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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!
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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.
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Mangler du episoder?
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Jeb is right at home as we go In Search Of... Mexican Pyramids!
Links from researchSacrifice 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...
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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)
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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
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S04E06 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
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
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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 exhibitArticle 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)
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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 articleNimoy Fashion Alert shot on location at the San Fernando Aerospace Solar Observatory.
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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.
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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"
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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
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Blake and Jeb discuss their thoughts on the third season of In Search Of...
Things get... weird.
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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)
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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.
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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?
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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
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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 ForeverThe Gift - anthro book about reciprocity
Superman and the giant spider story - Kevin SmithOsiander'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.
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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...
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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?
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The In Search Of team heads of to Santa Catalina island to hunt for underwater archaeology guided only by "remote viewers" Ingo Swann and Hella Hammid.
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
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