In Research Of

Watch the ISO episode on YouTube Jeb and Blake are joined by Dr. Carl P. Lipo to talk about "The Easter Island Massacre" episode of In Search Of . Our guest, Dr. Carl P. Lipo, is the author (along with Terry Hunt) of The Statues that Walked and conducted research that demonstrated a very plausible method for how the statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) were moved from their stone quarry. (See some...

Listener Justin Mullis hipped us to some groovy 1970s additional context behind the Season 1 episode In Search Of: Dracula .  Much of it is based on an unmentioned book, In Search of Dracula by Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu.  We also correct a mistake about the source of the idea that the fictional vampire Dracula might have been Vlad Dracula (aka Vlad Tepes). Mentioned in this addendum: Emily...

Watch this ISO episode on YouTube Was Dracula, the Bram Stoker novel, based on a real person in the form of Vlad Dracula? Jeb and Blake discuss. Discussed in this episode: Update 1/28/2020: Listener Justin Mullis spotted an error which has led to a correction in this audio and will lead to some additional material in another IRO content drop shortly. -B Bram Stoker's Dracula the novel John William...

Watch this ISO episode on YouTube Jeb and Blake fail to find Amelia Earhart.  So they've got that in common with the folks profiled in this week's episode. Discussed in this Episode: Amelia Earhart , pioneering woman pilot Husband and publisher George Putnam Navigator Fred Noonan     AutoGyros/GyroCopters and how they are different from helicopters.   Propaganda film Flight for Freedom ( DVD ) whi...

Watch this ISO episode on YouTube   Blake, Jeb, and guest Ken Hite talk about the search for Nazi Plunder - lost treasure and art following WWII. Thanks to Ken Hite for joining us on this episode. You can find a huge archive of Ken's excellent podcast (with Robin Laws) titled Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff . Highly recommended! Ken's also a prolific author and game designer and if you like this ep...

Wherein Jeb and Blake discuss the 13th episode of In Search Of... and fail to learn any ESP. Watch this ISO episode on YouTube. Notes: Edgar Mitchell ( Wikipedia ) Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science   Phenomena by Annie Jacobson (history of Gov't research into Psi) Zener Cards   Nimoy Fashion Alert: One possible explanation of JJ's "psychic" powers is that he may have seen the images from the...

Watch this ISO episode on YouTube The In Search Of show profiles the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Jeb is not impressed. Blake & Jeb both relate Roswell/Black-Helicopter experiences near the VLA. Unmarked Helicopters (song by Soul Coughing) Green Bank West Virginia (radio free zone) William Proxmire (senator who killed funding of SETI) The novel Contact was written by Carl Sa...

Jeb and Blake join Leonard Nimoy and a group of St. Louis clairvoyants as we go in research of psychic detectives . Watch this episode of ISO on YouTube.   A quick thanks to Shane Gower for his helpful blog post from 2015 about this episode. 1970s Famous psychic Peter Hurkos is featured during the introduction. Hurkos was vouched for by Andrija Puharich , after being challenged by James Randi .  P...

Sharon Hill ( Scientifical Americans ) joins Jeb and Blake to talk about the Atlantis episode of In Search Of ...   Watch original In Search Of episode on YouTube.       This is a kind of a disjointed mess of an ISO episode, so our notes are kind of all over the place as well.  But here's a bunch of highlights and additional reading from our own prep notes for the show: We'll be covering Easter Is...

[Note: Sadly, one side of the recording was lost due to massive Skype issues and some portions of this episode had to be reconstructed. This is why there are places where the audio sounds quite different. This appears to be the only episode of the season where this happened, but my apologies for the audio sounding inconsistent.  -Blake] Jeb and Blake discuss "Martians" - wherein the In Search Of t...

Jeb and Blake discuss the ISO episode The Mummy's Curse , and the strange and interesting facts behind the legend of "King Tut's Curse." Watch this ISO Episode on YouTube   Reference Books: The Mummy's Curse Spooky Archaeology TV Listing Feb 11, 1977:   Photo mentioned by Jeb of Evelyn Beauchamp with Carter. (Left to Right)   Arthur Mace (Metropolitan Museum) Richard Bethell (Carter's secretary) A...

Jeb Card and Blake Smith are joined by " spooky geologist " Sharon Hill to talk about this classic season one episode of In Search Of... that considers various methods to predict earthquakes, and what we might expect if a large quake hits the San Francisco area. Watch this episode of In Search Of... on YouTube. Nimoy Fashion - once again speaking to us from a Los Angeles rooftop. Around the 9 min...

Jeb Card and Blake Smith discuss the In Search Of episode: KILLER BEES .  Will aggressive Africanized honey bees destroy the world? Is every problem a metaphor for colonialism? Tune in and find out! Watch episode on YouTube   I've attached some relevant articles from the time, one on bees and one on ISO. Also, I've set the episode to "Explicit" because of all the sexy, sexy bee talk. Radioactive W...

Lots of discussion as Jeb and Blake tackle a favorite topic of theirs... Bigfoot. Does a mysterious creature, part-ape, and part-man, lurk in the Pacific Northwest? Watch the Episode on YouTube   The episode opens with the Ape Canyon re-enactment. If you'd like to read Beck's extended narrative, it is available online . His extended comments include a lot of descriptions of the spiritual aspect of...

  Episode on YouTube Is there a mysterious force causing the disappearance of ships and airplanes in the area between Miami, Bermuda and the Bahamas?  Or just a mixture of innumeracy and a desire for the numinous? Show Notes: Larry Kusche's The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved Who was the voice on the creepy radio broadcast ?  Bermuda Triangle movie based on Berlitz's book. Not covered in detail,...

In Ancient Aviators , ISO looks into the possibility that ancient cultures either had the power of flight or were aware of it from exposure to extraterrestrial cultures.  The specifics of how are a little vague, but we return to our litany of archaeological sites for evidence that this might be the case. Episode on YouTube Sample TV Listing for the episode: VCRs (VHS) really started to come into e...

Explicit Tag - this episode contains strong language.  We are joined by Dr. Ken Feder to discuss Mystery Hill (aka America's Stonehenge ) and the idea that this New Hampshire set of stone structures might have been built by ancient Phoenicians or medieval Europeans.  (It wasn't.) Episode on YouTube Weirdly topical, as we prepared this episode the Mystery Hill site was vandalized with # QAnon theme...

Can plants talk? Can Leonard Nimoy make this topic interesting? The answer to both questions will be discussed in this episode where we look at the first episode of In Search Of... which considers the question of plant communication.   Episode on YouTube Show Links: Marcel Vogel - thought plants have feelings. Research chemist, San Jose, CA. Uses machines and the mind's "inner eye."  Vogel was dee...

This is the pilot episode of In Research Of, the show where we watch the original TV show IN SEARCH OF… and consider some of the explanations that the producers chose not to present. In our inaugural episode, we watch the TV Special In Search of Ancient Astronauts, a repackaged cut of a German documentary about Eric Von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods .  We want to thank Rachel and Chris Lacke...