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Millennium, Season 1, Episode 1: “Pilot”

Frank Black, a newly-retired FBI profiler, moves his family back to Seattle to try to distance himself from his former work. However, it’s not long before Frank is working with the secretive Millennium Group to stop a killer who believes their brutal crimes are part of the prophecies to prevent the coming apocalypse.

Originally recorded on 26 February 2022.

Originally released on 01 April 2022.

References:

Millennium | X-Files Wiki | Fandom

Pilot (Millennium) | X-Files Wiki | Fandom

Opening The X-Files: A Critical History of the Original Series by Darren Mooney

wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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“Other Voices”

Originally recorded on 16 January 2022.

Originally released on 30 March 2022.

References:

Marcel Vogel - Wikipedia

Beamship - The Metal (YouTube)

Cleve Backster - Wikipedia

Backster School of Lie Detection

Kendall Johnson Obituary (2011) | Charleston Post & Courier

The Secret Life Of Plants : Peter Tompkins | Archive.org

The sound of music and plants (1973 edition) | Open Library

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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In Search of...

“Other Voices”

Originally recorded on 16 January 2022.

Originally released on 30 March 2022.

References:

Marcel Vogel - Wikipedia

Beamship - The Metal (YouTube)

Cleve Backster - Wikipedia

Backster School of Lie Detection

Kendall Johnson Obituary (2011) | Charleston Post & Courier

The Secret Life Of Plants : Peter Tompkins | Archive.org

The sound of music and plants (1973 edition) | Open Library

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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Paul (2011)

Everything you know about aliens and UFOs *might* be true!

Originally recorded on 06 February 2022.

Originally released on 28 March 2022.

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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It *might* be vampires, sort of...?

After a black man is found dead with his skin turned white by what the CDC believes is an unknown pathogen, Scully is asked to look into it. Mulder joins Scully and begins to think there’s no disease at all, but rather a monster from African folklore sucking the melanin out of its victims.

Originally recorded on 06 March 2022.

Originally released on 25 March 2022.

References:

Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Emily Todd Vanderwerf

The Complete X-Files: Revised and Updated Edition by Matt Hurwitz & Chris Knowles

wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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Fire in the Sky (1993)

Originally recorded on 05 February 2022.

Originally released on 23 March 2022.

References:

Larry King Live – Walton UFO abduction case – 12 March 1993

Fire in the Sky: A Real UFO Abduction? Skeptoid Podcast #94, 01 April 2008

Feedback and Followups Skeptoid Podcast #660, 29 January 2019

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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Communion (1989)

Originally recorded on 30 January 2022.

Originally released on 23 March 2022 (delayed from 21 March 2022).

As mentioned in the episode:

Whitley's Space | Tour the Strieber Cabin

“‘Bend’ it like Walken” | The Sacramento Bee | 24 October 2004

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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Home is where the heart is, and maybe a few other things...

After an infant corpse is found buried in a field, Mulder and Scully are called in by the local sheriff to determine what’s going on. The infant’s body is deformed but human, and the trail seems to lead to the farmhouse of a local, reclusive family.

Originally recorded on 27 February 2022.

Originally released on 18 March 2022.

References:

Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Emily Todd Vanderwerf

The Complete X-Files: Revised and Updated Edition by Matt Hurwitz & Chris Knowles

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

“They’re here!”

Yeah, yeah, wrong movie, but it still works…

Also: “Chekhov's gun” is taken from 19th century author and playwright Anton Chekhov... not Star Trek.

TrustNo1.

Originally recorded on 23 January 2022.

Originally released on 16 March 2022.

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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The following story is based on the records of the United States Air Force, the files of the Hayden Planetarium and the actual transcripts of the tapes made by Betty and Barney Hill, under hypnosis, by Dr. Benjamin Simon. The purpose: to penetrate an extraordinary case of double amnesia, precipitated by their claimed sighting of a UFO in 1961.

Originally recorded on 16 January 2021.

Originally released on 14 March 2022.

References:

Barney and Betty Hill | Wikipedia

How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre | History.com

Strange Arrivals | iHeart (Season 1)

The Interrupted Journey | Amazon.com

Guide to the Betty and Barney Hill Papers, 1961-2006 | University of New Hampshire

The UFO Incident (1975-TV) | YouTube

Music:

“Dark Science” by David Hilowitz

“The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians

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