The Paranoid Strain
By Fearful Jesuit
The podcast that explains why so many people believe ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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Latest episode
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New! Unidentified--When UFO prophecy fails. Big time.
It's time for us to review one of the most fascinating after-effects of the UFO mania that followed the Arnold sighting. We'll learn how some incredibly lucky social scientists wrote a book about perhaps the world's first apocalyptic new age UFO cult… -
New! Unidentified--The fascinating forgery of the MJ-12 UFO documents
The lion's share of today's episode concerns the weird story of the MJ-12 (or Majestic-12) documents, which first surfaced in the early 80s, and purported to trace the government's UFO coverup back to the Harry Truman administration. Only, like, they… -
New! Unidentified--Art Bell's time travelers and antichrists
Yes, this is part of our Unidentified UFO series, but it's also just a super-sized digression to share with all of you some of the craziest stuff Art Bell ever put on the air--the Time Traveler and Antichrist call-in shows of the late 90s and early 2… -
New! Unidentified--From the High Desert...it's time for Art Bell
Plus the very last Roswell stuff. -
New! Unidentified--Roswell--It wasn't aliens, dummies.
As the episode subtitle implies, we're gonna talk about why the Roswell "aliens" were almost certainly military test dummies. While we're at it, we'll explain why that's true in spite of the fact that those dummy tests didn't happen til year… -
New! Unidentified--Roswell: The mortician's tale, and the little alien bodies
Continuing our skeptical look at Roswell, this time examine the story told by town mortician Glenn Dennis--a fascinating combination of real events, confabulations, and total crap. We also look into the eyewitness reports of little--well, not green m… -
New! Unidentifed--So, what really happened at Roswell?
We're back a week late, but I hope you agree it's worth it. Having heard the pro-UFO version of Roswell last time, we now seek to learn why so many dedicated investigators have looked into this situation and decided it's sound and fury signifying not… -
Unidentified--Interlude
We're gonna need another week -
New! Unidentified--The Roswell incident (as told by an expert UFO believer)
This time, we hear the full story of Roswell--or, at least, the full story as it's told by those who are convinced that a UFO crashed there. This is audio captured during the great 2017 Paranoid Strain road trip, and we heartily thank Dennis Balthase… -
New! Unidentified--The pre-UFOs that set the stage for Roswell
Roswell is right around the corner, but first let's consider the unidentified objects that appeared in the night skies before everybody decided they were shaped like saucers. To wit, we'll cover The War of the Worlds, the foo fighter phenomenon, a st…