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The Lost Valley Podcast

The Lost Valley Podcast

Cian

An Irish podcast about 'Lost Worlds' in lore and literature
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The Lost Valley Podcast - Those Babies Were Huge: Apollo 11 And UFOs On The Moon
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11/21/20 • 51 min

It's flying saucer time once again! Join Cian at the cabin for a chat about the Pepper Transcript, a forgotten bit of UFO lore. There's UFOs in space, Apollo astronauts, and a secret UFO base on the moon. Featuring:

-James McDivitt's 1965 earth orbit UFO sighting

-Apollo 11's anomalous sighting

-The Pepper Transcript

-Alleged sighting by Armstrong and Aldrin of giant UFOs 'parked' in a lunar crater

NOTES

Our patreon! Check it out. It's lovely.

patreon.com/wideatlanticweird

Outer Space Sound by Elan Hickler

https://freesound.org/people/ElanHickler/sounds/38969/

World Famous Strange But True, Colin WIlson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6883039-strange-but-true

Usborne World Of The Unknown UFOs

https://www.usbornebooksathome.co.uk/catalogue/catalogue.aspx?cat=1&area=S&subcat=SAS&id=16510

The Apollo 11 UFO Incidents by James Oberg

https://www.debunker.com/texts/apollo11.html

The Gemini 4 UFO by James Oberg

http://www.jamesoberg.com/gemini4.html

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The Lost Valley Podcast - Colonialism And Kong: Peter Jackson's Remake Reconsidered
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11/07/20 • 71 min

Cian is a massive Kong fan, and after years of resigning Peter Jackson's 2005 remake to the 'dud' bin, he dusts off this 3-hour love letter to the original and gives it another shake. Join us at the cabin in the woods as we discuss:

-my history with the original and Jackson's Kong

-the history of CGI used for creature effects

-Jackson's bloated, indulgent nature

-Jackson's love for Kong

-The history of the 'lost world' genre

-Colonialism in King Kong

-The effect of Jurassic Park on movie dinosaurs

-The ecology of Skull Island

NOTES:

OUR PATREON! SIGN up to get this week's BONUS episode, more King Kong content!

https://www.patreon.com/wideatlanticweird

Knock Once For Yes podcast halloween specal

https://knockonceforyes.com/2020/10/31/episode-48-classic-ghosts/

UK Wildlife Podcast Halloween episode

http://www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/uk-wildlife-podcast/

School Of Movies King Kong Episode

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/alex-shaw/school-of-movies/e/61495999

King Kong Cometh by Paul A Woods, 2005

https://www.waterstones.com/book/king-kong-cometh/paul-a-woods/9780859653626

The World Of Kong: The Natural History of Skull Island, Weta Workshop, 2005

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_World_of_Kong.html?id=JtdI-BuTEhgC&redir_esc=y

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The Lost Valley Podcast - Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)
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04/19/24 • 76 min

Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include:

-UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY!

-Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government

-Was Kong intended to be sympathetic?

-The origins & making of Son of Kong

-The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators

-The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933

-The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders

-The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders

-Willis O’Brien’s special effects

-Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands

Links:

Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512

Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005

https://www.raymorton.com/books/king-kong-the-history-of-a-movie-icon-from-fay-wray-to-peter-jackson/

When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy

From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141

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The Lost Valley Podcast - American Militia 1: The Road To Ruby Ridge (with Ali Keane)
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02/23/20 • 90 min

Cian and Ali begin their deep dive into the American militia (or Patriot) movement. There are some odd beliefs very particular to America at play here, so we crack a couple of cans and get stuck into the founding of the country and the constitution to find out exactly why grown men like to LARP at being military folks out in the wild woods of backwoods America.

In this episode, we focus on the siege of Ruby Ridge in Idaho, 1992 – an inciting incident that helped to kickstart the modern militia movement. It’s a fascinating and tragic story of a family hiding out in a cabin atop a mountain that became a target for increasingly more militarised police and federal forces. To find out just how this insane situation came to be, why the full force of the US government came down on the Weavers, and how citizens across the country changed their view of their own government as a result of this disastrous siege, take a listen to AMERICAN MILITIA 1: RUBY RIDGE.

Along the way we meet such radical groups as the Aryan Nations and the Three Percenters, we discuss far-right white supremacist bible The Turner Diaries and murderous racists The Order, and amidst this grim tableau we even manage to eke a few laughs out of the life of irascible arch-conservative, anti-government warrior and all-round blowhard Colonel Bo ‘Rambo’ Gritz. And stick around for a made-to-order punk song about the militia movement!

The Scuts

https://www.facebook.com/DutchCourage2013

American Experience: Ruby Ridge (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/ruby-ridge-part-one-suspicion/

Bo Gritz’ Spike Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9qpjA5AyU

Erase And Forget: Documentary about Bo Gritz

http://eraseandforget.com/

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Cameron McCormick returns to discuss cryptozoological bestiaries that stretch the boundaries of belief with huge numbers of undiscovered critters running around.

*NOTE: I made an error in referring to The Bigfoot Filmography. The book I actually had in mind was Cryptid Cinema by Stephen Bisette. I’m away from home for a few days but I’ll fix that when I’m back!

LINKS:

WoW on BuyMeACoffee:

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Cameron on Mastadon:

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

Cameron’s blog:

https://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/

Trey The Explainer: The Native Bigfoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJhJsdoTYQ

The Screaming Skulls by Elliot O’Donnell:

https://archive.org/stream/CreepyStories/OdonnellTheScreamingSkullsAndOtherGhosts_djvu.txt

‘True Giant’ source article, the Straits Times, 196:

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19610212-1.2.77

Commendable Commotion Podcast

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matthew-tannam-elgie

Blake Smith’s article on the Kentucky Goblins:

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/01/guns-and-goblins-what-really-happened-during-the-kentucky-alien-invasion/

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In celebration of the book 'When The Stars Are Right, HP Lovecraft and Astronomy' by Edward Guimont and Horace A. Smith, Eddie returns to the cabin. We tackle the Old Gent Of Providence and his fascination with turn-of-the-century astronomy, as well as his various connections to the great and good of early planetary science fiction! Including, but not limited to:

-Teenage Lovecraft meets Percival Lowell, and worries he's been too harsh on the latter's Martian canal theories

-Lovecraft plays a skeptical Scully when the good people of Providence think they've seen a Christmas mystery airship!

-Lovecraft writes amateur astronomical columns for various newspapers

-Lovecraft writes a (rather fantastic) short story set on what we'd now call a charmingly old-fashioned Venus

-How Lovecraft used elements of old Mars literature to plot At The Mountains Of Madness

-And HPL's thoughts on Jules Verne, the War of the Worlds, Edison's Conquest Of Mars, and LOADS MORE.

LINKS

When The Stars Are Right by Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith

Edward Guimont on Twitter

Buy Me A Coffee

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The Lost Valley Podcast - Paranormal, People, & Politics with the Workers Cauldron
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10/13/21 • 82 min

Cian is joined at the cabin by David & Mercedas from the Worker’s Cauldron to talk about a variety of paranormal topics and their cultural/political influences. Subjects include:

-evolution of Wicca

-social context and the paranormal

-alien abduction in the 90s

-creating episodes

-David’s trip to Bluff Creek

-colonial literature’s influence on Forteana

-Demonic possession and economic anxieties

-Ghost-hunting groups

-The Ballinspittle Moving Statues

-70s Haunted House Stories

-Vampire as political satire

-Phantom helicopters

-Influence of the X-Files

Worker’s Cauldron Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-workers-cauldron/id1527590843

Books & Articles Mentioned:

Our Most Troubling Madness, Tanya Luhrmann

Drawing Down The Moon, Margaret Adler

Triumph Of The Moon, Ronald Hutton

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves, Brigette Brown

Communion, Whitley Strieber

UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in technological Guise, Thomas E Bullard

Explorers Of The Nile, Tim Jeal

The Great Orm Of Loch Ness, Ted Holiday

Hunting Dinosaurs In Central Africa, Edward Guimont

The Water Horses of Loch Ness, Roland Watson

Hostage To The Devil, Malachi Martin

Monsters Of The Market, David McNally

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The Lost Valley Podcast - Everything Ends In Mystery (a signoff of sorts)
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12/20/24 • 10 min

OMNIA EXEUNT IN MYSTERIUM

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The Lost Valley Podcast - The Great Grey Man and other Ghost Stories of Mountaineering
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10/24/20 • 46 min

Enjoy a wee drop of whiskey at the cabin for a chat about the infamous Great Grey Man of Ben Macdhui - whether it be a cryptozoological Bigfoot-like creature, or a more mystical being of folklore. The Grey Man is only one of many strange tales told about high elevations. In this episode, we investigate:

-the 1975 Bonighton Everest ghost

-Dan Simmons’ novels ‘The Terror’ and ‘The Abominable’

-1920s mountaineering mania

-Ghosts and hallucinations on Everest

-Frank Smythe’s sighting of weird aerial creatures on Everest

-Isolated high-altitude psychosis

-Early stories of the Great Grey Man of Ben Macdhui

-Mystical encounters with the Grey Man

-The Grey Man speaking Scots Gallic and psychic communication!

IMAGE from Haunted houses by Maple & Myring

SOURCES:

-Haunted Houses, Maple & Myring, 1979

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-Howard Bury’s Footsteps episode (beginning of the Yeti myth!)

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-Day of the Triffids episode (me talking to Neil from UK Wildlife podcast!)

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-The Horror-Horn episode (Yetis in the Alps!)

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-The Abominable, Dan Simmons, 2013

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-The Secret Lives of Ghosts, Paul Gater, 2013

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-The Business Insider article about high altitude hallucinations, Kevin Loria 2018

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-Frank Smythe’s hallucination, from The Crystal Horizon, Roger McDonald

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-Live Science, Hearing Voices When Climbing Mount Everest, Charles Q Choi, 2017

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-Yeti, Graham Hoyland, 2018

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-VacationScotland.biz article about the Great Grey Man, David McNicoll, 2018

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-The Secret of Spey, Wendy Wood, 1930

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-The Big Grey Man: Myth or Monster, Affleck Grey, 1989

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-A Brocken Spectre in Ireland

link here

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The Lost Valley Podcast - Red Sky At Night: Lost Cosmonauts (with Dr Tom Ellis)
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05/01/21 • 80 min

Dr Tom Ellis talks about the myth of the Lost Cosmonauts, why this symbol has had such staying power, and what it tells us about Western perceptions about the Soviet Union and its space programme. Topics include:

-American reactions to Yuri Gagarin’s flight

-The secrecy of the Soviet space programme breeding rumours and myths

-The idea of the ‘communist mind’ and communism as a ‘secular religion’

-Robert Heinlein and the Lost Cosmonauts

-‘Yurimania’ and promoting Yuri Gagarin as a sex symbol

-The Italian Battista brothers’ claims of recording lost cosmonauts

-The Lost Cosmonaut image in film and art as a representation of memories of the Soviet state

-Vladimir Komarov, the ‘real’ lost cosmonaut

-Lost cosmonauts as a political idea vs a cultural idea

LINKS

Buy Me A Coffee

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wideatlantic

Tom Ellis on Twitter

https://twitter.com/Tomsomol

Tom Ellis’s Blog

https://redskyatdawn.wordpress.com/

Gagarin And The Lost Moon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v24g

Tsar-Bomb album

https://heimatderkatastrophe.bandcamp.com/album/hdk-68-bajkonur

Imogen Knox’ article on Haxan

https://terribleimaginations.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/haxan-rationalism-and-retrospective-diagnosis/

Bobcat Goldthwait’s American Bigfoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTY8xinMrSI

Conspiracy Culture, Peter Knight, 2000

https://www.routledge.com/Conspiracy-Culture-From-Kennedy-to-The-X-Files/Knight-Knight/p/book/9780415189781

Hermann Oberth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth

Roadside Picnics Article by darmon Richter: Chernobyl and the Falcon Lake UFO Incident

https://www.exutopia.com/chernobyl-ufos-falcon-lake/

The Space Suit Film, Gary Westfahl, 2012

https://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Spacesuit_Film.html?id=kej2ygAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Supposed Lost Cosmonaut Recordings

http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024747/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/man.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20180309024745/http://www.lostcosmonauts.net/wom.htm

Sven Grahn’s Article about Torre Bert

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html

Into The Silent Sea: Short Lost Cosmonaut Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2rmTVKU37Y

The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling, Andrew L. Jenks, 2012

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13226355-the-cosmonaut-who-couldn-t-stop-smiling

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How many episodes does The Lost Valley Podcast have?

The Lost Valley Podcast currently has 150 episodes available.

What topics does The Lost Valley Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Social Sciences and Science.

What is the most popular episode on The Lost Valley Podcast?

The episode title 'Obsolete Spells: The Life and Work of Victor Neuburg (with Justin Hopper)' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Lost Valley Podcast?

The average episode length on The Lost Valley Podcast is 62 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Lost Valley Podcast released?

Episodes of The Lost Valley Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of The Lost Valley Podcast?

The first episode of The Lost Valley Podcast was released on Feb 2, 2019.

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