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In Research Of

In Research Of

著者： William Blake Smith
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 Welcome to "In Research Of..." the podcast where we watch the television In Search Of... and discuss some of the possible solutions to the mysteries that the Producers decided to ignore. Join archaeologist and author Jeb Card, and podcaster and researcher Blake Smith as they revisit this classic foundational content of paranormal themed TV.(c) 2019 博物学 科学 自然・生態学
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  • S05E07 🌋ISO Dangerous Volcanoes🌋

    S05E07 🌋ISO Dangerous Volcanoes🌋
    2026/10/30
    Original In Search Of... air date: November 1, 1980 (syndicated; see Deep Cuts) Hosts: Jeb Card and Blake Smith Guest: Sharon A. Hill, geologist, science writer, and author of Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers. Sharon also has a new cryptid-themed podcast out now called Pop Goes the Cryptid! Snag that RSS right here. Five and a half months after Mount St. Helens blew out its north flank, In Search Of... got a volcano episode on the air, and geologist (and almost-volcanologist) Sharon Hill returns to help us dig through the rubble. 👔 Nimoy Fashion Alert Nimoy trying to cross a military blouse with a safari overshirt - but somehow he makes it work. Nimoy kneels and reveals his dark loafers and dark navy blue pants. Thanks as always to Pedro, our Canadian fashion consultant. Note that those shoulder loops are not epaulettes. Sharon walks us through the eruption: phreatic steam blasts starting in March, a bulge on the north face growing about five feet a day, and her old Penn State professor Barry Voight warning that the north flank would fail in a giant landslide. (It did.) Observers said the mountain suddenly "went fuzzy" from the shaking, the flank collapsed, and the pressure underneath flashed into a sideways blast. Then came the ash, which reached a big chunk of the country. Jeb puts the ash-fall map in perspective with the meter-thick layers he encountered on a dig in El Salvador near Ilopango. Nimoy can't The Photographers The episode has stills but very little motion footage, which sent Blake down a rabbit hole about who was actually behind a camera that morning. Robert Landsburg rewound his film, packed it, and lay on his backpack to shield it. His film survived; he did not. Reid Blackburn's camera was recovered, but the heat ruined it. And KOMO's Dave Crockett kept his camera rolling while stumbling through the ash-dark for hours, producing one of the great unintentional found-footage openings of all time: "I honest to God believe I'm dead." The Eyewitness Our main on-the-ground witness is Mrs. Adriana Johnson, dressed for the part, standing on the hardened lahar that swallowed her neighborhood along the Toutle River. Sharon explains how the blast hit Spirit Lake and sent a hot slurry of ash, rock, and water down the valley, and why that sediment is still a headache for engineers today. A Painter and the hidden "bigfoot" The episode flashes a painting of an earlier eruption without much context. Jeb tracked it to Canadian painter Paul Kane and found his published journal, which describes a "race of beings of a different species, who are cannibals" said to live on the mountain. Yes, the Bigfoot connection to Mount St. Helens goes back to 1847. Kane's next entry, about a burial site set on fire by a visiting American commodore, is a lot less fun. (Jeb reads it in the episode.) Dr. Alexander McBirney Jeb spent an embarrassing amount of time making sure the University of Oregon building sign was real (fool me once, UFO Coverups). It is. There we meet Dr. Alexander "Mac" McBirney, who looks highly amused, and who turns out to have written Sharon's igneous petrology textbook. Founding director, UO Center for Volcanology, his obituary is here. We get a filmstrip-style tour of volcano types that was inexpensive but doesn't look "cheap." The Human Seismograph? Seismographs are dismissed in the episode as unreliable (they aren't), volcanologists are said to be "developing the magnetometer" (they've existed since the 1830s), and so perhaps the real tool is the human mind. Enter Charlotte King, who says she feels harmonic tremors as migraines, called in a 12-hour warning, and had the pores on her hands open and bleed before the eruption (StigMAGMA). The show catches her in pain on camera, and the USGS confirms tremor activity at that moment. Sharon explains why that's less impressive than it sounds. Note: unlike most of the people in this episode, Charlotte King is still with us, and her website is still active. Unexpected Final Thoughts Just when you think the episode is done, it hands the final word to Cowlitz Indian Tribe chairman Roy I. Wilson, in voiceover only, warning of "spirit retribution against the white men who desecrated our graves." We talk about how that lands, what real grievances sat underneath it (clear-cut slopes, dams, Weyerhaeuser), and the woven hat in the closing footage, which is made in the style of Coast Salish basketry hats like this one. 🔬 Deep Cuts & Research Notes 🎸 Goblins about Goblin. The 1981 HBO film St. Helens was scored by Goblin, Dario Argento's house band. Blake's insert covers their path from would-be Yes disciples to Deep Red, Suspiria, and Zombi. Guitarist Massimo Morante died in June 2022. Claudio Simonetti's Goblin is touring a live score to Tenebre this fall. 🎞️ The movie the family hated. St. Helens starred Art Carney as Harry Truman and David Huffman as "David Jackson," a thinly ...
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    2 時間 13 分
  • S05E06 - MOON MADNESS 🌕

    S05E06 - MOON MADNESS 🌕
    2026/08/17

    Jeb and Blake go in research of... MOON MADNESS! Does the full moon drive people mad? Will this episode drive your hosts mad? Was In Search Of... not able to afford a fact-checker in season five? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

    This is our Halloween Episode for season five.

    This is our TIME TRAVEL episode for season five.

    This is... MOON MADNESS.

    Nimoy Fashion Alert:

    Extended show notes freely available on our Patreon Site.
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    2 時間 20 分
  • S05E05 - Life After Life

    S05E05 - Life After Life
    2026/07/24
    ⚠️ Heads up: this episode opens with combat footage from the Tet Offensive and includes graphic descriptions of battlefield injury, a child in medical crisis, and animal experimentation. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available by call or text at 988.⚠️ Jeb and Blake look at the birth of NDE research: a field of study with a significant footprint in the metro-Atlanta area. Rats are bothered. Soldiers are wounded. Canadian teens are frozen. ...and we're here to talk about all of it. 📺 Episode Summary Despite the title, this one isn't really about proving there's an afterlife - and that turns out to be the most interesting thing about it. In Search Of takes the near-death experience and, instead of building a case for Heaven, spends most of its runtime on a much stranger question: when, exactly, is a person dead? We get four threads. A grievously wounded Vietnam veteran who watched his own body being worked on and then went back to the battlefield to talk with the men he'd already put in bags. An Emory physiologist chilling rats into a state he calls clinically-but-not-biologically dead. A Manitoba teenager whose heart was stopped for well over two hours in a snowbank and who came back with nothing to report but darkness. And a woman recalling a 1952 polio vision full of white light, a dead grandmother, and a complete moral audit of her own life. Between those, the medical talking heads keep circling the same admission: nobody agrees where the line is. It's a surprisingly restrained ISO episode ... and there's a very large name conspicuously missing from it. 👔 Nimoy Fashion Alert (NFA fashion consultant, Pedro Mendes) 👥 Who's In This Episode Tommy Clack — Army captain, artillery forward observer with the 25th Infantry Division "Wolfhounds." Wounded 29 May 1969 near the Cambodian border, losing three limbs; 22 months at the Atlanta VA and 33 operations followed. He finished college as an honors graduate, spent a long career at the VA, and became one of the country's more relentless veterans' advocates. He talks about the out-of-body experience, but - as Jeb found - he almost never leads with it. As of our recording he's still out there supporting veterans. Dr. Michael Sabom — Atlanta cardiologist. He's here to say that medicine can't pin down the moment of death. Two years later he publishes Recollections of Death, built on 116 interviews which form the closest thing the field had to a quantitative baseline. His later work takes a considerably more explicitly Christian turn. Dr. Vojin "Voja" Popović — Yugoslav-born physiologist at Emory, and the episode's designated rat botherer. Central casting could not have done better. He chills rats into apparent death and brings them back, drawing his line between clinical and biological death at the two-to-three hour mark. His actual career is a wonder: hibernators, ground squirrels, tumor-bearing hamsters, cooled dogs, hamsters submerged in oxygen-rich fluorocarbon, and a rat experiment slated for a Spacelab flight that never happened. Frequently co-credited with his wife, Dr. Pava Popović. Ted Milligan — Sixteen, and a student at St. John's Cathedral Boys' School near Selkirk, Manitoba, whose curriculum included a 27-mile snowshoe hike in temperatures around forty below. Found with no heartbeat, no breathing, and a core temperature below 25°C. By the time of filming he's a private in the Canadian Armed Forces. His account of the experience is the shortest in the episode and, for a materialist, the most instructive: darkness, then waking up. Dr. Gerald "Gerry" Bristow — The episode calls him "James." He's not. Later Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a genuine world authority on hypothermia; he and Dr. Robert Smith declined to do the sensible thing and kept working on a boy every indicator said was gone. An eyewitness account from anesthesiologist Dr. Arnold Tweed fills in what the episode leaves out, including the documented duration of the cardiac arrest. Dr. Fred Schoonmaker (d. 2005) — Denver cardiologist at St. Luke's, former fighter pilot, developer of a less invasive cardiac catheter, and a driving force behind Denver air ambulance service. He marks the difference between patients who know their visions weren't real and patients who insist theirs were. Dr. Janette Rainwater — Introduced as "Janet." A significant figure in Gestalt therapy, Berkeley PhD (1964), author of You're in Charge!, and the veteran of several hundred workshops. Her polio experience is the most classic NDE in the episode - light, deceased relative, life review, a very symbolic climb. Jeb's research turns up a detail the reenactment gets badly wrong, and it changes how you hear the whole segment. Rev. Loren Young (d. 2003) — Methodist minister and theologian out of Oak Hill, West Virginia; Duke, then a Bachelor of ...
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    2 時間 3 分
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