Remember In Search of Noah’s Ark?  Chariots of the Gods?  The Mysterious Monters?  The Outer Space Connection?  In the mid-1970s, these odd movies from Sunn Classic or American International Pictures would suddenly appear in your neighborhood theater – and it usually meant that your next Saturday afternoon was spoken for. Bigfoot, psychic powers, UFOS – finally there were films devoted to the scientific study of the things I cared about.  Were they scientific?  As it turns out, not so much.  But were they entertaining?  Oh, hell yes.  I’d see these things with my cousins or school friends, and we would all get completely freaked out and terrified.   In other words, a perfect day at the movies.

Author and film historian Gary D. Rhodes remembers these films as fondly as I do and he’s written a beautiful book about them called Weirdumentary.  In our conversation we cover everything from the Bermuda Triangle to William Shatner to the Loch Ness Monster to Orson Wells to the iconography of the Patterson-Gimlin film to the legendary “Office of Knowledge”!

SEE dramatic recreations of Bigfoot attacks!  HEAR bizarre synthesizer music!  LEARN questionable “facts”!  SMELL buttered popcorn and Red Vines!  Now sit back and get ready for your… WEIRDUMENTARY!

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