The American rocket pioneer, Jack Parsons, co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena while running a cult with his wife's younger sister. His bizzare life has been turned into the show "Strange Angel" on CBS+. Dane reviews the literature on Parsons, exploring the man's deeply personal life and the explosive impact Parsons has had on the American UFO mythos.

51 - The Bizarre Life of Rocket Engineer and Occultist Jack Parsons

We explore claims about the occult, supernatural, and paranormal from an analytic standpoint. We’re open to the existence of a world beyond the five senses, and we dismiss that dogmatic skepticism that insists that any story about the unexplained has to reduce to ‘hallucinations’ or ‘swamp gas,’ but we’re not committed to any particular theory or philosophy about what the paranormal is. And we realize that, whatever is out there, the answer is likely to be more complicated than any existing model or theory. What we bring to the table is small ‘s’ skepticism – a skepticism that we throw as much on the mainstream accounts, as we do on the supernatural story.

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51 - The Bizarre Life of Rocket Engineer and Occultist Jack Parsons

51 - The Bizarre Life of Rocket Engineer and Occultist Jack Parsons