By Tim Binnall
The Black Knight Satellite, D.B. Cooper, and a possible connection between UFOs and mysterious disappearances were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about an intriguing new clue in the MH370 case, baby monitor footage possibly showing a son being comforted by his late father, and a substitute teacher fired for showing The Exorcist to elementary school kids. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper took center stage on Sunday night's program as Professor Slim King discussed the curious case which has gone unsolved for over five decades. Based on how the incident unfolded, he postulated that the mysterious individual at the center of the caper had likely been a Naval rescue paratrooper who eventually landed on the ground with the ill-gotten loot and was picked up by an accomplice aware of his daring plan. During his appearance, King also talked about aspects of the Cooper tale which he finds to be implausible, including the subsequent discovery of money in the Columbia River that has been attributed to the skyjacking.
This past week featured an intriguing video showing possible paranormal activity in the form of some baby monitor footage that a Pennsylvania widow believes captures the moment when the spirit of her late husband comfort the son he never got to meet. Whitney Allen gave birth to their son, Leo, earlier this year as her husband, Ryan, was in the final stages of a lengthy battle with a brain injury. Sadly, he passed away without ever seeing the child, though his wife suspects that the spooky footage, which shows an unseen force seemingly jostling the baby's hair and soothing it, just may be the father and son connecting through the proverbial veil.
A longstanding theory in UFO research circles is that the Earth is being orbited by a mysterious craft that could be extraterrestrial in nature. On Saturday night's program, filmmaker Billy Carson detailed his research into the suspected object which has come to be known as the Black Knight Satellite. While the existence of the craft remains theoretical, he noted that is a wealth of circumstantial evidence which would seem to suggest that it is real, including inexplicable radio signals detected by Nikola Tesla and a somewhat iconic photo of an odd object that was taken during the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was back in the headlines this past week thanks to some newfound debris that may reveal criminal intent behind the plane's infamous disappearance. A pair of researchers acquired the intriguing piece of the Boeing 777's landing gear from a fisherman in Madagascar, who found it five years ago and never realized its significance until recently. An examination of the debris, the pair wrote in a new paper, suggests that the landing gear was deployed when the airliner smashed into the ocean and, they argue, this was intentionally done by someone aboard MH370 with the express purpose of hiding the evidence of their dastardly deed.
Could there be a connection between mysterious disappearances and the UFO phenomenon? Investigator David Paulides explored this possibility on Monday night's program, detailing instances wherein unidentified aerial anomalies were reported around where people had gone missing. He theorized that the beings behind these craft may be monitoring our environment as the locations are often areas where wildlife suffers from chronic wasting disease. Notably, he shared one account of a hunter who claimed to have been abducted and, while aboard the UFO, spotted three elk that had also been taken. During his appearance, Paulides also talked about how portals could play a role in disappearance as well.
The weirdest story of the week came by way of the Netherlands, where a man was fired from his job as a substitute teacher at an elementary school because he was forcing the children to watch horror movies, including The Exorcist, during their lunch break. The highly unorthodox 'lesson plan' came to light after the students, who ranged in age from seven to nine years old, told their parents that they had been shown "creepy" films in class. A subsequent investigation found that the man had been secretly screening the movies, which left some of the tots so terrified that the fled the classroom in fright. Suffice it to say, the substitute was summarily fired after administrators discovered his audacious antics.
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