<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;n the midst of a stressful move, HBM producer Jeff Emtman finds comfort in the phasing techniques developed by minimalist composer, &lt;a href="https://stevereich.com/"&gt;Steve Reich&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Note: this episode contains sounds that cannot be accurately represented by speakers.&amp;nbsp; Please use headphones.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Steve Reich compositions excerpted in this episode:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH1j06bMHDQ"&gt;Clapping Music&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Steve Reich and Wolfram Winkel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF479y9Gsr8"&gt;Violin Phase&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Jonathan Morton&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6qDeJPT-w"&gt;Pendulum Music&lt;/a&gt;, performed by Joan Cerveró, Víctor Trescolí, Isabel León, and&amp;nbsp; Estefanía Sánchez&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations.&amp;nbsp; If you’d like to make a small monthly contribution, visit&lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/HBMpodcast"&gt; patreon.com/HBMpodcast&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

HBM158: An Illusion

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Allen H Greenfield is a UFOlogist and occult researcher.&amp;nbsp; He’s also a father of three.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;His first child, Alex was the subject of &lt;a href="https://www.hbmpodcast.com/podcast/hbm155-ghosts-aliens-burritos"&gt;HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; In that episode, Alex tells stories from his childhood of chasing strange phenomena with his father.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In this episode, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman talks to Allen to get the “fatherly perspective” on UFOs, &lt;a href="https://www.wondriumdaily.com/the-link-of-theosophy-to-occultism-and-espionage/"&gt;black lodges&lt;/a&gt;, tarot, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and (most of all) how to be a good parent.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Allen Greenfield is currently working on the final installment of a trilogy whose first two entries are &lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1940959.Secret_Cipher_of_the_Ufonauts"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2541438.Secret_Rituals_of_the_Men_In_Black?ac=1&amp;amp;from_search=true&amp;amp;qid=BivSwCPDhb&amp;amp;rank=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Rituals of the Men in Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; The forthcoming book is yet to be titled.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Also heard on this episode: Rick Emtman, who is Jeff’s dad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Language&lt;br&gt;P&lt;strong&gt;roducer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://serocell.com/"&gt;Serocell&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsor: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.palsplants.com/"&gt;Pal’s Plants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants is a Flatbush, Brooklyn based subscription service for potted plants and intriguing zines.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Plants can be delivered to the 5 boroughs of New York City.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Zines can be delivered anywhere in the USA.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants is customized to your preferences.&amp;nbsp; They’ll have you fill out a short survey when you sign up so that you can be sure to get something you like each month in the mail.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Pal’s Plants makes a great gift.&amp;nbsp; Use offer code&lt;strong&gt; HBM50&lt;/strong&gt; at signup to get half off your first month’s subscription.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Thank you &lt;a href="http://palsplants.com/"&gt;Pal’s Plants&lt;/a&gt; for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Allen H Greenfield on UFOlogy, evil magick, and parenting. 

HBM157: The Raw Whatever

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Berlin’s &lt;a href="https://www.visitberlin.de/de/schwerbelastungskoerper"&gt;Schwerbelastungskörper&lt;/a&gt; is a massive concrete structure that, today, is hidden in plain sight between a railroad and an apartment building.&amp;nbsp; It’s one of just a dozen &lt;a href="https://www.exberliner.com/politics/nazi-architecture-in-berlin-germania/"&gt;remaining pieces&lt;/a&gt; of Nazi Architecture in Berlin.&amp;nbsp; And it’s not much to look at. It was built in 1941 as a test structure for &lt;a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triumphbogen_by_Hitler.jpg"&gt;a triumphal arch&lt;/a&gt; that Hitler wanted to build in that spot.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The Schwerbelastungskörper (“heavy load-bearing body”) is the arch’s test structure.&amp;nbsp; It weighs about 12,650 metric tonnes, or about 28 million pounds, and it’s the equivalent weight of one of the four massive legs of the never-built arch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;This plan was abandoned as World War 2 accelerated.&amp;nbsp; And the structure remained, &lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/14/story-of-cities-hitler-germania-berlin-nazis"&gt;slowly sinking&lt;/a&gt; into Berlin’s marshy soil, providing proof of the arch’s impossibility.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;In this episode, HBM host Jeff Emtman visits the Schwerbelastungskorper, records some &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/HBM144"&gt;impulse responses&lt;/a&gt; in the structure’s single room and reflects on his discomfort in finding beauty in another Nazi structure nearby, &lt;a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221031-tempelhof-the-single-site-that-embodies-berlin"&gt;Tempelhof Airport&lt;/a&gt; (now &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/634394533/the-site-of-the-berlin-airlift-now-serves-as-refugee-shelter-and-big-open-park"&gt;a public park and refugee camp&lt;/a&gt;).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Also mentioned on this episode: &lt;a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift"&gt;The Berlin Airlift&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.lonelyplanet.com/austria/tirol"&gt;Austrian Tyrol&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Little Mermaid&lt;/em&gt; (1989)&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Der Herr Der Ringe&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/"&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt; movies dubbed in German).&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by listener donations.&amp;nbsp; If you’d like to make a small monthly contribution, visit &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/HBMpodcast"&gt;patreon.com/HBMpodcast&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Registration for the &lt;a href="https://hbmpodcast.com/art/"&gt;Here Be Monsters Art Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is open until November 10th, 2022.&amp;nbsp; Sign up: &lt;a href="https://hbmpodcast.com/art/"&gt;https://HBMpodcast.com/art/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Bigness, ugliness and beauty as it relates to Berlin’s Schwerbelastungskörper. 

HBM156: Heavy Load-Bearing Body

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The Here Be Monsters Art Exchange is back!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;It’s a really simple and wonderful thing where you, gentle listener, can mail a piece of art to a stranger and get a piece of art in return.  It’s open to artists of all experience levels from around the world. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The deadline to sign up is November 10th, 2022&lt;/strong&gt;.  Sign up and more info here: &lt;a href="https://www.hbmpodcast.com/art"&gt;https://www.hbmpodcast.com/art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;The art exchange is made possible this year by HBM listener &lt;a href="https://masterofliterature.com"&gt;Devon Sherman&lt;/a&gt;, who’s offered her time and expertise to help with communication between artists.  Thank you Devon.  Devon is a past participant in the art exchange, and has an &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/devon_isadevon/"&gt;ongoing project&lt;/a&gt; where she illustrates Robert Burton’s &lt;a href="https://digital-delivery-services.lnk.to/I4iUI997WE"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Anatomy of Melancholy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.  &lt;/em&gt;Another listener, known as “&lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/endless_want/"&gt;Endless_Want&lt;/a&gt;”, also helped out by making the Art Exchange’s promotional video, which you can see on the &lt;a href="https://hbmpodcast.com/art"&gt;sign-up page &lt;/a&gt;and on our &lt;a href="https://instagram.com/HBMpodcast"&gt;Instagram &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/HBMpodcast"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://digital-delivery-services.lnk.to/I4iUI997WE"&gt;Robbie Quine—Glitter Rock Werewolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The HBM Art Exchange is Back!

<description>&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content Note:&lt;/strong&gt; pervasive language, brief mentions of bigotry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1899619/"&gt;Alex Greenfield&lt;/a&gt; says that there was no such thing as a normal day when he was a kid.&amp;nbsp; His dad (&lt;a href="https://darkbooks.org/articles/Allen-Greenfield.html"&gt;Allen H Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;) self describes as a “researcher in the shadow world.” And his mom soon grew tired of her husband’s lifestyle, which included a lot of time on the road: chasing rumors of cryptids, ghosts, and aliens.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;But after his parents split up, Alex, his dad, and an ever changing cast of motorcycle gang members and step-moms kept seeking the occult.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Some of the topics discussed in this episode: &lt;a href="https://stsimonsisland.com/"&gt;St. Simons Island&lt;/a&gt; in Georgia (and &lt;a href="https://www.hauntedplaces.org/saint-simons-ga/"&gt;reported hauntings&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/okefenokee"&gt;The Okefenokee Swamp&lt;/a&gt; (and the&lt;a href="http://ashleyburton.com/will-o-the-wisps-strange-lights-glowing-in-the-swamp/"&gt; ignition of swamp gas&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html"&gt;The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href="https://tucson.com/thursday-march-front-page-radiation-leak-at-three-mile-island/article_250978f0-705c-11ea-91fd-f35403d64350.html"&gt;subsequent protests&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=514"&gt;Mono Lake&lt;/a&gt; in California (and the UFO sightings&amp;nbsp; there), and a movie called &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Being There&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (wherein the character played by &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634/"&gt;Peter Sellers&lt;/a&gt; appears to walk on water).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Alex Greenfield is the writer of &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3399484/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3488056/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;10.0 Earthquake&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and other movies.&amp;nbsp; He also used to be the head writer for &lt;a href="https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown"&gt;&lt;em&gt;WWE Smackdown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Alex’s dad, Allen H Greenfield (aka. &lt;a href="https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/greenfield-allen-71440/"&gt;T Allen Greenfield&lt;/a&gt;), is a UFOlogist and occultist.&amp;nbsp; He is the author of &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complete-SECRET-CIPHER-UfOnauts/dp/171864535X"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Hermetic-Brotherhood-Light/dp/9188708039"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Story Of The Hermetic Brotherhood Of Light&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and other books.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Unrelated to this episode, but do give a listen to the limited series that Jeff’s been mixing for &lt;a href="https://crooked.com/"&gt;Crooked Media&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It’s called &lt;a href="https://crooked.com/podcast-series/another-russia/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Another Russia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and it’s about the assassination of Russian dissident &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov"&gt;Boris Nemtsov&lt;/a&gt;, as told by &lt;a href="https://www.benrhodes.info/"&gt;Ben Rhodes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://time.com/5538047/zhanna-nemtsova-boris-nemtsov-putin/"&gt;Zhanna Nemtsova&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Available now on every podcast app.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Also, Jeff’s headed back to Berlin, Germany for about a month.&amp;nbsp; If you know any good stories/interviews he should record while he’s there, send a DM on &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hbmpodcast"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/hbmpodcast/"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;, or use the &lt;a href="http://hbmpodcast.com/contact"&gt;contact form&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Here Be Monsters is an independent podcast supported by &lt;a href="http://patreon.com/hbmpodcast"&gt;listeners&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://hbmpodcast.com/sponsor"&gt;sponsors&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producer: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jeffemtman.com/"&gt;Jeff Emtman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://theblackspot.bandcamp.com/"&gt;The Black Spot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://circlinglights.bandcamp.com/"&gt;Circling Lights&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.lydfil.dk/"&gt;August Friis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsor: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://is-ought.info"&gt;is / ought books&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;is / ought books&lt;/em&gt; is a publisher of spiral bound self help manuals, art books, and non literary works on paper.All titles from &lt;em&gt;is / ought books&lt;/em&gt; are available to buy online via the link below. &lt;em&gt;is / ought books&lt;/em&gt; are also distributed via&lt;a href="https://www.spdbooks.org"&gt; Small Press Distribution (SPD)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"&gt;Thank you &lt;em&gt;is / ought books&lt;/em&gt; for sponsoring Here Be Monsters.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The kid of a famous UFO hunter tells stories about the occult and food poisoning. 

HBM155: Ghosts Aliens Burritos

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