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127: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 2: Albert Coe & Herbert Schirmer with Richard Hatem

First and foremost, I can't thank you all enough for the overwhelming support for our first episode. It means the world. On this week's episode Rich Hatem is back and he brings the story of Albert Coe along. Published in 1969, at a time when contactee tales were becoming fewer and far between, The Shocking Truth! tells the story of Coe's encounter with a human looking alien while out hunting. For my part, I brin...

Welcome UFO People #3: Bernice Niblett

Hey y'all. Here is the third volume of Welcome UFO People, dedicated to Bernice Niblett and the UFO hotspot she moved into on Keats Island in October 1967. If you listened to episode 124 of the podcast, her story will be familiar. This is the best one yet, and we're so young on this project. I hope y'all enjoy!

The Hum and the Silence, Vol. 15: Paleo-Abductions

In our first installment of our History of Abductions series, I put forth the premise that abductions weren't in print before 1957... welp, that's not entirely true. On this bonus episode I dive into the origins of the phenomenon with fae encounters from Celtic lore, and the stories of the chaneques, gnomes, from Mexico. I also dive into the classic stories of paleo-abduction, including James Everell's luminous swine, the attempted abduction of Col. H.G. Shaw, and the strange disappearance Ka...

Rob & Todd Will Be Appearing on Astonishing Legends Junk Drawer on Monday!

Hey y’all! Todd and myself will be appearing on Astonishing Legends Junk Drawer on Monday, November 7, at 3 pm ET/ 12 pm PST. They have given us permission to share this with our patrons so keep it on the down low, but I hope y’all can tune in!

126: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 1: 1957-1969 with Rich Hatem

This episode marks the beginning of a L O N G series about the history of the alien abduction phenomenon. 

Our premise, in part, can be summarized by Thomas Bullard, “UFO abductions in the strict sense of the term usually include a visible UFO and require involuntary capture or coercion to get witnesses on board. Once they are inside the crew examines them and turns them out after about two hours, and during that time the witnesses usually suffer some impairment of memory, consci...

Creative Weirdos - Welcome UFO People: A Discussion with Todd Purse & Rob Kristoffersen

At the end of this week's episode I referenced a webcomic that I've been working on with past guest and all around good dude, Todd Purse, called Welcome UFO People. Well, we decided to get together and talk about it. On this bonus episode we talked about the comic that inspired us to do the series, the comics that we love, giving new life to old UFO/alien encounter cases, and the witness sketches that inspire...

125: An Interview with Stan Gordon

For Halloween this year I wanted to do something special. I reached out to Stan Gordon, and he was kind enough to join me. Stan talked about many of the cases he's collected and investigated over the years, including the infamous Fayette County case, the Bigfoot/UFO flaps of 1972 and 73, miniature UFO cases, and various other types of cryptids. 

Bio:

Stan Gordon was trained as an electronics technician who specialized in radio communications. He worked in the...

124: I Lived in a Nest of UFOs with Willow Truman

Page space within UFO journals of the 50s, 60s, and 70s was dedicated to solely to the seasoned investigator, debuting important cases that we quote endlessly today, for the first time; the established theorist theorizing about the true nature of UFO entities, and other topics.

Aside from listener feedback in select journals, those pages were almost never offered to the witness themselves to tell their own stories. That fact alone makes the story of Bernice Niblett unique. In Volume 2, ...

The Swerve, Vol 2 - Voting Poll

Hey y'all. Our first "Swerve" episode came out earlier this month and was super fun to do, so I figured it was time to vote on a new one. Voting is open for one week. The episode will most likely come out in January.

Welcome UFO People #2: The Dan Duggleby Close Encounter

Hey everyone! Here is the second installment of Welcome UFO People. It features the encounter of Dan Duggleby. Here is the entry in the 1966 HUMCAT:  

Before August 20, 1966, Daytime, Bozeman, Montana: 

"Dan Duggleby was up in the hills with a .22 rifle when he heard a 'whooshing' noises & looked up to see a large rocket-shaped object about 60 ft in diameter & 300 feet high, which landed close by. An opening appeared in its side & a ramp slid out, down this c...

The Hum and the Silence, Vol 14: The 1967 Addendum

For the final installment of our Addendum series, we return with some odd humanoids, UFO photos, and a series of encounters with short little men in the bedrooms of many Venezuelan residents. James E McDonald hits up the United Nations and gets denied, and the Condon Committee's woes are only beginning.

Sources:

All sources used in this episode can be found on our Resources page.

The Hum and the Silence, Vol 13: The 1966 Addendum

Greetings Patrons! I'm back with the 66 addendum. If you recall, 1966 was the Swamp Gas year; the straw that broke the camels back for Project Blue Book and led to a civilian study of the UFO phenomenon and Blue Book's files from the University of Colorado. It was the year that Frank Manor saw a glowing pyramid in his back yard, an all girls school saw lights in the swamp, a group of police officers pursued a UFO over state lines and the ominous arrival of the Mothman.

On this episode I...

123: The Summer of Sasquatch '72

The 1970s produced a distinct flavor of Sasquatch, one that could be found in nationwide headlines in states like Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Often these sightings would be accompanied by other anomalous events, like UFOs, strange voices, and odd smells.

1972 was a year riddled with both. In a commentary for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Keel wrote “Hairy Monsters Eclipse Comeback By UFOs.”

“After a three year ‘lull’ with comparativel...

122: The Anomalous Bigfoot with Jordan Heath

When it comes to the big hairy guy in the woods, most people are of the mind that Bigfoot is a salt of the earth creature, feet firmly planted on the ground. Well, on this episode, we talk about the Bigfoot that may have hitched a ride on a UFO.

For decades, hairy creatures have been associated with the UFO phenomenon. In 1954, Venezuela was besieged by short, stocky creatures, with glowing yellow eyes. This particular hairy humanoid was particularly aggressive, scratching many  wi...

121: The Swerve, Vol 1: The San Pedro Haunting with Richard Hatem (Video Version)

Greetings patrons. Here is the video version of episode 121. Enjoy!

Welcome UFO People #1: The Paulo Caetano Silvera Case

Hey y'all. I have a new project! It's a collaboration with my buddy Todd Purse that we're calling Welcome UFO People. Once a month we'll be releasing a 5 panel comic depicting real life UFO and humanoid encounter cases. We'll be posting high resolution versions of them to our Patreon accounts, both mine and Todd's. Our first one is devoted to the Paulo Caetano Silvera case which I ...

121: The Swerve, Vol. 1: The San Pedro Haunting with Richard Hatem

CW: domestic abuse

A couple of months ago, patrons of Our Strange Skies voted on a non-UFO topic that we would cover. Among the choices of "Haunted Objects, "Gef, the Talking Mongoose" and "The Beast of Boggy Creek," the topic that won, with 38% of the vote was The San Pedro Haunting.

The San Pedro Haunting, otherwise know as the Jackie Hernandez Poltergeist case, is a uniquely violent case. Jackie, along with other eyewitnesses and investigators were terrorized by a...

120: The Sunderland Family Mysteries with Sam & Sage

On episode 96, we briefly touched upon the story of the Sunderland family, who'd had a series of encounters with UFOs and aliens in a field near their home. The accounts of Gaynor and Darren Sunderland were very similar; they included strange flying saucers, wobbly walking aliens, and sci-fi ray guns.  

T...

119: UFOs During Wartime with Spencer Wirth-Davis

On September 13, 2022, Vice Motherboard rand published an articled called "Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv." Astronomers at the main observatory in Kiev described black, extremely fast moving objects, that absorbed radiation. These objects were so fast, that they had to design a system involving two observatories, 60 mil...

118: The Alien Encore

CW: misogyny, fat phobia

Back in April I did an impromptu live stream. The theme of this live stream was music. One thing I love doing is live reacting to things I've never read before and this episode captures it well. In the first story, I recount a UFO encounter that the Moody Blues had while returning home from a show in 1967. The second story involves a Canadian ...

117: The Valley of the Old Women and Brazil's Strange Humanoids with Rus Ryan

Journalist Bob Pratt made several trips to Brazil, collecting stories from villagers of UFO encounters. Many of them proved to be random, violent encounters which he published in UFO Danger Zone. Often these attacks would come after the witnesses had lit up a cigarette.

The area known as "The Valley of the Old Women" produced many accounts over the decades....

116: The Humanoids of Puerto Rico with Todd Purse

In UFO circles, Puerto Rico's reputation has largely been built upon that red eyed goat sucker known as El Chupacabras. In reality, their UFO and humanoid history is much more varied than that.

Magdalena del Amo-Freixedo, the wife of investigator Salvador Freixedo, put it best: “Long ago, long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, the god Yuquiyú was wont to appear to the natives of the Island, the Taino Indians. And, as the centuries have passed, Puerto Rico has been the scene...

The Hum and the Silence, Vol 12: The 1965 Supplementary Material

Hello Patrons! Here is the first of three volumes of supplementary material from the 65-67 series!

There were a number of trends from this year that stood out, that we didn't really get a chance to cover on the main show. There were multiple events where a car would be lifted up into the air and communication would occur. South America was the location of a number of contactee like cases, but also cases in which "little people" would present witnesses with pieces of metal. This was also...

An Update

114: The Window Area

In UFO research we have lots of strange terms for things. For instance, a flap is defined as a large cluster of sightings over a period of time. A great example of a flap is our series on the 1973 Year of the Humanoids, or the 1954 flap in France where witnesses saw UFOs and occupants that wore “diving suits.” Beyond the scope of flaps, there are certain areas of the world that have distinct paranormal flavors and identities. John Keel called them “Window Areas” or “Thin Places.”<...

Updates 8/9/10

Hey. y'all, just wanted to pass along a few updates.

- I am currently at work on three Patreon bonus episodes, which will be released this month. One of them is the supplementary material from our 65-67 series. This will include the foreign cases. The second episode will be on alien mistakes and the third is about a series of buck wild sightings in 1977 on the Canary Islands.

- We will be recording the "swerve" episode on the San Pedro haunting next week with guest Rich Hatem. Ric...

113: Bigfoot and the Half Cat Theory with Spencer Wirth-Davis

CW: Animal death and mutilation

This week Spencer Wirth Davis of Finding Quantum Quest and The What If? Podcast steps in to tell ME a story.

Sometimes, a sentence is so unhinged and delivered in a normal fashion that it's unforgettable. In 2018 Spencer and his co-host on The What If? Podcast, Ryan Kopper...

112: Flying Solo, Vol. 1: From the Pages of the A.P.R.O. Bulletin

After nearly 8 hours of content over the span of three episodes, I feel like we could use a bit of a breather. Okay, maybe I need the breather, but I'm not gonna leave you hanging. I'm flying solo this week, and I've culled a few articles from The A.P.R.O. Bulletin to read for you. If you feel like I'm phoning it in, don't worry, I do too, but I needed a bit of a break. We'll conclude our series on the 65-67 flap next episode with a look at key cases from other countries. 

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