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THE STORIES WE TELL IN THE DARK is a discussion of the dark and unusual in media. Topics include cinema deep cuts, fringe documentaries, weird behind-the-scenes stories, and forgotten lore.
SHADOWPLAY is an upcoming series of story-driven episodes about cinema’s bizarre and hidden histories.
FILM ON THE FRINGE was a limited series exploring modern cult classics and genre favorites and their connections to magic and mystery.
Host Adam Charles is a screenwriter, teacher, software developer, and lifelong film obsessive.
TOYNBEE IDEA / IN KUBRICK'S 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER // For over 25 years, mysterious tiles have appeared on busy streets from New York to Brazil. These tiles hint at an outrageous p…
Is the federal income tax unconstitutional? Is it a fraud perpetrated by a cabal of sneaky elites pushing their self-serving agenda through nefarious means? That would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, w…
Turns out there's actual scientific evidence for the idea that we are all living in a carefully crafted simulation. Are we in fact merely sprites in a video game played by some disaffected teenager s…
We risk the wrath of the Church of Scientology by discussing the film and book GOING CLEAR, as well as the twisted history of L Ron Hubbard and his pulp sci-fi religion.
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DMT is a ubiquitous, naturally occurring compound that may be at the root of spiritual experience, the alien abduction phenomenon, even consciousness itself. So why is it taboo? We discuss the film …
We discuss the intriguing and troubling documentary, ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH.
From Wikipedia: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is an American non-profit organization o…
Easter in September! For no good reason, we discuss the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. More specifically, we talk about the 2004 documentary SECRETS OF THE SHROU…
Is civilization teetering on the edge of the greatest preventable disaster in human history? Collapse explores the theories and life of doomsayer, Michael Ruppert. Join John and Adam as they discuss …
STRANGER THINGS was inspired by the real-life Montauk Project (its working title was MONTAUK).
According to legend, thousands of young boys were abducted from the streets of New York in the 1970s and…
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE was a 1994 documentary exposing a child abuse and pedophilia ring that led to the highest levels of the United States government. Just before airing, the Discovery Channel abrup…
THE SECRET is an insidious, destructive force ruining the lives of millions. What's worse, there are some real truths at the root of its philosophy - you just can't see them through THE SECRET's noxi…
Justin Smeja and a friend were hunting in the Sierras when they saw a seven-foot-tall hairy hominid they could not identify. So they shot it. Then, after giving chase to the wounded creature, they…
The 1950s saw a wave of individuals claiming special relationships with our space brothers and sisters. Sure, many (all?) of these "contactees" may have been off their rockers... but there's an unden…
In 1980, a man and a woman witnessed the controlled landing of a cigar-shaped, apparently extraterrestrial vehicle. More than three decades later they returned to the location of their sighting with …
What was the real-life inspiration for THE EXORCIST? What really happened in AMITYVILLE? Was THE ENTITY a demon, spirit, or poltergeist? Who haunts the HOLLYWOOD SIGN? What silent stars STILL can't r…
Planet earth is doomed. Climate change is real. And the only viable solution to saving mankind is to abandon our planet and start anew somewhere else... Hey, we hear Mars has plenty of real estate!
…The documentary SIRIUS claims to expose "the greatest story never told." It explains how Earth has been visited by benevolent space brothers concerned for our future. It relates how elements within t…
It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, achievements in all of human history. But what if it didn’t happen that way? What if NASA, knowing they couldn’t achieve what Kennedy set in motion ju…
Providing a broad historical context behind some of the biggest crimes of the 20th century, this fascinating 3 1/2 hour documentary not only explains it all for you, it even names names. Yes, all th…
What if someone told you that most - maybe all - of the biggest UFO stories of the last few decades were carefully crafted lies? And what if that same someone told you that those lies were a delibera…