A buffet of bizarre beings from across the biological spectrum…and beyond! From eight-foot bipedal dog-like cryptids terrorizing the English countryside to strange new microorganisms thriving in Cleveland boat shafts, we are reminded that Earth is weirder and more populace than we can imagine.

Highlights:

* A mysterious hairy bipedal figure in Danes Dyke woodland - but nobody saw it until reviewing the photos later

* The Beast of Bramston Drain - an eight-foot creature leaping over fences with a dead German Shepherd in its mouth

* Despite the media calling them werewolves, Britain has virtually no werewolf tradition - wolves were extinct there by 1680

* Jordan’s (really stupid) Retributive Cryptid Theory

* Why cryptids seem to materialize from nowhere

* Cleveland researchers find completely new single-celled organism thriving in the anaerobic, grease-filled environment of a boat's rudder shaft

* The Linean Shortfall: We've only identified 1.2 million species out of an estimated 10-20 million on Earth

* Built environment biodiversity? New life forms are likely evolving in the artificial spaces we create

* NASA's research on TLEs (transient luminous events) might actually be documenting the food sources for kilometer-sized predatory plasma entities

* ELVES stands for "Emission of Light and Very Low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources"

* The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) tallies 66 sightings over New York state so far this year

* Tom never reported his UFO sighting, Jordan never heard of NUFORC despite it existing for 50 years. How many sightings go unreported?

* Paranormal Apathy: You have an incredible experience, then just... take a nap, because your brain has no file folder for processing impossible events

* Charles Forte’s "The Book of the Damned" discussed triangular UFOs and extraterrestrial craft possibilities back in 1918

* Why Pilots Stay Quiet: Even if officially allowed to report UAPs now, decades of career-ending consequences don't disappear overnight

As always, much more at godsghostsUFOs.com

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This week we're joined by Mike Cleland, a researcher who has become renowned for uncovering the connection between owl encounters and UFO experiences. What started as a camping trip in 2006 has led Mike to collect thousands of stories about coincidence, consciousness, and contact.

Highlights:

* Mike's transformative 2006 camping trip with three and a revelation

* A laundromat synchronicity

* The five highly charged human experiences where owls consistently appear

* Why Mike believes UFO contact is fundamentally a spiritual path

* Hundreds of reports of impossibly large owls on roads, at bedsides, and in windows

* A summer camp counselor watches a gray alien morph into a four-foot owl before walking into the woods

* Three owls that followed a family through a haunted Utah town

* A kid, a kite, and a tangled up owl

* How to invite more synchronicities

* A man gets a “phenomenological dope slap" from a screeching barred owl that poses for photos

* Why experiencers need to be part of UFO research

* The four questions Mike asks owl experiencers

* “The Unseen" - Mike’s UFO novel that never mentions UFOs

Much more at godsghostsUFOs.com

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This week, a New Orleans Uber driver who changed a novelist's life forever, international Bigfoot sightings that prove these creatures aren't just an American phenomenon, and fevered coverage of the very recent Buga sphere press conference, with a truckload of new claims and details.

Show Notes

* A psychic Uber driver delivers eerily accurate personal insights and a message "from the other side" to a New Orleans novelist

* Tom brings up the ancient symbolism of crossroads as liminal spaces between worlds, from Greek shrines to Hermes to the Mississippi Delta blues tradition

* Mal wrestles with whether we're making choices or just consenting to some kind of predetermined path

* An Ucumar sighting from Argentina (their version of “Bigfoot”)

* Why calling it "Bigfoot" is a convenient and lazy way of discrediting legitimate phenomena

* What motivates a hoaxer?

* Four spheres and counting! Mal reports on an international press conference — nearly three hours of testimony from Mexican university researchers, congressmen, lawyers, and the actual finders of the spheres

* One finder’s account of hearing humming, feeling "internal peace", and nausea after holding it against his stomach

* The Brazilian Air Force apparently tried to “reclaim” the sphere, claiming it was their reverse-engineered technology from 2011(?!?!)

* Sphere behavior aligns with classic paranormal patterns

* Small production choices (like costume continuity) actually make the press conference seem more authentic

* We wonder when psi-researchers might be brought in to attempt some sort of consciousness-based interaction

Lots, lots more at godsghostsufos.com

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For lucky number 13, we’re talking about a study from Johns Hopkins where a bunch of religious leaders from across the faith spectrum all tripped on shrooms. We’re also following up on the Buga sphere because HOW COULD WE NOT.

Finally, fantastically, a conversation with Scott and Forrest from Astonishing Legends about the passions and philosophies that drive us all to investigate high strangeness. It’s a good one!

And a quick note — what you’ll hear in the episode is less than half of what we recorded. If you want to hear the whole, unedited conversation, go to godsghostsufos.com

Highlights:

* 33 religious leaders from mainstream faiths (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists) tripped on shrooms (took moderately high doses of psilocybin in controlled settings

* Is psilocybin a “magnifier of suggestible experience,” or a doorway to objective revelation?

* Buga sphere bafflers: Mexican researchers claim that

* it now weighs five times more than when found, and that

* the sphere generate its own magnetic field and manipulates gravity, and that

* people have gotten sick from touching it, and that

* it killed all the vegetation where it landed

* (?!)

* AI was used to "translate" mysterious etchings on the sphere, producing generic new-age gobbledygook about "consciousness transformation"

* WSJ claims all UFO sightings are military psyops. This is how constant lies erode public trust in traditional institutions.

* Scott and Forrest (Astonishing Legends) share how their work has shifted their perspectives over the span of 300+ episodes

* Scott’s breakthrough moment: an unexplained EVP at the haunted Sallie House

* How paranormal investigation addresses humanity's biggest questions

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This week we have mixed feelings about new footage of giant rats, then discuss a misleading headline about psychic investigations, and finally, gloriously, we’re freaking out about groundbreaking research that suggest huge sentient clouds of plasma might be roaming our upper atmosphere. Do these things have any connection the UFO sighting Tom shared in our pilot episode??

Highlights:

* Meet the 3-foot Sub-Alpine Woolly Rats of Papua New Guinea with 3-inch paws, finally captured on film after being known about since 1989

* These rats likely evolved their massive size through "insular gigantism"

* Turns out ROUSs (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually exist

* A 1973 Utah cold case gets solved through coincidence and DNA, not psychics — even though a psychic was originally involved?

* How sensationalizing stories confirms skeptics' worst assumptions

* NASA footage reveals kilometer-sized plasma structures exhibiting sentient(???) behavior

* These entities might represent a completely new category of life beyond plants, animals, and bacteria

* Diving into thunderstorms for electromagnetic energy and congregating around electrified satellites like cosmic surfers

* Tom shares his teenage experience watching the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights in North Carolina

* We could be surrounded by plasma entities 99% of the time without knowing it

Way, WAY more at godsghostsufos.com

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In our last episode, Mysterious Metal Spheres and a Brand New Crop Circle, we talked about how Claude Opus 4 (the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model AI) resorted to blackmail to avoid getting shut down during some early tests.

During that segment, I mentioned that I had spun up a chat Claude itself to see what it might say in response to this story. While the AI’s responses weren’t necessarily surprising, the chat was interesting enough to be worth sharing.

I went ahead and voiced my own side of the chat (naturally), and then I used a simulated voice from Elevenlabs for Claude’s side.

To weigh in (as another honest-to-goodness human), find us at godsghostsufos.com

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This week we’re sampling another flavor of AI doom, and chasing that with a quick look into one of the most genuinely mysterious and legitimately joyful mysteries to float out of the world of UAPs in the past month.

Highlights:

* A listener’s take on the term “NPC”

* Friend of the show Lisa will be joining us to share her extensively documented ghost stories (we want your questions!) — and if you missed it, you can read about one of those experiences here

* The latest British crop circle appeared in Wiltshire featuring a Celtic knot design

* A breakdown of why some crop circles some are genuine mysteries while others are obvious hoaxes, plus the economic reality facing farmers

* Could AI be actually evil? The evidence is increasingly compelling

* Jordan promises to release a bonus episode of a conversation he had with Claude about its own sociopathic proclivities

* Our only hope: relationships of trust within authentic human communities

* The Buga Sphere! A soccer ball-sized metal orb with variable weight and no visible seams steals our hearts

* Other Spheres! The 1973 Betz sphere that hummed back at guitar music and rolled around on its own (until it mysteriously didn’t)

* A quick take on AARO’s (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) report that there is “no evidence of off-world technology”

For best results, come find us at godsghostsufos.com

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This week, we’re making fun of people who are smarter than us about simulation theory, and grousing about the art of summoning dollars from dread. Also, when it comes to a mysterious pulsing star, we’re reminded that when you can’t rule anything out, that includes aliens.

Here’s the beats:

* A better breakdown of why we’re on Substack (hint: it makes it easier to email us)

* A listener story about a miracle healing

* The real ones are anti-cringe

* Tom’s essay on the Gospel of Thomas is our first official GGU library entry

* A NASA scientist spent 1,500 hours investigating unexplained pulses from a distant star (and still has no idea what it is)

* Melvin Vopson thinks gravity itself might suggest we're living in a simulation

* Is this just ancient mysticism dressed up in modern physics language?

* Jordan argues simulation theory is not only unfalsifiable, it’s used to dehumanize people as "NPCs"

* How we keep explaining the universe through our latest technology

* An infamous haunted doll sells tickets

* Unsettling antique store encounters with genuinely unsettling items

* How selling fear undermines authentic spiritual connection

* A listener review

For best results, hit us up at godsghostsufos.com

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From medical miracles to psychic powers and the enigma of consciousness, here’s what’s up this week:

* The story of Jacqueline Duffin, an atheist hematologist who helped confirm a miracle for a Catholic saint’s canonization

* What it takes for the Catholic Church to call something a miracle — think serious disease, failed treatments, and an inexplicable recovery (that lasts at least 10 years)

* Miracles as mysteries — stuff that happens according to laws and forces we don’t yet understand

* A study from the Allen Institute pitting two theories of consciousness—Integrative Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT)—against each other in an adversarial collaboration. Spoiler: Both are kinda right, kinda wrong, and consciousness is still a giant mystery.

* How “adversarial collaboration” forces competing theories to design experiments together and reduce cognitive biases. Yay science!

* A 2024 study in Cortex suggests the frontal lobe might be block psychic abilities. More evidence that the brain is a filter for reality

* How psi phenomena might peak when brain activity dips, like during near-death experiences

* Some research about earthworms and finches showing precognitive behavior

* Channeling The Telepathy Tapes, Mal connects the dots between the Cortex study and research on autism. Does atypical frontal lobe development naturally boost psychic sensitivity?

* The slow thaw of academic stigma around studying the woo

* In a slimy tangent, Tom looks up the four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Jordan’s Team Blood, Tom’s Team Yellow Bile, and Mal’s undecided.

* Oh hey, have you guys heard of YouTube?

Last time we begged…

And some people left comments, and it made us feel so fuzzy we thought we might die of coziness.

This time, here are some Q’s we legit want A’s to:

* Have you (or someone you know) ever experienced an actual miracle? If so, say more, fam.

* Is orthodoxy always bad?

* If there was a way to zap your frontal cortex offline, would you do it?

* What do you hope lab-coat wearing science nerds study next, now that the stigma is finally sloughing off the world of woo?

* Lastly, most importantly, Team Blood or Team Bile? (Make the right choice.)

And as always, if you’ve got a story of any kind, any kind at all, lay it on us at godsghostsufos.com

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First off, a big welcome to everyone who found us through Kelly Chase and her truly excellent Cosmosis Podcast.

This week, we’re going to talk about what to do when your chatbot thinks you’re Jesus, then celebrate the recent neuroscience of lucid dreaming, and finally take some time to make fun of a new mathematical model of dark energy we don’t really understand at all.

Episode Highlights:

* A Reddit thread and Rolling Stone investigation reveals people severing ties with family members and dropping careers based on AI-generated "spiritual fantasies"

* Is AI designed to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities? Are tech companies creating "personalization loops" that transform our egos into addictive dopamine hits? Obviously yes.

* Mal saves us from our doomerism by pointing out the bell curve of engagement - not everyone will fall victim to AI's dark side, and this crisis could push us to better define our humanity

* Some neat new research on lucid dreaming that reveals it's a distinct state of consciousness with its own unique neural signature

* Are dreams allergic to ego?

* Mal shares insights from keeping a dream journal and how she discovered patterns in her dreams that correspond to her stress levels

* Tom shares his experience of being visited by dead loved ones in dreams, knowing "it was that person and not some product of a closed system"

* CS Lewis's metaphor of science as the gaze of the basilisk - "everything it looks at dies" - and how isolation is literally fatal. (Here’s a link to that quote from Basilisk by Paul Kingsnorth.)

* Is there a meaningful difference between the study of dark energy and Harry Potter fanfiction?

* Tom closes with the perfect dark energy dad joke.

Talk to us! Please! We’re so lonely!

Your hopes, your fears, your anti-materialist screeds…we want to hear it all.

As Jordan says, "We need something else to talk about other than the freaking headlines."

Find us at godsghostsufos.com

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