What happens when you realize the world is more porous than you were ever taught to believe?

In Part One of this two-part conversation, we sit down with psychic medium Jenson Smith for an open, thoughtful discussion about how she first discovered her abilities — and what it was like to recognize that her experiences weren’t shared by everyone around her.

Jenson shares her personal journey of awakening, including the early moments that made her question what she was sensing, the challenges of trusting those perceptions, and the long process of learning how to sharpen, understand, and responsibly live with her gift.

Rather than leaning into spectacle or sensational claims, this conversation focuses on lived experience: what it feels like to navigate a world where intuition runs deeper, how discernment is developed over time, and what it means to carry a gift that can be both illuminating and isolating.

This is a quiet, reflective entry point into a much larger conversation — one rooted in curiosity, humility, and a willingness to sit with mystery rather than explain it away.

Part Two will explore what it’s like communicating with deceased loved ones, what Jenson believes the other side is like, and how these experiences have shaped her understanding of life, death, and continuity.

Jenson Smith is a psychic medium whose work centers on intuitive development, spirit communication, and helping others better understand their own intuitive capacities.

Her approach emphasizes grounding, discernment, and ethical responsibility — focusing not on fear or theatrics, but on connection, healing, and meaning. Jenson speaks openly about the challenges of discovering her abilities and the discipline required to work with them thoughtfully and safely.

https://www.jensonsmith.com/psychic-medium

IG: https://www.instagram.com/jensonperson/

➡️ Part Two of this conversation goes deeper into spirit communication, encounters with deceased loved ones, and reflections on what may exist beyond this life.

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In this episode, we travel back to London’s Whitehall district—a place infamous for political intrigue, shadowy alleyways, and, in the autumn of 1888, a mystery so disturbing it was almost forgotten beneath the thunder of the Jack the Ripper murders happening at the same time.

This is the story of The Whitehall Women—a case involving multiple unidentified female remains discovered in and around Whitehall. Long before modern forensic science, police were left piecing together bodies found in separate locations, months apart, with no clear suspect, no confirmed victim identity, and a timeline that overlaps with another unsolved murder series just streets away.

Overshadowed by the Ripper mythology, this case has become one of Victorian London’s darkest cold cases. And in many ways, it’s even stranger.

• The grisly discovery of a woman’s torso during construction of the new Metropolitan Police headquarters
• The earlier and later discoveries of additional body parts in the Thames and in vaults beneath Whitehall
• Why investigators believed the remains belonged to a single unidentified woman
• How this murder fits into the broader pattern of the so-called “Thames Torso Murders”
• Comparisons between the Torso Murderer and the Ripper — and why many historians believe they were not the same person
• The forensic limitations of 1888 and how they shaped the investigation
• The haunting question that lingers:
• Who were the Whitehall Women, and why did nobody report them missing?

Unlike the Ripper victims, the Whitehall Women had no names, no occupations, no known family — at least, none that history recorded. Their anonymity is part of what makes this case so chilling.

The killer showed anatomical precision, access to private spaces, and enough confidence to deposit remains in highly trafficked areas — including right under the noses of the authorities building Scotland Yard.

This case forces us to consider the women Victorian society ignored, the victims whose stories weren’t sensational enough for newspapers, and the mysteries still sitting in archival corners waiting to be fully understood.

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On April 1st, 2006, Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer went out for drinks with friends at the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus, Ohio. Surveillance cameras captured him entering the bar… and then, somehow, not leaving.

Despite being surrounded by cameras, witnesses, and the heartbeat of a busy college nightlife district, Brian Shaffer simply vanished.

Tonight, we walk through the full timeline of Brian’s final known hours, break down the surveillance footage frame-by-frame, explore the strange architectural quirks of the bar and surrounding construction that may hold clues, and sift through the theories that have kept this case alive for nearly two decades.

It remains one of the most haunting unsolved disappearances in modern American history — a true locked-room mystery without the room.

👉 Brian’s final night out — the bar crawl, the conversations, and the last confirmed sighting

👉 Surveillance footage and why investigators are so puzzled by its gaps

👉 Who Brian was: his personality, relationships, grief, and aspirations

👉 The Ugly Tuna’s layout and how construction zones fueled hidden-exit theories

👉 Why many investigators believe Brian never left the building alive

👉 The 2020 phone “ping” rumor and why experts remain skeptical

👉 Theories including:

• Accident or misadventure

• Voluntary disappearance

• Foul play

• Misidentification on the footage

👉 Why the lack of evidence may be the most telling clue of all

Brian’s disappearance sits at the crossroads of tragedy and impossibility.

A crowded bar, multiple cameras, friends yards away, and a young man who loved music, medicine, and the people in his life — gone without a single confirmed trace.

The case remains open.

And Brian’s family continues to live in hope of answers.

Any piece of information, no matter how small, may help solve this case.

If you know anything related to the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, please contact:

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(Ask for the detective assigned to the Brian Shaffer case.)

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You may remain anonymous and could be eligible for a reward.

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In this episode, we step out of the world of ghosts, time slips, disappearances, and strange creatures — and venture into a mystery far closer to home:

Your own brain.

For decades, scientists believed memory worked like a filing cabinet: one idea, one location. But a few unexpected experiments — severed neural pathways, maze-running rats, shattered holograms, and neurological oddities that shouldn’t have been possible — began pointing to something far stranger.

The result was a radical proposal now known as the Holographic Brain Theory — the idea that memories may not be stored in one spot at all, but are distributed throughout the brain, much like how every fragment of a hologram contains the entire image.

And if that’s true… it could fundamentally reshape how we understand memory, trauma, consciousness, and even the nature of reality itself.

Tonight, we explore the scientists who made this discovery, the experiments that shouldn’t have worked, and the strange implications of a mind that behaves more like a hologram than a hard drive.

👉 Karl Pribram and the neuroscientific puzzle that led him to the holographic model

👉 Why removing large portions of rats’ brains didn’t erase their memories

👉 The eerie parallels between holograms and how the brain distributes information

👉 What this model might say about trauma, dreams, and altered states of consciousness

👉 How the theory overlaps with physicist David Bohm’s holographic model of the universe

👉 The criticisms, limitations, and ongoing research around holographic memory storage

👉 What this theory could mean for identity, emotion, and the mystery of consciousness

👉 Why some scientists think the holographic brain may help explain paranormal experiences, near-death accounts, or the sense of “expanded consciousness”

The Holographic Brain Theory isn’t just about neuroscience — it’s about how we understand ourselves.

If memory is distributed throughout the brain…

If consciousness isn’t confined to a single location…

If the mind processes reality holographically…

Then the boundary between brain, self, and world may be far blurrier than we think.

This model challenges:

• traditional neuroscience
• metaphysics
• our assumptions about the limits of human perception
• and even aspects of spiritual and paranormal experiences

It’s a scientific theory with implications that stretch into philosophy, psychology, and the edges of the unknown.

In this episode, we travel back to the summer of 1942 in Pascagoula, Mississippi — a warm coastal town where people slept with their windows open to catch the night breeze. But that summer, something else moved in the dark.

A figure slipped into homes while families slept.

Not to steal valuables.

Not to leave a message.

But to quietly cut a single lock of hair from the heads of sleeping residents.

Newspapers called him The Phantom Barber.

What began as a disturbing curiosity soon escalated into fear, panic, and eventually violence — leaving behind a trail of rumors, false arrests, and unanswered questions that still haunt Pascagoula’s history.

In this episode, we explore:

• The eerily calm early intrusions that first brought attention to the case
• How wartime anxiety and rumor fueled public paranoia
• The escalation from hair-cutting intrusions to physical assault
• The controversial trial that may have convicted the wrong man
• Why the case remains unsolved to this day
• And what this story reveals about fear, community, and the shadows we create when answers are out of reach

This is one of the strangest unsolved cases in American true crime — part folklore, part noir mystery, part haunting.

• Local Pascagoula newspaper archives (1942–1943)
• “The Phantom Barber” coverage in The Jackson Clarion-Ledger
• City of Pascagoula historical crime registry
• WPA and wartime civilian fear research notes

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Season 9 is coming one week from today with all new true stories, interviews, and more!

In this episode, John dives into one of the most astonishing mass UFO sighting and close-encounter cases in modern history — The Ariel School Encounter.

On September 16, 1994, in a small rural schoolyard outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe, more than 60 children claimed to witness a mysterious craft land nearby and strange, humanoid beings emerge. What followed were eerily consistent eyewitness reports that still baffle investigators and psychologists alike.

Through firsthand testimonies, archival footage, and expert analysis, this episode explores what really happened that morning — and why the story of the Ariel School has endured for nearly three decades.

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