If you’ve been around Getting Spooked for any stretch of time, you know how often I quote or cite Mark Pilkington’s Mirage Men—a book that should be required reading for anyone in the field. Luckily, since following up on a lead in the book wound up (in many ways) creating this very newsletter, we’ve been communicating on the subject for some time. In this episode of TGSP, we discuss a wide array of topics, letting the conversation drift for one paranormality to another, and reflect upon how the UFO subculture has evolved since the book’s publication.
Relevant links:
Mark Pilkington - Mirage Men: A Journey in Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs (Constable, 2010)
Mirage Men (John Lundberg, 2016) [check where to stream or purchase]
Mark Pilkington - The Abuses of Enchantment: Folklore and Deception in the Disinformation Age
Teleplasmiste - Of Nature & Electricity
Voice of Space - S/T (a personal favorite)
Daniel Kagan and Ian Summers - Mute Evidence: The Cattle Mutilation Mystery—Solved!
Race with the Devil (Jack Starrett, 1975)
Endangered Species (Alan Rudolph, 1982)
The Bosco in Brazil, Pt. 8: Bosco Nedelcovic, the General, and the Vampires
TGSP - [#15] Catching Up on the Bledsoes w/ Weird Reads with Emily Louise
Music:
Ojas - “All of Life’s a Meditation”
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