Episodes

  • Kenneth Arnold - Flying Saucers - 183
    Jul 7 2025

    This time, we talk about the sighting that kicked the UFO craze off.

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    The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, by Edward J. Ruppelt

    The Coming Of The Saucers - Kenneth Arnold

    Flying saucers still evasive 70 years after pilot’s report - Phil Wright

    The Flying Saucer Menace - Skeptoid

    Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking - Robert E. Bartholomew

    Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot - Chicago Sun

    Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket - Wikipedia

    Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia

    UFO REPORTS 1947

    1947: Year of the Flying Saucer | National Air and Space Museum

    Vintage Aircraft Museum Call Air A-2

    The UFO Book : Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial - Jerome Clarke

    Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 - Ted Bloecher

    Kenneth Arnold McChord | DocumentCloud

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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Pennsylvania Bigfoot and UFOs - The Not So Silent Invasion - 182
    Jun 23 2025

    This week, Brandon takes us through Silent Invasion by Stan Gordon, as we talk steel wool, Bigfoot, and people named Steve.

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    Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook by Stan Gordon

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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Bake-Kujira - Godzilla Talk - 181
    May 27 2025

    This week, we take something like 20 minutes to talk about the deep-sea fish in Godzilla Minus One.

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    Bakekujira and Japan’s Whale Cults | 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai

    The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai (Yokai Series Book 1)

    The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore Michael Dylan Foster

    Bake-kujira - Wikipedia

    本当にいる日本の「未知生物」案内 最新版 |本 | 通販 | Amazon

    Kamishibai - Wikipedia

    Whale and Fish Cult in Japan: A Basic Feature of Ebisu Worship

    The Gods of the Sea

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Heol Fanog Witch Farm - Welsh Family Trauma - 180
    Apr 28 2025

    In a stealth series, we cover what more credulous individuals call Welsh Amityville. In contrast, we just call it sad.

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    The Haunting History of Heol Fanog part 2: The Witch Farm or The Welsh Amityville — StrangeOutdoors.com

    The remote farmhouse that's been called Britain's most haunted house | Wales Online

    The terrifying real story of the True Horror haunted house

    Spooky Saturday: The haunted legacy of Heol Fanog | brecon-radnor.co.uk

    Heol Fanog – Mark Chadbourn

    The 'true' horror of Heol Fanog: what really happened at the Welsh Amityville?

    At home with a power-hungry phantom | The Independent

    Not Seeing Ghosts – Straeon Rhyfedd

    Case Study of Recognition Patterns in Haunted People Syndrome - PMC

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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • The Falcon Lake Incident - Polish Man in the Woods - 179
    Apr 14 2025

    This week, two partial Poles make fun of the Polish people as we tell the legendary story of Stefan Michalak.

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    Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later - CBC

    Population of Canada by province and territory - Wikipedia

    Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 8 - Full Episode

    Find a Grave - Stefan Michalak

    When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967: The inside story of a close encounter

    Under the cloud : the decades of nuclear testing : Miller, Richard L. (Richard Lee),

    Stefan Michalak, Falcon Beach, Manitoba- Police Report - 26 May 1967

    Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome: Mechanisms, Models, Markers, and Medical Countermeasures - PMC

    The Winnipeg Tribune - 22 May 1967

    - Police Report - 18 June 1967

    - Police Report - 10 August 1967

    The Iron Skeptic - Stefan Michalak

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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • The Hammersmith Ghost - Deja Vu - 178
    Mar 31 2025

    This week, Brandon makes John experience some baffling Deja Vu.

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    Hammersmith Ghost murder case - Wikipedia

    Hammersmith Ghost: An 1803-1804 Haunting - geriwalton.com

    The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years | In Custodia Legis

    The Newgate calendar : comprising interesting memoirs of the

    Apparitions; or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed

    London Ghosts

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The Man From Taured - The Man Who Needed an Editor - 177
    Mar 18 2025

    This week, we learn that lousy editing will cause people to move across dimensions.

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    The Man from Taured - Skeptoid

    Japanese economic miracle - Wikipedia

    The Mystery of the Man from Taured | Snopes.com

    FRONTIER FORMALITIES (SIMPLIFICATION) (Hansard, 29 July 1960)

    Fortean Times 2021 June Issue Page 55 The Man from Taured - Julia Louis

    Article clipped from The Province - Newspapers.com™

    The Directory of Possibilities - John Grant

    r/UnresolvedMysteries on Reddit: On July 1954, A man arrives at Tokyo airport in Japan. He’s of Caucasian appearance but the officials are suspicious. On checking his passport, they see that he hails from a country called Taured. The passport looked genuine, except for the fact that there is no such country as Taured

    I'm doing some research about the "man from Taured" hoax, and need help searching newspapers articles : r/japan?

    r/japan on Reddit: I am Japanese. I researched an old newspaper about "man from Taured".

    Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 249-250

    Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 156-160

    どこにもない国の、外交官の話〜「ネグシ・ハベシ国大使逮捕事件」から60年、ご存知でしたか?

    The Man From Taured, Solved: John Zegrus & How A Real-Life Event Became An Urban Legend

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Wisconsin Grab Bag: Mineral Point Vampire and Ridgeway Ghost - Tree Drunks - 176
    Mar 4 2025

    This week, Brandon read his copy out of order.

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    Wisconsin State Journal

    Mineral Point Vampire - The Capital Times

    Urban Plains - Dairy State Dracula

    The Mineral Point Vampire — Wisconsinology

    The Ridgeway Ghost of Wisconsin | Into Horror History | J.A. Hernandez

    Village History | Ridgeway WI

    Some Wisconsin Ghosts - New York Times

    Hunting the American Werewolf: Beast Men in Wisconsin and Beyond - Linda S. Godfrey

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    1 hr and 20 mins