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What happens when you leave Earth—and take the human mind somewhere it was never meant to go?

After diving back into space while writing Drawn to the Stars: Book One – The Exchange (now available on Amazon), I found myself drawn not just to the missions we all know… but to the moments we don’t talk about as often. The strange ones. The quiet ones. The ones astronauts themselves struggled to explain.

In this episode, we explore real accounts from spaceflight that blur the line between science and perception. From Edgar Mitchell’s profound experience looking back at Earth, to the eerie “music” heard by Apollo 10 behind the Moon… from Story Musgrave’s encounter with a strange, eel-like object in orbit, to Yang Liwei hearing unexplained knocking on the outside of his spacecraft.

And finally, we confront the sobering reality of Soyuz 11—a mission where nothing mysterious happened… and yet, everything changed.

These aren’t stories about aliens or conspiracy. They’re something more grounded—and in many ways, more unsettling. They’re about what happens when human perception meets an environment that doesn’t play by Earth’s rules.

Because in space, even the ordinary can feel… extraordinary.

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What makes science fiction so powerful? And why do these stories stay with us long after we’ve finished them?

In Episode 103, we explore the minds that helped shape the genre. From early works like New Atlantis and Somnium to the groundbreaking stories of H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick, this episode dives into the ideas, predictions, and strange realities that define science fiction.

Then, for the first time, I share my own journey into the genre—what inspired me, how the story developed, and what it took to bring my first novel to life.

Featuring a live reading from Drawn to the Stars: Book One — The Exchange.

Two planets. Two wars. One connection that could decide everything.

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In May of 1922, a young Michigan farmer named Romie “Doc” Hodell was found hanging in a barn outside White Cloud. At first glance, it looked like suicide.

But his feet were touching the ground.

Within days, doctors ruled it murder. And what followed would become one of the strangest and most divisive criminal cases in Michigan history.

Three months earlier, Romie’s father had died suddenly after drinking coffee at the same farmhouse. His death had been ruled a stroke. But when his body was exhumed, state chemists claimed they found strychnine — enough, they said, to kill a dozen men.

Soon there were forged suicide notes. Allegations of jealousy. A violent fight the night before the barn death. A vigilante mob that tied ropes around suspects’ necks and threatened to lynch them. Confessions that were later recanted. Claims that police used ghostly theatrics inside the very barn where the body was found.

By the end of 1922, a 21-year-old woman named Meady Hodell was sentenced to life in prison. Her mother joined her. Her brother was convicted. Others were acquitted. Appeals followed. Retrials were ordered. And for decades, questions about forensic science, coercion, and small-town justice refused to disappear.

Was this a calculated poisoning and staged killing?
A family conspiracy?
Or a miscarriage of justice fueled by fear, rumor, and community pressure?

Meady Hodell would spend more than 26 years behind bars before her sentence was commuted.

This episode examines the evidence, the confessions, the toxicology, the mob justice, and the haunting uncertainty that still lingers in the sandy soil of Newaygo County.

Because sometimes the truth isn’t buried with the body.

Sometimes it never fully surfaces at all.

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