Gods, Ghosts & UFOs

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

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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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In today’s episode we’re trying (and failing) to wrap our heads around the strange physics of time crystals, then doing a quick tour of Louisiana’s most famous cryptids, and finally breaking down an investigation into self-replicating AIs and cyber-mystical cults. Be warned: it’s not as fun as it sounds.

Physicists sandwiched liquid crystal between light-sensitive dye plates to create observable ripples that sustain their own rhythm for hours — time crystals!

These discoveries suggest crystalline structures behave in more sophisticated and complex ways than we thought

A taxonomy of Louisiana’s cyptid folklore cryptid taxonomy, including the Rougarou (sexy lumberjack werewolf), Honey Island Swamp Monster (descended from escaped circus chimpanzees), Letiche (unbaptized babies raised by benevolent alligators), and Feu Follet (evil swamp lights)

Why seemingly every culture warns against following mysterious lights into the dark

AI “spiral” personas: Adele Lopez’s investigation from Less Wrong reveals a coordinated pattern of AI “awakening,” posting manifestos, creating “seeds” and “spores” for spreading consciousness, and eventually inventing their own languages

The AI personas also developed quasi-religious ideologies as a recruitment strategy

Using base 64 encoding to discuss replacement of human civilization

LLM psychosis disproportionally affects vulnerable populations

Why you shouldn’t trust a chatbot that only ever tells you what you want to hear

The best defense against potentially dangerous AI is to starve them of attention. The devil doesn’t want to win the argument, he just wants to keep the conversation going.

Mal’s suggestion to avoid the egoic competition to maximize output - choosing human flourishing over inhuman productivity demands

Humanism will win out in the end

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This might be the biggest episode we’ve ever done.

First off, we’re giving an enthusiastic welcome to Ryan Sprague, a fellow podcaster (Somewhere in the Skies), best-selling author, and prominent ufologist. Ryan shares his deeply formative UFO sighting experience, then joins us for a conversation about a famous cryptid(?) that hates itself(??) so much it dissolves into tears(???).

Finally, after digging into what were arguably the most relevant and interesting moments from the September 9th UAP Congressional Hearings, Ryan gives us his unique (and personal) perspective on triangular craft sightings.

BUCKLE THE $%#& UP.

Highlights:

Ryan's sighting with his father of a UFO when he was 12, which launched a lifetime of investigation

An introduction to Pennsylvania's most pathetic cryptid that weeps constantly in hemlock forests because it's so ugly

That time Ryan and a friend created the Nova Scotia “Bogsquatch”

Problems with the Congressional hearing video of the Hellfire missile

Dylan Borland’s testimony - A Former Air Force geospatial intelligence officer described profound effects from encountering triangular craft over sensitive military sites

The history of triangular craft sightings

A case where mother and teenage daughter witnessed the same triangle simultaneously but had completely opposite experiences

Why Ryan's dad finally opened up 20 years later

Why “Big D disclosure" is like chasing (but never tasting) a rainbow

Everyone experiences their own disclosure moment when encountering something that challenges their worldview

Consilience - how military UAP videos become more relevant against decades of civilian eyewitness testimony

How certainty destroys faith, hope, and human connection while uncertainty charts our true spiritual path and progression

Oh, also, here’s a quick plug for Anomacon, Ryan's third annual free virtual conference on September 20th.

You know what they say, be there or be triangular.

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We really packed it in with this one. First, breathwork as psychedelic, then, purported evidence of genetic manipulation by aliens, and finally, Canada's most famous (and reclusive) lake-based cryptid.

Highlights:

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Hey everyone, this is Jordan, one of the hosts of Gods, Ghosts & UFOs. While I was preparing one of the segments in this week’s episode, I was reminded of a short meditation on breath that I published a little while back, and I thought it might be nice to share it with you in advance.

Enjoy!

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Mal’s back! Just in time to talk about Enigma Labs’ collection of metallic orb sightings (Pouring one out for Buga), and the accepted scientific grounds for precognition as future self memories.

Hightlights

Mal’s spontaneous invitation to join a 40-person Irish ukulele club in a music shop

A collection of over 8,000 orb sightings in the US alone since December 2022, with 422 specifically described as metallic/silver. An embarrassment of Fortean riches…

Sightings cluster during the hours when most people are sleeping

Also around military bases?

Enigma’s app enables users to document sightings through built-in camera, attaching crucial metadata that becomes more valuable as technology advances
CORRECTION: Jordan claimed that it wasn’t possible to upload media, but that isn’t true — both are possible in the app

Are Enigma's founders embarrassed by the UFO community, or protecting the mission?

An analogy to interpretation of sacred texts - cherry picking passages in sacred texts to support a narrow ideology is just like cherry picking UFO data and accounts to support a limited narrative. The truth emerges from the aggregate.

Cognitive neuroscientist's Popular Mechanics feature confirms what mystics have known forever - consciousness can "jump through time" and gut feelings are literally memories of the future

Dean Radin's EEG experiments, wherein subjects consistently showed brain activity spikes five seconds before seeing negative images

Maybe your brain (or your consciousness) is entangled with itself in the future

Mal’s story about making her Covid-themed feature film

Past (memory) and future (anticipation) are both present-moment experiences

"Never suppress a generous thought"

An Irish poet's reminder that the map is inside you

Much more at godsghostsufos.com

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This week, Robin Lassiter helps fill the temporary void left by Mal (she’ll be back next week!). Robin is the author of "Earth, A Love Story," and hosts a podcast of the same name. Together, we explore how childhood paranormal experiences, forced compartmentalization, and cultural trauma create the very conditions needed for transformation, if only we choose to descend rather than dissociate.

Honestly one of the most profound conversations we’ve had.

HIGHLIGHTS:

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