Hello and welcome to AfterWyrd, where we cram in all the wyrdness that doesn't fit into our regular episodes. This week, we're diving into a trio of stories that cover everything from time-traveling tales to celestial oddities and eerie scientific discoveries.

In this episode:

• A Chat with a Monster Hunter: Andy recounts meeting Nicholas Juba, a travel writer and author of Monsterland, at a recent book festival. Nicholas’s fascinating take on why we're still obsessed with monsters today leads to a discussion about a potential future guest for the podcast.
• Wyrd Wessex is Time Traveling: The hosts try to figure out the timeline of their events, leading to a discussion about linear time, festivals, and the past, present, and future all happening all at once. It’s enough to make anyone’s brain hurt.
• The Return of Crop Circles: We dive into the news about recent crop circles appearing in Wiltshire and Dorset. One headline screams “Alien Invasion Fears,” but we discover the much more mundane (and profitable) truth behind the geometric designs.
• NASA Can’t Rule Out Aliens: We discuss a mysterious, pulsing signal from a star 100 light-years away that has completely stumped scientists. Could it be a message from an alien civilization, or is there another, more mundane explanation?
• The Eerie Glow of All Living Things: What if we told you all humans emit a faint light that is "snuffed out upon death?" We explore a scientific study on Ultra-Weak Photon Emission and lament that it's not the proof of ghosts we were hoping for.

"Don't blame the owls."

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