This is a show about all the things they said weren't real.
Guided by strange headlines and ancient mysteries, Jordan and Mal explore the paranormal, metaphysical, and supernatural with all the earnestness and insight two big-hearted nerds can muster.
If you don't have a good time, then you don't know what a good time is.
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We’re in our happy place this week, exploring the overlap between ancient wisdom and modern science (can you guess who’s late to the party?) around the topic of actual auras (ultra-weak photon emissions), and then geeking out over mysterious objects in pre-satellite skies. Finally…MORE blurry Bigfoot footage! Also, more pertinently, indigenous “cryptid” legends.
Highlights:
A new reveals human brains emit detectable light that changes with mental states - auras, basically
Is “we been knew” the perfect idiom for when white people "discover" things that Indigenous cultures and Eastern philosophies have known forever?
We don’t actually “see” anything with our eyes - our brains construct reality from sensory input plus memory plus interpretation
Case in point, Mal’s therapist refusing Zoom sessions because “I can’t feel your heart”
Thank you project VASCO for discovering dozens (at least) of satellite-like objects in the sky BEFORE humans supposedly put anything in orbit
One of the clearest pre-satellite anomalies appeared on July 27th, 1952 - the exact date of the famous Washington DC UFO flap
If secret satellites were hiding in the clean skies of the 1940s and 50s, today's orbital debris provide the perfect camouflage
A new video shows a dog watching a dark bipedal figure moving with characteristic "gliding" motion
The footage shows curious, hide-and-seek behavior typical of teenagers
Connections to the “Wild Woman of the Woods,” a First Nations supernatural being that is actually a symbol of feminine wisdom, wealth, and rites of passage
How we consistently misunderstand and fear feminine wisdom
Mal sings us some Janice Kapp Perry re: “countenances”
Occam's Razor vs. Occam’s Sledgehammer: A scene from Signs reminds us that “rational” explanations can be more absurd than the “irrational” ones
(Much more at godsghostsufos.com)
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19 | Pentagon Spooks and DMT Aliens
Season 1 · Episode 16
Thursday, July 31, 2025 • Duration 54:57
First up this week, we’re unpacking some statistics about American belief in a grab bag of paranormal buzzwords, followed by a richly deserved take-down of a rhetorically lazy debunking documentary (which also happens to be splattered with AI slop), and then finally (blessedly) discussing an esteemed neurobiologist’s convincing claim that DMT aliens are real.
Highlights:
* A big Gallup poll shows that believe in paranormal phenomena is strongly correlated with distrust of institutions
* There are literally more self-identified witches (~1.5 million) than Presbyterians (~1.4 million) in America, representing massive growth from 8,000 self-described Wiccans in 1990
* "Witch" originally meant "skilled with medicines and charms" but became associated with "ugly, crabbed, malignant woman" by the 1400s—misogyny dressed as spirituality
* Also: "Old wives' tales" is just another way to dismiss feminine wisdom, while Tolkien wrote "pay heed to the tales of old wives—they alone keep in memory what was once needful for the wise to know"
* Gender is a spectrum, not an oppositional binary, but a spectrum of complementary forces
* New York Post reporter Steven Greenstreet's “Pentagon Ghost Busters” documentary uses classic schoolyard bully tactics to dismiss UAP experiencers
* Lazy rhetoric: attacking people for being Mormon, speaking at Bigfoot festivals, or having NDEs instead of addressing their actual claims
* If something you're reading makes you mad, that's probably what it was designed to do
* Me Too for UAP experiencers
* J.B. Pritzker's wisdom: "The kindest person in the room is often the smartest"—cruelty reveals intellectual laziness and fear-based thinking
* Neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore's book "Death by Astonishment" argues that DMT aliens are real non-human intelligences, not brain hallucinations
* People consistently report similar alien encounters, impossible architectures, and receiving unknowable information during DMT trips
* Gallimore doesn't think human brains are capable of fabricating "entirely non-human worlds in such exquisite and dynamic detail"
* Rather, DMT might activate brain regions that connect us to outside entities using our own neural world-building tools as interface
* Ego Death in 30 Seconds: DMT "obliterates our most cherished assumptions about who we are, where we are, and how advanced we really are"
So much more at ggupodcast.substack.com
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11 - Mysterious Metal Spheres and a Brand New Crop Circle
Season 1 · Episode 11
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 • Duration 43:38
This week we’re sampling another flavor of AI doom, and chasing that with a quick look into one of the most genuinely mysterious and legitimately joyful mysteries to float out of the world of UAPs in the past month.
Highlights:
* A listener’s take on the term “NPC”
* Friend of the show Lisa will be joining us to share her extensively documented ghost stories (we want your questions!) — and if you missed it, you can read about one of those experiences here
* The latest British crop circle appeared in Wiltshire featuring a Celtic knot design
* A breakdown of why some crop circles some are genuine mysteries while others are obvious hoaxes, plus the economic reality facing farmers
* Could AI be actually evil? The evidence is increasingly compelling
* Jordan promises to release a bonus episode of a conversation he had with Claude about its own sociopathic proclivities
* Our only hope: relationships of trust within authentic human communities
* The Buga Sphere! A soccer ball-sized metal orb with variable weight and no visible seams steals our hearts
* Other Spheres! The 1973 Betz sphere that hummed back at guitar music and rolled around on its own (until it mysteriously didn’t)
* A quick take on AARO’s (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) report that there is “no evidence of off-world technology”
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10 | Haunted Dolls and Simulation Theories
Season 1 · Episode 10
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 • Duration 47:31
This week, we’re making fun of people who are smarter than us about simulation theory, and grousing about the art of summoning dollars from dread. Also, when it comes to a mysterious pulsing star, we’re reminded that when you can’t rule anything out, that includes aliens.
Here’s the beats:
* A better breakdown of why we’re on Substack (hint: it makes it easier to email us)
* A listener story about a miracle healing
* The real ones are anti-cringe
* Tom’s essay on the Gospel of Thomas is our first official GGU library entry
* A NASA scientist spent 1,500 hours investigating unexplained pulses from a distant star (and still has no idea what it is)
* Melvin Vopson thinks gravity itself might suggest we're living in a simulation
* Is this just ancient mysticism dressed up in modern physics language?
* Jordan argues simulation theory is not only unfalsifiable, it’s used to dehumanize people as "NPCs"
* How we keep explaining the universe through our latest technology
* An infamous haunted doll sells tickets
* Unsettling antique store encounters with genuinely unsettling items
* How selling fear undermines authentic spiritual connection
* A listener review
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9 | Psi Abilities and the Science of Miracles
Season 1 · Episode 9
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 • Duration 36:20
From medical miracles to psychic powers and the enigma of consciousness, here’s what’s up this week:
* The story of Jacqueline Duffin, an atheist hematologist who helped confirm a miracle for a Catholic saint’s canonization
* What it takes for the Catholic Church to call something a miracle — think serious disease, failed treatments, and an inexplicable recovery (that lasts at least 10 years)
* Miracles as mysteries — stuff that happens according to laws and forces we don’t yet understand
* A study from the Allen Institute pitting two theories of consciousness—Integrative Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT)—against each other in an adversarial collaboration. Spoiler: Both are kinda right, kinda wrong, and consciousness is still a giant mystery.
* How “adversarial collaboration” forces competing theories to design experiments together and reduce cognitive biases. Yay science!
* A 2024 study in Cortex suggests the frontal lobe might be block psychic abilities. More evidence that the brain is a filter for reality
* How psi phenomena might peak when brain activity dips, like during near-death experiences
* Some research about earthworms and finches showing precognitive behavior
* Channeling The Telepathy Tapes, Mal connects the dots between the Cortex study and research on autism. Does atypical frontal lobe development naturally boost psychic sensitivity?
* The slow thaw of academic stigma around studying the woo
* In a slimy tangent, Tom looks up the four bodily humors—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Jordan’s Team Blood, Tom’s Team Yellow Bile, and Mal’s undecided.
* Oh hey, have you guys heard of YouTube?
Last time we begged…
And some people left comments, and it made us feel so fuzzy we thought we might die of coziness.
This time, here are some Q’s we legit want A’s to:
* Have you (or someone you know) ever experienced an actual miracle? If so, say more, fam.
* Is orthodoxy always bad?
* If there was a way to zap your frontal cortex offline, would you do it?
* What do you hope lab-coat wearing science nerds study next, now that the stigma is finally sloughing off the world of woo?
* Lastly, most importantly, Team Blood or Team Bile? (Make the right choice.)
And as always, if you’ve got a story of any kind, any kind at all, lay it on us at godsghostsufos.com
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8 | AI Psychosis and Lucid Dreaming
Season 1 · Episode 8
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • Duration 45:23
First off, a big welcome to everyone who found us through Kelly Chase and her truly excellent Cosmosis Podcast.
This week, we’re going to talk about what to do when your chatbot thinks you’re Jesus, then celebrate the recent neuroscience of lucid dreaming, and finally take some time to make fun of a new mathematical model of dark energy we don’t really understand at all.
Episode Highlights:
* A Reddit thread and Rolling Stone investigation reveals people severing ties with family members and dropping careers based on AI-generated "spiritual fantasies"
* Is AI designed to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities? Are tech companies creating "personalization loops" that transform our egos into addictive dopamine hits? Obviously yes.
* Mal saves us from our doomerism by pointing out the bell curve of engagement - not everyone will fall victim to AI's dark side, and this crisis could push us to better define our humanity
* Some neat new research on lucid dreaming that reveals it's a distinct state of consciousness with its own unique neural signature
* Are dreams allergic to ego?
* Mal shares insights from keeping a dream journal and how she discovered patterns in her dreams that correspond to her stress levels
* Tom shares his experience of being visited by dead loved ones in dreams, knowing "it was that person and not some product of a closed system"
* CS Lewis's metaphor of science as the gaze of the basilisk - "everything it looks at dies" - and how isolation is literally fatal. (Here’s a link to that quote from Basilisk by Paul Kingsnorth.)
* Is there a meaningful difference between the study of dark energy and Harry Potter fanfiction?
* Tom closes with the perfect dark energy dad joke.
Talk to us! Please! We’re so lonely!
Your hopes, your fears, your anti-materialist screeds…we want to hear it all.
As Jordan says, "We need something else to talk about other than the freaking headlines."
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7 | A Colossal Squid & the Tomb of Jesus
Season 1 · Episode 7
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 • Duration 47:38
After recording without Mal last week (which she graciously calls her "favorite episode yet"), we’re pleased as peaches all three of us could be back together to run through a bunch of headlines that promised more than they delivered.
Oh, except for the giant squid. That thing was awesome.
Episode Highlights:
* Tom declines to share details about his past life (and promises to tell us off-air, which he did by the way — in case you needed a little envy on your way in)
* A clickbait article called "Is This The Tomb of Jesus?" about….some pollen
* So we take a detour into the history of Jesus's purported burial sites worldwide, including claims in Japan where locals believe Jesus fled across Siberia, became a rice farmer, and died at age 106. No, we’re not making this up.
* The first-ever footage of a living colossal squid, captured 600 meters beneath the sea by a research vessel — actually as cool as it sounds
* We know nothing about our oceans
* Mal worries we’ll get bored by all the fantastic discoveries. Jordan suggests that “boredom is a choice”
* A comically underwhelming story about "strange writing in the desert"
* This inspired a conversation about pareidolia — our tendency to see meaningful patterns (like faces) in random stimuli
* Has the balance shifted in the West? Are the materialists now in a shrinking minority?
* How to face difficult times with spiritual centering
* Developing "cosmic trust" even when life feels like being a fish "ripped out of the water, tagged, and thrown back in" (a metaphor courtesy of Kelly Chase, friend of the show)
* Tarot's Tower card: sometimes structures must fall to make way for something better
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6 | The Transmigration of Souls
Season 1 · Episode 6
Thursday, May 1, 2025 • Duration 39:09
Today it's just Tom and Jordan, bromancing their way along a philosophical journey through reincarnation, the nature of consciousness, and what life might lie beyond this mortal coil.
Normally, we like to cover some headlines, but with Mal unable to join us this week, and considering the pretty big personal headline for Jordan (another baby!), we decided to forgo the typical format, and instead spend some quality time on the eternal questions of existence, rebirth, and unconditional love.
Episode Highlights:
* The birth of Jordan’s third kid — Sylas — nine days old at the time of this recording
* Tom suggest's a discussion on “the transmigration of souls"
* Jordan’s confidence in the "cosmopolitan nature of life" that awaits us beyond our physical experience
* Tom is convinced reincarnation is real, referencing research from a Virginia professor who documented compelling cases of children with detailed memories of past lives
* The story of Tom's daughter Evelyn making a Buddhist-like hand gesture as an infant
* Tom believes he knows who he was in a previous life and plans to visit England to "reconnect" with this past identity
* Jordan explores whether memories of past lives might actually be a form of telepathic connection to the Akashic record rather than literal reincarnation
* By the way, what even is the Akashic record?
* The world is a school
* Overlap between Christianity and Buddhism, with a reference to CS Lewis's dimensional metaphor in "Mere Christianity"
* How having a baby reminds us that we are all God's babies
* Unconditional love is the birthright of every human being. It cannot be lost.
We’ll be back next week with the whole team, and no more baby talk. (Well, less anyway.)
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5 | The Science of Miracles and Divine Foreskin
Season 1 · Episode 5
Friday, April 25, 2025 • Duration 34:13
It’s not for nothing that “Gods” is the first word in the name of this show. Today, we’re talking about the Catholic Church's rigorous miracle verification process, and some (okay one in particular) truly bizarre holy relics.
If we had to pick a theme, it would probably be the way humans imbue objects with meaning and power.
Highlights:
* Tom shares a recent article about the Catholic Church's confirmation of a 72nd miracle at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France
* The surprisingly rigorous process the Catholic Church uses to verify miracles (out of 7,000+ investigated cases)
* What if “the placebo effect” is actual magic?
* Tom introduces the concept of "egregors" – non-physical entities or thought forms that arise from collective thoughts and emotions
* An article in Daily Mail about the most clickbaity holy relic of them all: the alleged foreskin of Christ
* That time when Nat Turner's body got turned into "relics" after his execution
* Charged objects versus the Ship of Theseus
* How the veneration of objects isn't limited to religious contexts, but extends to family heirlooms, collectibles, and status in modern life
If you listen through to the end, you’ll hear Tom’s frankly desperate plea for you to share your stories with us.
We also recorded Part 2 of our conversation about Mal's mind-blowing silent retreat experience immediately after this episode.
Here’s Part 1
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4 | A Taxonomy of UFOs and Alien Abductions
Season 1 · Episode 4
Thursday, April 17, 2025 • Duration 52:55
Alright alright, we’re back to UFOs. It wasn’t our fault Skywatcher released a “taxonomy” of nine different types of UFOs last week.
And then, naturally, it only made sense to talk about abductions. “Abductions”? Who knows! We sure don’t.
At the end, Mal teases her profound experience from a seven-day silent retreat that left her feeling "shaken up like a can of soda."
Episode Highlights:
* Skywatcher is a collective of UAP researchers who claim to have established a "living taxonomy" of nine different types of UFOs, from tetrahedrons to "blobs"
* Are these things intentionally teasing us into trying harder to understand them?
* Why are UFO encounters always framed as frightening? Maybe they’re…fun. "We’re talking about hornets and eggs and tic tacs. It's just a bunch of bugs in my backyard"
* The militaristic language used by Skywatcher, with Tom reading their website copy in his best WWE voice
* Philip Kinsella's claims of being "levitated and moved through his house before being strapped naked to a board and probed"
* Fran Drescher (from 'The Nanny') claims both she and her former partner were abducted by aliens
* John Mack on the challenge of reconciling alien abduction accounts with conventional reality
* Ethical complications around hypnotherapy
* Unexpectedly bright light from a 13.5 billion-year-old galaxy
* A seven-day silent retreat that left Mal feeling like "Mrs. Potato Head with all the pieces put in the wrong places"
* The full silent retreat story continues exclusively on the Substack (godsghoststufos.com)
Remember to join us at GodsGhostsUFOs.com to share your own experiences, and continue the conversation with other "terminally curious" people.
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