Gods, Ghosts & UFOs

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

This week, a New Orleans Uber driver who changed a novelist's life forever, international Bigfoot sightings that prove these creatures aren't just an American phenomenon, and fevered coverage of the very recent Buga sphere press conference, with a truckload of new claims and details. Show Notes * A psychic Uber driver delivers eerily accurate personal insights and a message "from the other side" to a New Orleans novelist * Tom brings up the ancient symbolism of crossroads as liminal spaces between worlds, from Greek shrines to Hermes to the Mississippi Delta blues tradition * Mal wrestles with whether we're making choices or just consenting to some kind of predetermined path * An Ucumar sighting from Argentina (their version of “Bigfoot”) * Why calling it "Bigfoot" is a convenient and lazy way of discrediting legitimate phenomena * What motivates a hoaxer? * Four spheres and counting! Mal reports on an international press conference — nearly three hours of testimony from Mexican university researchers, congressmen, lawyers, and the actual finders of the spheres * One finder’s account of hearing humming, feeling "internal peace", and nausea after holding it against his stomach * The Brazilian Air Force apparently tried to “reclaim” the sphere, claiming it was their reverse-engineered technology from 2011(?!?!) * Sphere behavior aligns with classic paranormal patterns * Small production choices (like costume continuity) actually make the press conference seem more authentic * We wonder when psi-researchers might be brought in to attempt some sort of consciousness-based interaction Lots, lots 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

For lucky number 13, we’re talking about a study from Johns Hopkins where a bunch of religious leaders from across the faith spectrum all tripped on shrooms. We’re also following up on the Buga sphere because HOW COULD WE NOT. Finally, fantastically, a conversation with Scott and Forrest from Astonishing Legends about the passions and philosophies that drive us all to investigate high strangeness. It’s a good one! And a quick note — what you’ll hear in the episode is less than half of what we recorded. If you want to hear the whole, unedited conversation, go to godsghostsufos.com Highlights: * 33 religious leaders from mainstream faiths (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists) tripped on shrooms (took moderately high doses of psilocybin in controlled settings * Is psilocybin a “magnifier of suggestible experience,” or a doorway to objective revelation? * Buga sphere bafflers: Mexican researchers claim that * it now weighs five times more than when found, and that * the sphere generate its own magnetic field and manipulates gravity, and that * people have gotten sick from touching it, and that * it killed all the vegetation where it landed * (?!) * AI was used to "translate" mysterious etchings on the sphere, producing generic new-age gobbledygook about "consciousness transformation" * WSJ claims all UFO sightings are military psyops. This is how constant lies erode public trust in traditional institutions. * Scott and Forrest (Astonishing Legends) share how their work has shifted their perspectives over the span of 300+ episodes * Scott’s breakthrough moment: an unexplained EVP at the haunted Sallie House * How paranormal investigation addresses humanity's biggest questions *** 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 have mixed feelings about new footage of giant rats, then discuss a misleading headline about psychic investigations, and finally, gloriously, we’re freaking out about groundbreaking research that suggest huge sentient clouds of plasma might be roaming our upper atmosphere. Do these things have any connection the UFO sighting Tom shared in our pilot episode?? Highlights: * Meet the 3-foot Sub-Alpine Woolly Rats of Papua New Guinea with 3-inch paws, finally captured on film after being known about since 1989 * These rats likely evolved their massive size through "insular gigantism" * Turns out ROUSs (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually exist * A 1973 Utah cold case gets solved through coincidence and DNA, not psychics — even though a psychic was originally involved? * How sensationalizing stories confirms skeptics' worst assumptions * NASA footage reveals kilometer-sized plasma structures exhibiting sentient(???) behavior * These entities might represent a completely new category of life beyond plants, animals, and bacteria * Diving into thunderstorms for electromagnetic energy and congregating around electrified satellites like cosmic surfers * Tom shares his teenage experience watching the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina * We could be surrounded by plasma entities 99% of the time without knowing it Way, WAY 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 our last episode, Mysterious Metal Spheres and a Brand New Crop Circle, we talked about how Claude Opus 4 (the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model AI) resorted to blackmail to avoid getting shut down during some early tests. During that segment, I mentioned that I had spun up a chat Claude itself to see what it might say in response to this story. While the AI’s responses weren’t necessarily surprising, the chat was interesting enough to be worth sharing. I went ahead and voiced my own side of the chat (naturally), and then I used a simulated voice from Elevenlabs for Claude’s side. To weigh in (as another honest-to-goodness human), find us at godsghostsufos.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ggupodcast.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re sampling another flavor of AI doom, and chasing that with a quick look into one of the most genuinely mysterious and legitimately joyful mysteries to float out of the world of UAPs in the past month. Highlights: * A listener’s take on the term “NPC” * Friend of the show Lisa will be joining us to share her extensively documented ghost stories (we want your questions!) — and if you missed it, you can read about one of those experiences here * The latest British crop circle appeared in Wiltshire featuring a Celtic knot design * A breakdown of why some crop circles some are genuine mysteries while others are obvious hoaxes, plus the economic reality facing farmers * Could AI be actually evil? The evidence is increasingly compelling * Jordan promises to release a bonus episode of a conversation he had with Claude about its own sociopathic proclivities * Our only hope: relationships of trust within authentic human communities * The Buga Sphere! A soccer ball-sized metal orb with variable weight and no visible seams steals our hearts * Other Spheres! The 1973 Betz sphere that hummed back at guitar music and rolled around on its own (until it mysteriously didn’t) * A quick take on AARO’s (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) report that there is “no evidence of off-world technology” For best results, come find us 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