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    BONUS: Weirdumentary with Gary Rhodes

    03/08/2026 | 55 mins.
    Weirdumentary has a forward by Stephen Bissette who wrote a book also likely to be of interest to listeners: Cryptid Cinema (affiliate link)
    (A follow-up to that book is under construction and will include research by your's truly about the "4-walling" tour of the PGF.)
    I linked to Feral House's page for Weirdumentary above at the request of Gary. If you're curious about their catalog, we talked with their owner recently about monstrous food and they also produced Al Ridenour's new book about Carnival.
    This is not a complete list of the films in the book - and it also covers a few TV series including In Search Of... and Arthur C. Clarke's _____ (he had three ITV series covering topics similar to ISO with each season getting a slightly different name).
    1970: Chariots of the Gods, The Unexplained
    1971: The Hellstrom Chronicles, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
    1972: Bigfoot Man or Beast, Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?, The Devil's Triangle, The Legend of Boggy Creek
    1973: In Search of Ancient Astronauts
    1974: Deadly Fathoms, In Search of Ancient Mysteries, In Search of Dracula, UFOs: Past, Present and Future
    1975: Mysteries from Beyond Earth, The Force Beyond, The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond, The Man of Miracles, The Outer Space Connection
    1976: Beyond Belief, In Search of Noah's Ark, Mysteries of the Gods, The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena, The Legend of Bigfoot, The Legend of Loch Ness, The Miracle Healers, The Mysterious Monsters, World Beyond Death
    1977: Aliens from Spaceship Earth, Journey into the Beyond, Mysteries of the Great Pyramid, The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Underground Doctors, The Unknown Force
    1978: Are We Alone in the Universe?, Beyond and Back, Curse of the Mayan Temple, Manbeast! Myth or Monster?, Mysteries from Beyond the Triangle, Mysteries of the Mind, Mystery of the Sacred Shroud, Secret of the Bermuda Triangle, The Amazing World of Ghosts, The Late Great Planet Earth, The Lost City of Atlantis, The UFO Journals, UFO - Exclusive! , UFO: Top Secret, Unknown Powers, World of the Unknown
    1979: Attack from Outer Space, Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle, Death: The Ultimate Mystery, Encounter with Disaster, Hypnosis and Beyond, In Search of the Historic Jesus, The Doomsday Chronicles, The Prophecies of Nostradamus, UFOs Are Real, World of Mystery
    1980: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (TV), Land of Celtic Ghosts, Mysteries of the Mind, UFO Syndrome
    1981: Search for the Titanic
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    S05E01 UFO Coverups

    01/29/2026 | 3h 11 mins.
    Show less
    Jeb and Blake kick off Season 5 of In Search Of... by researching UFO COVERUPS!
    Links: 
    UFO Crash at Roswell
    Catalina UFO Footage and Reddit discussion of same
    Twilight Zone - A Small Talent for War
    Malmstrom UFO Incident
    Obit for Col. Donald Burggrabe
    Peter Gersten "the UFO Lawyer"
    Raymond Fowler
    Col. Robert Friend - and obit
    Jesse Marcel Sr.
    NASA Lifting Body
    Northrop Flying Wing
    Doak VZ-4 (not a saucer!)
    Avrocar
    Jupiter II (Lost in Space)
    Nimoy Fashion Alert!

    UFO Crash Sites in New Mexico:

     
    There is a lot of Top Secret in this episode:



    Col Donald Burggrabe

    Raymond Fowler

    Peter Gersten

    Donald Ritter

    Jesse Marcel Sr.

    Col Robert Friend

    And was the model UFO in this episode a guest star from Lost In Space?
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    S04E24 - Past Lives

    12/09/2025 | 2h 28 mins.
    Blake and Jeb go In Research Of PAST LIVES with Leonard Nimoy.

    Subjects include reincarnation claims, past-life regression therapy, and some truly baffling Nimoy wardrobe choices.

    Link to YouTube Episode (while it lasts)



    Topics we cover include:
    Nimoy wandering a Los Angeles graveyard in a strange quasi-military sport coat, and Blake's detective work tying the filming location to Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights.

    The famous Pollock twins case from Hexham, England, where two girls were said to be the reincarnations of their deceased sisters — and how later research complicates the story.

    Dr. Lucia Capacchione's art-therapy / inner-child work and how the show uses regression narratives to explain modern psychological problems.

    Playwright A.J. Stewart (Ada F. Kay), who became convinced she was James IV of Scotland and wrote Falcon: The Autobiography of His Grace James IV King of Scots as if from the king's own perspective.

    Whether past-life regression therapy produces evidence of reincarnation or just vivid, therapist-shaped fantasy, and why skeptics are so wary of hypnosis-based "memories."
     
    NFA (Nimoy Fashion Alert):


    Cemetery Detective Work:
    Using the 2nd NFA shot, I was able to decipher the tex on the dark tombstone. It is a lot darker in real life with a modern shot.

    That "Find a Grave" entry includes the exact location where Nimoy was standing for this episode's cemetery shot.
    Jeb asked for an animated gif of the woman in the castle with secret doors:

    The cover of Robert and Loy Young's book about reincarnation:

    The twins at the heart of the British (Hexham!) reincarnation story:

    And I can't help but scream - DON'T GO NEAR THE EDGE!!! This episode is such a cliffhanger.


    Deeper reading & sources mentioned:
    Pollock twins case write-up at the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia

    Psi Encyclopedia on famous past-life claims (including A.J. Stewart / Ada F. Kay):

    Ada F. Kay / A.J. Stewart biography (reincarnation claim & Falcon background)

    Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles) – history and the Japanese "Garden of the Pines" section

    Lucia Capacchione and inner-child / expressive-arts therapy

    Skeptical overview of past-life regression therapy (Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine):

    General background on past-life regression and why psychologists consider it pseudoscientific
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    S04E22 - The Bimini Wall (Explicit)

    07/19/2025 | 1h 48 mins.
    Jeb and Blake ponder Atlantis and "healing holes" in the waters off the coast of Bimini. (Weirdly this is almost literally true as Blake ended up actually in Bimini just a week before this ep released. More on that soon.)
    Links for Shownotes:
    Roby Yonge on "The Beatles Paul is Dead"
    Neptune Memorial Reef
    "Psychic" Irene Hughes
    Bimini Wall
    Edgar Cayce
    Beachrock
    The Healing Hole
    More on the crystal ball from 2010 (Cayce related)
     
    Nimoy Fashion Alert:

    Other interesting images from the episode:
    Hemingway's Healing Hole:

    Robey Yong and Irene Hughes re-enact their experiences.

    Doc Raymond Brown and his crystal ball

    Marcel Vogel and some crystals - he was also in S01E01 on talking plants.
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    Alien Intrusion and the UTH

    07/14/2025 | 1h 19 mins.
    Flashback to January 2018:
    In this episode of MonsterTalk, we return to discussion of the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis (UTH) and what seems to be its growing influence in paranormal circles. It's been used to explain UFOs, mothman, bigfoot, fairies, dogman, ghosts and many other phenomena which defy scientific demonstrability. Now it crops up again in a new film event titled Alien Intrusion which turned out to be a stealth evangelical creationist film which suggests that aliens and UFOs are actually demonic. We are joined by MonsterTalk alum Joe Laycock, Natasha Mikles and Jeb Card to discuss the UTH and Jeb's Paranormal Unified Field Theory (PUFT) as it relates to this film and the work of John Keel and others.

    In Research Of…

    MonsterTalk

    Joe Laycock
    Natasha Mikles

    Jeb Card

    Music

    Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys

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The show where we watch the 1970s TV show "In Search Of..." and look at possible explanations the producers didn't consider.
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