Paranormal Directive 13

On October 20, 1967, two men rode into the wilderness of Northern California searching for something most people didn't believe existed. They came back with 59.5 seconds of film that would become the most famous piece of evidence in the history of Bigfoot.Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin were riding along Bluff Creek when they encountered something standing on the opposite side of a creek bed. Patterson's horse went down, he grabbed his camera, and what happened next would spark nearly six decades of controversy.But who were the men behind the camera? What brought them to Bluff Creek? And what exactly happened during those few moments that changed the Bigfoot phenomenon forever?In Part One of our multi-part investigation into the Patterson-Gimlin Film, we're going back to October 1967 to tell the story of the encounter itself. From Patterson's obsession with finding Sasquatch to the journey into the California wilderness, the unexpected appearance on the sandbar, and the frantic moments when the camera finally started rolling.We're not here to prove the footage is real or declare it a hoax. Not yet. First, we need to understand what happened that afternoon.Because almost 60 years later, we're still arguing about those 59 seconds.And as we'll discover in the episodes ahead, the controversy surrounding the Patterson-Gimlin Film may be just as fascinating as the footage itself.This is Paranormal Directive 13. And this is the story of the Patterson-Gimlin Film.Follow Paranormal Directive 13 for the rest of this multi-part series.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.comPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In July 1952, something strange was showing up on radar over Washington, D.C. And it wasn't just one radar operator seeing things.Over the course of two weekends, air traffic controllers, military personnel, and airline pilots reported unidentified objects over the nation's capital. Radar operators tracked targets moving at incredible speeds. Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept them, but the objects seemed to disappear whenever the aircraft arrived. Then, just as mysteriously, they would return.The sightings caused a national uproar, eventually forcing the Air Force to hold a major press conference at the Pentagon. Major General John Samford offered an explanation involving temperature inversions and unusual radar returns. But not everyone who witnessed the events agreed.In this episode, we're looking back at the 1952 Washington UFO Flap, examining the radar encounters, fighter intercepts, eyewitness reports, and the government's investigation. We'll also explore the CIA's Robertson Panel and how these events helped shape the government's approach to UFO reports for years to come.Were these mysterious targets the result of unusual atmospheric conditions, misidentified objects, or something the Air Force couldn't explain?Let's take a look at one of the most famous UFO incidents ever reported over American airspace.This is Paranormal Directive 13.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.comPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first part of our investigation into the Scole Experiment, we descended into a cellar in rural England where a small group of Spiritualists claimed to be communicating with the dead. But as the experiments continued, the phenomena became increasingly bizarre. Voices emerged from the darkness. Messages appeared on photographic film. Objects materialized out of nowhere. And then, in April 1998, something resembling a face appeared on a video screen.The group called it Blue.By November of that year, the experiment had come to an abrupt end. According to the communicators, the group had opened an interdimensional doorway that was attracting dangerous interference from forces they couldn't control.But what actually happened inside the Scole Hole?In Part Two, we turn the lights on and investigate the evidence. We examine the controversial Scole Report, the skeptical researchers who challenged its conclusions, and the competing explanations for the strange lights, disembodied voices, mysterious objects, and images that appeared on photographic film. We also investigate the Germanium Receptor, the Project Alice videotapes, and Walter Schnittger's remarkable experiments using his own film and locked container.Along the way, we separate documented events from paranormal claims, explore the conspiracy theories surrounding alleged government involvement, and confront the biggest question of all: Could a five-year experiment involving hundreds of séances really be explained away as trickery, misperception, and coincidence?The evidence isn't as straightforward as either side would like you to believe.The Scole Experiment didn't conclusively prove life after death. But declaring the entire case a hoax doesn't account for every unanswered question, either.After five years, more than 500 sittings, and a bitter divide among the investigators themselves, one thing is clear: the experiment never managed to answer its own question.And whatever was, or wasn't, happening in that cellar, the people who spent five years asking the other side to show itself were eventually told to stop asking.This is Paranormal Directive 13. Keep investigating.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.comPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if a group of people trying to contact the dead ended up making contact with something else entirely?In the 1990s, four people gathered in the pitch-black cellar of a 17th-century English farmhouse and began conducting what would become known as the Scole Experiment. Over five years and more than 500 séances, they claimed to witness lights moving intelligently through the darkness, disembodied voices, objects appearing out of nowhere, and messages materializing on sealed rolls of photographic film that had never been placed in a camera.Then things got even stranger.A team of psychical researchers, including a professor of electrical engineering, investigated the claims. An engineer brought his own film, his own locked container, and a setup he personally controlled. According to the investigators, unexplained images still appeared. The group also built a homemade communication device from a circuit diagram allegedly received from the spirit of Thomas Edison.But the most disturbing development came when the group began experimenting with video feedback. In April 1998, a session produced an image the group interpreted as a face belonging to something nonhuman. They called it Blue.Was the Scole Experiment evidence of life after death, an elaborate deception, or something that investigators simply couldn't explain?In Part One, we're going inside the Scole Hole to follow the experiment from its earliest manifestations to the moment something appeared to look back.The lights are off. Let's see what was waiting in the dark.Paranormal Directive 13.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.comPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Deep in the woods of Prince George’s County, Maryland, there’s a legend about a creature that stalks the back roads, screams in the darkness, and carries an axe. They call him the Goatman.But the real story behind one of America’s most infamous cryptids might be stranger than the monster itself.Our investigation begins in November 1971, when a puppy named Ginger was found decapitated near a railroad track in Old Bowie, Maryland. Her family blamed the Goatman, and a local rumor suddenly became front-page news. But the legend was already taking shape months earlier, and the original accounts describe something very different from the half-human, half-goat monster we know today.This week on Paranormal Directive 13, we trace the Goatman’s evolution from a mysterious local hermit to an axe-wielding cryptid. We investigate the alleged government genetic experiments at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the infamous claim that the Goatman murdered fourteen hikers in 1962, and the connections to Maryland’s haunted bridges, abandoned hospitals, and the legendary Bunnyman of Virginia.Along the way, we uncover how newspaper headlines, teenage pranks, urban legends, and an unlikely haunted house attraction helped build the monster’s modern mythology.Was there ever something in those Maryland woods? Or did a series of strange events transform an ordinary local rumor into a legend that refuses to die?The evidence tells a fascinating story. Whether it tells the whole story is another question.Stay curious, and keep your eyes on the tree line.Follow Paranormal Directive 13 for more investigations into cryptids, conspiracies, unexplained encounters, and the mysteries hiding just beneath the surface of the ordinary.Patreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.comPatreonpatreon.com/ParanormalDirective13Tiktoktiktok.com/paranormaldirective13Instagraminstagram.com/paranormaldirective13Youtubeyoutube.com/paranormaldirective13Music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.