Hysteria 51

Brent’s out this week, so we’ve summoned Kevin Crispin (Behind Beautiful Things Podcast) to the mic like a substitute teacher who immediately rolls in a TV cart labeled “EXTREMELY CURSED VHS.” And thanks to listener scouts James Polk and Lex Lake, we’ve got two fresh servings of “what in the absolute haunted ham sandwich” weird news.
First stop: the University of Oklahoma, where a construction project hits an unexpected speed bump… made of human remains. 😬 Officials say the bones appear to be century-old cadavers likely used for educational purposes back in the early 1900s, which is both historically fascinating and also a sentence that makes your skin try to uninstall itself. We dig into the eerie archaeology, the academic backstory, and the unsettling vibes of finding yesterday’s lesson plan under today’s foundation.
Then we hop across the pond to Britain’s paranormal buffet line, Cannock Chase, where Bigfoot stories apparently weren’t enough, so the universe hit “add DLC” and dropped a terrifying seven-foot ‘Pigman’ into the woods. Picture a man-shaped problem with a pig head and the confidence of something that knows you can’t run without wheezing. We break down the alleged sightings, the “evidence,” the expert takes, and the important scientific question: if it’s seven feet tall, does it snort in iambic pentameter?
It’s true crime-adjacent history, cryptid chaos, and listener-powered nonsense the way nature (and your algorithm) intended. Strap in, Hysteria Nation: this episode has bones, boars, and bad decisions.
Links & Resources
📌Deadly Detention
📌British Oinker
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What if the biggest secret in UFO history isn’t alien… it’s angelic? Or demonic. Or somewhere in that awkward in-between where rockets and ritual candles share shelf space.
This week, we plunge headfirst into one of the strangest rabbit holes in modern conspiracy lore: the alleged “Collins Elite” — a rumored faction inside the U.S. government that supposedly concluded UFOs aren’t extraterrestrials at all, but deceptive spiritual entities. We unpack where the story comes from, what believers claim insiders discovered, and why some say disclosure could be less about little green men and more about theological shockwaves.
But that’s just the warm-up.
Did Allied intelligence really brush shoulders with a British occultist during WWII? Was Aleister Crowley pitching magical countermeasures against Nazi symbolism? And how does rocket pioneer Jack Parsons’ sex-magic rituals tie into the birth of the modern UFO era?
We explore the full fringe narrative — demons disguised as aliens, ritual “doorways,” Cold War psychic programs, and secret spiritual warfare in the Pentagon — while also laying out the documented history, the skepticism, and the very human tendency to mythologize the unknown.
Is this a hidden chapter of national security history… or a masterclass in how conspiracies evolve when secrecy meets symbolism?
Strap in. It’s rockets, rituals, remote viewing, and Revelation — this week on Hysteria 51.

Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Congressional & Government Records
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” Hearing, November 13, 2024.
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/
U.S. Congress. “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” 118th Congress Hearing Record.
https://www.congress.gov/118/chrg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/CHRG-118hhrg57440.pdf
Shellenberger, Michael. Written Testimony. U.S. House Oversight Committee, November 13, 2024.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Written-Testimony-Shellenberger.pdf
Central Intelligence Agency. “STARGATE Collection.” CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate
Central Intelligence Agency. “An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program.”
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180005-5.pdf
Central Intelligence Agency. “Project MKULTRA.” CIA FOIA Reading Room.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification.” Hearing, August 3, 1977.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-hearings-95mkultra.pdf
U.S. Department of Defense. FOIA Reading Room Release referencing MKOFTEN and related research.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/NCB/02-A-0846_RELEASE.pdf

Collins Elite & Demonic UFO Claims
Redfern, Nick. Final Events: Demonic UFOs, Alien Abductions, the Government, and the Afterlife. Anomalist Books, 2010.
“Final Events.” Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Events
Milburn, F. “The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,836, 2020.
https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/183-Milburn-study-final.pdf

Occult & WWII Context
Crowley, Aleister. Biographical overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
“V sign.” Wikipedia (Crowley and WWII ‘V for Victory’ claims).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
Parsons, Jack. Biographical overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
“Sex-Cult Rocket Man.” JSTOR Daily.
https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism. NYU Press.
https://nyupress.org/9780814730607/occult-roots-of-nazism/

Media Coverage
Medill on the Hill. “UAP Hearing Coverage.” November 2024.
https://medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2024/11/uap/

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This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open two stories that prove the world is basically a reality show hosted by archaeology and existential dread.
First up: Easter Island (Rapa Nui), where a new moai statue turned up in a place researchers thought was already picked clean, the dried lakebed inside the statue quarry. A “how did we miss that?” moment so loud you can hear it across the Pacific. We dig into what was found, why it’s so weird, and what it might mean when climate and changing conditions start revealing secrets that have been marinating underground for centuries.
Then we pivot hard into the unsettling: the case of Dr. George Kenney, a Florida high school principal who hypnotized students, and the haunting controversy that followed after three teens died in 2011 after undergoing hypnosis sessions. We walk through what happened, what investigators and lawsuits focused on, and why this story keeps resurfacing as one of the strangest true crime-adjacent headline spirals in recent memory.
So queue it up for weird news, Easter Island mystery, and a hypnosis case that’ll make you say, “Nope,” while still leaning closer to the speaker.
Links & Resources
📌Easter Surprise
📌Mind Terror
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In 1959, the U.S. Army drafted a serious plan to build a nuclear-powered military base on the Moon.
Serious... They really did.
With reactors. And personnel. On purpose. It was called Project Horizon.
Then JFK pivoted to Apollo, astronauts planted flags, and history books closed the case… Or did they?
This week, we break down the documented Cold War Moon plans, JFK’s race to beat the Soviets, MJ-12 whispers, and hacker Gary McKinnon’s claim that he stumbled onto evidence of a secret space fleet and the possibility this was never really mothballed.
Was Horizon just a very ambitious binder? Or was Apollo the public show while something quieter happened in the background?
Join us as we separate the record from the rumors, run a thought experiment on how a hidden lunar base could work, and ask the big question: Did we just visit the Moon… or did we move in? All that and more this week on Hysteria 51!

Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Project Horizon (1959 U.S. Army Lunar Base Study)
U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Project Horizon: A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost (1959).
Declassified study outlining a proposed military lunar base.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon01_sm.pdf
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. “Project Horizon History Overview.”
https://www.army.mil/article/189129/smdc_history_project_horizon_abma_explores_a_lunar_outpost
“Project Horizon.” Wikipedia overview with citations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon

JFK & The Decision to Go to the Moon
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. “Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs” (May 25, 1961).
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/special-message-to-the-congress-on-urgent-national-needs-19610525
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort” (Sept 12, 1962).
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/address-at-rice-university-on-the-nations-space-effort-19620912
NASA History Office. “JFK and the Decision to Go to the Moon.”
https://www.nasa.gov/history/60-years-ago-president-kennedy-proposes-moon-landing-goal-in-speech-to-congress/

Majestic 12 (MJ-12)
FBI Vault. “Majestic 12 Documents.”
FBI files noting Air Force findings that core MJ-12 documents were fraudulent.
https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012
National Archives. JFK Assassination Records Collection.
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk

Allen Dulles & Assassination Context
Warren Commission Report (1964).
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report
Assassination Records Review Board (Final Report, 1998).
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board/report

Gary McKinnon
BBC News. “Gary McKinnon hacking case timeline.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19946958
U.S. Department of Justice (archived release on McKinnon indictment).
https://www.justice.gov/archive/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict.htm

Cold War Classified Space Programs (Context)
CIA. “The CORONA Satellite Program.”
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/the-corona-satellite-program/

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This week on Hysteria 51, we’re serving up a double feature where folklore meets… fecal science. First, we head to rural India, where a woman dodges an arranged marriage by leaving behind a perfectly curated “I turned into a snake” crime scene: a 1.5m shed snakeskin, her jewelry, and clothes arranged like a supernatural mic-drop, sending the village into full naagin panic while police gently remind everyone they’re hunting a person, not a serpent.
Then we hop across the globe to Nantucket, where the island’s wastewater has been tested and the results are basically: “Historic charm, hydrangeas… and cocaine markers popping above national and regional averages.” Because nothing says coastal getaway like your sewer system quietly yelling, “PARTY’S NOT OVER.”
Hit play for weird news, wild choices, and the kind of reality that makes you ask, “Are we okay as a species?” (Spoiler: probably not.)
Links & Resources
📌Wed Shed
📌Party Tap
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