By Tim Binnall
The past week on Coast to Coast AM, we showcased an unsettling collection of EVP recordings, learned about both lucid and precognitive dreams, and revisited the dark story of mobster Whitey Bulger. Meanwhile, here at the Coast website, we told you about a couple of scientific papers that centered around potential ET life out in space, shared a pair of intriguing videos of possible paranormal activity, and marveled at the Dutch man who wants to legally shave 20 years off of his age. Check out our round-up of C2C highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
The mysterious realm of the dream world was featured on a pair of fascinating C2C programs this past week. On Tuesday evening, in a discussion on sensing the future, neuroscientist and futurist Julia Mossbridge revealed how precognitive dreams are a particularly prevalent form of such forecasting and detailed her own experience with the phenomenon. Next, financial writer George Ure talked about his work researching dreams of the lucid variety on Wednesday night's program.
The possibility that there are intelligent extraterrestrials residing somewhere in the universe was the focus of two mainstream science papers that made news this week. First, astronomers at Harvard argued that the mysterious interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua' could, in fact, be an ET solar sail. This intriguing suggestion was followed by a research project from an MIT scientist who proposed producing a proverbial 'porch light' for Earth in the form of a massive laser that could easily be detected by aliens who may be scanning our galactic neighborhood looking for life.
While Halloween may be behind us, it's always spooky season here at Coast to Coast AM as we learned this past Saturday night when spirit communication researcher Steve Huff appeared on the program. Fans of eerie audio will want to go out of their way to check out this edition of the show in the C2C archive, since he shared several truly chilling EVPs collected during his numerous investigations of haunted locations.
A pair of puzzling pieces of footage popped up on our radar this week, beginning with an eerie security camera video from upstate New York that appeared to feature a odd figure, which some suspect could have been a ghost or a Bigfoot spotted running outside a man's home and then vanishing into the darkness. Meanwhile, speaking of Sasquatch, an individual in Canada captured footage of a dark creature that, at times, bore a striking resemblance to the legendary cryptid.
The death of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger late last month saw the mobster back in the headlines. Journalist T.J. English joined the program on Wednesday night to discuss how the infamous FBI informant's reign of terror was allowed to unfold because he had been "protected and enabled by the criminal justice system for 20 years." English also talked how Bulger's death seemed to bring the story full circle as his cooperation with law enforcement ultimately led to the gruesome nature of his demise.
Although ghost stories and Bigfoot encounters are undoubtedly strange, they sometimes pale in comparison to the weirdness displayed by everyday people as evidenced by this week's story of a Dutch man who wants to legally change his birth date so that he is 20 years younger. Emile Ratelband told the court that, were he 49 instead of 69, he would be able to get more work and, perhaps revealing his true motive, have greater success finding dates on Tinder.
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