Fresh off recent Epstein file releases, the gnome gang weaves some previous listener questions into a discussion about parapsychology, The Telepathy Tapes, facilitated communication, Wikipedia, the Skeptic movement, and what the Epstein story might have to say about all of these subjects. Also touched upon: The Phoenix Lights, Bradley’s finds at an estate sale, and hot dog toppings.
And tune in to Weird Reads with Emily Louise on February 28th when she livestreams with friend of the show Dr. Jerrold Coe to talk about The Telepathy Tapes and Epstein associates in further depth.
Bradley W Plaisier’s notes:
Bradley’s proprietary Getting Spooked sweatshirt:
Painting, Wendy S. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Tim McVeigh. Walterville: TrineDay, 2016.
Progoff, Ira. Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny: C.G. Jung’s Theory of Meaningful Coincidence. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1987.
Russell, Jeffrey Burton. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Beyer, Stephan. The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Constable, Trevor James. The Cosmic Pulse of Life. Garberville: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1990.
Elkes, Joel. The Dark and the Light II. Kalamazoo: The Fetzer Institute, 2002.
Crowley, John. Little, Big. New York: Bantam Books, 1981.
Fisher, Mark. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books, 2016.
The Phoenix Lights, dir. Lynne Kitei, 2005.
Ruelas, Richard. “Kurt Russell claims he saw — and reported — the ‘Phoenix Lights.’” The Arizona Republic. 14 June 2017. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/06/14/kurt-russell-claims-reported-phoenix-lights-ufos/394749001/.
Davis, Erik. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. London/Cambridge: Strange Attractor Press/The MIT Press, 2019.
Sheffield, Suzanne. “The 23 Enigma, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley, Synchronicity & Me.” HubPages. 2 March 2021. https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Carl-Jung-Aldus-Huxley-Synchronicity-Connection.
Keel, John A. Our Haunted Planet. London: Neville Spearman Limited, 1971.
Tyson, Neil Degrasse and Avis Lang. Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Owen, Iris M. and Margaret Sparrow. Conjuring Up Philip: An Adventure in Psychokinesis. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1976.
Deleted analysis from the Teletubbies Wikipedia page: https://theteletubbysisterfans.fandom.com/wiki/Teletubbies_(TV_Series)
Reid’s notes:
Black, Conrad. “The Charter is dead — Jordan Peterson’s forced re-education proves it.” National Post. 17 August 2024. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-charter-is-dead-jordan-petersons-forced-re-education-proves-it. (Wherein Peterson is called “Canada’s leading public intellectual and probably the most famous and esteemed Canadian in the world.”)
“Epstein Tells Ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak About Palantir In Leak Audio.”
Haskins, Caroline. “Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions.” Wired. 2 February 2026. https://archive.is/20260204180605/https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-jeffrey-files-peter-thiel-diet-sushi/.
“The Cult of Aristasia (Part 1) with Reid @seriations.” YouTube, uploaded by Weird Reads with Emily Louise, 23 March 2024. Link.
Reid’s series on Belita Adair and Andrija Puharich, “The Children’s Crusade.”
“Andrija Puharich and His Space Kids with Heidi Jurka.” YouTube, uploaded by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove, 25 February 2024. Link.
Spector, David. “DOJ emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein was asked to fund telepathy experiments — and met with ‘spoon bender.’” New York Post. 7 February 2026. https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-asked-to-fund-telepathy-experiments-and-had-meeting-with-spoon-bender/. (More on Gino Yu and others in this article.)
Relevant Cryto Cuttlefish thread.
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. London: Headline Book Publishing, 1996.
Garisto, Dan. “Epstein files reveal deeper ties to scientists than previously known.” Nature. 6 February 2026. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00388-0.
Ghorayshi, Azeen. “Nobody Believed Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.” Buzzfeed. 6 December 2018. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women.
Eshleman, Tina. “Steven Pruitt ’06: Wikipedia’s most prolific editor.” William & Mary Alumni Magazine. 29 October 2018. https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/the-wikiman.php.
Tanner F. Boyle’s notes:
About Richard Sharpe Shaver’s “Rokfogo” technique: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03/20/a-threat-to-mental-health-how-to-read-rocks/.
“The Bosco in Brazil” on the life and claims of Bosco Nedelcovic.
Special thanks to Rich Reynolds, blogger at various venues.
Phoenix Lights press conference with Fife Symington.
Tanner was thinking of the coverage of the Phoenix Lights done by the 2021 Showtime documentary series UFO, dir. Mark Monroe & Paul Crowder.
“File: Pascagoula Alien Abduction.” Files of the Unexplained, season 1, episode 1, 3 April 2024.
Gorightly, Adam. “When Downard Met Discordia.” Historia Discordia. 21 December 2016. http://historiadiscordia.com/when-downard-met-discordia/. Now on Substack at Saucers, Spooks, & Kooks.
More on the Sirius Rising tapes: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/category/books-and-periodicals/authors-editors-and-wordsmiths/james-shelby-downard/
More on noxious freak Jim Brandon (aka William Grimstad) from Spencer Sunshine’s Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege:
(Adam) Parfrey also asked if Mason would share his mailing list to promote both EXIT and his forthcoming titles from Amok Press. He then name-dropped two of his ‘movement correspondents.’ The first was William Grimstad, who had edited the NSWPP (National Socialist White People’s Party) newspaper White Power as well as David Duke’s Crusader but was most famous for writing The Six Million Reconsidered: Is the ‘Nazi Holocaust’ Story a Zionist Propaganda Ploy? (…)
Grimstad would be involved in the Abraxas Clique. In September 1987, he put another Holocaust denier, Keith Stimely, in touch with Parfrey, and the two met in 1988. With a view to the situation quite like Mason’s, Grimstad described Parfrey’s circle to Stimely as “an apparently vital and by no means traditional ‘right wing’ reactionary group, of the type that we absolutely have to have if we are to get anywhere.” (…) In October 1988, Parfrey suggested that Grimstad write the introduction to a George Lincoln Rockwell book Mason was planning.
Dr. Jerrold Coe on Twitter (sample thread)
Tell Them You Love Me, dir. Nick August-Perna, 2023.
Esoterichoe. “How I Saw the Grift Behind The Telepathy Tapes: A Story On Media Literacy and High-Control Systems.” Esoteric Hoe Substack. 3 January 2026. Link.
Barr, William P. “Why Pam Bondi Didn’t Publish All the Epstein Files in 30 Days.” The Wall Street Journal. https://archive.is/20260124145254/https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-pam-bondi-didnt-publish-all-the-epstein-files-in-30-days-6c6689fd#selection-547.0-547.61.
Levine, Sam. “Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties.” The Guardian. 8 February 2026. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/noam-chomsky-epstein-ties-wife-apology.
McLaughlin, Aidan. “Inside Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein’s Disturbingly Close Friendship.” Vanity Fair. 13 February 2026. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/steve-bannon-jeffrey-epstein-files-trump-maga.
Relevant thread on Rupert Sheldrake’s correspondence with Epstein.
Nemo C. Mörck at the Society for Psychical Research
Brewster, Thomas. “How Jeffrey Epstein Manipulated Google Search To Bury His Past.” Forbes. 10 February 2026. https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/02/10/jeffrey-epstein-manipulated-google-search/.
Anono, Bea. “Demand Wikipedia to Dismiss Editors Suppressing UAP Phenomenon Information.” Change.org. https://www.change.org/p/demand-wikipedia-to-dismiss-editors-suppressing-uap-phenomenon-information.
Matsakis, Louise. “The ‘Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories.” Wired. 25 July 2018. https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/.
Music:
“No More Hot Dogs” by Hasil Adkins
“Girl from Ipanema” by Walter Wanderley
“Themes from Venus” by Love Tractor
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