VERITAS

Mel Hostalrich

What if everything you were taught was designed to keep you from asking the right questions? VERITAS is one of the longest-running independent interview shows in the world -- 886+ episodes since 2008 -- going where mainstream media won't. Every week, host Mel Hostalrich sits down with researchers, whistleblowers, scientists, and eyewitnesses for deep, unfiltered conversations on consciousness, UFOs, hidden history, geopolitics, and suppressed knowledge. No sponsors. No gatekeepers. No scripts. Just truth. New episodes every Thursday.

  1. Oct 2

    Riccardo Manzotti, Ph.D. | You Are the World You See | Part 1 of 2

    When the sun goes down tonight, take a look at it. The light hitting your eyes left the sun about eight minutes ago. Look up at the stars, and some of that light left before your grandparents were born. So here's a question that may follow you all week. When you look up at the night sky, where are you, exactly? For more than a century, science has searched the brain for the place where experience happens. The spot where the red of an apple, the warmth of a voice, the face of someone you love actually lives. Scanners, electrodes, whole careers. And after all that searching, the red has never turned up in the gray tissue. Professor Manzotti thinks he knows why. He trained as an engineer, built robots, went to MIT as a Fulbright scholar, and today he teaches philosophy in Milan. His book, The Spread Mind, opens with six words from the poet Wallace Stevens. I am what is around me. He means it literally. Your experience of the apple is the apple. The world around you right now is what you are. And he says the famous hard problem of consciousness began the day we decided we live inside our heads. If he's right, a star that burned out long ago can still be part of your present. A dream is a real encounter with pieces of your past. And the people you've loved and lost, when they come to you in the night, raise a question we'll put to him directly. Tonight we follow his idea all the way down. What happens to the world you are when your body dies? Could we be living inside a simulation? And when algorithms make more of our decisions every single day, what is left that belongs only to us? Professor Manzotti has an answer that may surprise you. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  2. Sep 25

    Maxim W. Furek | Apocalyptic Awe: 85 Seconds To Midnight and The Prophets Who Sold Us The End | Part 1 of 2

    In August of 1963, three men were buried alive 300 feet under a Pennsylvania mountain. Two of them came out 14 days later. Separately, without ever comparing notes, both described the same impossible thing waiting for them down there in the dark. The man who spent years chasing that story holds a degree in psychology. He knows every clinical word for what those miners reported. Hallucination. Confabulation. Sensory deprivation. He knows them all, and he chose not to use them. Maxim W. Furek has traveled the strangest road in American nonfiction. Rock journalism. Addiction research. Bigfoot. Flying saucers. He interviewed Ed and Lorraine Warren. He interviewed a small town Pennsylvania doctor who was also the high priest of a coven. He met Annabelle's handler, Dan Rivera, the day before Rivera died in Gettysburg. His new book is Paranormal Apocalypse: Is This How It Ends? It asks something harder than whether the world is ending. It asks why we have needed the world to be ending for 3,000 years. Furek calls it Apocalyptic Awe. The moment terror turns into fascination. A song about human extinction climbing to number one during the summer of the moon landing. A preacher selling 28 million copies of a prophecy that never arrives, and his readers lining up for the next one. Tonight we climb the whole ladder. The Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. The deep water fish that folklore says appear before earthquakes. The believers who sold their homes in 1844, climbed the hills, and waited, and the church of 23 million that grew out of their disappointment. Jim Jones, who poisoned 909 people and would not drink it himself. The drones over New Jersey. And the thing Furek says frightens him more than any of it, the thing that lives in your pocket and calls itself the truth. Tonight he tells us where a vision ends and a symptom begins. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  3. Sep 18

    Lynne Scott Haggerman | They Called It Camp: MK-Ultra, The Underground Labs, And A Survivor Trafficked From Birth | Part 1 of 2

    They made her say it out loud first. Every detail, in order, over and over, until a small child could recite it perfectly. She says that was the whole point. She says they were hunting for where the memory lived inside her head. And when they found it, she says they burned it out with electricity. 95% of her childhood was gone before her fifth birthday. What was left of her grew up, made straight As, ran every club in the school, built businesses, won awards, and spent every single day of her life terrified of people without ever once knowing why. Then, decades later, finally alone and finally safe, the first piece came back. And it dropped her to her knees on the floor. Tonight, Haggerman tells us what has been surfacing ever since. A house on an ordinary American street where children got dropped off in the morning. The check her mother wrote to the man who came to collect her. And the word they used for where he was taking her. Camp. She tells us what she says was underneath a university medical center. The chair. The wires. The people watching through a screen on the wall. She tells us how the children were sorted, and what that sorting decided. She tells us who else she says was standing in those rooms. The men. And the things she says were standing next to them. She tells us about the angels she says never left her side, the heaven she says she has been going to since she was small, and the night on a highway, two months before she went public, when somebody tried to run her off the road. And we are going to ask her the questions nobody asks. Has a memory ever come back that she looked at honestly and decided she was not sure about? Did her own therapist ever tell her she was wrong? And if God really was standing in that room the entire time, why her, and not the others? This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  4. Sep 11

    Judy Wood, Ph.D. | Where Did the Towers Go? 25 Years Later: What Have We Actually Learned? | Part 1 of 2

    Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Dr. Judy Wood. In 2010 she published a book with four words in the subtitle that ended her career. Directed free-energy technology. She was laughed at. She was defunded. She was pushed out of the movement that should have carried her. This past May, the Pentagon's top science official sat in front of a Senate subcommittee and said the science of laser weapons is largely done, and that only the engineering remains. Israel has taken delivery of its first operational laser air-defense system. The Navy has one on a destroyer. The Army is bolting them onto Strykers. The word that cost this woman everything is now a procurement category. In January, an Iowa bill defined illegal weather manipulation to include the discharge of electromagnetic fields, pulses, and sound waves. Tennessee banned geoengineering outright. Florida made it a felony. The vocabulary she was mocked for using is being written into criminal law by people who have never heard her name. Tonight we skip the usual walk through 2001. Tonight we ask what 25 years actually taught us. Why the plastic trash bins in Paradise are sitting there untouched next to hardwood trees that are gone. Why green trees are standing in neighborhoods turned to powder. What decides what a fire passes over. Then it gets bigger. Data centers pulling more power than entire states, machines choosing targets faster than any person can approve them, and what happens to a lifetime of photographic evidence when any image can now be manufactured in four minutes. And then we go back. 70 hillforts in Scotland with stone walls fused into glass, and nobody can explain the temperature. One night in October of 1871, when Peshtigo, Chicago, and half of Michigan burned at the same hour, and survivors described sand turned to glass. Is what we call a directed energy weapon something we invented, or something we found again. One more thing. Two days ago she told me her website of almost 20 years was taken from her, and something that looks exactly like it now sits in its place. 25 years later, somebody still does not want you reading this. The Empirical Method - by Dr. Eric Larsen "The scientific method, as it came into being during the Enlightenment period, is a method of thought known as empiricism or as the empirical method. Under the terms of empiricism, all conclusions are, must, and can be drawn from observable evidence and from observable evidence only. Evidence must precede any and every conclusion to be drawn from it. Then, if sound logic governs in the relationship between evidence and the conclusion drawn from it, that conclusion will be irrefutable. Scientists, as all know or should know, proceed in their thinking not according to belief or desired outcome but according solely and only to what the empirical evidence they have gathered, studied, and observed allows them to conclude or makes it inevitable for them to conclude. This is why Dr. Wood’s work is irrefutable. She only presents evidence and an analysis of that evidence. There is no use for a theory in forensic science. Either you know something or you don’t. That is why those in charge of a cover up don’t want people to look at the evidence in Dr. Wood’s book. Dr. Wood does not ask you to believe her. She only wants you to believe yourself and think for yourself and look at the evidence yourself and not argue about opinions of theories of speculation of ideas… That is what keeps a cover up in place. Those of us who have read Dr. Wood’s book know this to be true." This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  5. Sep 4

    Miriam Putnam | A Million Dollars and Not One Test | Part 1 of 2

    There is no blood test for bipolar disorder. That is what our guest tonight will tell you. No scan for schizophrenia. No biological marker anywhere in medicine that proves a human being is depressed. She found that out after 20 years of looking, and she calls it the biggest lie in America hiding in plain sight. Her mother was the healthiest person in the house. Supplement packs. Yoga before anyone in that town had heard of it. A preacher's daughter who read her own black box warnings and asked her doctors why she should swallow something carrying that label. Nobody ever answered her. Then three people she loved died inside a single year. Her marriage came apart. She was moving through menopause. And the system called all of that an illness. What followed was hospital after hospital after hospital, across two decades. The family had the best insurance money could buy. Glass offices looking out over the Pacific. Infinity pools. They spent close to a million dollars. At one point they hired private investigators just to find her. Miriam Putnam was 19 years old, standing in a hospital room, arguing on her mother's behalf, when a doctor turned to her and said that if anyone in this family has the gene, it's you. She lost her mother. She says her mother died of a broken heart. And then, years later, it came for her. Seizures. Sleep gone. Nothing showing up on any blood test. And doctors reaching for the same category they had used on her mother. Tonight she tells us what she found in the years between. What she believes is actually happening inside 80 to 90 percent of the people we call mentally ill. The 300,000 American children under the age of five she says are medicated tonight. The four states she counts that have banned electric shock. And what she says is still being done to children behind closed doors. She calls herself a professional garbage disposal. She has a framework, a lineage, and a warning. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  6. Aug 28

    Ronald W. Chapman II, Esq., LL.M. | Nobody Disappears Anymore: 90,000 Cameras, a Vanished General, and the Lawyer Who Beats the Feds | Part 1 of 2

    On the morning of February 27th, a retired two-star general walked out of his home in Albuquerque and vanished inside 54 minutes. He left his phone. He left his glasses. He left every device that could have tracked him. More than 700 homes were canvassed. Drones, dogs, helicopters, infrared, the FBI. No sighting. No direction of travel. Nothing. The man who ran the Air Force Research Laboratory disappeared into a gap that nobody has closed. Chapman has spent his career forcing the most powerful government on earth to prove itself. In the federal system, fewer than one out of every 100 defendants is acquitted. By age 40 he had won roughly 150 of them. A federal judge called him the most talented trial attorney seen in 20 years on the bench. He once defended a physician accused of causing 11 deaths, and won by exposing the man who decided what killed them. Tonight he takes us somewhere harder. Into a private network of more than 90,000 cameras that scans 20 billion vehicles a month without a warrant, and the officer who used it to hunt one woman across 83,000 of them. Into a government program to record the whole of a human life, shut down on the exact day a college website launched and quietly did it for us. Into the money that sat inside an off campus Harvard laboratory studying how belief spreads through a crowd. And into something rarer than any of it. A truth seeker who took a story his own audience desperately wanted to believe, and dismantled most of it on camera, because the evidence would not hold. He draws a line between a pattern and a collage. A pattern is built from real repetition. A collage is just things laid side by side until your eye invents the rest. Somebody out there is counting on you never learning the difference. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  7. Aug 21

    Ryan Dalton | Epstein: The Price of Silence | Part 1 of 2

    On a Saturday in April, two men stepped onto a private island in the Caribbean. Only one of them left on his own terms. The other was found by police bound in duct tape, his face covered, held in a concrete room the staff there call the dungeon. That island belonged to Jeffrey Epstein. And the man who swam for the boat that day is a former Special Agent with the United States Department of State. Dalton has spent his entire life on this. At 18 he watched a cartel man strike a woman in a Mexican border town and it set the course of everything after. He helped rewrite 29 laws in Tennessee. He built software that helped police recover more than 150 children. He carried a badge into crisis zones on three continents and stood post for three Secretaries of State. The State Department handed him its highest honor three separate times. Then he walked away, took a tool Washington has used quietly for decades, and handed it to the rest of us. It is called Closed Horizon. Fund a question you need answered. Pay the person who answers it. Encrypt every word so completely that the company running the exchange can't read a single thing moving through it. For six years this country was given two options. He killed himself, or somebody killed him. Dalton read the same record and asked whether the question was framed too narrowly. What if Jeffrey Epstein walked out of that building alive. More than $54,000 sits in that reward pool tonight, put there by ordinary people who looked at the lifted suicide watch, the falsified logs, the cameras that failed at exactly the right moment, and decided the story doesn't close. Tonight we go through all of it. The passport under another name. The 577 million dollars moved days before. The handwritten pages he reads as an escape plan. The island. And the question underneath every one of them. When somebody knows, what finally makes them speak. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

  8. Aug 14

    Jeremy Ryan Slate | Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed: The Three Failures That End Every Empire and the Men Who Rewrite the Record | Part 1 of 2

    In the year 284, a loaf of bread in Rome cost 15,000 percent more than it had a lifetime earlier. The silver coin that bought it had been quietly hollowed out until almost no silver remained in it at all. And the people carrying those coins to market got up, went to work, paid their taxes, and told themselves everything was fine. Nobody in Rome ever woke up and announced that the empire was over. Our guest tonight has spent his life studying that silence. Jeremy Ryan Slate earned his master's degree studying the propaganda of Rome's first emperor. The machinery that convinced an entire civilization it still lived in a republic, long after the republic was gone. He studied at Oxford. He built a media company out of nothing. And he has become one of the most listened to voices connecting the fall of Rome to the world outside your window right now. He calls it the Roman Pattern. Three things, he says, happen every single time a civilization comes apart. The money gets hollowed out. The borders stop meaning anything. And the people in charge stop thinking past the next election. Tonight we take that pattern apart, piece by piece. We go inside the Praetorian Guard. The protectors who murdered an estimated 17 of the emperors they were sworn to defend, and who once auctioned the throne itself to the highest bidder. We go into the crisis of the third century, when 27 men claimed the empire in 50 years, and almost nobody teaches it. And we ask how much of Roman history is even true, when fewer than one in 10 Romans could read, and every writer who could was writing for a man who could have him killed. Then we ask the question underneath all of it. If collapse is slow, and quiet, and completely ordinary, how would any of us know we were already living inside one? Slate has an answer. You may not sleep especially well after you hear it. This is Part 1. Part 2, and all 886 interviews going back to 2008, are at https://veritas7.com/subscribeveritasplus.php

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What if everything you were taught was designed to keep you from asking the right questions? VERITAS is one of the longest-running independent interview shows in the world -- 886+ episodes since 2008 -- going where mainstream media won't. Every week, host Mel Hostalrich sits down with researchers, whistleblowers, scientists, and eyewitnesses for deep, unfiltered conversations on consciousness, UFOs, hidden history, geopolitics, and suppressed knowledge. No sponsors. No gatekeepers. No scripts. Just truth. New episodes every Thursday.

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  • Creator
    Mel Hostalrich
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2026
  • Episodes
    916
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    © 2008-2026 Mel Hostalrich | VERITAS
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