Mysterious Universe

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Giant Killer Squid and new whistle blower start us off this week before we head to Sweden in search of Trolls.

Also featured is a classic “Talking Poltergeist” and remote viewing the dark side of the moon.

Show notes, music, and a pot of gold after the jump!

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“Nonhuman” is a fairly ironic statement. By definition alone, a cat, giraffe, or bumblebee would all constitute nonhuman entities that, without a doubt, inhabit this planet alongside humankind. And yet, strangely, when you use an expression such as “nonhuman entities,” even without clarification, the image this spurs in the mind tends to be of something innately human like, just not quite Homo sapien.

Funny, then, that “nonhuman” almost invariably will evoke images of beings which, for the most part, appear very similar to humans, particularly among those of us of the Fortean persuasion. I’ve long wondered whether, in some capacity, there might have been (or might still be) other entities on planet Earth that were very similar to being humans–hominid sub-species whose branches only stemmed away from the evolutionary trunk a few thousand years before the course which led our ancestors to being what we are today–that remain undiscovered. This sounds particularly elementary as stated here, since anthropologists will quickly name the variety of early bipeds and robust hominids that did invariably precede us. Dating back to humanity’s frail beginnings that were entombed in dust and stone around our early Ethiopian relative, Lucy, she and her kind were later discovered by the Leakey family in parts of Africa beginning in the late 1950s. But aside from the known hominids, could there be evidence of other humanoids that have existed alongside us here on Earth for thousands of years or more?

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“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” William Faulkner

Pakistan is underwater and Russia is ablaze, yet not even a fire tornado in Hawaii can convince climate-change deniers that there is something radically wrong with the weather.

Newspapers report as fact that thanks to a never-before-seen petroleum eating microbe the millions of gallons of oil spilled by BP have vanished.

And a shockingly high percentage of US citizens believe President Obama is of the Muslim faith, notably the same people who previously berated him for the “radical” church he attended in Chicago.

Exasperated pundits lament that “We have seen Idicocracy and we are it.” Intractable stupidity seems to be on the rise, but maybe it’s just the times we live in.

Think about it: when steam-powered train engines were first invented it was a widely held belief that the human body could not withstand travel at speeds higher than very small number, like 30 mph. The shift from one historic age to the next makes fools of pretty much everybody at the cusp. Perhaps the rampant anti-science, anti- intellectualism is society’s gut reaction to the dawning of the Quantum Age and the extraordinary tolerance for ambiguity it requires of the human mind. If you’re the type of person who likes to stick to tradition, keep the facts straight, and play by the rules, you’re bound to be upset by science that suggests we don’t know who killed the Kennedys because the answer depends on events that have not yet occurred.

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Hovering lights caught by a trail camera and classic strangeness from New Jersey kick us off on this week’s Plus+ exclusive.

We also feature Japanese Yokai, Chinese Fairies, and Mass Hysteria cases from New Zealand.

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On this week’s episode we discuss the recent mainstream media attention on the UFO phenomenon which has come about mainly via Leslie Kean’s new book, and the common misconceptions still surrounding the topic.

We again turn to Jason Offutt for a brand new Black Eyed Kid account in Ohio, take a look at new Crop Circles in the UK, and investigate another tale of communication with Sasquatch.

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Over the decades, there have been a number of UFO witnesses who have described having terrifying–and even sickening–experiences after UFO encounters.

These didn’t involve little green men attacking or experimenting on them, or even harassment by Men in Black, but instead dealt with odd symptomatic conditions that appeared to result from radiation poisoning, specifically for those who managed to be get particularly close to hovering or landed UFO craft. Continue reading…

Tonight, Monday, August 23, 2010, author Leslie Kean will take UFOs into truly alien territory–she’s flogging her book on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.

True, a flying saucer author as a guest on a satire show doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence given the  little-green-men ghetto mainstream media defaults to whenever the subject of  UFOs is mentioned.

However, The Colbert Report usually doesn’t go after easy prey, so in fact Kean may fare better than she would on, say, Larry King.

Plus, there’s the Colbert Bump to consider.

The Colbert Bump may sound like a made-up, snarky-comedian kind of thing (the show is a satire after all).  However, unlike some anomalous phenomenon I could name, the “Bump” has been documented:  the boost to political candidates’ fund raising by the Bump has been studied and confirmed by a  University professor. The Bump also turned the never-would-have- made- it- out- of- Stockholm Swedish hip-hop band Movits! into an overnight YouTube sensation. And, as previously reported on MU,the Bump  transformed mild-mannered author Raj Patel into, well, a god.

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