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By 1952, flying saucers had become a familiar topic to the American public. However, the case of the "flatwoods monster" was among the first widely-publicized UFO sightings to also involve an "alien" being, and it preceded a rise in anomalous entity encounters around the world.

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Sources:

Frank Feschino, Jr. The Braxton County Monster: the Cover-up of the “Flatwoods Monster” Revealed. Revised Ed. USA: Lulu Enterprises, 2013.

Joe Nickell, “The Flatwoods UFO Monster,” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6, November/ December 2000.

Donald E Keyhoe. Flying Saucers from Outer Space. New York: Henry Holt, 1953.

Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFO’s. New York: Cowles, 1967, 37-52.

See two of the original newspaper sources here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195213/http://sites.eoi.com/folder5715/index.cfm?id=187109&fuseaction=browse&pageid=27

The apparitions at Fatima made waves in the Christian community, but examined in a different light, they could hold the same significance for ufologists, mystics, and modern consciousness researchers. Not only are the apparitions incredibly well attested to - with upwards of 70,000 witnessing the events’ culmination in October 1917 - but they are some of the most fantastical on record, blurring the lines between angels and aliens, miracles and mysticism.

**CORRECTION**

The video states that the children first saw the lady at the mouth of the Cave of St. Irene. This is incorrect, and there is no such cave. They saw her in a field called the Cova da Iria.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Sources:

Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced: Myths, Miracles, and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal. London: University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Jacques Vallee. Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.

Lucia Santos, Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words: Sister Lucia’s Memoirs. Edited by Louis Kondor. 16th edition. Fatima: Secretariado dos Pastorinhos, 2007.

This video contains footage from the Spanish film, 'Las Aparicion de la virgen de Fatima,’ available in full: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EWrfSo1HDpw.

After the death of his abusive grandfather, 21-year-old Donnie Decker experienced a range of hostile anomalous phenomena that culminated in him gaining the power to make it rain indoors. Donnie's case boasts an impressive number of first-hand witnesses, and it suggests an important link between emotional trauma and the experience of the unexplained.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Sources:

Anomalous Experiences & Trauma: Current Theoretical, Research and Clinical Perspectives. Edited by Rima Laibow, Robert Sollod, and John Wilson. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Center for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma, 1992.

Ann Druffel. How to Protect Yourself from Alien Abduction. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.

Christina Tatu. "Paranormal Skeptic Rains on Stroudsburg's Devil Tale." Pocono Record, May 26, 2013.

https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2013/05/26/paranormal-skeptic-rains-on-stroudsburg/45764967007/

Kevin McCaney, "Stoudsburg Strangeness being Checked." Pocono Record, March 19, 1983.

Syfy's Paranormal Witness, 2011, Season 1, Episode 6

Thomas Rabeyron and Tianna Loose. "Anomalous Experiences, Trauma, and Symbolization Processes at the Frontiers between Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Neurosciences." Frontiers in Psychology 6:1926 (Dec 21, 2015).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01926/full

Unsolved Mysteries, 1993, Season 6, Episode 18.

Charles Fort was an early-twentieth-century thinker and writer often credited with "inventing" the supernatural, or the paranormal, by creating a neutral category for anomalous observations, discoveries, and experiences. Before Charles Fort, anomalies were typically explained away, or else absorbed into pre-existing explanatory frameworks like religion and mythology. Thanks to his efforts, they can now be set aside for further research, even if they're still often ignored in mainstream science.

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Sources:

Jim Steinmeyer. "Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural." New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, 2008.

Charles Fort. "The Complete Books of Charles Fort." New York: Dover Publications, 1974.

After 20 years of sub-par UFO research, the US Air Force finally agreed to hand over the responsibility for investigating UFOs to the scientific community. The result was the controversial Condon Report, which advised against the continued study of the UFO phenomenon, and struck a death blow to the fledgling field of ufology.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Sources:

David Saunders. "UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong." New York: World Publishing Company, 1969.

Edward U. Condon. "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects." New York: Colorado University Press, 1969.

Peter A. Sturrock. "An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project."

J. Scientific Exploration, vol. 1, no. 1, 1987.

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Many now believe that the crop circle phenomenon has all been explained as an elaborate hoax, but there is a long history of crop circle science that demonstrates that the strange formations could not have been laid by human hands.

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Music by Josh Chamberland.

Animation by Brendan Barr.

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Special thanks to Van Hunt for contributing important research to the making of this video. http://vanhunt.com

Some Sources:

Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Circular Evidence: a Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1989.

Lucy Pringle. Crop Circles: The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times. London: Thorsons, 1999.

Freddy Silva. Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles. Portland, ME: Invisible Temple Publishing, 2013.

Terry Wilson. "1932 - Bow Hill, Chichester, West Sussex, England," in The Secret History of Crop Circles: Recording the Phenomenon In Days of Old. Paignton, UK: Terry Wilson, 2015.

John Burke. "The Physics of Crop Formations." MUFON Journal (October, 1998): 3-7.

BLT's summary of plant abnormalities: http://www.bltresearch.com/plantab.php

William C. Levengood and Nancy P. Talbott. "Dispersion of Energies in Worldwide Crop Formations." Physiologia Plantarum 105 (1999).

Nancy Talbott. "Two Largest Snow Formations Yet Reported." BLT Research.com.

The Ark of the Covenant, the sacred vessel of the ten commandments and the mobile sanctuary of the spirit of God, is frequently alluded to in the old testament. According to scripture, it dried up rivers, destroyed city walls, and killed people en masse. Then, it simply vanished. In this video, we explore the history of the ark, and look at a few theories to account for its disappearance as well as its whereabouts today.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Music by Josh Chamberland.

Animation by Brendan Barr.

Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland.

Special thanks to Graham Hancock for reviewing the script to this video and checking for errors. If you don't know Graham's work, you owe it to yourself to check him out: https://grahamhancock.com

Sources:

Graham Hancock. The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1993.

Graham Phillips. The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant: The Discovery of the Treasure of Solomon. Rochester, VT, Bear & Company, 2004.

The "abduction" of Jacob Jacobsson is a little-known case popularized in "Wonders in the Sky," by Vallee and Aubeck in 2009. Based on an eighteenth-century manuscript from Lonmora, Sweden, the story bears a striking resemblance to modern tales of alien abduction, and causes us to question the extraterrestrial origin of these bedroom invaders.

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Source:

A translation of the Lonmora Manuscript in reproduced in full in Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck, "Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times," (New York: Penguin Group, 2009), 259-261.

On the afternoon of November 7, 2006, a UFO was spotted at Chicago’s O'Hare Airport in Illinois, USA.

The UFO sighting at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, IL, is a recent reminder that mass UFO sightings still occur, and that in America, at least, witnesses and investigators still get stonewalled by all authorities in their search for explanations. The case also gives us reason to believe that there would be many more cases known to the public if airlines and regulatory agencies were more transparent with the evidence.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

Illustration by V.R. Laurence (https://vrlaurence.com).

Research and draft writing by Clark Murphy.

Music by Josh Chamberland.

Animation by Brendan Barr.

Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland.

Some sources:

“Aliens at the Airport.” UFO Hunters. Season 2, Episode 11. February 11, 2009.

Block, Melissa. “UFO Is Reported at O'Hare; Feds Are Silent.” NPR. January 1, 2007.

CNN footage from January 6, 2007 in “Chicago O’Hare Airport UFO Sighting 7/11/06.” The Spiderman. YouTube video, 16:36. January 24, 2019.

Davenport, Peter. “DISC-SHAPED UFO REPORTED OVER O'HARE AIRPORT.” TheUfoChronicles.com. November 18, 2006.

Evening Standard staff. “'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot.” Evening Standard. June 22, 2007.

Flammer, Joseph. UFOs over America: Scariest Cases. Atglen, PA, USA: Schiffer, 2016. 42 - 50.

Haines, Richard F., et al. “Report of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon and its Safety Implications at O'Hare International Airport on November 7, 2006. Case 18.” National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena. March 9, 2007. Rev. July 24, 2007.

Hilkevitch, Jon. “In the sky! A bird? A plane? A ... UFO?” Chicago Tribune. January 1, 2007.

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In 2014, two Dutch students on a trip to Panama went missing under highly unusual circumstances, only to have some of their remains appear weeks later, scattered miles from their last known location. While their disappearance was certainly anomalous in itself, it also fits with a pattern of missing persons cases around the world that may be linked to other anomalous phenomena.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

Illustration by V.R. Laurence (https://vrlaurence.com).

Researched and Co-written by Clark Murphy.

Music by Josh Chamberland.

Animation by Brendan Barr.

Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland.

Special thanks to Scarlet R. of koudekaas.blogspot.com, Chris & Matt of ImperfectPlan.com, and all investigators & translators who spread and organized knowledge of this case.

Main Sources:

Atencio, Mariana. “How this journalist found herself in the middle of a Panamanian true crime story.” MSNBC. November 3, 2022.

BBC. “Panama hunts for missing Dutchwomen Kremers and Froon.” May 26, 2014.

Bratu, Becky. “Dutch Police Hint at Criminal Activity in Women's Disappearance.” NBC News. April 22, 2014.

Chris. “Unsolved: Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon In Panama (FULL STORY).” ImperfectPlan.com. November 11, 2016.

Chris. “Kris Kremers Bleached Bones – Deeper Insights.” ImperfectPlan.com. July 2, 2020.

Kremers & Froon Family. FindLisanneKris.com.

Kremers’ parents. “New search for answers and cause dissapearence (sic) Kris Kremers.” Answersforkris.com. July 25, 2014.

R., Scarlet. “The disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Panama, Boquete 2014 - an ongoing mystery.” koudekaas.blogspot.com. December 4, 2019. https://koudekaas.blogspot.com.

R., Scarlet. “Part 2 of The disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in Panama - the swimming photo and new leads.” koudekaas.blogspot.com. December 3, 2019.

R., Scarlet. “Detailed Case Timeline + My personal beliefs about what may have happened.” koudekaas.blogspot.com. December 4, 2019.