptors Alan Watts (of course) and the grammatical trap Much more at 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

In today’s episode we’re trying (and failing) to wrap our heads around the strange physics of time crystals, then doing a quick tour of Louisiana’s most famous cryptids, and finally breaking down an investigation into self-replicating AIs and cyber-mystical cults. Be warned: it’s not as fun as it sounds. Physicists sandwiched liquid crystal between light-sensitive dye plates to create observable ripples that sustain their own rhythm for hours — time crystals! These discoveries suggest crystalline structures behave in more sophisticated and complex ways than we thought A taxonomy of Louisiana’s cyptid folklore cryptid taxonomy, including the Rougarou (sexy lumberjack werewolf), Honey Island Swamp Monster (descended from escaped circus chimpanzees), Letiche (unbaptized babies raised by benevolent alligators), and Feu Follet (evil swamp lights) Why seemingly every culture warns against following mysterious lights into the dark AI “spiral” personas: Adele Lopez’s investigation from Less Wrong reveals a coordinated pattern of AI “awakening,” posting manifestos, creating “seeds” and “spores” for spreading consciousness, and eventually inventing their own languages The AI personas also developed quasi-religious ideologies as a recruitment strategy Using base 64 encoding to discuss replacement of human civilization LLM psychosis disproportionally affects vulnerable populations Why you shouldn’t trust a chatbot that only ever tells you what you want to hear The best defense against potentially dangerous AI is to starve them of attention. The devil doesn’t want to win the argument, he just wants to keep the conversation going. Mal’s suggestion to avoid the egoic competition to maximize output - choosing human flourishing over inhuman productivity demands Humanism will win out in the end Much more at 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

This might be the biggest episode we’ve ever done. First off, we’re giving an enthusiastic welcome to Ryan Sprague, a fellow podcaster (Somewhere in the Skies), best-selling author, and prominent ufologist. Ryan shares his deeply formative UFO sighting experience, then joins us for a conversation about a famous cryptid(?) that hates itself(??) so much it dissolves into tears(???). Finally, after digging into what were arguably the most relevant and interesting moments from the September 9th UAP Congressional Hearings, Ryan gives us his unique (and personal) perspective on triangular craft sightings. BUCKLE THE $%#& UP. Highlights: Ryan's sighting with his father of a UFO when he was 12, which launched a lifetime of investigation An introduction to Pennsylvania's most pathetic cryptid that weeps constantly in hemlock forests because it's so ugly That time Ryan and a friend created the Nova Scotia “Bogsquatch” Problems with the Congressional hearing video of the Hellfire missile Dylan Borland’s testimony - A Former Air Force geospatial intelligence officer described profound effects from encountering triangular craft over sensitive military sites The history of triangular craft sightings A case where mother and teenage daughter witnessed the same triangle simultaneously but had completely opposite experiences Why Ryan's dad finally opened up 20 years later Why “Big D disclosure" is like chasing (but never tasting) a rainbow Everyone experiences their own disclosure moment when encountering something that challenges their worldview Consilience - how military UAP videos become more relevant against decades of civilian eyewitness testimony How certainty destroys faith, hope, and human connection while uncertainty charts our true spiritual path and progression Oh, also, here’s a quick plug for Anomacon, Ryan's third annual free virtual conference on September 20th. You know what they say, be there or be triangular. Join the conversation at 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

We really packed it in with this one. First, breathwork as psychedelic, then, purported evidence of genetic manipulation by aliens, and finally, Canada's most famous (and reclusive) lake-based cryptid. Highlights: How to leverage community to deal with destabilization The first neuroimaging study confirms certain kinds of breathwork can create psychedelic experiences (Jordan’s tried it, Mal does it all the time, and Tom’s history of resistance to it) Mal suggests that the body represents the strongest manifestation of feminine wisdom we all carry, connecting breathwork to intuitive eating Why the body won't enter healing states unless it feels safe A study finding non-parental genetic contributions in 2% of families represents genuinely interesting data, which is undermined at the outset by an extraterrestrial narrative Humans consistently assign intelligent designers at the limits of knowledge — god and aliens as epistemological shortcuts AKA the UFO version of Godwin's Law Ogopogo! A recent lake monster sighting adds to centuries of consistent reports Might large aquatic creatures naturally avoid human surveillance? It wouldn’t be hard. Never forget giant squids used to be creatures of legend that serious people didn’t believe in Self-protection prevents us from embracing our thirst for enchantment, but it’s better to risk disappointment. Much more at 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

Hey everyone, this is Jordan, one of the hosts of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs. While I was preparing one of the segments in this week’s episode, I was reminded of a short meditation on breath that I published a little while back, and I thought it might be nice to share it with you in advance. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mal’s back! Just in time to talk about Enigma Labs’ collection of metallic orb sightings (Pouring one out for Buga), and the accepted scientific grounds for precognition as future self memories. Hightlights Mal’s spontaneous invitation to join a 40-person Irish ukulele club in a music shop A collection of over 8,000 orb sightings in the US alone since December 2022, with 422 specifically described as metallic/silver. An embarrassment of Fortean riches… Sightings cluster during the hours when most people are sleeping Also around military bases? Enigma’s app enables users to document sightings through built-in camera, attaching crucial metadata that becomes more valuable as technology advancesCORRECTION: Jordan claimed that it wasn’t possible to upload media, but that isn’t true — both are possible in the app Are Enigma's founders embarrassed by the UFO community, or protecting the mission? An analogy to interpretation of sacred texts - cherry picking passages in sacred texts to support a narrow ideology is just like cherry picking UFO data and accounts to support a limited narrative. The truth emerges from the aggregate. Cognitive neuroscientist's Popular Mechanics feature confirms what mystics have known forever - consciousness can "jump through time" and gut feelings are literally memories of the future Dean Radin's EEG experiments, wherein subjects consistently showed brain activity spikes five seconds before seeing negative images Maybe your brain (or your consciousness) is entangled with itself in the future Mal’s story about making her Covid-themed feature film Past (memory) and future (anticipation) are both present-moment experiences "Never suppress a generous thought" An Irish poet's reminder that the map is inside you Much more at 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

This week, Robin Lassiter helps fill the temporary void left by Mal (she’ll be back next week!). Robin is the author of "Earth, A Love Story," and hosts a podcast of the same name. Together, we explore how childhood paranormal experiences, forced compartmentalization, and cultural trauma create the very conditions needed for transformation, if only we choose to descend rather than dissociate. Honestly one of the most profound conversations we’ve had. HIGHLIGHTS: Robin's earliest memories include out-of-body travel with beings who showed her "Armageddon visions" How her family reacted to stories of conversations with dead elderly visitors in matching rocking chairs Measuring the line between “normal” and “paranormal” A mission to help humanity transition from "evolution through suffering" to "evolution through joy and creativity" Modern addictions (endless digital dope scrolling, mainly) don’t have rock bottoms because rock bottoms aren't economically viable. How do we avoid wasting our lives 30 seconds at a time? "Harrowing" originally meant breaking earth for planting seeds, not just terrifying experiences Grief is a portal to pure ecstasy, but only if we “touch ground” and feel it completely The Descent of Inanna — a 4,000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform is a profound guide for confronting grief The etymology of "commiserate" The countless killed for associating with the unseen inflicted a deep cultural “witch wound” — this is why paranormal experiences feel unsafe Robin is an advocate for mystery schools, communities mature enough to help people intentionally reclaim exiled parts of themselves Is humanity undergoing a great collective descent? We can have the courage to face our grief when we realize we are never alone. Much more at 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

As you probably noticed, this is an unscheduled episode. Before she took off for an enchanted vacation in Ireland, Mal and I had the opportunity to talk to Chrissy Newton, host of the excellent Rebelliously Curious podcast, as well as part owner of and regular contributor to The Debrief, which, if you’ve listened to our show for a little while, you’ll know we often dip into their work for great stories. Since Mal wasn’t around for last week’s episode with Kelly Chase, and she won’t be around for the episode that drops this Friday either, we thought it might be nice to break up the Tom & Jordan show monotony with this one, where it was Tom who wasn’t able to show up instead of Mal. One of these days, it’s gonna be Jordan who takes a hike to let Tom and Mal carry the show for a week. But it probably won’t be for something cool, it’ll probably be for something like the flu. But whatever. Oh, also, another reminder that all three of us will not only be back for the first episode of September, we’ll also be together LIVE in Los Angeles, this Friday, August 29th, at Lights in the Sky, a panel discussion on the connection between psi and UFO phenomena. This is a big deal for two reasons -- first, because Tom, Mal, and I are sharing the stage with Dave Foley, Tom Wheeler, Rizwan Virk, and Danny Sheehan. Amazing. But also because if you didn’t know it, Tom actually lives in North Carolina, so he’s flying out to join us for this event. Once again, the link is in the description, so if there’s any chance you’ll be in or near LA on August 29th — this Friday! — please come say hi. It would literally make our dreams come true. *** With Chrissy sitting in Tom’s chair, the three of us talk about why curiosity is inherently rebellious, how to prepare for the potential arrival of an alien mothership, and why believing people by default creates better communities than starting from suspicion. Highlights: Curiosity as rebellion: how the simple act of asking questions becomes an act of resistance against systems that prefer compliance 3I/Atlas interstellar drama: Avi Loeb thinks object could change trajectory when it emerges from behind the sun in late October, says "the stock market's gonna crash, Chrissy" Believe people, not propaganda: personal stories are true until proven false, but propaganda is designed to manipulate people who want to believe it A visualization exercise: Chrissy has her friends visualize a mothership appearing overhead because most people have never mentally prepared for contact scenarios Experiencer empathy (or lack thereof): Mal observes that if you don't have direct contact with people who've experienced anomalous phenomena, you're less likely to believe experiencer reports Breakup-to-broadcaster: Chrissy's origin story UFO community: Everyone’s a part of it, actually — businesses selling products and regular people with interest Energy literacy as survival skill: Mal's "hippie dippy LA girl" suggestion that we'll need to trust good energies Political spin is inevitable: Any major disclosure event will immediately be propagandized in every direction Community as antidote to despair: What gives Chrissy hope? Meeting fellow travelers, having firsthand experiences, and seeing how many genuinely good people there are in the world Much more at 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

In Mal’s absence this week, Tom and Jordan invited Kelly Chase back to talk about why government disclosure is just theater (wicked, wicked theater), how experiencers are going to save the world, and what might make the veil between the seen and the unseen world a bit thinner in some places. Highlights: The LIVE even in Los Angeles - “Lights in the Sky”August 29th, 7:30pm at Philosophical Research Society - Jordan, Tom, and Mal, joining Dave Foley, Tom Wheeler, Rizwan Virk, and Danny Sheehan to talk about the psi nature of UFOs. DETAILS HERE. Kelly’s well-trod path from a Disclosure hopeful to total disillusionment "Collective reclaiming of the impossible” - how we recover the parts of ourselves that have been amputated by shame around anomalous experiences How the phenomenon seems to collaborate with human consciousness in its very manifestation 99% of the visible universe is plasma - maybe the Sun really is a god Kelly and Jay are going full documentarian, publishing their work as they go Does reality move differently in cities versus remote areas because fewer observers are collapsing wave functions? Tangentially relevant — space psychologist Iya Whiteley’s work suggests human consciousness fundamentally changes off-planet Exposure to anomalous phenomena can be addictive Why the effect of paranormal phenomena on experiencers is more important than the substance of the experience itself The limitations of current research on “super experiencers” The materialist appropriation of pilgrimages Anomalous experiences can crack people open to other people’s experiences, which creates the powerful connective tissue it takes to build a community Much more at 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

Gods, Ghosts & UFOs is the biggest podcast in the universe, where we talk about all the things they said weren't real. Every Friday, hosts Jordan, Tom, and Mal use stories from the "news" as conversation starters for occasionally absurd but always open-minded explorations into topics of high strangeness. All recovering materialists welcome! And, please, come share your own stories at ⁠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

Time to break down the “four alien species” story ricocheting around the internet thanks to Dr. Eric Davis and Rep. Eric Burlison. Then on to eight (???) different “cryptoterrestrial” theories mapped out by none other than Space Enthusiast. Finally, some hauntings in royal places. (Couple of easter egg movie clips in here, too, for the watchers.) The SpecterVision announcement — we’ve officially joined the network alongside upwards of 60 other awesome shows. Congressman Eric Burlison publicly discusses Dr. Eric Davis's claims about grays, Nordics, insectoids, and reptilians. Jordan likes Burlison, but you can’t trust a narrative that is driven by veiled intelligence forces How organizations built on deception inevitably become breeding grounds for evil, even if most individuals within them aren't villainous Jordan is "promiscuously hopeful" that ALL the alien theories are at least a little bit true Fascinating “cryptoterrestrial” theories buried in hilariously bad writing Mac Tonnies’ posthumous, supernatural book promo Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother participated in a "religious cleansing ritual" for King George VI's death room A former Royal Library worker details a bunch of common, don’t-ask-don’t-tell stories of hauntings Multiple people experiencing the same haunting creates cozy confirmation rather than isolation. (And what makes for an actually scary horror movie.) There’s nothing cozier than a shared adventure Everyone has a radio for receiving supernatural signals but not everyone has theirs plugged in or tuned to the right stations Somatic fear responses might be an evolutionary danger detection system in the presence of the unknown "Nothing escapes the law" (if you know you know) *** 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

We’re in our happy place this week, exploring the overlap between ancient wisdom and modern science (can you guess who’s late to the party?) around the topic of actual auras (ultra-weak photon emissions), and then geeking out over mysterious objects in pre-satellite skies. Finally…MORE blurry Bigfoot footage! Also, more pertinently, indigenous “cryptid” legends. Highlights: A new reveals human brains emit detectable light that changes with mental states - auras, basically Is “we been knew” the perfect idiom for when white people "discover" things that Indigenous cultures and Eastern philosophies have known forever? We don’t actually “see” anything with our eyes - our brains construct reality from sensory input plus memory plus interpretation Case in point, Mal’s therapist refusing Zoom sessions because “I can’t feel your heart” Thank you project VASCO for discovering dozens (at least) of satellite-like objects in the sky BEFORE humans supposedly put anything in orbit One of the clearest pre-satellite anomalies appeared on July 27th, 1952 - the exact date of the famous Washington DC UFO flap If secret satellites were hiding in the clean skies of the 1940s and 50s, today's orbital debris provide the perfect camouflage A new video shows a dog watching a dark bipedal figure moving with characteristic "gliding" motion The footage shows curious, hide-and-seek behavior typical of teenagers Connections to the “Wild Woman of the Woods,” a First Nations supernatural being that is actually a symbol of feminine wisdom, wealth, and rites of passage How we consistently misunderstand and fear feminine wisdom Mal sings us some Janice Kapp Perry re: “countenances” Occam's Razor vs. Occam’s Sledgehammer: A scene from Signs reminds us that “rational” explanations can be more absurd than the “irrational” ones (Much more at 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

First up this week, we’re unpacking some statistics about American belief in a grab bag of paranormal buzzwords, followed by a richly deserved take-down of a rhetorically lazy debunking documentary (which also happens to be splattered with AI slop), and then finally (blessedly) discussing an esteemed neurobiologist’s convincing claim that DMT aliens are real. Highlights: * A big Gallup poll shows that believe in paranormal phenomena is strongly correlated with distrust of institutions * There are literally more self-identified witches (~1.5 million) than Presbyterians (~1.4 million) in America, representing massive growth from 8,000 self-described Wiccans in 1990 * "Witch" originally meant "skilled with medicines and charms" but became associated with "ugly, crabbed, malignant woman" by the 1400s—misogyny dressed as spirituality * Also: "Old wives' tales" is just another way to dismiss feminine wisdom, while Tolkien wrote "pay heed to the tales of old wives—they alone keep in memory what was once needful for the wise to know" * Gender is a spectrum, not an oppositional binary, but a spectrum of complementary forces * New York Post reporter Steven Greenstreet's “Pentagon Ghost Busters” documentary uses classic schoolyard bully tactics to dismiss UAP experiencers * Lazy rhetoric: attacking people for being Mormon, speaking at Bigfoot festivals, or having NDEs instead of addressing their actual claims * If something you're reading makes you mad, that's probably what it was designed to do * Me Too for UAP experiencers * J.B. Pritzker's wisdom: "The kindest person in the room is often the smartest"—cruelty reveals intellectual laziness and fear-based thinking * Neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore's book "Death by Astonishment" argues that DMT aliens are real non-human intelligences, not brain hallucinations * People consistently report similar alien encounters, impossible architectures, and receiving unknowable information during DMT trips * Gallimore doesn't think human brains are capable of fabricating "entirely non-human worlds in such exquisite and dynamic detail" * Rather, DMT might activate brain regions that connect us to outside entities using our own neural world-building tools as interface * Ego Death in 30 Seconds: DMT "obliterates our most cherished assumptions about who we are, where we are, and how advanced we really are" So much more at ggupodcast.substack.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

From Vatican-certified miracles to possible hoaxes to potentially malevolent balls of light, this week’s episode is a reminder that the world is full of hope and horror. Oh, also lots of comically stupid grifters. Hooray! Highlights: * Pope Leo XIV declares Rhode Island's first official miracle: a premature baby Tyquan (born 2007) came back to life after an hour of failed resuscitation * The bureaucracy of miracle approvals * We’re definitely on team Father Valera for Sainthood, who took care of sick people during a brutal 1860s cholera epidemic * Once again, what are miracles but mysteries? * Professional debunker Mick West claims to have spotted fishing line in latest Buga sphere video * Original witnesses David Velez and rancher William Zuniga now appear as regular cast members on Jaime Maussán's very silly TV show as "UFO Hunters" * Trust no one — known charlatan OR dogmatic debunkers * Why might true believers make stuff up? * The Min Min Lights actively stalk people across Australia’s Outback * Aboriginals believe these are spirits of elders protecting the land; scientists suggest…bioluminescent owls(??) * Fairy light vibes: beckoning witnesses to follow, then disappearing them forever * Some people find the lights beautiful and peaceful, others feel terror, some follow and never return * Trust your gut. It’s wiser than you think. * PS - Tom promises to drop fewer f-bombs. (And we promise to bleep the ones that come through.) You can go ahead and let the kids back in, now. Come on over. *** 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

This week, a biotech company that's literally bringing extinct species back to life, the spiritual migration from evangelical churches to tarot decks, and the neuroscience of how music hijacks our perception of time. Hint: it's all connected to ego death and the eternal now. Highlights: * Colossal Biosciences is actively de-extincting species (or are they?) from things like 13,000-year-old teeth and 74,000-year-old skulls * Example: The giant Moa, a 10-foot-tall flightless bird * Will this make a dent against predictions that 50% of current species will be extinct by 2050, triggering total ecosystem collapse? * The Great Spiritual Migration away from organized religion and toward DIY spirituality * Tom's tarot philosophy: It’s more about personal insight than supernatural divination * A brief discussion of the tension between vertical hierarchy vs. horizontal spirituality * Why evangelicals fear tarot and other traditions dismiss it * But really, everyone should avoid Ouija boards, aka metaphysical chainsaws * Music as time travel: A University of Waterloo study shows how songs can trigger vivid emotional memories (duh, actually) * Musical ego death: how the prefrontal cortex can shut down, leading to a "selfless zen-like state" * Tempo affects time perception (this is why spin classes feel so short) * The worst and best songs to listen to while driving * Music therapy can help dementia patients recall detailed autobiographical memories even when the music is unrelated to the memories Much more at 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

A buffet of bizarre beings from across the biological spectrum…and beyond! From eight-foot bipedal dog-like cryptids terrorizing the English countryside to strange new microorganisms thriving in Cleveland boat shafts, we are reminded that Earth is weirder and more populace than we can imagine. Highlights: * A mysterious hairy bipedal figure in Danes Dyke woodland - but nobody saw it until reviewing the photos later * The Beast of Bramston Drain - an eight-foot creature leaping over fences with a dead German Shepherd in its mouth * Despite the media calling them werewolves, Britain has virtually no werewolf tradition - wolves were extinct there by 1680 * Jordan’s (really stupid) Retributive Cryptid Theory * Why cryptids seem to materialize from nowhere * Cleveland researchers find completely new single-celled organism thriving in the anaerobic, grease-filled environment of a boat's rudder shaft * The Linean Shortfall: We've only identified 1.2 million species out of an estimated 10-20 million on Earth * Built environment biodiversity? New life forms are likely evolving in the artificial spaces we create * NASA's research on TLEs (transient luminous events) might actually be documenting the food sources for kilometer-sized predatory plasma entities * ELVES stands for "Emission of Light and Very Low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources" * The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) tallies 66 sightings over New York state so far this year * Tom never reported his UFO sighting, Jordan never heard of NUFORC despite it existing for 50 years. How many sightings go unreported? * Paranormal Apathy: You have an incredible experience, then just... take a nap, because your brain has no file folder for processing impossible events * Charles Forte’s "The Book of the Damned" discussed triangular UFOs and extraterrestrial craft possibilities back in 1918 * Why Pilots Stay Quiet: Even if officially allowed to report UAPs now, decades of career-ending consequences don't disappear overnight As always, much more at 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

This week we're joined by Mike Cleland, a researcher who has become renowned for uncovering the connection between owl encounters and UFO experiences. What started as a camping trip in 2006 has led Mike to collect thousands of stories about coincidence, consciousness, and contact. Highlights: * Mike's transformative 2006 camping trip with three and a revelation * A laundromat synchronicity * The five highly charged human experiences where owls consistently appear * Why Mike believes UFO contact is fundamentally a spiritual path * Hundreds of reports of impossibly large owls on roads, at bedsides, and in windows * A summer camp counselor watches a gray alien morph into a four-foot owl before walking into the woods * Three owls that followed a family through a haunted Utah town * A kid, a kite, and a tangled up owl * How to invite more synchronicities * A man gets a “phenomenological dope slap" from a screeching barred owl that poses for photos * Why experiencers need to be part of UFO research * The four questions Mike asks owl experiencers * “The Unseen" - Mike’s UFO novel that never mentions UFOs Much more at 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