The Unexplained With Howard Hughes Howard Hughes

One of the most skilled interviewers I’ve heard.

Enjoy the show but wanted to comment on alien abductions — wouldn’t animals describe humans in similar ways as in “those weird monkey-creatures that can fly came around and then George disappeared and then he was dropped in the woods with a weird thing around his neck and he can’t remember anything.” Also David Oman, who for some reason, got a lot of details wrong about the Manson stuff — he meant Dennis Wilson, not Brian Wilson, as far as the Manson/Beach Boys connection was concerned (the Manson song is on Dennis’s solo album). Also, Manson was a career criminal who was sex trafficking underage girls while hooking them on drugs (there’s no polite way to put it). Bugliosi and others built up the Manson mythology unfortunately. Also, the specific house on Cielo was chosen by Manson because Manson hated Terry Melcher who had moved out of the house recently (he was a producer and son of Dorris Day and Candice Bergen’s lover). Manson wanted to target Melcher. Oman seemed to think that no one knows about the Wilson/Manson connection but the Dennis Wilson/Manson relationship has been covered in a number of books and also in popular podcasts even before the Tarantino film was released.

I like this show- it’s hit and miss in terms of topics and guests for me, but I enjoy the host and a lot of the episodes.