By Tim Binnall
Weather control, the fear of flying, and ancient American burial mounds were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. Meanwhile, at the C2C website, we told you about a mysterious triangular craft filmed at Area 51, tool use seen demonstrated by a cow for the first time ever, and a bizarre protest that saw an art student eat AI-generated pictures. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Did ancient American burial mounds contain the remains of giants that were secreted away by the proverbial powers that be? On Wednesday night's program, author Fritz Zimmerman made the case for that wondrous scenario, sharing insights from his more than three decades of research into the mysterious sites in the Ohio Valley area. Having collected over 500 accounts of giant skeletons being found at these locations, he revealed that some of the remains measured a staggering nine-and-a-half feet tall. As for where they are now, Zimmerman lamented that the astounding discoveries were seized and hidden from the public by museums like the Smithsonian.
A pair of videos featuring peculiar aerial anomalies popped up in the news this past week, beginning with footage from a webcam overlooking the Mexican volcano Popocatépetl. In the wondrous scene, an object resembling a glowing flying saucer zipped across the sky as a smaller rod-like UFO cut a similar path in the opposite direction. The odd video stirred renewed speculation that Popocatépetl is a clandestine alien base due to the sheer number of anomalies seen around the site. Later in the week, a skywatcher near Area 51 captured amazing thermal footage of a triangular craft flying near the infamously secretive military installation.
The possibility of a clandestine weather control program was explored on Monday night's program as activist Peter A. Kirby argued that just such an operation has been unfolding in the United States for decades. He pointed to post-WWII projects as the start of this geoengineering agenda that may have had benevolent beginnings but has now, he asserted, been turned on the public. Kirby specifically pointed to chemtrails as a key piece of the program, claiming that the mysterious sprays possess an electromagnetic component that allows for not just weather manipulation, but mind control and depopulation. Chillingly, he theorized that the entire system is so complex that it is likely now run entirely by artificial intelligence.
An Austrian cow named Veronika had an unexpected fifteen minutes of fame this past week when researchers revealed that the creature constituted the first-known case of bovine tool use. For the past decade, the animal had developed a penchant for scratching her back with a stick, much to the delight of her owner. Upon seeing a video of the cow's curious behavior, biologists from Vienna's University of Veterinary Medicine did something of a double-take and quickly descended upon the farm to see the 'act' for themselves. Following a series of tests, the researchers concluded that Veronika not only demonstrated tool use, but that it was multipurpose in nature, which has only been seen in humans and select chimpanzees.
The fear of flying was explored on Tuesday night's program as retired airline captain and counselor Ron Nielsen discussed how to overcome the anxiety that grips many individuals. Stressing the safety of commercial air travel, he noted that it is widely understood that one is far more likely to suffer a tragic fate while on the ground rather than in flight. Nonetheless, he suggested the fear is rooted in our brains on an evolutionary level, where the mode of travel seems incongruous. Nielsen estimated that around 25% to 50% of flyers feel deeply uneasy about the experience. Beyond that, he mused, millions more individuals simply refuse to fly at all. During his appearance, he worked to dispel some of the common concerns voiced by those who feel such anxiety.
By far the weirdest story of the week came by way of Alaska, where an art student declared his distaste for AI by eating another student's ChatGPT-produced pieces. The wild protest occurred at an exhibition of Nick Dwyer's work aimed at conveying psychosis induced by the seemingly omnipresent technology through 150 AI-generated pictures. While the effort was meant to raise awareness of the phenomenon, which has concerned mental health experts, performing arts student Graham Granger saw it as an opportunity to make his own statement about the technology by literally scarfing down dozens of the pictures until someone put a stop to the protest that resulted in him being charged with criminal mischief.
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