019: The Lore Lodge w⧸ Aiden Mattis
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In this episode of the Nedealim Death Squad podcast, we discuss the new season of the show and the new merch coming from Top Lobsta. We also talk about how we feel about the new movie and what it means for the future of the series.
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So, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's frustrating
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remember I tell this story a lot, but I was sitting
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in a classroom, uh, about a year ago, I guess. And, uh,
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a retired professor who had worked in both, uh,
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academia and in the media as you know, he was a
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radio host. Um, he basically came in and he was
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sitting, he was talking to our class. It's probably
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Westchester university in Pennsylvania. And he comes
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in and he's kind of going down the list and he's
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talking about his experiences. And then he starts
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asking us what we want to do. Why are we in grad
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school? Most of the answers are one of two things.
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Either I'm planning to be a professor or I am in
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secondary education or primary education. And I am
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doing my continuing education, which is where the
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school basically pays them to go and get more education
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to work on master's courses. Um, those are the two
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primary reasons. The secondary school teachers were
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told, good, you're, you know, you should probably look at
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taking some courses that are, you know, be, be more
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picky, maybe take something that's really going to give
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you a heavy bargaining chips. You know, if you're in
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social studies, go take a psych course because you
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might be, that might help you take, take on another
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class, get paid more, that kind of thing. To all the
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kids who wanted to be professors, he basically told
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them you're in for a rough ride. You're, you're going
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to struggle. There's not a lot of positions open. The
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professors that are in their sixties are not going
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anywhere for the next 20 years. The ones who are
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younger than that are the majority and they're not
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going anywhere for 40 years. You are going to be going
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to whatever school has an opening for you. You are
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going to be making very little money and you are going
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to have to hope that things work out. He gets to me and I
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say, well, it's always been sort of my plan to be a
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professor so that I would have time to write novels
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because that's what I wanted to do is I wanted to be an
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author. And I said, and the other thing I would love to
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do is consult on media productions, whether that's
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video games, movies, TV shows. I would love to be one of
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the guys that gets called into the writing room and they
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say, Hey, we're doing a show about Vikings and we need to
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know, you know, would it be appropriate to have them in
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England in the year 750 AD? And I can say, no, that's 40
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years too early. You're going to need to wait. I would set it,
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you know, if you want like early Viking period in England,
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let's talk 795 to 815. Netflix needs to hire you because
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they, I mean, I think all the old, like the Roman people
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were, were black in one of the, like somebody, yeah. I know
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they just did that with like some Cleopatra, I believe it
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was like, it wasn't even just that there was another one. There
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was like a, a, a Viking, uh, that it was a black woman. It
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was insane. Hawken the good. Who's like unimportant one. Uh,
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it's not, that's not like a random Viking chieftain. That's
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the guy who converted Norway to Christianity. Uh, so yeah. And
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he also lived way before Leif Erikson, which pisses me off
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enough about that show. Uh, like we're talking about, I think
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925 to 936 was his reign. Leif Erikson was like the 980s
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onward. Uh, this is why I can't watch, I can't watch
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anything on Netflix, everything on Netflix. Like it's like
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every time a documentary comes out, I'm like, it's not a
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real documentary. It's like some form of just, uh, uh,
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brainwashing or, or purposeful disinformation. It's, it's,
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they have a whole thing. Sometimes it's not even
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purposeful, just random, like random disinformation, maybe
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just to irritate people. It's a lot of it really is just that
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people, they don't know. They go on Wikipedia and they're
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like, ah, what does Wikipedia say? Well, as long as I'm close
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to that, it's like Wikipedia's angle as well, as long as I'm
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close. So you're saying, well, as long as I'm close to the
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guys who went, as long as we're close. I think you're giving
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them more credit than they deserve. I don't think they look
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anything up. They could just, they're just saying it. And
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then what they can do is they can plug in different
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ethnicities and then they, they hide behind this sort of
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like, um, racial justice barrier. And then it's like, well,
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you can't create it. It doesn't matter what we say. It
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doesn't matter how historically inaccurate it is. We
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have just realized it gives us total creativity.
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We're doing it wrong. We need to become social justice
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warriors on this show. So whenever someone was like, Hey,
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listen, that's, that didn't happen. It'd be like, actually
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So let's, all right, let's, let's start. Um, actually
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you know what I'm really doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's, let's get
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back to, uh, cause we don't have very much longer and I
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wanted to get your thoughts on the whole, uh, missing
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four one. What do you suspect is happening here?
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So that's, that's been an interesting one. That is
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probably been the, the position where my opinion has
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changed the most over the last couple of years. When I
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went into it, uh, I was first exposed to it via, uh, I
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want to say Mr. Ballin was probably the guy, um, who he
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told a bunch of missing from one story. He's a great job
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entertaining, um, very good storytelling voice and all
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of that highly recommended. Um, but he was telling the
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stories basically as they were written, uh, from, from
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Mr. Ballin and, or not from Mr. Ballin, from David
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Politis. And there was a website called strange
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outdoors that also records these, uh, the way that they
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were all appearing, it sounded like they had to all have
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some sort of supernatural aspect to them. Um, and so we
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started looking into it, you know, why, why is this kid who
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was at this, this summer camp, why did he disappear and
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end up 3000 feet higher on a mountain two miles away? And
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why was his skull missing? Seems very odd. You dig down
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into it. Well, Bobby B's up was at Camp St. Mallow, which
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is a Catholic boys camp. This was in the 1950s. Uh, as it
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turns out, I think four different counselors who were
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there at the same time as him eventually ended up being
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caught, uh, abusing children. Um, Colorado was like the
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center of that whole Catholic priest abuse scandal. So,
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all right, cool. So let's dig in a little further. What
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else do we know? Well, at the time it happened, it was
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said that he, the last he was seen, he was down fishing in
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a Creek. One of the counselors said, Hey, come up. And
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then he was never seen again in 2018. A team went and they
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interviewed some of the other kids who were at the camp and
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a bunch of them clearly could remember probably the same
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night. If not earlier that week, Bobby being over at the
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snack bar, speaking to one of the, uh, one of the counselors
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who was a seminarian, because everybody who was a camp
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counselor there was either a priest or a seminarian. He
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was speaking to one of the seminarians and then they saw
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him run away, very upset, like crying, like ran out of the
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room, like out the door. Even you look at the case of Bobby
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B's up. Oh, by the way, I, after that story aired, a guy came
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forward and revealed that he had in his possession, a child's
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skull that was given to his father by the guy who ran the
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camp. What? So you look at that story and you go, Hmm, I
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don't think this was Bigfoot. I think this was, this kid was
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molested, ran away, got scared and died of exposure up in the
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mountains. Cause he was in the Rockies at 11,000 feet wearing a
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t-shirt. Yeah. You look at that story. It's like, eh, I feel
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like this one probably has a more reasonable explanation, but
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then there's other ones. There's, uh, Garrett Bardsley, for
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example, he was with his father on a Boy Scout camping trip.
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This was in, uh, the, uh, Wasatch-Uinta National Forest. This
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is about an hour, I'd say east of Salt Lake City. And they're up
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in the mountains and he and his dad are fishing at around
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8 a.m. It's the, the first, uh, the first morning they'd
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woken up at the camp. This was not, this was not a sanctioned
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Boy Scouts trip. This was the Boy Scout troop doing it as a
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private thing together as you know, fathers and sons trip. Um,
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Garrett and his dad are fishing. Garrett slips into the water.
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He gets his feet wet in one of these lakes, decides he wants
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to go back and change out his socks and shoes because it's
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just uncomfortable to have wet feet. He's 150 yards from the
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campsite. The way back to the campsite is basically 75, 75 yards
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in one direction, turn a corner, 75 yards in the other
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direction. At no point on the trail are you out of sight of
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either the dad or the camp. One of them can see you at all
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times. Garrett actually goes past the turnoff and his dad
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calls back to him and says, Garrett, you missed it. It's back
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there. Garrett comes back and his dad watches him turn onto the
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proper trail. So now there's only 75 yards between where Garrett
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was last seen and his destination, the campsite. After 20 or so
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minutes, he's not back from what should have been a 300 yard
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round trip. So his dad goes and asks at the camp and he says,
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Hey, has anybody seen Garrett? They haven't. They start looking
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all over the place. This is Salt Lake city. We're talking Mormon
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community here. Mormons are pretty intense about community and
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about family. You have dozens of people who don't even know
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Garrett, who have known, who don't know the Bardsleys up in
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those mountains searching for him for a week. Nobody finds
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anything at all. The most commonly cited explanation for
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this, uh, because it can't be that Garrett was kidnapped. There
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was just no way for that to happen. He would have, he would
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have screamed. There would have been a sign of a struggle.
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Somebody would have seen it happen. There was just no way for
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Garrett to be kidnapped. So the only other explanations of that
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Garrett ran away, which he had no motive to do. Um, and nobody
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found him. So how far can a little kid possibly get at that
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time? Uh, he was 12. The other, uh, the other explanation
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given if we're sticking with non-paranormal explanations is
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that he was, uh, grabbed by a mountain lion. Now mountain lions
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can approach pretty silently. They can hook their jaws around
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the back of your head and cut, cut your brainstem. They can
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prevent you from screaming and they can basically disappear
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with a fully, uh, you know, a 12 year old boy is not too big for
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a mountain lion to drag off. Unlikely that there will be no
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blood, but it's possible. The problem is Garrett was carrying
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a fishing rod. They never found the fishing rod. Yeah. Which
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means if he was attacked by a mountain lion, he would have
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dropped the fishing rod. There is no viable explanation
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accepting that Garrett's father like drowned him and hid the
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body, which based on the way his father behaved afterwards, seems
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extraordinarily unlikely. Uh, there is no explanation for this
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that fits within what my understanding of the normal world
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is. Something must have taken him. What, what can take a human
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child without them screaming and without any blood? And to me,
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the only thing that really makes sense is another person. But
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again, a normal person could not have pulled that off in the way
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that they did. What does that leave? It leaves something that is
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humanoid that lives out in the woods that is accustomed to that
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territory that can move near silently. We're talking about a
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perfect predator, perfect hunter, and something that probably based
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on how fast Garrett went missing lives underground. Garrett was near
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a boulder field. He was in the mountains. There's caves
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everywhere. So it makes me wonder about that possibility. Now, am I
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going to say that's the Wendigo two years ago? Probably would
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have. I'm a little bit less certain about what precisely is
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doing it. But what seems clear to me is that in a minority of
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missing four on one cases, there is no possible explanation
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accepting that he was taken by feral human beings, Bigfoot,
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something along those lines. Now, what you believe Bigfoot to be
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is up to you. For me, it's basically a large humanoid that lives
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out in the forests. Doesn't necessarily have to even appear
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non-human. That's, in my opinion, why we never found a Bigfoot
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skeleton is because it would be indistinguishable from a large
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human. And the reason that you wouldn't find Bigfoot hair is
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because it would be indistinguishable from hominin hair genetically.
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Exactly. So that's where I net out on it. And I think that's
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kind of the broad, broadly, that's my take on missing four on
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one is in a lot of the cases, you find something like Bobby
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Beezop, where to David Politis's credit, when he came out with
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the Bobby Beezop story, his version of it, that was before any
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of this investigation was done. And they determined that this
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was almost certainly a case of child abuse. David Politis
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didn't have that information. You could argue that he should
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have gone and gotten it, but he's one man who does not have the
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resources of an entire news station. So can't hold him to, you
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know, you can't hold that one against him, in my opinion. But
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that is kind of what I see with a lot of this is, in a lot of
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cases, you know, there's a good chance that something normal
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happens, something tragic, but something normal. Every once in a
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while, something comes along that just doesn't click, just
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doesn't make sense. That's actually what the video we're putting
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out on Friday is about, is the cases that don't make sense. But
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yeah, I mean, there's, it's, it's weird. And whether or not the
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body is found also has a lot to do with it, because in some cases,
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the body isn't found, like Garrett Bardsley, Stacey Aris, Tom
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Messick. But in other cases, like Bart Schlier, the body is found
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and the body is found in a position it really shouldn't be. Like he
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was a, his job was hunting grizzly bears and tagging Siberian
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tigers. This is the kind of guy who wasn't going to get crept up
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on. He's also an excellent physical condition, excellent
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health, early fifties. You know, from what I could tell, didn't
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have a family history of heart attacks, aneurysm, stroke,
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anything like that. And he just disappears. It appears he died the
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very first day he was on a moose hunting trip. And, you know,
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moose are very dangerous to the average person to a guy like
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Bart Schlier. A moose is a deer. You know, it's, it's just not,
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this is a guy who bow hunted grizzly bears, like Kodiak
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grizzly bears. Bow hunted. He's not going to get crept up on
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by a moose. The other issue is he was, he was torn apart. Like
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they couldn't find all of his body. And the, the Royal Canadian
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Mounted Police said that he was killed and eaten by a bear. The
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problem was that when bears don't finish their meal, they leave
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it in a cache. They, they dig out a hole, they bury it and they
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cover it up with dirt and they come back for it later. They
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found none of that. There were no human remains in any of the
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bear or wolf scat in the area. Uh, and there was a case just a
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year prior to that where a photographer was eaten by a
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grizzly bear in Alaska, caught the whole thing on camera. Like
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he, he managed to capture his own death on camera. Uh, yeah,
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yeah, it's, it's dark, but the thing is when they killed the
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bear that did it, his clothes were in the bear's stomach. They
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found no bear scat with clothes in it. They found nothing. So
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whatever killed Bart, it left none of the telltale signs of it
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being a bear, nor of it being a wolf. What was it? Um, you know,
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some people have argued that he, he did have a heart attack, that
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he did have a stroke, something like that, that he died and he was
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scavenged, but there was also no evidence of that. Like there
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was, there was no, no signs of scavenger animals picking apart
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his corpse. So it's, you just look at it and you go, okay, I
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I like, I like to see, uh, when, when guys like you and, uh, one
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of, one of our friends, Justin from cryptids of the corn, he's a
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biologist. He, uh, he does the same thing cause he's, he's always
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studying different cryptids and he'll tell you about cryptids, like
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actual animals that people thought didn't exist, but lo and
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behold, they exist. Um, he was, he was like that. And then he
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had a Bigfoot encounter and he's just like, I don't really know
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what to think anymore. You just, I'm just kind of like lost, you
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know, when he says, when he said Bigfoot encounter, what was
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the, uh, did he ever describe it to you? He did. You'd have
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to, I, I mean, well, I don't want to mischaracter, mischaracterize
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what he said. Maybe David remembers better, but he'll give you the
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firsthand account of what he said enough to change his mind to
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say, clearly there is a Bigfoot. And this is a dude who does this
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professionally. He's a professional biologist. So I'm not an incredibly
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measured guy. If you want to, yeah, put us in contact. So I'd be
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happy to have him on our show too. Oh yeah. He's like a strictly, uh,
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information driven, a real, um, uh, analytical mind when it comes to
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these sorts of things. What was his, uh, what was his channel?
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Cryptids of the Corn. Fantastic channel. When you talk to him, ask him
01:14:58.800
about, uh, organic UFOs and the upper atmosphere. You're going to
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have a blast with that. Organic UFOs. Oh, so cool. It's so cool. It's my
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favorite part of the entire episode is fungal based, uh, organic UFOs. I
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believe he was, uh, describing and it's really compelling stuff. He went
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off the movie, um, or how it related to the movie up or not up. I'm sorry.
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That's the Pixar film. Yeah. That one. Uh, what's the, what's the one? Nope.
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That's what it was, uh, where they had sort of an organic UFO, uh, uh,
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situation. It was a great movie, but when I hear these things, Aiden, I can't
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help but think about, and I just wonder, I know we're getting close to the end
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here, but if you had any thoughts on the situation in Peru, uh, with the face
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peelers, I'm sure this has come across your radar and there's these reports of,
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uh, what the government of Peru called miners, right? So these are miners with
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technology, uh, the descriptives that came out and this whole thing is very
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strange and shrouded in mystery. And you only get these anecdotal stories that
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bleed out onto the internet. It's hard to make heads or tails of what the
01:16:08.800
situation is, but one of the descriptives was sort of these armored beings that
01:16:15.200
had, um, an aesthetic that is closely resembling green goblin from a spider
01:16:21.460
man is the way they described it. Although I don't think there was any green
01:16:24.100
involved, uh, and that they hovered three meters off the floor as they moved
01:16:29.180
through the forest and that they were basically surgically peeling people's
01:16:35.200
faces off. And I don't know what to make of that. I don't jump towards aliens. To me,
01:16:40.180
that sounds like a technology based thing that sounds like, um, I wouldn't be
01:16:45.020
surprised if, if the more information we got, the more it painted a picture of a
01:16:49.920
military operation or something of that nature. Um, and even a video came out of
01:16:55.100
them retrieving a young girl. I think she was like 15 or something who they, they
01:17:00.520
actually intervened and stopped these things allegedly, uh, from peeling her face
01:17:05.860
off around her jaw. You could see that there was these incision marks and she was
01:17:09.380
bleeding and she was traumatized, but otherwise the video was just a bunch of
01:17:12.680
shouting Peruvian people. You can't really, you don't know what this is. Um,
01:17:17.000
I know that Timothy Albarino, the, uh, the archeologist is very much, uh, of this
01:17:23.440
school of thought that this has been a recurring issue for the natives of Peru,
01:17:29.060
something that they've been dealing with for months preceding the events that we
01:17:32.600
saw popularized on the internet and that made it to Western, uh, media. But when I see
01:17:38.380
things like that, I can't help, but kind of place that on the same table that I might
01:17:45.560
place something like some sort of sanctioned operation operation rather that's happening
01:17:51.560
in national forest. That's, that's a sort of turn that a lot of people take, right? Like
01:17:56.060
something is happening in these natural, uh, national forests, these national parks that,
01:18:00.820
um, is being allowed to take place. It is of maybe a governmental nature and, you know,
01:18:08.920
they're protected by the fact that this is a national national park and therefore people
01:18:13.160
can't really come snooping and you can't launch, uh, an investigation in these places that the,
01:18:17.700
the woodlands are so dense. Um, but what, what do you, what, what were your thoughts? Did you guys
01:18:25.140
Like, so I, I didn't, I think when I heard about this, I was actually down at Tim Poole's compound.
01:18:33.040
Um, if I remember correctly. Uh, and I think I talked to, I talked to Brett and, uh, Phil about
01:18:38.620
it. If I, I think I did at least, um, what I remember, what I remember thinking about reading
01:18:44.480
through it was this seems like humans, um, that I, this does not sound like aliens and it does not
01:18:50.520
sound like any sort of like monster to me. This sounds like human beings. I never looked too
01:18:55.400
deeply into it because of that. Uh, but I also did not come across the video you're talking about.
01:19:03.100
So it might've been a function of when I looked, but yeah, that's, I mean, to me that, that sounds
01:19:10.520
a lot like illegal, uh, like organ harvesting. Um, I mean, the idea of like peeling someone's face off
01:19:17.280
doesn't have a ton of, a ton of applications, you know, that's what, that was my thinking
01:19:23.020
about it. It's like, why even do this? And there's these videos of them pulling a body out of the
01:19:27.240
river and the body has, you know, no face it's, it's white skull exposed essentially. And there
01:19:32.600
are a lot of claims that this was essentially someone who died and face planted in the water
01:19:39.540
and piranhas and things like that had access to the face. Um, which to me checked out, I go,
01:19:46.580
well, that's, that's reasonable, right? If somebody dies and they fall and their, their
01:19:49.900
head is the only thing that lands in the river and their body's just laying there before anybody
01:19:53.040
finds them, all sorts of aquatic life is going to have at your face. This is, this could, right.
01:19:58.960
And so, but then all of a sudden all of the, uh, media outlets that are tackling this, they're
01:20:05.040
all making this correlation as if this is real. And it's like, okay, well, uh, obviously if
01:20:09.900
it bleeds, it leads. And so there's a real, um, got to pull up this guy. This guy's, he's my
01:20:15.400
co-host on my other show. Is this true? Uh, yeah. Wendy Goon and I have a show called
01:20:20.060
the weird Bible podcast. Okay, cool. Just make his day and say, shout out Cole. That's
01:20:24.320
it. Yeah. Shout out to Cole. I'll do it in front of the weird Bible podcast too. I don't
01:20:29.820
care. We're filming that in a couple of weeks. Oh, awesome. That's hilarious. He won't stop
01:20:36.380
about Wendy Goon. He will not. He's freaking out right now. I have not, you know what I've
01:20:42.100
watched like some of his episode and he's like, have you finished it? And I said, you
01:20:45.600
know what? I'm not going to watch it anymore. I do. I do the show. And I like out of, out
01:20:49.740
of pure spite, but maybe I will now. Cause you seem really cool. Aiden just, just to spite
01:20:53.660
Dave. If you like, if you like the Nephilim stuff, uh, I can actually, you're a weird Bible.
01:21:01.860
It has its own channel and everything. Oh yeah. No, I know. We know about Wendy. I'm just messing
01:21:05.480
around cause he loves him so much. Every, every time we bring up some sort of conspiracy,
01:21:08.940
he's like, Oh my God, like Wendigoon. And I'm like, you know what? Oh yeah. He's talked
01:21:11.720
about all of it. Uh, there was one, I'm trying to remember which it was. Uh, cause there's
01:21:18.660
a couple of episodes from the show where we talked about, uh, Nephilim and, um, angels
01:21:25.540
and demons. Yeah. Uh, episodes here. I'll, I'll grab them and I can send them to you guys.
01:21:33.060
Yeah. What's the name of your, uh, what's the name of the show again? The one I do with
01:21:36.800
Wendigoon is the weird Bible podcast, the weird Bible podcast. All right. You've got
01:21:40.780
at least one new subscriber. I'm checking that out. Thank you. Yeah. Here's a, yeah. Here
01:21:45.620
are the two that I believe deal with, um, Nephilim sent them to you in the chat, but awesome.
01:21:54.100
Yeah. But as for the aliens thing, um, I think, I think the biggest problem we have right now
01:21:59.260
with anything like that is the way that media works and how it's, you know, uh, something
01:22:04.880
gets out there and there's immediately 150 TikTok conspiracy accounts saying this is what's
01:22:11.260
happening in Peru and, you know, news reports and, you know, of course they're, you know,
01:22:16.200
relying on like the national inquirer as their source. Uh, so by the time it even gets to
01:22:23.840
somebody like me's desk, I'm already like, Oh God, you know, and everybody else has already
01:22:31.160
decided what it is. Somebody faked a video and now the whole internet thinks it's this
01:22:36.160
like, you know, I mean, uh, I'm trying to remember, Oh, a great example of this, the MH370 stuff that
01:22:42.560
just happened. I saw, I saw you getting in the dirt a little bit. What happened there? What
01:22:47.460
was that about? Ashton Forbes basically posts this video that, uh, seems to, did the mind
01:22:52.560
share? It did. No, that got higher. Okay. There we go. That's what that was. Um, so I have
01:22:59.280
a standing desk that I only ever use sitting, but, uh, yeah. So what happened with that
01:23:04.720
was that I was just scrolling through social media. I was on Twitter and I come across a post
01:23:10.580
by Ashton Forbes. That's like, here's a video of MH370 being sucked into a wormhole. And I went,
01:23:16.280
I know next to nothing about this. I was 16 when it happened. That's it. That's that's,
01:23:23.840
I remember a plane went missing and everybody was confused because they didn't find any of the
01:23:28.500
debris for a while. Uh, so it was just disappeared for like two years. Um, and I, I comment or I re,
01:23:36.960
I re retweeted it and I said, you know, I know very little about this, but I'm intrigued. Should
01:23:41.360
I not be intrigued? A lot of people were like, you should be intrigued. So I reached out to Ashton
01:23:45.700
and I said, Hey, do you want to come on the show and talk about this? And he said, sure. Uh, we
01:23:49.680
planned for November 19th and I planned that the Friday before that we would put out a video on MH370
01:23:55.660
as a primer and also so I could go back and learn and study and see what came up. Uh, we did that and
01:24:02.040
we talked primarily about the story and why we don't like the official narrative. And then part two
01:24:07.960
was quick recap and the conspiracy theories and why we like, or don't like them. The one that I liked
01:24:16.120
the best was this was a lithium ion battery fire. There were 221 kilograms of lithium ion batteries
01:24:22.440
in the cargo hold of the plane. They were not properly insulated. The way that lithium ion
01:24:27.060
batteries work is that if a fire starts on one, it will rapidly spread to the next one, creating a
01:24:32.020
trained reaction. Uh, and when you're talking about a sealed pack of lithium ion batteries that are all
01:24:37.940
simultaneously on fire, uh, really in any sealed compartment, that's a pressure, that's a pressure
01:24:43.500
bomb that is going to go off at some point. Uh, I think that's what happened. I think the fire
01:24:48.620
probably spread to the electrical systems, knocked them out and the plane went down. Um,
01:24:53.640
yeah, that's in my opinion, the reason that it was kind of like, so weirdly handled by world
01:25:00.480
governments and media is that that's pretty embarrassing for the FAA. Yeah. That's kind
01:25:05.360
of like a, especially when everything's trying to move into this, like electric, you know, that's
01:25:09.400
the direction go green, right? This is like the same thing that I saw happen. I believe it was in
01:25:13.480
New Jersey. We had a big storm, a bunch of Teslas ended up when they first got rolled out, something
01:25:18.540
went wrong. And like all of the Teslas exploded in fantastic fashion, like devastatingly. And so,
01:25:25.460
yeah, when you're trying to tell everybody to go green and go electric, maybe you do just,
01:25:30.020
maybe that's why the MH, what is it? 370. That's why it gets buried is because of climate change.
01:25:37.340
How awful. Yeah. And in a way that's kind of what I think happened is like for some reason or
01:25:42.220
another, this lithium ion battery fire screwed up somebody's plans. Um, and at the very, you know,
01:25:49.540
it could have been as simple as like, Oh God, if people find out about this, they're never going
01:25:53.600
to fly again. Um, if people find out that we've actually been allowing people to fly with bombs
01:25:59.520
in the cargo compartment, then who's going to ever trust the FAA, the United Nations Civil Aviation
01:26:05.420
Authority, like all of the different groups who two years later in completely unconnected fashion
01:26:10.400
banned the carrying of lithium ion batteries on passenger planes, uh, over certain amounts,
01:26:16.020
you can have like your cell phone in the cabin with you because it's very easy to put out one
01:26:20.760
lithium ion battery, very difficult to put out an entire cargo hold full of them. Um, so you can
01:26:26.320
still have them in the cabin. You just can't have them anywhere that is not, uh, accessible by the
01:26:33.120
crew, such as the cargo hold, which during flights is not accessible to the crew. So I think that
01:26:39.720
that's most likely what happened to the plane. What happened with Ashton was that at the end of
01:26:45.980
our second video, we kind of went over his, the videos he had shared. And we were very careful to
01:26:52.080
not say this is Ashton's theory to not say these are Ashton's videos. We were basically like Ashton
01:26:57.180
Forbes put this information out. And then we went and talked about the information with leaving Ashton
01:27:02.020
entirely out of it. And the reason we left Ashton entirely out of it is because we disagreed with
01:27:06.420
him and we didn't want him to feel like we were coming for him. We were piling up because
01:27:09.720
we weren't, we, we had a professional disagreement with the guy. Uh, and that was based upon the
01:27:16.080
fact that my cohost, my editor, Aiden was able, we're both Aiden. Um, he was able to, yeah, replicate
01:27:23.040
the effect at least one frame of it. He was able to replicate in a dope. You the guys, you the guys
01:27:29.420
who debunked those videos. So we, we were one of the groups who did, uh, interesting. We did not have
01:27:35.980
the most complete one. Ours was basically, Hey, here's the thermal video. Um, and we took the
01:27:44.480
animation of the, the wormhole opening up that was allegedly fake, uh, that everybody had come
01:27:50.580
out and said, this is an asset from a nineties video game. And the asset, the asset mostly matched
01:27:54.880
at first when nothing had been color corrected at all. Uh, but it definitely wasn't exactly the same
01:28:00.940
prior to any color correction, uh, which is what I said to Ashton on the live show.
01:28:05.740
And so when we go to do the video, Aiden wanted to take a crack at it, see if he could figure it
01:28:09.720
out. So he changed the tint and the saturation to remove all color. And when he removed the color
01:28:17.540
and it just turned to black, a lot of the little imperfections that didn't match disappeared
01:28:23.500
completely. And the end result was that you had a single frame, at least that was a perfect
01:28:29.500
one-for-one match to what was in the video. Now, the likelihood of that is astronomical.
01:28:37.920
There's almost no chance that you're going to have something that happened in real life that
01:28:44.660
was caught on video perfectly match a designed asset from a lab for even one frame.
01:28:51.860
What game is it? The asset you said it was from a game.
01:28:53.920
It was from an asset pack, like a, basically a royalty. You went and you bought the asset pack
01:28:59.800
and you had no royalties. So these, these are effects that have been used in multiple movies and
01:29:04.440
video games throughout the nineties and early two thousands. I think one of them, one of the
01:29:07.640
items in the pack was used in star Wars. Like, so he matched one frame perfectly. The reason he
01:29:15.580
didn't go on and match all five frames perfectly is that he didn't feel like it was necessary.
01:29:22.240
Yeah. Just cause of the likelihood. Uh, and he didn't have time. So we were in the process of
01:29:29.460
actually doing all five and matching all five frames perfectly. So we could show people a video
01:29:34.760
where it was just layered right in and see if they could tell the difference. Uh, then, then it
01:29:41.840
basically came out that yes, the videos were in fact fake. It was proven they were fake. The assets
01:29:46.840
were the original source assets were posted. Ashton admitted he was wrong. Um, but you know,
01:29:53.040
he's still in the process. And I remember saying to him, I remember saying to him privately, Hey,
01:29:57.640
I like what you're doing. I like the passion you have, but you gotta make sure you're, you're careful
01:30:02.460
that you only say stuff that you can, you can really provide evidence for, or that you can at the
01:30:07.860
very least say, Hey, it was reasonable at the time for me to believe this given the information that
01:30:13.880
was available. And I said, you just need to be careful. But if you, if you make sure you follow
01:30:18.920
those two rules, you will, you will be fine. No matter how this ends, you will have established
01:30:24.240
yourself as somebody who can do investigative content and you can be in a good place, even if
01:30:30.160
you're wrong. Right. I mean, it's still what he did was that. Right. And that's where, I mean,
01:30:35.680
what the work he did was incredibly extensive, the hours that he put in, but if he would have
01:30:40.160
gone the route that you described, you still have this credibility as someone who's willing to
01:30:45.520
beat the analytics to death, which is what we need in this realm of like the unknown, right? With all
01:30:51.160
these different accusations and all these different claims being thrown around to have somebody who's
01:30:55.440
willing to tear things apart on such a minute level is, is exactly what you want. But instead it seems
01:31:02.540
that I suppose when you put that many, it's the same thing. You go to a university and you dump in
01:31:08.740
all of this money, you, you become indebted, you put in countless hours and now it's very hard for
01:31:15.340
you to say, actually the information that I was fed was, was wrong. Yeah. Uh, it's, it's time invested
01:31:22.800
that makes it almost part of your identity. And for him, uh, it, it certainly was, he became synonymous
01:31:29.740
with that, with that theory. And I mean, still to this day, I look at it and I go, damn dude,
01:31:35.020
that was awesome. Like what you did was awesome. The work that you put in was awesome. It's a shame
01:31:38.800
that it, you know, it can't be recognized as that. Yeah. It's you, that's the, this, the,
01:31:47.360
the difficult part of all of this, the style of content creation is when you are talking about
01:31:52.340
the unknown, there is always a chance that what you're talking about will become known.
01:31:58.320
Like, and then you've got to be prepared to deal with that because you might be wrong. And
01:32:01.860
for a very long time, I was, I was kind of in the same position with missing four on one where I was
01:32:07.400
like, no, I, I'm, I firmly believe this and I will prove it. And it just got to a point where there was
01:32:14.480
an overwhelming amount of evidence that the exact belief I had was wrong. And I had to go, all right,
01:32:24.240
well, based on what I have here, I still don't feel like this is something mundane and normal.
01:32:31.500
I feel like there's something going on here, but I got to revisit, I got to look back and got to say,
01:32:36.360
all right, you know, what did I miss? Where could I have been better? Uh, you know, where,
01:32:41.680
where did I make a connection that wasn't there? And is there another possibility?
01:32:46.000
And unfortunately that's, I mean, that's, that's hard on your ego to go. Yeah, I was,
01:32:52.480
I was wrong. And now I'm going to make a video where I say I was wrong. And that video where I
01:32:57.100
say I was wrong is going to be seen by more people than the video where I was wrong.
01:33:01.800
That's it. It's good for you as a, how old are you, Aiden? 26. And it's good for you as a person,
01:33:07.600
as a man, um, to, well, it doesn't really matter what you're doing, whether you're dabbling in
01:33:12.320
front of a huge, you know, 370,000 people audience, or if you're just being like raising
01:33:19.300
your kid, you know, even with your girlfriend, you're going to be wrong sometimes. And being
01:33:23.840
able to kind of eat shit a little bit is super useful. So, you know, it's unfortunately it's
01:33:29.440
sink or swim for the people who are in this kind of realm that are doing this. We're going to be wrong
01:33:33.460
all the time. Clearly I'm going to be wrong way more than you're wrong, Aiden, because we don't
01:33:37.040
know what we're talking about. I'm going to be wrong if it's anything regarding math. So
01:33:40.000
yeah, or electricity. We already like, we have no idea, but yeah, no, it's, it's a great,
01:33:45.200
it's a great lesson to take away and be like, yeah, you know what I can be wrong and we can still
01:33:49.460
continue to search and have an open mind, especially with people like you in this field.
01:33:54.360
It's like, you're the, you're the kind of person that they should be. The general population
01:33:58.800
should be looking for someone who's like, might be wrong, but let's find out what the hell happened
01:34:05.540
or like, I'm open, you know, I'm open to see what's going on. I love that. I personally love
01:34:09.520
that in content creators. It was just people in general. So yeah, thank you.
01:34:13.520
Yeah. That's, that's all I want to do is there's, there's weird stuff out there and I just want to
01:34:18.260
find out what it is. Oh yeah. I think that that's one of the things like, you know, the show is
01:34:24.860
called Nephilim death squad, but we tackle all topics. Nephilim death squad, I think is just a
01:34:29.920
banger of a name. It just hits hard, you know? Um, but you know, I think the, in content creation,
01:34:36.100
one of the worst things that you can do, especially in content creation related to the unknown is to
01:34:41.640
like pigeonhole yourself as the, the missing plane guy or, or just the, the Nephilim guy or the whatever
01:34:49.580
guy. It's like, because you're somehow tying your identity into a theory and that theory is going
01:34:56.440
to evolve over time. And if you're intrinsically tied into it, that means that you're going to be
01:35:01.540
forced, uh, to, to sort of become part of the public image of that theory. And that's a strange
01:35:06.760
place to be in. There's no reason to be there. There's no reason to be there. You're not the
01:35:10.080
information. You're just exploring it. And, and it's a real tricky thing to do because these things
01:35:16.620
are, were certainly previously more difficult to explore, but now, uh, you know, the, the climate
01:35:24.400
has changed a little bit, but because they're sort of taboo subjects in the first place, the last
01:35:29.740
thing you want to do is become synonymous with one or the other. Exactly. The one thing I will
01:35:34.300
definitely say is to anybody interested in making this kind of content or doing independent research,
01:35:39.660
the, the value of a J store subscription, it is $20 a month.
01:35:46.620
The amount of access you get to the actual academic source that's being cited is priceless.
01:35:53.840
I mean, it is, there have been so many situations where I read something that somebody like somebody
01:36:01.020
said something out there and I went weird. What's their source? Oh, it's from a journal article.
01:36:08.400
Went and read the journal article and nope, it's not what it says at all. Just utterly invaluable.
01:36:16.620
Hmm. Many such cases, man. But, uh, I think that that's actually a great place to leave it because
01:36:22.500
I have some things to do in, um, an hour. We got to be back on for another two hours. We're going to
01:36:29.260
be on with, uh, Josie. Yeah. Josie, the redhead libertarian. We're doing a spaces. Yeah. I mean,
01:36:35.520
listen, if you want to hop in, hop in. It's a spaces about the paranormal. So bring your a game
01:36:39.580
motherfucker. We're talking about high strangeness and we want to have, you know, you people that
01:36:44.580
whoever's listening, colon, we're, we want to, we want to hear what you have to say. Maybe
01:36:49.180
Aiden could be there and just debunk you in real time, which would be amazing.
01:36:52.340
Like I got, I got my own, my own show at seven, but I might be able to pop in for a little while
01:36:58.260
there. And, uh, we, we've got a lot of fun. We've got a loose confirmation from both Shane
01:37:03.040
Cashman and, and Tony Merkel that they, they may pop in and just share some stuff with us. So
01:37:11.300
I got, I got some beef with Shane. Really? No, no real beef. He doesn't even know who I am.
01:37:17.440
Aiden is one of the bears. He's one of the bears on the edge of his bear suit. I do not. There was
01:37:24.320
just a, there was one thing Shane said on Tim cast like a year and a half ago that I just shook my
01:37:29.380
head and was like, damn it. Was it about the clouds? The clouds aren't real. I can't remember
01:37:33.380
what it was. It was such a long time ago. It was not real beef. I was just like, Oh God, I
01:37:37.460
like, I wish you hadn't said that. Uh, clouds are not real. Yeah. All right. That's for another
01:37:47.520
time. Yeah. You got a lot to learn. So let us know and let everybody know one last time, Aiden,
01:37:53.160
uh, where they can find your work and then we'll get out of here. Sure thing. Uh, sorry. My dog
01:37:57.240
is sitting on the chair behind me. So I'm going to move my books. Uh, yeah. So I am a Mattis. I am
01:38:03.080
the host and lead researcher of a channel called the lore lodge. I am also the guy behind the weird
01:38:08.500
Bible, the history hut, my own personal channel, uh, Aiden Mattis. And you can find me any of those
01:38:14.060
places. You can also find me on Twitter at Aiden Mattis or at the lore lodge. Uh, actually it might
01:38:18.580
be at lore lodge at lore lodge. And also, um, I'm basically everywhere is at the Aiden Mattis or Aiden
01:38:24.060
Mattis. Awesome. I got to follow your personal account, but thank you again for coming on. Uh,
01:38:29.380
I'm always baffled when like people, very smart people, people with large platforms decide to
01:38:34.400
talk to us. Uh, thank you. You dropped some knowledge on us and I'm very appreciative.
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Hopefully we'll see you a little bit later. And, uh, I'll try and stop in. Hell yeah. Thank you,
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man. All right. All right, guys. We'll catch you in an hour. See you later.
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The greatest hypnotist on planet Earth is a oblong box in the corner of the room. It is constantly
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telling us what to believe is real. You can persuade them that what they see with their
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eyes is what there is to see. Because they'll laugh in the face of an explanation that portrays
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the bigger picture of what's happening. And they have.