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Episodes 249 and 250: Rudolph Hess

The Hitler Conspiracies, by Richard Evans The Hitler Conspiracies	The Truth About Rudolf Hess, by James Douglas-Hamilton	The Flight of Rudolf Hess, by Georges Nesbit	Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War, by Norman J.W. Goda
Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, by Eric Kurlander

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Episode 248: Ancient Human Alien Hybrids (and more Patron Questions)

The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us, by Mac Tonnies

A Daily Defense: 365 Days ( plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist, by Jimmy Akin

Footfall, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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Episodes 246 and 247: Dowsing

The Divining Hand:: The 500 year-old Mystery of Dowsing, by Christopher Bird

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century

Earth Radiation, by Kathe Bachler and John M. Living

The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volume 1, by Edwin May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha

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Episode 245: The Big Bang

The Day We Found the Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak

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Episode 244: The Versailles Time-Slip

An Adventure: A true story about time travel, by Elanor Jourdain and Charlotte Moberly

The Mysterious Paths of Versailles: An Investigation of a Psychical Journey Back in Time, by Mark Lamont

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Episode 242: Rainmaker Charles Hatfield

The Rainmakers: American "Pluviculture" to World War II, by Clark Spence	I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54, by Robert Graves	Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina, by Robert Graves
The Rainmakers	Chinatown

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Episodes 240 & 241: Egyptian Afterlife and Egyptian Mummies

Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World, by Dr. Bob Brier

The Murder of Tutankhamen, by Dr. Bob Brier

The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses), by Dr. Bob Brier

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Episodes 236 & 237: The Loch Ness Monster

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids, by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero

Hunting Monsters, by Darren Naish

Adventures in Cryptozoology: Hunting for Yetis, Mongolian Deathworms and Other Not-So-Mythical Monsters, by Richard Freeman

In Search of Real Monsters: Adventures in Cryptozoology, Volume II, by Richard Freeman

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Episode 235: De-Extinction (And More Patrons Questions)

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, by George Friedman

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, by Peter Zeihan

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Episode 233: Lee Harvey Oswald’s First Assassination?

Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, by David Talbot

Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on America, by R. James Woolsey and Ion Mihai Pacepa

The Warren Commission Report

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Episode 232: Miraculous Spiral Staircase

Loretto: The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel, by Mary J. Straw Cook	Loretto and the Miraculous Staircase, by Alice Bullock	Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal, by Joe Nickell	Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
The Staircase (DVD)

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Episode 231: Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident

Encounter in the Desert: The Case for Alien Contact at Socorro, by Kevin D. Randle

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Episodes 229 and 230: Ellen G. White, Seventh Day Adventist Prophetess?

The Ellen G. White Encyclopedia, by Denis Fortin and Jerry Moon

Ellen G. White A Psychobiography, by Steve Daily

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Episode 228: The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis

The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November, by Sergey Mikoyan

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Episode 227: Spoon-bending

Mind Over Matter: A Comprehensive Guide to Discovering Your Psychic Powers, by Loyd Auerbach

The Reality of ESP: A Physicist's Proof of Psychic Abilities, by Russell Targ

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Episodes 224 & 225: Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet

Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River, by Thomas Sugrue

Edgar Cayce in Context: The Readings: Truth and Fiction, by K. Paul Johnson

The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power Paperback, by Edgar Evans Cayce and Hugh Lynn Cayce

The Pit Game

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Episode 223: Spring-Heeled Jack

The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures, by Karl Bell

Penny Dreadful Multipack Volume 5: The True Crime Edition

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Episode 221: Shadow People

DARKNESS WALKS: The Shadow People Among Us, by Jason Offutt

Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians (Contemporary American Indian Studies), by John Swanton

The Methamphetamine Crisis: Strategies to Save Addicts, Families, and Communities, by Herbert Covey

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Episode 220: Eucharistic Miracles

A Cardiologist Examines Jesus: The Stunning Science Behind Eucharistic Miracles, by Dr. Franco Serafini

Fatima in Lucia's Own Words by Lucia Santos

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Episode 215: The Urim and Thummim

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Q-Z

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Episodes 213 and 214: Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality, by Sheldon Stern

Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert F. Kennedy

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Blu-ray)

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Episode 212: Bilocation

Padre Pio: The True Story, by C. Bernard Ruffin

Padre Pio Under Investigation: The Secret Vatican Files, by Francesco Castelli, Vittorio Messori, and Lee Bockhorn

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program, by Paul Smith

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Episode 211: Harriet Tubman

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero, by Kate Clifford Larson	Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, by Jane Simon Ammeson	Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman, by Sarah Bradford	Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, by Sarah Bradford
The Thomas Sowell Reader	The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass

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Episode 210: Haunted House of Marin County

A Paranormal Casebook: Ghost Hunting in the New Millennium, by Loyd Auerbach

Phantasms of the Living - Volume I

Phantasms of the Living - Volume II

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Episode 209: Psychedelic Machine Elves and More Patrons Questions

The Bible Code Myth, by Michael Heiser

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Episode 208: Time Travel Prayer

Miracles, by C.S. Lewis	Praying with the Saints for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, by Susan Tassone	Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
Charity for the Suffering Souls: An Explanation of the Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, by Fr. John Nageleisen

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Episode 207: UFO Crash Debris (Art’s Parts)

In Plain Sight: An investigation into UFOs and impossible science, by Ross Coulthart

The Coming of the Saucers, by Raymond Arnold

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Episode 206: How We Found the Universe

The Day We Found the Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction, by Michael Hoskin

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Episode 205: Isdal Woman

Isdal Woman: A New Perspective, by David Morgan

All the President's Men, by Bob Woodward

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Episode 203: Do All Dogs Go To Heaven?

Evidence of Animal Afterlife, by Edward Anderson	Haunted Maryland: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Old Line State, by Ed Okonowicz	Ghost Dogs of the South, by Randy Russell	Ghost Cats of the South, by Randy Russell
The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis	Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Heaven, by Peter Kreeft

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Episode 202: Blue Panic Orbs

Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah, by Colm Kelleher and George Knapp

Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program, by Colm Kelleher, George Knapp, and James Lacatski

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Episode 201: The Green Children of Woolpit

Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries, by Brian Haughton

Green Children of Woolpit: an Anomalies study, by Garth Haslam

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Episode 200: Ghost Bride!

Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural, by Marc Hartzman

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Episode 199: The Mystery of Inflation

Basic Economics, by Thomas Sowell	Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, by Milton Friedman	I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina, by Robert Graves	I, Claudius (DVD)

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Episodes 197 and 198: Dr. Edwin May: Psychic Research

ESP Wars: East & West: An Account of the Military Use of Psychic Espionage as Narrated by the Key Russian and American Players, by Edwin C. May

Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook, by Joseph McMoneagle

The Star Gate Archives, Vol. 4, by Dr. Edwin May

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Episode 196: Baptizing Robots? … and More Questions

The Apocrypha And Pseudepigrapha Of The Old Testament In English: With Introductions And Critical And Explanatory Notes To The Several Books: Ed., In Conjuction With Many Scholars, Volume 1	The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Vol. 1 & 2, by James H. Charlesworth	Outside the Bible, 3-volume set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, by Louis Feldman, James Kugel, and Lawrence Schiffman
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman	The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, by Bart Ehrman

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Episode 195: Poltergeists

Poltergeists, by Alan Gauld

The Poltergeist, by William G. Roll

ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Parapsychologist's Handbook, by Loyd Auerbach

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Episode 194: Steven Greer

Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s, by Aaron John Gulyas

The UFO experience - A scientific inquiry, by J. Allen Hynek

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Episodes 192 & 193: Our Lady of Kibeho

Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa, by Immaculee Ilibagiza

Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, by Immaculee Ilibagiza

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch

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Episodes 190 & 191: Bill Ray, Psychic Spy

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program, by Paul Smith

Tell Me What You See: Remote Viewing Cases from the World's Premier Psychic Spy, by Ed Dames

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Episode 189: What Happened to the Hindenburg?

The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies, by Michael McCarthy

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Episode 188: It’s Always Demons?

Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness, by the Congregation for Divine Worship of the Vatican

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Episodes 184 & 185: Countdown to Pearl Harbor

Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, by John Koster

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Episode 181: D.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Got Away

Skyjack: The Hunt for D. B. Cooper, by Geoffrey Gray	Into The Blast - The True Story of D.B. Cooper, by Skipp Porteous and Robert Blevins	Paratrooper of Fortune: The Story of Ted B. Braden - Vietnam Commando, CIA Operative, Congo Mercenary, and just maybe D.B. Cooper, by Drew Hurst Beeson	D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance, by Robert H. Edwards
Tulips For Lunch by Chuck Brodsky

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Episodes 179 & 180: Canals on Mars? Life on Mars?

The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy - Great Course, by Bradley Schaefer

13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, by Michael Brooks

The Day We Found the Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak

Mars and Its Canals, by Percival Lowell

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Episode 177: Dr. Edwin May

Dr. Edwin May's Amazon Author page

ESP Wars: East & West

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Episodes 175 & 176: Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood

The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate, by Tremper Longman and Stephen Moshier

The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, by David R. Montgomery

Noah And The Great Flood: Proof and Effects

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Episode 174: The Greenbrier Ghost

Ghostly Cries From Dixie, by Pat Fitzhugh

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Episodes 171 & 172: The 9/11 Attacks and 9/11 Conspiracy

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts, by Popular Mechanics

American Conspiracies and Cover-ups: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, Rigged Elections, Suppressed Cancer Cures, and the Greatest Conspiracies of Our Time, by Douglas Cirignano

9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation, by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth

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Episode 169: Paul Amadeus Dienach

Chronicles From The Future: The Amazing Story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

The Shadow Out of Time: The Corrected Text, by H.P. Lovecraft

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Episodes 167 & 168: The Son of Sam

The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam, by Maury Terry

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Episode 166: The Exodus! Did It Happen?

Five Views on the Exodus: Historicity, Chronology, and Theological Implications	Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition, by James K. Hoffmeier	Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition, by James Hoffmeier	On the Reliability of the Old Testament, by K. A. Kitchen
The History of Ancient Egypt Audible Audiobook, by Bob Brier	The Book of Genesis Audible Audiobook, by Gary Rendsburg	The Dead Sea Scrolls Audible Audiobook, by Gary Rendsburg

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Episode 164: Border Patrol Ghost Story

Out on Foot: Nightly Patrols and Ghostly Tales of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, by Rocky Elmore

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Episodes 162 & 163: Pauline Dakin and the Weird World

Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, by Pauline Dakin

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Episodes 159 & 160: Zombies!

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, by Wade Davis

The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic, by Wade Davis

Zombies: History, Belief, and Modern Ideas: An ANOMALIES Study, by Garth Haslam

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Episode 158: FTL Travel, Crying, Eye of Sahara, Shroud of Turin, St. Brendan the Navigator, and More Patron Questions

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel, by Michio Kaku

The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body in 30 Minutes a Week, by Fredrick Hahn

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Episodes 156 & 157: Paul and Project Star Gate

The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn, by Dr. Paul H. Smith

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program, by Dr. Paul H. Smith

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, by Annie Jacobsen

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Episodes 153 & 154: Nostradamus

The Prophecies: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text	Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, by Stéphane Gerson	Nostradamus, Bibliomancer: The Man, The Myth, The Truth, by Peter Lemesurier	Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
Confessions, by St. Augustine

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Episode 151: Operation Northwoods

63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read, by Jesse Ventura

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Episode 150: Mysterious Updates

Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, by Susan B. Levin	Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on America, by James Woolsey and Ion Mihai Pacepa	The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss, by Dr. Jason Fung	The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally, by Dr. Jason Fung
The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery, by Dr. Jason Fung	The Self Does Not Die, by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf Smit	The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (streaming)	Unidentified (streaming)

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Episode 149: Spontaneous Human Combustion

Spontaneous Human Combustion: A Brief History: An Anomalies Study, buy Garth Haslam

The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus, by John Emsley

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Episode 147: Secrets of the Vatican Secret Archives!

Vatican Secret Archives: Unknown Pages of Church History, by Grzegorz Gorny and Janusz Rosikon	Lux in Arcana. The Vatican Secret Archives Reveals Itself.	The Vatican Secret Archives (documentary)	Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World, by Jacalyn Duffin
The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History	The Trial of Galileo: Essential Documents, by Maurice Finocchiaro

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Episode 146: 1934 Fascist Coup in the USA

The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking TRUE Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow F.D.R., by Jules Archer

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Episode 145: Gravity Hills, Selling Your Soul, Winchester Mansion, Ghost Hunting, and More Patron Questions

The Stupids (streaming)

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Episodes 143 & 144: Paul Bennewitz and Richard Doty

Project Beta, by Greg Bishop

Dulce Base, by Greg Valdez

Mirage Men (streaming documentary)

Mirage Men, by Mark Pilkington (book)

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Episodes 141 & 142: Georgia Guidestones

The Georgia Guidestones: America's Most Mysterious Monument, by Raymond Wiley

Dark Clouds Over Elberton: The True Story of the Georgia Guidestones (documentary)

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Episode 140: Dating the Gospels

The Bible Is a Catholic Book, by Jimmy Akin	Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (2nd Ed.), by Richard Bauckham	The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences, by Richard Bauckham	Redating the New Testament, by John A.T. Robinson
The Date of the Acts and of the Synoptic Gospels, by Adolf Von Harnack	The Handbook of Biblical Chronology, by Jack Finegan	From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, by Andrew Steinmann

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Episode 138: What is the Mark of the Beast?

The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius

The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation, by Richard Bauckham

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Episode 137: Communication with the Dead

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death, by Deborah Blum	Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century	An Introduction to Parapsychology, 5th ed.	Occult Phenomena in the Light of Theology, by Alois Wiesinger
Psychics: Facts and Theories, by Rev. Minot Savage

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Episode 136: The Great Reset

COVID-19: The Great Reset, by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret

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Episode 132: Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda's books

Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory, by Richard de Mille

The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies, by Richard De Mille

Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, by Amy Wallace

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Episode 131: Civil War Gold, EVP, Holy Fire, X-37B, Ark of the Covenant, Writing of Jesus and more Patron Questions

Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization (The Great Courses)

The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses)

Zodiac, by Robert Graysmith

Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed, by Robert Graysmith

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Episode 130: Lie Detectors

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, by George Maschke and Gino Scalabrini

You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, by James Duane

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Episodes 127 & 128: 1973 Pascagoula UFO Abduction

Pascagoula-The Closest Encounter: My Story, by Calvin Parker

Pascagoula – The Story Continues: New Evidence & New Witnesses, by Calvin Parker

UFO Contact At Pascagoula, by Charles Hickson

Alien Contact: The Pascagoula UFO Encounter (documentary)

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Episode 126: Curses!

Ancient Christian Magic, by Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith

Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Lindsay Watson

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century

The Men Who Stare At Goats, by Jon Ronson

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Episode 124: Death at the National Hotel!

Outbreak in Washington, D.C.: The 1857 Mystery of the National Hotel Disease, by Kerry Walters

Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons, by Serita Deborah Stevens and Anne Klarner

The Suppressed Truth About The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Burke McCarty

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Episodes 122 & 123: The Warning or the Illumination of Conscience and Fr. Michel Rodrigue

The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies of the Illumination of Conscience, by Christine Warkins

Edmund Campion: A Life, by Evelyn Waugh

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Episodes 119, 120, & 121: Young Earth

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times, by Adrienne Mayor

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, by Sam Kean

13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, by Michael Brooks

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Episodes 117 & 118: Remote Viewing Aliens on the Moon

Penetration, by Ingo Swann

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities (Studies in Consciousness), by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff

Somebody Else Is On The Moon, by George Leonard

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program, by Paul Smith

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Episode 116: Mysterious Feedback

Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says, by Jimmy Akin

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time, by Michael Brooks

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

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Episode 114: Ruby Ridge

Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family, by Jess Walter

Them: Adventures with Extremists, by Jon Ronson

Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, by Gary Noesner

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Episode 113: Desperate Coup in Japan!

The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific, by William Craig

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Episode 112: God and the gods

The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, by Michael Heiser

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Episode 111: George Washington, Vampires, Ancient Nukes, the Beatles, 9/11, Killer Bees, and other Patron Questions

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts, by Popular Mechanics

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, by Alexander Rose

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Episode 109: Cottingley Fairies

The Coming of the Fairies, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Fairies: A Book of Real Fairies, by Edward Gardner	Reflections on the Cottingley Fairies: Frances Griffiths - in Her Own Words, by Frances Griffiths	The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World, by Mary Losure
Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are Real, by Mary Tyler Nobleman and Eliza Wheeler	Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, by Terry Jones	Fairy Tale: A True Story [DVD]

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Episode 107 & 108: The 1971 FBI Burglary

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, by Betty L. Medsger	Enemies: A History of the FBI, by Tim Weiner	The Secrets of the FBI, by Ronald Kessler	Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, by Gary Noesner
1971 Documentary

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Episode 105 & 106: St. Thomas Aquinas and the Occult

St. Thomas Aquinas, by G.K. Chesterton

Teaching with Authority: How to Cut Through Doctrinal Confusion & Understand What the Church Really Says, by Jimmy Akin

A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data, by Alexander Box

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Episode 104: Acupuncture

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine, by Simon Singh and Dr. Edzard Ernst

Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us, by Steven Novella (Great Courses)

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Episodes 102 & 103: Remote Viewing

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program, by Paul Smith	Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, by Annie Jacobsen	Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, by Jim Schnabel	Star Fire, by Ingo Swann
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodnow

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Episode 100: Mysterious Celebration of 100 Episodes!

Dreamland: An Autobiography, by Bob Lazar

Unraveling the Voynich Codex, by Jules Janick and Arthur Tucker

Flora of the Voynich Codex: An Exploration of Aztec Plants, by Jules Janick and Arthur Tucker

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Episode 99: Our Lady of Akita

Akita: The Tears and Message of Mary, by Fr. Teiji Yasuda

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Episode 98: The Mystery of Sleep

Secrets of Sleep Science: From Dreams to Disorders: The Great Courses, by Dr. Craig Heller

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, by Roger Ekirch

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, by Dr. Matthew Walker

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Episodes 96 & 97: David Koresh and the Waco Siege

Waco: A Survivor's Story, by David Thibodeau	A Journey to Waco: Autobiography of a Branch Davidian, by Clive Doyle	Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, by Gary Noesner
Waco: The Rules of Engagement (documentary)	Waco (documentary)

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Episodes 93 & 94: Reincarnation (& Bridey Murphy)

The Search for Bridey Murphy, by Morey Bernstein

The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church, by Jimmy Akin

The Problem of Evil (DVD), by Jimmy Akin Purchase from Catholic Answers

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Episode 92: David Hahn, the Radioactive Boy Scout

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor, by Ken Silverstein

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, by Sam Kean

Atomic Accidents, by James Mahaffey

The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments on Disc

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Episode 90: Werewolves!

The Werewolf Delusion, by Ian Woodward

Werewolves: The Definitive Guide: Werewolf History, Fiction, Mythology, Folklore, Legend, and Stories, by S. Baring-Gould and Elliott O'Donnell

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society, by Kathleen McAuliffe

On Evil, by St. Thomas Aquinas

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Episode 89: Black Magic Harem Conspiracy (Ancient Egyptian Murder Mystery)

The Harem Conspiracy: The Murder of Ramesses III, by Susan Redford

Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt, by Pascal Vernus

The History of Ancient Egypt (audiobook), by Bob Brier

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Episode 88: The Nemesis Death Star Theory

Nemesis, the Death Star, by Richard A. Muller

The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean

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Episode 87: The Mysterious Nephilim of the Bible

The 12th Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin	The Anunnaki Gods According to Ancient Mesopotamian Sources, by Michael Heiser	The Unseen Realm, by Michael Heiser
Reversing Hermon, by Michael Heiser

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Episode 86: The Devil’s Den, Arkansas, UFO Incident

Incident at Devil's Den, by Terry Lovelace

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Episode 85: America’s Dyatlov Pass? (The Boys from Yuba City)

The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five: A collection of True Crime, by Jessi Dixon

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Episode 84: Visions, Prophecies, Private Revelations

Heroic Virtue, Volume 3, by Pope Benedict XIV

Heroic Virtue, Volume 1, by Pope Benedict XIV

Heroic Virtue, Volume 2, by Pope Benedict XIV

The Three Ages of the Interior Life, by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

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Episode 83: The Case of the Missing Universe

The Day We Found the Universe, by Marcia Bartusiak

13 Things That Don't Make Sense, by Michael Brooks

The Hunt for Vulcan, by Thomas Levenson

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Episode 81: Caligula: The Mad Emperor

The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius	On the Embassy to Gaius, by Pluto of Alexandria	I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina	I, Claudius (TV series)

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Episode 80: Alien Implants

Casebook: Alien Implants, by Roger Leir

The Scientific Study of Alien Implants (streaming)

Patient Seventeen (streaming)

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Episode 79: Religion, Magic, Psychic, Science

Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present, by Michael D. Bailey

Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome, by Lindsay C Watson

Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century, by Etzel Cardena

An Introduction to Parapsychology, 5th ed., by Harvey J Irwin and Caroline A Watt

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Episode 77: Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

Was Jesus Married?, by Jimmy Akin

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Episode 75: The Mysteries of the Magi

Handbook of Biblical Chronology, by Jack Finegan	From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, by Andrew E. Steinmann	The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture, by Francesca Rochberg
The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi, by Michael R. Molnar

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Episode 74: The 1977 Colares UFO Incident

CONFRONTATIONS: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, by Jacques Vallee

Ufo Danger Zone: Terror & Death in Brazil, by Bob Pratt

Close Encounters, Episode 4: Fire in the Sky (streaming)

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Episode 73: Somerton Man

Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery, by Kerry Greenwood

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Episode 71: Frank Olson

A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, by H.P. Albarelli

The Men Who Stare at Goat, by Jon Ronson

Poisoner in Chief, by Stephen Kinzer

Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States

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Episode 69: Pope Joan?

The Myth of Pope Joan, by Alain Boureau

The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth, by Peter Stanford

The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England, by Craig Rustici

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Episode 68: Is the Earth Flat?

The Doctrine of the Shape of the Earth, by Nathan Roberts

Flat Earth Clues, by Mark Sargent

The Earth Is Not Flat, by Gordon Brooks

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Episode 67: Numbers Stations

Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff, by William Poundstone

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Episode 66: Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved, by Elgen M. Long	Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance, by Ric Gillespie	The Search for Amelia Earhart, by Fred Goerner
Age of Heroes, by Henri Keyzer-Andre	Amelia Earhart Lives: A Trip Through Intrigue to Find America's First Lady of Mystery, by Joe Klaas	Flight for Freedom (1943)
Unsolved Mysteries: Original Robert Stack Episodes (Season 3, Episode 8)

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Episodes 64 & 65: The Third Secret of Fatima

Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, by Sr. Lucia	Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, Vol 2., by Sr. Lucia	Documents on Fatima, by Martins & Fox
The Last Secret of Fatima: The Revelation of One of the Most Controversial Events in Catholic History, by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone	Calls from the Message of Fatima, by Sr. Lucia	Encountering Mary, by Sandra Zimdars-Swartz

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Episode 63: Haunted Dolls, Nazca Lines and More Patron Questions

From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology, by Andrew Steinmann

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, by John Lott

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Episodes 61 & 62: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Encounter

ENCOUNTERS AT INDIAN HEAD: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited, by Karl Pflock

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction, by Kathleen Marden and Stanton Friedman

The Interrupted Journey, by John G. Fuller

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Episode 60: La Salette Apparition

The Holy Mountain of La Salette, by Bishop William Ullathorne

Encountering Mary: Visions of Mary from La Salette to Medjugorje, by Sandra Zimdars Swartz

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Episode 59: Mind-Control Parasites

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society, by Kathleen McAuliffe

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Episode 58: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, by Loren Coleman

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria, by Scott Maruna

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Episode 56: The Knights Templar

The Modern Scholar: The Lost Warriors of God: The True History of the Knights Templar (audiobook), by Prof. Thomas Madden

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Episode 55: Aliens and Religion

Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: . . . and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-box at the Vatican Observatory, by Guy Consolmagno, S.J., and Paul Mueller, S.J.

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