Wandering the Road - Sept 28, 2024

Seriah is joined by Saxon, Chris Ernst, and author and podcaster Brennan Storr for a wandering the road episode. Topics include Brennan’s new projects, the difficulties of scheduling and time management, Seriah’s experiences with a strange green light beam, surveillance and detection equipment, a huge owl encounter, Brennan’s teenage UFO experience, a life-saving premonition, a strange loud sound in the night, the dangers of laser pointers, bird scaring technology, weird sudden silences, odd light-shining experiences at night, Brennan’s haunted apartment complex, Saxon’s lack of experiences in a supposedly haunted house, a bizarre phone and police scanner experience, a weird incident involving phantom footsteps and closing doors, mysterious car sounds, Seriah’s strange near-simultaneous encounters with screech owls in two different states, the “robot circles” incident, a report of a disembodied voice and candles and counter-magic, efforts to re-create something like a woolly mammoth, solar flares, the solar system’s journey through the cosmos, the photon belt theory, Paul Otto Hess, cosmic radiation and human health, the 1859 Carrington Effect, further solar flare mayhem, a possible prosaic explanation for the green light, the “Small Town Horror” fiction podcast, technology being confused for paranormal phenomena, heart attacks spiking during solar flares, a study suggesting people somehow grow into their name, Ray Palmer and self-healing, hypnotic healing and the placebo effect, the social significance of names, Martin Williams, Stan Gooch and “Creatures from Inner Space”, a possible explanation for the Oz Effect, the brains filtering of perception, fungi using electrical pulses as a language, “Star Trek”, “The Last of Us”, “Cop Rock”, musical numbers in TV, plasma bubbles detected over the Pyramids of Egypt, unknown unknowns, previous dangers we were unaware of, microplastics, the problems of authority, scientists vs elected politicians, the difficulties of monetization in society, the importance of scrutiny in evaluating information, media representations of world events, and much more! This is a rollicking, fascinating discussion! Recap by Vincent Treewell of The Weird Part PodcastOutro Music is All the Miles from Fifty Dollar Dynasty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.