EPISODE 159 | Maritime Mysteries

It’s time to shiver yer timbers and batten down the hatches as we dive into a bucketful of mysteries at sea that have been hard to fathom in the past - the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, the Mary Celeste, and the Flying Dutchman.

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1. 01:20 - The Flannan Isles Lighthouse - Three men vanish and inspire lots of stories
2. 06:31 - The Mary Celeste - The ship is found, speculations aplenty, Frederick Solly-Flood is a stubborn idiot, more theories, misinformation becomes legend, woo-woo enters the picture, 1968 disappearances, the ship is cursed, Gilman Parker hatches a scam, two recent theories
3. 31:13 - The Flying Dutchman - The legend begins, the legend spreads, the Wandering Jew, Prince George of Wales sees it, Fata Morgana, looming, St. Elmo's Fire, other ghost ships

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EPISODE 158 | Nasty NASA: The Challenger and Other Spacespiracies

At 11:38 am on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission and 73 seconds later exploded, killing everyone on board. This was seen live on television by millions of people because a civilian teacher was one of the crew.

At first, it was thought an external fuel tank had exploded. But after a thorough investigation, the real culprit turned out to be a faulty O-ring.

Over the years, more digging would uncover behind the scenes drama, some of which may have led to the disaster. And for some folks, conspiracy narratives started to circulate that the whole thing was fake, the crew was still alive, that it was aliens, that they slipped into a parallel dimension and so on.

Plus, NASA is often the target of conspironauts who think they know what’s “really” going on.

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1. 01:54 - A Space Boy Dream - What happened with the Challenger explosion
2. 17:07 - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - O-rings, organizational malfeasance, the CT that no one really died, a planned mass trauma, other CTs
3. 32:18 - We Are All Made of Stars - The Untold Story of the Challenger Explosion: A Journey Through Time, Conspiracy, and Alternate Realities by David Moore, NASAHoax CTs: alien tech, Nibiru, Saturn Death Stars, the Mars Hoax, a hexagon on Saturn, straight lines in nature,
4. 43:27 - Space Junk - Skylab comes back down, the Skylab astronaut strike, general belief in science, we aren't all that bright

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EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters

People have been talking about a supposed water creature in the Scottish Highlands for at least 93 years, possible much longer. Everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and Nessie is one of the OGs of the cryptid world. But there are plenty of other, similar reports from around the world as well, like Ogopogo, Manipogo, Cressie, Kushii, Nahuelito and even one named Larry.

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1. 01:21 - Down to the Waterline - First sightings of Nessie; photos, corpses, hoaxes and jokes
2. 16:19 - Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Wels catfish, Loch Ness is weird, serious expeditions, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, Operation Deepscan, a DNA survey of the loch, eels, Norag, Muc-sheilche, kelpie, Life of St. Columba, Fredrick William Holiday and The Great Orm of Loch Ness (and more)
3. 32:10 - Lake of Fire - Sea serpents, Hydrarchos, Canada's Ogopogo
4. 40:20 - Down by the Water - Igopogo (or Bessie), Manipogo, Winnepogo, Memphré, Champ, Mussie, Cressie, Chessie, the Turtle Lake Monster, the Seelkee
5. 48:05 - Song of the Lake - Mokele-mbembe, the Great Zimbabwe Theory
6. 51:08 - Don't Drink the Water - Lukwata, Nsanga, Nyami Nyami, Irizma, Kusshii, the Lake Tianchi Monster, Phaya Naga, Seri Gumum, the Bunyip, the Muldjewangk, the Hawkesbury River Monster, the Maningrida Monster (Mannie), the Taniwha, the Tsmok, Anguila Peluda, the Lariosauro (Larry), the Lagarfljót Worm, the Gryttie, the Zegrze Reservoir Monster, Teggie, the the Devil Whale of Lake Tota, Nahuelito, people naturally attach to stories

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More Info

• Episode 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
• Episode 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
• Loch Ness monster on Britannica
• The Loch Ness Monster Turns 83: The Story of The Surgeon’s Photograph
• The Beast of Loch Ness pages on Nova Online
• Loch Ness Monster on Non-alien Creatures Wiki
• Lake Monsters on Cryptid Wiki
• The Lake Monsters of America on Atlas Obscura (with map)
• Lake Monsters on A Book of Creatures

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EPISODE 154 | Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?

While researching a previous episode about internet rabbit holes, I came across one that was some big, so complicated, that the entry soon grew into its very own episode. It's called Forgotten Languages, and at first it seems like it's all about ancient languages. But these turn out to be ciphers which, when decoded, reveal a series of interlocking narratives involving transdimensional beings, UAPs, aliens, secretive cabals working at cross purposes, the odd revelation that all humans are gone by the year 3100, and more.

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1. 02:00 - Speaking in Tongues - The Forgotten Languages website at first glance, using clues to start to understand, language as a system to modify biology
2. 13:36 - Aliens Ate My Buick - Giselians, the Cassini Diskus, Paradigm Shifter Vehicles (PSVs)
3. 18:55 - Nature of Threat - The Phoenix Lights, MilOrbs, USOs, SV17q, SV09n's agendas, SV06n seems nicer, the default mode network (DMN), geminoviruses in the year 2100
4. 33:55 - Jigsaw Falling into Place - DRACO, Congressional UAP hearings, Matthew Brown blows the whistle on Immaculate Constellation and a secretive group (SV17q?), DOLYN; Michael Shellenberger specifically mentions NURO, Immaculate Constellation and SV17q to Congress; Denebian probes, LyAV, XVIS
5. 44:46 - Hoist That Rag - Alternative Reality games, Dispatches from Elsewhere, "The Beast", the SCP Foundation, other theories about FL
6. 48:36 - Language Is a Virus - Various theories about what FL is really all about, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), hyperstitions

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More Info

• Forgotten Languages website
• ForgottenLanguages.org — another linguistic rabbit hole on Reddit
• The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It’s Now in the Congressional Record) video on the smoothjazz YouTube channel
• My emails with Ayndryl by Saša Milić
• Forgotten Languages entire subreddit
• The Pattern Everyone's Missing While Debating "Dee's Nuts" on the r/UFOs subreddit
• Dispatches from Elsewhere on IMDb
• SCP Foundation website
• Cybernetic culture research unit website
• Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) on Philosophyball WIki
• Forward? A Short History of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit by Samuel McIlhagga

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EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)

One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t.

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1. 02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
2. 07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
3. 25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
4. 39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
5. 46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock

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More Info

• Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
• United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
• List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
• The Doomsday Clock

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