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Shadow Play: The Stories We Tell in the Dark

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Uncovering the strange histories and hidden truths behind film. NEW format! NEW show! NEW start! If you"re looking for our old conspiracy and paranormal episodes, please see the archives at MAGICAL MYSTERY RADIO: INANE RAMBLINGS FROM THE FRINGE. SHADOW PLAY: THE STORIES WE TELL IN THE DARK is an exploration of cinema deep cuts, weird behind-the-scenes stories, and forgotten film lore. FILM ON THE FRINGE was a limited series investigating modern cult classics and genre favorites and their

tv & film film history

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01:11:57

BONUS: Star Trek Based on Secret Space Fleet, SpaceX...

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2016/09/11

Gene Roddenberry based Star Trek on secret Navy space fleet built by reptilian extraterrestrials. SpaceX rocket destroyed by angry aliens. Supertramp Predicted 9/11. Neil Armstrong was misquoted. Closed-caption Freudian slips. A very large footprint in China. Clowns are scary.

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01:13:56

SECRETS OF THE SHROUD: In Whose Image? |21|

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2016/09/07

Easter in September! For no good reason, we discuss the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial cloth of Christ. More specifically, we talk about the 2004 documentary SECRETS OF THE SHROUD. 14th century forgery? Hoax or holy relic? You decide...

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01:06:44

BONUS: Clown Terror, SETI Alien Signal, St. Louis...

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2016/09/04

Clowns terrorize America! SETI tracks alien signal! UFOs buzz St. Louis! Snopes tells the whole truth! All of the above? None of the above?

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01:15:00

The COLLAPSE of Civilization & the Rise & Fall of...

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2016/08/31

Is civilization teetering on the edge of the greatest preventable disaster in human history? Collapse explores the theories and life of doomsayer, Michael Ruppert. Join John and Adam as they discuss Ruppert's dire predictions of Peak Oil, the inevitable collapse of modern societies, and how his doomed worldview sadly became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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01:09:43

BONUS: Stranger Things, Human Sacrifice at Cern, How...

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2016/08/29

Human sacrifice at Cern, the REAL conspiracy behind STRANGER THINGS, the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears parallel-universe controversy, and 21 ways to spot a BS news story.

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01:36:17

Summer of Trump |17|

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2016/08/23

We catch up after a long, hot summer, and what do we talk about? Why, Donald Trump, of course! This was supposed to be a "grab bag" discussion of interesting tidbits, but instead - as he seems to have a talent for doing - The Donald hijacks the conversation. Well, let's get this over with...

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01:45:33

First Season Finale |16|

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2016/08/12

John and Adam talk about their favorite episodes so far, what they've learned, and what got them into this stuff in the first place.

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54:11

Aliens, Time Travel, & Mind Control: Interview with...

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2016/07/26

This is a story straight out of The X-Files - replete with aliens, time travel, and conspiracy. According to legend, thousands of young boys were abducted from the streets of New York in the 1970s and 80s, and subjected to bizarre mind control experiments. In this special interview, filmmaker Christopher Garetano discusses his own journey down the rabbit hole.

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01:50:25

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: The Franklin Child Trafficking...

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2016/07/13

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE was a 1994 documentary exposing a child abuse and pedophilia ring that led to the highest levels of the United States government. Just before airing, the Discovery Channel abruptly pulled the film from its schedule. Why? Evidence suggests that the cable channel buckled under pressure from some very powerful Washington interests. John and Adam discuss the disturbing facts of the so-called "Franklin Coverup."

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01:54:17

THE SECRET Will Destroy Your Life |13|

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2016/06/18

THE SECRET is an insidious, destructive force ruining the lives of millions. What's worse, there are some real truths at the root of its philosophy - you just can't see them through THE SECRET's noxious cloud of narcissistic new age hokum. Adam and John discuss free will, the New Thought Movement, and the real secrets behind THE SECRET.

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01:41:37

Time Travel! |12|

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2016/06/15

Spontaneous time slips. Who was the mysterious John Titor? Does the Vatican possess secret technology for seeing through time? Which presidential candidate promises to go back in time to kill baby Hitler with his bare hands? Join John and Adam for a wide-ranging discussion about TIME TRAVEL!

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01:37:45

DEAD BIGFOOT: Hicks, Guns, and Videotape |11|

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2016/06/02

Justin Smeja and a friend were hunting in the Sierras when they saw a seven-foot-tall hairy hominid they could not identify. So they shot it. Then, after giving chase to the wounded creature, they encountered a couple of juvenile bigfoots (bigfeet?) and did what any responsible hunter would do in the same situation - shot one of them too. Join John and Adam as they discuss DEAD BIGFOOT, an intriguing, infuriating documentary by first-time filmmaker Ro Sahebi.

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01:39:33

Kooks or Contactees? FAREWELL GOOD BROTHERS |10|

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2016/05/18

The 1950s saw a wave of individuals claiming special relationships with our space brothers and sisters. Sure, many (all?) of these "contactees" may have been off their rockers... but there's an undeniable internal consistency to these reports of extraterrestrial communion. Did these stories spring from a single source? Could they actually have been... TRUE? Adam and John discuss the classic contactee documentary FAREWELL GOOD BROTHERS (1992).

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01:34:28

GHOST ROCKETS: Sweden's UFO Enigma |9|

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2016/05/11

In 1980, a man and a woman witnessed the controlled landing of a cigar-shaped, apparently extraterrestrial vehicle. More than three decades later they returned to the location of their sighting with an intrepid team of UFO researchers. What did they find? John and Adam discuss the excellent documentary GHOST ROCKETS (2015), directed by Kerstin Übelacker and Michael Cavanagh.

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01:09:01

Tulpas and Ponies and Egregores! Oh My! |8|

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2016/05/02

Kids today, with their crazy Tibetan thought form manifestation techniques! In this episode, John and Adam explore the ancient buddhist practice of generating viable semi-imaginary entities through focus, serenity, and an unhealthy overreliance on social media (okay, that part's not so ancient). Could the tulpa phenomenon be the real force behind every paranormal encounter ever?

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01:37:07

HOLLYWOOD GHOST STORIES: The Truth Behind the Fiction...

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2016/04/27

What was the real-life inspiration for THE EXORCIST? What really happened in AMITYVILLE? Was THE ENTITY a demon, spirit, or poltergeist? Who haunts the HOLLYWOOD SIGN? What silent stars STILL can't rest in peace? Adam and John chew on HOLLYWOOD GHOST STORIES (1986), a delicious slice of vintage 80s direct-to-video cheese.

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01:32:52

ALTERNATIVE 3: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to...

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2016/04/21

Planet earth is doomed. Climate change is real. And the only viable solution to saving mankind is to abandon our planet and start anew somewhere else... Hey, we hear Mars has plenty of real estate! Aired on June 20th, 1977, Alternative 3 purported to be a serious investigation into Britain's so-called "brain drain", uncovering an international conspiracy of epic proportions initiated by the world's elite to establish colonies on the Red Planet.

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01:10:58

Enochian Angels, Ritual Magick, and the Apocalypse |5|

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2016/04/14

Between 1582 and 1589, Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley claimed to be in communication with a group of discarnate entities known as the Enochian Angels, whose 49 Keys were said to unlock the four Watchtowers standing guard against the forces of chaos in the universe. In 1909,Aleister Crowley attempted to unlock the Enochian Keys and inaugurate the Apocalypse, invoking the demon Choronzon to transform the collective unconscious of mankind. Did any of this work? Or is this all a bunch of nonsense from

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01:28:14

Surely, You Can’t Be SIRIUS, Mr. Greer? |4|

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2016/04/07

The documentary SIRIUS claims to expose "the greatest story never told." It explains how Earth has been visited by benevolent space brothers concerned for our future. It relates how elements within the military-industrial complex have not only been keeping this information secret for over 60 years, they've been actively suppressing technologies that could free us from fossil fuels. Join us as we dissect the film's premise and its purported evidence of an alien creature found in the Atacama desert of

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01:28:56

KUBRICK’S ODYSSEY: Stanley Kubrick and the Great Moon...

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2016/04/01

It is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, achievements in all of human history. But what if it didn’t happen that way? What if NASA, knowing they couldn’t achieve what Kennedy set in motion just 7 years earlier, decided to fake the footage so as not to lose the space race to the enemy: the Soviet Union? What if what the world was seeing was actually shot on a sound stage by one of the most creative and innovative filmmakers of the 20th century, Stanley Kubrick?

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