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Music Credits: 'Tak' - Bobby Richards

Join us as we dive into the strange phenomena and spiritual sightings on Mount Everest, known by the locals as Chomolungma-- Mother Goddess of the Earth. We'll even discuss some alternative scientific explanations for those of you with a more skeptical perspective!

Reading Recs:

Messner, Reinhold - My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas’ Deepest Mystery

Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air

Windsor, Jeremy S - Voices in the Air

Sources:

1. Isolated psychosis during exposure to very high and extreme altitude – characterisation of a new medical entity:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/C2BCDEDCB0C6415B16531008857D730C/S0033291717003397a.pdf/isolated_psychosis_during_exposure_to_very_high_and_extreme_altitude_characterisation_of_a_new_medical_entity.pdf

2. Frank Smythe is more interesting than George Mallory:

https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2013/frank-smythe-is-more-interesting-than-george-mallory/

3. Book Review: 'The Third Man Factor' - WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204884404574361631588827614

4. How deadly is Mount Everest?:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47418215

5. Voices in the air:

6. The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151008-the-tragic-story-of-mt-everests-most-famous-dead-body

7. 'Everest is haunted by spirits':

https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/everest-is-haunted-by-spirits-214847

Join us as we dive into our very first podcast episode (woot woot)! We'll cover George Adamski and his mysterious ties to just about everything Venusian-related as well as other figures like Omnec Onec, Valiant Thor and  Mollie Thompson.   

SHOW NOTES 

Reading Recommendations: 

"In The Walls of Eryx" - HP Lovecraft & KJ Sterling 

"The Shadow Out of Time" - HP Lovecraft 

"Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus" - Isaac Asimov 

"Flying Saucers Have Landed" - George Adamski 

"From Venus I Came" - Omnec Onec 

"Stranger at the Pentagon" - Frank Stranges  

-https://books.google.com/books?id=KOggCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT145&lpg=PT145&dq=mollie+thompson+venusians&source=bl&ots=QB1dl8DLRl&sig=ACfU3U0tfx2IYY9RN6ObBgiGHOG_tfZeQg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1uYXqjvjxAhWkTN8KHS-bA5wQ6AEwBnoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=mollie%20thompson%20venusians&f=false

-https://strangestrangestrange.com/paranormal/ufo/the-day-aliens-crashed-a-ufo-conference-the-dolores-barrios-incident/

https://omnec-onec.com/

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski

-https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~coker2/index.files/adamski.htm

-The Law of One: Books I - IV - McCarty, Elkins & Rueckert

https://www.llresearch.org/library.aspx

-Great British Eccentrics - S.D. Tucker