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Government Tech, Witness Testimonies, and the Science of Anomalies

# When Government Insiders Say the Technology Isn’t Human

Rarely does a single episode pack in government whistleblowers, Bigfoot films, dolphin communication, and séance photography, but here we are. Aiden Orris claims to have interviewed over forty witnesses and submitted protected disclosures to the Inspector General and Intelligence Committees about recovered materials that program insiders assess as non-human in origin. That’s a remarkable claim, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.

Could a deathbed confession actually unravel one of ufology’s most famous cases? The Travis Walton incident from 1975 gets revisited here, with allegations from Charlie Weiser suggesting the whole thing involved a fire watchtower hoax, though the speaker remains genuinely skeptical given the long-standing animosity between the parties involved.

Beyond the headline-grabbing controversies, the episode covers genuinely fascinating ground. Researcher Shannon Taggart (her book is simply called “Séance”) approaches spiritualist photography as cultural artifact rather than fraud or proof. Meanwhile, a study in the Journal of Scientific Exploration found that paranormal researchers experience subjective anomalies 1.6 times more frequently than objective ones.

Honestly, the range here is impressive and wide-reaching. From dolphin signature whistles to consciousness originating in the thalamus to the pulled Bigfoot documentary “Capturing Bigfoot” at South by Southwest, this episode rewards curious listeners.

Tune in and let the strangeness wash over you.

 

Timestamps below are approximate before final editing:

  • 00:00:02 – Government Possession of Non-Human Technology
  • 00:02:32 – Upcoming Launch and Resource Information
  • 00:04:03 – First Strange and Extraordinary Fest Event
  • 00:06:33 – Austin Archives Bazaar and Cryptozoology Events
  • 00:08:38 – Travis Walton UFO Case Deathbed Confession
  • 00:13:07 – UFO Patterns and Plasma Consciousness Research
  • 00:16:18 – AARO Controversy and Paranormal Investigations
  • 00:20:08 – Spiritualist Photography and Paranormal Documentation
  • 00:22:43 – Seance Photography and Spirit Documentation
  • 00:28:13 – Dolphin Communication: Signature Whistles Decoded
  • 00:30:20 – Bonobo Kanzi Demonstrates Imagination in Animals
  • 00:34:04 – What Are Psychedelic Entities?
  • 00:37:13 – Bob Gimlin and the Patterson Bigfoot Film
  • 00:39:49 – Capturing Bigfoot Pulled Due to Piracy Concerns
  • 00:43:30 – Bigfoot Documentary Review and Closing Remarks

 

  • Government possession of non-human technology has been documented through 40+ witness testimonies and formal Inspector General disclosures, suggesting institutional credibility beyond anecdotal claims.
  • “Trickster-like experiences” among paranormal researchers reveal subjective anomalies occur more frequently than objective ones, indicating researcher perception and expectation may significantly shape findings.
  • Paranormal photography is gaining recognition as legitimate cultural artifacts worthy of serious scholarly analysis, shifting the field from pure dismissal toward academic legitimacy.

 

Aiden Orris discusses his research into alleged government possession of non-human technology, claiming to have interviewed over forty witnesses and provided protected disclosures to the Inspector General and Intelligence Committees regarding recovered materials. He emphasizes that current program insiders assess these recoveries as non-human in origin. The podcast also covers the Anomaly Archives’ initiatives, including their upcoming Anomaly Academy lectures featuring experts like Zelia Edgar and Micah Hanks, while promoting their resources and community engagement opportunities for those interested in anomalous phenomena research. The speakers reflect on a successful Strange and Extraordinary Fest event, praising coordinator Sebastian and the numerous engaging presentations and vendors. They distributed stickers to attendees who shared weird experiences, finding there’s always demand for new designs. Emceed by Aidan Castellano of the Sustu podcast, the event helped them connect with fellow enthusiasts and new friends. They’re excited about upcoming events including the Austin Archives Bazaar on April 26th and congratulate friend Daniel Alan Jones on presenting his cryptozoology ethnography at the Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University. The speaker discusses controversial claims surrounding the Travis Walton UFO incident, citing allegations from Charlie Weiser that Mike Rogers confessed on his deathbed to hoaxing the 1975 encounter using a fire watchtower. These claims also suggest Rogers’ involvement in the Phoenix Lights phenomenon. The speaker expresses skepticism about these deathbed confession allegations, noting long-standing personal animosity between the involved parties and contradictions in their accounts over the years. While acknowledging the hoax theory’s possibility, the speaker remains uncertain about its credibility and notes potential prosaic explanations may exist. The speaker discusses Tanner’s Gnomiery podcast, praising its loose, conversational format among friends exploring paranormal and cryptozoological topics. He appreciates that Tanner provides comprehensive bibliographic citations for referenced material, which many podcasters neglect. The speaker then shares mixed perspectives on Representative Luna’s call to defund AARO, the Pentagon’s UFO office, noting both defenders like Micah Hanks and critics including James Lukatski who view it as counterintelligence. He concludes by recommending the Consensus Unreality podcast’s interview with Shannon Taggart about paranormal photography and American parapsychology. Shannon Taggart is a photographer and archivist who explores spiritualist photography and séance practices, refusing to be pigeonholed into a single discipline. Her work documents mediums and séances, particularly tracing Boston’s spirit photography lineage back to the 1860s. Rather than focusing on debunking or validating these phenomena, Taggart examines seance photographs as significant cultural artifacts that reveal how photographic authority intersects with ritual, belief, and embodiment. Her research, featured in academic publications and her book “Séance,” demonstrates that these images transcend simple fraud or evidence, instead illuminating the complex relationship between documentation and spiritual practice. This podcast segment discusses emerging research on anomalous phenomena experienced by paranormal researchers. A recent study published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration by James Huron, Rents Lang, Brandon Masulo, Ciaran O’Keefe, and David Shoemaker surveyed 167 participants about “trickster-like experiences” while documenting paranormal activity, finding that subjective experiences like unusual dreams occurred 1.6 times more frequently than objective events such as missing files. The researchers suggest these anomalies may reflect psychological mechanisms or deeper epistemological vulnerabilities, coining the term “trickster chain” to describe disruptions in paranormal-focused scholarly work. The segment also touches on dolphin communication research and concerns about digital spirituality’s isolation effects. The podcast explores groundbreaking discoveries in animal cognition and consciousness. Layla Sayigh discusses her decades-long research on dolphin communication, revealing that dolphins use signature whistles as individual identifiers to maintain contact in murky waters. The conversation then shifts to a Johns Hopkins study showing that Kanzi, a bonobo, can imagine pretend objects—marking the first scientific evidence of imagination in non-human animals. Finally, neuroscientist Robert Worden proposes that consciousness may originate from waves in the thalamus rather than neurons, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of awareness itself. The speaker discusses psychedelic entities and altered states of consciousness, referencing an essay from Noema Magazine about the beings people encounter while using psychedelics like ibogaine. Drawing on ideas popularized by Terence McKenna about DMT experiences and interdimensional entities, the speaker explores various methods of inducing altered consciousness beyond drug use, including breathwork, fire gazing, and binaural beats. The speaker also highlights new content from the INAX Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, featuring a series on lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences with William Buhlman, encouraging listeners to explore these resources for understanding consciousness manipulation and safe exploration. The speaker discusses the controversial “Capturing Bigfoot” documentary, which premiered at South by Southwest and was pulled from the Overlook Film Festival due to piracy concerns allegedly related to never-before-seen footage that purportedly debunks the iconic 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. The speaker speculates that the filmmakers are protecting their distribution prospects in an evolving media landscape. He also recommends the 2022 documentary “A Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed,” available on Amazon Prime, praising its beautiful cinematography, compelling interviews, and thoughtful, scientific approach to exploring Bigfoot’s existence as a refreshing contrast to sensationalized claims. The speaker concludes their podcast episode by enthusiastically recommending a Bigfoot documentary called “Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed,” which attempts to debunk the famous Patterson-Gimlin film. They encourage listeners to check out the documentary excerpts and podcast. Before signing off at the forty-five minute mark, they thank viewers for joining and promote various ways to support the show, including Patreon subscriptions, donations, and following their social media accounts where they announce events like their monthly Anomaly Academy lecture series.

 

TRANSCRIPT

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Anomaly Now. This is… our weekly news and media roundup for the 501c3 Nonprofit Scientific Anomaly Institute, a .k .a. the Anomaly Archives, located here in Austin, Texas. It is Wednesday, April Fool’s Day, 2026. That’s right, folks. It is April 1st, 2026. And this is no joke. We’re going back to the moon.

Does it seem strange to you that NASA is launching another moon mission on… On April Fool’s Day, it hasn’t happened yet. Now, I thought I had this. I’ve got all these tabs open for news for today, and I’ve forgotten to load. Where is it? Oh, here. Yes. Where is that? Yeah, Artemis 2 launching.

There. T minus three hours and 14 minutes and some odd seconds away from launching. Wow. Which would open. Yeah. Those hatches are heavy. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. Well, hundreds of pounds. Enough about that.

I just wanted to, I’m going to have to tune in. I think it’s at five 15. So in just a few hours, um, it’ll be, it’ll be launching. That’s really awesome. And, of course, you can go to our website and learn all about us if you don’t already know. That’s anomalyarchives .org. Or you can go to our Flipboard. That’s flipboard .com slash at symbol anomalyarchives and then click through to the actual Flipboard magazine. This is our news collector aggregator where I dump all the news that I come across so that I can read it later and so that you can be aware of it. And that’s a lot of what we cover on the show. There is just so much. There’s no way I can ever keep up with this. It’s getting harder and harder, folks. Hey, anybody want to volunteer to help with that? Send an email to contact at anomalyarchives .org. We’d really appreciate it. There’s just a ton of stuff we’re not going to get to, but I’m going to try to dive right in. And, of course, you can also go to our Patreon, patreon .com slash anomalyarchives. And you can sign up for free, but we would really love it. And it would benefit you if you signed up for the Anomaly Academy cadet tier. That’s $10 a month or higher. It gets you access to our live monthly Anomaly Academy lecture series. Last month, March, featured Zelia Edgar on If Coincidences Are Just Coincidences. And about a year later, we released these to the public. So you can go to our YouTube channel and you can watch. The videos from when we started this in June, 2024 on to last one we released was Micah Hanks’s Sasquatch Relic Hominoids lecture from back in March of 2025. And lots of great stuff coming up soon for the month of April, May, June, et cetera, et cetera. Well, this weekend we had a wonderful time over at the KMFA event space. That is a local. radio station that has event space, where the very first strange and extraordinary fest took place. A lot of fun, folks. I got this great little event flyer pamphlet. These are some of the sponsors, including the organizer, Empress event experience. Thank you, Denise and everybody else, Sebastian, who helped coordinate all this, and the people behind it. So many great… presentations, so many great vendors, met so many fun people. We gave out tons of strange experience stickers to people who, you know, basically if you come up and you’ll give, tell us one of your weird experiences, you get a sticker to go along with that. And we’ve got stickers for practically everything, but we’re always coming across new and weird experiences that need new stickers. Yeah, but we had, there’s a great number of people there. Great. presentations. The event was emceed by Aidan Castellano of the Sustu podcast, and there was presentations by so many wonderful people, made some great new friends, local and otherwise. And wow, I really, I hope this is the beginning of an ongoing thing. I think it should be. It was a lot of fun. So go over to strangeandextraordinaryfest .com to find out more about that. Yeah, here’s our humble little table there with the little sticker displays and some of our rare items up there, as well as a lot of books from our collection. And just so fun engaging with folks. Always, always love meeting new folks who are interested in this. These are the vendor tables for some of the other presenters and vendors. Didn’t get photos of everything or everybody, but there you go. Of course, coming up next month, or rather this month, right? Yeah, April 26th, Sunday, April 26th from noon to 4 p .m. at the Schultz’s Beer Garden Sangarunda Hall. That’s at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard here in Austin. That’s the Austin Archives Bazaar. They do this every two years. I love this event. There are so many wonderful. archives in texas and we tend to be one of the strangest ones there but there’s some other strange archives that aren’t paranormal or weird ufo oriented so much as just odd like i think there’s like a beer beer tap archive ranch materials archive there’s just all kinds of great stuff you should check it out um another great event that happened i really wish i could have attended but i’m so glad that my good friend daniel Alan Jones got to present there. You can find out more about this at his page, his Daniel Alan Jones Facebook page and his personal page. He writes, had a great time at the Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University with his wonderful love, Villan Jimenez. The event included several themed panels, cryptid discussions, and a glass boat tour of San Marcos’ Spring Lake. He was honored to present his cryptozoology ethnography thanks to hosts Joe and Natasha for putting this awesome event together. This has been going on for a while. Let’s see. Where is there? I want to make that bigger. Yeah, there’s Daniel. Excuse me. There’s Daniel presenting his Monsters, Cryptids, and Culture, a cryptozoology ethnography. I think this is really awesome that Joe and Natasha have been putting this on.

And there’s the pamphlet for the event at Texas State University’s Religious Studies Department, Gods and Monsters. Awesome. Congrats, folks. I hope that was a real success. Meanwhile, in the free publication department, we have over at scientificexploration .org, that’s the SSE, Society for Scientific Exploration, their monthly free news from the Society of the SSE, their Explorer Journal. With lots of new content for you to explore there, they’re putting out a lot of new videos you can go check out at their YouTube channel. And this is all linked to from their free explorer journal over there at scientificexploration .org. So delving into UFOs.

into UFOs. Of course, Mike Rogers, one of the people associated with the. famous, infamous Travis Walton UFO abduction case has passed away. And of course, there’s been a lot of controversy swirling around that case and around Travis’s claims for years. And I’ve really not been able to parse the details of it, but basically what it amounts to is that there are people, this individual Mike Rogers and others who have claimed for some time now that in fact they were in on and that it basically involved one of these fire watchtowers in the forest that they were logging in, and that that was the faked UFO, and that maybe not all the other people that were the witness to his being shot by the light from the UFO were in on it, but that this person has allegedly given a deathbed confession. Over at Kevin Randall’s blog, A Different Perspective, he talks about this and quotes some of the ongoing statements from different people about this. He quotes Charlie Weiser, posted a comment to Kevin Randall’s previous article noting the death of Mike Rogers. And Charlie Weiser is quoted as saying, Mike Rogers’ daughter took his confession on his deathbed. He confessed for the second time to hoaxing. The Travis Walton siding with Travis confirming his role at the fire tower, the UFO. He was to stop at a certain viewing point for Travis to get out, then generate panic in the truck and drive away fast after the zapping to leave the impression Travis was abducted. Given the various changes and contradictions in their stories over the years, in response to skeptical pushback, this version fits the actual facts. It goes on to quotes, Charlie Weiser again. Mike also confessed to the first part of the Phoenix Lights V -shape, in which he was so interested for the past 20 years. If we read his quote -unquote speculation as confession, sideline a lightweight wire and plastic construction lifted by helium with definitely exactly seven lights, no matter what people reported, released near Prescott that traveled with the wind speed in direction to Casa Grande. Grande, we might solve that part of the siding. He agrees the second part was flares. That’s another thing. This guy’s claiming he was a part of another most significant hoax in U .S. UFO history. That would be extraordinary.

And I’d never heard this claim before. Anyway, you can go and read the rest of this over at KevinRandall .blogspot .com. Again, I’m really not sure what to make of this. He also quotes. Somewhere in the Sky’s podcaster, Ryan Sprague. And there’s just there seem to be a lot of contradictions here. There’s definitely been enmity between these people for some time, Travis Walton and Mike Rogers, but and others, I think. But so much of it seemed very personal and just vindictive. So I always had my doubts about the nature of the hoax claims, but I’m not I never would say it was impossible. And, you know, there could also be some prosaic explanation that, you know, it doesn’t involve a hoax, but who knows? Anyway, again, that’s over at kevinrandall .blogspot .com. From researchgate .net is the recently uploaded essay research paper by physicist Massimo Teodorani. Maybe I’ve mentioned this already. I don’t think so, though. I think this was, I could have. I mean, we did like what? four shows last month in March. So this one’s titled Anomalous Luminous Phenomena, Plasma Consciousness, and the Quantum Vacuum Towards a Unified Framework for Interactive Plasma Phenomena, Non -Local Information Transfer, and the Physics of Consciousness. Again, this is readable and downloadable over at researchgate .net. I highly recommend you check that out. Over at sentinel -news .org, Baptiste Freescore has the article Dr. Jacques Vallée on the pattern of UFO sightings. Quote, is this a reinforcement schedule? Unquote. For decades, some of the world’s brightest scientific minds have been puzzling over the seemingly inconsistent behavior of UFOs. Dr. Jacques Vallée has proposed a solution. And I know, I say this so often, I have not had the chance to read this. There’s just too much. too much to watch, too much to listen to, too much to read. And, you know, finding the good stuff is hard. And this, of course, intrigues me, of course, as a huge jock fan and as a fan of his control system hypothesis, I’m very, very interested in reading this, but haven’t had the chance yet. So you, you read it, you decide. Meanwhile, over at… Getting Spooked, that’s TannerFBoyle .substack .com, is the latest podcast episode of Tanner’s Gnomiery podcast, or a .k .a. the Getting Spooked podcast, number 27, Gnome 8, Gnomestake, Manhattan. This is actually more going into cryptozoology territory, but I don’t have much to say about that until maybe at the end of the show. But I really enjoyed this episode. It’s, it’s, they’re kind of, it’s, these are very loose shows and I, and it’s just, you know, these friends who have obviously very similar interests overlap. And, um, they’re, they’re all significantly younger than my UFO paranormal friends and crowd. I, that, that is not a bad thing. Of course, that it just, I’m just observing that. So in some, sometimes they’re, uh, less aware of things that, you know, folks who’ve been around a while are. but they always have something new and interesting to talk about and make me aware of stuff all the times, all the time that I’m not aware of. And as I’ve said before, when promoting this website and Tanner’s work, he does a really great job of posting the links. Gosh, there’s some other podcasts that I wish would freaking do this. It makes me so angry. When I’m listening to somebody’s podcast and they make some reference and, you know, yeah, I can try to suss out what the source is, but it’s really great that, you know, he, Tanner puts together these notes, these bibliographic citations for pretty dang near everything that is mentioned by each of the hosts, guest panelists on the show. And this one’s all over the map. It’s it’s parapolitical. It’s paranormal. It’s cryptozoological. Just maybe maybe it’s your cup of tea. So give it a try. Sample the tea. It’s not Kool -Aid, I swear. Meanwhile, back over at sentinel -news .org again, going back to UFOs just briefly. We have this headline. Representative Luna has called for the defunding of Arrow AARO amid questions surrounding alleged influence maneuvers from the Pentagon’s UFO office. I have very mixed feelings about this. And it’s not completely because of who is calling for this.

But, you know, I listen to folks like Micah Hanks, who. I would say defends AARO and I think gives good reasons for why it’s not the devil, why it’s not, you know, the source of suppression. But I also have to listen to folks like, I forget which whistleblower. Oh, well, uh, James Lukatsky. Uh, And as reported by George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell on their weaponized podcasts, and I don’t think Lukaski is the only person saying this. I think they’re just the most vocal ones saying it, that it really seems like Arrow is a counterintelligence operation designed to find and plug leaks and or to push some other agendas. But yeah. You know, some of the. largely right -leaning GOP -centered members of this transparency group that are pushing the declassification of all this stuff and have been organizing these bipartisan UFO, UAP congressional hearings.

A lot of them have commented that they felt they got much better information from the FBI. about UFOs than they did Arrow, which that’s a pretty weird and stark comparison. On the other hand, you know, an institution like the FBI that’s been around for a long time and, dare I say, probably has a way more significant budget and level of resources to tackle the UFO problem, as it’s often referred to. So, I don’t know. Oh, that’s enough of that.

But what was next that I wanted to talk about? Well, let’s jump to some paranormal stuff here. Yeah, over at the podcast page for our good friends who do the Consensus Unreality podcast, Ben Roy Lance, it being one of the main hosts. Ben Roilance, of course, is somebody who is a lover of poetry, a lover of the works of Eugenia Macer’s story, and has been archiving that kind of material, as well as runs a bookstore and does this podcast, Consensus on Reality. And this interview with Shannon Taggart is fantastic. This episode is called Photographic Hauntings, SORAT, that’s S -O -R -R -A -T, and American Parapsychology. Oh, what is the rest of that?

Yeah, it’s cut off here. Oh yeah. Photographic hauntings, Sora and American parapsychology with Shannon Taggart. So their guest is Shannon Taggart. And if you don’t know who Sharon Taggart, excuse me, Shannon Taggart is, I highly recommend you start finding out. I was introduced to her work and, and her amazing efforts through. Greg Bishop’s Radio Mysterioso show so many years ago. And she is a, she doesn’t like to be pigeonholed as she expresses at the beginning of this interview. And I’m not sure if I’ve even finished this interview, but it was so good. Some volume problems between the hosts and her, but very, very interesting. Shannon Taggart is just fascinating. I just, I can’t recommend her highly enough. Basically. I would describe her as a photographer who is interested in the art and the nature of spiritualist photography and spiritualist experiments. So if you think of spiritualism in terms of like old seances, dark, you know, in dark rooms or with red lights and mediumship and the manifesting of things like ectoplasm, these weird spirit trumpets and. table tipping and all the weird stuff that has largely been ridiculed and debunked for many years, decades. There are still people who practice these forms of religions, interaction, interfacing with the other realm, the other side, or their own unconscious. Who knows? But she, as a professional photographer, has a keen eye for the artistic qualities of all of this material. But she also has an archivist preservationist desire.

Anyway, just check out these interviews with her on Consensus UnReality. Go back and listen to the one from years ago on Greg’s Radio Mysterioso. But you can also read her article over at the harvard .edu website, Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions. This article she wrote called A Medium at Harvard by Shannon Taggart, edited by Aaron Michael Ullray. And as the article caveats at the beginning, excuse me, the following research reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. And the article begins, photos of the seance medium Mina Crandon, 1888 to 1941, known publicly as Marjorie. are among the most shocking images in the history of photography. Restrained and half -dressed, she sits with legs spread as phantom forms emerge from nearly every orifice. It is difficult to tell whether these images, some captured at Harvard University, document a sideshow, a scientific ritual, excuse me, a scientific trial, oh goodness, a crime scene or a surrealist performance. For over two decades, I have photographed mediums and seances culminating in my book Seance, Fulger Press 2019, that examines this bizarre photographic lineage, tracing back to Boston where spirit photography first emerged in the 1860s. Long dismissed as absurd curiosities or fraudulent entertainments, seance photographs are more than failed or compromised evidence. They expose how the authority of the camera was forged and remains in tension with ritual embodiment and belief. Yeah, Shannon is just magnificently articulate and just really raises the bar so high on exploring these types of experiences and belief systems and the interplay and the attempt to document evidence or to bear witness to these strange goings on, whether they are fakery or something real. that’s less of an issue for her. And I, and I, I find that fascinating. So, uh, one last thing related to Shannon Taggart over at the SPR’s website, uh, that is the society for psychical research, spr .ac .uk. She’s written a review of this book, picturing aura, a visual biography by Jeremy Stolo, S T O L O W. Um, and she writes, In one of the most iconic images of aura photography, a torn leaf appears restored by an electric silhouette known as the phantom leaf. This Kirlian effect, produced by techniques said to capture luminous energy fields, became a kind of holy grail for some 20th century parapsychologists seeking proof of an invisible life force, yet it provided notoriously difficult, though it proved notoriously difficult to reproduce. Following the fragmented traces of this history, I found that explanations of the phenomena sometimes slipped from controlled conditions into personal circumstance. I once heard a story I was unable to confirm. The research faltered when one of its most promising subjects, a teenager from Ohio, lost the ability to produce the effect soon after getting a girlfriend.

There’s much more to this review. It’s actually very extensive. And, yes. And, of course, the ones… reference she cites is, of course, George Hansen’s The Trickster and the Paranormal, which, yeah, I need to reread that. All right, moving right along over at journalofscientificexploration .org. That is, of course, JSE, the Journal of the SSE. The Society for Scientific Exploration publishes the Journal of Scientific Exploration, SSE, publishing JSE, Anomalistics and Frontier Science, Volume 40, Number 1, 2026. This paper published… just last month, written by James Huron, Rents Lang, Brandon Masulo, Ciaran O ‘Keefe, and David Shoemaker, is titled Trickster -Like Experiences While Documenting the Paranormal Roche Analysis of an Initial Survey. The abstract reads, This online study explored anomalous trickster -like events reported by researchers while writing about ghostly episodes. A convenient sample of 167 participants, seven credentialed frontier scientists, and 160 amateur paranormal investigators retrospectively endorsed 15 items spanning both subjective experiences, for example, unusual dreams, emotional shifts, and objective events, for example, missing files, device malfunctions. Subjective experiences occurred 1 .6 times more often than objective events, with endorsement rates ranging from six… from 7 % to 30%. Roche, this is spelled R -A -S -C -H, Roche analysis revealed a unidimensional hierarchy of 14 coherent items with strong internal consistency and minimal gender -related response bias. The reported anomalies could largely reflect psychological mechanisms such as memory reconstruction, source monitoring errors, or cognitive load, but their clustering and symbolic framing suggest deeper epistemological vulnerabilities what we call a trickster chain when preparing paranormal -themed works. These findings may generalize to other emotionally charged or liminal writing contexts where narrative coherence is vulnerable to psychological or transpersonal disruptions, offering a novel lens on how altered states, symbolic processes, and creativity intersect in scholarly work. Our novel, Trickster -like Experiences Inventory, therefore offers a promising tool for meta -scientific inquiry and invites further research into both conventional and parapsychological interpretations of anomalies or disruptions in academic contexts. Hmm, kind of makes you go. Meanwhile, over at theguardian .com, we have I’m Deathly Afraid. What is digital spirituality leading us toward? Where traditional religion once gathered people together, Digital spirituality is now consumed in isolation, mediated by tech gods with opaque agendas. Yikes. Yeah, this is over at theguardian .com. Quite a long article. You’ll want to go check that out. And let’s see. Yeah, moving right along over at theconversation .com. We have how dolphins communicate new discoveries from a long -term study in Sarasota, Florida.

Speaking of consciousness and language and whatnot, human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication began. Scientists like the, editorializing here, ketamine -taking, John C. Lilly, and the husband and wife team of Melba and David Caldwell, tried various experiments to decipher the sounds dolphins can make. The Caldwells figured out a way to record isolated animals in human care. They discovered that each individual dolphin communicated mostly with one unique whistle, which they called the signature whistle. Researchers now know that these whistles convey identities much like human names do. Dolphins use them to stay in touch with each other in their murky habitat where vision is limited. It’s like announcing, I’m over here when someone can’t see you. Marco Polo. This discovery is foundational to my own research. I’ve been studying communication in wild dolphins since the mid -1980s when I joined my mentor, Peter Tyak, T -Y -A -C -K, in documenting signature whistles in wild dolphins for the first time. Our team’s research focused on a resident community of free -ranging bottlenose dolphins in waters near Sarasota, Florida, where I continue to work today. And this is written by, where is it? Oh, yes. Layla Sae? Sae? That’s L -A -E -L -A. Last name, S -A -Y -I -G -H. Senior Research Specialist, Cetacean Communication, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Institution. And again, this is over at theconversation .com. Check out that. And then over at Mongo Bay. Mongo don’t know. Mongo just pawned game of life. News .mongobay .com. A bonobo named Kanzi, K -A -N -Z -I, could play pretend. Challenging Ideas About Animal Imaginations.

Imagine you’re at a tea party with a bonobo. What kind of tea are you serving? Are there cakes? What is the bonobo wearing? Is the ability to imagine things unique to humans? According to new evidence from Johns Hopkins University, it is not. A study published in the journal Science in February found that a bonobo named Kanzi could identify and track pretend objects across a series of controlled experiments. This is the first time imagination has been demonstrated in a non -human animal under scientific conditions. The findings suggest that the cognitive machinery underlying imagination may date back to six to nine million years to the common ancestor shared by humans and other great apes. Quote, it really is game -changing that their mental lives go beyond the here and now,

mental lives go beyond the here and now, said co -author Christopher Krupenier. an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins in a press release. Quote, imagination has long been seen as a critical element of what it is to be human, but the idea that it may not be exclusive to our species is really transformative. And again, you can read more about this over at news .mongobay .com.

Sorry to make fun of Mongo Bay. I just didn’t make conjures up Mongo. Mongo from Blazing Saddles. This article is written by Liz Kimbrough. All right. Moving right along over at thedebrief .org, new theory suggests consciousness may come from a hidden wave in the brain, not neurons. This is actually from last month or two months ago, February 26th, written by Tim McMillan over there at thedebrief .org. In the search for the physical source of consciousness, neuroscientists have long looked to neurons, the brain’s billions of electrical… electrically active cells as the likely answer. However, a provocative new theoretical paper challenges that assumption, arguing that our experience of reality may not arise directly from neurons firing in the brain. Instead, it could emerge from a hidden wave deep within the brain acting as a holographic model of the world. Published in Frontiers in Psychology, Robert Worden of the Active Inference Institute, it’s a Robert Worden, W -O -R -D -E -N, of the Active Inference Institute, proposes what he calls the, quote, projective wave theory of consciousness, unquote, a hypothesis that suggests our conscious experience arises from a wave -like excitation inside a small but critical brain structure known as the thalamus. Through unconventional if confirmed, though unconventional if confirmed, the idea could upend decades of neuroscience and fundamentally reshape how scientists understand the biological basis of awareness, quote. This paper is an initial conceptual outline of a projective wave theory of consciousness in which phenomenal consciousness arises solely from a wave excitation in the thalamus. Warden writes, quote, neuronal activity maintains the wave but has no direct link to consciousness. Of course, you can read the rest of this over at thedebrief .org. And moving right along over at Noemi. Noema? Okay.

It’s noemamag .com. That’s noemamag .com. What are psychedelic entities? I think I’m… Gosh, again, I can’t tell what I… I don’t remember what I’ve already reported on it. I may have reported on this last week. Some of these things overlap. What are psychedelic entities? The beings people often meet while using psychedelics resist tidy explanations. This is… An essay in their philosophy and culture section by Joanna Steinhardt from March of this year. The article begins, The first time I heard about the plant spirit of Iboga, it was from a man named Barry who told me she appeared in different forms to different people, sometimes old and maternal, sometimes young and vibrant, usually of African descent. Mother Iboga, he called her. And I figured he would know. Barry ran a psychedelic retreat center in rural Mexico that administered ibogaine, the drug derived from iboga, a plant used as a visionary sacrament in Central Africa. I know I’ve commented on this before about how people like Terence McKenna and others have popularized this idea of psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms and particularly DMT, dimethyltryptamine, are UFO experiences on demand and that they bring us, are able to bring us into contact with these self -transforming machine elves of hyperspace, as McKenna called them, these dribbling, jeweled basketballs, as he says they appear and others have described them. But obviously there’s always been controversy about the idea of there being any reality to these quote -unquote hallucinations that people experience. There’s a lot more here, folks. If you want to entertain these ideas, you don’t have to take the drugs yourself. Just read the literature about entheogens and the types of information that seem to often be brought back by previously just the shamans who were the ones ingesting this material. But, you know, this idea of people going on vision quests, sometimes induced by other modes of inducing altered states of consciousness like… holotropic breathwork or staring into the flickering lights of a fire or using binaural beats to induce out -of -body experiences or, you know, there’s all these different techniques that can happen without drugs. But ultimately, it’s all just about learning how to control and manipulate one’s own neurosystem and to reap the benefits of it and to do it safely. That’s important, too. Again, that’s over at noemamag .com. That’s N -O -E -M -A -M -A -G dot C -O -M dot com. Also, so our good friends at INAX, the Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, continue to put out new material. Yay! Way to go, Bob! Bob Price, the longtime president of the INAX Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, where I also was a board member for many years. I’m so glad to see that their videos are being released again. And part two of a five -part series on lucid dreaming and out -of -body experience. This one featuring William Buhlman have been released and there’s more to come. Go check that out at their YouTube channel. That’s youtube .com slash at symbol INAX org. That’s youtube .com slash at symbol INAX org. And of course you can go to their website. inax .org. All right. Where are we? We’re almost… So… Oh, yeah. I did want to say there’s a ton more stuff, of course. The show notes for this episode, of course, will have links to everything I’ve talked about, I think. I think I put them all there. As well as other things that I’m not going to get to. But there’s many other links. Oh. So I don’t know how I missed this. I came across this video, A Flash of Beauty, The Hypnosis of Bob Gimlin. Okay, so I’m going to put this under cryptozoology. Bob Gimlin, of course, is the G in the PG film, the iconic Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film that, of course, this Conjuring Bigfoot. Oh, that’s a great title. Capturing Bigfoot that has made so many headlines. regarding the alleged debunking of the classic PG Patterson Gimlin film, the 1967, I believe, Bigfoot footage, the few seconds of film footage that show a big, hairy, lumbering female walking through a creek bed in the West Coast wilderness that is considered next to things like the Zapruder JFK assassination film. to be some of the most widely seen and recognized film footage in human history. Perhaps maybe all the Hindenburg disaster footage would also be up there. I don’t know. That’s probably not as much anymore. But anyway, Ken Gerard, formerly Texas -based cryptozoologist, a friend of ours, has posted this screenshot that’s, I guess, making the rounds. I have not vetted or verified this, but I don’t doubt it. Basically, the Overlook Film Festival has issued a statement saying, there has been a change to the lineup and schedule. Unfortunately, capturing Bigfoot has been reluctantly pulled from the schedule and all feature screenings for the time being by the film team due to a pending issue regarding serious piracy concerns that could impact its sale. We understand and respect their decisions and the Overlook wishes to support what’s best for the film. Now, I think…

It’s been, the assumption has been that one of the reasons that the Capturing Bigfoot film documentary aired, premiered at South by Southwest was as an attempt, like films like The Age of Disclosure about UFOs, UAP premiering there, was to help get a distribution deal. That is very much the basis of most. film festivals is you you show your thing for the first time or one of the first times and hopefully you get some bites nibbles from a potential distributor film distributors streaming distributors physical medium distributors that sort of thing and as anyone knows the the the market has radically changed due to the slow death of broadcast television the slow death of physical real -world theaters, and the slow death of physical medium distribution like blockbuster video, that sort of thing, largely due to the internet and streaming. And so that’s not unusual.

that’s not unusual. And so it doesn’t surprise me that they would be so secretive about it, though at the same time, it has a lot to do with the fact that, of course, There is this never -before -seen footage in the film that is alleged to debunk that famous, iconic PG Patterson -Gimlin footage. And they’re just terrified, obviously, that somebody’s going to sneak in a camera and record it, and it’s going to leak, and that will diminish their chances of recouping their expenses and making some money. As any filmmaker wants to do, whether you are, you know, have some honorable reason for doing a documentary or just are an entertainer has written something that you want to see successful out in the world. So who knows? Anyway, I just was curious. The fact that there apparently is hypnosis footage of Bob Gimlin. And that led me to this, this YouTube channel. That’s youtube .com slash. at symbol, A Flash of Bigfoot. But it’s for a documentary that I somehow missed from 2022, 2022, A Flash of Beauty, Bigfoot Revealed. And I believe they’re working on a second one called A Flash of Beauty, Paranormal Bigfoot. And I haven’t really explored the channel. There’s the hypnosis of Bob Gimlin video. But I did over the weekend, Finally watched the documentary, A Flash of Beauty, Bigfoot Revealed. It’s available to stream on Amazon Prime. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn’t get to watch it all in one sitting, but I really, really enjoyed it. I’d highly recommend it. It’s beautifully shot. I’m not sure how much original footage there was of the wilderness, but it seemed like some of it might be stock footage. But I know that some of it, I think they shot. But interview footage is fantastic. All the participants I find very fascinating and interesting. I would say it’s definitely a soft science approach to exploring the reality of Bigfoot. But I found it very touching and a wonderful antidote to all the current claims and clamor for over this Capturing Bigfoot documentary that claims to debunk. the famous Patterson -Gimlin film. So if you are so inclined, you might go watch some of the excerpts. They also have a podcast, but there are excerpts of, I believe, the different parts of the Flash of Beauty Bigfoot Revealed documentary. Anyway, really enjoyed it. Highly recommend it. May or may not be your taste, but I think I think that’s it. Anyway. Okay. That’s it. That’s going to be it. We’re just at about the 45 minute mark. And thank you for joining us again. Please like, and subscribe, hit the notification bell. Please sign up for our Patreon or subscribe to our, our anonymous archives .org website. We also, we have various ways for you to keep in the loop, but they’re not always all integrated the way I’d like, but we really appreciate your support. If you just want to send us a donation, of course, Down at the bottom, you can see all the information about how to contact us. We have a PO box, a phone number, an email address and all that stuff. And we’re on social media. So look for us on your favorite social media platforms. We don’t really engage there, but we do try to post notifications to let folks know about what we’re doing, like those monthly Anomaly Academy lecture series and whatnot. And that’s going to be it. So good night. Good day. Peace be with you and have a happy tomorrow. And we’ll see you on the other side. そそそそそ