All Night with The Living Geeks

What happens when good carbohydrates go bad? Well, this month we look at the unusual tale of a haunting in England during the early 20th century that ate a family out of its bread stores! Yes, bread disappearing right before their eyes! We get it, fresh baked bread is THE BEST! Apparently this family's bread was so good that even the dead couldn't get enough of it!

Friends and fellow free thinkers, it's time to turn on, tune in, and drop a bit of whatever these guys are on! Yes, this month we're looking at a very very weird 1971 film called Rainbow Bridge. We think of it as something like a living, breathing self-help book. Sure there's some surfing, gorgeous views of Maui, but there's also drugs and rambling and some bonkers visuals! Oh, did we mention that Jimi Hendrix drops in, raps with the locals a bit, and then busts out with a concert?! Yeah, just wait until what you hear what the Space Brothers think about LSD!

This month we take a look at the work and research of one Terry Mitchell. He may not be known widely, but his fascination with Bigfoot led him to the Pacific Northwest where he claims to not only have made contact with Bigfoot, but was made their ambassador to humanity! Seb's amazing research on Mitchell includes many very interesting newspaper articles along with some interesting other angles Mitchell has on Bigfoot culture! So grab your tree knockers and let's get into things!

Season Two is here, friends!! And we start this new season with Seb having sourced a 1996 video called The Face in the Window that documents the experience of a rural Missouri family who happen to be playing with their new camcorder (remember when VHS ruled the roost?) when something strange peeks in their window to see how the wrestling match is going. Was it an alien? Was it possibly a mascot head? Either way, there's definitely some high strangeness afoot!

Happy New Year, friends and listeners! It's 2025 and maybe you're just taking it easy this first day of the new year. Need something to keep you entertained? Well, this month we end our first season with a fascinating tale that had been at the fringes of our awareness for some time: The Toynbee Tiles! What are these weird little messages that have been showing up since the 1980s?! With the help of an excellent 2011 documentary, we dive deep into the Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Because it's so much weirder than it appears on the surface!

Friends, this month we take a look at the interesting life of one Riley Hansard Crabb. From his years in Hawaii and the Akualele Research Group to his time with the Borderland Science Research Association and into some of the stranger talks/books/booklets he's published. And yes, there are some Keel-ian almost Hellier-esque connections to be made. We weren't able to cover every aspect of his vast catalog, so we encourage you to check out the links in the show notes to learn more!

This month we're taking a look at the Rosicrucians! Not the AMORC order itself, but recounting what it was like to grow up essentially in the shadow of their museum and headquarters in San Jose, California! Yep, your hosts lived a small handful of blocks from this unusual property in the heart of Silicon Valley! Perhaps we'll discover just how much influence it held in our paranormal development.

October is here and, with it, spooky season has arrived in full force (despite the very not fall-like temperatures here in California)! So what better month for us to do our very first vampire story and it's a corker!! Seb brings us the tale of David Farrant and his efforts to rid London of the vampire in Highgate Cemetery. Mind you, he doesn't kick butt quite as well as Buffy did, but this story is so bonkers!! So grab your favorite candy and let's check it out.

Happy September, everyone! Just because it's the start of meteorological Fall that doesn't mean that we're not pining for a tropical escape before the weather here starts turning cool(er). So this month PCL goes Hawaiian as we take a look at an unusual CEIII case from the mid-1940s on Oahu and make potential connections to an early 19th century case from the other side of the Pacific!

August is here and with it we take a look at two different Merlins! Two Merlins, however, who both have interesting ties to UFOlogy. First seen in our second episode as All Night with the Living Geeks, Ambassador Merlyn Merlin II was a mutton-chopped feature of the Alien Highway movie. Frankly, without his efforts we wouldn't have that stretch of Highway 375 named The Alien Highway. Then, we take a look at Colonel Donald Gilbert Carpenter who, under the pen name of Merlin Mesmer Merlino, wrote a book called The Treacherous Time Machine! Oh, did we mention Col. Carpenter also authored a USAF textbook with a chapter on UFOs and aliens? But, best of all, we have a snippet of The Treacherous Time Machine to read for you! This book is so rare that the only copy we could find is in a USAF library in Colorado!! You cannot miss this experience!

Friends summer is here and that means one thing: reruns! Wait, you don't watch regular old broadcast TV anymore? Well, then how do you get your reruns?! Ah, yes, streaming. This month, we've grabbed hold of our Paramount+ subscriptions, fired up the old boob tube, and watched an episode of the original Star Trek series in which the crew of the Enterprise accidentally abduct two humans from Earth 1969 and then have to figure out how to get them back and the whole ship back to the 23rd century! Why is this important? Because we strongly feel that two UFO encounters probably influenced the storyline of this episode!

Our fellow humans, Disclosure is Imminent!! At least, that's what people have been saying for...well, for far longer than anyone has really realized! This month, we take a look at some of the more humorous and bizarre instances of people claiming that Disclosure is just around the bend. Oddly, history (especially with respect to Disclosure) has been very very bendy!

This month on Phenomena City Limits... Sure! We could talk about Mothman and Bigfoot and, um, Sheep...squatch. But you've had a dozen other podcasts cover these guys. They get the limelight and all the attention and the slightly in appropriate bumper stickers on Etsy. But what about the Counter-Culture Cryptids? All the wild bugged-out-eyed crazies and tongue-waggin' weird-ohs with a penchant for drag racing? Well, this month PCL gives them their time in the spotlight!! Did it all start with Rat Fink, as so many believe? Or does the history of these wacky characters go back even further?

No joke, friends! The April edition of Phenomena City Limits is here!! This month, Seb leads us on an interesting look at both tropical and sidereal astrology! He also shares what got him on this path and then we do a double-blind taste test between Pep...wait, no...that was something else. We do a double-blind test to see which astrology chart (tropical or sidereal) we identify with most!

After a slight delay, episode two of Phenomena City Limits is here! This month, Seb takes the helm and leads us down an interesting path as he investigates The Orion Cube! Whether it's a bit of disinformation popping up across multiple stories or a piece of actual alien tech, the tale of the Orion Cube is definitely a wild ride!

Friends, welcome to Season 1, Episode 1 of Phenomena City Limits! Yes, we're back with an all new look and feel...new music, same great hosts, and a fantastically creepy topic for our first trip out! In February of 1993, Gary Sudbrink was visiting his family on Long Island, NY when he received four very strange calls over the course of two nights. Was it just someone goofing around or was this truly a case of high strangeness in a family that has a greater connection to the UFO phenomena than we previously realized?

Well, folks, it's a new year and we're getting ready to shed our original skin and come back next month as Phenomena City Limits! But before we do all that, we're going to wrap up our year by getting to all those advertisements we never make you sit through. Just kidding, we'll never have commercials. But we have seen many very strange and laughable ads in our last year of grabbing stories from newsletters and magazines. So let's take a look at some of the strangest ones this month!

Happy start of December, weirdos! We're here with our penultimate episode (before a rebranding change in Feb 2024!) and two great stories as we get ready to conclude our year of pulling stories "from the pages" of old and obscure newsletters. First up, Taylor talks about The John Reeves Incident from Florida in 1965 in which an alien-maybe-robot leaves some writing behind and then things get strange. Then Seb discusses a story in which a Tennessee photographer heads to the "great American southwest" and seemingly photographs a caveman where there definitely wasn't one before! And friends, we hope you have a great holiday season, whichever holidays you celebrate, and a fantastic rest of 2023!

Happy November, everyone! Your boys are back with an all new episode taking about two rather unusual cases. First up, Seb talks about a local story (just over in Lodi, CA) involving the mystery airships from the late 1800s! And while some aspects of it are particularly fantastical, there's a bit of reality grounding everything. Then Taylor lends his automotive expertise to a Belgian encounter from the 1970s! Plus we continue our march toward our rebranding coming very early next year!

Friends, we promise you that this is not a foot fetish episode. However, both our stories this month deal with small-to-tiny creatures and the unusual footprints they leave being. Taylor shares a story from Coldwater, Kansas in 1954 that (in some ways) shares elements with Tom Dawson's experience from last month. And Seb talks about the bizarre experience of a North Carolina man who witnesses a creature about the size of a Coke bottle!

Happy September, everyone! Fall is fast approaching here in the Northern Hemisphere (happy Spring to all of you down under!) and with it the spooky season approaches! But this month we have two truly bizarre cases of high strangeness. Seb talks about Whose Line is it Anyway? No, not the improv comedy show...literal lines hanging from something somewhere up above a town in New Jersey! Then Taylor goes back to the newsletter that gave us Sam the Sandown Clown to look into a UFO encounter in Georgia in 1977 that might have actually been the Fae. And those Fae may have captured Jimmy Hoffa.

It's August and a brand new episode is here to grace your ears with some weird! This month we share some exciting news for early 2024, Seb tells tale of the possible timeslip from 1964 back to Custer's Last Stand! And Taylor finally finds a Bigfoot story...but thinks there's a far higher strangeness at work with the case! Get ready for "Custer's Last Wormhole" and "Bigfoot Hit My Car!"

July is here and we are in the midst of a heatwave here at All Night with the Living Geeks HQ! So it's time to grab a cool drink, set the fans to high, and settle in for an episode at the beach! Well, half of it's at the beach. We start with the story of Sidney Padrick, TV repairman from Watsonville, CA, who late one night has an encounter with Ziena down at his local beach. And then we head to the UK where Seb has a fascinating story of a train wreck that was foretold, but not even British Rail's efforts to renumber the engine could avoid fate! And the for dessert, Seb's Descent into the Archive has cookies!

June is here and with it, we have two more strange cases from the pages of old UFO magazines and newsletters! This month, Seb talks about an unusual case of abnormal grow rates on the island of Martinique! Could there be a race of giants hiding out near the Pelee Mountain. And Taylor brings us the case of an alleged UFO that was tracked from New York to Nevada and apparently crashed with a flash large enough to be seen from six states! It's a really odd tale with no clear resolution. So hop on board the weird train and let's get into it!

May is here and, with it, another strange pair of cases for our team at All Night with the Living Geeks to investigate. This month we look at The Bairnsdale Pole...the bizarre sighting of a pole-shaped creature in Bairnsdale, Victoria Australia on the morning of the Moon Landing...and The Bearer of Bad News...a case of a UFO taking over control of a car in upstate New York, dragging it through a field, and then telling the driver that an acquaintance had died in a truck accident. And he actually had! Why don't we all get our news via UFO encounters?

Well, no foolin'! We're dropping our April episode a day early just to ensure you don't think we're messing around. This month Seb brings us the fascinating story of a UFO that punches through a billboard (see the actual picture in our episode art!) and Taylor brings us the strange tale of Snippy the Horse! Was he killed by a UFO? Honestly, Snippy's life he's much stranger after his death!

As our season From the Pages continues, we look at two unusual cases. First up is The Green Lady of Wahiawa! A tale from Hawaii in the late 1950s...you can find poor retellings of it on the web today, but Taylor thinks this might be the origin point for this legend. Seb talks about a pretty famous UFO case...Portage County, Ohio in 1966...but he does a deep dive on one aspect of the case that tends to get left out of modern retellings of the incident.

Friends, welcome to Season 3 of All Night with the Living Geeks! Yes, this month we start our third year of the podcast and we're planning on a year-long theme: From the Pages! Each month, we're going to dig into old magazines, newsletters, and journals to hopefully find obscure stories that other podcasts aren't covering! This month we have The Marshall Monster and The Apple Valley UFO. Both cases are crazy strange and we dig a little deeper to see just how much of each tale is true.

Happy 2023, everyone! That's right, we're transitioning into a new year tonight, but what about23 years ago when everyone was worried the world would collapse as the calendar ticked over from 1999 to 2000? This month, we look back at Art Bell's last open lines predictions show of the 20th century. What did people figure would happen in the year 2000? Could anyone win his $100 name those songs challenge?

Standing at a commanding 14,149ft, California's Mount Shasta towers over the surrounding towns in Siskiyou county. It's a destination for hikers, campers, and skiers alike. However, its lenticular clouds and unusual history at the southern end of the Cascade Range make it a destination for a whole different crowd. Hippies, spiritualists, and other New-Agers flock to Mount Shasta given its weird history amongst people in those circles. This month, we'll take a look at Shasta…some of its history, some more recent events in the area, and even some of our own experiences with the mountain.

Well, folks, we made it. Three months worth of looking at and exploring the Hellier documentary and the case surrounding it has brought us here. This month, we look at the last half of Season 2: from The Altar through Night of Pan. If things had been weird before, they ramp up even more as we get blue star-ry eyed because things keep falling in our path. Join us, please, as we dive down the rabbit hole again and find the vast cave system underneath.

This month we reach the halfway point in our three-part look at the Hellier case (so far!). In the first half of the second season, we grapple with a less linear storytelling technique as we follow the team through the research and experiences they had between wrapping filming on season one and actually releasing season one! If you thought they were just sitting back and relaxing, you'd be wrong! We also dive pretty heavily on some insane cipher hits that really drive home the bizarre reality of all this. By the way, there's a better Secret Cipher link in the show notes, so be sure to check that out!

Our fellow weirdos, we have arrived!! And a day early, too! After months of preparation and laying out much of the background information needed to comprehend events, we're finally starting our review of Hellier! In this first part (of three) we look at the first five parts (so, all of Season 1). We dive into the aspects of the case that resonated most with us, dig a little deeper in some instances, and just enjoy the absolutely high strangeness of it all! Welcome, at long last, to Hellier!

Our #RoadToHellier has reached it's last stop before we get to town! This month, we're looking at the various methods of communication that you'll see employed in the documentary, plus a little extra we just find interesting. From the Estes Method to the God Helmet to the Frank's Box and back again, we're exploring the hows and some of the whys behind reaching out and connecting with the Phenomena.

WE ARE READY TO TRANSMIT! WE ARE READY TO TRANSMIT! This month our #RoadtoHellier pulls off to the side of the road to listen in to the Subspace Radio Network as we talk about the late Rev. Robert Short and his experiences channeling the Space Intelligence Korton! As wild as the story may seem, we do recognize that similar elements of Short's story (heh, short story...anyway!) appear in Hellier and in other experiences the Hellier team has had. So break out your copy of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and let's connect with Central Control!

We can't properly navigate the #RoadtoHellier without taking a left at Exit 93 and looping our way into the underground. Deros, Teros, a quick pass through downtown Lemuria (be sure to check out the famous Rock Shop) to find ourselves in some serious liminal spaces. Whether Shaver was really whisked away to an underground wonderland where he became a hero and returned with a manifesto and evidence of an ancient mother language or whether it was the product of a mind wracked by grief, both possibilities cause us to wonder about the nature of liminal spaces (physical and non-physical) as well as what it means to have a paranormal experience. Buckle up and grab some road snacks because we're going deeper underground with the Shaver Mystery.

MOTHMAN! He's become the poster child for weirdness these days, but as part of our #RoadToHellier series, we take a look at the massive flap in Point Pleasant, West Virginia between 1966 and 1967. It becomes our launching point for a greater discussion of what the phenomena might be and what the purpose could be for 13 months of panicked fervor in a small town in West Virginia. Along the way, each of our brains totally melt as we try to connect dots and reason out the story of Mothman!

On the evening of November 2nd 1966, Woodrow Derenberger was driving home from his job selling stereos and repairing sewing machines when he was passed by and then stopped by a UFO. The person who stepped forth from that craft communicated telepathically and introduced himself as “Cold”. What proceeded to happen from that point forward is one of the strangest UFO flaps in the history of the phenomena. When Indrid Cold met Woody Derenberger is one of the biggest crossroads on our #RoadToHellier that we had to pull off the highway, put the van in park, and immerse ourselves in the very integral tale that kicked off the Year of the Garuda.

This month our #RoadtoHellier officially kicks off with a look at the Men in Black! These shadowy visitors have been around seemingly as long as the modern era of UFOlogy (perhaps longer, by some accounts)! But who are they? Government agents out to discredit witnesses? A secret government operating outside our own? Could they be, as Keel suggests, occupants of the UFOs themselves?! Join us this month as we explore tales of the Men in Black and being paving the way to talking about Hellier later this year!

The Loveland Frogman! Yes, folks, strange things were definitely afoot in 1955! The same year that brought us the Kelly-Hopkinsville goblins also brought us somewhat similar series of encounters in Loveland, Ohio (right next to the Little Miami River, no less). What was the Frogman? Was he really all that froggy? Why was he seen again in 1972 and during a sweet Pokemon Go sesh in 2016? We investigate all that and more this month as we discuss the Loveland Frogman!

The Future! That's right, friends, we are all interested in the future because that's where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives! That famous line by The Amazing Criswell permeates our first episode of 2022! And what does the future hold? We're not sure, but we make some predictions and share listener predictions for the new year. We also take a close look at the 1968 book Criswell Predicts: From Now to the Year 2000! to see what he got right, got wrong, and actually got pretty close on!

Regardless of your thoughts about Bob Lazar's story of working at a secretive location inside of Area 51 (S-4), his influence on the pop culture of UFOlogy in undeniable. This month, we take a look at Bob Lazar's story because there's just enough there to make it believable and simultaneously just enough there to make it unbelievable. Seb identifies three avenues that he feels people haven't explored enough in the Lazar tale and together we at least try to find a theory that covers all the aspects of Bob Lazar!