Crackpot

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There are hundreds of enormous drawings in the deserts of Peru that can only be seen from the air, and no one seems to know why they exist! These intricate designs were made by removing a layer of sand and gravel from the desert floor, but the finished products include birds, mammals, geometric shapes, and even…humanoid figures! Why would an ancient people devote so much time and effort to making pictures that can only be seen from hundreds of feet in the air? Tune in this week to find out!

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N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a Schedule I hallucinogenic drug that occurs naturally in some plants but also in the human brian. The effects of DMT are varied but often leads to experiences where the user believes himself to be in an alternate reality, often described as more real than normal reality. And while each person's experience is unique, what is perhaps the most surprising of all are people's accounts of meeting and talking to sentient beings who impart wisdom, and sometimes predict future events. Is this something that exists entirely inside the mind or is DMT a gateway to a different reality? And is there any correlation to the similarities between DMT experiences and Near Death Experiences, the Faerie Realm, and the Alien Abduction Phenomenon?

Click HERE for our past episode on DMT

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First up, Tim shares the wildly absurd and actually believable conspiracy theory that Walt Disney is the illegitimate son of a Spanish noble and poor washer woman. What's the full story? Why does it involve the FBI? And why did Walt Disney work so hard to keep this hush hush? For the second half of the show Zach shares the internet conspiracy theory that all movies in the Pixar collection exist in the same universe and timeline. How does it work? Could it be real? And what does Pixar have to say about it? Tune in to find out!

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You put an object down, leave the room, and return later only to notice the same object is missing. Or perhaps you misplaced something while you were on vacation only to find it months or years later back at home without any plausible explanation. We've all had this happen, but what's really going on? This week Tim breaks down the phenomenon written about by Mary Rose Barrington in her book JOTT: When things Disappear…and Come Back or Relocate - and Why it Really Happens. Listen as we get to the bottom of what happens when something disappears but you simply cannot explain how you found it again.

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Just when we thought maybe we've heard it all, this episode comes along and has us totally perplexed. Tune in this week to hear one of the most fascinating and bizarre stories of all time: a chess match played between the living and the dead via a spirit medium. This week Zach breaks down the epic chess match that lasted nearly 8 years between a very real and alive Viktor Korchnoi and a very (probably) real and dead Geza Maroczy. What happened? How did it work? And why do experts think this is real? Join the boys this week to find out!

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This week Zach shares stories of the weird and scary internet creepy pasta phenomenon that is Slenderman. Although created out of whole cloth in 2009 on an online message board, no fake character has ever achieved the same level of notoriety. And despite the fact that Slenderman's origin can be traced back to a single person, the lore developed cult-like following and even led to several attempted murders. Tune in this week to hear about the scary and bizarre world of Slenderman.

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While the title of this episode sounds improbable and probably crazy it may not be as far-fetched as you might assume. This week Tim breaks down a unique and controversial theory put forth by biological anthropologist Dr. Michael P Masters that may explain UAPs and abductions. Is it possible that the flying saucers seen by many are in fact from this world? Could it be that eyewitness accounts of extraterrestrials are in fact sightings of humans from the future? Tune in this week as the boys discuss the book Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon.

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Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada is home to one of the most remote and pristine areas on Earth. It's also home to a number of mysterious headless bodies! Join the boys this week as they try to solve who dunnit (and the hows and whys). In a place this remote and this uninhabited, instead of asking WHO did it, it's almost easier to ask WHAT did it.

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It's that time of the year when Americans are required to file their taxes. While this may sound like a fairly simple and innocuous task, leave it to the United States Government to have the most convoluted messed up system in the world. Surprised? Neither are we! And to make matters worse, corporate greed is behind all of it. Tune in to this week's show to feel a whole range of emotions you didn't know existed when it comes to filing your own taxes!

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Sulfur. Ozone. Rotting meat. These are some of the smells associated with aliens, spirits, and Bigfoot. Although it's not talked about often, witnesses to the paranormal often report very distinct smells. Because the olfactory sense can trigger memories and experiences in ways different from vision, hearing, touch or taste…in a way, it almost makes their accounts more believable. Come along this week as the boys do their best to describe the smells of the paranormal in (you guessed it) an audio format!

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