What do you want to be when you grow up? This is a question we ask children, and adults. In American culture the concept of the future self is critical, required. It drives us to improve, become a richer, more successful, happier version of who
Reports of people disappearing in forests and national parks across the world continue with David Paulides’ latest: Missing 411 – Hunters. We review the strangest cases and again try to make sense of the mystery.Our Plus+ extension then feat
This week we discover one of history’s strangest cases of communication through time with the mystery of the 1985 Dodleston messages.The case is a mind bending combination of time travel and occult high strangeness as a couple in an English co
In "The Secret History of Thoughts," co-hosts Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller ask the question, "Are my thoughts related to my inner wishes, do they reveal who I really am?" The answer can have profound consequences for your life. Hear the story o
A thief knocks down your door and you are flooded with fear. Your baby smiles up at you and you are filled with love. It feels like this is how emotions work: something happens, and we instinctively respond. How could it be any other way? Well,
Film director James Fox joins us this week to discuss his explosive new documentary that is making waves across the world with its credible examination of the UFO mystery. The film features shocking testimony from high ranking government and mi
Does living with animals really make us healthier? Why do we eat some animals and keep others as pets? This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with psychology professor Hal Herzog about the contradictions embedded in our relationships with animals.
Mass abductions and alien mind scans are back on the agenda this week as we examine the “Alien Abduction Stockholm-syndrome” of the modern age.We also feature the dawn of saucers in Australia, sugar stealing entities, and huggy the mantoid.Sp
It is easy to dismiss strange and obscure stories as myth, folklore or legend; however if you look closely enough sometimes you can find a grain of truth. We discuss the thousand year pygmy war and the modern archeological evidence to support i
This week we are joined by author and investigative journalist Leslie Kean to discuss her new book Surviving Death.Kean, well known for her New York Times best seller ‘UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record’, reveals
This week we peel back the occult layers to investigate the Merovingian bloodline, Rennes-le-Château, and Ouija board sessions with antediluvian God-Kings of old. We then share the true horror of history’s worst plagues and the Tantra of Tachi
After an eventful trip to the Theosophical library we return with stories of “Oriental Wisdom” and tall tales from one Alexander Cannon that ultimately lead us to more Nazi WWII conspiracy and intrigue.In our Plus+ extension we then investigat
Invisibilia is a show that runs on empathy. We believe in it. But are we right? In this episode, we'll let you decide. We tell the same story twice in order to examine the questions: who deserves our empathy? And is there a wrong way to empathi
Bikini clad spectres and tree hopping humanoids sets the tone of weirdness for this episode as we eventually wind up deciphering occult symbology in our nation’s capital. We then peel back the layers of the world’s “Holy Madmen” and find a dan
Hacking, phishing, surveillance, disinformation... these are tools used to silence dissidents and influence elections. But what happens when these same methods are used against an ordinary citizen? The story of a man fighting an enemy he can't