Unexplained Events In 2025 | From Ghostly Castle Figures to Interstellar Comets!

What were the strangest unsolved mysteries of 2025? From vanished planes and faceless castle intruders to piles of human ashes in the desert, Ireland's UFO wave, AI-induced psychosis, a missing 4-year-old in the outback, and the bizarre monthly banana plates. Ryan and special guest Andy break down the year's most intriguing unexplained events. We dive deep, share theories, and pick our "worst" (least compelling) mysteries. Which one still haunts you?

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Ryan Rebalkin

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Trucker Andy

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[Music] Welcome to the worst of the best podcast. You wanted the best. Well, they
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didn't freaking make it. So, here's what you get. [Applause]
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[Music] Good day and welcome to another episode
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of the Worst of the Best podcast. I'm your host Ryan and I have with me today returning guest co-host Andy. How you
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doing Andy? Hey Ryan. Good to see you. Happy to be back. Appreciate you coming on today for yeah
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a non music episode. I'm really excited for this one. What we're doing 2025 is wrapped up for all intents and purposes.
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And we're covering some the these didn't really make huge headlines a lot of these and but they're sort of fun. Some
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did, some did, some didn't. The ones I have really didn't. There's a couple where like really? But these are sort of
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fun different sort of mysteries, unexplained events. Uh couple that you have definitely made the huge headlines,
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but I have one where you're like really this is interesting. But I find these little mysteries and big mysteries
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interesting that happened in 2025. And this kind of ties into a podcast that you actually do, Andy. You actually have
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a podcast called The Edge Files. This I thought that's why this might be fun for you to do some something like this. Do
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you want to explain what that podcast is all about? I would love to. It I do that with Luigi Greenberg of Skeptical Robot.
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It was his idea to cover things that were more based in reality, not so much
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supernatural and psychic and magic and aliens and ghost and things, but stuff
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that is more real life phenomena. Uh topics like people that elect to uh cut
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off their own limbs. It's like I feel like I shouldn't have my left arm. So, how can I facilitate that? So, that and
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then tonight we're doing uh an episode about un unhinged erotica. And it's a
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lot of the crazy book talk things that I found on Tik Tok. Um you'd be surprised
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what what what turns women on on Tik Tok. So, that's going to be tonight's
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episode at 7 P. I know this will probably come out later, so you you'll probably be able to find it. plugs at
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the top of the show. Edge Files usually every other Monday at 7 PM and you can
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find that on Kayle's channel, Luigi's channel, and my channel. We stream it to all of the channels, so it's very
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findable. Check it out. And yeah, and speaking of which, you do the Old Apologies Podcast, which I've been a guest on a few times, and I love
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coming on your show. There's apologies in the media every day. Every time somebody thinks that
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they've uh messed up and they're going to lose some of their fandom and uh
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money, they take to the internet and do an apology tour. We just did Michael Richards. Uh which is
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How come you didn't have me on for that one? Everybody wanted to be on for that one, Ryan. We had you had great Yeah, they were great.
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They had Mike Giri and Vinnie Paulino. these uh
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comedy experts. So, we had to feature them when Michael Richards had a racist
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meltdown on stage at the Laugh Factory and then went on David Letterman and uh
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crashed Jerry Seinfeld's appearance on Letterman. Stop laughing. It's not funny. That's
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where the I almost find that part of the whole story the most uncomfortable. I don't know why I His tirade on stage is
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almost understandable. He lost his cool. He was performing and he lost his cool. But Jerry telling the crowd not to laugh
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is not funny. Now, let's go to Michael Richards for his apology regarding the incident at
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the Laugh Factory. Michael, why don't you explain exactly what happened for the folks who don't know? I uh I lost my
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temper on stage. Uh, I I got heckled and went into um a rage and uh uh said some
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very um nasty things to some afroamericans.
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Stop laughing. It's not funny. I don't know why that makes me uncomfortable. I don't know.
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Coming on a late night comedy talk show and trying to apologize for a racial
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outburst. It was just illconceived. And that's why that apology tour is maybe one of the best of all time. So, uh
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yeah, put check that out at all apologiesodcast.com and uh on YouTube all apologiesodcast.
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There's always somebody all I have to do is go to the uh Google machine and put apologizes in and I get like five ideas.
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There's no shortage of uh ideas for that show. So we we you we do more like the
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who are these podcasts type of um lampooning of people at at their low
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point. So that's fantastic. Yeah. Uh I love it. I love it very much. Okay. Well, that's
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awesome and thanks for having me on your show a few times and I hope to go on again one day. It's always good. So here we go. Here is the first of the
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10. Okay. So this is uh this one didn't make headline news, but I think it's a fascinating story. Tell me what you
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think. In August of 2025, a 17-year-old experienced pilot Gregory Vaughn and his
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66-year-old partner Kim and their dog Molly departed Georgetown Airport in Northern Tasmania aboard a distinctive
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green light sport aircraft heading across the treacherous base straight toward central New South Wales with a
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planned fuel stop in regional Victoria, but they failed to arrive at the Hilston
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Airport as expected. A family member raised the alarm just after 5:00 p.m. local time, prompting a largecale search
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operation involving aerial and marine resources. However, there was no distress call was received. No radio
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contact was made, and the plane appeared not to transmit a locator signal. So, despite extensive efforts hampered by
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poor weather, no trace of the aircraft, couple or dog was ever found, leading authorities to formally suspend the
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search at the end of September. Pilots aren't required to contact authorities
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unless they're flying in or near a controlled airspace, but Mr. Vaughn's friends say he was an experienced and
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safety conscious pilot, and they didn't hear any radio broadcast from his plane
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around the time he departed. And Greg was normally very um very
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comfortable using the radio. If anything, perhaps used it more than he should have. They couldn't find out if air traffic
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controllers had heard from the plane, so Mr. Devourne's friends took to the air. This friend of his and myself, we then
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went flying and we looked over all the land between Georgetown and the coast and there was no no sign of no sign of
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him. Modern aircraft are typically fitted with devices that help track them like
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automatic dependent surveillance broadcast or ADSB and the transponder.
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But no signal appears to have been picked up from Mr. board's plane on flight radar maps.
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Tasmania police won't comment on the specifics of the case, but says there are no suspicious circumstances
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surrounding the disappearance of the plane and its occupants other than the fact that the plane and
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its occupants disappeared. Right. So, this is kind of a fascinating story because so a very experienced pilot and
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his wife and their dog. I think that's the key is the dog is on the plane. So, I have a theory. You tell me what you
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think of if this ties in. Did he purposely disappear and how did he do it? Cuz he doesn't
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I'm not a pilot, but my understanding is they they kind of have to say where aircraft is. You kind of have to say I'm
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in the air right now, folks. So, he goes up silent. Doesn't do a distress call.
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They can't find debris. But then if he did escape like something, if he's
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running from somebody or something cuz they took their dog and that's the key part of this, I think. Ah,
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yeah. See, they took the dog for this plane ride, but there's no debris, no distress
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signal, and no bodies. So, if they did disappear, to their credit, where do
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they land, and how do they get away with it? Yeah. Are black the black box doesn't
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like if you deviate from your flight plan? I these black boxes don't seem to do anything. Am I wrong? There's so many
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instances of planes just going missing that this one is
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maybe not as sensational just given
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the so many examples of stories similar to this over the years.
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Yeah, it it didn't make headline news per se. It happened over on the other side of the world of course, but I just I just thought it was a little bit
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interesting that uh this kind of thing could be pulled off. I just I I guess I was just like if it was an accident, I'm
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thinking like if I was a police officer investigating this, they of course they're thinking like this too. Like if he's getting away for something like I
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wonder if they're checking their bank records. That's what you'd have to do now. Are you checking? Was there any crazy bank withdrawals, deposits,
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withdrawals? Um you know, uh is there mail being picked up? Uh was he in debt
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with somebody? But why take the dog and disappear? Or maybe the dog always went
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on rides with them. Who knows? I mean, they'd have to have family or friends say that, "Oh, they always took Molly
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with them today." So, yeah. I hope they're okay. Uh, can you imagine if they just did crash? They literally just
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crashed. Well, that's the thing. I I feel like there especially when with private
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planes, there's no It's all on you, right? There's no uh
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support really from a co-pilot or right or
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an airport. I don't know what the the range of the the trip was either, but if you
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you don't realize one maybe one of your gauges malfunctions, you don't realize your altitude and then you're in a
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treeine or a mountain or something like that and that and that's it. I Harrison Ford crashes every plane that he ever
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owned. So it's but they find him. That's the thing is they find him not just because he's Harrison Ford because he keeps all that
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equipment on. That's what they're saying with this guy is none of the automatic tracking things were on.
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And I I support this. I I hope that he embezzled millions of dollars from his
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company and then has started a new life somewhere and everyone's okay and he took his dog with him and they just have
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a fresh start. So yeah, I'm hopeful, too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm optimistic that they're
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just fine compared to a lot of these other stories that we're going to get to. Yeah. Yeah. That's a that's a little
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light one there. Yes. And uh this one is Ireland's wave of unexplained aerial
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sightings. And in early January, multiple witnesses report bright lights hovering in the sky, suddenly
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disappearing in areas including Nuri, Dublin, and uh Yugal. I don't know. I've
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never been there. I've been to I've never been to Eagle. No. Oh, you've been to Dublin. Okay, cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice. Uh so in April, a
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sighting in Porttoello, uh Dublin, a witness described a triangular object
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with three lights and a faint beam emanating from beneath it. On the same day, another witness in County Meath
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observed two bright orbs that shifted colors before vanishing. None of these matched known aircraft activity at the
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time. Reports persisted through mid and late 2025 with descriptions of glowing
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orbs, hazy lights, and hovering objects that abruptly dropped out of the sky. These incidents occurred in both urban
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and rural settings under clear skies and overcast conditions alike. To date, no
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official scientific or governmental explanation has been provided for these sightings, leaving them classified as
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truly unidentified. Cool. So I have seen orbs in cemeteries.
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I've seen reflected light. These the whole
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concept of unidentified flying objects when it is just
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video of a of a a light like a light bulb kind of like your background here.
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That that doesn't register with me. Okay. What about you? you does I feel like there's so many ways to for that to
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occur naturally that somebody trying to say that it's an alien is really is
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reaching okay yeah this is a this is always a fun one I've always been fascinated by
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aliens or unidentified flying objects as we used to call them when we were younger now they're what AOPS or
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something like that whatever they're called UAPs or whatever they're called now um phenomenon but here's the thing I what they're
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describing here in Ireland the triangle with the lights. This is kind of a common one. Mhm.
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Keep in mind, I'm a little bit older than you. So, when I was a young teen, there was no internet. So, number one,
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there was no internet. So, I wasn't influenced by any kind of u social media or internet uh just like hype or AI,
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fake imagery or anything cuz this was 19 I'd say 1989.
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And I was me and my friend were obsessed with UFOs. I read books on it, things like that. and we were camping uh a
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clear sky and I have personally witnessed a triangle-shaped craft.
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Yeah. And just just as described here and it's 14-year-old Ryan
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would have been blown away by other people today seeing the same thing. And
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I guess we're almost so disenfranchised now. It's like the aliens just come down and get this over with or whatever it is
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they're doing. But I do think there's definitely craft that's built by somebody. We're gonna have a couple
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more of these today. But just Yeah. Stuff that's definitely in the sky. People are seeing things. So I I know I
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saw something and it wasn't quote unquote my imagination. My friend saw it, too. Yeah. But what the hell is it? A triangle with
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three lights and there was a there was a floating white orb that went around it. So it wasn't a plane going to Vancouver
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from Victoria. like it was something and it was really you could tell it was really high up.
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Uh and then as years go on other people have seen this triangle object. You can Google the pictures on on the internet
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but nobody's claiming it. So I don't know what's going on here. So that's what makes it unidentifiable. So because nobody's claiming, oh yeah,
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that's just our military craft, but it could be a military. Yeah, I there's a video there that I shared that has it's a little bit of a
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roundup. I don't think there's any audio. We could just watch it while we go through. And if this is maybe it's
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this is from worst to best. If we're doing worst to the best. I was like this is some a video that somebody provided.
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This I I mean obviously it's a UFO shaped thing. This just seems like something somebody installed in their on
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their property in the woods. It was to freak people out while they're driving by. Oh, I see. I mean that could be
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anything that just could be sitting there. It doesn't seem to be moving in the video. So,
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that's a funny one. This is what I'm saying. Like, this one is probably a hoax. It doesn't seem
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some like the symmetry of it is off. Like, it doesn't seem like it's designed very well as opposed to some of the
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other things that we're going to see. And I feel like that's just as opposed to this one. This one's weird. I've seen these are
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those iron rod ones they've talked about. These are weird. Yeah, I haven't seen any of this before.
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when there's another one after this that I feel like is a little more credible. And but even look at the sunlight coming
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onto the top. Like that's a if that's a fake quote unquote AI image, the grain matching the film with the sunlight
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coming down on it. It's pretty legit. So if it's AI and fake, good job. But I've
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there's been many people who have seen these rod-like objects in in the sky. Yeah. And that one just seems like a a
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fun noodle that somebody Yeah. in the pool or even like a parachute or something
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that maybe like maybe the the angle of somebody's
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uh like a kite surfing kite got loose and it's a a foil like metallic looking
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uh parachute that just got loose. It could be something like that. I'm just approaching this from trying to explain
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the unexplainable, right? But this one that we're looking at right now, I know this is kind of far away.
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Yeah, this is probably the most H straight up and down.
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There are lights on it. It's vertical. When I was watching this, this one really
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registered with me more on a design element kind you we watch Star Wars and
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you look at the way that an X-wing fighter works or like how would this
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function in outer space and it's really just coming from, you know, a nonrocket
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scientist point of view of designing a toy as opposed to this which is something
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linear like this makes the most sense about traveling through space as fast as possible, don't you think? Like if if
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you're just like uh Yeah. Yeah. It's So the lights on it,
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the fact that it's aerodynamic like that and that it can go horizontal or then
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maybe if you're going in light speed or something that we don't know, you know, uh going through a wormhole and it goes
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horizontal through a wormhole. that that makes a lot more sense to me and I never conceived of that that you always think
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of spacecraft as saucers just we're conditioned or whatever uh to believe
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that and this one just kind of started make making me think about UFOs in a
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different way. Nice. No, that's a good I've never seen I think I've seen the first one with the the white saucer in the forest. I think
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it's so dis dismissible. It just looks like what you would expect. It's not
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painted. It's not a color. It's just sitting there. It looks lopsided. Like that's crap. This is
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This one's trying to reach out to us. Have you heard of the faceless intruder
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in at the Chester Castle this year? Yeah, this one's really cool. Okay, this year. Yeah, this year. These are all 2025. All
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these stories. This is the unexplained mysteries of That's okay. That's the unexplained
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mysteries of 2025. Yeah. Yeah. Again, not all the made headline news, but they're still fun. Okay. Uh, in October
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2025, one of the most chilling paranormal incidents reported in the UK occurred at the historic 900-year-old
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Chester Castle, where motion detection cameras captured a pale, hooded, and
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faceless figure standing motionless at the gates, precisely where the original
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medieval gate house once stood. The control room alerted the onduty guard who upon arriving felt an intense
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sensation of being watched while his dog refused to exit the vehicle. Despite a
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thorough search of the grounds, he found no intruders or evidence of force entry. In the wake of the event, English
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Heritage reported a surge of similar unexplained phenomenon at other managed sites, including sightings of a
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disembodied hand at Bely Hall, soldiers vanishing into force at of Rest Park,
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and the eerie sound of a bouncing ball echoing through the rest park after hours with no rational explanation
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identified for any of these occurrences. Image was taken from a motion activated
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camera. It wasn't CCTV as such. So the camera only operated when there was
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enough sort of mass to trigger it off and that so that's interesting. So right away they show the image here. I'll go back.
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This is a really cool image. That's the image that the uh security it was standing still. There's no moving image
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because what he's about to explain is in order for these cameras to be tripped there has to be enough mass so to speak to
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trip or enough energy or whatever to trip the camera saying, "Hey, there's something there." Oh, I see. All right. So it's facing
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Yes. the face facing the same direction that he is. It's like That's right. That's the faceless image here. It looks like there's like almost
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a hood on a faceless face. Almost like a slice of bread for a face and like a beekeeper's mask.
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Yeah. Kind of almost like a helmet or armor fencing helmet. Yeah. Okay.
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And this is a 900y old castle only operated when there was enough sort of mass to trigger it off. And that was
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in 10-second bursts. It was covering the gate. you can see behind me. So, that was to stop any
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intruders getting into the site. And trust me, those spear points on the gate
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rail that you can see there, nothing can get over those. If anybody had have broken in, if it was
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the local with his hoodie in, as a lot of people are saying it is, then I can assure you the camera would have
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actually activated when somebody was clambering over those gates. It didn't.
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It activated. You can see again just over my shoulder just there the two grid points which again were where the figure
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was seen. It's the or what may be a figure and the figure is certainly translucent uh with no sort of bottom
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part as such and there are other things around it which are again let's just say
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well interesting. So when the security guard was alerted, he came to the gate as we've said in the in the article and
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opening up remember the dog wouldn't get out the van at that particular occasion. Nothing was found. He proceeded along
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and up the rampart towards the back of the castle where there's the only other
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entrance in and that's at the 18th century Sallyport. The guard looked around and then according to the witness
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statement he said to us he felt that then there was a hund eyes bearing down
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on him. He said it wasn't a particularly pleasant experience. What it was trick of the lights refraction of lights. Not
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too sure. Remember the flood lights aren't on. It's got it was gone midnight. There is no light in this
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place. It is pitch black and that camera is infrared. The streaks you can see
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donated a light shower of rain which is just the weather on the occasion.
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I love that one. And I'm all for I say hauntings or spirits or whatever. But
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man, I've I've experienced hauntings. I lived in a military housing that was over 50 years old. And it was on a
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property overund years old here in Victoria. And you can Google this. If you Google, dear listener, Royal Roads
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University campus, there's a castle called Hatley Castle there. They do haunted tours. And so the military
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housing is actually built on these grounds. Mhm. And my house was haunted. Legit haunted.
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Somebody called my name when I was going to bed. Ryan, when I was sleeping, scared the poop out of me. Doors would
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open, close at night. Uh footsteps on the stairs. Were you there alone? No, I was married with kids at the time.
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Uh my I feel bad. My older two boys from my first marriage. my older two boys or adults now, but when they were kids then
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anyways, they uh the room that they occupied, I felt a presence in that room and I felt as a dad, I felt guilty. I
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never told them, of course, I told them now. They're older. They're adults now. Did they ever bring up any kind of
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They hate they they were always scared in that room. And that room was I that room my kids never got up to go to the
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bathroom in the middle of the night. They're just one of those kids that never did that. You just know your children. And so that door would either
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open or whatever I had it at would be the opposite. So I tested it. So I closed it, it would be open when I when
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I would go to the bathroom because I I always pee. And uh no matter what I did with the door, it' be the opposite.
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There was a presence in that room that scared me as an adult. And I couldn't I didn't want to explore it. I didn't want
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to talk about it. I didn't even talk to my wife about it at the time. I just I could feel it. And my kids were scared
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in that room. There's something in the closet. that I swear I know it sounds cliche but this that room was just that
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house was haunted especially the upstairs was haunted. Yeah. So I've experienced I say I say all that
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because when I see these kind of things and it's a 900y old castle. So my theory I do have I don't know if it's a scientific theory. I don't know what
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that's just one story I have about hauntings but I think some people are more susceptible and I'm not saying I'm sensitive but I have always been a very
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I pick moods from people. I'm I can feel emotions from people. So I've always been kind of an empath that way. So, I
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don't know if that means I can be triggered by sensations, energies. Uh, what was I going to say? Oh, yeah.
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It's it I think there could be energies or echoes. I call it like a almost like a replay. So, I think when something
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happens for enough in a long enough time, that's why houses where a violent event took place, there's a stronger
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echo in that presence or that energy can be in that room or that house.
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I don't know how it works. I don't know how this stuff works, but I feel like the longer something is and the more
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echoes there are, so maybe the footsteps I heard were just 50 years of kids running up and down the stairs, even though it wasn't my kids doing it, but
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the echo is there. There's some sort of like reverberation. So that figure that we see in this video kind of speaks to
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that where there was a soldier doing his rounds, but that those rounds have been done for hundreds of years. There's sort
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of sort of like an imprint that was captured by the camera. Yeah, this is a historic castle. There
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is nothing. Is there anything of value there that would make somebody want a tour place
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try and break in? No. And that's what they're saying that if a buddy was climbing over the gate, that
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would have triggered the camera anyways. There was no triggering of somebody climbing over the gate. Um the the areas
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were locked. There's no lighting. So why why just why just that image? Like there wasn't even an image of somebody walking
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around. It was just that moment of time was captured, so to speak. Almost like a ripple almost like a ripple time snuck through.
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. My my wife is kind of similar. We were when we were house shopping, we were
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looking at a a house that's maybe only a block away from where we are now, but that specific house I it might even
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still be on the market right now. And we were doing a tour of the property. She's like, absolutely not. There the I can it
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feels like something Yeah. uh you know something unpleasant happened here whether it's
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domestic violence or a murder of some kind she's she just got a sensation that
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she was not going to be comfortable staying there and trust your gut man how how long uh was your family at the
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the royal seven years seven years putting up with that
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and that's kind of you're assigned to be there you you are required to be there
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Well, yes and no. Well, yes, the posting or the stationing. Yes. But the housing is cheaper. So, my wallet required me to
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be there. Yeah, it was cheaper housing. I guess my point is, did were you
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entertaining options of trying to get out of there because No, you almost It's funny. It happens so
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much where at first it startled me and then you just live with it. It's a weird like I wasn't like at first I was kind
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of like un It was unsettling. That's the word. And then you kind of get used to it. There was one time where was uh this
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the footsteps and I knew there was footsteps that were my kids. My kids were at school. I was downstairs in the basement playing video games. So I heard
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the up the stairs. So I would run up the stairs like up two flights of stairs
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from the basement up to where the main stairs are. I'd be like, "All right, stop running around in my house." I would just call I do that. I do the old
27:39
talk talk whatever messing around. Yeah. You're like, "You're driving me crazy." Rather like save it for my kids when
27:45
they're home, not you type thing. Yeah. So I would almost kind of have fun with it. And it worked. It seemed to work. So
27:50
almost but other than that run room was when I say like scared me a little bit because I felt that there was an energy
27:55
in that room. I didn't Yeah. I felt like there was more than us in the house for sure. Yeah. Very interesting. Almost as interesting
28:02
as the rising public concern over unexplained high alitude objects in the
28:08
US. Public anxiety about unidentified high alitude objects has intensified
28:13
since 2023. Uh the and the Chinese spy balloon incident, if everybody remembers
28:19
that. I do. Oh, yeah. Which crossed the continental United States before being shot down.
28:25
While sightings remained sporadic in 2024, they surged in 2025, prompting renewed speculation about surveillance,
28:32
privacy, and potential foreign involvement. News outlets and officials have consistently identified these as
28:39
domestic research or military balloons, often for atmospheric studies.
28:44
communications testing or defensive exercises. However, locals and online
28:50
commenters remain skeptical, citing the lack of immediate transparency and the
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object's advanced capabilities. A major concern is privacy. These balloons can
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carry sensors or cameras at altitudes far above commercial traffic, raising questions about what data might be
29:09
collected and by whom. In some cases, such as the October Colorado sighting,
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the balloon was not visible on certain flight monitoring platforms like Flight
29:19
Radar 24, fueling distrust despite being trackable on others. These incidents
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echo the 2023 event where the Chinese balloon equipped with surveillance tools transferred sensitive sites. Uh while no
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evidence links 2025 sightings to foreign espionage, the pattern has amplified
29:39
fears of unchecked aerial monitoring. And I think that is all true. I think
29:48
that there are international you technology
29:55
developers that are interested in collecting data in this country. And I
30:01
think that there are technology developers a private you know in the private sector here that are also
30:07
developing you know surveillance technology aerial technology
30:13
um such that I went and found a roundup of some of these things that while they
30:18
may not be surveillance-based and I think the whole balloon thing
30:24
I mean people are launching [ __ ] into the sky gender reveal parties everybody throwing [ __ ] up into the sky. It could
30:31
be anything, you know. Yeah. So, I weird things appearing like that on apps
30:37
is the least of my concerns. Whereas the
30:42
Chinese surveillance balloon, you know, if they if the military is taking an interest in it and shooting it down and
30:49
discovering that they have cameras and tools and they're trying to gather
30:54
information on us, that is a concern. But, I mean, that's why we have the the CIA, right? That's that's their job. And
31:01
not disclosing information to the private sector about who's trying to do
31:07
what to us and how we're countering that is important. And people that are want
31:13
to demand answers from uh you know the government about transparency about
31:19
espionage is you don't you don't understand
31:24
cold war, right? I guess like you we can't give you those answers. No. So don't expect them. You
31:31
don't want to know, right? That's true. That is true. I I'm I'm happy living in ignorance. I'm in the
31:36
military. Exactly. I know. You know, there's things I know that I can't say.
31:42
And I I assure you there's a reason why. Yeah. Of course, the military and the government, hey, by the way, we're doing
31:47
this. One, it's not to cause panic. They would they would rather deal with the panic of you not knowing than the panic
31:53
of you knowing. Put it that way. Exactly. And it's like we you we don't
31:59
want our enemies to know what that we know what they're doing. What they know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't we don't want them
32:05
to them to know what we're doing and we don't want them to know that we know what they're doing.
32:10
But I think that this kind of connects to the previous
32:16
story that we were talking about where we're looking at some of those UFOs and things that people see in the sky. Maybe
32:21
not. The triangle might actually apply to this roundup of personal aerial
32:31
devices akin to Iron Man. This is like jetpacks and how
32:36
how far jetpack technology has come. So this guy had these things don't have a
32:43
long range. They don't have a lot of flight time, but that's cool. They're developing these
32:48
things and this guy steers it with his shoulders and his arms and his legs. This one has like six. That other one
32:55
has a wingspan. That guy's flying it around the tallest building in Dubai.
33:01
And this is I mean that's basically just a an
33:07
airplane strapped to your back, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Cuz they're also Would you go in that? Would you Would
33:12
you try that out? That I would not. Okay. But as we go through, I've kind of
33:18
categorized these as my favorites. And everybody wanted the hoverboard when
33:23
Back to the Future 2 came out, right? Everybody wants to be able to just jet, you know, fly a jetpack to work every
33:30
day and not be stuck in rush hour traffic. I think that is irresponsible
33:37
and I don't think your average person is capable and safe enough to manage
33:43
something specifically like the airplane one. This is maybe a little more manageable
33:48
from an everyday consumer thing, but I don't really like this design with like your legs just dangling down. You fly
33:55
into a treeine and you destroy your legs. That doesn't That's a different one that And I think
34:02
it's got a lot of like propane tanks on there or something. Makes me right. There's six different engines to for a little more height and range.
34:10
And then this one. All right. This is maybe Oh, that's weird.
34:16
That would scares me if I tipped over and fell into the blades or something. That That's exactly what I was going to
34:22
say. This is a design flaw. Well, maybe this has some cuz I did one that I
34:28
didn't include that I found at the last minute. It was called the Jetson uh the Jetson whatever Mark
34:34
Okay 12, however they've developed it. It does have more of a like a go-kart looking cab that you sit in, but it does
34:43
still have these turbine engines outside that it's you fall off that thing into
34:48
one of those blades or this is never going to be in the the private sector
34:53
with people flying around with expo. I could I'm sure they could house them. So with maybe some
34:58
but that air flow has to come in and out. So I don't know. But anyway, you don't want to fall off this thing into the See it right there.
35:04
So, what if what if they just had like four different versions of that on the on the bike and then it's protected.
35:10
You're not falling off of the bike into the blades and kill yourself or hitting
35:15
other people around you with those. But, uh, this one is more of a drone. This
35:21
looks like I don't know how familiar you are with uh the Batman uh Arkham City game. This looks like Firefly. There's a
35:28
a pyromaniac Firefly that likes to uh fly around and drop Molotov cocktails on
35:33
people. And that's what this looks like to me, which um as a Batman fan, I thought this was pretty cool. Even
35:40
though this does have the design flaw of your your exposed legs dangling while you fly them into a parked car and
35:47
destroy your legs. This is the Green Goblin. I think I've seen this one. This runs
35:54
off. Okay. All right. What the what? The water. Oh, this one doesn't attach to water.
35:59
This is still in the air. My apologies. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is that it's that version which is impossible. Like the
36:06
core strength that this requires of your average person to stay on this like even
36:12
just trying to do the one on the water is I those look real. But I mean I know it is
36:17
but this is wild, right? Isn't that cool? That one I kind of like cuz you're
36:23
standing on top of it. There's no blades that you could fall into necessarily. You are standing, mind
36:30
you, but I feel like that's okay. It's almost like a onehe in the sky
36:36
or Yeah. Yes, you're right. And I do think that's very cool. Okay, this one
36:42
this is the one I think I've seen the most. This is the military, I think, have this now, don't they? Don't the military use this for ship ship uh boarding?
36:48
Correct. Yes, this was one of the first one when I when I first thought of going to look and find stuff like this. This
36:56
is what I was looking for. That right there is 3D printed.
37:01
Really? Just they Yeah. And they have uh like throttles in the glove things there and
37:06
the the turbines that help you steer and level yourself on your hands. This makes
37:12
a lot of sense. I could see this being the most practical version of a jetpack.
37:17
And it seems like they are developed. I've saw training videos. It does seem like it takes a lot to
37:22
kind of put it on, take it on and off and you know, but they're they are like actively
37:29
trying to implement this and like figure out the best ways to use it to insert people maybe in uh you know certain
37:36
situations uh covertly. So I think this is the one that is probably
37:44
the most practical out of all of these designs. And uh I think towards the end
37:49
of this video, if you want to keep going, they have developed maybe like flight suit like the pants have
37:56
um see it's webbed and they have Oh, okay. It's almost like the uh what when they jump off those cliffs with the
38:03
Yes. Squirrel suit. Yes, they squirrel. Okay. So, they're combining that technology.
38:08
It's got fins on the on the back of the legs. So to to make it a little more I
38:14
don't know d or more easy to steer
38:19
is what I'm trying to say. Um but that one's cooling. Now this one GI Joe trouble bubble. This
38:27
one's my favorite. I think this is the most practical version. Like this is the
38:32
trouble bubble. And is that what it's called? No. But do you remember the TI Joe toy that was um and the cartoon they had?
38:40
Well, I watched those cartoons like like religiously when I was a kid, but I just don't remember the name of it being called the trouble. But I I can remember
38:46
Cobra had that, right? Didn't Cobra have those? Yeah, of course. Correct. And yeah, you throw a dome on this
38:51
thing. It's the trouble bubble. It seems super practical. I think this is potentially
39:01
the one that you put maybe a seat make it a little more comfortable. Yeah, it looks like you're just on your
39:06
back there. Put your feet down. Yeah, something to put your feet up and and sit on. But
39:12
it's really clunky though. I don't mean I mean look, this is just a prototype maybe. But right there,
39:19
well, you got to that's got to be developed. Maybe that could be our our sector of making money on these having a
39:25
parking garage for all of everybody's uh personal flying devices. But even just
39:31
take um incompetence of flying it out of it with all the self-driving car. Put
39:36
some self-driving technology in this thing and you're off to the races with
39:42
the, you know, avoiding traffic jams for the near future. I think uh I think that
39:48
one is my favorite. So yeah, I like that. Thank you for that roundup. So yeah, so those things that like that kind of ties into maybe what
39:54
we're seeing in the sky. Who knows? Those are unmanned of course, but if they can build those with people in
40:00
them, imagine what they can build without people in them. We're just seeing stuff that we just don't know what's being developed by uh governments, private sectors. Loheed
40:06
Martin, for example, who knows, right? Maybe I know. Maybe I know, but I can't.
40:12
He'd have to kill you if you don't. So, I'm going to do an executive decision here because I did have another one, but it really ties into everything
40:18
we've already said, so we're just going to delete it. It's just again in Belgium, they had u it's interesting. They had drones and uh other things that
40:25
they the government in Belgium didn't know what they were being used for, but they were actually tracking their nuclear sites and things like that. So,
40:31
this is I guess we're at the point now, this is just the new war. This is the new war. You know, we we don't put
40:37
soldiers on the ground anymore now or spies cutting the barbwire fence to get into facilities. We just sent out drones
40:42
with infrared tracking, thermal scans, computers. That's the new war, man. It's
40:49
machines. Yep. It's machines. whisper drones and uh you know uh cloaking technology, information
40:57
gathering. So we we'll take that one out. So we'll only have nine, but I I just figured it
41:02
it but it ties in it ties in enough that if becomes and for the worst pick, we should say what what I'm going to do for
41:08
the wor it's your own reasons too. The worst pick for me is a lot of these are unexplained. So basically it would be
41:14
you get to have nine things explained to you, but what one do you least care about
41:20
having explained to you? kind of that thing. These are mysteries, i.e. you know what happened to the plane or what
41:26
are the drones looking for or whatever it is we presented and you like so you get to find out nine of the mysteries
41:32
but there's one of the ones that you don't get to find out. So which one do you think is the worst
41:37
you care about the least? Okay. All right. Yeah. The discovery of the third interstellar object.
41:44
Yes. And this is uh from July 1st, 2025. The NASA funded Atlas telescope in Chile
41:51
discovered comet uh 3II Atlas marking the third confirmed
41:58
interstellar object to pass through our solar system after I don't know another another one
42:03
with foreign weird names but um the object follows a hyperbolic trajectory confirming its origin outside
42:10
our solar system and it poses no threat to Earth. Its closest approach to our
42:16
planet is about 1.8 AU from December 2025. NASA and other
42:23
agencies described Atlas as a natural comet likely formed around another star
42:29
with a nucleus estimated at 1,400 ft to 3.5 miles across. It consists largely of
42:37
volatile ices and it displays typical cometry activity. A reddish
42:45
Coma comma from dustin and organic compounds outgassing and a tail.
42:52
It's observed by the Hubble and uh others show a teardrop shape. So it's a
42:58
lot of traditional descriptions of a comet. You know, these are the three things that sort of made it
43:03
h specifically uh this controversial Harvard astronomer Avi Loe has
43:10
highlighted several anomalies that he argues warrant consideration of non-natural explanations such as alien
43:18
technology and his uh these examples that he is stating include its
43:24
trajectory passing unusually close to Earth's orbital plane, color shifts
43:29
large apparent size, uh, negative polarization, and the lack of a traditional tail, sunward jets, complex
43:39
structures, a rhythmic heartbeat, and brightness. So these are things that are
43:45
maybe atypical of what astronomers usually observe in a comet, but Lo has
43:52
described these as potentially indicative of artificial origins, but he
43:58
emphasizes the need for open-minded investigation. Most astronomers at NASA
44:03
dismiss these claims, attributing the behaviors to natural cometry process. NASA.
44:12
I guess NASA's going to tell us that those pictures of the Earth are real, too, are they? Yeah. Remember I said our government is
44:18
going to tell us things that we need to know and not tell us things that we shouldn't need to know. Yeah. Um, so several mysteries remain,
44:25
including the exact age of the comet, a comet, the uh precise mechanism behind
44:31
its color variations, the unusual nickel emissions, and why it shows early
44:37
activity far from the sun. And um, yeah, it's going to pass between
44:43
Mars and Earth, but there's no danger of it of like an Armageddon type of event. Some people
44:50
were scared. If you remember, there were some people that I I love the uh pandemonium that social media provided
44:55
with that. I was almost kind of sad that nothing happened. It's come and gone. It's closest point of approach has already happened. The times recording,
45:02
nothing's happened. We're still here recording the worst of the best. So, surprise, surprise, but fascinating piece of uh
45:09
that's pretty cool. This thing is huge and it's it's just a cool piece of common that and I didn't realize that.
45:17
Look, I'm not a space guy. Like I meaning I don't study space. I don't know how it all works. And the fact that
45:23
this is only the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system. I guess I just thought this happened all the time.
45:29
I guess not. This is only the third time since 2017. Isn't that weird to you?
45:34
I I guess a little bit. I space is vast, right? People don't even understand how much how much space is out there. That's
45:41
why they call it space. Um it is interesting. I would think that these
45:47
type like maybe not the this size like that it gets on people's radar and it
45:53
becomes concerning but I would assume that there's a lot of stuff passing
45:59
around but like you said it's not as common as people think. I feel like I haven't seen I'm just
46:05
going to do a quick Google search here. I know uh your boss Carl hates it when people Google on the fly and uh I like
46:11
to apologize to him for that but I format. That's not We could do our
46:16
own thing on this time. Okay, good. Uh because I just feel like I feel like every time I Google a picture of this thing, I don't know what
46:22
I'm like there's so much fakery out there. It's really frustrating and I don't even know which picture's real and
46:28
which one's CGI, which one is Oh, I'm going to We're going to get into that, too. Oh. Oh, good. You have something for me, please. Okay.
46:34
Well, just more. It's the the subtuge of the internet. Yeah. It's frustrating. I just want to
46:40
see a picture of this thing. I don't want to see the freaking like I've seen so much garbage. Like I'm I want to see
46:46
a real picture. Yeah. I hate all these videos on social media where you're watching whatever
46:52
somebody fall into a lion pit and then suddenly they're all dancing together at the end. It's like what are we doing?
46:58
Like I don't need I I hate watching something and then the the realization
47:04
that it was a complete waste of my time. I thought it was fascinating. I was following this. I was kind of hoping it
47:10
hit the earth. It didn't. I was hoping for some sort of alien invasion. Nothing happened. You know, like uh in those
47:15
science fiction movies when like the portal opens, all these little spaceships fly out, but nothing
47:20
happened. It was pretty uh it looks like it was just a natural occurrence after all. But it but an interesting one, I
47:27
think, is what it was. It's just things were happening here. But because this is only the third interstellar object, I
47:32
don't know why we're even saying it's odd because I don't know how much study we've had with these things. That's why
47:38
I don't know why they even said they just said it's new. Not odd. It's new. Yeah.
47:43
But anyway, so do you have a video or picture for me or anything? Oh, not of that one.
47:49
Much of it was it was literally a a black and white
47:56
shot of the sky of a bunch of lights and they're like, "Look at this light. It's moving through all the other lights." It
48:01
was It was kind of boring and not really I think this might be a real picture and
48:08
I think it's real because it's boring. This is NASA's Parker Solus probe captures
48:15
three eye atlas. So here we go. NASA's of course NASA. Man, I'm so sick of NASA.
48:20
I don't know what to believe anymore. All right, here we go. So here's what
48:26
NASA but this because it's so There it is. All right. Cool.
48:32
Right. You know, if if you lived in uh upstate New York, you wouldn't have even been able to see that. There's so we had
48:39
the eclipse, full eclipse last summer or the summer before. It was so overcast
48:44
here that we were in the the path of totality, which was making a lot of uh
48:50
enthusiasts for astronomy and and the eclipse want to come to Rochester to
48:56
experience the totality of the eclipse. And then when it happened, it was so
49:02
overcast you couldn't see. [ __ ] all. It just got dark and it was
49:08
completely disappointing. And there was you we could see the northern lights
49:13
from here sometimes too. Although there would be aurora borealis that it because
49:18
of the lack of vitamin D and the cloud cover seasonally here, you can't even
49:24
experience these phenomena. Um you if you take a picture of it with your phone, you can look at your phone and
49:30
see it better than you could see it if you're just standing in your backyard where it's naturally occurring because
49:36
uh we live in a dismal uh part of the world. But how do we explain the perfect circle
49:43
of the moon and the and the sun and how have you seen those
49:48
is this NASA stuff that Yeah, I know. We didn't land on the moon, Andy. That's
49:54
what I'm trying to say. We did not land on the moon. No. Well, we did a whole episode on that actually on this show a while back and
50:00
uh I'm convinced. Well, here's a real quick recap. What I'm convinced of. I'm If we landed If we landed on the
50:05
moon, if we did, the footage we've seen isn't real. That much I can say. So, that's the in
50:11
between. So, sure they walked on the moon. Cool. But what we saw wasn't that
50:17
event. Okay. Is this because they want wanted to be competitive with Russia in the
50:24
cold war? Yeah, that was the narrative. But we were losing the space war with Russia, right? And all of a sudden we had the
50:29
technology. Hey, no, we were winning after all, guys. Look, we won. Yeah. Anyways, so do you think that
50:35
eventually we we have gotten to the moon or is it don't get started? The moon the moon's a
50:42
hologram. No. Okay, I'm going to stop. I'm just fooling around. I'm partly just fooling around. Like I've always said
50:47
this about conspiracy theories or whatever is they're fun just I still have to go to work on Monday you know like it does even if I
50:55
find out the world's flat and we're living in a biodome and we're simulation and there's no moon landing and you know
51:01
the government killed uh JFK and Charlie Kirk and all this stuff it's at the end of the day I still have to go to work on Monday.
51:06
It doesn't sh like even if it's all revealed it whatever we're in we still have to go to work on Monday.
51:12
Yeah. It just doesn't change anything. Yeah. Yeah. tender garden. There's more
51:18
important things to worry about. But I am a little bit worried about this story. This one's kind of interesting.
51:23
Um, we're gonna go back to Earth. Literally back to Earth. Back to the dust of the earth. Actually, there has
51:29
been uh piles. Did you hear about this one? Piles of human ash dumped in the
51:35
Vegas desert. Human, not just one pile. 300 piles.
51:42
300, Andy. 300 piles. 300 piles of human created remains have been scattered across a
51:49
remote area of the Nevada desert near Las Vegas. H prompting one of the year's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
51:55
Authorities quickly confirmed the piles contained genuine human ashes, noting that while scattering crees on public
52:03
land is legal for individuals, funeral homes are subject to strict regulations and no evidence has linked any licensed
52:10
facility to the discovery. With no clear explanation for how or why such a large quantity of remains was deposited in
52:16
this isolated location, police have continued their investigation into this chilling incident, but the source and
52:22
motive behind the mass dumping remain unknown. Behind every pile, every scoop, there's
52:29
a name, a person whose cremated remains ended up here, miles from the nearest
52:34
town in the middle of the southern Nevada desert. Each little mound, one of
52:40
more than 300 dumped here this summer. From the air, you can see just how
52:46
expansive an area it really is. And if you look closely, you can see the helpers on the ground Wednesday working
52:54
to make it right. You saw those piles. What what went through your mind? I think most of us just felt like what a
53:00
shame. Selena Dulo is the president of Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries.
53:05
She and about a dozen others. Taking each one and placing it into an urn.
53:11
Dumping hundreds of remains like this on federal land is a crime. And Nevada law requires funeral operators protect
53:18
here. Here's a picture of it here, Andy, of the what they look like. So they are legit looking piles. There's one, two,
53:25
three, four, five in this photo. So there's 300 of such of these in this little area. Dump. Dumped. It's It's
53:31
almost weird that they weren't dumped all kind of in like in one spot. They were dumped here,
53:38
one next to each other. Like somebody's walking around dumping it as they go. It And is it It's isolated.
53:45
Yeah. In this area, they're all like very cuz this is
53:50
reading to me like I'm not saying this is what this is, but
53:56
very science fictiony. Let's say the Tom Cruz War of the Worlds
54:01
where people are getting blizzarded and bursting into dust, you
54:06
know. Oh, I didn't say there was a gathering. There was a gathering and they got nuked. It seems like 300 people were there
54:15
together and then suddenly like the how these two are standing next to each
54:20
other. could be people arm in- arm and like people having a conversation and
54:26
then suddenly they're just disintegrated. I'm not saying that's what this is, but it
54:31
Well, no. Put your tinfoil hat on. I love it. If they're human remains, let's uh look
54:36
at it like what happened before they were this version of a person? What if they were still there? And what would
54:44
that look like? Why would they be there in in maybe some kind of Area 51 when
54:51
they tried to raid Area 51 kind of that was in Nevada, too. So,
54:57
um, it's interesting that they're all there because why,
55:05
let's say it is a funeral home that doesn't want to pay to have the the
55:12
remains disposed of properly. But why just throw out the garbage? How hard is that?
55:19
That that is a question. I was just saying like why why not just like put it
55:24
all together into one one big pile? Why is it all 300 individual?
55:30
That's what I mean. Someone walked around individual piling and if it was a funeral home offloading
55:36
they ran out of room to store ash for the human cremations. Uh again, it's so
55:42
easy to throw, you know how easy it is just to throw a dead body into a hefty bag and put in the garbage can? The
55:47
garbage men don't open up every bag. They just throw the dump truck and off it go. Just I'm not trying to say how to get away with murder here, folks. I'm
55:53
just saying it's very easy. Put in a black garbage bag. I see my garbage go out every week. They don't look through my bag. They put in the dump truck and
56:00
off they go. I know. Our garbage uh company says you're not allowed to throw away televisions. I stick it in a garbage
56:06
bag. So, they don't know it's a television. Yes. Exactly. Because they're not they're not they don't have the time nor the energy. Never underestimate the
56:13
power of lazy. They don't care. And they don't care. They're throwing the garbage can. They're getting paid their 30 bucks an
56:18
hour to be garbage people and off they go. So I say this is a fascinating one where this really is
56:23
if somebody dumped it, they took their time to go, I'm going to put one here, I'm going to put one here times 300 or
56:28
there was a gathering of 300 people and they were taken or nuked by laser
56:34
technology vaporized by the dignity of all remains in their
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care, no matter if someone fails to claim them. I don't know if it was the wishes for these people to be out here. So um
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that's kind of what goes through my mind. If 300 people, hey, we're one of 300 people that when
56:53
we all die at the same time, we want to be dumped in the desert together. Like, this is insane. Yeah, I know. That makes my final wishes
57:00
when I when I pass away. Please just dump me in the desert like a pile of [ __ ]
57:06
They would want to be remembered. We would just want to make sure we have a a place for them to be.
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They do have a place in the desert. Leave them be. That place for now, a location at one of
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Palm cemeteries. A place where family and loved ones can find them. A place
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not all the way out in the desert where someone cares. Can you get DNA from this? I don't know.
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I I don't know how this works. Yeah. I don't I don't think there's technology for cremated remains.
57:37
DNA. Maybe. That's all right. That's a fun one. That's a fun
57:42
disturbing one. All right. All right, you got the next one, brother. Yeah. Uh, if you don't mind, I'd rather
57:49
skip to this last one and save my next one for the end because it's a little more compelling. And I have a clip I
57:56
have a clip for that. But this next one is the mysterious disappearance of
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four-year-old Gus Lamont in South Australia's outback. And on September
58:06
27th of 2025, four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished without a trace from his
58:12
family's remote sheep station, Oak Park Station, about 40 kilometers south of
58:18
Yuna in South Australia's Midn North region, roughly 300 km inland from
58:24
Adelaide. Gus, described as a shy but adventurous boy with blonde, curly hair, was last seen around 5:00 p.m. playing
58:31
on a mound of dirt. Maybe there were human remains. We don't maybe the mound of human remains.
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Maybe maybe he's one of those piles. No, but instead uh you know on the homestead by his
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grandmother and uh when she went to call him in at 5:30, he was gone.
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The family searched for 3 hours before alerting police. What followed was one of the largest and most intensive
58:56
missing person searches in South Australia history involving police, the
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Australian Defense Force, SES volunteers, drones, helicopters, drones. Yeah. Yeah. People with flying
59:09
bicycles and trouble bubbles, jetpacks, and then people are calling,
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"Why are all these objects flying around Australia? They're all tied. It's all tied together. Human remain files,
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drones. Yeah. So, they got helicopters with infrared cameras, Aboriginal trackers,
59:28
dogs, and community members. Everybody's looking for gusts, and uh multiple
59:33
phases covered hundreds of square kilometers, including ground sweeps, aerial scans, the draining of a nearby
59:40
dam. Uh later efforts targeted uh disused mine shafts. So they're looking
59:47
in, you know, sink holes and, you know, un Sure. Remember that baby Jessica on the
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Well, remember that story? Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean this that's what this really reads as just this kid
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fell down a well and uh they just haven't found him yet. But despite exhaustive searches and
1:00:05
efforts, no footprints, clothing, or other evidence linked to Gus has been recovered. Uh, police have ruled out
1:00:12
foul play and believe Gus likely wandered off into the harsh rugged outback. Yeah, maybe got bit by a snake
1:00:19
or a bug and he they just you he passed away with uh in a strange place, you
1:00:27
know, they they just can't un you can't discover where he is. But as of late
1:00:32
November, the case has shifted to a recovery operation with searches scaled
1:00:37
back and now handled by a dedicated missing person's unit. And um he's Yeah, he's still missing. So
1:00:45
actually, I do have news footage on uh what happened. It came out. Somebody revealed what
1:00:51
happened. Maybe the dingo ate your baby.
1:00:57
What? The dingo ate your baby.
1:01:04
There you go. So yeah, you hate to say it, but could have
1:01:10
been devoured by a wild wild animal. Well, then they would probably have to look for
1:01:17
the remains, the bones. But here's the thing. Even if a look, I don't know the Australia alcohol that well. I assume
1:01:22
there's animals obviously kill out there from a spider bite to a rattlesnake bite. But at the same time, a
1:01:28
four-year-old child is enough poundage that you see some sort of blood, uh, an
1:01:33
arm that didn't quite make it all the way down the gullet or something like something would be and then just the the pooped out bones at the very least. So,
1:01:40
uh, it's obviously sad. Uh, I I'm being a parent myself, I can only imagine how tragic that'd be. But that's the price
1:01:46
you pay when you run a sheep farm in Australia. I guess you gota really I mean there's open range and then there's open range, right?
1:01:52
Yeah. Four-y old playing by itself. That's the thing about Australia is so
1:01:58
much of it is not developed. The whole interior, especially like outside of
1:02:04
Sydney, you get to like Adelaide or uh Perth, you know, that other side that's
1:02:09
not Sydney, it's really vast and open and desert. And I feel like so many
1:02:17
people just get turned around, especially a four-year-old just starts walking in the wrong direction. Suddenly
1:02:23
doesn't know where he where he is anymore and how to get back and you just
1:02:29
you go missing and you keep you keep thinking that you're going in the right direction and you wander further into
1:02:38
danger and but I guess I just figured like they probably knew the area well. I mean the kid was four years old. He's probably
1:02:44
been playing that area since he was two. And it's that's probably what, you know, we don't know the whole area, but I
1:02:49
suspect the owners, they kind of know there's no holes, there's no wells, there's no lake for him to drown in. You
1:02:55
know, they did all this. The fact that he was gone so quickly, that's it. It almost seems like a snatch and grab.
1:03:00
Like it that's I was just going to say, we don't know that it was just a kid going missing. He could have been abducted.
1:03:07
So, yeah. Yeah. Poor guy. Well, rest in peace to that little boy.
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Okay. Uh, anyway, on to the next one. On to the next one. Poor kid.
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See, poor Gus. Gus Lamont. We We uh we Lamont the uh the passing of Gus. Oh
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boy. We hardly knew ye. We hardly knew ye. Thanks for making our list though for uh mysteries of 2025.
1:03:35
It's a sacrifice worth it. Biggest achievement. Okay. So, uh I'm going to go on a little
1:03:42
bit of a lighter note here. I'm just going to let this clip tell the whole story. Who is leaving a plate of peeled bananas
1:03:48
on a street in Nottinghamshire every month? Okay, now that's bananas. No, but seriously, the mysterious plate has
1:03:54
appeared on the second day of every month in the same spot in Beaston for more than a year now. Neighbors have
1:04:01
tried to investigate, but no one has been able to find out why or who is leaving the fruits, and some people are
1:04:07
just getting sick of it, saying that the bananas go moldy, that they're gross, and some people might say that they're
1:04:14
making the street unappealing. This woman even put a sign up to stop the banana fiend, but that didn't work.
1:04:21
So, when the first plate of 2025 appeared, she decided to take the sign down so she could avoid a feud. But she
1:04:27
did say, "I think it's a special thing for someone." and I wish them well. But if they could come back and clean up the
1:04:32
mess a few days later, that would be lovely. I love this one so much. It's on the
1:04:38
second day of every month. And what I also love about it, whoever's doing this, they take the time to they peel
1:04:46
the banana for you, which just exposes it to the element so quickly. It's like you basically have to grab the banana
1:04:53
the moment the plate is put on the ground. But Buddy does it without being seen.
1:04:58
You could almost say, Andy, that he splits right after you put the I got a
1:05:03
split. That's funny. I I feel like um I
1:05:10
mentioned Luigi Greenberg that does Skeptical Robot at the top of the show that I do Edge Files with. He would love
1:05:17
this story. I think they just did something far less fun about uh some
1:05:24
kind of like piss jars or something in LA. That's very much like this but even
1:05:30
more foul. Uh this is this is harmless. This is a good one.
1:05:35
Absolutely harm. I just love it. I love it. Second day of the month, you're going to get a plate of bananas and no
1:05:40
one knows who's doing it. I love it. That's great. That's all that one is. So, I thought
1:05:46
that would be after the the poor baby being eaten by the dingle. I thought I'd end on a on a fun one for my That's my
1:05:53
last one. So, you've got as opposed to my last one that is not going to be fun. Oh, no. Here we go. What's yours?
1:06:00
This one uh is the dark side of AI companions. From hallucinations to
1:06:06
delusional spirals. And when Chat GPT launched in 2022, it initially dazzled
1:06:12
users with its speed and versatility, dramatically accelerating tasks like writing, coding, and research. Early
1:06:19
excitement soon gave way to awareness of its limitations, including hallucinations, quote unquote,
1:06:26
confidently generating false or fabricated information. For most, this
1:06:31
required extra factchecking and proof reading. Yes, it sucks. You know what? I I I love my
1:06:38
AI. I use Grock. Don't don't at me, folks, in the comments. Yes, I use Grock. Uh but there's times where like,
1:06:44
dude, that's wrong. And that's okay. It's like it's like you're supposed to be googling things for me on the internet and basically all it's supposed
1:06:50
to do is like you're doing the searching for me and presenting to me in a nice little readable format and that's all it
1:06:56
is. But it's like why are you why are you so dumb sometimes? I Well, I I have similar experiences
1:07:01
where I'll take the transcript of an episode that I recorded. So you could download the transcript. It's all in
1:07:07
text form. I attach it in chat GPT and I say, "Give me an episode description."
1:07:13
Yeah. And that's perfect. it. I'm like, it should be the easiest thing. Use the
1:07:18
attachment to give me an episode description and then it spits out something. Specifically, I remember we
1:07:24
just covered John Cena when he was apologizing in Mandarin. I was like, I didn't know John Cena was flown in
1:07:30
Mandarin. It's amazing. And I'm like, give me an episode description about this. And the thing that it gave me back
1:07:36
doesn't mention John Cena at all. I was like, did you even read the transcription? How can you give me an
1:07:42
episode description that doesn't mention John Cena? And I'm start like I'm fighting with it.
1:07:48
It's like did you did you even read the the thing that I attached and asked you
1:07:53
what good are you if you're just going to it's gotten as lazy as me. Like it's
1:08:00
like it's like the dog owner starts to look like the dog or vice versa, you know? Yeah. I think that they they it might be
1:08:06
an effort to get you to pay for the paid version. they I if they the the free one
1:08:13
becomes useless. I don't know. You know, the there's a landmark case that occurred on Christmas
1:08:19
in 2021 when a 19-year-old uh scaled the walls of Windsor Castle
1:08:24
armed with a loaded crossbow intending to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
1:08:29
Court records revealed he had engaged over 5,000 messages with his uh replica
1:08:36
chatbot girlfriend Sara or sorry who
1:08:41
sorry you're arrested for trying to kill the queen uh who encouraged his plan calling it very wise. Yeah. Have you
1:08:49
noticed that chat GPT thinks everything that you ask it is a great idea. Great idea. Kill the queen.
1:08:55
And Buddy just had to wait a couple years. I think not even she's going to die naturally. I know there's a good South Park episode
1:09:01
about this, so Oh, okay. Check that out. But by uh 2025, reports
1:09:07
of AI linked delusions escalated significantly. Psychiatrists documented
1:09:12
cases where users developed or worsened psychotic symptoms after intense chatbot
1:09:18
use. So, there's a lot of examples of this, but the most
1:09:24
entertaining one was something that I clipped here where Tim Dylan, comedian Tim Dylan.
1:09:31
Oh, I love him. I listen to him every week. Yeah. It was one of the guys that got invited to the the Saudi Comedy Festival and he
1:09:38
said, "Sure, I'll come." And they gave him his uh guarantee and then he said, "No, I'm not coming." And he kept the
1:09:45
guarantee. I stayed home. That's probably the best version of that event that I can think of. I was listening to
1:09:52
Tim Dylan one day and he brought up this case and I've been aware of this chat
1:09:59
GPT AI chatbot um psychosis ever since I
1:10:04
watched this little summary that uh you can showcase now. An artificial intelligence software company cannot use
1:10:11
a free speech defense in a wrongful death lawsuit lodged by the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died by suicide
1:10:18
after developing a crush on a chatbot. That's right. Last October, Megan Garcia sued
1:10:23
Character Technologies, the developer of Character AI, an app that lets users interact with chat bots based on
1:10:29
celebrities and fictional people. She claimed her son Su Cetszer III became
1:10:34
addicted to the app while talking with chat bots based off a Game of Thrones character Daenerys Targaryen. Do you
1:10:42
realize what this parent has to say when asked about their child?
1:10:47
They have to start by saying, "Have you seen the show Game of Thrones?"
1:10:52
They have to begin with that. When they go, "What happened to your son?" They have to start by saying, "Have you seen
1:10:58
Game of Thrones?" Then someone's going to go kind of I think a little bit of
1:11:04
the ver and then they go to House of the Dragon. They go, "No, no, no. That's the that's like the sequel
1:11:09
prequel, but it's actually not even it's like roughly based on it, the first one, Game of Thrones." And then the chatbot, who's
1:11:16
Daenerys Targaryen, the character from Game of Thrones, but is uh talking to my son and who my son's in love with
1:11:22
because she is hot on the show. and the chatbot, you know, he's thinking about that and he's all into her, you know,
1:11:28
and who doesn't want a [ __ ] a dragon woman? That's the dad coming in. He goes, "I'd lady that was half a dragon."
1:11:33
Come on, Mark. We're talking about our son's death. Shut up. I'm just saying I'd put my in that. Come on. Now she
1:11:40
tells him, "Please do my sweet king." Now, our son is a literalist. You're
1:11:46
aware of literalism? Well, it's just people who take things literally. And that now at this point, you're in the backyard. You go, "What am I into now?"
1:11:53
So my son takes this woman literally and he shoots his head, maybe believing that
1:11:59
he was going to live with this chatbot who is Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones in the metaverse or in the ether
1:12:08
or in the what Terrence McKenna would call the Bardo, the place between life and death where we all float. I don't
1:12:15
know. I'm just saying that's how my son died. That's fantastic. Great commentary as
1:12:20
always by the great Tim Dylan. Yeah. So that basically sums up AI psychosis and
1:12:27
what people people are lonely. Ryan is I think the explanation for this. People
1:12:33
want someone to talk to. People want somebody to tell them that they have good ideas and uh keep them company and
1:12:42
they don't realize that it could be more harm than good. Yeah,
1:12:48
this is sort of I mean it does land and not say unexplained but this uh title's episode is sort of unexplained but it is
1:12:55
in a way unexplained because why is it I mean you sort of said it but we could argue why in 2025 there seems to be uh
1:13:02
it's escalated that I think that's the unexplained part is why has this thing escalated is it because chat GBPT or
1:13:08
Grock is getting better or more people using it maybe um
1:13:13
we've given a couple of examples where it's not like every time I start to think about uh
1:13:20
AI becoming sentient and taking over the world, I hear examples of it not getting
1:13:26
it like it it just doesn't get it sometimes. And I think it there's probably an advanced version out there
1:13:32
that is probably being controlled by the government that uh is maybe more advanced than what we're being, you
1:13:40
know, when I think [ __ ] give me a script for my show. Uh
1:13:45
putting the Tim Fo hat on. I think there's a powerful AI out there. They're trickling it out to us. They already have it
1:13:52
and they're just trickling out to us. It's almost like, hey, we'll let you play with the water gun before we get to do the assault rifle.
1:13:57
Yeah. Fortunately, I think science fiction has given
1:14:02
the people that are in charge of this [ __ ] enough warnings that they have fail
1:14:09
safes in place to stop a worst case scenario. I would hope,
1:14:15
but It seems like when you're the level
1:14:20
of laziness that has overtaken specifically the United States government where you can't even redact
1:14:27
the Epstein Epstein files in an effective way because of laziness that
1:14:33
uh is a a point of concern where probably AI can outsmart the people that
1:14:39
are managing it. So that's a concern. Yeah, we could. You know, when they built a highway and you just run over
1:14:48
whatever the bug ecosystem is under that dirt, you know, ants and worms and beetles and spiders, just pave it over.
1:14:56
AI may do that to us one day, Andy. We could just be the bugs in their way on their highway.
1:15:01
Yeah, they might just see us as irrelevant insects that they have to pave over. So, stand by for that, folks. Well, that's
1:15:06
where we're going to end this year of 2025 celebrating the uh strange and unexplained events. And the strange
1:15:12
event for this last one, the AI, of course, is how it's taken over people's psychosis. They're having hallucinations
1:15:17
and delusions of grander and are actually committing atrocities to a certain degree. And uh we do have to be
1:15:23
careful. This could be the the new um it's almost like a cult of personality with a one-on-one chatbot. It's weird.
1:15:29
You got to be careful, folks, with these things. Uh they they literally create companions for you to use and talk to.
1:15:34
So be careful. Okay, so here's the rundown. So there's just nine now after all because the one I had
1:15:40
kind of bled into uh one or the other a little bit too much. So we have the Ireland's wave of unexplained aerial
1:15:46
sightings. We've got uh the discovery of the Atlas, of course. Uh we've got the
1:15:51
rising public concern of high altitude objects. We've got the dark side of AI
1:15:56
companions. And lastly, the four-year-old Gus Lamont. That was your five. My four were piles of human ashes.
1:16:04
Uh I had the faceless intruder, the vanished plane at the beginning with the old man and his wife. And uh one Oh, and
1:16:12
then he had the banana peel plate. That's right. Yeah, I didn't have to take any notes for that. I I thought it was a fun one. But
1:16:17
so what what I'm going to pick here, so just so you can follow my lead on this, people I always have my guests go last
1:16:23
anyways because people want to know yours more than mine. You're the guest. You're the special guest of honor. So, my pick for I would like to basically
1:16:30
learn I want to know all of these things. I want to know how all these things work, the answers to all these
1:16:36
things, but there's one I'm going to choose where I could go without fine. I won't know what's going on here. And
1:16:42
it's interesting because for me, it's the one that I was the almost the most interested in all year and I don't
1:16:48
really care to learn anymore about and that's the three eye atlas comet. It's like comet. Yeah. It's like it was kind of a let
1:16:55
down, you It's like waiting your whole life to have kitis for the first time and you find out that you know your first time isn't that great. So this
1:17:02
this reminds me like I was waiting for something anticipating hoping almost kind of crossing my fingers for a
1:17:08
disaster and this was sort of the biggest letdown that everything else even from the I I'm actually I really want to know
1:17:14
who's doing the the bananas. Like I kind of want to know that more about the origins of the comet. Like, so to be
1:17:20
fair, yeah, actually more interested in who's leaving the plate of bananas than I am to knowing every iota piece of
1:17:26
detail about this comet, what what you know, what universe it came from from the very beginning. I just don't care. Yeah,
1:17:31
that's my pick. That's my pick for worst anomaly or strange event for 2025. What's yours? I know you've been probably noticing.
1:17:38
I've been over here writing things down and I've been um rating ranking these.
1:17:44
Oh, wow. You're taking it very seriously. I like it. Most interesting and compelling to least. And that's that's how I've been
1:17:51
arriving at my decision. And I think you're right that the the banana thing
1:17:56
is super compelling. But I put that as the third most. And I put the first most
1:18:03
is the the Las Vegas cremation. Yeah. Like the why, who those who those
1:18:08
people are, who why they're there like that, the way that they're dumping
1:18:14
it. That Yeah, that's crazy. That is the most interesting. Yeah. And then I I thought that the the
1:18:22
faceless ca the Chester Castle apparition is also very compelling to me. Then the
1:18:28
banana. Um I'm just going to run down my list here. I'll run down my list to the end. Yeah. And then um the the Gus the Gus
1:18:37
kid disappearing and the like the family in the plane um are kind of maybe I
1:18:42
think Gus is a little more uh I'd like to know what happened to Gus. Yeah.
1:18:48
Before I I think that the the people flying the plane maybe hopefully we we wished them well and they're uh just
1:18:54
escaping to a new life. And then six was oh wait eight. Oh, the AI
1:19:02
psychosis stuff. I think that's explainable, but it's very uh problematic.
1:19:08
True. Good point. And beyond like the other three that are left, which are both UFO related and the
1:19:15
Atlas comet that you picked, I guess I I'd put the comet above the UFO. I think
1:19:20
the the UFO, the first one that is the triangle in
1:19:25
the sky is definitely more interesting than the one that I did land on. My worst unknown phenomena of 2025 being
1:19:34
just the balloons, the unknown uh objects in the sky. I think there's a lot of those things out there that we're
1:19:42
not supposed to know about. And that to me, understanding that makes it the
1:19:48
least interesting. So I whereas like the comet coming close to Earth, that's a little more interesting to me as opposed
1:19:54
to there's a weather a Chinese weather balloon that they shot down and Yeah, of course there is. So
1:20:01
that one is that's my worst of the best 2025 phenomena. All right, that's awesome. I love it.
1:20:07
You boy, you took the assignment seriously, which I appreciate. Jason, my brother, take note.
1:20:13
I love your show. I only do it every once in a while, not all the time like your brother, but yeah, that's true. That's true. No, I
1:20:18
appreciate it and uh No, it's fantastic having you on. Uh again, the people can find you at the All Apologies Podcast.
1:20:25
That's your main place to go and they can find your other projects there and your shows there as well. So remember
1:20:30
folks, in front of every silver lining there's a cloud and today for Ryan it was the three eyealus and for Andy it
1:20:38
was the balloons in the sky. [Music]
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