504: 20 And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt

504: 20 And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt

On April 7, 2016, the team running NASA’s New Horizons mission were waiting nervously. The spacecraft was about to enter the outermost reaches of our solar system.They'd aimed toward Pluto. Which lives in a region of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.Just before arriving at the dwarf planet, the team noticed an object nearby. And it was acting very strange. This object, whatever it was, was spinning faster than everything else around it.Too fast. Artificially fast. And the object reflected light in an odd way. New Horizons changed course to do a fly by. They wanted a better look at this bizarre behavior.But as the spacecraft approached the object, all communications went down. NASA wasn't able to see or hear anything. The New Horizons spacecraft suddenly put itself into safe mode. But nothing was broken.Something or someone was blocking the signal. Whoever it was did *not* want NASA to know they were here. And that they’ve been watching us for a very. long. time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor

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639: Basement #009: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

639: Basement #009: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

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638: The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too

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A doctor walks into a trauma room and sees a dead woman floating above a dying man. He isn't the patient's physician. He just felt the pull to go in. That's how this story starts — and it gets strange...

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637: Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research

637: Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research

Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, a internationally bestselling author, and one of the most decorated astronomers alive. He earned his PhD in Physics from ...

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636: Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain

636: Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain

Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain. A medical student disappeared from a packed bar in Columbus, Ohio —...

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635: Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths

635: Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths

Hugh Newman is an author, explorer, and ancient mysteries researcher who has spent over two decades investigating megalithic sites around the world. He is the founder of the Megalithomania Conference,...

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634: The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post

634: The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post

In 2010, someone posted a thought experiment on a philosophy forum. Within hours, people were having nightmares. The founder deleted it immediately — which only made it spread faster. The idea is simp...

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633: Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter

633: Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter

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