The Liminal Record Podcast

Charles Einarson
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There's a whole category of stories the mainstream doesn't quite know what to do with. Credible witnesses, documented evidence, official acknowledgment, and still no satisfying explanation. The Liminal Record exists for exactly those stories. theliminalrecord.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 6d ago

    Thirteen Months in Point Pleasant

    In November 1966, two young couples outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia said something with red eyes chased their car down a dark road. Thirteen months later the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River and killed forty-six people, and somewhere in the retelling the two stories became one story. Only one of them has ever had an explanation. This episode walks the whole thing. The TNT area and why the ground itself matters. The contractor ninety miles away who saw two red points of light the same night, an hour and a half before those couples ever left town and before any newspaper printed a word. The thirteen months of reports, and the honest trouble with counting them. The tenth of an inch of corroded steel that actually brought the bridge down. And the barred owl that fits the descriptions better than anyone really wants it to. It also does the thing this show exists to do. The bird explanations are plausible and probably account for most of the reports. Nothing physical was ever produced across all thirteen months, and nobody went back to that refuge in 1966 with a spotlight and a bird biologist to settle it while it still could have been settled. A good explanation is not the same thing as a proven one. But the gap that leaves is a gap in the record, and not a hole in the world. Here is the part I cannot settle. The reports arrived in a rush three days after the front page, and they are said to have stopped the week the bridge came down. Pattern, or a shape we drew afterward? That argument is running in the debunked-or-explained channel of The Liminal Record Discord, where the boring explanation gets the same hearing as the interesting one. Come tell me the version of it I have not thought of. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theliminalrecord.substack.com

    Thirteen Months in Point Pleasant

  2. Aug 7

    The Egg in the Arroyo

    In April 1964, a Socorro police officer broke off a car chase because something roared down into the desert beside him. What he found in that arroyo became the best-documented case the United States government ever filed and never explained. The FBI vouched for him in writing. An Army captain from White Sands cordoned the site the same night. And the one detail everybody remembers about Socorro is the detail Lonnie Zamora took back the very next day. This episode does what almost no telling of this case does. It plays you what Zamora actually said on local radio twenty-four hours later, when the interviewer asked him directly about the two figures in white coveralls. It gives you the viewing conditions nobody mentions: two football fields, into the late sun, through sunglasses over prescription glasses. It gives you the grade the Air Force's own scientific consultant privately put on the case, which was four out of nine. And it gives you the piece of paper that changes everything, which did not surface until thirty-six years after Blue Book closed the file. It also asks the hard question out loud rather than hinting at it, and then answers it: whether Zamora simply made the whole thing up. He is not here to be asked, and his family still lives in New Mexico, which is precisely why the question deserves a direct answer instead of an insinuation. Here is what I cannot settle. Take the range log seriously and you have to explain an afternoon sighting against a morning schedule. Take Zamora seriously and you have to sit with a man who described two figures, then a day later would only tell you he saw something white. Most tellings pick one and skip the other. Which do you find easier to live with? That argument is running in #debunked-or-explained over at The Liminal Record's Discord, where the boring explanation gets the same hearing as the interesting one. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theliminalrecord.substack.com

    The Egg in the Arroyo

  3. Jul 31

    Five Days and Six Hours

    Six men said a light took Travis Walton off an Arizona logging road on 5 November 1975. He came back five days later. Fifty years on, four polygraphs disagree with each other, the crew boss confessed and then unconfessed, and nobody has produced the one thing that would end it. This is a rebuilt version of the episode originally published in July. That version was scripted from text that had not been through editorial review, and it carried four statements that were incorrect, including the claim that crew boss Mike Rogers still says he saw a craft. Mike Rogers died on 6 February 2026, aged 78. The rebuild corrects that and the rest from the ground up rather than patching over it. What is new: the 1993 re-test by the same examiner from 1975, paid for by a skeptic who wanted the case closed, which Walton passed and which the original left out entirely. The recorded 2021 call in which Rogers said the whole thing was staged, and the retraction that followed. All six crewmen named, including the three who have never spoken publicly in fifty years. And thirty seconds on what a polygraph actually measures, because the middle of this story is four of them. Come argue about it with us in The Liminal Record's Discord, where cases get taken apart slowly and nobody is in a hurry to land anywhere: https://discord.gg/XTSeCRRQPP This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theliminalrecord.substack.com

  4. Jul 18

    The Ariel School Encounter (Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 1994)

    On a September morning in 1994, every teacher at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe was in a staff meeting when something came down at the edge of the playground. The only witnesses were about sixty-two children, aged six to twelve. What they described, and what they still describe thirty years later, has never been explained away or agreed upon. This is the story of what they saw, and of how honestly we can weigh it. This is the opening episode of The Liminal Record, Audio Edition: sourced accounts of the unexplained, examined and not sold. Come sit with us and weigh the testimony in The Liminal Record Discord community: https://discord.gg/XTSeCRRQPP This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theliminalrecord.substack.com

    The Ariel School Encounter (Ruwa, Zimbabwe, 1994)

  5. Jul 17

    Start Here: What Is The Liminal Record

    In March of 1990, Belgium scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to chase something its own radar could not explain. More than thirteen thousand people saw it. The government admitted, on the record, that it had no answer. In 1979, a sheriff’s deputy named Val Johnson was driving a Minnesota back road when something hit his car. Forty-five years later, no one can tell you what it was. What do we do with the things that are documented, witnessed, and still unexplained? That question is why The Liminal Record exists, and this short episode is the best place to start. It is the story of the Record itself. What we cover, the standards every piece is held to, the promise we make about sources and honesty, and the community that is forming around these cases. If you have ever wanted a place that takes this territory seriously without selling you a verdict, this is your front door. Press play. It runs about six minutes. When you are done listening, two doors are open. Subscribe and every new investigation will find you the morning it publishes, free. And if you want to go deeper, join us in The Liminal Record Discord, where the case files stay open, the debate is respectful, and there is room for the story you have never told anyone: https://discord.gg/XTSeCRRQPP Welcome to the threshold. I’m glad you found us. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theliminalrecord.substack.com

    Start Here: What Is The Liminal Record
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There's a whole category of stories the mainstream doesn't quite know what to do with. Credible witnesses, documented evidence, official acknowledgment, and still no satisfying explanation. The Liminal Record exists for exactly those stories. theliminalrecord.substack.com

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