The Paranoid Strain
The podcast that explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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Recent Episodes
Dec. 10, 2024
New! Unidentified--When UFO prophecy fails. Big time.
It's time for us to review one of the most fascinating after-effects of the UFO mania that followed the Arnold sighting. We'll learn how some incredibly lucky social scientists wrote a book about perhaps the world's first ap…
Nov. 26, 2024
New! Unidentified--The fascinating forgery of the MJ-12 UFO documents
The lion's share of today's episode concerns the weird story of the MJ-12 (or Majestic-12) documents, which first surfaced in the early 80s, and purported to trace the government's UFO coverup back to the Harry Truman admini…
Nov. 12, 2024
New! Unidentified--Art Bell's time travelers and antichrists
Yes, this is part of our Unidentified UFO series, but it's also just a super-sized digression to share with all of you some of the craziest stuff Art Bell ever put on the air--the Time Traveler and Antichrist call-in shows o…
Oct. 29, 2024
New! Unidentified--From the High Desert...it's time for Art Bell
Plus the very last Roswell stuff.
Oct. 15, 2024
New! Unidentified--Roswell--It wasn't aliens, dummies.
As the episode subtitle implies, we're gonna talk about why the Roswell "aliens" were almost certainly military test dummies. While we're at it, we'll explain why that's true in spite of the fact that those dummy tests didn'…
Oct. 1, 2024
New! Unidentified--Roswell: The mortician's tale, and the little alien bodies
Continuing our skeptical look at Roswell, this time examine the story told by town mortician Glenn Dennis--a fascinating combination of real events, confabulations, and total crap. We also look into the eyewitness reports of…
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