Mysterious Universe

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News of exclusive Yowie recordings in our home state raise skeptical eyebrows before we protest the neolithic 1% and their greed with intriguing new archaeological finds.

More glitches in the Matrix are featured along with fresh Dibbuk induced bad luck and of course our obligatory ‘Miami Zombie’ discussion.

Hit the jump for show notes, music, and video yoga.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been fifteen years since actors Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones first donned their dark suits and took to the screen as Earth’s alien enforcers in the popular Men in Black film series. This past weekend, the third installment of the franchise just hit theaters, following agents J and K on a trip back through time to the year 1969, where Smith’s character races to stop the unkempt alien menace known as Boris the Animal (a rather odd role for actor Jermaine Clement of Flight of the Concords fame).

The MIBs depicted on the silver screen appear as savvy heroes, of course, who go about proliferating an alien cover-up and flashing deneuralizers at confused bystanders (for their own good, of course). Quite the contrary, the legends within UFO circles that involve so-called Men in Black certainly play a darker role, and are at times even referred to as one of the more scary and menacing aspects of UFO-related phenomenon.

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There can surely be very few stranger experiences for the researcher of Fortean and paranormal phenomena than when those same phenomena decide to turn the tables and focus their attentions upon the aforementioned researcher. And there is, perhaps, no better example of this than in relation to the mystery of the Men in Black – whose shadowy and creepy activities seem to have consistently targeted UFO witnesses and investigators alike. Including, just maybe, me. Read on… 

On last Saturday night’s Coast to Coast show I was interviewed on that very subject: the Men in Black mystery. It was a 3-hour-long episode (1AM to 4AM) in which I discussed with the host of the show, John B. Wells, the many and varied complexities of the legend of the Men in Black.

During the course of the show, we covered a great deal of ground, such as: (A) the saga of Albert Bender (arguably, the one man more than any other who kick-started the MIB mystery), (B) Gray Barker’s significant part in the controversy (largely thanks to his classic 1956 book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers), (C) the MIB-Mothman connection detailed by John Keel in The Mothman Prophecies and by the aforementioned Barker in The Silver Bridge (the latter being a book I particularly recommend), (D) the many and varied theories for who – or what – the Men in Black might be, (E) modern day encounters with the MIB, and much more.

But, there was something else too…

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Glitches in the Matrix and strange lucid states are featured on this week’s Plus+ exclusive along, with the broken promise of a cat free episode. 

We also have a real life MacGyver,  electric entities, and strange UK phantoms and cryptids.

Read on for show notes, books, and music.

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On January 29, 1986, a formerly secret document was dispatched to the then-director of the FBI, William H. Webster, by a special agent who was based at the Bureau’s Boston, Massachusetts office and that told an extraordinary and controversial story. Two days before the destruction of NASA’s Challenger Space Shuttle on January 28, declassified FBI files now reflect, the newsroom at Boston’s Channel 7 television station received a very worrying call from an unnamed source that had a direct bearing on the Space Shuttle explosion…

It was at 8.35 p.m. on the night at issue, recorded the FBI, when “the caller indicated that he was part of a group of three people who were going to sabotage the Shuttle, causing it blow up and kill all aboard.”

The FBI – astutely realizing that even if the call might have been nothing more than a hoax or fantasy of very bad-taste proportions, it simply could not afford to ignore the matter – quickly ordered a number of its special agents to descend upon Channel 7 with the utmost haste, and to speak with the particular person at the station who had taken the call.

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Greetings, fellow Coppertops! Our weekly session with the Oracle will grant us rare glimpses of life as we know it –and as we don’t know it– from the abyss of our oceans to the great void between the stars. Our visions will be filled with cosmic collisions and deadly bursts of energy; yet the final revelation might lie hidden deep within the matrix of a single strand of DNA. So take a seat, clear your minds & grab a cookie.

(10) The first advice the Oracle gives us is to beware of teenagers with freakish super-powers who weren’t raised by their uncle Ben. Like this poor Vietnamese girl who can allegedly set things on fire by the power of her mind alone. Now this is a doubly interesting case for me, not only because it nicely falls into the fairly-common category of poltergeist-type activity surrounding pre-adolescents, but also because it reminded of an awesome graphic novel that I read back when I was in college; the novel is The Eyes of Doom (Gimenez & Dal Pra) and it’s the story of a Vietnam vet who later turns into a mystery novel writer with a drug habit problem, and a Vietnamese boy with a terrifying power that manifests after his village is bombarded with Napalm.

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I’m very often asked words to the effect of: What evidence did the Collins Elite (the clandestine think-tank group in the U.S. Government whose activities are the subject of my Final Events book) find to support their highly controversial idea that the UFO phenomenon is demonic in origin? Well, as far as can be ascertained, they didn’t find any evidence.

Rather, they developed a vast body of beliefs relative to such matters – which is what often happens in paranormal-themed situations when hard evidence fails to materialize and the researcher either becomes frustrated by the quest for the truth, or has an emotional need to gravitate to one idea or another, something which often results from weakness and insecurity, or an arrogant and ego-driven conclusion that one is right, despite being unable to prove it.

But, that’s not to say the Collins Elite didn’t uncover a wealth of intriguing threads that they wove together into an extraordinary scenario. They most certainly did. One of them relates to none other than a certain George Adamski. Born in Poland in 1891, Adamski had the distinction of being the most supported, celebrated, and ridiculed of those who claimed direct contact with human-like extraterrestrials in the 1950s.

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