Wide Atlantic Weird

It's flying saucer time once again! Join Cian at the cabin for a chat about the Pepper Transcript, a forgotten bit of UFO lore. There's UFOs in space, Apollo astronauts, and a secret UFO base on the moon. Featuring:

-James McDivitt's 1965 earth orbit UFO sighting

-Apollo 11's anomalous sighting

-The Pepper Transcript

-Alleged sighting by Armstrong and Aldrin of giant UFOs 'parked' in a lunar crater

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Outer Space Sound by Elan Hickler

https://freesound.org/people/ElanHickler/sounds/38969/

World Famous Strange But True, Colin WIlson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6883039-strange-but-true

Usborne World Of The Unknown UFOs

https://www.usbornebooksathome.co.uk/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?cat=1&area=S&subcat=SAS&id=16510

The Apollo 11 UFO Incidents by James Oberg

https://www.debunker.com/texts/apollo11.html

The Gemini 4 UFO by James Oberg

http://www.jamesoberg.com/gemini4.html

Cian enjoys a coffee (forgot to mention the beverage but hey the episode's long enough already) at the cabin in the woods and pores over Michael Crichton's seminal 90s dino-stuffed techno-thriller. He still loves Crichton ... but discovers more troubling themes within the story this time around. Join us for a slightly uncomfortable, and extra-long, revisiting of a classic. Come for the dinosaurs, stay for the analysis of anti-environmentalism! :)

-Crichton's later unfortunate foray into the world of climate denial

-The extended universe of Jurassic Park

-What dinosaurs are canonically in JP?

-Book Hammond (spiteful corporate greedbag) vs film Hammond (just wants to make children happy)

-JP as a Frankenstein story

-Crichton's attitude towards science vs industry

-The reality of de-extinction

-Wild west genetics & the birth of Ingen

-The dinosaur renaissance

-Hammond's tiny elephant!

NOTES

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And You Call Yourself A Scientist

http://www.aycyas.com/jurassicpark.htm

Drilled

https://www.drillednews.com/podcasts

Cian is a massive Kong fan, and after years of resigning Peter Jackson's 2005 remake to the 'dud' bin, he dusts off this 3-hour love letter to the original and gives it another shake. Join us at the cabin in the woods as we discuss:

-my history with the original and Jackson's Kong

-the history of CGI used for creature effects

-Jackson's bloated, indulgent nature

-Jackson's love for Kong

-The history of the 'lost world' genre

-Colonialism in King Kong

-The effect of Jurassic Park on movie dinosaurs

-The ecology of Skull Island

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Knock Once For Yes podcast halloween specal

https://knockonceforyes.com/2020/10/31/episode-48-classic-ghosts/

UK Wildlife Podcast Halloween episode

http://www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/uk-wildlife-podcast/

School Of Movies King Kong Episode

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/alex-shaw/school-of-movies/e/61495999

King Kong Cometh by Paul A Woods, 2005

https://www.waterstones.com/book/king-kong-cometh/paul-a-woods/9780859653626

The World Of Kong: The Natural History of Skull Island, Weta Workshop, 2005

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_World_of_Kong.html?id=JtdI-BuTEhgC&redir_esc=y

Our Halloween mega-episode: the entire twisted history of Borley Rectory, the infamous Most Haunted House in England!

-we cover the four eras of Borley including its history with the divisive ghost-hunter Harry Price

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Sources:

The Enigma of Borley Rectory by Ivan Banks

The Most Haunted House in England by Harry Price

Haunted Houses, Maple & Myring

A sample bonus episode of Wide Atlantic Weird Extra, which will be available only to supporters of our new Patreon! Cian & Dónal talk KISS - in particular the 80s and early 90s, their wilderness no-makeup years! Snubbed by fans until recently, the lads go through your fav superhero clowns' every album from that era! Get ready to LICK IT UP!

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Enjoy a wee drop of whiskey at the cabin for a chat about the infamous Great Grey Man of Ben Macdhui - whether it be a cryptozoological Bigfoot-like creature, or a more mystical being of folklore. The Grey Man is only one of many strange tales told about high elevations. In this episode, we investigate:

-the 1975 Bonighton Everest ghost

-Dan Simmons’ novels ‘The Terror’ and ‘The Abominable’

-1920s mountaineering mania

-Ghosts and hallucinations on Everest

-Frank Smythe’s sighting of weird aerial creatures on Everest

-Isolated high-altitude psychosis

-Early stories of the Great Grey Man of Ben Macdhui

-Mystical encounters with the Grey Man

-The Grey Man speaking Scots Gallic and psychic communication!

IMAGE from Haunted houses by Maple & Myring

SOURCES:

-Haunted Houses, Maple & Myring, 1979

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-Howard Bury’s Footsteps episode (beginning of the Yeti myth!)

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-Day of the Triffids episode (me talking to Neil from UK Wildlife podcast!)

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-The Horror-Horn episode (Yetis in the Alps!)

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-The Abominable, Dan Simmons, 2013

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-The Secret Lives of Ghosts, Paul Gater, 2013

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-The Business Insider article about high altitude hallucinations, Kevin Loria 2018

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-Frank Smythe’s hallucination, from The Crystal Horizon, Roger McDonald

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-Live Science, Hearing Voices When Climbing Mount Everest, Charles Q Choi, 2017

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-Yeti, Graham Hoyland, 2018

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-VacationScotland.biz article about the Great Grey Man, David McNicoll, 2018

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-The Secret of Spey, Wendy Wood, 1930

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-The Big Grey Man: Myth or Monster, Affleck Grey, 1989

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-A Brocken Spectre in Ireland

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Join Cian at the cabin for a beer as he gets to know influential Welsh writer of the strange, the inimitable Arthur Machen, and focuses on his 1895 tale of a Victorian scientist searching for a forgotten race of malevolent ab-human ‘fairy folk’ living in (or under?) the Welsh hills. Discussion covers:

-Psychogeography & hauntology of Machen’s work

-the ‘orientalising’ of Britain’s Celtic fringe

-Victorian pseudo-history

-Margaret Murray & the Witch-Cult Hypothesis (of course!)

-Machen’s influence on (you guessed it) HP Lovecraft

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The Three Imposters, Arthur machen, 1895

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35517/35517-h/35517-h.htm

Ghostland, Edward Parnell, 2019

https://edwardparnell.com/

Caerleon.net, Arthur Machen

http://www.caerleon.net/history/machen/text/index.html

Supernatural Horror in Literature, HP Lovecraft, 1927

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx

Conan And The Little People, From An Underwood No 5, Todd B. Vick, 2019

http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2019/01/conan-and-little-people-robert-e-howard.html

The Horror Of Geologic Time, Aaron Worth, 2018

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/31/the-horror-of-geologic-time/

Join Cian & Dónal at the cabin for another October monster episode .... this time, the monsters of Gulliver's Travels! We discuss:

-Swift's life and identity as an Irishman

-The place of the Anglo-Irish and Church of Ireland in the 18th Century

-Gullivar's Travels, the four books

-The Lilliputians, The Brobdingnagians, Laputa, & the Yahoos

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Cian is delighted to invite to the cabin in the woods W. Scott Poole, author of In The Mountains Of Madness: The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft for a chat about the great New England horror writer! In this episode we have an enormously fun conversation that includes:

-Lovecraft's short story The Moon-Bog, set in Ireland

-Lovecraft's racial worldview and how the Celts/Irish feature in it

-Links to better-known HPL stories such as The Rats In The Walls and The Horror At Red Hook

-Recent revisionary takes on HPL's universe such as The Ballad Of Black Tom

-Lovecraft's discussions with Robert E Howard about race

-Connections to other writers of fantastic/weird fiction

-Recent book Wasteland: The Great War And The Origins Of Modern Horror

Don't miss this one!

NOTES:

Wasteland, W. Scott Poole, 2018, Counterpoint Press

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wasteland-Great-Origins-Modern-Horror/dp/1640090932

In The Mountains Of Madness, W. Scott Poole, 2016, Soft Skull Press

https://www.amazon.com/Mountains-Madness-Extraordinary-Afterlife-Lovecraft/dp/1593766475/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mountains+madness+poole&qid=1602261897&sr=8-1

The Ballad Of Black Tom, Victor Lavalle, 2016, Tor

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ballad-Black-Tom-Victor-Lavalle/dp/0765387867

A Means To Freedom, Lovecraft & Howard, 2017, Hippocampus Press

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Means-Freedom-Letters-Lovecraft-Robert/dp/0984480293

"Pencil, Writing, Close, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

'Cthulhu and R'lyeh' by Bendukiwi

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cthulhu_and_R%27lyeh.jpg

Join Cian at the cabin in the woods for an informal, off-the-cuff bonus episode on the 1968 classic The Devil Rides Out! There's folk horror, Hammer horror, 1930s glamour, and dashed bad company Satanists in this episode! Enjoy one of our favourite films of all time with comparisons to the original 1934 book and extra notes on the life and work of the inestimate Dennis Wheatley. Take a glass of Imperial Tokay at the door!

The Devil Rides Out, 1934, Dennis Wheatley

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/974742.The_Devil_Rides_Out

The Devil Rides Out, 1968, Terrance Fisher

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062885/

The Devil Is A Gentleman, 2010

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6993165-the-devil-is-a-gentleman