Kicking us off this week, Mal takes us through the complete James saga—a YouTuber whose mysterious “UFO” turned into toxic performance art. After that, a high-level conversation about The Age of Disclosure, before Tom finally gets to share a wonderful update from Loch Ness.

It’s good, guys. It’s real good.

Highlights:

Recapping and then tying off the story of James the UFOtuber

How he started off, what made him compelling, etc

That time a couple weeks ago when he maybe faked his own death?

His half-hearted attempts to keep the mystery alive

The big reveal that it was all a hoax

A lively conversation about the crappiness of this whole thing, and what it reveals as an artifact of our culture

Weaponized sincerity, parasocial manipulation, and other fun ideas to enjoy

Jordan’s meta-review of The Age of Disclosure (including a quick recap of his experience attending a screening in LA)

A stupid review from the New York Times that we refuse to link to

A Bug’s Life as a labor organizing manifesto

Go join Citizens for Disclosure (after you hear an impassioned pitch for civic engagement)

Something is shifting, people are tired of the same things, conversations are bending differently

News from Loch Ness - researchers used underwater drones to capture very boring footage and very interesting SOUNDS

Very much also: charming Scottish narration and infectious enthusiasm

The lake monster laugh is going to be our new ringtone

And in the epilogue

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This week, for kicks, we decided to flame a rancid piece of alien abduction “journalism,” including feeding the thing to AI on a whim to see what happens. Then, on the back of an article in The Debrief about a supposed “Seventh Sense,” we get into a speculative conversation about transhumanism, biology, technology, and human perception, before circling back to waste more time with sycophantic LLMs.

Beware the energy vampires.

Highlights:

A thorough dissection of alien abduction woo-woo gobbledygook

A “spiritual healer” who probably doesn’t exist, albino men in parks, bodies on spacecraft walls, O negative blood as 1950s genetic engineering, and UFOs “dumping out water and frogs”

The article claims “we are a much more advanced version of AI... Tesla approved that”—a sentence made of words

Experiencers dealing with trauma and isolation deserve thoughtful journalism, not content farm garbage

We ask Claude what it thinks, and are reminded how important it is to frame questions carefully when interacting with AI

From Chrissy Newton at The Debrief - New research from Queen Mary University reveals humans can detect objects buried in sand before touching them

Humans achieved 70% accuracy detecting hidden cubes; AI-assisted robots only managed 40%

Mirror touch synesthesia: some people literally feel what they see happening to others—sight translating directly into tactile sensation

The “seventh sense” is actually our fingertips reading microscopic disturbances in sand around hidden objects—feeling the echo of what’s beneath

Our technology mimics nature, then reveals deeper layers of complexity in nature, in an infinitely recursive pattern

Why transhumanist dreams of replacing our “fragile, broken bodies” with robot perfection are probably very silly

The more we understand biology, the more we realize how incomprehensibly sophisticated human bodies actually are

What if advanced civilizations actually value hard work done by hand?

Assembly lines run by robots: great. Assembly lines staffed by humans forced to behave like robots: the worst

Remember that AI slop is basically an energy vampire

And in the epilogue:

How good horror movies are basically modern incarnations of the Aristotelian tragedy

Wrestling with the probability that the universe is full of super-intelligent, non-human monsters

Why we blame victims to make ourselves feel safer

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This week we’re looking into a technology-assisted variant of an ancient, mystical practice to locate subterranean water veins, and then Tom’s got the full scoop on America’s first documented haunting. You can also expect an update on James the YouTuber with a tuber of a UFO, which has frankly not aged well.

We have a lotta fun, don’t we, guys.

Highlights:

Map dowsing! How it’s the same and how it’s different from using a rod to find water.

Tom’s family once hired a “water witch” with dowsing rods to find a place to drill their mountain well

The Stanford Research Institute studied dowsing for the CIA in the 1970s, finding statistically significant results but no explanation for how it works

Professional dowsers charge $500+ per session to help locate optimal drilling sites for major water works projects

An update on James, which, yes, we know is incredibly and hilariously OUT of date now

The Wizard Clip: 1790s Virginia haunting where invisible forces cut crescent moon shapes into everything — clothes, saddles, boots, bedding

Adam Livingston refused last rites to a dying Catholic stranger, then his property became ground zero for supernatural scissors

Witnesses traveled 75 miles on horseback to see clothing being cut while people wore it, invisible voices praying, and objects moving

After Catholic priests performed an exorcism, the haunting transformed — heavenly voices appeared, leading prayer sessions

The town of Middleway, West Virginia, still decorates with crescent moons and scissors

Multiple eyewitness accounts passed down through families are a “durable oral history”

Protestants called it “wizard” work, Catholics blamed evil spirits

This predates the term “poltergeist” — they literally didn’t have words for what they were experiencing

And in the epilogue:

The “two beers and a puppy” friendship test - Can you have two beers with someone AND trust them to babysit your puppy overnight? If not, what are they doing in your precious waking hours?

Irish fey hospitality rules - Never ignore unhoused people or street musicians because they could be vengeful fairies (faeries?)

True moral courage - standing up to the people you agree with on behalf of people you don’t agree with

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This week we did a bit more diligence on 3I/Atlas (it’s a big deal, ok!), and dove into the surprisingly emotional world of English psychic pub nights. We also took an extended virtual through Florida’s Everglades to see what we could see about the Skunk Ape. And then we stuck around to hear Tom’s theory about how Disneyland is a kind of metaphysical purgatory. Enjoy!

Highlights:

David Shealy, who saw his first Skunk Ape in 1973 at age 10, became obsessed, and opened the Skunk Ape Research Headquarters in 1997

Over 354 documented Skunk Ape sightings

The 2000 Skunk Ape video

The proposed bill in Florida to protect Skunk Apes

English psychic pub nights

Tom watched a medium correctly identify specific details about audience members’ deceased relatives, down to names and circumstances

Why Avi Loeb is pushing NASA to release all data on 3I/Atlas asap - every week of delayed data is wasted opportunity

Avi on Newsnation

Avi on The Hannibal TV UFO Channel

The comet’s astonishing orbital path

Mal’s reference to Don’t Look Up

And in the epilogue:

Tom’s theory that Disneyland is purgatory

The very boring purpose of enlightenment

Those rare people who change your life by simply giving you their complete and undivided attention

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This week we’ve got updates from James the UFO-Tuber, those photographic telescope plates from the mid-20th century, and Enigma’s recent USO report. All that ends up kicking off a deeper conversation about ontological wheel-spinning, and how a guy named Reed Summers is trying to help move the conversation about UFOs and NHIs in a more practical, impactful direction, especially against a chaotic informational landscape and the potential (probable?) manipulation of NHIs themselves.

Highlights:

James keeps on keepin on

An update on those photographic plates from Project VASCO

Enigma’s USO report - 9000 cases of unidentified submerged objects, with multiple incidents of craft entering and exiting water at impossible speeds

An introduction to Reed Summers, and his approach and methodology

The hazards of NHI emotional manipulation (with a reference to James Barber’s experiences - the clip we used starts around the 50-minute mark)

How to see through telepathic and/or emotional manipulation

The witness/observer behind emotions

Society as a “narcissist factory” that makes us feel we need to earn our right to exist

Meditation and ego dissolution — losing the stories, not the self

Mal’s friend’s wisdom: “If you could lose it, then it wasn’t everything”

Tom’s closing anecdote

And in the epilogue:

The etymological history of our names

One of Mal’s unique professional hazards

An existential fear of losing communal identities in whatever collective consciousness turns out to be

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Welcome to our (very) haunted Halloween Special.

We’ve been sitting on this one for a while, waiting for the right time.

In the first half, listen to the chilling, remarkable story of a childhood haunting. What starts as an early encounter with a long-haired figure in the shadows escalates into possession, physical attacks, and a deeply unsettling episode of missing time in a bathroom. (Good luck sleeping tonight.) Then, in the second half, we talk to the woman that child became.

Highlights!

Lisa’s experience with a shadowy figure who watched her motionless from the doorway so often that she got used to it.

A seance that went wrong (do they ever go right?)

Billy (6’7”, 300 pounds) gets possessed

The introduction of two distinct entities - the peaceful long-haired man (the shadow watcher) who apologized for his aggressive companion, and a “bored and angry” spirit responsible for years of harassment

Another friend lifted off his feet and slammed into a wall

The thing that happened in the bathroom

The motive behind Lisa’s extraordinary documentation, what Tom calls “a PhD thesis” of paranormal data

Lisa’s affinity for horror movies (she doesn’t scare easily)

Why the haunting makes no sense (the house was new when they moved in)

Ghosts are just “people you don’t see” who can be jerks or peaceful observers

Why most of her experiences were alone or with her friends, without the parents around

Tom shares his partner’s auto-writing experience that produced Victorian-era cursive spelling “Jeffrey C U”

Links!

Anomalie - The project Jordan talked about at the top of the episode

The original letter about Lisa’s experiences

Those 18 pages of documentation

If you’ve got ghost stories, share them at godsghostsufos.com

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This is what you might call a sequel episode, since we’re not only revisiting the Fresno Nightcrawlers (thanks to some hot tips from a listener), we’re also checking in on “just James,” the anonymous UFO-Tuber. Also, yes, we’re finally covering 3I/Atlas. Sometimes, you gotta hold your nose and jump onto the bandwagon.

Highlights:

Turns out we were wrong about the Fresno Nightcrawler video

Tom connects high strangeness to Oscar Wilde’s “all art is useless” philosophy - neither art projects or genuine cryptids are fundamentally “useful”

But, hey, check out this fresh footage of the thylacine!

An update on our favorite UFO-Tuber, in which he receives a threatening letter from an unnamed foreign government

How 3I/Atlas is a cosmic Rorschach test — basically, people self-select into three camps: it’s definitely not aliens, it might be aliens, and it’s definitely aliens

A favorite theory that the object is broadcasting frequencies to upgrade everyone’s DNA

But also, what we already know for sure is super cool and weird

Science is best at breaking its own models (looking at you, James Webb Space Telescope)

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (go ahead and Google it)

What we don’t have nearly enough of, is patience

The three flavors of wonder: art projects are wonderful, real phenomena are wonderful, and not knowing which is its own kind of wonderful

Highlights:And in the epilogue:

A (relatively) heated debate about “main character syndrome”

The paradox of being both profoundly valuable and completely worthless

How to find truth at the intersection of contraries

P.S. If you encounter any vegetable lambs, please feed them. They’re supposed to starve dramatically for theological reasons.

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Mothman Prophecies screenwriter and fellow podcaster Richard Hatem (!!!) joins us this week to tunnel down into some of the weirdest stuff on the Internet. First up, the Fresno Nightcrawler, followed by a sketchy Las Vegas ghost hunt email scam, and finally a lively discussion about whether “James” the YouTuber actually found a flying, radioactive metallic pill in the desert, or if he’s creating the world’s most tedious ARG.

Bizarre leggy creatures first appeared on surveillance footage in early 2000s Fresno — not biological, not mechanical, but…kind of cute?

The cognitive dissonance of watching something that looks “so janky and fakey” while simultaneously looking completely real

Also: Yosemite National Park footage, a sighting in Poland, another in Billings Montana in 2020, and the “Carmel Area Creature” in Ohio

A “$5,000 ghost hunt contest” at El Cortez Hotel in Vegas is actually just an email scam

But actually lots of hotels and casinos in Vegas are haunted (and some theories as to why)

The Venetian’s Whispering Hallway

MGM Grand/Bally’s Flickering Ghosts

A (probably) Canadian named James posted over 40 YouTube videos since last month about finding a shiny metallic pill-shaped object in the desert

A very small but very dedicated audience

The object is magnetic, burned his hand (he says), weighs 15.8 pounds, has crude markings, causes lights to flicker (??), and allegedly moved itself 10 feet from sawhorses to the ground when he wasn’t watching

The Geiger counter subplot

Is it real??? (Probably not, but we don’t know!)

How younger generations’ first instinct is to post online and crowdsource help rather than calling authorities — a counter-argument to what might look like performative attention seeking to old people like us

Inevitable comparisons to the Dear David thing on Twitter eight years ago (which resulted in a movie deal)

Richard Hatem’s anecdote about how the Blair Witch Project got the smartest and most effective gorilla marketing campaign in Hollywood

And in the epilogue (for paid subscribers only):

Mallory’s existential fear that we’ll eventually discover some kind of “God formula” that solves all the mysteries

How and why people closest to paranormal phenomena sometimes go insane and die, i.e. Keel’s paranoia in Mothman Prophecies, and Blake Smith’s fear of becoming vulnerable to cults like Heaven’s Gate

The great atheist hypocrisy - how materialist skeptics claim their worldview is rational while it’s really just their own “comfortable smugness” and personal opiate

Wanna hear it? Head over to godsghostsUFOs.com

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We’re thrilled to welcome Mark Turner to the show. A Navy veteran, Rhine Research Center volunteer, and experienced remote viewer, Mark helps us dig into one of the most rigorously studied and widely dismissed phenomena in modern history. Find out how the CIA and military spent decades proving remote viewing works, why your ego is the biggest obstacle to accessing non-local information, and the potential consequences of RV destigmatization.

(For access to the spicy epilogue, go to godsghostsufos.com)

HIGHLIGHTS:

How a two-day workshop at Duke’s Rhine Research Center fundamentally changed Mark’s understanding of reality

The Two Core Rules of Remote Viewing

Why people who don’t believe in remote viewing are often the best at it

The Left Brain Trick

That time Mark had to prove it to his own son

Accidentally predicting the Cumbre Vieja eruption

That time Mark bet the under on an 8-run baseball game and doubled his money

What the military had to do with remote viewing (it was a reaction to the Soviets, naturally)

Ingo Swann, etc

Steven Schwartz’s “Alexandria Project” in the 1970s, locating actual lost Egyptian cities

When RV habits started to bleed into Mark’s everyday life in disturbing ways

The risks of bi-location experiences

Stuff that’s tough to remote view (like SPACE), and a reaction to Birdie Jaworski report on 3I/Atlas

Remote viewing crime work, and why Mark doesn’t do it

A future without secrets

Also! After we ended this episode, we left the mics on for 30 minutes just to see what would happen. Well, what happened was a lot. Among many other things, Mark told us how some non-human intelligences are “master hypnotists”, and we talked about why people claiming contact with angels or aliens or whatever might actually be getting catfished by trickster entities.

We’re calling these post-episode, hot-mic hangouts “Epilogue,” and they will only be available to paid subscribers.

Why? Two reasons:

We know the thing some of you want most is longer episodes, so hopefully this scratches that itch.

This might surprise you, but there are actually a lot of things we’re careful not to talk about in our regular weekly episodes.

So if you want to see what it’s like when we’re not being careful, head over to godsghostsufos.com and fondle the right button.

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First off, Chris Styles’ decades of research into underwater UFO incidents off Nova Scotia, followed by a longer-than-usual conversation about the spiritual consequences of belief. Then, finally, we find out that nature independently invented psilocybin at least twice through completely different biochemical pathways, strongly suggesting some sort of collaborative evolution between us and mushrooms.

In 1960, joint NATO fleet discovered occupied UFOs on seafloor during mine-laying exercises, with military divers being ordered to “forget what they saw”

Shag Harbor 1967 mass witness event - related?

When the Canadian Navy tracked two USOs for seven days

Chris Styles spent decades tracking down military divers and witnesses who had been silent for 30 years

Why (once again) the ocean is perfect for hiding

Belief is like bones

Ego and addiction psychology can explain the maintenance of a lie

Belief represents grace bestowed on self and others, and ontological flexibility

Why materialists literally cannot believe certain stories regardless of corroboration or credibility

German scientists found two different strains of mushrooms that use completely different genetic pathway to produce identical psychedelic compound

Researchers still don’t understand why mushrooms produce psilocybin

Collaborative evolution? Mushrooms develop consciousness-altering compounds while human brains develop matching neurological receptors

Alan Watts (of course) and the grammatical trap

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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