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We travel deep into Siberia this week, for our final installment in our three-part series on isolation. Under religious persecution, from the Communist Party in Russia, the Lykov family, from a sect of what was called the Old Believers, decided to renounce traditional society. They fled threats of death and destruction, deep, deep into the remote Siberian wilderness - the taiga - where they lived as a family of six, unseen or interrupted by the outside world, for 42 years.
In 1978 they were discovered by geologists, prospecting the Siberian wilderness, and were told of all the things they'd missed since they'd been gone. The Lykov family later came to be known as "the hermits who missed World War II" having been so removed from the world, they had no idea it had happened. Not the space race. Not television. Nothing.
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Welp, here we are. A new high? A new low? A new pie? A new dough? YOU DECIDE, KIDS. But this week, we're talking about David Huggins, who claims to have lost his virginity to an alien named Crescent when he was 17. He's now in his 70s, living in New Jersey and making hundreds of paintings documenting his experiences.
Spencer recently watched the documentary Love and Saucers, which tells the David Huggins story. We also talk about going to the doctor, Planet Earth II, and iguanas falling out of trees.

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The ghosts in the machine are gonna be the ghosts in your ears this week, as we do our first deep dive episode into the concept of ghosts. Our very special guest this week has a new album dropping soon with our very own Spencer Wirth-Davis very soon. So we’re here to jam on the dead and undead and what happens when something is in between.John Bell bought a plot of land that left his family in turmoil, fighting a ghost family member until the day that he died. We talk about emotion in a place, how energy affects people both physically, emotionally, and mentally, and if somethings lives beyond us.Hot Topics: Hippos are Whales or Narwhals or Pigs, Santa Claus is a Mushroom, Hair Pulling Siblings, Nick Lachey The Vampire Slayer, and a whole lot more.

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Today, we tackle a true legend of the alien conspiracy theory world. In the New Mexico desert, not far from Roswell, a town called Dulce has stories that transcend all avenues of the paranormal world. From lights, to UFOs, to military presence, to cattle mutilations and more, the rumors abound. Rumors, of a base in the mountains where alien hybrid humans work together testing and reverse engineering alien technology.
And the stories that begin the rumors are even stranger. Tales of underground wars, Dulce Base employees passing photographs of caged test subjects, sketched schematics of the base design, and more. What's happened in the town of Dulce? Why do their residents claim to see UFOs in the sky over their town? What's actually happening to make these stories grow and grow over time? We dive in this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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