134: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 6: Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and the Shaping of a Phenomenon
CW: Sexual abuse When it comes to the alien abduction phenomenon, no two figures have played a greater roll in its shaping than Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs. And shaping, I think, is the perfect word...
2 Jan 202357min
133: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 5: The Andreasson Affair with Stephanie Quick
Eight years before Whitley Strieber's Communion was published, The Andreasson Affair hit the shelves and challenged the notion of what abductions could be. Part alien abduction story and part contacte...
26 Dec 20221h 48min
132: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 0: Paleo-Abductions
In our first installment of our History of Abductions series, I put forth the premise that abductions weren't in print before 1957... welp, that's not entirely true. On this episode I dive into the or...
19 Dec 202252min
131: The UFO Grifters: Stan Romanek with Brian Hastie
CW: Self-harm, Childhood Sexual Assault, and CSA Material We're taking a break this week from the abduction series to introduce a new series, UFO Grifters, featuring the worst of the worst in the UFO ...
12 Dec 20221h 12min
130: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 4: Obscure 70s Abductions with Cole Herrold
Abductions in the 1970s are characterized by cases that gained a level of popularity on their individual merits. The Pascagoula Abduction for instance was a media sensation that occurred during a very...
5 Dec 20222h 8min
129: An Interview with Mark O'Connell
Way back on episode three of this podcast, we featured our first of only two UFO Book Clubs, dedicated to The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made The World Believe in UFOs by Mark O'Connell. O'Conn...
28 Nov 20221h 20min
128: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 3: Harrison Bailey and the Black Contact Experience with Professor WHAM
CW: Racism When it comes to the alien contact experience, and the cases that we've come to revere, we often forget that there are voices excluded from the conversation. The alien abduction phenomenon ...
21 Nov 20221h 36min
127: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 2: Albert Coe & Herbert Schirmer with Richard Hatem
First and foremost, I can't thank you all enough for the overwhelming support for our first episode. It means the world. On this week's episode Rich Hatem is back and he brings the story of Albert Coe...
14 Nov 20221h 22min
