In Research Of

Jeb and Blake are joined by Sharon Hill to get shook by the San Andreas Fault!

Understanding the Richter Scale (logarithmic)

Link (Netflix) to Earthstorm docu series

YT video clip featuring geologist Dr. Kerry Sieh

Classic Budweiser commercial from the 70s

The Salton Sea

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power

Nuclear activist Ray Vrana

Peter Gros of Wild Kingdom

San Andreas movie with The Rock (Amz affiliate link)

Cover to guide for SF geological tour:

Dr. Tim Hall - One of the founders of the San Andreas Fault Trail in 1977. Featured in 2011 documentary available on YT.

Dr. Kerry Sieh

The very sexy VT52 from DEC.

NFA San Andreas edition: 

In order to understand In Search Of… The Dark Star, Jeb and Blake will first need to get Sirius; Sirius-B, that is!

Links from this episode:

Siris (A part of the Canis Major constellation) 

Jeb discussed a couple of evocative artworks:  Appeal to the Great Spirit (Dallin)

End of the Trail (Fraser) 

North African musket (Moukahla)

Colonial Williamsburg

Hoop Rolling

Jacquard Loom

Punched Cards technology

The Hans Guggenheim art project

Isaac Koi UFO archives

The Tribal Eye BBC documentary series (YouTube)

Regarding Temple, Puhairich, Young, and The Nine

The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple

Editorial letter about Temple from The Observatory

Dogon Shame by Phillip Coppens

Griaule's Legacy: Rethinking "la parole claire" in Dogon Studies

Pop Culture References (affiliate links):

Conjure Wife - aka Burn Witch Burn

Bewitched

Bell, Book and Candle

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Images:

The "orbit" of the Dogon dark star.

Nimoy posing with a tribal mask - our initial NFA image.

Later we get to see his legs in this seated NFA supplementary:

Hans Guggenheim initially appears in just a vest and pants.

Later, he too is in more of a Safari look, and has a professorial pipe as well.

Dr Gary Chapman, Astronomer

The man who first photographed Sirius B - Dr Lindenblad

A little of the FORTRAN code that powers the orbit animation in the episode:

We don't have enough information to know who made Nimoy's safari clothing, but if you want to try and track down a very close approximation, this example from J. Peterman's (est 1987) is as close a match as I've seen. You would still need to find it in a vintage shop because at present they don't sell these.

Blake and Jeb look for the real location of Mt. Sinai, where Moses was supposed to have received the Ten Commandments from God.

Jeb and Blake extinguish our cigarettes, put our trays in the upright position, and head out the back of the plane in search of the elusive skyjacker known as D. B. Cooper.

Nimoy Fashion Alert - dimly lit corporate office edition.

D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (Movie) - if you buy it on Amazon we get a few pennies.

Recent Netflix series on D. B. Cooper

Blake's friend Rick Ollerman offered some opinions on vintage round parachutes.

Later we meet Nimoy outside where you can make out more of his ensemble.

Of course this is an episode about D. B. Cooper - who for Jeb and I, evokes the classic "MIB" look.

This ain't deal-a-meal. This is a different Richard Simmons.

There is some great photography in this episode. I liked seeing the reservoir and dam. Imagine landing there on a stormy November night without jump boots...  

Finally - kudos to the faceless Cooper stand-in who lugged stuff around in the anonymous re-creations. 

Jeb and Blake join Leonard Nimoy's search for Pompeii!  (Well - is it really about finding Pompeii?  Or is it about finding a possibly Christian cross in Pompeii?  Tune in and find out!)

Links: 

• Depictions of the crucifixion in Medieval Art

• People debating the cross at Pompeii

• Christian graffiti at Pompeii

• House of the Faun - Pompeii

• About that "lost Legion" thing

• Discovery and rediscovery of Pompeii

• Giuseppe Fiorelli 

• Terentius Neo

• Lupinar

• Villa of Mysteries

• Dinosyian Mysteries

• Greco-Roman Mysteries

• Thyrsus

Nimoy Fashion Alert!

Hey - it's NOT a Jumpsuit.

We complain but there really is WAY too much red-shift in the majority of this episode:

You need pumice? WE GOT BUCKETS OF PUMICE!

Jeb and Blake track the last cryptozoology episode of the original In Search Of… as we join the late Peter C. Byrne in a search for "The Abominable Snowman."

Imagining the Wild Man: Yeti Sightings in Folktales and Newspapers of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills

More on Tom Slick - MonsterTalk

Monty Python "abattoir" sketch

Searching for Sasquatch (affiliate link)

Article about Byrne still "hunting" in his 90s.

The Eternal Return

Bigfoot Map

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (YouTube)

Horror in the Heights - Kolchak Episode with Rakshasha

NFA - "Proof of Life" 

Crevasse photo we mention from the episode.

Jeb is right at home as we go In Search Of... Mexican Pyramids! Links from research

Sacrifice City

Great Pyramid of Cholula

Templo Mayor

Ruz' Palenque Dissertation

The Christmas Robbery of the Century

Secrets of the Maya Temple (1958)

Museo (2018) movie about the robbery - affiliate link

Mystery of the Meridas Ciudad Maya nightclub

Music/Art film tied to the nightclub site

Operation PBSuccess - CIA and Guatemala 

Mystery film we think MAY have sourced part of this episode.

Director Jean Chartier 

Pyramid Comparison visual tool (wikipedia)

Nimoy Fashion Alert!  Jungle Cotton Blend edition:

There are actually subtle stripes on that shirt!

This episode has some amazing models - so cool:

And - of course - it wouldn't be ISO without some reenactments...

Dr. Joe Nickell recalls his experiences working on the Season 4 episode of In Search Of… dealing with The Shroud of Turin. note: This interview will be cross-posted to MonsterTalk. The interview contents will be identical, but the framing intro/outro will be unique to the respective shows. 

In Research Of… (Patreon)

In Research Of (free feed)

In Search Of… The Shroud of Turin (YouTube)

Joe Nickell covered by The Daily Mail

That's Incredible! segment on THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. (YouTube)

Joe Nickell's website

Joe's Amazon Author's Page (affiliate link)

Jeb and Blake unwrap the mystery of the shroud of Turin! (Which might, it turns out, be neither a shroud, nor from Turin - talk amongst yourselves!) Link to ISO on YouTube: While it lasts!

The bucket brigade saves the shroud in re-creation...

NFA - A return to "the Night Gallery?"

Young Joe Nickell at work in Alan Landsburg's NYC apartment:

The Rev. Francis Filas (1931 - 1985 - NYT OBIT)

Prescriptive Linguistics

Descriptive Linguistics

Overview of use of Christ in Medieval Art

Secondo Pia, photographer who discovered the "negative effect" on Shroud. (also, dead ringer for Seth Myers)

Just saying...

Modern research suggests "blood on shroud" was applied artistically, not organically.

More on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 

Dr. Harry Gove (Obit)

The Shroud of Turin Research Project 

Recent book that confirms Nickell's findings 

The ISO team take us back to Colonial Virginia to investigate the cold-case of the lost colony of Roanoke. Jeb and Blake learn about armadas, plays, and rock diaries.

Beach Action Nimoy Fashion Alert!

The Money Shot...

Blake thinks the ISO actor is giving off Keenan Wynn vibes.

And we've already discussed the ties between Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy, Night Gallery, and more, so the visual similarities to this scene and Planet of the Apes might not be 100% coincidence.

The famous "Dare Stones" preserved with all the decor and pomp appropriate their historical significance:

Links for this episode:

History Channel's reboot of ISO covered this.

Antiquarianism

Play Sid Meiers Colonization 

Book by David Stick on topic

Park Ranger Phil Evans  

The full text of the Dare Stones