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Michael Grasso Returns to talk about those weird and quirky UFO Documentaries of the 1970's. The music and sound effects, The filming and interviews and how much of an influence they had on the culture of the time. 
 
Find Michaels Blog:  www.wearethemutants.com
Links to the Videos discussed in the show 
In Search Of Ancient Astronauts (1973): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afjd9SkiKHU
In Search Of Ancient Mysteries (1973): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-SDiLN4Tc
The Outer Space Connection (1975): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ_6MaZDXfs
UFOs: Past Present and Future (1974)/UFOs: It Has Begun (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOYk6_mwYc
UFOs Are Here (1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9b63B60CEg
UFO: Exclusive (1978): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgSd4cqQFc
UFO: Top Secret (1978): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVSVtetTsH0
UFOs Are Real (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJz6M8WEU20

Lobo returns with another episode of The Spark. In this installment Lobo welcomes good friend of Project Archivist, Seriah Azkath from "Where Did The Road Go?"  Lobo and Seriah talk about why Seriah does his show, What his show is,  what drives each of them to look for answers and some of their personal experiences with the strange.

By request,  A reposting of the Holland Michigan UFO incident of 1994. 

 Things have been crazy behind the scenes. Roejen has had spotty internet at best so recording shows have been impossible. However, I have received numerous requests to re-air some found audio shows. I will be posting episode 158 and episode 158.5 The Holland Michigan UFO sighting. 

High Strangeness investigator Manuel Navarette of UFO Clearing House returns this week to talk with us about the Chicago Mothman sightings.  Manuel is a Chicago resident and has interviewed many witnesses who had sightings of Old Mothy. He describes some of what people have seen and gives us his take on what may be going on in the windy city. After that we read some lengthy articles about things like sniffing Coco Loko, Futile beliefs like Chocolate Milk coming from Brown Cows, Reptilians rule the world, School forced to apologize for making kids write their own suicide notes, The Georgia men who planned to take out the Aurora research facility to release souls because God told them too and a few other odds and ends. 

This week we are stepping back into the world of "Found Audio". We play the first Interview of Travis Walton given days after his "Fire in the Sky" abduction event. On November 5th, 1975 Travis Walton was abducted by Alien while on his way from logging in the Apache-Sitegreaves National Forest in Arizona.  Travis and six of his co-workers witnessed a bright light in the woods while driving home in Mike Rodgers truck. They decided to drive towards the light to see what it was. Travis exited the truck and walked towards the floating object. A bright blue light shot from the object knocking Travis to the ground.  Mike and the rest of the crew sped away from the area in fear and left Travis behind. 

The Spark Episode 5 Inside the Mind of a Writer
 This week Lobo returns with his solo project "The Spark". He welcomes returning friend of the show, James McDonald. James is a Horror and Fiction writer and in this episode, they discuss how the writing process works.
 Jim lives in the central Carolinas with his wife, three dogs, and the occasional fish. When not clicking away on a laptop pretending to be the monkey writing Shakespeare, he is usually behind a different laptop adding to the twenty plus years on technology projects or playing with glass in fire
http://www.jim-mcdonald.net 

In this episode filmmaker and documentarian, Christopher Garetano is with us to talk about his movie " The Montauk Chronicles". This is the legend that the show "Stranger things" is largely based upon and was originally named after. Montauk Chronicles is the story of three men who claim they were brainwashed and forced against their will by a clandestine organization to take part in secret experiments. Evil atrocities are said to have occurred deep beneath the surface of the Camp Hero Air Force base.
Find Christopher's films at:
Amazon: 
Montauk Chronicles [Blu-ray]
WebSite :
Montauk Chronicles
Rent the Movie:
Montauk Chronicles

Extra long show this week.  We have true crime author Kelly Banaski with us. Kelly gives us a very frank and raw interview about her work researching killers on Death Row and some of her relationships with these people. She also gives us a look at her own real-life brushes with killers and talks about her blog the woman condemned. This is an interview unlike anything you have heard before. Buckle up! It's a wild ride!  
Kelly Banaski is a true crime writer, blogger and inmate liaison. She works to better the rate of recidivism by mentoring lifers and death row inmates. Her work has left her with strange friendships with some of the country’s most reviled inmates.
 
Find Kelly Blog at 
http://www.thewomancondemned.com/
Find Kellys Book on Amazon:
TAKING TORI The True Story of Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty
 

Best of Rebroadcast from 2012- Pennsylvania Dutch Hex magic and The book “The long lost friend”. The long lost friend is essentially a book on Christian folk magic. Daniel explains to us what folk magic is, the history of the author and the book “The Long Lost Friend”, How Christian folk magic could exist, and how its practitioners used it. This is a deep and interesting look at a little-discussed world of magic that is seldom heard of