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  • New! Unidentified--Fearful Jesuit's shocking encounter

    New! Unidentified--Fearful Jesuit's shocking encounter
    May 13 2025
    Whitley Strieber's alien abduction gets a whole lot weirder, but no more convincing. And to try to help us understand what is, and isn't, believable about that whole tale, Fearful Jesuit tells a strange but (he swears) true story that happened to him. Why is his story more believeable than Whitley's? We'll find out next episode.

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    35 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--Christopher Walken dances with aliens

    New! Unidentified--Christopher Walken dances with aliens
    Apr 29 2025
    We're back, baby. With cowbell! Seriously, though, we're ready to walk through one of the most famous abduction stories of the 1980s, the influential story of author Whitley Strieber and the aliens who brought him along for a quick visit. We also talk about the film version, which yes, stars Christopher Walken. As Strieber. So it's Christopher Walken dancing with aliens. Fun!

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    29 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--Close Encounters of the X-Files Kind

    New! Unidentified--Close Encounters of the X-Files Kind
    Apr 1 2025
    We're done with Betty and Barney, but not with the subject of abductions. Not by a long shot. This episode, we talk about two different pieces of media, and how they talked about abductions. Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind has a more optimistic view, but by the time Mulder and Scully came around, alien abduction had become a completely terrifying experience. Why is that? Well, you'll have to wait for next episode to find out...We're taking one episode off, so we'll see you at the end of April.

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    37 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--What Barney and Betty Hill actually saw (it wasn't a UFO)

    New! Unidentified--What Barney and Betty Hill actually saw (it wasn't a UFO)
    Mar 18 2025
    The final part of our story of the Hills' strange encounter. We discuss the cheap hatchet job that Saint Carl Sagan did on the Hills' story, which came out quite tawdry in spite of Sagan's good intentions. Plus, we provide our suggestion for the best bet as to the real-life phenomenon that generated the Hills' legendary experience.

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    32 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--The aliens attempt to kidnap Darth Vader

    New! Unidentified--The aliens attempt to kidnap Darth Vader
    Mar 3 2025

    This episode, we deep dive into a TV movie adaptation of the Barney and Betty Hill story, starring and produced by James Earl Jones. An interesting film, and well intended, we examine the ways that it compromised the Hills' own conclusions about their experience in favor of a story designed to normalize interracial couples for a mainstream 1970s US audience. Enjoy!


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    30 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--Interracial relationships and alien abduction in 1960s America

    New! Unidentified--Interracial relationships and alien abduction in 1960s America
    Feb 18 2025

    Barney and Betty's story goes public, and the US media decides they made up this alien story because of how hard it was to be an interracial couple in 1960s America. It's infuriating. Enjoy!


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    32 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--Dreams, hypnosis, and the first American alien abduction

    New! Unidentified--Dreams, hypnosis, and the first American alien abduction
    Feb 5 2025

    Barney and Betty Hill had a weird night on September 19, 1961. Of that there's no doubt. But in this episode we investigate how the mid-century embrace of hypnosis as a psychological tool may have helped to generate the abduction story that would set the stage for the abduction mania of future decades.


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    28 minutos
  • New! Unidentified--Barney, Betty, and the UFO they saw

    New! Unidentified--Barney, Betty, and the UFO they saw
    Jan 21 2025

    We're ready to take on the story of Barney and Betty Hill, whose UFO encounter launched the abduction phenomenon, and whose personal story is even more fascinating.


    More on the Hills in two weeks.


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    29 minutos