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Jeb and Blake go in research of... MOON MADNESS! Does the full moon drive people mad? Will this episode drive your hosts mad? Was In Search Of... not able to afford a fact-checker in season five? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

This is our Halloween Episode for season five.

This is our TIME TRAVEL episode for season five.

This is... MOON MADNESS.

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Extended show notes freely available on our Patreon Site.

⚠️ Heads up: this episode opens with combat footage from the Tet Offensive and includes graphic descriptions of battlefield injury, a child in medical crisis, and animal experimentation. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text at 988.⚠️

Jeb and Blake look at the birth of NDE research: a field of study with a significant footprint in the metro-Atlanta area.
Rats are bothered. Soldiers are wounded. Canadian teens are frozen.
...and we're here to talk about all of it.

Despite the title, this one isn't really about proving there's an afterlife - and that turns out to be the most interesting thing about it. In Search Of takes the near-death experience and, instead of building a case for Heaven, spends most of its runtime on a much stranger question: when, exactly, is a person dead?

We get four threads. A grievously wounded Vietnam veteran who watched his own body being worked on and then went back to the battlefield to talk with the men he'd already put in bags. An Emory physiologist chilling rats into a state he calls clinically-but-not-biologically dead. A Manitoba teenager whose heart was stopped for well over two hours in a snowbank and who came back with nothing to report but darkness. And a woman recalling a 1952 polio vision full of white light, a dead grandmother, and a complete moral audit of her own life.

Between those, the medical talking heads keep circling the same admission: nobody agrees where the line is. It's a surprisingly restrained ISO episode ... and there's a very large name conspicuously missing from it.

(NFA fashion consultant, Pedro Mendes)

Tommy Clack — Army captain, artillery forward observer with the 25th Infantry Division "Wolfhounds." Wounded 29 May 1969 near the Cambodian border, losing three limbs; 22 months at the Atlanta VA and 33 operations followed. He finished college as an honors graduate, spent a long career at the VA, and became one of the country's more relentless veterans' advocates. He talks about the out-of-body experience, but - as Jeb found - he almost never leads with it. As of our recording he's still out there supporting veterans.

Dr. Michael Sabom — Atlanta cardiologist. He's here to say that medicine can't pin down the moment of death. Two years later he publishes Recollections of Death, built on 116 interviews which form the closest thing the field had to a quantitative baseline. His later work takes a considerably more explicitly Christian turn.

Dr. Vojin "Voja" Popović — Yugoslav-born physiologist at Emory, and the episode's designated rat botherer. Central casting could not have done better. He chills rats into apparent death and brings them back, drawing his line between clinical and biological death at the two-to-three hour mark. His actual career is a wonder: hibernators, ground squirrels, tumor-bearing hamsters, cooled dogs, hamsters submerged in oxygen-rich fluorocarbon, and a rat experiment slated for a Spacelab flight that never happened. Frequently co-credited with his wife, Dr. Pava Popović.

Ted Milligan — Sixteen, and a student at St. John's Cathedral Boys' School near Selkirk, Manitoba, whose curriculum included a 27-mile snowshoe hike in temperatures around forty below. Found with no heartbeat, no breathing, and a core temperature below 25°C. By the time of filming he's a private in the Canadian Armed Forces. His account of the experience is the shortest in the episode and, for a materialist, the most instructive: darkness, then waking up.

Dr. Gerald "Gerry" Bristow — The episode calls him "James." He's not. Later Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a genuine world authority on hypothermia; he and Dr. Robert Smith declined to do the sensible thing and kept working on a boy every indicator said was gone. An eyewitness account from anesthesiologist Dr. Arnold Tweed fills in what the episode leaves out, including the documented duration of the cardiac arrest.

Dr. Fred Schoonmaker (d. 2005) — Denver cardiologist at St. Luke's, former fighter pilot, developer of a less invasive cardiac catheter, and a driving force behind Denver air ambulance service. He marks the difference between patients who know their visions weren't real and patients who insist theirs were.

Dr. Janette Rainwater — Introduced as "Janet." A significant figure in Gestalt therapy, Berkeley PhD (1964), author of You're in Charge!, and the veteran of several hundred workshops. Her polio experience is the most classic NDE in the episode - light, deceased relative, life review, a very symbolic climb. Jeb's research turns up a detail the reenactment gets badly wrong, and it changes how you hear the whole segment.

Rev. Loren Young (d. 2003) — Methodist minister and theologian out of Oak Hill, West Virginia; Duke, then a Bachelor of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory; Southeastern Director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He arrives at the very end to say something warm about a merciful God right before the episode itself goes into the light.

Dr. Raymond Moody — Not in this episode. Which is a puzzle. Moody was born in Porterdale, Georgia, earned his PhD at West Georgia College and his MD at the Medical College of Georgia in 1976, and in 1975 published Life After Life - the book that coined "near-death experience," sold in the millions, and made this a subject television wanted to cover at all. The episode borrows his title, his framework, and arguably his entire premise, films almost the whole thing in and around Atlanta, yet never mentions him.

A partial list of what we get into, without spoiling the good parts:

🌡️ Why 98.6°F was never a real number, and what a 2020 Stanford study says it is now
🎞️ Jeb's video forensics on some footage that looked very familiar, and why "we already did this episode" keeps coming up
⛪ The Company of the Cross, muscular Christianity, Ted Byfield, and a school whose controversial history we found a bit jaw-dropping.
🐹 Fluorocarbon breathing, hamsters, and learning James Cameron didn't make that up for The Abyss
✍️ What happens to a story when a documentary gets someone's name — and age — wrong, and where that sits on the line between sloppy and deceptive
🍑 Blake's hypothesis for why Atlanta briefly became the center of American NDE research, and what it has to do with trauma centers, cardiac units, blue laws, and a media hub
📊 The selection problem sitting underneath all of this: we only ever hear from the people who came back
🧭 Where each of us actually stands on this, perhaps not quite where you'd guess

Skipped this week - Blake is pretty sure this is the last week we are missing the segment. He's found the recordings and I think we have it sorted out from here.

We go in research of… Moon Madness.

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• Raymond Moody — Life After Life (1975)
The book this episode is named after, by the man this episode never mentions. Coined the term "near-death experience" and set the template every account since has been measured against.

• Michael B. Sabom — Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation (1982)
Sabom's 116 interviews, published two years after he appears here. The attempt to put actual numbers on the phenomenon.

• Michael Sabom — Light & Death (1998)
The same researcher, eighteen years later, with the Atlanta Study and a much more openly Christian frame. Useful as a before-and-after.

• Vojin Popović & Pava Popović — Hypothermia in Biology and in Medicine (1974)
Our rat botherer's standard reference, and still cited in the modern therapeutic hypothermia literature. Expensive and hard to find, but it exists.

• Janette Rainwater — You're in Charge! A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist (1979)
Published the year before this episode aired. Reading it alongside her segment is the whole point.

• James Raffan — Deep Waters: Courage, Character and the Lake Timiskaming Canoeing Tragedy
The definitive account of what happened to the St. John's school system's outdoor program in 1978. Context for Ted Milligan's segment that the episode does not give you.

• Susan Blackmore — Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences (1993)
The materialist case, made carefully and without contempt. Anoxia, endorphins, temporal lobe activity, and the dying-brain model.

• Bruce Greyson — After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond (2021)
Four decades of research from the field's most careful living investigator. The best single answer to "what does this look like now?"

Note: This episode briefly touches on the topic of suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

Blake and Jeb crash headlong into S05E04 of In Search Of... on the topic of Daredevil Death Wish.

This In Search Of episode asks a surprisingly straightforward question for this show: what drives daredevils to risk their lives? Rather than chasing aliens or cryptids, the episode plays it remarkably straight - functioning more as a documentary about stunt performers than the paranormal-adjacent fare we've come to expect. After a montage of vintage stock footage the episode profiles several working daredevils: Pat Jackson, a 42-year-old housewife who rides motorcycles through flaming boards; Roger Kober, a 22-year-old whose "slide for life" goes wrong on camera; Hank Wise and his "Iron Man" act (letting a truck drive over his body); and Chuck Strange, a demolition derby natural turned pickup-truck pilot whose Astrodome crash nearly killed him. The episode's most substantive segment features Kim Kahana's stunt school in California, where the veteran stuntman trains young performers in the difference between a daredevil ("a guy who just says, let's do it") and a professional who uses illusion and safety. Psychologist Dr. Samuel Z. Klausner provides the academic frame, describing stress-seeking as almost addictive - the euphoria of overcoming fear becomes a need that grows stronger with each attempt.

Notably, the episode is produced by the same team behind That's Incredible!, yet takes a far more restrained, documentarian approach than that show's sensationalist style. The result is one of the most credible episodes of In Search Of we've encountered - and, consequently, one of the least weird.

**EXTENSIVE NOTES AT PATREON**

Jeb and Blake tackle In Search Of...'s S05E03 topic of Lee Harvey Oswald.

This In Search Of episode examines the assassination of President John F. Kennedy through the lens of (at the time this aired) newly discovered acoustic evidence and Cold War intrigue. Rather than accepting the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the episode presents "new evidence" suggesting a conspiracy involving multiple gunmen, potential Soviet involvement, and even the extraordinary theory that the man killed by Jack Ruby may not have been the real Lee Harvey Oswald. The episode relies heavily on acoustic analysis of the Dallas police motorcycle tape (1978), testimony from KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, handwriting analysis of Oswald's Soviet diary, and the fringe theory of British investigator Michael Eddowes that a Soviet lookalike carried out the assassination.

Notably, this episode aired just three weeks before the election of Ronald Reagan, and sits chronologically between two major investigations: Dr. James Barger's acoustic analysis work (1978) and the National Academy of Sciences' debunking of that analysis (1982).

EXTENSIVE Show Notes at our Patreon site - free for reading.

Blake and Jeb discuss ISO's coverage of FAITH HEALING. The episode goes to places new and old. Jeb gives us historical context. Blake gets angry. Nimoy wears a lab coat.

EXTENSIVE Show Notes on our free Patreon page

Weirdumentary has a forward by Stephen Bissette who wrote a book also likely to be of interest to listeners: Cryptid Cinema (affiliate link)
(A follow-up to that book is under construction and will include research by your's truly about the "4-walling" tour of the PGF.)

I linked to Feral House's page for Weirdumentary above at the request of Gary. If you're curious about their catalog, we talked with their owner recently about monstrous food and they also produced Al Ridenour's new book about Carnival.

This is not a complete list of the films in the book - and it also covers a few TV series including In Search Of... and Arthur C. Clarke's _____ (he had three ITV series covering topics similar to ISO with each season getting a slightly different name).

1970: Chariots of the Gods, The Unexplained

1971: The Hellstrom Chronicles, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

1972: Bigfoot Man or Beast, Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?, The Devil's Triangle, The Legend of Boggy Creek

1973: In Search of Ancient Astronauts

1974: Deadly Fathoms, In Search of Ancient Mysteries, In Search of Dracula, UFOs: Past, Present and Future

1975: Mysteries from Beyond Earth, The Force Beyond, The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond, The Man of Miracles, The Outer Space Connection

1976: Beyond Belief, In Search of Noah's Ark, Mysteries of the Gods, The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena, The Legend of Bigfoot, The Legend of Loch Ness, The Miracle Healers, The Mysterious Monsters, World Beyond Death

1977: Aliens from Spaceship Earth, Journey into the Beyond, Mysteries of the Great Pyramid, The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Underground Doctors, The Unknown Force

1978: Are We Alone in the Universe?, Beyond and Back, Curse of the Mayan Temple, Manbeast! Myth or Monster?, Mysteries from Beyond the Triangle, Mysteries of the Mind, Mystery of the Sacred Shroud, Secret of the Bermuda Triangle, The Amazing World of Ghosts, The Late Great Planet Earth, The Lost City of Atlantis, The UFO Journals, UFO - Exclusive! , UFO: Top Secret, Unknown Powers, World of the Unknown

1979: Attack from Outer Space, Charles Berlitz's The Bermuda Triangle, Death: The Ultimate Mystery, Encounter with Disaster, Hypnosis and Beyond, In Search of the Historic Jesus, The Doomsday Chronicles, The Prophecies of Nostradamus, UFOs Are Real, World of Mystery

1980: Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (TV), Land of Celtic Ghosts, Mysteries of the Mind, UFO Syndrome

1981: Search for the Titanic

Jeb and Blake kick off Season 5 of In Search Of... by researching UFO COVERUPS!

Links: 

UFO Crash at Roswell

Catalina UFO Footage and Reddit discussion of same

Twilight Zone - A Small Talent for War

Malmstrom UFO Incident

Obit for Col. Donald Burggrabe

Peter Gersten "the UFO Lawyer"

Raymond Fowler

Col. Robert Friend - and obit

Jesse Marcel Sr.

NASA Lifting Body

Northrop Flying Wing

Doak VZ-4 (not a saucer!)

Avrocar

Jupiter II (Lost in Space)

Nimoy Fashion Alert!

UFO Crash Sites in New Mexico:

There is a lot of Top Secret in this episode:

Col Donald Burggrabe

Raymond Fowler

Peter Gersten

Donald Ritter

Jesse Marcel Sr.

Col Robert Friend

And was the model UFO in this episode a guest star from Lost In Space?

Blake and Jeb go In Research Of PAST LIVES with Leonard Nimoy.

Subjects include reincarnation claims, past-life regression therapy, and some truly baffling Nimoy wardrobe choices.

Link to YouTube Episode (while it lasts)



Topics we cover include:

• Nimoy wandering a Los Angeles graveyard in a strange quasi-military sport coat, and Blake's detective work tying the filming location to Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights.

• The famous Pollock twins case from Hexham, England, where two girls were said to be the reincarnations of their deceased sisters — and how later research complicates the story.

• Dr. Lucia Capacchione's art-therapy / inner-child work and how the show uses regression narratives to explain modern psychological problems.

• Playwright A.J. Stewart (Ada F. Kay), who became convinced she was James IV of Scotland and wrote Falcon: The Autobiography of His Grace James IV King of Scots as if from the king's own perspective.

• Whether past-life regression therapy produces evidence of reincarnation or just vivid, therapist-shaped fantasy, and why skeptics are so wary of hypnosis-based "memories."

   

  NFA (Nimoy Fashion Alert):

  Cemetery Detective Work:

  Using the 2nd NFA shot, I was able to decipher the tex on the dark tombstone. It is a lot darker in real life with a modern shot.

  That "Find a Grave" entry includes the exact location where Nimoy was standing for this episode's cemetery shot.

  Jeb asked for an animated gif of the woman in the castle with secret doors:

  The cover of Robert and Loy Young's book about reincarnation:

  The twins at the heart of the British (Hexham!) reincarnation story:

  And I can't help but scream - DON'T GO NEAR THE EDGE!!! This episode is such a cliffhanger.

  
  Deeper reading & sources mentioned:
  Pollock twins case write-up at the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
  
  Psi Encyclopedia on famous past-life claims (including A.J. Stewart / Ada F. Kay):
  
  Ada F. Kay / A.J. Stewart biography (reincarnation claim & Falcon background)
  
  Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles) – history and the Japanese "Garden of the Pines" section
  
  Lucia Capacchione and inner-child / expressive-arts therapy
  
  Skeptical overview of past-life regression therapy (Harriet Hall, Science-Based Medicine):
  
  General background on past-life regression and why psychologists consider it pseudoscientific

Jeb and Blake ponder Atlantis and "healing holes" in the waters off the coast of Bimini. (Weirdly this is almost literally true as Blake ended up actually in Bimini just a week before this ep released. More on that soon.)

Links for Shownotes:

Roby Yonge on "The Beatles Paul is Dead"

Neptune Memorial Reef

"Psychic" Irene Hughes

Bimini Wall

Edgar Cayce

Beachrock

The Healing Hole

More on the crystal ball from 2010 (Cayce related)

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Other interesting images from the episode:

Hemingway's Healing Hole:

Robey Yong and Irene Hughes re-enact their experiences.

Doc Raymond Brown and his crystal ball

Marcel Vogel and some crystals - he was also in S01E01 on talking plants.

Flashback to January 2018:
In this episode of MonsterTalk, we return to discussion of the Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis (UTH) and what seems to be its growing influence in paranormal circles. It's been used to explain UFOs, mothman, bigfoot, fairies, dogman, ghosts and many other phenomena which defy scientific demonstrability. Now it crops up again in a new film event titled Alien Intrusion which turned out to be a stealth evangelical creationist film which suggests that aliens and UFOs are actually demonic. We are joined by MonsterTalk alum Joe Laycock, Natasha Mikles and Jeb Card to discuss the UTH and Jeb's Paranormal Unified Field Theory (PUFT) as it relates to this film and the work of John Keel and others.

In Research Of…

MonsterTalk

Joe Laycock

Natasha Mikles

Jeb Card

Music

Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys

This is part 2 of our 2-part coverage of The Mothman Prophecies movie. If you haven't listened to Part-1, please turn over the record and start again.

Additional show notes available (for free) on our Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/s4-bonus-mothman-129987183 

This is part 1 of our 2-part coverage of The Mothman Prophecies movie. This is in lieu of S04E21 (see below) but we hope you enjoy the content and after part 2, we return to our regularly scheduled episodes list.

"So... Air Disasters Predictions, Jeb? What do you think we'll get?"

Well it turned out to be more than we expected. During our research for this episode we ran into a bit of a puzzle. It turns out that one of the key figures in the episode is still alive and has become an important figure in the world of conspiracy and out of an abundance of caution for our own sanity (as regards potential litigiousness) we've decided to shelve this one for a while. Will we come back and fill in the gap when we think the coast is clear? I don't know - but we didn't want to leave a hole in your listening so we decided to do something... more ambitious. So what we did instead was we recorded a 4+ hour deep dive into the 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies.

Extensive show notes available (for free) at our Patreon page.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/s4-bonus-mothman-126932315

Jeb and Blake go in search of John the Baptist's resting place.

Content Warning: Human remains on screen. Discussion of murder.

Beheading John the Baptist (wiki)

Salome (play)

In 2018 the murder of Bishop Epiphanius took place and rocked the religious community -- not important for this episode but it popped up a lot in my searching.

San Silvestro "head" shown in intro

Same - but wiki article

Nimoy Fashion Alert 
(NFA Wardrobe consulting by The Hogtown Rake, Pedro Mendes)

The "head" of John the Baptist at San Silvestro:

Art historian Michael Patroconni (Petroccione?)

I think Jeb and I found this to be the most fun part of the episode:

Gerald Larue obituary

Herod Antipas (the Herod that executed JTB)

Wadi El Natrun

The Cave of John the Baptist

Blake tries to talk Jeb off the ledge as we return to the classic theme of "ancient astronauts" in this throwback episode titled: Earth Visitors.

Some links relevant to our discussion:

Dejah Thoris (character)

MUFON/Harzan scandal

Roman Dodecahedrons (archaeology)

Frank Frazetta

Boris Vallejo

We mention Zecharia Sitchin.

Research suggests humans grow more neurons than did Neanderthals.

A bunch of this episode comes from the work of Maurice Chatelain, who we shall refer to as "Shadowlane." His book Our Cosmic Ancestors sports one of the more interesting book covers we've seen while researching this show.

He also wrote Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space.

Maurice Chatelain's credentials appear to have been somewhat overstated in the episode.

We'll be talking about several "Out of Place Artifacts" or OOPAs in this episode. Let's start with the "Boot Print" aka The Meister Print. (pictured below) See also this article by Glenn Kuban.

Very compelling stuff. I guess. I mean it sort of looks like show print.

This interesting looking skull also sent us down some research holes.

The text of the episode seems to be talking about the Del Mar Skull but the image doesn't look like a close match.

A lot of "shapes on the earth" are discussed. The shapes require you to do a lot of work. We'll get into that in the episode. But one is the Maltese Cross that is absolutely stunning, so long as you ignore that some of the points are hundreds of miles from the alleged anchor points and that the temples allegedly at each point were centuries apart. Skeptical response via CSICOP.

Also - this is supposed to be a "pyramid" but seems to be more of what geometry wonks call a "triangle."

I'm trying to find the type of terminal behind our statistician. And - behind the scenes I've managed to contact him and he assures me that the episode required many takes and that his students reported they made him sound like he believes in the whole ancient astronauts thing... More on this if I hear back from a rather lengthy email I sent him today (12/13/24).

Read even more about the Monte Carlo Method!

Vintage ad for the The Outer Space Connection.

According to Scientific American, the idea that indigenous Americans were here for a very long time (from across the Bering sea) really kicked off in the 1930s.

Read more about The Elephant Slab hoax.

This montage of Kachina dolls really impressed Blake:

Nimoy Fashion Alert!

Native Jewelry Artist Preston Monongye

Engineer Charles Ruggles

Could he be LARPing J. Allen Hynek?

Finally we get to the Cosa Artifact.

And - of course, The Jupiter Menace (1982)

Jeb and Blake head out to sea in research of the mystery of what happened to the crew of The Mary Celeste. 

The Dei Gratia

Nimoy Fashion Alert 
(NFA Wardrobe consulting by The Hogtown Rake, Pedro Mendes)

 Attorney Fred Flood

In 1913, The Strand Magazine provided an alleged survivor's account from one Abel Fosdyk, supposedly Mary Celeste's steward.

The Mary Celeste (1913 article)

Per "WhatTheFont" website identifier, that font is (appropriately):  JOLLY ROGER! 

Meanwhile on Skull Hut Island...

Pop Culture:

Dead Calm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Mary_Celeste

Read it, it's a time. Hammer film -Jeb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Doctor_Who)

Jeb and Blake go into the jungles of California and France in search of WILD CHILDREN! 

This episode of ISO contains a lot of disturbing content and our commentary is laced with expletives, hence the Explicit tag.

• Tarzan is raised by a fictional ape species known as The Mangani

• The story of Mowgli is LOOOOSELY based on the real-life person Dina Sanichar.

• Frequently referenced ERB Zine article

• Ian Jackson obituary

• News coverage of David as adult (BBC)

• 2021 update on David

• 1985 story about search for "wild children" (and Sham Dev/Shamdeo)

• Christopher Hitchens on Mother Theresa

• Japanese quadrupedal runner

• The Green Children of Woolpit

• Victor of Aveyron

• Disturbing story of Genie - more neglected than feral

NFA - Wild Children:

 It's supposed to be a Bear but it has some other possumbilities.

How could Vincent have been a creative genius - yet also "insane?"
Jeb and Blake take a look at Nimoy's very personal thoughts about this question.

This episode deals with the topic of self-harm and suicide. If you're struggling with thoughts of self harm, please get help immediately.  You can reach trained and empathetic counselors (in the USA) by dialing 988 or 1-800-273-TALK. 

We care about our listeners and want you to be around for many years to enjoy life - and our work.

Links for Show Notes:

Nimoy's play VINCENT via Archive

81 Words - This American Life on the DSM 

The Book of Kells

Bullshit or Not? Was JTR really Nessie?

Article on Jo Bonger

The Golden Gate Quartet

Weird Al's Skipper Dan (YouTube)

Doctor Who clip of Vincent at the art gallery

Early montage sequence shows:

• Self Portrait (1888)

• Starry Night (1889)

• Vase with 15 Sunflowers (1888)

• Bedroom at Arles (1888)

• Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles (1888)

• Encampment of gypsies with caravans (1888)

• Langlois Bridge at Arles (1888)

• Fishing boats on the beach at Saintes Maries 

• Wheat FIeld with Cypresses (1880) 

You can find all these and more at the online Van Gogh museum. 

Meanwhile...
Could Manos be loosely based on Paul and Vincent?

Jeb and Blake learn all about the riveting world of stock certificates and inheritance law! It may not be the most mysterious episode of In Search Of... but it's certainly one of the episodes we watched.

Show Notes:

Orson Welles Critic Clip
Lot 249
Texas Pacific Land trust 1980 article
The big 2014 Business Insider article


Pembroke:
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2008/02/pembroke.html
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2011/10/pembroke.html
http://www.oldlongisland.com/2009/07/pembroke-american-architect.html

Pembroke tour (video)

Alice de Lamar

Failed lawsuit

Contemporary article about the case

Nimoy Fashion Alert (red-shift corrected)

The case of the missing hair!

Jeb was confounded by this man's barberian style choices.

Jeb and Blake are joined by Sharon Hill to get shook by the San Andreas Fault!

Understanding the Richter Scale (logarithmic)

Link (Netflix) to Earthstorm docu series

YT video clip featuring geologist Dr. Kerry Sieh

Classic Budweiser commercial from the 70s

The Salton Sea

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power

Nuclear activist Ray Vrana

Peter Gros of Wild Kingdom

San Andreas movie with The Rock (Amz affiliate link)

Cover to guide for SF geological tour:

Dr. Tim Hall - One of the founders of the San Andreas Fault Trail in 1977. Featured in 2011 documentary available on YT.

Dr. Kerry Sieh

The very sexy VT52 from DEC.

NFA San Andreas edition: 

In order to understand In Search Of… The Dark Star, Jeb and Blake will first need to get Sirius; Sirius-B, that is!

Links from this episode:

Siris (A part of the Canis Major constellation) 

Jeb discussed a couple of evocative artworks:
 Appeal to the Great Spirit (Dallin)

End of the Trail (Fraser) 

North African musket (Moukahla)

Colonial Williamsburg

Hoop Rolling

Jacquard Loom

Punched Cards technology

The Hans Guggenheim art project

Isaac Koi UFO archives

The Tribal Eye BBC documentary series (YouTube)

Regarding Temple, Puhairich, Young, and The Nine

The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple

Editorial letter about Temple from The Observatory

Dogon Shame by Phillip Coppens

Griaule's Legacy: Rethinking "la parole claire" in Dogon Studies

Pop Culture References (affiliate links):

Conjure Wife - aka Burn Witch Burn

Bewitched

Bell, Book and Candle

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Images:

The "orbit" of the Dogon dark star.

Nimoy posing with a tribal mask - our initial NFA image.

Later we get to see his legs in this seated NFA supplementary:

Hans Guggenheim initially appears in just a vest and pants.

Later, he too is in more of a Safari look, and has a professorial pipe as well.

Dr Gary Chapman, Astronomer

The man who first photographed Sirius B - Dr Lindenblad

A little of the FORTRAN code that powers the orbit animation in the episode:

We don't have enough information to know who made Nimoy's safari clothing, but if you want to try and track down a very close approximation, this example from J. Peterman's (est 1987) is as close a match as I've seen. You would still need to find it in a vintage shop because at present they don't sell these.

Blake and Jeb look for the real location of Mt. Sinai, where Moses was supposed to have received the Ten Commandments from God.

Jeb and Blake extinguish our cigarettes, put our trays in the upright position, and head out the back of the plane in search of the elusive skyjacker known as D. B. Cooper.

Nimoy Fashion Alert - dimly lit corporate office edition.

D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (Movie) - if you buy it on Amazon we get a few pennies.

Recent Netflix series on D. B. Cooper

Blake's friend Rick Ollerman offered some opinions on vintage round parachutes.

Later we meet Nimoy outside where you can make out more of his ensemble.

Of course this is an episode about D. B. Cooper - who for Jeb and I, evokes the classic "MIB" look.

This ain't deal-a-meal. This is a different Richard Simmons.

There is some great photography in this episode. I liked seeing the reservoir and dam. Imagine landing there on a stormy November night without jump boots...
 

Finally - kudos to the faceless Cooper stand-in who lugged stuff around in the anonymous re-creations. 

Jeb and Blake join Leonard Nimoy's search for Pompeii!  (Well - is it really about finding Pompeii?  Or is it about finding a possibly Christian cross in Pompeii?  Tune in and find out!)

Links: 

• Depictions of the crucifixion in Medieval Art

• People debating the cross at Pompeii

• Christian graffiti at Pompeii

• House of the Faun - Pompeii

• About that "lost Legion" thing

• Discovery and rediscovery of Pompeii

• Giuseppe Fiorelli 

• Terentius Neo

• Lupinar

• Villa of Mysteries

• Dinosyian Mysteries

• Greco-Roman Mysteries

• Thyrsus

Nimoy Fashion Alert!

Hey - it's NOT a Jumpsuit.

We complain but there really is WAY too much red-shift in the majority of this episode:

You need pumice? WE GOT BUCKETS OF PUMICE!

Jeb and Blake track the last cryptozoology episode of the original In Search Of… as we join the late Peter C. Byrne in a search for "The Abominable Snowman."

Imagining the Wild Man: Yeti Sightings in Folktales and Newspapers of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills

More on Tom Slick - MonsterTalk

Monty Python "abattoir" sketch

Searching for Sasquatch (affiliate link)

Article about Byrne still "hunting" in his 90s.

The Eternal Return

Bigfoot Map

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (YouTube)

Horror in the Heights - Kolchak Episode with Rakshasha

NFA - "Proof of Life" 

Crevasse photo we mention from the episode.

Jeb is right at home as we go In Search Of... Mexican Pyramids!

Links from research

Sacrifice City

Great Pyramid of Cholula

Templo Mayor

Ruz' Palenque Dissertation

The Christmas Robbery of the Century

Secrets of the Maya Temple (1958)

Museo (2018) movie about the robbery - affiliate link

Mystery of the Meridas Ciudad Maya nightclub

Music/Art film tied to the nightclub site

Operation PBSuccess - CIA and Guatemala 

Mystery film we think MAY have sourced part of this episode.

Director Jean Chartier 

Pyramid Comparison visual tool (wikipedia)

Nimoy Fashion Alert!  Jungle Cotton Blend edition:

There are actually subtle stripes on that shirt!

This episode has some amazing models - so cool:

And - of course - it wouldn't be ISO without some reenactments...

Dr. Joe Nickell recalls his experiences working on the Season 4 episode of In Search Of… dealing with The Shroud of Turin.

note: This interview will be cross-posted to MonsterTalk. The interview contents will be identical, but the framing intro/outro will be unique to the respective shows. 

In Research Of… (Patreon)

In Research Of (free feed)

In Search Of… The Shroud of Turin (YouTube)

Joe Nickell covered by The Daily Mail

That's Incredible! segment on THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. (YouTube)

Joe Nickell's website

Joe's Amazon Author's Page (affiliate link)

Jeb and Blake unwrap the mystery of the shroud of Turin! (Which might, it turns out, be neither a shroud, nor from Turin - talk amongst yourselves!)

Link to ISO on YouTube: While it lasts!

The bucket brigade saves the shroud in re-creation...

NFA - A return to "the Night Gallery?"

Young Joe Nickell at work in Alan Landsburg's NYC apartment:

The Rev. Francis Filas (1931 - 1985 - NYT OBIT)

Prescriptive Linguistics

Descriptive Linguistics

Overview of use of Christ in Medieval Art

Secondo Pia, photographer who discovered the "negative effect" on Shroud.
(also, dead ringer for Seth Myers)

Just saying...

Modern research suggests "blood on shroud" was applied artistically, not organically.

More on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 

Dr. Harry Gove (Obit)

The Shroud of Turin Research Project 

Recent book that confirms Nickell's findings 

The ISO team take us back to Colonial Virginia to investigate the cold-case of the lost colony of Roanoke. Jeb and Blake learn about armadas, plays, and rock diaries.

Beach Action Nimoy Fashion Alert!

The Money Shot...

Blake thinks the ISO actor is giving off Keenan Wynn vibes.

And we've already discussed the ties between Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy, Night Gallery, and more, so the visual similarities to this scene and Planet of the Apes might not be 100% coincidence.

The famous "Dare Stones" preserved with all the decor and pomp appropriate their historical significance:

Links for this episode:

History Channel's reboot of ISO covered this.

Antiquarianism

Play Sid Meiers Colonization 

Book by David Stick on topic

Park Ranger Phil Evans  

The full text of the Dare Stones 

We're going to need a bigger boat!  Jeb and Blake head to Australia to investigate the idea that Great White sharks are immortal!

Links:
1977 San Diego article about Sea World's shark exhibit

Article about weird things allegedly found inside sharks.

Henri Bource - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bource

Groo the Wanderer

NFA - on the beach!

Sharks are famous for their teeth - and Nimoy's have improved since season one as well.

Nimoy just walking on the beach manages to attract a diver's audience.

Diving pioneer and explorer, Hugh Edwards.

Ray Keys at Sea World has lots of great shark information.

And don't forget researcher Dr. William Gladstone! (You can find him on twitter at @DrBillGladstone)

Jeb and Blake have a look at the Season 4 episode UFO AUSTRALIA which covers the Kaikoura UFO Sighting and the disappearance of Frederich Valentich. 

• Retrospective of the Kaikoura UFO sighting
• Better version of the video than what is in the episode
• Westall UFO case (Blake mentioned - but is not in ep)
• Skeptical Inquirer (McGaha & Nickell)
• Transcript of the Valentich air traffic discussion
• Psychic Hippie Lawyer article

Nimoy Fashion Alert shot on location at the San Fernando Aerospace Solar Observatory. 

Jeb, Blake and Alex French go in research of The Amityville Horror!

Typewriters 101 site

History vs Hollywood: Amityville

History of the House

The Warren Omission

The Calamityville Horror

The Dictionnaire Infernal

Nimoy gives us the calm and rational look in the midst of so much weirdness!

So many faceless re-enactors in this one!

Horror writer Jay Anson and his trusty typewriter!

And this episode is quite notable for giving us a look at Father Mancuso from the book. Aka Father Ralph Pecoraro. Aka Father Delaney.  Aka "Jimmy the Shadow" .

The Lutz couple at the table.

The two versions of Jodie the Pig:

And we gotta include the super creepy ISO doll.  Kudos to the prop dept. 

Jeb and Blake look back at the ISO team's coverage of the global manhunt for the terrorist known as "Carlos."

This episode gets an Explicit tag because of language.

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Dr. Frederick Hacker (Obit) 

Carlos - aka The Jackal  (Wiki)

Raid on Entebbe (Wiki)

Carnaby Street, England (Wiki)

Friendship University, Russia (Wiki)

News story about how Carlos got his name

Nydia Toban (Obit) 

Carlos's Lawyer/"wife" 

Additional background material on this episode is available for Patrons.
Jeb and Blake wade into the first episode of season 4 of In Search Of... to learn a thing or two about tsunamis. (Yes, the producers actually said that they called it "tidal waves" because if they'd used "tsunami" Americans wouldn't have bothered to find out what it was about.  I remember being taught the "new" term during my basic education. -B)

Lots of good footage, interviews, reenactments, and science in this one!  

Nimoy Fashion - Henley Shirt (we assume he's wearing pants below the cut?)

To me, it looked like an AARP-style drug ad.

The J.K.K. Look Laboratory (in honor of Mr. James K. K. Look - who's death in pursuit of scientific data is honored in the naming)
There is shockingly little about Mr. Look on the net and he certainly seems like he deserves at least a Wikipedia page.  

Hokusai's famous "wave" - and yes, he really did pioneer "tentacle porn," but I'm not linking to it - nor judging. 

This is only a simulation. If this had been an actual podcast, this guy would have tried to sell you some Bombas Socks or a subscription to Wondrium.

NOAA monitoring lab

Ed Bernard 

Steven Froehlich

Blake and Jeb discuss their thoughts on the third season of In Search Of...

Things get... weird.

Jeb and Blake head out into the valley of the kings to learn more about King Tut. 

History of the Valley of the Kings 

Pyramid Secrets (IRO S02E09) 

Significance of pyramids (Benben) 

The Colossi of Memnon (the singing statue) 

Nimoy Fashion - in the desert 

Demotic writing 

Example of Cartouche:

James Lew - martial artist & actor 

The complex history of the Noah's Ark Hoax (article by Jim Lippard)
(featuring Gerald Larue)<-different link

Same story covered by LA Times 

Contemporary article about mummy curse - but we've covered this before.

Jeb points out that the actor playing the priest Ay favors deceased paranormal investigator Ed Warren.

Moses, Monotheism & Egypt 

James Brashler of Claremont College 

We're joined by Dr. Nathan French to discuss the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ISO team's efforts to examine archaeological evidence supporting its actual historical existence.

Nimoy Fashion:

Dr. Avrahamm Biran (1909 - 2008)

The concept of Biblical Maximalism 

The big dig at Ebla where the library of clay tablets was found.

In 1976 Giovanni Pettinato claimed tablets found at the dig contained the names of five cities of the plain including Sodom and Gomorrah.  Modern scholarly consensus is that this was incorrect.

I think this is archaeologist Paulo Matti (Pettinato's fellow researcher on the dig) alongside an unnamed female researcher.

As promised, the animated gif of the sinners in our "re-creations" of ancient Sodom.

Discussion of Baal in the episode doesn't hint that this Biblical "villain god" may actually represent an entire class of deities. 

About 17 mins into the episode there's a guy who runs a hot spring and his moustache reminded Jeb of a certain someone...

Doctor Bruce Bolt sitting in front of some truly fabulous old equipment. 

Finally - one more thing - the link to the Atari E.T. fiasco documentary. 

We are joined again by Alex French to discuss "Brain Power."  No kids were harmed, but some hosts were shaken. The ISO episode contains outdated wording about cognitive states that are now considered offensive.  Our podcast episode steers clear of that but we wanted you to be aware if you decided to watch the original episode. 

Nimoy Fashion:

Discussed in this episode:

The Raimondi Stele (Jeb discusses flipping it to see different interpretation)

Discussion of Haeckle's Embryos (Amazon Affiliate Link)
Article on controversy (New Scientist)

The 1997 article that brought Haeckel back into fresh scrutiny

Biorhythms (pseudoscience popular in late 70s/early 80s)

Alleged Russian "psychic" Nina Kulagina 

Robert Doman (brother of founder Glenn Doman)

Orville Redenbacher called and wants his look back...

Louise Emerson of The Morgan Autism Institute

Art teacher Betty Edwards 

Thelma Moss 

What is Kirlian Photography? 

Jeb and Blake drag Alex French back into the studio to endure a "ghostly stakeout" with the sultry voiced Sylvia Browne.

Haunted Lives (Tobe Hooper, Nimoy, Sylvia Browne)

The Dead Files - S01E09 Scandal in the South (episode set in Blake's hometown of Cartersville, GA)

1972 Akai Video Camera

Sylvia Browne - self-proclaimed psychic - and she started a church!

Site of first "haunting" in renovated farmhouse (which burned in the 1980s)

Near the village of Jenner

Antoinette May, freelance journalist, who worked the episode cases and co-wrote with Browne

Adventures of a Psychic: The Fascinating and Inspiring True Life Story of One of America's Most Successful Clairvoyants

Nick Nocerino

A look at the Hope Diamond and other allegedly cursed gems from recent history. 

DeBeers slogan (1947) predates Bond book (1956) and is different:
A Diamond Is Forever | Diamonds Are Forever

The Gift - anthro book about reciprocity
Superman and the giant spider story - Kevin Smith

Osiander's preface to Copernicus

Robert Conrad (the actor) famous battery ads from 1979

David Trampier - artist for D&D PHB

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Recent TV adaptation of same

The Mark of the Beast - Kipling

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

The Order of the Golden Fleece (NatGeo)

Curator of Gems at Smithsonian Institution Paul Desautels

Jeb alluded to trouble at the end of his career

Link to "The Dollop" episode on the McClean family.

We don't know if the Koh-i-noor diamond is related to Star Trek's Kolinahr.

We're joined by Sharon Hill to look into the vital 1970s question: Was Noah's Ark Real? (And does it disprove Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection?)  spoilers: No and No. 

The episode opens with "footage" (re-creations, repurposed footage) of the famous 1889 Flood.

The footage in the movie appears to be from a short film called The World that Perished (1977) but we couldn't find a version of that to share. 

The 1976 film In Search of Noah's Ark is available (in poor quality) on YouTube. 

Nimoy reminds of us the other Ark with this library fashion-alert moment.

The episode re-creates the famous "undressing in excitement" story of George Smith discovering the Utnapishtim version of the flood myth. 

(Later in the episode we get a better shot of Nimoy in the Library.)

We discussed the "Ararat Anomaly" briefly.

The many searches for Noah's Ark.

Physicist Rainer Berger (1930 - 2003) puts a lot of fake evidence to rest with his radiocarbon dating skills.

Creationist Henry Morris "an expert in the flow of water??"

Jeb discusses Abzu briefly.

The "Creation Research Society" is behind a lot of the content in this episode.

The episode calls him "Dr. Clifford Burdick" but he doesn't appear to have actually been a PhD.

Burdick reminded some of us of Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2.

There is some mention of the Younger Dryas - a favorite of Hancockian enthusiasts.  

Many cultures around the world have flood myths. Many cultures around the world have floods. There may be some connection?

Discussion of the site called Doggerland.

Warm Mineral Springs in Florida.

The Black Sea Deluge hypothesis.

Burdick did look a little lost in the desert at one point...

We follow Nazi Hunter Simon Weisenthal as he hunts the notorious war criminal Josef Mengele. 

Simon Wiesenthal - wiki

Josef Mengele - wiki

Dr. Ellen Lingens - wiki

Juan Domingo Peron - wiki

The Big Gun - Gerald Bull, Saddam Hussein and the Mossad 

Read about Escape from Sobibor - this is an amazing story

There is the "real" ODESSA and then there's the fictional novel and film The ODESSA FIle.

Shadow over Günzburg

What really happened to Mengele? Britannica

Return to that classic "season 1" aesthetic in our Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Who knew the factory tokens in Axis & Allies were so accurate?

Another shot of Nimoy in the "Night Gallery."  Will we see this set again?  

Nimoy Fashion:

Links from our Discussion:

Robert Ballard Titanic search cover for military submarine research

The Mobius Group

The JASON Group

Stephan Schwartz paper on the use of remote viewing in Archaeology

Stephan A. Schwartz's website 

Alexander the Great's tomb (wikipedia) - it also recently showed up in a certain Marvel creative endeavor which I'm not going to mention because of "spoilers."

HYCO submarine was a "Pisces Class" deep submersible and some of these went to depths of more than 8000 feet.  The Taurus  IS FOR SALE!!!

Blake & Jeb discussing the video series Hellier with Hayley Stevens on her podcast The Spooktator.

The Great Wall of Benin

Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Great Zimbabwe

Jack Parsons and the JPL

Spiritual healer "Rolling Thunder" who some have accused of being a "Plastic Shaman."

Ed Dames, famous for selling remote viewing training and making terrible predictions

Ingo Swann - pioneer of "remote viewing"

(Ingo also wrote gay erotica as Hero Haubold)

Hella Hammid (1921 - 1992) 

Skeptical response to Ingo Swann's remote viewing 

Anne Kahle - Jet Propulsion Lab and NASA

Thomas Cook from the Bureau of Land Management shows up - says there are 1,100 known wrecks and 53 around Catalina

How Howard Pyle invented our modern image of the pirate.

The "real" Captain Kidd and Pyle's version:

Poe's The Gold Bug (wiki)

The Knickerbocker Tales (Amz Affiliate)

The Oak Island Mystery, Solved! (book about explanation for literal geology of site)

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

So many re-enactors in this one.

So many shirtless re-enactors.

FDR on Oak Island

The clay(?) model used throughout the episode:

The replica of the coded stone:

Blake and Jeb are joined again by Alex French to discuss the tantalizing possibility that animals may possess powers of ESP!

1973 Habitrail Ad

Cat Roulette

Blackfish - documentary about Sea World & Orcas (AMZ)

King's Island and the Brady Bunch (News story - 46 years later)

The 68–95–99.7 rule (statistics - wikipedia)

Six-Sigma (business - wikipedia)

J. B. Rhine (wikipedia)

Origin of the domestic dog (wikipedia)

Hans Esser (obit)

Dr. William Broad (news article)

1970s Fashion that's still in fashion:

Animal Psychic Bea Lydecker is apparently still alive and still in business!

Bobby the Wonder Dog (wiki)

Jeb and Blake are joined again by Alex French to discuss Dreams and Nightmares. Will there be weird video effects and creepy dream re-creations? Does Spock love a syllogism? Tune in and find out! 

Nimoy Fashion Alert: 

Research Links:
CIA Spy Cat 

Shakespeare in the Bush (article)

Dr. Allan Hobson(1933 - 2021)

Dr. Rosalind Cartwright (1922 - 2021)  - a book she wrote on this topic (Amz affiliate link). Note the "EEG" pattern on her lab coat!

Ted Spagna dream photos

Temporal Lobe section of the human brain

Spooktator Hellier ep

Black and Tans (Ireland)

Black and Tan (Drink)

Black and Tan (Dog coloration phenotype)

Fuseli's The Nightmare

The 1970s Big Wheel is for sale again (Amz affiliate link)

Radio call letter history (K, W, and N)

Rotoscoping in Wizards (clip on YouTube)

Garden of Earthly Delights (Wikipedia)

The completely nuts "full story" of the wandering-eye boyfriend meme.

Dreamscape (Amz affiliate link)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Amz affiliate link)

Inception (Amz affiliate link)

Waking Life (Amz affiliate link)

Strong Bad Light-Switch Rave (YouTube)

Defender video game (Wikipedia)

List of movies with Dobermans

The "New Age Donnie and Marie" sequence:

Dream Circle session

EXPLICIT TAG - this episode contains a lot of swearing and complaining.

Blake and Jeb go in search of a lost Norse settlement in Canada, but discover that the real treasure isn't Vikings, and it definitely isn't the racist bullshit you meet along the way.  

Links:

Thomas E. Lee - professor whose weird (racist) theories are at the heart of this episode

"Hammer of Thor" - monument/dry-stack/possible Inuksuk at end of episode

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson - Icelandic Heathenry Revitalist

The statue supposed to be of Erik the Red was actually of Thorfinn Karlsefni

Mjolner (aka Thor's Hammer)

Greenland (as a Norse Settlement)
The Gyrfalcon
Thule (aka Ultima Thule)
The Norse sorcerer Kolgrim
Journal article about "Viking" presence in Nunavik

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Not in the episode - but stuff we talked about:

L'Anse aux Meadows - real Norse archeological site in Canada

The Mismeasure of Man (by Gould)

2021 Calls to boycott Canada Day after graves found

Triumph of the Moon (Ronald Hutton)

Famous statue of Leif Erikson 

Asatru/Heathenry

This is a teaser for a Patreon Exclusive - NOT JEB'S MAYA.

For nearly a year I've been wanting to take advantage of the amusing wordplay possibility made possible by Jeb's name and academic focus. So, I present to you:  Not Jeb's Maya, a respectful homage to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.  (With all due apologies to Peter Sagal.)

Get the whole episode and more exclusive content at:
http://patreon.com/inresearchof

Jeb and Blake are joined by Ken Feder (Frauds, Myths & Mysteries , Fifty Sites) to discuss the question of whether Sherlock Holmes was largely a real person - namely Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Great Game - the playful (usually) exploration of the idea that Sherlock was real

Michael Saler, As If 

Sherlockian and author Peter Lovesey wandering in the "western docks."

Sherlockian Stanley MacKenzie in front of part of his collection of memorabilia.

Holmes' deerstalker comes from actor Sidney Paget.

The phrase "elementary my dear Watson" and the big smoking pipe come from William Gillette. 

There was a 1916 silent film that was lost until rediscovered in 2014. 

The story of Sherlock's Violin 

Doyle's father - Charles Altamont Doyle - troubled (but gifted) artist.

Anna May Wong (actress)

In a number of films from the 30s Arthur Wontner was Holmes & Ian Flemming as Watson  (This was Australian actor Ian Flemming, not the British action/spy novelist behind that other famous British crime solver, James Bond.)  Wontner got the Sherlock role after he'd played a popular version of a Holmes-style knock off character called Sexton Blake.

Nimoy playing Sherlock 

Lots of Star Trek connections to Sherlock. 

Sherlockian and Scotland Yard official, Philip Dalton 

In a re-creation located in The Sherlock Holmes public house.

Smithsonian on the location of 221B Baker. 

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Sherlockian H. R. F. Keating (and man guarding wizarding library from curious muggles...)

Did Doyle introduce skiing to Switzerland? 

Doyle's letter writing campaign on armor for British soldiers.

Cases Doyle worked on:

• Major Alfred Wood 
• George Edalji 

Sherlock Holmes and the Piltdown Controversy?

SciFi Series mentioned by Jeb 

The Case of the Missing Link 

Amazing little documentary about the Cottingley Fairies hoax.

Jeb and Blake examine the idea that the builders of Cahokia's "Woodhenge" might have had links with the Maya.  

Some things we discuss in this episode:

Cahokia 

Mound 72 

Recent paper on the Mounds of Cahokia

Dr. Warren Wittry 

Dr. Wittry discovered the woodhenge that is a large part of the focus of this episode.

The active dig shown in the episode:

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Hovenweep National Monument 

Dr. Ray Williamson 

More on Ray 

And a BOOK he wrote

Casa Grande 

 Robert Hicks of University of Arizona

Hicks work with Mutter.  

Casa Rinconada 

 Dr. Jonathan Reyman of Illinois State University:

Dr. Garman Harbottle 

Jeb and Blake continue their look at the 1984 film Ghostbusters.  The full version of this has an additional 90 mins of coverage and is available at our Patreon page for as little as $2/month.