The Paranoid Strain
Fearful Jesuit
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Recent Episodes
DEC 10, 2024
New! Unidentified--When UFO prophecy fails. Big time.
It's time for us to review one of the most fascinating after-effects of the UFO mania that followed the Arnold sighting. We'll learn how some incredibly lucky social scientists wrote a book about perhaps the world's first apocalyptic new age UFO cult, the Seekers. It's cognitive dissonance a go-go on this week's Paranoid Strain. We're skipping next episode for the holiday--see you in early January.
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28 MIN
NOV 26, 2024
New! Unidentified--The fascinating forgery of the MJ-12 UFO documents
The lion's share of today's episode concerns the weird story of the MJ-12 (or Majestic-12) documents, which first surfaced in the early 80s, and purported to trace the government's UFO coverup back to the Harry Truman administration. Only, like, they were fake. We also talk about cognitive dissonance in advance of our next big story, on the 1950s UFO cult The Seekers.
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31 MIN
NOV 12, 2024
New! Unidentified--Art Bell's time travelers and antichrists
Yes, this is part of our Unidentified UFO series, but it's also just a super-sized digression to share with all of you some of the craziest stuff Art Bell ever put on the air--the Time Traveler and Antichrist call-in shows of the late 90s and early 2000s. I hope you enjoy this very odd compilation as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you. Back to regular programming next week.
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88 MIN
OCT 29, 2024
29 MIN
OCT 15, 2024
New! Unidentified--Roswell--It wasn't aliens, dummies.
As the episode subtitle implies, we're gonna talk about why the Roswell "aliens" were almost certainly military test dummies. While we're at it, we'll explain why that's true in spite of the fact that those dummy tests didn't happen til years after Roswell. How? By explaining what science now knows about how memory works and--more importantly--doesn't.
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31 MIN