Dreamland

What if contact isn’t an isolated event—but a legacy carried through generations?

In this Dreamland episode, Whitley Strieber speaks with Laurie, a close encounter witness whose experiences reach deep into her family’s past—and continue into the present in ways that challenge everything we think we know about contact.

Her story begins long before she was born, with a lineage tied to ancient European traditions and a startling encounter in the 1940s, when a golden orb descended from the sky and examined her family before vanishing. From there, the experiences unfold across decades: the famous Kecksburg incident witnessed as a child, mysterious orbs outside her window, a massive hovering craft and missing time, and later, repeated visitations from small beings who appeared in her bedroom over a period of years.

But this is more than a series of encounters. It is a life shaped by an unseen presence—one that seems to guide, observe, and at times, take control.

Laurie’s account is remarkable not only for its intensity, but for its clarity. There is little fear here—only curiosity, resilience, and a growing sense that these events may be part of something far larger than a single life.

Why do some families seem marked for contact across generations? What is the connection between ancient traditions, folklore, and modern encounters? And what happens when memory itself begins to return?

Fasten your seatbelts. This is not just a story—it is a journey into the enduring mystery of human contact with the unknown.

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A totally wild tale told by a gentle woman who has support from family members about what has to be one of the most revealing and amazing story of extreme experiences we're ever going to hear. Plus, throughout the interview, Whitley keeps reporting bizarre experiences of deja-vu, a first in the entire history of Dreamland. He says, "when I first laid eyes on her, it was as if I had known her for years. Then it kept feeling like I had ALREADY DONE the interview, and was repeating myself. Very, very anomalous for me."  This wonderful story reminds us of a truth that the powers that be would prefer we forget: we are MORE and WE are the mystery here!

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This week on Dreamland, Whitley welcomes Ronnie Pontiac, writer, scholar of esoteric traditions, and longtime student of the hidden spiritual currents that have shaped human history. Ronnie’s new book, The Unobstructed Way, reopens the astonishing story of Stuart Edward White and Betty Grant White, whose early 20th-century communications with “the invisibles” offered a profound vision of consciousness, immortality, and the afterlife as realities present here and now.

Ronnie takes us into the forgotten world of the Betty Books, the Ouija board incident of 1919, the development of Betty’s mediumship, and the idea that awakening is not a heroic struggle but a release from the obstructions created by fear, habit, and the mind itself. He also shares deeply personal stories of his years with Manly P. Hall and of his wife Tamara, whose love, wisdom, and continued presence after death have transformed his understanding of survival and spiritual contact.

Together, Whitley and Ronnie explore the “vortex” of fear that traps human life, and the unobstructed consciousness that may be our true home.

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On this episode of Dreamland, guest host James Faulk interviews Reddit moderator Oak Draíocht, also known as Conor Sisk, about his long experience of anomalous contact and his downloaded mission to establish a community for experiencers of the phenomenon.

Sisk is a founder and principle organizer of the largest online experiencer community, r/experiencers on Reddit.

We explore how Sisk first realized the reality of the extent of his relationship with non-human intelligence, and came to understand what was at stake in terms of human evolution and the ongoing awakening of global consciousness. A message first received in childhood has unfolded over the years to deliver Sisk an important message about his role and responsibilities in fostering a supportive environment for those who've come into contact with the phenomenon.

We also discuss how experiencers are often pursued and commodified by corporate and governmental powers, and why Reddit has become a hot bed for disinformation.

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Peter Levenda returns to Dreamland for a powerful and unsettling journey into the hidden architecture of history, consciousness, occultism, and the UFO mystery. Where are the hidden threads that connect all this into one great spiderweb, and what is true and what is conspiracy theorist fantasy…if anything? How does Jeffrey Epstein connect to the UFO coverup and who, despite his lack of qualifications, was hired as a math teacher at the Dalton School by headmaster Donald Barr? Barr, the father of William Barr, attorney general under both George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, also published a science fiction novel called Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery, which anticipates Epstein’s real-life crimes. 

Using the analogy of colonial contact and cargo cults, Levenda explores the possibility that humanity itself may be the product of an ancient ontological shock—one that shaped religion, science, civilization, genetics, and our longing to leave the planet. He and Whitley also enter darker territory: Nazi occultism, Operation Paperclip, mind-control research, Jack Parsons, NASA’s military origins, synchronicity, conspiracy culture, and the urgent need to distinguish genuine hidden forces from destructive fantasy.

This is Peter Levenda at his most wide-ranging and provocative: a conversation about contact, deception, disclosure, and the strange possibility that the invasion we fear may already be moving through consciousness itself.

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This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber welcomes legendary near-death researcher P.M.H. Atwater for a profound exploration of one of the deepest mysteries of all: the strange connection between near-death experiences, alien contact, the dead, and consciousness itself.

Her new book, Aliens and the Near-Death Experience, asks whether these seemingly separate worlds may actually be parts of a single, immense reality. Atwater discusses her own near-death experiences, the voice that directed her life’s work, her research with thousands of experiencers, and the startling cases in which people who had NDEs later encountered otherworldly beings.

The conversation ranges from Idaho’s long history of “flying saucers” over its great canyons, to Kenneth Ring’s Omega Project, John Mack’s interest in alien identity, and Atwater’s own astonishing account of an “alien” aspect of herself called Arrakis.

At its heart, this is a conversation about what human beings really are, what death may reveal, and whether contact, consciousness, and the afterlife are all doorways into the same vast mystery.

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In this Dreamland special, Whitley interviews Leslie Kean about the press conference she and James Fox organized on the Capitol Steps on June 9. What did it mean, and what’s the next disclosure step…and what about those “plasmoid intelligences” that David Grush talked about? Don’t miss this hard-hitting special!

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This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber and Lucinda Morrel enter some of the most disturbing territory in the disclosure conversation: the death of Melissa Casias, the disappearance of General William McCasland, and the possibility that people close to hidden knowledge may be facing threats far darker than ridicule or professional ruin. Whitley opens with a chilling comparison to Sippenhaft—the coercive tactic of threatening families developed by the Gestapo—and asks whether modern variants of that pressure could be operating inside rogue, compartmentalized structures connected to secrecy.

Lucinda brings the Melissa Casias case into sharp focus, noting the strange details: phones reportedly wiped, personal belongings left behind, and the unsettling possibility that an administrative assistant may have known far more than anyone realized. From there, the conversation widens into the fear, paranoia, and isolation surrounding whistleblowers, witnesses, and experiencers.

But this is not only a dark show. It is also a call to action. Whitley and Lucinda discuss the urgent need for an experiencer movement created by experiencers themselves—not controlled by academics, officials, sponsors, or institutions seeking “power over” them. Their goal is sovereignty, dignity, mutual support, and a movement rooted in lived experience rather than exploitation.

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On this episode of Dreamland, monthly guest host James Faulk interviews lifelong experiencer Birdie Jaworski about her contact with non-human intelligences, her experience learning how to remote view, and her eventual decision to abandon old nomenclature and design her own RV system: Transdimensional Mapping. 

Jaworski describes several contact events, starting in childhood and culminating in an eventual relationship with a grey alien she calls “the grey dude,” who ultimately left her with downloaded information that continues to arise, as needed, during the course of her daily life.  

Jaworski, also known as Prudence Calabrese, relates the difficulty in performing this type of work, and points to various instances in the past when people took her work too seriously for their own good. 

Finally, for subscribers, they explore the worldview her work has led her to embrace, and the process of UFO disclosure. As a confidante of Danny Sheehan, Jaworksi is affiliated with the New Paradigm Institute and has long been an advocate for government transparency.

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This week on Dreamland, Whitley welcomes his dear friend and collaborator Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, Rice University’s J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion and creator of the Archives of the Impossible, for a profound discussion of disclosure, consciousness, and the experiencer’s place in the unfolding mystery.

Jeff’s new book, How to Think Impossibly, offers a crucial framework for approaching non-human intelligence without reducing it to either conventional science or inherited religion. Together, Whitley and Jeff explore why the testimony of experiencers must not be pushed aside, how imagination can become a disciplined way of knowing, and why the humanities may hold keys that science alone cannot provide.

They also discuss the danger that “disclosure,” if handled only by government, military, and scientific authorities, could imprison the experience in third-person documents while ignoring the living first-person reality at its heart. This is a searching, intimate conversation about consciousness beyond the brain, revelation, writing, AI, and the future of human understanding.

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