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 apo...

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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 adminis...

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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 …

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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't...

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Oct. 1, 2024

New! Unidentified--Roswell: The mortician's tale, and the little alie…

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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Sept. 17, 2024

New! Unidentifed--So, what really happened at Roswell?

We're back a week late, but I hope you agree it's worth it. Having heard the pro-UFO version of Roswell last time, we now seek to learn why so many dedicated investigators have looked into this situation and decided it's …

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Sept. 10, 2024

Unidentified--Interlude

We're gonna need another week

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Aug. 27, 2024

New! Unidentified--The Roswell incident (as told by an expert UFO bel…

This time, we hear the full story of Roswell--or, at least, the full story as it's told by those who are convinced that a UFO crashed there. This is audio captured during the great 2017 Paranoid Strain road trip, and …

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Aug. 13, 2024

New! Unidentified--The pre-UFOs that set the stage for Roswell

Roswell is right around the corner, but first let's consider the unidentified objects that appeared in the night skies before everybody decided they were shaped like saucers. To wit, we'll cover The War of the Worlds, the foo...

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July 30, 2024

New! Unidentified--Where are all the aliens? (The Fermi Paradox and D…

We're fully on the UFO beat now, and addressing one of the most vexing questions asked by any scientist in the previous century--Enrico Fermi's question about aliens. That is, "Where is everybody"? We explore many solutions t...

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July 16, 2024

New! Unidentified--The 66 trillion year-old Shabazz UFO, and the stil…

Hey! There are finally UFOs in the UFO series!

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June 18, 2024

New! Unidentified--Graham Hancock, Ancient Aliens, and the Chad Rogai…

You've never heard ancient toddler chanting quite like this...

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May 7, 2024

New! Unidentified, Episode 7: Zecharia Sitchin's made-up Ancient Ali…

We finally introduce arguably the second-most-important ancient aliens conspiracy theorist, shipping executive, amateur researcher, and adorable little old man Zecharia Sitchin. He's just as wrong and bull-headed as von Danik...

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April 23, 2024

New! Unidentified, Episode 6: It was the Ancient Alien, with the Cry…

Trust us, that subtitle will eventually make sense.

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March 26, 2024

New! Unidentified, Episode 4: O-negative blood type? You're probably …

or Basque-ing in the Rh-negative blood type

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Jan. 30, 2024

New! Quick-ish hit! Paul is Dead? Part 2

And here's the second part of our rundown of the Paul is Dead musical conspiracy theory. In this episode, we consider the long-term implications of this brief mania, as well as the modern conspiracists who just won't let it g...

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