Ep242 - King Arthur & Aliens: Scotland's Falkirk Triangle - Creep Street Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I, King Arthur, have arrived here today to preside over
the meeting of the Gray Aliens in the faithfolk.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I will hear your arguments now, please big game.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah you know what, King Arthur, your holiness, Look, we've
been haunting these lands for millennia, all right. We've been
taking babies out of the cryps, turning people to stone.
We've been stealing their cabbages and their sausages. And now
all of a sudden, these wise guys show up in
their space craypt and they going to take our jobs.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
I mean, with the justice in that time has left
you in the past. It is our time now to
reign over the land. You will cease and desist immediately.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Order order. I will have order here to Gray Alliance.
Tell me more, what are your plans with the land.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
King Arthur. We need the land to test our probing equipment,
which is vital to our mission. And your mission is
probing and cataloging every human way.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Fact.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, how come you guys want to shove something inside
everybody you meet?

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Huh it's with that are your proverbs? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Man, I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Believe you set the.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Order order hero, human bureaucrat, What do you have to say.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, you guys can do whatever you want. If anybody
says anything, we'll just say they're crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh you're not gonna burn them at the stake like
they used to do back in od day. Come on,
when people used to talk of riches, they ended up
on a funeral bier, so backward and bob bedeck. We
use them in the name of science. Yes, science, schmians,
Why don't you ball these?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Get out of here. I'm gonna get your.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Have come to its decision, be it by royal decree.
The land shall be divided equally between the gray and
the faith folk, and let the border run right through
the Falka triangle.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Are all in agreement?

Speaker 5 (02:17):
All right? We agree, But as long as they remain
in their territory A.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, what the heck? Okay, that's fine with us. As
long as they keep their probes away from us, you hear,
all right?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Then it disagreed.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
But before we make it low, let us first run
the idea by the reptilians.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Hillary Clinton, what do you have to say? You can
put their orders into what I call the masket hor

(03:11):
citizens of the Milky Way. My name is Dylan.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Hackworth and I'm Gage Hurley.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And you have arrived in the mists of avalon the mysts,
the moors of Scotland, where the fairies rain and the
pixie dust. It's like Dandriff. It's all over the place
where aliens supposedly live, maybe in the sky, but more
likely beneath your very feet, and where you stand. It

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that's it. I hear it, I could hear it. Folks.
We are taking a trip today to a mythical land.
I mean this is kind of back to back. We

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did Ireland, now we're in Scotland. I mean we are
just in I don't know, this is basically a Hallmark movie.
I mean we are in the gorgeous lands of central Scotland. Here.
In today's episode, we're gonna be talking about the Fall
Kirk Triangle, King Arthur and Aliens. M. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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I know what that. I know you're thinking there's no way,
I know you're thinking that's just too weird. Will buckle up, suckers,
because it's getting weird today. Hold on, tight's your mama,
Tell her you love her because you are going on
a wild ride. And first let me put my sore
sauce all over your face. Here. First we got the

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fall Kirk Ufo Triangle Global Hotspot at tour HQ and
UFO is in high Strange at Scotland's Falkirk Triangle by
Brent swanzor at Mysterious Universe Now. Folks in the heart
of central Scotland, the skies, while misty cloudy, are rarely
ever calm, even on the calmest nights, when the winds

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are quiet and the fields lay still. At least the
locals say, there's a peculiar hum that seems to linger overhead.
And no, it's not just the blinking of commercial flights
coming into Edinburgh or Glasgow. This is something else. It
doesn't follow flight paths. It's something that perhaps, as some

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locals believe, is even watching. If you know where to look,
you'll find no shortage of strange activity in this stretch
of land. It's a region that's earned itself a nickname
with equal parts awe and unease. The Falkirk Triangle. It
borders roughly by Sterling, Falkirk and the southern edge of Edinburgh.

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The swath of Scottish countryside has become ground zero for
some of the most sustained, consistent and bizarre UFO activity
ever recorded. Modern encounters in Scotland really begin in Earnest,
with a case that to this day baffles both investigators
and skeptics alike. It happened in nineteen seventy nine deep

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within the Deckmont Woods near Livingston. Here a forestry worker
named Robert Taylor, a man with no history of flights
of fancy well, he was going about his usual rounds
when he spotted something that seemed impossible, a metallic object
floating above the ground, its surface rippling like heat on

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the pavement. You know when you're driving down the road
on a hot day and you can see that those
squiggly lines coming off the ground. That wasn't it. Moments
later he was on the ground, dazed and injured, with
torn clothing and marks on his legs. Something had grabbed him,

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something that wasn't supposed to be real, at least he thought.
While the police logged it not as delusion or misadventure,
but as an actual criminal assault by an unknown entity,
the only UFO instant in fact in the UK ever
to be treated as a police matter. But Deckmont was
just the beginning, and the years that followed, reports began

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pouring in encounters with glowing orbs, craft that moved in
ways no human machine should beings, glimpsed on the edge
of perception, all of it concentrated within this peculiar triangle
of Scottish land. Some say it's lay lines, others claim
it something buried deep beneath the soil, and some, with

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voices hushed and eyes wide, insist that it's something watching
from above. And whatever the truth may be, one thing
is certain. The skies over fall Kirk are not empty.
It was nineteen eighty nine and the moss land at Grandam,
just outside bonny Bridge, was on fire. A fire crew

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had been dispatched near the scene at Shield Hill, Scotland.
Standard protocol was nothing unusual, just another blaze out in
the boggy wilds. But as they arrived, their hoses uncoiled,
their boots sinking into the soot blackened mud. Something peered
on the horizon. Something These firefighters were not trained for

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a red object, glowing, not like a flame or like
a flare, but hovering. At first, it seemed to want
to keep its distance. It was just looming, just far
enough to be dismissed as maybe at a trick of
the light. But then it did start to move straight

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towards them. It drifted closer, and it was absolutely silent
as it moved, and it was pulsing with an unnatural
queue of light until it was almost bearing down on
the fire engine itself. Then just as quickly as it
had approached, it veered off and disappeared into the haze.

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But that wasn't the end of the showdown. Then a
second object appeared, this one white, cold and clinical. It
hovered directly above Loch Elric, no more than eight meters
above the stunned fire crew, and it was just hanging
there as if watching and waiting, and then without warning,

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it rushed towards them with terrifying speed, only to peel
away at the last possible moment. As I have to say,
if I wanted to touch you, I could have, but
I didn't. It was like this thing was almost playing
chicken in a weird way. And just when the men
thought their eyes were playing tricks on them. A third

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object cut across the sky overhead, three unknowns. No sound.
They made absolutely no sound, with no explanation for what
they were. These were not campers. These firefighters weren't cranks,
of course, they were professional firefighters and people who are
literally trained to keep cool in moments of chaos, right,

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I mean, yeah, maybe they're not trained for UFO encounters,
but they're trained to keep a cool head. Right. It's
like police or anything else, or a soldier, you know
what I mean, or even like a nurse or a doctor,
someone who's insert, you know, someone who you're supposed to have,
like a cool, calm demeanor and when something happens, you
just keep your calm and you work through it.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
They really should work in the UFO training as well.
Here's exactly how you definitely don't want to touch it
and you won't be able to.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Yeah, I mean, maybe it's these things starting the fires.
Maybe we got an arsonist on it.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh my goodness, that would make a lot of sense.

Speaker 6 (12:12):
Alien bastards, Alien bastards, alien scum, because you would think
the bog is like a wet area, you know what
I mean, it's I mean, I don't know anything about
fire in that way.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
I mean, maybe it's it's just as flammable as anything else.
But you would think that sounds like it's wet, like
it's wet area, like things wouldn't like things wouldn't burn well.
But I you know, I could be naive. Of course,
what these firefighters saw that night was no weather balloon
or drone. And it damn sure wasn't a hallucination. Something

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had come out of the fire that night, and it
wasn't there to help put it out. To make that
perfectly clear, It wasn't like the helicopters that fly over
and dump the water and you know, and leave. No, no, no, no,
these things were horsing around out there in the flames. Well,
at the northern edge of the Falkirk Triangle, four miles

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west of Falkirk itself, there lies a modest town with
a name known far beyond the borders of Scotland, and
that's Bonniebridge, a town that, by all accounts, should have
lived quietly, but instead it became, some would argue, the
UFO capital of the world, or at least Europe. Between

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nineteen ninety two and nineteen ninety four, Bonnie Bridge residents
reported over six hundred sidings lights in the sky, shapes
that moved like no other aircraft ever built. They hovered
soundlessly over homes, over fields and roads, before, of course,
vanishing in a blink. And these were not isolated tails.

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This was like a wave. This is what they call
a UFO flat. By nineteen ninety seven, the sidings had
not slowed down. If anything, they had intensified. And in
the midst of it all, one man trying to make
sense of this chaos, Councilor William Buchanan of the Falkirk
District Council. What he did was something many wouldn't dare.

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He went public. Buchanan wrote multiple letters to high ranking officials,
including Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair. His message
was clear, something was happening in the skies over Bonniebridge
and the people deserved answers. In October of nineteen ninety seven,
he told Blair directly, quote, I've tried to get an

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answer for the people, and I've been ridiculed for it. Well,
he was met with a boiler plate response from the
Ministry of Defense, the kind that is almost worse than
silence itself. They wrote we are satisfied that there's no
evidence that the United Kingdom's airspace might have been compromised
by hostile or unauthorized foreign military activity, and quote the

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Department has only limited interest in UFOs. In other words,
don't worry about it.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Just seems like a very scripted, sweeping under the rug
kind of response.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
Oh yeah, very copy and paste. But Bodybridge, well they
did worry because whatever was in the skies wasn't going away.
And here's the part that will nautch you. For all
of the mockery and for all of the deflection from
government suits, some of these cases, well let's just say
they deserve a second look. Not all of them can

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just be chalked up to misidentified planes or atmospheric quirks.
Some of them even feel like threats, and others even
feel like invitations. Well, it was the evening of November twelfth,
nineteen ninety one, and the air above central Scotland was
brittle with cold as well as uneasiness that had come

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over the area. The folks that lived there they just,
I mean, this thing they had been going on for
a while and they're just they're on edge. Two photographers
were out near Polmont Reservoir, aiming their lenses towards the
looming BP Chemicals plant at Grangemouth and all industrial blaze
and distant warning lights. But what they caught on camera

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that night wasn't just architecture. Hovering near the Kincardine Bridge,
close to what locals called the quote flashing pylons, were
two small, dimly flashing lights. At first, it looked like
nothing more than a helicopter. It moved slow, almost cautious,

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light drifting from across the sky from the bridge to
Grangemouth Stadium, which was lit up like a beacon. And
then it stopped and it just hung there in the
sky above the stadium for five minutes. The craft remained motionless,
perfectly still above the stadium. It didn't sway or shift around,

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and probably strangest of all, absolutely zero sound. A helicopter,
especially that low would be rattling the teeth in your head,
but this thing was dead silent. And then without warning,
it dipped sharply and accelerated, not away but towards the stadium.

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The object was moving with calculated speed. It dropped to
just about two hundred to three hundred feet directly above
where the men stood, and as it passed overhead, it
let out the softest, most unnatural sound, a low, mechanical,
pulsing hum. In a weird way. It almost seemed like

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it was talking to them. It didn't just seem purely mechanical.
The men were frozen, of course, not even exactly from fear,
but just from the kind of cell deep awe you
can only feel when the sky seems to reach down
and acknowledge you personally. And then, of course, just as

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quickly as it had arrived, the object rose again, fading
into the night, as if it had been satisfied with
their little chat and it was going to go home
for the night. Maybe it was curious, who knows, But
it didn't want to hurt them, but it did want
to have a gander at them. Well. In nineteen ninety two,

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a man was driving along the quiet roads near bonnie Bridge,
a village no different from one hundred others that are
scattered across central Scotland. But then, just above the tree tops,
he saw something, something almost indescribable, a star shaped object
gliding low over the landscape, like it had stepped down

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from the heavens. That single sighting seemed to crack the
sky wide open, because after that night, bonnie Bridge would
be changed forever. What had once been a sleepy little
dot on the map quickly became something else, entirely the
quote UFO Capital of Scotland they called it, and soon
after even the UFO Capital of the World. Big claims,

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of course, but the numbers seem to back that claim up.
Three hundred sightings a year and that is no myth
or exaggeration, that is just plain data. People were seeing
things again and again and again. They were seeing lights, shapes,
beams of light, orbs of light, strange silent triangles that

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just flowed above the rooftops. No sound, of course, as
always maybe the creepiest part of it, absolutely no sound,
bright flashes that would fade into the dark, encounters that
left your skin tingling, and the clocks suddenly wrong. And
this wasn't just locals fuel the rumor mill. This was pilots,

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police officers, teachers, councilors, children, tourists, fire crews. As we know,
something was happening in the skies over Bonnybridge, and no
one could quite explain what, but everyone did agree on
one thing. Something in the sky was watching them. Well
let's keep pushing forward to the twenty seventh of August

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nineteen ninety two. Two men, one named Gary Wood, the
other call and Wright, were driving down the A seventy,
a quiet, winding stretch of road that cuts through West Lothian,
heading south through the belly of the Falkirk Triangle. Their
destination was routine. But this night, baby, Oh, this night
was going to be anything but routine. Near Harperig Reservoir,

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a remote, wind lashed patch of countryside where the hills
stretched wide, was where their encounter began to happen. It
was something that would literally shatter their lives forever. The
men describing being abducted, A craft, cold and vast, unlike

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anything built by human hands, descended over the road. Not
a light in the sky or a passing blur, but
a presence large enough to literally block out the stars
and close enough to swallow them whole. And then nothing, silence,

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and a blank space in their memory. Somehow time had folded,
Minutes or maybe hours had inexplicably slipped away. When they
came back to themselves, they were no longer in their car.
They were somewhere else, on board a strange craft. Now

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this craft sounds huge. It reminds me of the crafts
in Independence day, how they're literally like city wide. You
remember how that always I thought was so creepy and intimidating.
This just behemoth Leviathan coming out of the shell, like
the clouds covering the city. And that's I mean, that's
kind of what they're describing here. They would later describe

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being subjected to intrusive examinations, technologies they couldn't even comprehend,
truly alien in every sense of the word. They were restrained, examined, recorded,
And then it got worse because this abduction didn't just
end there. They say they were taken under ground. Gary

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and Colin found themselves in what could only be described
as a cavernous system beneath the earth. The walls lined
with glass jars, and inside each jar were people, frozen
and naked. Colin remembers pleading, begging with his captors not

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to be sealed away like the others, anything but become
another specimen, another lost soul in a wall of forgotten people.
Think about like I almost think like the uh when
Neo awakes in the matrix, kind of like just those
like almost like that, just like rows and rows of
just like people of like human people in these jars.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Like some sort of sick catalog.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Absolutely, like yeah, you're absolutely right, almost like a catalog,
like it's a catalog of all their subjects that they've
either examined or planning to or whatever. You know. But
the worst part, folks, is that it didn't end that night,
because the memory kept coming back, in flashes and in dreams,
that sense that something was still watching them and still

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capable of reaching into their lives, taking more and more
as it pleased. And somewhere something was out there beneath
those moors, beyond the reach of headlights. And what also
might still be out there is that buried gallery of
the damned jars full of missing people, frozen in limbo forever. Ooh,

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now that is creepy. That's like the idea of like
no whatever knowing, you know, and you're just kind of
this like even if you're not conscious, you're just kind
of like a specimen, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
It's ah, man, terrible fate to have happened. I mean,
it's really horrifying.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
A nightmare to even think about. By September of ninety six,
the skies above Scotland became restless again. This time the
story comes from Newton of Falkland, a quiet little patch
in Fife, just northeast of the Triangle, a place where
the days are long and the air is clean, and

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nothing much ever happens, well, at least until September of
ninety six. Folks, a military family, the Air Force specifically
one grounded and Logic and Discipline, began to tell a
story that was like something out of the Twilight Zone,
something vast and that feels eerily orchestrated. They described standing

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at the edge of a field, staring out at what
were swarms of these small ant like figures, creeping and
crawling through the landscape, and there were dozens of them,
maybe more. They described them as grays, like we think
of as the classic gray alien, the spindly limbs, the

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eyes that are like the black ovals in their head.
But these beings weren't just running around willy nilly. Now.
They were working. They were harvesting hay and mixing it
with what appeared to be their saliva. They were building
something structures, almost like a nest, like they were building

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a colony right there in the field, and above them
hovered a ship, a black triangle the size of a stadium,
hanging silently in the sky. And then came the light,
bizarre geometric shafts of illumination, flickering and warping like some

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kind of a prism. And through these shapes of light,
quietly descending were tall white figures, larger than the grays.
They were silent but had a commanding aura about them,
the witnesses recall, and they did not walk down or
descend a ladder. They teleported, phasing in and out of sight.

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These were clearly the ones in charge, and in that
moment the family, being military minded, of course, realized they
weren't just witnessing a chance encounter. They were witnessing a staging,
a deployment and operation in progress. This event is now
regarded by many as one of the most shocking alien

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landings ever recorded. And it didn't happen in the deserts
of Nevada or the outpack of Australia. It happened in
the fields of Fife, right in the heart of Scotland.
And just like that, the question changed from are we alone?
To what are they building? That to me is such

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a creepy tale because it gives them this like bug
like it kind of removes almost some of the intelligence,
and it makes them more just like creatures in a way,
you know what I mean, like the ones that are
were because some people have theorized that grays are actually
more like biological drones, that they're kind of like created
to be like a like how we was send a

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rover to Mars. We're not there, but the rover's there,
and this thing is part biological. It seems like it's,
you know, even though it's obviously not human, it seems
like it's you know, it's like a being, like an
intelligent being when it may just be a drone of
some kind that's able to pick things up with opposable
thumbs things like that actually do tasks and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
That makes sense. It's also interesting to think that maybe
they're like, maybe they're not that, maybe they are biological,
but they have like a hive mind in a way, yes,
you know, like wasps or something like that, and conceivably
they don't really have a lot of empathy for lack
of a better word, I suppose they're just kind of

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entirely hive minded exactly.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Just terrifying that almost makes it more terrifying, Like it's
you know, when you think about the Xenomore from the
Alien franchise, part of what you know, typically I think
when we think of alien, you know a lot of
science fiction and stuff that aliens are usually smarter than us,
or they're they're more powerful than us, when really the
aliens that are in the Alien franchise are just like beasts.

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They're just like killing machines. They aren't smarter necessarily. They're
smart hunters, they're clever hunters, but they're not like, you know,
creatures of reason necessarily. That's what almost makes them even scarier,
is it's like being locked in with a rabbit animal,
except you know, a million times worse. It's just kind
of mindless, yes, yes, and just horrified and the things

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they do to your body is just horrified. By nineteen
ninety nine, the strange happenings in Scotland were no longer
confined to just bonnie Bridge or the moors of Fife.
Just fifteen miles south of Edinburgh, in the former mining
town of Gorbridge, something dark seemed to be unfolding. Long

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time researchers and witnesses Jackie Gillis and Hennessy began to
speak publicly about what they described is not just isolated sightings,
but as an ongoing siege. According to them, Gorbridge wasn't
just a UFO hotspot, It was being watched, studied, and
possibly even inhabited. Their claim was not idle speculation either,

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as it came back with miles of footage, multiple eyewitness accounts,
and even coverage in local media. Hennessey was quoted on
the Stargate Edinburgh Tour's website saying, is there some ancient
connection between history and mythology between land use of the
Falkirk Triangle to the alien looking events that are unfolding

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before our very eyes here today on the ground under
it and in the skies. Is there some kind of
timeless pageant or battle being waged between beings of light
and beings of darkness within this same mysterious Fulkirk Triangle. Well,
what they captured on film was indeed strange, and it

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was persistent and unmistakably deliberate lights weaving through the sky,
objects hovering at a low altitude, unexplained sounds reverberating in
the night, phenomenon that went beyond just simple coincidence and
it couldn't be explained away as just construction or test flights.
For a brief moment, it looked like the story might

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even break through the veil into the mainstream. The evidence
was there, the witnesses were talking, baby even the local
Member of Parliament was made aware. But when the pressure mounted,
the powers that be pulled back. The MP distanced themselves
from the topic, entirely avoiding involvement in what was likely

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seen as a powder keg of potential hysteria. And just
like that, Gorebridge was left to fend for itself under
a silent siege. The cameras kept rolling and the witnesses
kept watching, but the answers would never come. In fact,
the Ministry of Defense officially closed their file on the

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strangeness happening at the Falkirk Triangle in two thousand and nine.
The Defense Minister was quoted saying the Ministry of Defense
should seek to reduce very significantly the UFO task, which
is consuming increasing resource but produces no valuable defense output.
In more than fifty years, no UFO siding reported to

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the Ministry of Defense has ever revealed anything to suggest
an extraterrestrial presence or military threat. To the UK, and
there's no defense benefit in the military of defense recording, collating, analyzing,
or investigating UFO sightings. Investigations into UFO sightings, even from
more reliable sources, serve no useful purpose and merely divert

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air defense specialists from their primary tasks. Accordingly, no further
investigations should be carried out into UFO reports received from
any source. Well well, well, well, what continued to unfold
in gore Bridge through the late nineties and into the
two thousands defied not just explanation but even expectation. Some

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of the most compelling images were more than just vague
lights or hazy shapes. They were striking and specific and
unnervingly cinematic. Among them is footage of a dome shaped
craft lifting off from the fields, rising slowly into the
air without sound. Other images showed sleek, highly engineered vehicles,

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the kind you'd expect to see in some B movie
sci fi flicked from like the sixties or the fifties,
and it was happening above the rooftops and the roads
and the locals and trailing not far behind in the skies.
Nearby were often black helicopters, shadowy and silent, as if

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someone or something was watching The watchers noticed that these
helicopters are described as silent, as if to suggest these craft,
these helicopters, they might have even been pretending to be
earth made helicopters, or perhaps some kind of secretive military

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helicopter specifically meant for following these strange craft, because think
about it, if you don't want people to see these things,
then you don't want to be following them in a
noisy ass helicopter that will draw people's attention. Yet there's
still these silent helicopters that are usually following these strange craft.

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And then came the orbs, and they were never flying
solo either. These came in packs of two or three
glowing aerial objects, unmanned, eerily fluid in their motion, and
they were seen lifting up from the countryside below and
even buzzing a commercial seven point thirty seven on its
descent into Edinburgh Airport. The orbs moved close, dangerously close.

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Locals reported it, so did pilots. Air Traffic Control was
made aware, but somewhere along the chain the message conveniently vanished.
The Ministry of Defense never received it, or at least
they claimed that they didn't another thread lost in the fog.

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Well more than once there were daylight encounters strange glowing
devices that were photographed weaving through the air above the
houses and over the fields. One of the most disturbing
captures is an image that seems to be of an
alien figure standing atop the roof of a local home,

(35:35):
no disguise, not even trying to be discreet about it,
just standing there as if he was a local of
the town, and beneath the earth. The mystery only deepened.
Footage collected by Jackie Gillis showed large, slow, almost angelic
like beings. Many believed that these strange vessels were connected

(35:58):
to the old coal mining shack that were spider webbing
beneath Gorebridge. And if that's true, then perhaps the aliens
weren't just here to watch from above. Perhaps they have
been down there all along engage. As we know, this
is something that's popped up a lot is cave systems,
and this is also becoming a more popular theory is

(36:20):
that you know a lot of these things that have
been captured recently that like made the New York Times
and stuff, these orbs that or these like these craft
that the Air Force and Navy pilots have picked up
a lot of times. They'll dip into the water, they'll
go underwater, they'll shoot up out of the water, meaning
they aren't just meant for air. They're like an all
terrain kind of thing. People have claimed to see them

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coming out of mountains. Our episode high strangeness on Mount
Shasta was part of that. These things that seem to
come out of the mountain as if they they lived
beneath the mountain and then would go about for a
joy ride. By the early two thousands, the strange activity
that had long haunted the skies of bonnie Bridge and
gore Bridge, they seemed to migrate towards the ancient stronghold

(37:08):
of Sterling, at the top edge of what has now
become widely known, of course, as the Falkirk Triangle. Reports
in this region began to intensify, not just in frequency
but in clarity, and soon Sterling had become the latest
hot spot in its own right, capturing the attention of
both believers and skeptics alike. One name in particular rose

(37:31):
to prominence here, and that was Brian McPhee, prolific cameraman
who over the past two decades has captured some of
the clearest and most compelling UFO evidence ever documented in Scotland.
In two thousand and eight, McPhee recorded footage of a
black military helicopter circling what appeared to be a downed

(37:54):
alien craft, a strange, metallic, otherworldly device resting in a
field there and sterling. It didn't look like it had crashed,
though it looked almost like it had been placed there.
And just above it, nestled low among the clouds, were
two or three more of these UFOs silently watching from

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a distance. This wasn't an isolated incident either. Over the years,
McPhee and others have continued to film unexplainable ships of
every size and shape moving through the skies over sterling,
ships that seemed to blink in and out of existence.
Remember that that slow drift and dart in ways no

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aircraft can. Some are orbs, small and glowing, while others
are vast, angular and almost like cities adrift in the sky.
These craft almost seemed to perform, revealing themselves at just
the right moment, like their part of some larger choreography
that no one yet understands. The blinking is tied to something.

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One of the theories I know Tom DeLong had talked
about it before, Tom DeLong of blanquid A two yes,
is these things are apparently empowered by some sort of
electrogravitic engine. This thing can manipulate gravity rather than a
source of propulsion. They're almost getting pulled and there's never
any sign of like a heat signature of like a

(39:27):
propulsion system. It's because these things might be able to
literally what they're doing when they're blinking in and out
is there? You know, we've all seen the classic example.
I think they do it in Interstellar, where there's two
dots on a sheet of paper, but if you fold it,
suddenly those two dots are right there. It's kind of
like that, instead of going a straight line, it's going dude,
do do It's like.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, they're folding space itself.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
You're right exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
And that kind of technology would make sense as to
why they're so easily able to traverse through air.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Water, right exactly. So here's the question that inevitably rises.
Why here? Why now? That question has haunted ufologists and
witnesses alike. It's not just a few grainy photos anymore,
as we know this is literally miles of footage, multiple
eye witnesses, and decades of consistency, and yet time and again,

(40:23):
attempts to bring this story into the mainstream are met
with strange and an almost wilful silence. TV companies drawn
by the strange allure of the Falkirk Triangle have come
over the years with every intent of dismantling the narrative.
They bring crews and consultants and scripts designed to laugh
the story away, to reduce it to just local superstition

(40:46):
or optical illusions. But their efforts fall short because the
footage honey, just like Shakira's hips, they don't lie. The
stories are not going way. The sheer volume of what
has been seen and captured and experienced simply cannot be
brushed aside, and so we're left with a mystery that

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grows heavier the longer it lingers. If something is truly
happening above Sterling and bonnie Bridge and gore Bridge and
wherever else and it is, we know something's going on,
we don't know what it is. Then, what exactly are
we seeing folks? Are we being observed? Are we even
being extracted? Has there been an official settlement made by

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these beings or is this something that has always been here,
maybe even before us, a true reality that we are
being shielded from or even are incapable of observing.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Yeah, that's an interesting idea that had occurred.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
To me too.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
I mean, who's to say that we are the first
really intelligent species to evolve on our planet? For all
we know, they were around long before us, right, And
they've been so far past us in terms of their
technology for so long that it's not been really that
difficult for them to conceal themselves.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
Right. It's you know, like we know, like there's certain
I don't know how it works, but like levels of
light that we can't comprehend, but we know are there.
Maybe we are literally incapable of observing them. Well. By
nineteen ninety eight, Old Bonnie Bridge had already earned its
reputation as a magnet for the unexplained. But for a

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Missus Bennetti, a local resident with no ties to UFO
communities or someone prone to sensational stories, this phenomenon wasn't
just something out there in the hills. It was something
that appeared like clockwork every Tuesday night right above her
neighbor's house. She didn't talk about it at first, because

(42:53):
why would she? People might laugh roll their eyes. Regardless, though,
it kept happening week after week without fail, and always
the same shape, a small black triangle hovering silently in
the sky, just beyond her window, just above her neighbor's rooftop.

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And she would stand there with her ironing board each
and every Thursday until one night, well, damn it, Miss
Benetti had had enough. She grabbed her camcorder. It was
a clunky piece of nineties tech. She whips it out,
and she's filming this thing in the sky. There it
was clear as day, a triangle, motionless, hovering in the air,

(43:41):
without sound. When the footage got out, of course, it
caused shockwaves. The story did not stay local either. It
spread far and wide and soon reached the ears of
one doctor Stephen Greer, the American face of what has
come to be known as exopolytis a man whose name

(44:02):
alone carries weight and yes, some controversy. We've even reached
out to him to be on the show here before.
Hopefully someday we can speak to him. But yes, his
name it carries weight and controversy. In the UFO world.
Greer wasted no time and flew in on a private
jet that he borrowed from an acquaintance. Greer left Scotland

(44:23):
with the only known copy of this tape in hand,
vanishing as quickly as he had arrived. It seemed for
a time that miss Benetti's evidence had been quietly absorbed
into the black hole of high level secrecy, another thread
pulled from the public narrative, but word got out, and

(44:45):
under mounting pressure, the footage was eventually returned to its
rightful owner. Still the damage had been done. The message
was clear, folks. Someone was watching, and not just from
the sky, but from the ground too, watchers that were
all too human, and they were very interested in what

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missus Benetti had captured. Some say the craft was not
there visiting, but maybe even on assignment, the same way
a country assigns a diplomat to handle relations with a
foreign nation. Modern mystery and ancient history may very well
meet beneath the mossy surface of Scotland itself. Mentorn TV,

(45:27):
a respected production company with roots in both London and Glasgow,
had posed a question that many have asked, but few
have dared to pursue head on. Have aliens invaded Scotland,
and to that question there appears to be a resounding yes.
Not just in the past few decades, not even since

(45:48):
the lights started swirling over Bonnybridge or the craft began
crawling across Sterling Skies, but for centuries, possibly longer. There
is compelling reason to believe that non human entities have
been present here for a very long time, and likely
still are if they've been hiding. What if they haven't

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been doing so just in far off galaxies or invisible dimensions,
but right beneath our feet, within the ancient and stable
rock formations that have survived the passage of millennia, in particular,
the Louisian Genese of northwestern Scotland, one of the oldest
known surfaces on Earth untouched by earthquakes, industry, or time,

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could well be home to subterranean networks and caverns where
something in human dwells. And it isn't just UFO investigators
saying this, folks. The idea of this phenomenon is woven
into Scotland's oldest tales, stories once told around the hearth fires,
and woven into lullabies meant to keep children calm or

(46:57):
to warn them against danger. When you turn to the
collected works of Reverend Robert Kirk in his sixteen ninety
one book Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fonds and Fairies, or
John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands published in nineteen hundred,
or even Mary MacLeod Banks's towering four volume nineteen thirty

(47:19):
seven collection British Calendar Customs, you hear it plainly through
the lens of folklore. Not Gray's, perhaps, not even orbs,
but beings unknowable and inhuman who appeared at night, took
people without asking and left something wrong behind. Consider this

(47:41):
old Highland fairy lullaby, a melody passed down through generations.
I left my baby lying here, lying here, lying here.
I left my baby lying here to go gather blueberries. Hoven, hoven, goryogle, goryogle, Oh,
Gloria go. I'd ever found my baby own. I heard

(48:04):
the curfew crying far, crying far, crying far. I heard
the curlew crying far, but never heard my baby. Oh.
It almost reminds me of the beginning of the Witch,
when the baby is taken. What we think of is
abductions by grays today might have been abduction by fairies
and witches and goblins of the past. This lullaby is

(48:26):
more than a song. It's a warning. It's a memory,
and it's a child gone missing and a changeling left behind,
a tale told to soothe a loss too devastating to endure.
What today we'd call abduction by grays, they called the fae.
The names change, the shapes change, but the behavior stays

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the same. Sort of like last week's episode in the
Devil's Visit to Loftus Hall, and how eerily similar it
is to this Devil's supposed visit to the Health Buyer
Club in Dublin circumstances, but the same format. So if
you ask whether Scotland has been visited, studied, or even
inhabited by something from somewhere else, the answer doesn't just

(49:11):
lie in bonny Bridge alone. It's in the rocks, and
in the songs and in the cultural folklore. What many
people don't realize, what most have forgotten, is that the
area we now call the Falkirk Triangle isn't just Scotland's
modern epicenter for UFO sidings and skyborn strangeness. It's also
steeped in a much older mystery hidden in plain sight

(49:36):
within the country's fairy lore and abduction legends. Take, for instance,
the old coal mining town of Blackridge in West Lothian,
formerly known as black Rig. It might look like just
another post industrial village today, but the land beneath it
carries a far stranger name and purpose. According to folklorist

(49:58):
Mary MacLeod Banks, black Rig referred to a strip of
medieval farmland, a rig that had been abandoned or more
chillingly set aside, not for the crown or the clergy,
but for the fairies, or some believed, for the devil himself.
These strips of land were believed to be claimed by

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other worldly forces, left untouched by mortal hands for fear
of trespassing into a realm we were never meant to behold.
The idea was clear, leave that land alone or pay
the price. Centuries later, Blackridge found itself back in the spotlight,
but now with modern abduction cases reported throughout the nineteen nineties,

(50:44):
where residents spoke of missing time, strange lights, and reoccurring
dreams that felt more like memories than fiction. We talked
about this, the idea that national parks might have been
You know some theorized that it was like an agreement
struck between the government meant and extraterrestrials, like hey, you
can do your abducting, but it's got to be done

(51:05):
within these designated areas. So this idea of like literally
land set aside for them is nothing new. It appears
to have gone back millennia to medieval times, to you know,
people saying, oh, no, that land is meant for the fairies,
or that land is meant for the devil. That's I mean, yeah,
it's like we said, it's it's the same structure, just

(51:28):
a different code of paint. And the strangeness, of course,
doesn't stop at the skies. Around the same time, a
former GCHQ expert, a man who had worked at men
with Hill, Britain's ultra classified intelligence station, claimed to have
seen something out of place in Blackridge. And this was
not a ship or even a being, but something man made,

(51:52):
or at least something pretending to be a highly exotic
military communications aerial sticking out from one of the huts
on the edge of town, not public, but just standing silent,
watching and possibly even receiving intel. It begs the question,

(52:13):
was black Ridge just another cold town? Touched by the
same wave of Ufo fever, or was it something more
a place where ancient ground and alien presences blur, where
the rig both sacred and feared, is still being used,
just not by us. For those brave enough to follow

(52:34):
the trail of the Falkirk Triangle, you can walk the
fields where lights once hovered, Visit the places where people
vanished and return changed, or they never returned at all.
You can pour over tales of fairy abductions and alien
intrusions and try to decide which end of the spectrum

(52:56):
things lie, because sometimes what we call folklore is just
a forgotten report written in myth. Oh, folks, folks, folks,
did you think it was going to stop?

Speaker 5 (53:08):
It?

Speaker 4 (53:08):
Just talk of fairies? Not a chance. Do you think
it was going to stop there? Baby?

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Let's take this to the King. And I don't just
mean the King of rock and roll, baby, I mean
the Christian King of England. I'm talking about King Arthur. Now,
the deeper you dig, the farther back the mystery reaches,
of course, until you're not just dealing with aliens, but
with legends that have been carved into the bedrock of

(53:35):
British identity. Itself, because here, nestled within the murky edges
of myth and memory, folklore tells of a final battle
not of grays and saucers, but of kings and traders.
It is said that one of the last stands of
King Arthur, Britain's mooth mythologized Christian warrior. This took place

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not in the dreaming the meadows of Avalon or the
shadowy hills of Wales, but right there in a small
village near modern day Falkirk called Camelan. Noticed that name
in its similarities to Camelot. The year was around five
forty a d. According to some interpretations of the old chronicles,

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this was where Arthur met his end, cut down by
pagan forces, or more precisely, by the hand of Mordred,
his own blood, a traitor, a bastard sun and in
some versions, a creature of darkness wrapped in flesh.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
The location is key. Camealan wasn't just chosen by accident.
This was a place of crossroads. We all know about crossroads,
Baby of both the spiritual, military warfare and perhaps even
cosmic influence. If you believe the old stories, then it
was here that the veil between worlds was thinnest, and

(55:03):
it was where the great Christian king of myth faced
forces that may have been more than just mortal men.
Mordred is often depicted as a human adversary, but in
some variants of the lore, his origins are murky, even unnatural,
a shadow child, an abomination. The idea that Arthur fell

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not just to betrayal, but to something inhuman, something birthed
of woman but corrupted by the other worldly. This has
haunted the margins of the Tail for centuries. And what
do we find in Camalan today. It's a landscape riddled
with burial mounds, ancient standing stones, and modern reports of

(55:46):
UFOs and spectral lights. As if something never stopped haunting
the battlefields. What if the story of Arthur's fall isn't
just a tale of betrayal, but one of incursion as well.
And what if the all Kirk Triangle had always been
a place of conflict, a place where humanity meets the

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other and not always unequal terms. If you're looking for
something to anchor the myth of the Fall Kirk Triangle
into the bones of history, well look no further than
an old and often overlooked volume known as the Book
of Glasgow Cathedral. In it lies a quote drawn from

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the writings of the medieval historian Neneus, dated to around
eight hundred a d. This excerpt suggests something profound and
perhaps long forgotten. According to Nennius, it was in central
Scotland where King Arthur fought his final battles, not in Cornwall,

(56:48):
not in Whales, where the location is usually attributed. I
need to I was talking to my father last night,
because we like to, you know, read and stall. You know,
we're big readers. Of course to be if you're going
to do a show like Creep Street, you kind of
got to be a big reader. But we were saying, like,
I don't think i've ever I remember reading some of
King Arthur when I was little in school, but I'm

(57:09):
sure they were like versions that were like abridged for kids,
you know what I mean, because I looked it up,
because of course, like the first mention of King Arthur,
it's something like nine hundred a D. But then, like
you know, of course, time goes on and stories are made.
I think the ones were taught like in school, were
written in like the eighteen hundreds. They were more like
I think they're written like in Victorian times. I can't

(57:29):
remember the guys. It's a person's name who's it's like
a well known author who kind of like made them
household names essentially, at least for people outside of the UK.
You know, I'm sure for the UK that they'd been
around a long time, but you know, kind of made
them household names outside of the UK, you know, because
now everyone at least has heard of King Arthur. But
what most people don't know is that he might actually

(57:51):
have existed. Maybe all the fantastic tales about him didn't happen,
That he was just a you know, a king that
you know, maybe he had because back then, you know,
they were there were fiefdoms and little kingdoms all over
the place. You know, people you know there's kings have
come and gone and stuff like that, and it's you know,
so who knows. It could be a real man who
is lost to time and it's just the stories that

(58:12):
about him weren't necessarily real, or maybe it's all real,
who knows. More specifically, though, he is said to have
fallen at Camelon, a town now nestled between bonnie Bridge
and Falkirk, squarely within what we now call the Falkirk
Triangle and let that sink in, because if it's true,
that would mean that this patch of seemingly quiet countryside

(58:35):
that is now dotted with UFO sidings, phantom hums and
ghostly lights, that it was once the site of Britain's
most legendary last stand. Oh oh, but there's more, because
according to the lore, Arthur didn't just die and fade
into the mist. He wasn't spirited off to Avalon nor
buried in some lost chapel. It's said that the victorious four,

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presumably those of Mordred the Trader, also called the Shadows Sun,
They are said to have constructed a massive beehive shaped
stone structure over the site of his death, a mound
or marker, perhaps even a tomb to seal something within.
Beehive shaped stone chambers were not uncommon in ancient ritual construction,

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as they were often linked to burial protection or even containment.
These weren't just graves, they were architectural spells designed to
lock something away. So the question rises, if true, what
exactly did they bury at Camelon. Was it Arthur, the

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famous king of legend, a relic of some kind, or
perhaps it was something that shouldn't have survived the battle,
And as the Falkirk Triangle continues to flare with sightings
and anomalies, there's no deny dying. There is a strange
power that defies time and description. There you have to
wonder if that old beehive mound still hums beneath the soil,

(01:00:10):
and not just with history. Well, what many don't realize,
and what many refuse to even entertain, is that the
strange mound not only marks the death of King Arthur
at Camelon, but something far more impactful than the legend
of King Arthur already is. According to some interpretations, it

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may have been built deliberately, not only to honor the
fallen king, but to echo a prophecy far older and
more cryptic than the Authurian legend itself. Tied to Biblical scripture,
the structure has long been associated with a riddle spoken
by Samson in the Book of Judges fourteen fourteen. Here

(01:00:53):
is the verse from the King James version. And he said,
unto them, out of the eater came forth meat, and
out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could
not in three days expound the riddle On its surface,
it's a poetic paradox, but when applied to the story
of Arthur and Mordred, it takes on a much darker meaning.

(01:01:15):
Some scholars have paraphrased it as out of the strong,
meaning the Christian but dead Arthurian line of David comes
forth the sweet honey of the industrious worker bees from
the competing line of Dan. In this reading, Arthur represents
the spiritual strength and sacred bloodline believed to descend from

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the house of David. Mordred, the usurper, often associated with
betrayal and shadow, is said to reflect the line of Dan,
a lineage with a far more complicated reputation. Over the centuries,
this idea has evolved in what is now called the
Morovian Conspiracy, a theory that proposes the intermingling of these

(01:02:02):
two ancient houses, the House of David and the House
of Dan, and a secret blood line that shaped the
political and spiritual histories of Europe from behind the scenes.
The suggestion is that what happened at Camalon wasn't just
the fall of a king, but a symbolic passing of power,
not a clean break but entanglement, not a death, but

(01:02:24):
a sort of mutation of legacy. Now, the so called
Morovian Conspiracy claims that the earliest kings of medieval France,
the Morovians, weren't just regular royals, but they descended from
a holy lineage, a blood line stretching all the way
back to Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene themselves. If true,

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that would mean that a secret war between the sacred
and the serpent blood has raged for centuries, hidden beneath
coats of arms, cathedral stones, and the forgotten corners of history.
Some say the real Holy Grail was never a chalice,
but it was the blood flowing through chosen veins, guarded
across millennia by a secret order who knew the terrible

(01:03:08):
power it carried, and in places like Camelon and bonnie Bridge.
Some wonder if the echoes of that ancient struggle still
flicker in the skies above and churn in the soil below.
Maybe the mystery isn't just about what we're seeing. Maybe
it's about what's remembering us. Some even say that the

(01:03:30):
Antichrist will be a descendant of the House of Dan
Now fyi. Some folks who get really into this, It
can often be used as an anti Semitic or anti
Catholic propaganda. I just wanted to put that out there.
Some people with the wrong intentions grab hold of these
legends and make them ugly. For example, the House of David.

(01:03:50):
At the House of Dan, they're talking about the tribes
of Israel. One tribe of Dan was said to be
you know, let so it kind of you can see
where it gets a little like, ugh, if they're wrong,
you know how some douchebags can take that and run
with it and make it, you know, turn it into
some sort of antisemitic, you know, or anti Catholic ideology.
So just wanted to put that out there that sometimes

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people can take that and make it yucky. But it
was kind of made famous though, this idea, this Moravian
conspiracy in Dan Brown's book The da Vinci Code, So
that was kind of where it was. And of course
they add you know, that's they add stuff in there
for more, you know, dramatize it and whatnot. But that's
kind of where it kind of became. You know, a
lot of people kind of learned about it for the
first time was in was in that novel. Because I

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can remember when I was a kid that novel was huge.
It was everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:04:38):
It was a cultural sensation.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
It really was. I mean it was like almost to
the like now, it didn't hang on like Harry Potter
did because that had so much media attached to it.
But like that book was just now the I think
like the sequels never made much of a splash the
way like Harry Potter did. But that first book people
just went crazy for it. And so the location where

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Arthur is said to have fallen becomes something more than
just a battlefield. It becomes a monument, coated in stone,
layered in secrecy, and rooted in a landscape that has
always carried a strange weight, because today this very region
of the Falkirk Triangle is known for its lights in
the sky, its stories of abduction, and its unshakable sense

(01:05:23):
that something unseen is lurking, not above but below. Whether
it's through biblical riddles, medieval myth or modern encounters, this
patch of Scotland continues to pull at the veil. Now
as we already know, it's said that the fall of
King Arthur at Camelon there was this great stone hive

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like structure that was raised over the side of his demise.
Now whether this was meant to honor him or seal
something away, it still stood as a monument to a
turning point, a shift in lineage, in prophecy, and in
the balance of power. That structure is no longer standing today,
Like so many ancient things, it was gradually picked apart

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and assimilated stone by stone into the foundations of local
buildings and roads, and absorbed quietly into the infrastructure of
daily life. But remnants remain, and from the modern marvel
known as the Falkirk Wheel, a stunning piece of contemporary
engineering that links the fourth the Clyde and then Union
Canal system, you can still look out across the land

(01:06:30):
where legend says Arthur Fell, it's a view that binds
the past and the present in a single glance. Now,
you know, you got to think if you were to
take stone like from this thing. Now granted maybe people
who did it didn't even realize what they were taking
it from, but like you got to now, that would
be a way for like a haunting to spread. You
would think, like if you have like a sacred memorial

(01:06:53):
and people each took like a piece, it's almost like
maybe some of these things are wanting the pieces back.
You know, that could be a thing too. It's like
things like where are like almost looking for the land,
looking for the you know, maybe it's not even the stones,
but just metaphorically like it's like looking for certain pieces.
And you know, I don't know my Authoritian legends. I

(01:07:14):
would really love to read more. I mean it's such
a fascinating I mean, there's such beautiful stories. I can
remember the prose sounding so beautiful and like of course
the story you know, Merlin and Guinevere and Excalibur and
the Knights, the round Table. I mean, it's such beautiful folklore.
I really want to learn more about it. So I
don't come at me if it's you know, if you

(01:07:35):
know for a fact it wasn't camel On. I'm just
you know, sharing what the sources say. But apparently in
some tellings that is where he died, as opposed to
I guess there's a few different versions. Some say it
was Cornwall, England, some say it was in Wales. You know,
so it's you know, it's kind of all it's all about,
of course, I mean, he's a hot shot. Everyone wants
a piece of King a. You know what I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Saying everyone wants to claim him.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
That's right, that's right. Let's talk about kelpies, because I
think we've talked about them before. When we've talked about
we never did a dedicated episode on them, but I
think they've come up a few times in stories. Not
far from the storied grounds of Camelon stands one of
Scotland's most striking modern monuments, the Kelpies. Towering into the

(01:08:21):
sky like twin Titans, these massive, rearing horseheads are sculpted
from gleaming steel and rooted deep into the earth, casting
long shadows across the nearby canal and fields. While on
the surface, these kelpies honor the shire horses of the
nineteenth century, powerful tireless beasts that hauled barges and helped

(01:08:43):
build the industrial backbone of the nation. They are monuments
to strength and endurance into the spirit and work ethic
etched into Scotland's past. But the name tells another story,
because before they were celebrated, kelpies were often feared in
folklore and the old Highland tails. These were not gentle

(01:09:07):
work horses, right, These weren't the wild horses that the
rolling stones sang about. This is something a little different.
They were shape shifting water spirits, often taking the form
of beautiful black horses. They would lure travelers to climb
onto their backs, only to drag them screaming, into the
depths of the sea to be drowned. These were not

(01:09:30):
beasts of burden, but creatures of deception and abduction and death.
On certain nights, if you catch them at just the
right time and the soft blue glow of the field lights,
it's hard not to think of that older version of
the mythical creature, because I can remember. I think there's
like tails, because you know, like there's almost like they're
not a grim's fairy tale, but kind of like in

(01:09:50):
that vein, but like kids who were naughty who went
out at night, they would see these horses and they'd
be like horsey and they'd get on and black beauty
would carry them into the damse and drown them. Motorists
driving home along M nine often catched them outside the
corner of their eye, these massive silver statues that rise

(01:10:11):
kind of unexpectedly from the earth. If you know, if
you didn't know they were there, they might take you
off guard a little bit, and for a brief moments,
the ancient and the modern seemed to collapse into one.
What was meant to be a tribute becomes a warning.
Yes they're beautiful, of course, awe inspiring even, but they're
also a reminder that even our monuments can carry ghosts,

(01:10:35):
that even art can become a subbning. And in a
place like the Falkirk Triangle, it's hard to look at
the Kelpies and not wonder what if the Kelpies of
myth still roam the lands. Long before UFOs patrolled the
skies over bonnie Bridge, and long before shimmering craft rose
from the fields of Gorbridge, this part of Scotland was

(01:10:58):
already marked to really where the line meant to keep
something out or perhaps to keep something in, because around
one fifty a d. The Romans constructed a fortified turf
wall across the narrowest part of central Scotland. It was
called the Antonine Wall, and it stretched from Bo'ness on

(01:11:22):
the Firth of Forth to Old Kilpatrick on the River Clyde.
The Firth of Fourth. Now that's a that is a name. Yeah,
Firth of that is a name. Yeah. I'm Frank from
the Firth of Fourth.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Happy fourth of July.

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
On the Firth of Forth, Happy fourth of July on
the Firth and fourth, of course, we don't celebrate the
Fourth of July, but we just live on the Firth
of fall Ah. A trans atlantic it's the nineteen thirty
Say where did those Calpanies take all the dames? Unlike
Hadrian's Wall farther south, this northern boundary cut directly through
the heart of that. Let's say it together, folks, the

(01:11:59):
fall Kirk Trile, the Falker Triangle and the Perth of
Fourth And though much of it has been weathered with time,
large segments can actually still be seen, particularly near Falkirk
and Boness, where the land still remembers the tread of
the Roman legions. But as centuries passed and the wall
persisted into the Middle Ages, it picked up another name,

(01:12:22):
a more ominous name. Locals began calling it Grime's Dyke.
At first glance, this was thought to reference Clan Graham,
descended from the earlier Grahams, a warrior family with roots
in the same soil. But dig a little deeper and
you'll find a darker connotation. In certain parts of Scotland,

(01:12:44):
Graham was used as a nickname for the devil, which
means that Graham's Dyke was known not just as a wall,
but as the Devil's Dyke, and that changes everything. This
was no longer just a Roman fortification. It had become
a spiritual boundary, something like a haunted line etched across

(01:13:06):
the land. The Romans may have built it to hold
back the fierce and unconquered Caledonian tribes, but over time,
the folklore suggests that it might have been built as
a line of containment, to keep something in a dividing
line between realms. While further north than the Highlands and

(01:13:27):
beyond the reach of Rome, other strange beliefs flourished among
many of the northern tribes. There was a quiet reverence,
sometimes even deification of the serpent, a symbol often associated
with hidden knowledge, cyclical power, and at times with spiritual warfare.

(01:13:48):
The Scots have never shied away from the mystical. In fact,
they've seemed to lean into it even when it hurts.
But one thing remains constant. The Romans never truly conquered Scotland.
The land north of the Antonian Wall remained wild, baby,
defiant and unclaimed, like a bachelor who refuses to settle down.

(01:14:13):
Perhaps it wasn't only the people who resisted conquest. Perhaps
it was the land itself. Because here, on this blood
soaked starwatch stretch of Scotland, it's not just darkness at work, baby.
There's other forces, good ones too, quietly moving in opposition,
hidden but still present, as old as the stones themselves,

(01:14:36):
and they too are watching in the skies. Among the
wild beauty and shadowed edges of early medieval Scotland, a
peculiar kind of holiness emerged. The Celtic Saints, born of
a land steeped in mystery and resistance, seemed less like
the gentle shepherds of continental Christendom and more like seers,

(01:14:57):
mystics who moved through visions in sky ye born signs,
and whose miracles didn't just feel holy but otherworldly. One
of the most extraordinary among them was Cuthbert, born around
six thirty five, a d or what would one day
become Melrose Abbey.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
It's like a cross between Melrose Place and Downton Abbey.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
I mean sexy singles Dayton Courton in the case of
Downton Abbey. Even in childhood, Cuthbert's life seemed touched by
high strangeness. Stories would tell of him witnessing angelic lights,
visions of souls, and other celestial events, and not just
in his dreams, but in the open air, in the

(01:15:39):
vast Scottish sky that so many today say still burns
with things not of this earth. Cuthbert's visions were not
quiet things either. They moved him baby that called for him,
and eventually they drew him south to Linda's Farn, the
holy island at the edge of Northumbria, where he would

(01:15:59):
rise to come prior and later Bishop of the Great
Priory there. But even in his moments of recognition and authority,
Kirthbert resisted the noise of the world. He always preferred
the life of a hermit. He wanted solitude. He wanted
the wild coastlines and windswept islands. He wanted the silence

(01:16:20):
that brought him closer to whatever forces had stirred above
him since his youth. To the faithful, his visions were
signs of God's grace. To the curious, they may hint
at something broader, something that touches both divinity and paranormal phenomenon.
And in the Falkirk Triangle where modern sightings of lights

(01:16:41):
and beings and strange presences continue to surface. Cuthbert's stories
now read like early chapters of the same unfolding narrative.
Perhaps the Saints weren't just holy, Perhaps they were chosen.
I'm sure some thought that too. I think a lot
of them think that today. Or perhaps they they simply
saw what others couldn't. Long before anyone spoke of trails

(01:17:06):
in the sky or questioned the strange streaks that linger overhead,
there was another kind of aerial spectacle, and one not
wrought by machines or chemical drift, but by something far
more mysterious, perhaps even divine. In the year eight twenty three,
a d just southeast of what is now Edinburgh, the

(01:17:26):
Scots stood on the verge of battle at Ethels and Ford. Whoa,
that's a mouthfuls and Ford. Their odds were uncertain, their
spirits stretched thin. But as they gathered and they prayed,
it appeared to them a white cross, brilliant and unmistakable,
suddenly emblazoned itself across an otherwise clear blue sky. And

(01:17:51):
this was no cloud, This was no trick of the light.
This was a dang symbol, an irrefutable sign. And it
arise not at random, but after prayer, as though in
answer to those who stood below it. The meaning was
immediate and undeniable. This was a sign that Saint Andrew,

(01:18:13):
the Apostle and martyr had come to guide them, that
their cause would be victorious, that this Saint would walk
beside them in battle and beyond, and indeed they did win.
From that moment forward, the image in the sky became
more than a moment. It became a legacy. The Saltaire

(01:18:35):
or Saint Andrew's Cross would become the national flag of Scotland,
a simple white ax against a sky blue field, its
roots not in design but in a vision scene recorded
and remembered for over a thousand years now. To the faithful,
this was a miracle, and to those maybe more curious,

(01:18:57):
perhaps the earliest known Kim trails, maybe a streak of
atmospheric mystery, not caused by aircraft, but by something that
answers when called and Kim trails. Of course, we briefly
mentioned we haven't done an episode on that. That's a
you know, obviously conspiracy theory that our governments or whatever
those plane trails in the sky, that maybe they're releasing

(01:19:17):
certain chemicals down on us for unknown reasons. I'm gonna
start stocking up, I'm gonna build a trench, I'm gonna
build a little fallout shelter. They're not gonna take me, ah,
But we'll have to do an episode on that, because
that's a fun one. And in a region where lights
in the sky have long been woven into the very
fabric of the land, from UFOs to fairy fire to

(01:19:42):
ancient angelic signs, it feels less like a singular event
and more like another detail in this same story that
the heavens have been telling us all along. In Scotland,
you see the skies speak, and sometimes it even writes
in light and miracles. Just north of Falkirk and south

(01:20:02):
of Sterling Nestled right within that ancient corridor lies one
of Scotland's most storied battlefields, Bannockburn. It was here, in
thirteen fourteen a d that the Scots under Robert the
Bruce faced down overwhelming English forces in a fight for
sovereignty that would define a nation. But it wasn't just

(01:20:23):
warriors with steel on the field that day, because according
to legend, something else arrived to stand with the Scots,
something unseen by most but felt by all. The relics
of Saint Philian Nathan Phillian.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
Nig Good Actor.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
Good Actor, known as one of Scotland's more mysterious holy figures.
Saint Philian lived centuries earlier, and of course was renowned
for his visions, his apparent ability to heal, and his
strange connection to divine light. But it wasn't just his
presence that lingered after death. It was his relics, baby,

(01:21:02):
his gold is bling, his flash. He was said to
be infused with supernatural power. And on that day at Bannockburn,
as the tide of battle swelled in the future of
Scotland hung in by a very thread, something miraculous happened.
Witnesses claimed that the glowing relics of Saint Philians suddenly materialized,

(01:21:24):
not in a church or in a shrine, but they
literally came up from the battlefield itself, out of the ground,
neither carried by priests or planted by hand. They appeared
shining and otherworldly, but unmistakably real. The soldiers who saw them, well,
dang it, they knew it was a sign not just

(01:21:45):
one of faith, but of the favor of their Lord,
an irrefutable sign of blessing and protection, and that God
was on their side. And so the Scots surged forward
with a fury and a clarity that turned the tide,
driving back the invaders and securing a victory that would
echo through the centuries. Some say it was a miracle.

(01:22:07):
Others might even call it a mass vision, or even
a case of sacred high strangeness, an event where spiritual
power and the paranormal phenomenon of the land blurred together
in a way that cannot be unraveled unless experienced firsthand.
One thing is certain, though, it happened here baby, right
there in Bannockburn, in a region already brimming with ancient energy.

(01:22:31):
To the uninitiated, the triangle may seem like just another
hot spot for lights in the sky, which is already
interesting enough. But those who come looking with older maps,
those who know to look for patterns, for symbols, for
stories carved in the earth, they find themselves pulled into
something far bigger than just flashing orbs and distant lights.

(01:22:56):
People still journey from all over the world, chasing a
trail that began in myth and was reignited by fiction.
Of course, thanks in part to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code,
and of course many other kinds of books. From the
intricate stonework of Rosalind Chapel to the whispering groves of Sterling,
seekers come to connect the dots between places rumored to

(01:23:19):
hold sacred secrets and maybe even the Holy Grail itself
baby On. One of the more curious landmarks in this
modern day pilgrimage is a knoll known as Ladies Rock
that's right tucked away within a cemetery, just as outh
of Sterling Castle. On the surface, it's quiet and often overlooked,

(01:23:41):
is just another mound among many, But among the initiated
it's said to be a potential hiding site for objects
of immense spiritual power, relics, codes, possibly even the Grail.
And who watched over these relics the tasks, some say
fell to the Stella Templeum or the Scottish Star Temple,

(01:24:05):
a secretive group believed to have once curated the protected
artifacts too sacred or even too dangerous for the public eye.
Their insignia is telling the argent templar, eight pointed Maltese
cross emblazoned on a dark blue field. To the unknowing
it's just a symbol. But to those in the know.

(01:24:27):
The silver and blue denote a spiritual calling, a lineage
of guardianship that may stretch back to the Templars or
the Morovians, or possibly something older still. But let's end
on a positive note here. If it weren't enough to
raise eyebrows and pulses alike already, there's one more nickname

(01:24:48):
for this place, one that doesn't speak of saints or spaceflight,
but of something far more earthly, the Golden Circle. Because
statistically speak folks, the region that makes up the fall
Kirk Triangle has produced an unusually high number of National
Lottery winners. Some call it luck baby, Oh, some call

(01:25:12):
it luck. It's that Lady's rock luck, you know, putting
it all on black, let's do it. But for locals
living in the area, it starts to feel like a
pattern engage. You were saying the other day when we
were talking about jazz, you know, especially free form jazz,
improvised jazz. There's something that like, when you're listening to it,
you might not get like that. Sometimes the time signatures

(01:25:34):
are so bizarre, but yet it should sound like a cacophony,
but it doesn't sound like just noise. There's something about
it that clicks, and you said it's in context.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
Yes, Yeah, it's in context, and your mind kind of
unconsciously processes it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
Yes, yes, and it's in a weird way. I think
that applies to this, you know, like we said, whenever
we're doing an episode of Creep Street, it can be
something entirely unrelated. We're doing something on a mysterious disappearance.
But will it'll like somehow have a connection to something
we cover to haunting like eighty episodes ago, and we

(01:26:11):
have No. We don't pretend to know what that means,
or if it means anything, but our minds notice the patterns,
We notice the symbols, and I think that sort of
applies here. It feels like a pattern, like something baked
into the land itself, like the people drawn here are
meant to be marked. So whatever you're chasing, whether it's UFOs,

(01:26:34):
sacred relics, or just a bit of supernatural fortune, one
thing's clear. There's something very strange about that region of
Scotland known as the Fall Kirk Triangle. And the deeper
you look, the more it seems that some force, be
it ancient, alien or divine, is rewarding those who listen well, well, well, folks, ooh,

(01:26:56):
that is the story of Scotland's fall Kirk Triangle. Well,
when I started researching this, I mean, god, it takes
us from government cover ups and possible UFO technology to
Dan King Arthur, to kelpies and fairies and all the changelings,
like a lot of what the context. I think that

(01:27:17):
it's even you know, like like the notes said, it's
the names change, the look changes, but the pattern is
the same. It even specifically I saw that when I
was researching. I saw that in the article, and I
remembered our chat about jazz about how the mind notices,
it recognizes a pattern even if it doesn't understand it,

(01:27:38):
even if it can't explain it, it's still regis it
still knows when it's if you're listening to just freeform
jazz to just compared to like just noise, like your
brain knows the difference your brain can tell. And you know,
I'm not saying freeform jazz sounds like noise because I've
been really getting into some John Coltrane lately, been listening

(01:27:59):
to a lot of Supreme I was telling Engage that
because Gage Gauge is more of an aficionado when it
comes to jazz than I am. I'm kind of newly
getting into it, but no, and I think that pattern
it applies here what was once called fairies witches. You know,
maybe that is our government cover ups, our secret societies,

(01:28:20):
our UFO you know what I mean. It's those are
what we've now we fear. Are we being well? I mean,
we know we're being spied on by our devices, but
I mean, like the forces of evil look different, but
they're still there. Before it was fairies, witches and stuff.
Today it's we sometimes it's even we think of each
other depending on our beliefs or something that that's the

(01:28:40):
source of evil or this is the sort you know,
but it's still it's a pattern that remains the same.
It's so fascinating to think about that, to think of
like Arthur on the battlefield and then like nearby is
like some sort of craft, you know, like because we
covered in a Patreon episode once it was a medieval UFOs.
It was a blazing ball of fire that this whole

(01:29:03):
village saw because they written mass and this loud noise
got everyone to come running outside the church and they
saw what they claimed was this huge, massive fireball rise
out of the lake and up into the sky and
like shoot away, and they could feel the heat off
of it. It was almost like a sun in a way,
but like a much smaller you know, and it's like

(01:29:25):
they all saw that. Now. To them, obviously, they thought
that was either a sign from God or the sign
of a devil or something. Whereas we would say, ufo,
someone from another world or from beneath our feet, or
secretive government technology or something like the boogeyman's face changes
but there's always a boogeyman, which means there probably is

(01:29:46):
a boogeyman, we just don't know what it looks like,
or it changes shape, it changes form, you know, kind
of like what we said with the Loftus Hall story.
The fact that that story is essentially granted different context,
but the of that encounter is almost identical to the
one at the Dublin Hell Fire Club means that it
probably did happen somewhere. Maybe it didn't happen at this

(01:30:09):
place or that place, but it got attributed to these places.
It's a framework of a story, meaning it must have
come from somewhere.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
And you know, you just have so many different accounts,
but they all are similar in their own ways, and
all tied to the same thing or place or whatnot.
I mean, we don't know a definitive explanation, but clearly
there's something going on that ties them all together.

Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's just so fun to think about.
It's just fun to you know, it's good to let
your mind. And it doesn't mean you have to believe
or something. But I think it's healthy to let your
mind fantasize fantastic things. It's good. I think it's like exercise,
but for your brain. I think it's as much as
it's good to know your legitimate not that any of

(01:30:58):
this is I'm saying, is illegitimate, but as good as
it is to know your legitimate history, current events, or
even just when it comes to things like math, science, english, reading,
all that stuff. I think it's good to let your
mind explore fun ideas, even if they're even if they're wacky.
It's fun and it's good. I think it's a good

(01:31:18):
exercise for the brain.

Speaker 5 (01:31:20):
But definitely I think it speaks to a desire for understanding,
which can only be a good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
Absolutely absolutely. Well, I'll tell you what, gage, I got
a list of names I wouldn't rind riding off into
the hills of Scotland with to do battle.

Speaker 5 (01:31:36):
Oh yeah, who's that?

Speaker 4 (01:31:38):
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the arch Duke of Attitude, Adam Archer, the Sinister Sam Kayker,
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(01:32:00):
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(01:32:44):
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