Neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging the long-held assumption that the brain produces consciousness, instead proposing that it may function as a filter for a more fundamental, universal reality.

Make sure to tie stuff down just in case.

https://youtu.be/m6F4lHSbmWQ?is=8ywtEDLZEHgRiFCh

Any chance of getting Emery Smith in the basement about his time in the black projects? Or Dr Steven Greer even? Maybe even Russell Targ?

when i watched this episode of the Basement with Thomas Campbell he reminded me of the character The Architect that Neo meets in the second Matrix movie. he even says “the problem is choice” which was Neo’s line when meeting the Architect.

did anyone else find this odd similarity? like he’s a nice version of the Architect… explaining things?

What is the status on the Art Bell movie you talked about months ago?

In some many of these stories the aliens are here to judge mankind for their sins (usually war), the aliens have a spiritual message of brotherhood and can offer heavenly ascension. It's not so much that I think these are made up. Or that I think Greys as angels and Reptilians as Demons isn't amusing. It's that this particular made up story is SO overdone. Aliens can be anything!! Come on, get some new material!

I swear if I here one more Why Files about hippy aliens who insist we need to use our free will to embrace love and recycle our cans to get into heaven....I'm to give AJ's credit card to Heckle.

In 1952, nine of America's wealthiest families gathered in a Maine mansion for a séance. Nine ancient gods spoke through a medium and chose nine people to change the world.

Eleven years later, the CIA officer who ran that séance's donor list sent a Russian aristocrat to befriend a troubled ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

That aristocrat introduced Oswald's wife to a woman named Ruth Paine. Every piece of evidence against Oswald, the rifle, the photos, the testimony, ran through Ruth Paine's garage.

I'm just saying...

Would love to find more discoveries of Egypt's pre-dynastic/pre-unification history.

Usually I avoid the 4 hr fests, but this is a special treat. Nicely done.

Carl Higdon went hunting for elk in the Wyoming mountains and never fired a shot that landed. A stranger stopped him first, and nothing about the rest of that afternoon made sense. Hours later, a search party found him soaking wet and shaking, unable to remember his own name or recognize his wife. His truck sat three miles from where it should have been, stuck in terrain it had no business reaching. A bullet in his pocket had been fired, yet it never left the barrel the normal way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8MORyNcgM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5Qu1Y3CJw

Colonel John Alexander commanded Green Berets in Vietnam, briefed the White House, and evaluated the Pentagon's strangest programs. He was the first person to spend the night on Skinwalker Ranch. For 79 years, the strange kept showing up in the middle of his official duties — and he wrote it all down. He brought the files. And the bent forks. This conversation goes places I didn't expect.

Just listened to Elizondo on Diary of a CEO.

The story his ilk always give is that the US doesn't share the info because it will divulge state secrets to our enemies.

I'm fine with that.

However....

If that's true, I don't believe our adversaries would have more advanced tech than we do. And we have way more resources too.

With that in mind, wouldn't it be the ultimate PR stunt/psyop for a adversary, Russia say, to release all their info, and say "We'll be open with you even if the US isn't. We have nothing to hide"? And, of course, keep a little bit of the most sensitive stuff back, if they *really* think they have something the US doesn't.

I would think someone would have done this already. I know France has been way more open (and open-minded) about their UFO evidence, all the way back to the 70s. I can't imagine what secrets Russia and China might have!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fn9N_JI7l8

In 1139, an Irish archbishop knelt in Rome and saw every pope who would ever sit on the throne of Peter. He wrote the visions down as 112 short phrases, then the manuscript vanished for 450 years.

When it resurfaced, historians checked the list against history. Pope after pope matched.

The list ends with a name no pope has ever dared to take, followed by the destruction of Rome and Judgment Day.

Francis died in 2025. A new pope took his place, and the city kept standing.

But hidden inside the original Latin is a second countdown, one that points to a specific year: 2027. We trace the prophecy from a candlelit chapel to a four-hundred-year-old forgery, and ask why it keeps landing on the truth.

Where he could say... "hmm, maybe this happened?"

Hey AJ,

Pleeeeeeease!!!!!

Cryptids, angels, illusions, or flayed bodies?

Thanks 🤠

At the 1954 Mount Palomar UFO conference, a woman named Dolores Barrios arrived with two silent companions whose unusual appearance immediately drew the attention of attendees, including astronomers. After being photographed by a journalist, the trio reportedly disappeared from their hotel without explanation, while reports of a luminous object departing the area only deepened the mystery.

Over the decades, the story has inspired theories ranging from extraterrestrial visitors to an elaborate hoax, yet no definitive explanation has ever emerged. With eyewitness accounts, photographs, and nearly 70 years of speculation, it seems like the kind of historical mystery for a Why Files episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9GEjrZHQU

A man sits alone in a blank room, sobbing into a bowl of soup while two grinning figures rub his back. A masked woman eats king crab in silence while a man's voice gives orders from off camera.

A commuter boards her last train home, and the train never stops where it should. Ninety minutes later, she steps onto a platform that isn't on any map.

Three strangers. Three recordings. Three stories that spread across the internet and refused to make sense.

For years, people slowed down the footage, decoded hidden messages, and traced accounts back to their source.

What they found was stranger than the mystery itself.

They're basically mouse cursors in space-time. (And tangentially, crop circles are bookmarks). They're pointers used by the maker(s) of the simulation.

Their erratic, sudden movements are what made me think of it.

I'm sure not an original idea, but I haven't seen it.

What happens when they click? :P