Arcane Station

Send us Fan Mail  In the finale of the Altered States series, Mike Porter makes the full case for and against the simulation hypothesis. From Nick Bostrom's trilemma to James Gates' error-correcting code buried in string theory, from the pixelation of reality at the Planck scale to David Kipping's Bayesian analysis, the evidence is laid out honestly. Then the question goes deeper: w...

Send us Fan Mail No drugs. No trauma. No dying, just a quiet room and a trained mind reaching toward a location it has never seen.  In episode five of the Altered States series, Mike Porter investigates remote viewing and the CIA's Stargate program, which ran for over twenty years and cost roughly twenty million dollars. From Ingo Swann describing Jupiter's rings before Pioneer 10 confir...

Send us Fan Mail  The brain in crisis floods with endorphins, gamma waves, and possibly its own DMT,  but does that explain everything? In episode four of the Altered States series, Mike Porter examines near-death and out-of-body experiences, starting with the strongest neurochemical explanations science has to offer.  Then he digs into the cases that explanation struggles with: Pim van Lommel&apo...

Send us Fan Mail  What if the code people see in altered states isn't a hallucination — but the actual structure of reality? In episode three of the Altered States series, Mike Porter traces a phenomenon that predates computers by centuries: a flowing, symbolic, structured language that appears consistently across DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and deep meditation experiences. From the Shipibo k...

Send us Fan Mail  Who are they? In this episode, we meet the beings themselves. The entities that people consistently encounter when consciousness is altered. From the playful, mischievous machine elves described by Terence McKenna to the clinical, observing insectoid beings studied by psychiatrist Rick Strassman.  From the classic grey aliens, appearing in DMT experiences independent of UFO lore,...

Send us Fan Mail  What if the visions people experience on DMT, psilocybin, and other psychedelics aren't hallucinations created by a malfunctioning brain, but actual windows into something that exists independently of us? Thousands of people across cultures and continents report encountering the same entities, describing identical beings, geometric structures, and, strangely, computer code....

Send us Fan Mail  From the depths of Loch Ness to the remote lakes of Oklahoma, creatures lurk in the dark waters of our world. For centuries, eyewitnesses across continents have reported encounters with intelligent, elusive lake monsters, yet tangible proof remains elusive.  Today, we explore seven distinct types of lake cryptids through specific accounts, locations, and dates. We examine the bio...

Send us Fan Mail Why do mountains appear again and again in ancient mythology, religious texts, paranormal encounters, and stories of supernatural beings? Across cultures and throughout history, humanity has viewed mountains as places where the physical world and the divine intersect. From Mount Olympus and Mount Sinai to Mount Hermon and the Himalayas, towering peaks have long been associated wit...

Send us Fan Mail In the forests of southern Washington, there are reports of a creature that looks like a black cougar, but with a face that doesn’t belong to any known animal. It’s been called the Klickitat Ape Cat. But unlike most cryptids, this one doesn’t come with decades of sightings, multiple witnesses, or independent reports. In this episode of Arcane Station, we break the case down from t...

Send us Fan Mail In 1888, the streets of Whitechapel were more than just dangerous, they were disorienting, oppressive, and on edge. Thick industrial fog choked the air, gaslights distorted what people thought they saw, and entire neighborhoods lived under constant stress, poverty, and fear. This episode goes beyond the surface of Jack the Ripper murders. We break down the timeline of the canonica...

Send us Fan Mail Across continents and across centuries, cultures around the world have told stories of small humanlike beings who live in forests, mountains, caves, mounds, and hidden places beneath the earth. From the Cherokee Yunwi Tsunsdi and the Pukwudgie traditions of New England to the Muqui of the Andes, the hidden folk of Europe, the Koropokkuru of Japan, and the mysterious Ebu Gogo of Fl...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when history, mythology, sacred sites, and wartime legend begin to overlap? In this episode of Arcane Station , Mike Porter takes a deep dive into the world surrounding the Ahnenerbe , the SS research organization tied to ancestry, archaeology, and some of the most enduring legends of the twentieth century. From the ideological roots of Thule , to the traditions surro...

Send us Fan Mail Entire towns and villages have been intentionally submerged beneath reservoirs, lakes, and waterways across North America and beyond. Homes, roads, churches, cemeteries, and entire communities now rest beneath the surface, hidden but not forgotten. In this episode of Arcane Station , we investigate the history of drowned towns including The Lost Villages of Ontario, Butler, Tennes...

Send us Fan Mail Antarctica is one of the most remote and controlled places on Earth, and one of the most misunderstood. In this episode of Arcane Station, we move from fiction to reality, and then into the theories that live in between. From the isolation and paranoia of The Thing , to real subglacial lakes like Lake Vostok, to persistent claims about ice walls, hidden lands, ancient maps, and un...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you can no longer trust what you see? In this episode of Arcane Station, we explore the rise of AI-generated media and how it’s reshaping the way we understand evidence, not just in politics, but in the world of cryptids and the paranormal. We examine real historical cases where narrative and perception were shaped, sometimes intentionally,  including the story o...

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice calling your name isn’t who you think it is? Across TikTok, Reddit, and paranormal forums, thousands of people are reporting a strange experience: hearing the voice of a loved one when that person isn’t there. Some hear it in their homes. Others while alone in the woods. In a few cases, the voice has even been captured on audio recordings. These encounters are no...

Send us Fan Mail The Ice Age wasn’t ancient history. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, and camels once roamed North and South America, and humans walked alongside them. Most of these giants vanished around 11,000 years ago during the Pleistocene extinction event. But reports of mammoth-like silhouettes in Alaska, giant bears in remote regions, and sloth-s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Arcane Station, we examine the Mothman case from its origin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through its modern interpretations. We begin with the 1966–1967 sightings near the TNT area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge, separating documented facts from folklore. From there, we trace the historical archetype of winged humanoids and avian harbinger figures acr...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a human grows up without society? Feral children are real. Cannibalism has occurred in history. And across centuries, cultures have told stories of wild men, cave-dwelling clans, and pale figures watching from the treeline. In this episode of Arcane Station, we investigate documented cases of extreme isolation, the legend of Sawney Bean, rumors from Appalachia an...

Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of The Science of the Paranormal , we move beyond the limits of human perception and into harder territory: technology, biology, and the structure of reality itself. If Part One explored how infrasound, frequency, and sensory limits shape paranormal experiences, this episode asks a deeper question: what happens when encounters don’t behave like biology alone can explai...

Send us Fan Mail In this two-part episode of Arcane Station, we begin with a simple but unsettling question: how much of reality are humans actually capable of perceiving? In Part One, we explore the science behind paranormal experiences by examining the limits of human senses. From the narrow slice of the visible light spectrum we can see, to the frequencies of sound we can feel but never hear, s...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this Arcane Station series , we move beyond history and into culture. After centuries of being feared as revenants and monsters, vampires underwent a dramatic transformation. In literature, film, and television, they became romantic figures, tragic immortals, rebels, anti-heroes, and eventually something more personal: an identity people chose to live by. This episode...

Send us Fan Mail For centuries, people across the world feared that the dead did not always stay dead. In Part 1 of this Arcane Station series, we examined the historical origins of vampires as revenants, the physically dead believed to rise from the grave to drain blood, spread disease, and terrorize the living. From ancient folklore and early medieval burial practices to Ireland’s revenant tradi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we examine the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles as a documented case of long-term tragedy, recurring deaths, and persistent claims of paranormal activity. Rather than focusing on rumor or dramatization, this episode presents a structured timeline of verified incidents , including suicides, murders, and suspicious deaths spanning nearly a century. We cover the hotel’s hi...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 , we cataloged the cryptids of Texas, the creatures that leave tracks, bodies, and biological questions behind. But not everything strange in Texas fits that framework. In Texas Strangeness – Part 2 , we move into the unclassified territory : the one-off creatures, localized anomalies, UFO flaps, hauntings, and unexplained events that resist neat labels and refuse to bec...