October 14, 2025 • 41 mins
What if the faces we follow are costumes, the rooms we enter are charged with old stories, and the rituals we whisper are tools we forgot we owned? That’s the ride we take—through celebrity as fabrication, shapeshifter lore, neural awe machines, and the quiet comeback of folk magic that puts power back in your hands.
We open by pulling apart the glamour: how fame can function like an ongoing role made of makeup, coaching, timing, and now AI, designed to steer what we buy and believe. A shapeshifter account attributed to Billy Corgan electrifies the question of identity and control, not as proof but as a mirror. From there we slip into the 1980s lab where Michael Persinger’s “God Helmet” aimed complex magnetic fields at the temporal lobes and people reported presences, ecstasy, and out-of-body states. The replication debate matters: are we glimpsing neurotheology in action or suggestion at scale? Either way, it reveals just how close mystery sits to the machinery of the brain.
We then trace a harsher line: whistleblower claims about Project Solace, mind-to-voice tech, and trauma-based conditioning—stories that live where trust has thinned. We don’t ask you to swallow every detail; we ask you to notice the need for meaning when institutions fail. That same need fuels today’s rise in witchcraft and folk practice—ancestor altars, herbs, tarot, and simple intention-setting—not as a trend but as survival and self-trust. You’ll hear a personal manifestation story, plus a concise tour of the Book of Enoch—Watchers, Nephilim, judgment—and why ancient frameworks still shape modern fears.
To lighten the grip without losing the edge, we share fresh horror takes: why Conjuring: Last Rites worked for us, how Weapons surprised, where an Ed Gein drama stumbled, and why True Haunting taps the eerie ecology of college campuses. Finally, we face Stephen King—genius, darkness, and the balance required to engage hard stories—before gearing up for Welcome to Derry and what new fear-lab it might build.
If you’re curious, skeptical, and a little haunted, you’ll feel at home here. Hit follow, rate the show to help more weirdos find us, and text us via our Buzzsprout page with your theory, book rec, or haunted campus story. What thread should we pull next?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hey weirdos, welcome back.
Welcome to Strange StrangeBeyond Insane.
In case any of you areunfamiliar, this is the show
where we dive into the bizarre,the paranormal, and the just
plain unexplainable.
And this is your host, Melissa.
So we've been talking on thisshow for a long time about, you
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know, basically the world is astage and celebrity worshipping
is coming to an end, thank God.
And I have some videos that Iwant to share on here and my
thoughts too, and here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (00:35):
I told you every celebrity you've ever known,
from musicians to actors topoliticians, isn't real.
They're all characters.
Hollywood is way more advancedthan they let on.
We're not just talking aboutmakeup or CGI.
We're talking about full-blownidentity fabrication on a scale
that would blow your mind.
Every celebrity is just a roleplayed by an elite group of
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actors using crazy advancedHollywood techniques.
I mean, think about makeupartists, voice coaches, body
doubles do things.
Hollywood's in this tech fordecades.
They can make anyone look likeanyone.
What do you think is acelebrity's natural appearance?
It's a costume.
They're trained to play rolesnot just in movies, but in life.
This whole thing is to controlus and celebrities influence how
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we think, what we wear, what wecare about.
They're there to sell ideas,lifestyles, keep us distracted
from real problems.
And there are characters.
Those actors just take away someof the biggest names today.
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Suspiciously similar.
They're always just there.
Some of the biggest celebritydouble leads in history.
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Hollywood has been usingaesthetics, body doubles, and
now even AI for years.
The real secret, they'veperfected face-to-voice changing
technology.
We're talking micro implantsthat can change vocal tone,
advanced body suits to alterphysical appearance, and even
psychological conditioning tomake the actor believe they are
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the character.
This stuff is beyond anythingwe've seen publicly.
They've got this down to ascience man.
Entire studios exist just totrain these elite actors in
multiple celebrity roles.
These people live entire livesas different celebrities
flipping between roles dependingon what the industry needs at
the time.
If you look at the way thesecelebrity lives unfold, how
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perfectly timed their rises andfalls are, how eerily similar
some of them look and sound, youcan't help but wonder.
SPEAKER_00 (03:01):
Okay, so this is kind of funny because a
co-worker and I were justtalking about um Billy Corgan
from um Smashing Pumpkins thispast Saturday, and there's so
many things about him.
But anyways, there's aninterview about him recalling a
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terrifying shapeshifterexperience, and I thought this
was very, very um it was I'm I'mtrying to find like the right
words to say without putting myown spin on it, you know, too
much of my own experiences, butI I do I will say this, I 1000%
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believe this man.
But here we go.
SPEAKER_02 (03:45):
I was with somebody once and and I saw I saw a
transformation that I can'texplain.
The person transformed intosomething other than human.
Yes.
I saw it.
Were you on drugs?
I was not, it was totally sober.
Wow.
I wasn't saying that.
Imagine you're doing somethingand suddenly you turn around and
there's somebody else.
A different human.
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It's hard to explain withoutgoing into it.
I'm not going to pump it.
What did you say to the person?
What did you just do here?
And what did they say they were?
The person was making them.
SPEAKER_03 (04:17):
Were you in bed with the paper?
Were you making love?
Were you uncomfortable?
I find this story so crazy, andI'm so glad they came forward
with it.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontmanlater explained that he was
being vague on here out of fearfor his career and well-being
for his loved ones.
In a later interview with thePeople's Voice, he alleged,
demons exist.
They are real.
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They are reptilian.
That's why the Bible says Evewas seduced by a snake.
Substitute reptile for snake.
Billy later elaborated about hisexperience with the record
industry in Illuminati.
He said that he had an encounterwith an industry executive who
shapeshifted right in front ofhim during a meeting.
He said, I can't remember hisexact words to me, but he said
something along the lines of,all humans will suffer in
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unending agony.
You will do our will.
Let's see.
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
Yeah, so I definitely don't think he would
even say that publicly, um, ifit wasn't true, knowing that it
could, you know, his life hefears for his life and for his
career, right?
So I truly do believe him.
Um all right, so I came acrossthis article and I did
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fact-check it and make sure,made sure that it was real, and
it is very intriguing.
Um, I can't believe like therewasn't an actual fucking movie
made about this, like based ontrue events that this really
happened, right?
There's been a lot of movieslike this, but I mean, I've
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never heard anyone talk aboutthis.
So we're gonna talk about theGod helmet that was made in the
1980s.
So in the 1980s, Canadian nurneuroscientist Michael Persinger
began pioneering the experimentsthat would lead to the
development and publicfascination with the God helmet.
Working with his colleagueStanley Corrin, Persinger
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designed a modified helmet thatapplied weak, complex magnetic
fields to the brain's temporallobes.
The experiments explored theengineering field of
neurotheology, which studies theneural correlates of religion
and spirituality.
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The experiment and its results.
Okay, so the first God helmetwas a modified yellow
snowblowing, I'm sorry,snowmobiling helmet fitted with
magnetic coils, solenoids.
The helmet was designed to applyweak, fluctuating fluctuating
magnetic signals to a subject'stemporal lobes, the brain
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regions associated with themotion, memory, and the
processing of sensoryinformation, the procedure,
okay.
The test subjects, obviously,people, humans, would sit in a
dark, soundproof room or achamber, which shielded them
from all external stimuli,including the Earth's natural
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magnetic field while wearing thehelmet, they would receive the
magnetic stimulation.
So these are reportedexperiences.
Persinger reported that asignificant majority of
participants experienced asensed presence in the room with
them.
These presences were sometimesinterpreted as god, angels,
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ghosts, or other spiritualbeings.
Some subjects also reportedout-of-body experiences,
feelings of ecstasy, or visions.
Um Wow.
So the theory behind the helmet.
Persinger's work was based onthe idea that many spiritual and
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paranormal experiences areneurological artifacts,
particularly linked to activityin the temporal lobes.
The theory proposed that byapplying a magnetic field
mimicking the neural signals ofa temporal lobe, epileptic
seizure, it might be possible toinduce similar mystical states
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in non-epileptic individuals.
The experiences were explainedby Persinger as inner
hemispheric intrusions.
Well, um, a disruption ofcommunication between the two
cerebral um hemispheres, whichcaused the right hemisphere's
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sense of self to intrude intothe left hemisphere's dominant
consciousness.
So obviously, this gained a lotof controversy.
Um it was failed.
The most significant point ofcontent is that many other
research groups have failed toreplicate Persengers' results
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under controlled double-blindedconditions.
In some cases, participantswearing um this hat sham helmets
reported similar effects.
The role of it was some studiessuggest that the experiences
reported by participants weremore likely influenced by the
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I'm sorry, by personal andpsychological traits, like a
belief in the paranormal, thanby magnetic stimulation itself.
Ongoing legacy.
Despite the controversy,Persinger's work sparked
significant public andscientific interest in neurotha
I'm sorry, neurotheology.
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It continues to fuel debateabout the neurological or
origins of spiritual experiencesand the fuzzy line between
perception and belief.
So I just find this sointriguing.
I cannot believe I've never inmy life have heard of the God
helmet.
So it was a snowmobiling helmetthat was modified basically.
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And again, I cannot believe Ididn't know about this because
this is something I would haveknown about.
I mean, I should have, right?
But I think it is extremelyinteresting.
Okay, so here's anotherinteresting little story.
Sabrina Wallace is awhistleblower who shares her
testimony about a secretivedefense program she calls
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Project Solace.
She claims her family was pulledinto it in the late 1960s,
turning what looked likeordinary medical care into
long-term experimentation.
From childhood, Wallaceremembers being connected to a
strange machine, undergoingunusual procedures, and
experiencing events that shelater understood as part of a
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neural mapping in earlyhuman-machine interrogation
research.
According to her, Project Solacedeveloped implant sensors and
electromagnetic technologiescapable of transmitting data
remotely, projecting voices orthoughts into the mind, and even
linking one person's emotions toanother.
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She describes deliberatetrauma-based conditioning,
military involvement, and theuse of satellites and drones to
expand the program beyond labs.
Today, Wallace warns that thesesystems did not disappear.
They evolved into hiddennetworks of surveillance and
control that still shaped themodern world.
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So some of the comments include,and again, they're kind of
graphic, the guy who justrandomly stabbed the girl to
death on the train claimed thatthe implants made him do it.
Um, then that this person'stalking about that poor
Ukrainian girl that was stabbed,and everybody remembers seeing
that.
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Um, this other person commentedand said, This is how mass
shooters happen.
The kids get signals and voices,messages into their brain, and
they go on a rampage.
Harp, so all cap H A R P isconstant constantly throwing
signals to the ion osphere thatcauses confusion and changes in
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the nervous system.
Another user says it's calledvoice to skull technology.
It's not a conspiracy theory,trust me.
So I'm just reading thesecomments.
Um another person says she iscorrect and she's just waiting
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for everybody to be able tocatch up.
She's a legend, and I won't lether name disappear.
She taught so many people what'shappening before it was public.
It's publicly because of her.
I think a lot of Gen X have gonethrough this trauma.
I know I did.
Compton, California schools,severe abuse, and use those
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headphones, and the entire areawas surrounded by MKUltra, which
is why there's so much violenceback in the 80s.
Whether anyone believes it ornot, it's happening right under
your noses.
Why do you think they keep usall distracted?
Um, someone commented SabrinaWallace is the GOAT.
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Greatest of all time.
Um this person said, I knowsomeone born on base in Fort
Knox in 1974.
His father was commissionedofficer on active duty.
He has crazy memories going backto I don't know what that what
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he's trying to say.
Um, he has started trying totalk openly about his life
experiences.
He had hoped that more opendisclosure, as was anticipated,
but vaporized, would allow himto find community and maybe
therapy.
But who can you trust?
His military father had no idea.
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Some do, no consent required.
Children born to commissionedofficers on base were property
of underground, and they hadeasy access.
Um, this person comments, wehave become experimental,
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expandable, I'm sorry,expendable lab rats.
Wasn't that the truth?
So yeah, I mean, I will saythis.
I think that there are so manystupid fucking distractions
nowadays.
Like, I'm not gonna really getinto the Charlie Kirk thing, but
all I can say is that thisCharlie Kirk person was a
character um on the stage.
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You know, I will say again, theworld is a stage, and I think he
was a character, and it was toeven to divide people more and
to create more chaos to distractus from what?
I don't know, but that's myopinion.
Um, I'm allowed to talk about myopinion on here, and everyone
has them, and that's what I willsay.
So I definitely this stuff isbelievable for sure.
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Okay, and I really want to talkabout this.
This is called the Book ofEnoch, and actually, my husband
and I were talking about it, andI really want to get this book
and read it because I've seen alot of stuff that people have
posted over the years.
So, alright, so I kind of wantto sum it up what the book of
Enoch is about.
The book of Enoch is an ancientJewish religious text about
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fallen angels called theWatchers who married human
women, which resulted in thecreation of giants called
Nephilium.
The book expands on thesebiblical themes by including
Enoch's apocalyptic visions ofheaven, hell, future judgment,
and Masonic figure.
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Although it was influential inearly Christian thought, it was
later exclude excluded from mostJewish and Christian canons.
But it is considered scriptureby the Ethiopian Orthodox Um
Tiwa Hedu Church.
So the fallen angels, this bookdescribes how 200 angels known
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as the Watchers rebelled againstGod by descending to earth to
have children with human women,creating giants.
It explains this as the cause ofmuch of the world's evil and
violence.
Um, apocalyptic visions, itcontains visions of Enoch's
journey to heaven where he seesthe secrets of the cosmos, the
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dwelling of the righteousness,and the fiery prison of the
fallen angels.
Divine judgment.
The book describes God'sjudgment on both the fallen
angels and the wicked humans,providing a justification for
the great flood.
So this includes propheciesabout you know the future, the
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future figure, the son of man,and the final judgment.
So, I mean, that's just likekey, you know, like key facts
about this book.
But I I've been saying it forlike two years that I'm gonna
order this book and read it, andI still haven't.
So if there's any listeners outthere that have read this,
please give us your feedback.
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If there's more listeners thatwant to also get this book and
you do get it, um I don't know,let me know what you think.
You know, I'm always hesitant onlike anything biblical ordering
and reading because it's a lotof times it's a lot of words
that I don't know, or this orthat, and I gotta look up stuff,
but um, I'm going to cheat andhave my husband read it because
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he's a very quick reader andhe'll kind of like let me know
if it's worth reading or not.
So, yes, I am gonna cheatessentially, and that's the
beauty of having a veryintelligent husband, and I take
pride in that.
Okay, so moving on to othercrazy bizarre stories.
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So I found this topic, even thiscontent, um, very interesting
because you know, likewitchcraft nowadays is
normalized, more of a belief,and not so much like, hey, we
need to get burnt at the stake,which we talked about this a
couple episodes ago, that no onereally got burnt.
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Um it was a lot worse than that.
I well, I don't know if it wouldbe worse being burned alive or
being hung or you know, drownedessentially, but um I found this
very, very interesting, and Ireally like how this creator
talks about this.
Okay, I'm gonna set this up so Ican play this.
SPEAKER_01 (19:02):
You've probably noticed it.
More people are callingthemselves witches, more people
are making moon water, and spelljars are popping up on your
feet.
So why is witchcraft getting sopopular all of a sudden?
Well, here's what I think thatis based on history and not on
hype.
There is a pattern.
In Europe, the most brutal witchonce followed famine, plague,
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and political collapse.
It wasn't about magic, it wasabout control.
People turned to folk healersand village midwives when the
church and the crown failedthem.
And suddenly those same healerswere called witches.
In the 60s and the 70s, witnessceremonial magic and feminist
spirituality surged in responseto war, civil rights injustice,
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and patriarchal religion.
Books like Drawing Down the Moonby Margaret Adler documented
that shift.
People were done waiting forsalvation.
They wanted power in their ownhands.
And now we are seeing it againafter a pandemic, after
political unrest, after watchingmodern systems fail to protect
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basic rights.
People are turning inward.
They are remembering that theirgrandmothers, what their
grandmothers did in secret.
They are returning to nature,they are picking up tarot,
ancestor altars, herbal magic,um, not to be trendy, but for
survival and self-trust.
History shows us when systemsfail, people turn inward.
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They want autonomy, they wantmeaning.
And witchcraft offers both.
It's not about castingfireballs, it's about reclaiming
power in a world that constantlytakes it away.
And that part is deeplyhistorical, too.
In Europe, uh, cunning folk,herb women, and village seers
practiced folk magic forgenerations.
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They weren't called witchesuntil power structures needed
someone to blame.
In the Americas, the enslavedand indigenous people preserved
spiritual knowledge under threatof death.
And those traditions became theroots of what we now call
conjure and root work, etc.
So today's rise isn't a fluke.
It is returning to somethingancient and very personal.
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It's folk magic, it's ancestralmemory.
Uh, it's a private ritual thatdoesn't need a middleman, a
building, or any kind ofpermission.
And in a world drowning inmisinformation, burnout, and
consumerism, there is somethingradical about lighting a candle,
whispering an intention, andtrusting your own energy again.
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We know witchcraft isn't new.
It's not even resurfacing forthe first time.
It's always been here, quietlysurviving underneath everything
else.
It comes back when we need itmost.
And apparently we need it now.
SPEAKER_00 (21:53):
You know, I will say this.
Um, I wouldn't call itwitchcraft that I did.
Um, I call my you know, I Iclaim to be spiritual, I'm not
religious, but I can tell youthis intention setting is
everything.
Um, over a year ago, I setintentions to hopefully become
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pregnant, right?
And that was this was on theLions Gate portal, which is 8-8,
so August 8th of 2024, and Iasked if I was deserving enough,
you know, to have a baby.
Um, because we had been tryingfor a while, and I wanted to say
that was my last resort, but Ijust figured, hey, what the
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hell?
Um, I never really setintentions out there like that,
and you know, put myself outthere like that in that way, and
like I said, so I just decidedto do that.
Um I did make a manifestationjar.
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Uh found out I was pregnant inDecember, and I kid you not, um,
would not lie about it becauseobviously it's a fact and it's
on record, right?
Um when I gave birth to Jack,um, he was born in the eighth
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month, so August, and he wasborn eight pounds eight ounces.
So some people might say that'sa coincidence.
Um, I do not.
If people see that aswitchcraft, I really don't care.
I think witchcraft just got abad name, and witches were
pointed at like they were somesupernatural tr you know trolls
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that were stirring up trouble.
And I don't think it's that atall.
I mean, how is it any differentthan going into a church and
praying?
Alright, so I want to do a fewquick reviews on movies and
shows.
So my godson Ryder and I, thatwell, Ryder has been on the
podcast quite a few times.
Um, we finally got to go see theConjuring Last Rights movie.
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And honestly, it got a lot ofbad feed like awful feedback,
actually.
And people said it was terrible,and him and I loved it.
I thought it was great.
Um, it yes, it is based on trueevent true events.
Um, it's on a true it's based ona true story of the alleged
haunting of the Smurl family inWest Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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And obviously the investigationwas led by Ed and Lorraine
Warren.
Um again, this movie draws onreal life case like case, but it
doesn't it does fabricate alittle bit and dramatize, right?
For for movie, for the wholemovie, so people get drawn into
it.
But anyways, I thought it wasamazing.
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I thought it was actually scary.
I really, really liked, youknow, the whole 80s theme, how
they kept it very almost likesimple, scary.
It wasn't like over the edge.
Um, sometimes the most simplemovies are the scariest.
I mean, look at the movie TheStrangers.
I mean, that's as simple as youcan get, and I felt that that
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was fucking terrifying becauseit can actually happen, and it
actually has happened.
So yeah, I thought that was agreat movie.
Um, I also watched, I finallygot around to it, and I watched
um the movie Weapons, and thatgot really bad reviews too.
Um like my one friend was like,that what that movie was so
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stupid.
I actually really liked it, andGladys, to me, the character,
was very fucking disturbing inthat movie.
She I have this thing about likeold creepy women in movies.
It just freaks me out.
The women freak me out more thanthe men in movies.
I don't know why.
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Um, but Weapons is a 2025American mystery horror film.
Um, it's about when all but onechild from the same classroom
mysteriously vanishes on thesame night at exactly the same
time.
A community is left questioningwho or what is behind the
disappearance.
Um, some people thought it waslike comic, and I mean maybe
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like I can see like how theywere running and like certain
details of the movie would kindof be funny, right?
But I actually really, reallyenjoyed it.
I thought it was original, Ithought it was fun.
Um like see this on Reddit.
Here's a here's a review.
Weapons is a surface levelhorror comedy that is enjoyable
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on its face, but it's like a sixout of ten at the best.
I mean, okay, I kind ofdisagree.
I thought I thought it wasreally good, and you know, on
IMDb, it got pretty goodreviews.
Um, 7.5 out of 10 says weaponsis a tense and gripping new
horror from Zack Kregger thatlives up too much of its immense
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hype.
I thought it was a really very,very good movie.
Um, I was very pleased to seetwo pretty good horror movies
because they suck nowadays.
Let's let's admit it.
Okay, so moving on, let's talkabout the uh monster, the
Edgane, Edgeen, however you sayit.
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Um so Charlie Hunnan.
I think that's how you say hisname.
Anyways, the everyone, we allthink he's so hot.
Hunnam.
I'm sorry, I always say Hunnan.
Hunum, Charlie Hunnum, the hotone from Sons of Anarchy, which
every woman agrees, right?
Jax, that character.
So I watched this for CharlieHunnam.
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I mean, because he was gonna bein it, and I could not I didn't
I just I didn't like it at all.
I thought it was really slow, Ithought it was confusing.
They kept going back and forthfrom like Nazi time to you know
real time at that point, and Icould not stand the fucking way
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he talked, and I know he wasportraying who Edgeen really
was, but it I found it annoyingand I found it very slow.
Um I didn't find it scary atall.
I didn't find it, I don't know.
I just Edgeen isn't like one ofthe main serial killers, if you
can even call him a serialkiller for me.
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But I am looking forward to thenew one coming out, Monster, um,
the Lizzie Borden story.
I'm very, very excited aboutthat.
I hope they don't fuck it upbecause you know, being someone
that got to go to the LizzieBorden house, and I took that
whole my husband and I took thatum history tour, and it was
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great.
I mean, it was wonderful.
I highly recommend if you'regonna go stay at the Lizzie
Borden house.
I've said this on so manyepisodes, but make sure you do
that history tour becausethere's way more behind the
history um with Lizzie Bordenthan well, I I should say the
Borden family than has everbeen, I think, talked about or
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actually publicly shown on anyof the shows or movies that have
been about Lizzie Borden.
Okay, so I also did watch umTrue Haunting on Netflix, and I
really, really enjoyed that.
There's five episodes.
Um, it's basically reenactmentsand present-day interviews about
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like it's a chilling series thatdetails paranormal encounters
from the viewpoint of those wholived them.
Um, I absolutely enjoyed it,especially the um first.
I'm sorry, not first season, thefirst episode, Airie Hall, which
there's three parts to it.
And it's um about a collegestudent in the 80s that was
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viciously, I guess you can say,haunted by this entity.
And well, I'm not- I don't wantto ruin it, but at the end of
the third episode, it makes somuch sense why that happened to
him.
And there's actually there's umwitnesses that came forward that
remember going through thingsthemselves along with him and
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you know their own stuff thathappened in this college.
So that is one thing too.
I I do want to do some episodeson haunted, you know, colleges
because there is so manyhauntings that go on and that
have happened way in in the pastand even now, present time.
Um, I think in in these collegebuildings, there's so much
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history and there's so much badjuju, and there's a lot of
unexplained deaths that havehappened over the years, you
know, the whole initiatingthing, and you know, just the
pressures that are put onto ayounger person, I think can
bring on a lot of likepoltergeist energy.
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Um, but yeah, you guys should ifyou haven't, you should totally
watch the show.
And then the um second one is ait's called This House Murdered
Me.
And that that was really goodtoo.
I believe there was twoepisodes.
Yeah, there's two episodes onthat one, and I found that very
interesting.
I thought they did a great job.
(31:38):
And again, I'm super stoked withhow many good shows and movies
I've actually been able to seelately because normally spooky
season, and a lot of us that arespooky and fucking weird, we
don't need it to be spookyseason to watch scary shit,
right?
But it makes it even better whenthere's like good stuff to
watch, right?
(31:59):
So yeah, I've been very pleasedand um overall everything I've
watched has been really good.
Okay, so now I want to end thisepisode with the topic about
Stephen King.
So Jenny and I, you know, Jenny,one of the hosts here on Strange
Strange Beyond Insane, um hasbrought to my attention that
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Stephen King is an actual evilman, right?
And I've always taken pride inknowing that Stephen King and I
share the same birthdaySeptember 21st, and we both are
weird, you know, people and likehorror movies and you know are a
little darker people when itcomes to that, but um, yeah, so
(32:44):
she br she brought these newfacts to light, right?
And it kind of freaked me out.
So people are saying that likehe's confessed a lot of times
publicly that he is kind of likea psychopath.
Um, a lot of people say likeStephen King is a great writer,
(33:05):
but he has a very dark hiddenside.
And I mean, you you have tofucking have a dark side, right?
To like write really dark,creepy horror movies, just like
this podcast.
Like, I obviously have a knackor a like, a love, a passion for
all things occult, right?
And dark and this and that.
(33:26):
But one thing I can say is thatI do not let it consume me.
And I always say that I'm aslight as I am dark, and I try to
be very equal in what I do, andI don't make my whole entire
life about paranormal and thedead, and you know, the crazy
and this and that.
There's there's definitely agray part of me too that likes
(33:47):
to just chill out and also likeshappy walks in the sunshine and
loves to go swimming and lovessummertime, even though I love
fall, and I will always lovefall.
You know what I mean?
Like there's a balance, and Idefinitely know I'm self-aware
enough to know that I have thatbalance.
Um, but looking up things aboutStephen King, it it's pretty
(34:09):
shocking.
I didn't realize in real lifehe's kind of a psychopath.
Um, you know, a lot of peoplejust say like he's a good film
writer, but there's definitelysomething dark about him.
And like some people say, Ialways thought that Stephen King
(34:29):
was a psycho creep.
His books are full of hatefulthings and the kind of
description that must be rootedin something real rather than
just relying on imagination.
Healthy minds don't just imaginestuff like that.
There's more I could say, but Ithink this is enough.
But yeah, he's a creep.
My ex was a fan of his and hewas a major creep.
(34:53):
Wait, it says yeah, but yeah,he's a creep.
My ex was okay.
My ex was a fan of his, and hewas a major creep too, as it
turned out.
But you know, a lot of peopleare saying it's not normal to
have an imagination like that,but I think it is, and I think
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you have to have a fuckingamazing imagination to be a
writer, right?
Um, there's a lot of things Idisagree.
Like Jenny said that she doesn'tlike that he, you know, in his
stories and his movies, childrenget hurt and you know, killed.
You know, and I understand that,and that is, you know, now
(35:37):
having a kid of my own, it's itis hard to watch or listen or
see that, but it's also a story,too, you know, so it's not like
real life.
But I can see how people aremaybe bothered by that, right?
So, you know, Stephen King, alsoknown as Stephen Edward King,
often called the King of Horror,is an American author who has
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sold more than 350 millioncopies of his work.
His writing spans genresincluding horror, suspense,
crime, science fiction, fantasy,and mystery.
King's stories are set invarious locations from small
towns to big cities and fantasyworlds and often feature
(36:22):
ordinarily relatable characters.
Before finding success, Kingreceived many rejection slips
for his hundreds of shortstories.
So let's see, Stephen King.
I know I'm definitely right, butI just want to say it out loud
(36:43):
again.
So Stephen King's birthday, sohe was born September 21st,
1947.
So he is 78 years old.
His place of birth was Portland,Maine, I believe.
Um yeah, so I don't know.
I like I really like everythingof his, and I can't really look
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any differently at him.
I mean, I know people yeah, ofcourse the guy's fucking dark.
I mean, you you have to be darkto come out with things that so
to end this on a happy, moreexcited note about Stephen King,
his original it movie thatinspired the newer modern day,
(37:31):
you know, it movies one and two,chapter one and two.
Um finally, we have a date forWelcome to Dairy that I've been
waiting for for at least fiveyears.
So it's supposed to air on HBOMax October 26th, and I cannot
wait.
So make sure you guys mark yourcalendars for that.
(37:54):
It's supposed to be amazing, andI hope HBO Max does not let us
down because I will be extremelyupset.
Very, very upset because, like Isaid, I have been waiting for
this show for a very, very longtime.
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Hey weirdos, welcome back.
Welcome to Strange StrangeBeyond Insane.
In case any of you areunfamiliar, this is the show
where we dive into the bizarre,the paranormal, and the just
plain unexplainable.
And this is your host, Melissa.
So we've been talking on thisshow for a long time about, you
(00:20):
know, basically the world is astage and celebrity worshipping
is coming to an end, thank God.
And I have some videos that Iwant to share on here and my
thoughts too, and here we go.
SPEAKER_04 (00:35):
I told you every celebrity you've ever known,
from musicians to actors topoliticians, isn't real.
They're all characters.
Hollywood is way more advancedthan they let on.
We're not just talking aboutmakeup or CGI.
We're talking about full-blownidentity fabrication on a scale
that would blow your mind.
Every celebrity is just a roleplayed by an elite group of
(00:57):
actors using crazy advancedHollywood techniques.
I mean, think about makeupartists, voice coaches, body
doubles do things.
Hollywood's in this tech fordecades.
They can make anyone look likeanyone.
What do you think is acelebrity's natural appearance?
It's a costume.
They're trained to play rolesnot just in movies, but in life.
This whole thing is to controlus and celebrities influence how
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we think, what we wear, what wecare about.
They're there to sell ideas,lifestyles, keep us distracted
from real problems.
And there are characters.
Those actors just take away someof the biggest names today.
(01:45):
Suspiciously similar.
They're always just there.
Some of the biggest celebritydouble leads in history.
(02:06):
Hollywood has been usingaesthetics, body doubles, and
now even AI for years.
The real secret, they'veperfected face-to-voice changing
technology.
We're talking micro implantsthat can change vocal tone,
advanced body suits to alterphysical appearance, and even
psychological conditioning tomake the actor believe they are
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the character.
This stuff is beyond anythingwe've seen publicly.
They've got this down to ascience man.
Entire studios exist just totrain these elite actors in
multiple celebrity roles.
These people live entire livesas different celebrities
flipping between roles dependingon what the industry needs at
the time.
If you look at the way thesecelebrity lives unfold, how
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perfectly timed their rises andfalls are, how eerily similar
some of them look and sound, youcan't help but wonder.
SPEAKER_00 (03:01):
Okay, so this is kind of funny because a
co-worker and I were justtalking about um Billy Corgan
from um Smashing Pumpkins thispast Saturday, and there's so
many things about him.
But anyways, there's aninterview about him recalling a
(03:21):
terrifying shapeshifterexperience, and I thought this
was very, very um it was I'm I'mtrying to find like the right
words to say without putting myown spin on it, you know, too
much of my own experiences, butI I do I will say this, I 1000%
(03:42):
believe this man.
But here we go.
SPEAKER_02 (03:45):
I was with somebody once and and I saw I saw a
transformation that I can'texplain.
The person transformed intosomething other than human.
Yes.
I saw it.
Were you on drugs?
I was not, it was totally sober.
Wow.
I wasn't saying that.
Imagine you're doing somethingand suddenly you turn around and
there's somebody else.
A different human.
(04:06):
It's hard to explain withoutgoing into it.
I'm not going to pump it.
What did you say to the person?
What did you just do here?
And what did they say they were?
The person was making them.
SPEAKER_03 (04:17):
Were you in bed with the paper?
Were you making love?
Were you uncomfortable?
I find this story so crazy, andI'm so glad they came forward
with it.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontmanlater explained that he was
being vague on here out of fearfor his career and well-being
for his loved ones.
In a later interview with thePeople's Voice, he alleged,
demons exist.
They are real.
(04:37):
They are reptilian.
That's why the Bible says Evewas seduced by a snake.
Substitute reptile for snake.
Billy later elaborated about hisexperience with the record
industry in Illuminati.
He said that he had an encounterwith an industry executive who
shapeshifted right in front ofhim during a meeting.
He said, I can't remember hisexact words to me, but he said
something along the lines of,all humans will suffer in
(05:01):
unending agony.
You will do our will.
Let's see.
SPEAKER_00 (05:05):
Yeah, so I definitely don't think he would
even say that publicly, um, ifit wasn't true, knowing that it
could, you know, his life hefears for his life and for his
career, right?
So I truly do believe him.
Um all right, so I came acrossthis article and I did
(05:27):
fact-check it and make sure,made sure that it was real, and
it is very intriguing.
Um, I can't believe like therewasn't an actual fucking movie
made about this, like based ontrue events that this really
happened, right?
There's been a lot of movieslike this, but I mean, I've
(05:48):
never heard anyone talk aboutthis.
So we're gonna talk about theGod helmet that was made in the
1980s.
So in the 1980s, Canadian nurneuroscientist Michael Persinger
began pioneering the experimentsthat would lead to the
development and publicfascination with the God helmet.
Working with his colleagueStanley Corrin, Persinger
(06:10):
designed a modified helmet thatapplied weak, complex magnetic
fields to the brain's temporallobes.
The experiments explored theengineering field of
neurotheology, which studies theneural correlates of religion
and spirituality.
(06:31):
The experiment and its results.
Okay, so the first God helmetwas a modified yellow
snowblowing, I'm sorry,snowmobiling helmet fitted with
magnetic coils, solenoids.
The helmet was designed to applyweak, fluctuating fluctuating
magnetic signals to a subject'stemporal lobes, the brain
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regions associated with themotion, memory, and the
processing of sensoryinformation, the procedure,
okay.
The test subjects, obviously,people, humans, would sit in a
dark, soundproof room or achamber, which shielded them
from all external stimuli,including the Earth's natural
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magnetic field while wearing thehelmet, they would receive the
magnetic stimulation.
So these are reportedexperiences.
Persinger reported that asignificant majority of
participants experienced asensed presence in the room with
them.
These presences were sometimesinterpreted as god, angels,
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ghosts, or other spiritualbeings.
Some subjects also reportedout-of-body experiences,
feelings of ecstasy, or visions.
Um Wow.
So the theory behind the helmet.
Persinger's work was based onthe idea that many spiritual and
(08:03):
paranormal experiences areneurological artifacts,
particularly linked to activityin the temporal lobes.
The theory proposed that byapplying a magnetic field
mimicking the neural signals ofa temporal lobe, epileptic
seizure, it might be possible toinduce similar mystical states
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in non-epileptic individuals.
The experiences were explainedby Persinger as inner
hemispheric intrusions.
Well, um, a disruption ofcommunication between the two
cerebral um hemispheres, whichcaused the right hemisphere's
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sense of self to intrude intothe left hemisphere's dominant
consciousness.
So obviously, this gained a lotof controversy.
Um it was failed.
The most significant point ofcontent is that many other
research groups have failed toreplicate Persengers' results
(09:09):
under controlled double-blindedconditions.
In some cases, participantswearing um this hat sham helmets
reported similar effects.
The role of it was some studiessuggest that the experiences
reported by participants weremore likely influenced by the
(09:30):
I'm sorry, by personal andpsychological traits, like a
belief in the paranormal, thanby magnetic stimulation itself.
Ongoing legacy.
Despite the controversy,Persinger's work sparked
significant public andscientific interest in neurotha
I'm sorry, neurotheology.
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It continues to fuel debateabout the neurological or
origins of spiritual experiencesand the fuzzy line between
perception and belief.
So I just find this sointriguing.
I cannot believe I've never inmy life have heard of the God
helmet.
So it was a snowmobiling helmetthat was modified basically.
(10:15):
And again, I cannot believe Ididn't know about this because
this is something I would haveknown about.
I mean, I should have, right?
But I think it is extremelyinteresting.
Okay, so here's anotherinteresting little story.
Sabrina Wallace is awhistleblower who shares her
testimony about a secretivedefense program she calls
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Project Solace.
She claims her family was pulledinto it in the late 1960s,
turning what looked likeordinary medical care into
long-term experimentation.
From childhood, Wallaceremembers being connected to a
strange machine, undergoingunusual procedures, and
experiencing events that shelater understood as part of a
(11:01):
neural mapping in earlyhuman-machine interrogation
research.
According to her, Project Solacedeveloped implant sensors and
electromagnetic technologiescapable of transmitting data
remotely, projecting voices orthoughts into the mind, and even
linking one person's emotions toanother.
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She describes deliberatetrauma-based conditioning,
military involvement, and theuse of satellites and drones to
expand the program beyond labs.
Today, Wallace warns that thesesystems did not disappear.
They evolved into hiddennetworks of surveillance and
control that still shaped themodern world.
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So some of the comments include,and again, they're kind of
graphic, the guy who justrandomly stabbed the girl to
death on the train claimed thatthe implants made him do it.
Um, then that this person'stalking about that poor
Ukrainian girl that was stabbed,and everybody remembers seeing
that.
(12:07):
Um, this other person commentedand said, This is how mass
shooters happen.
The kids get signals and voices,messages into their brain, and
they go on a rampage.
Harp, so all cap H A R P isconstant constantly throwing
signals to the ion osphere thatcauses confusion and changes in
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the nervous system.
Another user says it's calledvoice to skull technology.
It's not a conspiracy theory,trust me.
So I'm just reading thesecomments.
Um another person says she iscorrect and she's just waiting
(12:53):
for everybody to be able tocatch up.
She's a legend, and I won't lether name disappear.
She taught so many people what'shappening before it was public.
It's publicly because of her.
I think a lot of Gen X have gonethrough this trauma.
I know I did.
Compton, California schools,severe abuse, and use those
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headphones, and the entire areawas surrounded by MKUltra, which
is why there's so much violenceback in the 80s.
Whether anyone believes it ornot, it's happening right under
your noses.
Why do you think they keep usall distracted?
Um, someone commented SabrinaWallace is the GOAT.
(13:37):
Greatest of all time.
Um this person said, I knowsomeone born on base in Fort
Knox in 1974.
His father was commissionedofficer on active duty.
He has crazy memories going backto I don't know what that what
(13:59):
he's trying to say.
Um, he has started trying totalk openly about his life
experiences.
He had hoped that more opendisclosure, as was anticipated,
but vaporized, would allow himto find community and maybe
therapy.
But who can you trust?
His military father had no idea.
(14:20):
Some do, no consent required.
Children born to commissionedofficers on base were property
of underground, and they hadeasy access.
Um, this person comments, wehave become experimental,
(14:40):
expandable, I'm sorry,expendable lab rats.
Wasn't that the truth?
So yeah, I mean, I will saythis.
I think that there are so manystupid fucking distractions
nowadays.
Like, I'm not gonna really getinto the Charlie Kirk thing, but
all I can say is that thisCharlie Kirk person was a
character um on the stage.
(15:02):
You know, I will say again, theworld is a stage, and I think he
was a character, and it was toeven to divide people more and
to create more chaos to distractus from what?
I don't know, but that's myopinion.
Um, I'm allowed to talk about myopinion on here, and everyone
has them, and that's what I willsay.
So I definitely this stuff isbelievable for sure.
(15:24):
Okay, and I really want to talkabout this.
This is called the Book ofEnoch, and actually, my husband
and I were talking about it, andI really want to get this book
and read it because I've seen alot of stuff that people have
posted over the years.
So, alright, so I kind of wantto sum it up what the book of
Enoch is about.
The book of Enoch is an ancientJewish religious text about
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fallen angels called theWatchers who married human
women, which resulted in thecreation of giants called
Nephilium.
The book expands on thesebiblical themes by including
Enoch's apocalyptic visions ofheaven, hell, future judgment,
and Masonic figure.
(16:07):
Although it was influential inearly Christian thought, it was
later exclude excluded from mostJewish and Christian canons.
But it is considered scriptureby the Ethiopian Orthodox Um
Tiwa Hedu Church.
So the fallen angels, this bookdescribes how 200 angels known
(16:29):
as the Watchers rebelled againstGod by descending to earth to
have children with human women,creating giants.
It explains this as the cause ofmuch of the world's evil and
violence.
Um, apocalyptic visions, itcontains visions of Enoch's
journey to heaven where he seesthe secrets of the cosmos, the
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dwelling of the righteousness,and the fiery prison of the
fallen angels.
Divine judgment.
The book describes God'sjudgment on both the fallen
angels and the wicked humans,providing a justification for
the great flood.
So this includes propheciesabout you know the future, the
(17:12):
future figure, the son of man,and the final judgment.
So, I mean, that's just likekey, you know, like key facts
about this book.
But I I've been saying it forlike two years that I'm gonna
order this book and read it, andI still haven't.
So if there's any listeners outthere that have read this,
please give us your feedback.
(17:33):
If there's more listeners thatwant to also get this book and
you do get it, um I don't know,let me know what you think.
You know, I'm always hesitant onlike anything biblical ordering
and reading because it's a lotof times it's a lot of words
that I don't know, or this orthat, and I gotta look up stuff,
but um, I'm going to cheat andhave my husband read it because
(17:56):
he's a very quick reader andhe'll kind of like let me know
if it's worth reading or not.
So, yes, I am gonna cheatessentially, and that's the
beauty of having a veryintelligent husband, and I take
pride in that.
Okay, so moving on to othercrazy bizarre stories.
(18:18):
So I found this topic, even thiscontent, um, very interesting
because you know, likewitchcraft nowadays is
normalized, more of a belief,and not so much like, hey, we
need to get burnt at the stake,which we talked about this a
couple episodes ago, that no onereally got burnt.
(18:40):
Um it was a lot worse than that.
I well, I don't know if it wouldbe worse being burned alive or
being hung or you know, drownedessentially, but um I found this
very, very interesting, and Ireally like how this creator
talks about this.
Okay, I'm gonna set this up so Ican play this.
SPEAKER_01 (19:02):
You've probably noticed it.
More people are callingthemselves witches, more people
are making moon water, and spelljars are popping up on your
feet.
So why is witchcraft getting sopopular all of a sudden?
Well, here's what I think thatis based on history and not on
hype.
There is a pattern.
In Europe, the most brutal witchonce followed famine, plague,
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and political collapse.
It wasn't about magic, it wasabout control.
People turned to folk healersand village midwives when the
church and the crown failedthem.
And suddenly those same healerswere called witches.
In the 60s and the 70s, witnessceremonial magic and feminist
spirituality surged in responseto war, civil rights injustice,
(19:46):
and patriarchal religion.
Books like Drawing Down the Moonby Margaret Adler documented
that shift.
People were done waiting forsalvation.
They wanted power in their ownhands.
And now we are seeing it againafter a pandemic, after
political unrest, after watchingmodern systems fail to protect
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basic rights.
People are turning inward.
They are remembering that theirgrandmothers, what their
grandmothers did in secret.
They are returning to nature,they are picking up tarot,
ancestor altars, herbal magic,um, not to be trendy, but for
survival and self-trust.
History shows us when systemsfail, people turn inward.
(20:31):
They want autonomy, they wantmeaning.
And witchcraft offers both.
It's not about castingfireballs, it's about reclaiming
power in a world that constantlytakes it away.
And that part is deeplyhistorical, too.
In Europe, uh, cunning folk,herb women, and village seers
practiced folk magic forgenerations.
(20:51):
They weren't called witchesuntil power structures needed
someone to blame.
In the Americas, the enslavedand indigenous people preserved
spiritual knowledge under threatof death.
And those traditions became theroots of what we now call
conjure and root work, etc.
So today's rise isn't a fluke.
It is returning to somethingancient and very personal.
(21:15):
It's folk magic, it's ancestralmemory.
Uh, it's a private ritual thatdoesn't need a middleman, a
building, or any kind ofpermission.
And in a world drowning inmisinformation, burnout, and
consumerism, there is somethingradical about lighting a candle,
whispering an intention, andtrusting your own energy again.
(21:38):
We know witchcraft isn't new.
It's not even resurfacing forthe first time.
It's always been here, quietlysurviving underneath everything
else.
It comes back when we need itmost.
And apparently we need it now.
SPEAKER_00 (21:53):
You know, I will say this.
Um, I wouldn't call itwitchcraft that I did.
Um, I call my you know, I Iclaim to be spiritual, I'm not
religious, but I can tell youthis intention setting is
everything.
Um, over a year ago, I setintentions to hopefully become
(22:13):
pregnant, right?
And that was this was on theLions Gate portal, which is 8-8,
so August 8th of 2024, and Iasked if I was deserving enough,
you know, to have a baby.
Um, because we had been tryingfor a while, and I wanted to say
that was my last resort, but Ijust figured, hey, what the
(22:36):
hell?
Um, I never really setintentions out there like that,
and you know, put myself outthere like that in that way, and
like I said, so I just decidedto do that.
Um I did make a manifestationjar.
(22:56):
Uh found out I was pregnant inDecember, and I kid you not, um,
would not lie about it becauseobviously it's a fact and it's
on record, right?
Um when I gave birth to Jack,um, he was born in the eighth
(23:16):
month, so August, and he wasborn eight pounds eight ounces.
So some people might say that'sa coincidence.
Um, I do not.
If people see that aswitchcraft, I really don't care.
I think witchcraft just got abad name, and witches were
pointed at like they were somesupernatural tr you know trolls
(23:39):
that were stirring up trouble.
And I don't think it's that atall.
I mean, how is it any differentthan going into a church and
praying?
Alright, so I want to do a fewquick reviews on movies and
shows.
So my godson Ryder and I, thatwell, Ryder has been on the
podcast quite a few times.
Um, we finally got to go see theConjuring Last Rights movie.
(24:03):
And honestly, it got a lot ofbad feed like awful feedback,
actually.
And people said it was terrible,and him and I loved it.
I thought it was great.
Um, it yes, it is based on trueevent true events.
Um, it's on a true it's based ona true story of the alleged
haunting of the Smurl family inWest Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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And obviously the investigationwas led by Ed and Lorraine
Warren.
Um again, this movie draws onreal life case like case, but it
doesn't it does fabricate alittle bit and dramatize, right?
For for movie, for the wholemovie, so people get drawn into
it.
But anyways, I thought it wasamazing.
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I thought it was actually scary.
I really, really liked, youknow, the whole 80s theme, how
they kept it very almost likesimple, scary.
It wasn't like over the edge.
Um, sometimes the most simplemovies are the scariest.
I mean, look at the movie TheStrangers.
I mean, that's as simple as youcan get, and I felt that that
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was fucking terrifying becauseit can actually happen, and it
actually has happened.
So yeah, I thought that was agreat movie.
Um, I also watched, I finallygot around to it, and I watched
um the movie Weapons, and thatgot really bad reviews too.
Um like my one friend was like,that what that movie was so
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stupid.
I actually really liked it, andGladys, to me, the character,
was very fucking disturbing inthat movie.
She I have this thing about likeold creepy women in movies.
It just freaks me out.
The women freak me out more thanthe men in movies.
I don't know why.
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Um, but Weapons is a 2025American mystery horror film.
Um, it's about when all but onechild from the same classroom
mysteriously vanishes on thesame night at exactly the same
time.
A community is left questioningwho or what is behind the
disappearance.
Um, some people thought it waslike comic, and I mean maybe
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like I can see like how theywere running and like certain
details of the movie would kindof be funny, right?
But I actually really, reallyenjoyed it.
I thought it was original, Ithought it was fun.
Um like see this on Reddit.
Here's a here's a review.
Weapons is a surface levelhorror comedy that is enjoyable
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on its face, but it's like a sixout of ten at the best.
I mean, okay, I kind ofdisagree.
I thought I thought it wasreally good, and you know, on
IMDb, it got pretty goodreviews.
Um, 7.5 out of 10 says weaponsis a tense and gripping new
horror from Zack Kregger thatlives up too much of its immense
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hype.
I thought it was a really very,very good movie.
Um, I was very pleased to seetwo pretty good horror movies
because they suck nowadays.
Let's let's admit it.
Okay, so moving on, let's talkabout the uh monster, the
Edgane, Edgeen, however you sayit.
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Um so Charlie Hunnan.
I think that's how you say hisname.
Anyways, the everyone, we allthink he's so hot.
Hunnam.
I'm sorry, I always say Hunnan.
Hunum, Charlie Hunnum, the hotone from Sons of Anarchy, which
every woman agrees, right?
Jax, that character.
So I watched this for CharlieHunnam.
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I mean, because he was gonna bein it, and I could not I didn't
I just I didn't like it at all.
I thought it was really slow, Ithought it was confusing.
They kept going back and forthfrom like Nazi time to you know
real time at that point, and Icould not stand the fucking way
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he talked, and I know he wasportraying who Edgeen really
was, but it I found it annoyingand I found it very slow.
Um I didn't find it scary atall.
I didn't find it, I don't know.
I just Edgeen isn't like one ofthe main serial killers, if you
can even call him a serialkiller for me.
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But I am looking forward to thenew one coming out, Monster, um,
the Lizzie Borden story.
I'm very, very excited aboutthat.
I hope they don't fuck it upbecause you know, being someone
that got to go to the LizzieBorden house, and I took that
whole my husband and I took thatum history tour, and it was
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great.
I mean, it was wonderful.
I highly recommend if you'regonna go stay at the Lizzie
Borden house.
I've said this on so manyepisodes, but make sure you do
that history tour becausethere's way more behind the
history um with Lizzie Bordenthan well, I I should say the
Borden family than has everbeen, I think, talked about or
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actually publicly shown on anyof the shows or movies that have
been about Lizzie Borden.
Okay, so I also did watch umTrue Haunting on Netflix, and I
really, really enjoyed that.
There's five episodes.
Um, it's basically reenactmentsand present-day interviews about
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like it's a chilling series thatdetails paranormal encounters
from the viewpoint of those wholived them.
Um, I absolutely enjoyed it,especially the um first.
I'm sorry, not first season, thefirst episode, Airie Hall, which
there's three parts to it.
And it's um about a collegestudent in the 80s that was
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viciously, I guess you can say,haunted by this entity.
And well, I'm not- I don't wantto ruin it, but at the end of
the third episode, it makes somuch sense why that happened to
him.
And there's actually there's umwitnesses that came forward that
remember going through thingsthemselves along with him and
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you know their own stuff thathappened in this college.
So that is one thing too.
I I do want to do some episodeson haunted, you know, colleges
because there is so manyhauntings that go on and that
have happened way in in the pastand even now, present time.
Um, I think in in these collegebuildings, there's so much
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history and there's so much badjuju, and there's a lot of
unexplained deaths that havehappened over the years, you
know, the whole initiatingthing, and you know, just the
pressures that are put onto ayounger person, I think can
bring on a lot of likepoltergeist energy.
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Um, but yeah, you guys should ifyou haven't, you should totally
watch the show.
And then the um second one is ait's called This House Murdered
Me.
And that that was really goodtoo.
I believe there was twoepisodes.
Yeah, there's two episodes onthat one, and I found that very
interesting.
I thought they did a great job.
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And again, I'm super stoked withhow many good shows and movies
I've actually been able to seelately because normally spooky
season, and a lot of us that arespooky and fucking weird, we
don't need it to be spookyseason to watch scary shit,
right?
But it makes it even better whenthere's like good stuff to
watch, right?
(31:59):
So yeah, I've been very pleasedand um overall everything I've
watched has been really good.
Okay, so now I want to end thisepisode with the topic about
Stephen King.
So Jenny and I, you know, Jenny,one of the hosts here on Strange
Strange Beyond Insane, um hasbrought to my attention that
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Stephen King is an actual evilman, right?
And I've always taken pride inknowing that Stephen King and I
share the same birthdaySeptember 21st, and we both are
weird, you know, people and likehorror movies and you know are a
little darker people when itcomes to that, but um, yeah, so
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she br she brought these newfacts to light, right?
And it kind of freaked me out.
So people are saying that likehe's confessed a lot of times
publicly that he is kind of likea psychopath.
Um, a lot of people say likeStephen King is a great writer,
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but he has a very dark hiddenside.
And I mean, you you have tofucking have a dark side, right?
To like write really dark,creepy horror movies, just like
this podcast.
Like, I obviously have a knackor a like, a love, a passion for
all things occult, right?
And dark and this and that.
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But one thing I can say is thatI do not let it consume me.
And I always say that I'm aslight as I am dark, and I try to
be very equal in what I do, andI don't make my whole entire
life about paranormal and thedead, and you know, the crazy
and this and that.
There's there's definitely agray part of me too that likes
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to just chill out and also likeshappy walks in the sunshine and
loves to go swimming and lovessummertime, even though I love
fall, and I will always lovefall.
You know what I mean?
Like there's a balance, and Idefinitely know I'm self-aware
enough to know that I have thatbalance.
Um, but looking up things aboutStephen King, it it's pretty
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shocking.
I didn't realize in real lifehe's kind of a psychopath.
Um, you know, a lot of peoplejust say like he's a good film
writer, but there's definitelysomething dark about him.
And like some people say, Ialways thought that Stephen King
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was a psycho creep.
His books are full of hatefulthings and the kind of
description that must be rootedin something real rather than
just relying on imagination.
Healthy minds don't just imaginestuff like that.
There's more I could say, but Ithink this is enough.
But yeah, he's a creep.
My ex was a fan of his and hewas a major creep.
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Wait, it says yeah, but yeah,he's a creep.
My ex was okay.
My ex was a fan of his, and hewas a major creep too, as it
turned out.
But you know, a lot of peopleare saying it's not normal to
have an imagination like that,but I think it is, and I think
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you have to have a fuckingamazing imagination to be a
writer, right?
Um, there's a lot of things Idisagree.
Like Jenny said that she doesn'tlike that he, you know, in his
stories and his movies, childrenget hurt and you know, killed.
You know, and I understand that,and that is, you know, now
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having a kid of my own, it's itis hard to watch or listen or
see that, but it's also a story,too, you know, so it's not like
real life.
But I can see how people aremaybe bothered by that, right?
So, you know, Stephen King, alsoknown as Stephen Edward King,
often called the King of Horror,is an American author who has
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sold more than 350 millioncopies of his work.
His writing spans genresincluding horror, suspense,
crime, science fiction, fantasy,and mystery.
King's stories are set invarious locations from small
towns to big cities and fantasyworlds and often feature
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ordinarily relatable characters.
Before finding success, Kingreceived many rejection slips
for his hundreds of shortstories.
So let's see, Stephen King.
I know I'm definitely right, butI just want to say it out loud
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again.
So Stephen King's birthday, sohe was born September 21st,
1947.
So he is 78 years old.
His place of birth was Portland,Maine, I believe.
Um yeah, so I don't know.
I like I really like everythingof his, and I can't really look
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any differently at him.
I mean, I know people yeah, ofcourse the guy's fucking dark.
I mean, you you have to be darkto come out with things that so
to end this on a happy, moreexcited note about Stephen King,
his original it movie thatinspired the newer modern day,
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you know, it movies one and two,chapter one and two.
Um finally, we have a date forWelcome to Dairy that I've been
waiting for for at least fiveyears.
So it's supposed to air on HBOMax October 26th, and I cannot
wait.
So make sure you guys mark yourcalendars for that.
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It's supposed to be amazing, andI hope HBO Max does not let us
down because I will be extremelyupset.
Very, very upset because, like Isaid, I have been waiting for
this show for a very, very longtime.
Alright, you guys, so you canlisten to the show Strange
Strange Beyond Insane on anyplatform that you listen to your
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podcast on.
Um, examples including Spotify,Amazon, iHeart, Apple.
Um, the list goes on.
And, you know, you can find uson TikTok if you look up Strange
Strange Beyond Insane.
There will be videos of myselfand my friends that are always
on the podcast that areconsidered our, you know, main
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hosts.
And you can also follow theircontent too, which is cool.
You know, we have a Facebookpage called Macomb Paranormal
Research Society.
Um, we're on X, we're on whatelse?
I think everything you can thinkof.
I do want to tell you that thereare there are a lot of scammers
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out there, and there are peoplethat like to copy, and there's
another name out there that'svery close to my Facebook page.
So my content, Macomb ParanormalResearch Society, with my
strange drink beyond insane logois me.
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Okay.
This other fake McCombParanormal Society is bullshit.
Sorry, not sorry.
Um, again, if you go to myFacebook, you will see Macomb
Paranormal Research Society withthe strange, strange, beyond
insane logo.
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A little birdie told me thatsomeone is kind of being a
dickhead out there and thoughtthat was cute to tell someone to
basically make the same page asmine, but like a little bit
different.
So, whatever.
You're gonna have haters, and ifyou have haters, you're doing
something right, right?
Okay, so yes, again, um you canfind us on pretty much all
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And please, if you guys arelistening, my listeners, please
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It's very important um that weget more ratings.
It helps, you know, for BuzzSprout itself to move the
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Um, but again, you can directlymessage me on Buzz Sprout.
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