By Tim Binnall
Cults and subcultures, End Times, and the alien abduction phenomenon were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. Meanwhile, at the C2C website, we told you about the first official Nessie sighting of 2025, footage of what may have been Bigfoot climbing a tree, and an online astrologer arrested for a prediction that sparked a panic in Myanmar. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Could we be on the cusp of the End Times? This troubling question was in the spotlight on Monday night's program by Pastor Mark Biltz, who posited that biblical prophecies and signs in the heavens suggest that we will soon enter into a seven-year tribulation period. Asserting that God has a preordained timetable for these events wherein he will insert himself into human affairs, he pointed to increased seismic activity as well as solar and lunar eclipses as indicators of what is about to unfold. To that end, Blitz predicted that the tribulation would start in around four years and that the coming Antichrist would be an individual claiming to be Christian to fool the public into going along with his sinister agenda.
A pair of peculiar pieces of footage featuring possible otherworldly beings popped up in the news this past week. First, a camper in California captured footage of what appears to be a rather sizeable figure that somehow managed to pull itself up into a tree with remarkable ease. Based on the location of the sighting and the size of the mysterious stranger, the witness believes that the being was Bigfoot. Similarly strange footage out of Mexico showed two diminutive shadow figures manifest on the side of a road before crossing a street in the middle of the night. Theories for the nature of little entities include goblins, ghosts, or some other kind of supernatural 'visitor.' That said, skeptics say the scene was probably either a camera glitch or a clever hoax.
The alien abduction phenomenon was explored in a rather unique fashion on Saturday night's program as cryptid researcher Carter Buschardt recounted discovering that he had a lifetime of such experiences. These stunning revelations, he explained, came to him during a past-life regression session wherein he suddenly recalled the buried memories. He recalled how he had been implanted with screen memories that masked the traumatic experiences, but that they fell away once he was under hypnosis. Buschardt theorized that the abductors, which included robotic beings as well as 'classic' aliens, were seemingly able to manipulate his memory and perception of events that happened throughout his childhood.
This past week featured a pair of stories involving the legendary Loch Ness Monster, beginning with what has been deemed the first official sighting of the famed cryptid in 2025. The intriguing observation occurred when a couple visiting the site from London spotted a pair of sizeable humps, seemingly from the same long creature, emerge from the water, gracefully move a short distance, and then vanish back into the murky deep. Later in the week, in a testament to the timeless nature of the beloved monster of Loch Ness, a newly unearthed police report from 1938 revealed a constable's consternation over an individual who was determined to capture the creature dead or alive.
Cults and curious subcultures took center stage on Wednesday night's program as author Christina Ward detailed her research into these mysterious groups. Existing outside mainstream culture, she noted that these coteries often form in response to the prevailing social values of their time or location. Although those within a subculture enjoy a sense of fellowship that is often rather positive, she observed that outsiders may fear these groups due to their perceived secretive nature. On the subject of cults, Ward stressed the danger of charismatic leaders who develop blind obedience from their followers as this often leads to a tragic ending for all involved.
Misbehaving 'mystics' made headlines this past week by way of two particularly odd stories. First, in Myanmar, a popular online astrologer was arrested after he posted a video predicting that the country was going to be hit by a massive earthquake. Coming just weeks after a similar disaster devastated the nation, the soothsayer's prognostication spread like wildfire online with many reeling residents understandably frightened by his forecast. When the earthquake never came to fruition, police arrested the astrologer for making "false statements with the intention of causing public panic." Meanwhile, a Korean fortune-telling TV show came under fire after they tried to book the grieving sister of a woman who perished in a tragic sinkhole accident.
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