Strange Arrivals Grim & Mild
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- History
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Welcome to Strange Arrivals, where host Toby Ball unravels history's most famous cases of extraterrestrial encounters. This season three, we look at UFO researchers who developed theories to explain the phenomenon and the consequences those theories had for people who believed they had experienced the paranormal.
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Boianai
Over three nights in 1959 at the remote Boianai Mission in Papua New Guinea, 38 people saw an unexplained craft hover over the ocean. Figures emerged from the craft and even waved to the witnesses. What happened?
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Excited and Scared at the Same Time
Outside for recess, more than 60 students at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported seeing an unknown craft and strange creatures in a thicket of trees beyond their playground. Soon, researchers would arrive and begin to record the children's testimony. Or were they also shaping it?
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Puppets
We are still in the early days of examining the events at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Alternative explanations are beginning to emerge, including a particularly fascinating take from a researcher named Gideon Reid.
For more information on the puppet theory, visit Gideon Reid's blog at https://gideonreid.co.uk/
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Long Road to Hacklebury
Elizabeth Anglin has had paranormal experiences her entire life. Her work with Dr. John Mack helped her try to understand these experiences. Mack was one of the three leading alien abduction researchers whose conception of the phenomenon was decidedly sunnier than his colleagues.
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Unseen Realms of the Infinite
In 1992, an alien aduction conference was held on the grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of bringing the latest abduction research to the attention of interested scientists, therapists, and others. It exposed divisions between researchers on the nature of abductions and brought questions about the scientific validity of their endeavors.
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The Case of Emma Woods, Pt. 1
A New Zealand woman who goes by the pseudonym of Emma Woods worked closely with abduction researcher David Jacobs to try to understand the strange experiences she had been through. But her sessions with him would take a decidedly dark turn.
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Customer Reviews
Excellent
A really well produced series. Thorough research, intelligent analysis, and excellent production quality.
Refreshing new exploration
This is such a well known classic, original ufo case that you might think you had the measure of it, but this is a great reconstruction and really feels like a beautiful period piece as well as an extremely well produced modern analysis. Thoughtful, intelligent and respectful, I look forward to the rest of the episodes. Well worth your time!
Too skeptical for me
Enjoyed Season 1 and the first few episodes of Season 2, then the Lighthouse episode turned into the skeptics show with Mick West, with random guys shooting the witnesses stories down and talking about ghosts and folklore etc.
Very well produced but not the kind of show I was after.