Getting Spooked | Table of Discontents

A periodically updated collection of links to each Getting Spooked series in more readable order

Alien Abduction and Racial Anxiety: Barney and Betty Hill Reexamined

Part 1: Introduction / Screen Memories

Part 2: Peace from Venus / Cosmic Transmissions

Part 3: ETs on TV / Repressed Memories

The Bosco in Brazil

Part 1: The Villas-Boas affair, MILABS-mania, and Induced Abduction Experience

Part 2: The Scoriton Affair, Paul Bennewitz, and Targeted Individuals of the Cosmic Variety

Part 3: More UFO Psyops, the CIA, the School of Living, and Proposals Galore

Part 4: Certainly Not EPCOT, the Finders, and Uneasy Speculations

Part 5: Op-eds, Clarence J. Gamble, and Other Odds & Ends

Part 6: A Conversation with Rich Reynolds + More Odds and Sods

Part 7: Recap, the Institute for Policy Studies, and More Modest Proposals

Part 8: Bosco Nedelcovic, the General, and the Vampires

Part 8.5: Born in Belgrade b/w Julius Evola Gets Upset

Part 9: A Conversation with Mickey and Ines Nedelcovic

Christopher Bledsoe and the UFO Cult of Intelligence

Part 1: An Analysis of UFO of God, Chris Bledsoe, and Those Who Believe in Him (or Want You to Believe in Him)

Part 2: The JSOC Next Door / The Religious Scholar Who Came to Dinner

Part 3: The Men from NASA (Hal Povenmire & Timothy Taylor) Befriend Chris Bledsoe

Part 4: The Transmigration of Timothy Taylor / The Divine Invasion of Chris Bledsoe

Part 5: Forty Yards to the Burning Bush / A Shuttle Darkly

Part 6: American Cosmic Revisited / The Ballad of Tyler D.

Part 7: Überspook Col. John B. Alexander, the Pope Incident, the Cult of Intelligence, the MILAB Melee, Information Warfare, and Non-Lethal Weapons

Part 8: To the Stars Inc., Tom DeLonge, Jim Semivan, a Murky CIA History, and More Kayfabe

Cystic Detective Updates

Update #1: A Descendant of Jesus Christ, Nothing New Under the Sol, and a Question: What the Hell is Going on at General Motors?

Update #2: More on Plant Enthusiast Paul Sauvin, Mulling over CBW, and the Pesky Drone Swarms Come Up Again

Update #3: Bigelow's NIDS Group at Mt. Wilson, Non-Lethal Weapons Yet Again, Ross Coulthart Alleges More Nonsense, Disorganized Thoughts on Military Motives, and Some Light-Hearted Reading for Trying Times

Update #4: The Surveillance State, a Farewell to Programmed to Chill, Falling for Infosec Tests, and Trudging through the Slop Era

Update #5: A company town in the jungle, Cleveland Rocks, strange UFO tomes, that one Wall Street Journal article, and other recent reads, thoughts, & happenings

Update #6: COM-12, Michael Younger, and More Octopus Tentacles, Plus Current Reading on T. Townsend Brown with Frustrating Footnotes

Update #7: The best podcasts I’ve heard lately, Ross Douthat & D.W. Pasulka have a confusing conversation about UFOs, & I succumb to the grip of the Octopus

Update #8: Ruminating Further on Fort Bragg & Bledsoe, a "Paramilitary Panda" Tip, and Recent Book Finds (Including a Strange Fascist’s Self-Hypnosis Book)

Update #9: Tim “Tyler D.” Taylor (Supposedly) Resurfaces, an Interesting Deep Dive into Secret Fu-Go Balloons, and a Reader Offers a Spooky Possible Instance of Remote Viewing as Intelligence Laundering

Update #10: Scattered thoughts on fascist Satanists, the Brazilian coup d’état, spooked up Ponzi schemes, press freedoms, and the need for researchers to have a little self-respect

Update #11: A book on wandering bishops, a missing UFO keymaster, and assorted (very normal) reactions to military action in the Middle East from the fringe community

Forbidden Science Dispatches

Dispatch #1: Jacques Vallée Meets Barney and Betty Hill, 1967 / The ET Scholars from IBM

Dispatch #2: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes and Paranoia in Brazilian UFO Research

Dispatch #3: Satanism, Saucers, and Nazi Rocket Scientists: The Colorful Cast of Characters in Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science 2

Dispatch #4A: H. Bruce Franklin, the Venceremos Organization at Stanford, and the Symbionese Liberation Army

Dispatch #4B: James McDonald the UFO Scientist, Betsy McDonald the Socialist, and the Surveillance of 1970s American Activists

Dispatch #5: Keith Harary, SRI, Jonestown, and the Murder of Al and Jeannie Mills

Dispatch #6: Lt. Col. Thaddeus P. Floryan, an Obscure Peruvian Contactee, and the “Teaching Machine"

Dispatch #7A: Christopher “Kit” Green, Biological & Chemical Warfare, Yellow Rain, Cattle Mutilations, and the MKULTRA-ish in the CIA's Life Sciences Division

Dispatch #7B: Cutting through the Secret Onion and Other Intel Games, Glomarization, Project Azorian, Project Serpo, and the Friendship of Jacques Vallée and Kit Green

Dispatch #8: Let’s Have Some Levity, Shall We? The Funny, Cheerful, Poetic, and Idiosyncratic within Jacques Vallée’s Diaries

Dispatch #9: The Early NIDS Days, Ron Pandolfi, Kit Green, Robert Frosch, General Motors and Hughes Connections, and How the UFO Topic Has Been a Fount for NatSec & Foreign Policy Psyops for Nearly a Century

Dispatch #10: How Jacques Vallée Was Targeted by a Tentacle of Danny Casolaro's Octopus, or: A Mystery Caller with a Finance Ploy, Robert Booth Nichols, Bob Lazar, the Sam Israel III Ponzi Scheme, and the Endless Octopus Conspiracy

Dispatch #11: Remote Viewing as Intelligence Laundering, wherein we examine the befuddling history of remote viewing, its ties to Scientology and MKUltra, and how its true intel value may remain occulted or obscured.

It’s Always Sunny in Gulf Breeze, Florida

Part 1: The Gang Goes AWOL (A Gulf Breeze Six Primer)

Part 2: Ed Walters (Possible Antichrist) Photographs a UFO & Battles Its Crew

Part 3: Lyn Buchanan's Psychic EMP / Vance Davis Meets a Major Alien Babe Through Self-Mind Control

Part 4: The Gang Contacts Spirits Through a Ouija Board

Part 5: The Group Gains Members and Receives Further Prophecy

Part 6: The Gang Sees the End Times Coming / The Gang Goes Stateside

Part 7: The Gang Hits the Beach / Vance and Ken Fall in Love

Part 8: The Gang Gets Busted / The Gang in Captivity

Part 9: The Gang Gets Discharged / Free the Gulf Breeze Six

Part 10: Vance Davis Goes on a Press Tour & Meets Sean David Morton

Part 11: Vance Davis Coast to Coast / Richard C. Hoagland's NSA Source

Part 11.5: Addendum / Vance Davis' New Age Networking

Part 12: Final Thoughts on the Gulf Breeze Six and their AWOL Adventure [Delusion / Operation]

Part 13: Final Thoughts on the Gulf Breeze Six and their AWOL Adventure [Operation / Delusion]

Manifest(uf)os & State of the U(fo)nion Addresses (The Diatribes)

Manifest(uf)o: Thoughts on the Perpetual UFO Psyop/Scam

State of the U(fo)nion: The Sol Conference, Military and Intelligence Religions, and Further UFO Ponderings

Manifest(uf)o II: The Deficiency in Skepticism and Continued Thoughts on the State of Ufology

State of the U(fo)nion II: Losing the Magic, Forgetting Class Consciousness, Worshipping False UAP Idols, and Left Wondering Where to Go from Here

Manifest(uf)o III: The Interminable Utility of the UFO to the Western Defense Blob, or: Seven Examples of How the MID Benefits from Playing the Same Old UFO Tune

The Parapolitical Scooby-Doo

#1: Spooky Space Kook, Extraterrestrial Psyops, Real Estate Schemes, and the Ghastly Quest for Capital

Reader Requests

Reader Requests #1: Bringing Meier to America, & the Uncomfortable Truth of Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens

Reader Requests #2: Return to Wendelle C. Stevens, the Huckster, the Pedophile, and the Fascist

Reading Lists

Reading List #1: Some Bookshelf Recommendations for the Non-Hardened Cynic

Reading List #2: Four Parapolitical or Paranormal Books for Suspicious Minds

Reading List #3: Four Books to Remind Readers That I Still Possess a Sense of Childlike Wonder

Reading List #4: Five Stellar Paranormal and Parapolitical Newsletters/Blogs That Keep You Eager for More

Reading List #5: Okay, So Maybe Not Reading—But Sometimes Watching Things Is Good for You Too! Seven YouTube Documentarians or Video Essayists Worth Your Time

Reading List #6: Seven Substack Publications to Keep an Eye on, Perfect for a Steady Diet of Deep Dives, Parapolitics, and Daily Strangeness

Reviews

Review: Martin Cannon’s The Child Stealers (2022)

Review: Uga Carlini's Beyond the Light Barrier (2023)

Review: D.W. Pasulka’s Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences (2023)

Fabulist, Fraud, or Phenom? A Critique of Paul Schatzkin’s The Man Who Mastered Gravity (2023)

[Spook]Housekeeping

April 2023: Plans, Promotions, and a Little Bigfoot Tale

August 2025: The future of Getting Spooked + Thinking about Seth Harp’s “The Fort Bragg Cartel” and UFO contactee Chris Bledsoe

St. Peter at the Sonic Drive-In

Part 1: Sudden Disappearances and a UFO Cult in Small Town America

Part 2: Clues Uncovered, the “Strange Faith” in Russell, and Possible Human Deception

Part 3: License Revoked, Believers Found, and the Man at the Pentagon

Part 4: Prophecy Fails, the Aftermath, and Vague Conclusions

Still Sunny: Continued Investigations into the Gulf Breeze Six

Gulf Breeze UFO Redux: Leah Haley, Alien Abduction, and Space Spooks Coast to Coast

Part 1: Ken Beason, Dreams, Nightmares, Paranoia, and Science Fiction

Part 2: Ken Beason, The Incarnate, and Echoes of Past Apocalypses

Part 3: Ed Walters and the Intricacies of the Gulf Breeze UFO Crowd

Part 4: Former Intelligence Personnel Recollect Memories of Field Station Augsburg and the Six AWOL Soldiers

That Charming Man: Indrid Cold Reconsidered

Part 1: Woodrow Derenberger, Indrid Cold, and the Possibility of Covert Operations in West Virginia

Part 2: Tad Jones, the Sphere, the Threats, and Astronaut Boot Prints

Part 3: Union Carbide, the Air Force, NASA, and NICAP—Oh My!

Part 4: Human Affairs in Intergalactic Contact / The Shrink Meets a Spaceman

Part 5: Leon Davidson, Believing Adamski, and How to Manipulate a Contactee

Part 6: Contactees in Cars Getting Reconnaissance and Other (Extra) Terrestrial Adventures

Part 7: Getting Spooked in the Land of Mothman and Indrid Cold

Part 8: Harold W. Hubbard, Thomas Monteleone, and Other Lanuloose Ends

Part 9: Against the Urban Legend-ification of Indrid Cold, the Grinning Man

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One-Off Explorations by Date

Countdown to the Apocalypse: Tim McVeigh, The X-Files, Bill Cooper, and That Darn Doty (12/29/2022)

Taking the Hyper Dimensional Resonator to Candyland: Steven L. Gibbs' HDR Unit, More Butts/Corder, and a Prelude to the Gulf Breeze Six (1/12/2023)

Gerry Irwin's UFO-Induced Amnesia: The First American Abduction Experience, What It Means About the Phenomenon, and More (1/18/2023)

Fred Lee Crisman Fights the Deros: Propagation of Paranormal Myth in the Era of Shaver (3/25/2023)

Wendelle Stevens Runs a UFO Conference Badly: The CUFORN Bulletin Recalls the 1991 First World UFO Congress (7/23/2023)

Fear and Loathing at MUFON PA: Reflections on My First UFO Conference, Western Pennsylvania MUFON 2024 (4/17/2024)

Holes, Caverns, and Hell Itself: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves as Urban Legend (6/5/2024)

Close Encounters with the Far-Right in Paranormal Spaces: Jason Reza Jorjani’s Closer Encounters, Speculative Sources, Alt-Right Sensibilities, & Intelligence Vulnerabilities (7/16/2024)

Some "Primary Perceptions" of Cleve Backster: The CIA, the Shickshinny Knights of Malta, Plant Consciousness, Enhanced Interrogation, Mind Control, and a Tsar (8/14/2024)

Cleve Backster Addendum (Some "Secondary Perceptions"): Jeffrey MacDonald vs. Joe McGinniss, More on Mankind Research Unlimited, and Curious Connections to Silva Mind Control (8/21/2024)

The Sacred Struggle of a Phillies Catcher: Darren Daulton's Metaphysical Treatise, Occulted Baseball, and the Toxic Chemicals That May Have Led Him There (10/16/2024)

UFOs, Drones, Glitter, and Radar Chaff: What Leon Davidson and the Solution to the Glitter Mystery Can Tell Us About the Current Unidentified Flying Drone Flap (12/18/2024)

Ad Astra per Aspera: Kansas History as Seen through Roadside Historical Markers (1/15/2025)

The Cultural Cold War and Alien Abduction: Budd Hopkins, Abstract Expressionism, Hypnotic Regression, Screen Memories, American Exceptionalism, and Recurrent Problematic Patronage in the Arts and Sciences (4/9/2025)

A Fortean Emergence: The Early SF/Forteana Relationship — A sample chapter from my book, The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction, covering the life and work of anomalist Charles Hoy Fort and the literature that spun off his writings (5/21/2025)

Holding Out for a UFO Hero, No Matter the Cost: The VP Acknowledges UFOs and the New Air Force Undersecretary Believes That the Military is Marxist & Anomalous Orbs are Plasma-Based Beings from Biblical Times. So What? (8/6/2025)

Guided By Voices and the Fractured American Dream of Rock ‘n’ Roll: A love letter to Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices, rising above expectations, and the creative life (3/11/2026)

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Guest Articles

Emily

• Radioactive Toothpaste and Conspiranoia - The Strange Saga of Ufologist John Ford, Pt. 1: A bizarre assassination plot, radium from Northrop-Grumman, UFOs, militias, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and a culture of conspiracy

• Radioactive Toothpaste and Conspiranoia - The Strange Saga of Ufologist John Ford, Pt. 2: The rise of the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON), a rockabilly musician & a college professor, escaped monkeys, and the selling of UFO experiencer data

Reid

• The Children’s Crusade, Pt. 1: Belita Adair, the Space Kids, and Andrija Puharich's Faraday Cage

• The Children’s Crusade, Pt. 2: An Interview with Parapsychologist Hugh Macdonald on Belita Adair’s Psychic Powers, Navy Psych Research, and the Laboratory of Philip Zimbardo

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