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William Shatner joins us on The Basement to talk about the masks we wear for the people we love. Then the conversation turns to stranger ground.

In 1967, Shatner crashed his dirt bike into a prospector’s trench in the Mojave Desert, alone and baking in his leathers. Over the ridge stood a figure dressed in silver, and it led him somewhere.

He also opens up about surviving stage 4 melanoma in the same stretch of time his daughter faced her own diagnosis. He shares the phone call he made to his dying sister, and what it taught him about Captain Kirk’s final words.

From Spinoza to the Great Pyramid’s hidden hum, this is a man still asking big questions. What do we see at the very end? Shatner has a theory.

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A heavy dresser slides out of a bedroom on its own, and a twelve-year-old girl starts speaking in a dead man’s voice. Investigators show up planning to stay eight weeks and end up staying two years.

In Gary, Indiana, a family fights back with bleach, sage, and prayer while something turns on their children. Police officers, nurses, and a social worker see things they can’t explain.

In Atchison, Kansas, a young couple brings a new baby home to an old rental house. Then scratches start showing up on the father, and a psychic gives them a name.

Three houses, three families, and a long list of witnesses. The people who walked through those doors never looked at a home the same way again.

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Jeff Kripal grew up in Tornado Alley, tried to fast his way to sainthood as a teenager, and then one night in Calcutta in 1989, something happened that he's spent almost forty years writing about. Now he's the man behind the Archives of the Impossible: Jacques Vallée's files, John Mack's abduction research, thousands of letters strangers sent Whitley Strieber. Not believing. Not debunking. Just listening. And he told me a story he's never written down.

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Dr. Michael Salla spent years in war zones - East Timor, Kosovo, Sri Lanka - teaching conflict resolution at American University. Then one press conference in 2001 cost him his academic career. Twenty-five years later he's still here, still citing his sources, and he's telling me things about Eisenhower, Antarctica and a soldier named JP that I can't shake. Some of it I couldn't debunk.

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In 1911, the Olympic was the biggest ship in the world, until a Navy cruiser bent its keel. Its owner, J.P. Morgan, couldn't get anyone to pay for the damage.

But the Olympic had an identical twin, sitting unfinished in a Belfast shipyard. Over one empty weekend, the names were changed, and the insurance on the damaged ship jumped to twelve and a half million dollars.

Morgan cancelled his suite on the Titanic, and so did dozens of his friends. Three of the richest men in America got an invitation instead, and all three stood between Morgan and the bank he wanted.

A rescue ship waited in the ice with 3,000 blankets. And the wreck still carries a secret on its bow, rusting through the paint.

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Dr. Ed Barnhart found a Maya city nobody had ever touched. Not even the looters. Then he lost it. Thirty years later he's chasing beams of light inside Khmer temples, arguing that Inca walls were melted, and hunting a number a friend guessed 25 years before anyone found it written on a wall. Lost cities, botflies, and a .45 to the forehead.

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A package from Kazakhstan arrives on a kitchen table outside Boston. Inside are 119 pages, written in Russian by a man his daughter always knew as a plumber.

He died before she could ask him about them. The pages describe a flying saucer down to the coil, the reactor, and the fuel.

Her husband, a former intelligence contractor, starts pulling the thread. What he finds ties back to a secret Soviet city that never appeared on a map, a decades-long hunt for unexplained aircraft, and a research program that spent millions chasing the same physics.

But numbers only tell you so much. We put every claim to the test, from the blueprint to the man who drew it.

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Dr. Alex Petkas spent years learning dead languages so he could tell you what the greatest men who ever lived were actually like. This one goes everywhere — a library buried by Vesuvius, a coup that broke Sparta, philosophers who got way too close to power, and why Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue. There are hundreds of scrolls under that villa that no living person has read. That's about to change.

PETKAS LINKS

Website: https://costofglory.com

Join: https://theclassicalsociety.com/

Podcast: Cost of Glory

YouTube: @costofglory

X: @costofglory

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On a December night in 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and six-year-old Colby Landrum took a back road home through the East Texas pines. A blazing, diamond-shaped craft dropped over the road in front of them, pouring fire onto the pavement.

When it lifted away, a swarm of twin-rotor military helicopters closed in around it. Within hours, the three witnesses were sick, and within days, their hair was falling out.

The doctors had no answers, and the military denied everything. So Betty and Vickie did something no one had done before: they sued the United States government over a UFO.

What flew over Farm Road 1485 that night? And why is one key page of the Army's own report still blacked out?

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Dr. Brian Laythe has spent fifteen years pointing cameras and EMF meters at haunted places, and he'll tell you straight when something's explainable. Then there's the rectory in Cincinnati. Two people, two nights, the same thing coming through them — and a team that never fully recovered. We get into the blue flame, the beach balls, and the one room he refuses to go back to. Bring coffee.

LAYTHE LINKS:

www.israenet.org

Book: "Ghosted!: Exploring the Haunting Reality of Paranormal Encounters"

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