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Feb. 4, 2019

The Kardashev Scale | 123

How advanced is our civilization? Hot Pockets? Check. Cat memes? Check. Total control of our planet’s resources, weather, and energy? Well…we’ll get back to you. That’s the basic premise of the Kardashev Scale. It’s a simple ...

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Jan. 28, 2019

Nuclear Boy Scout: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build a Nucl…

Teenagers nowadays. No respect for their elders. I mean, as teens in our day we were walking uphill (both ways) to school in the snow. We didn’t have cellphones, we had pagers. If we needed a nuclear reactor, we built …

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Jan. 21, 2019

Dulce Underground Base: Alien Base or Absolute BS? | 121

Dulce, New Mexico: population 2,743…ABOVE GROUND! That’s right, according to some there is a secret base under Dulce that houses everything from classified US technology to reptilians. According to those same folks Dulce is o...

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Jan. 14, 2019

Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers- An Interview With Jeremy Corbell…

Bob Lazar is on the Mount Rushmore of names in the UFO world. He (virtually on his own) brought the existence of Area 51 to the forefront by telling his story of working on real UFOs in the 80's. If …

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Jan. 7, 2019

Antikythera Mechanism – The World’s First Computer? | 119

Imagine finding shipwreck from thousands of years ago and among the rest of the debris finding a laptop with instructions on how to use it. That’s ALMOST exactly what happened when the Antikythera Mechanism was found. OK, so ...

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Dec. 31, 2018

2018 Year-End Review and Orson Welles - Dracula | 118

Man, 2018 flew by fast. And what a crazy year it was for all of us at Hysteria 51. New network, award nominations, iTunes top 200, the list goes on. We could not have done it without all of you, …

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Dec. 24, 2018

Nazca Lines – Peruvian Artwork or Alien Runways? | 117

The Nazca Lines are a group of ancient geoglyphs etched into desert sands of southern Peru. Made up of of over 10,000 lines, the figures are most visible from the air or nearby hilltops. The designs range from geometric patte...

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Dec. 17, 2018

UFOs at Maury Island: MiB, JFK, and Dog Murder | 116

In the wild world of UFOs it doesn’t take much for a story to take on a life of its own. A flash in the sky or a shadow turns into a close encounter. But sometimes they have a little …

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Dec. 10, 2018

Magic: Hocus Pocus or Bona Fide Sorcery? | 115

The dictionary defines magic as the power to influence the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. Not David Blaine pretending to float, not the recovering alcoholic at your kid’s birthday party pulling a...

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Dec. 3, 2018

Tarot and Clairvoyance: Magic or Mischief? | 114

Ever had your palm read? Maybe a tarot reading? Wonder if it was anything more than paying $20 bucks for a lady with a headdress to look into a hunk of glass and tell you what you want to hear? …

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Nov. 26, 2018

The Business Plot: Corporate America’s Bid to Overthrow the Gov’t | 1…

Everyone jokes about Facebook and Google taking over the country. But what if the most powerful corporations in America REALLY did organize a coup and turn the USA into a fascist dictatorship? Believe it or not, it almost hap...

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Nov. 19, 2018

The Bermuda Triangle: The Deadly Deep or Drummed Up Deception? | 112

When you were younger, didn’t you think the Bermuda Triangle was going to have a much greater impact on your life than it has? We sure did. The triangular patch of the Northern Atlantic near the Caribbean has been the …

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Nov. 12, 2018

Starlite: The Lost Invention That Could Have Changed The World | 111

Imagine a material that will not burn. Not with a lighter, not with a laser, not with a nuclear device. This material could be heated to temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun, and be no worse for the …

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Nov. 5, 2018

Alien Implants | 110

We all have that friend or family member with the errant BB in their leg or piece of gravel in their arm that just never came out. But what if some of these alien bodies in our body are TRULY …

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Oct. 29, 2018

Werewolves: A Hysteria Halloween part 3 | 109

At Hysteria 51 we love Halloween. The crisp fall air, creepily carved pumpkins, bonfires, s’mores, wolfmen eviscerating the innocent. You know...normal stuff. This week we dive into lycanthropy. Do werewolves really exist? If...

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Oct. 15, 2018

The Warrens: Heroes or Hucksters? | 108

Ed and Lorraine Warren are arguably the most famous paranormal investigators of the last century. The married couple investigated countless hauntings, possessions, and demon infestations. Many of which have become Hollywood f...

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Oct. 8, 2018

The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident: Britain's Roswell | 107

Jolly ol’ England: the home of Monty Python, Big Ben, and the one of the most infamous UFO incidents in recorded history. Wait, what was that last part again? The Rendlesham Forest Incident, as it’s come to be known, was …

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Oct. 1, 2018

Unidentified Submerged Objects: The UFOs of the Sea | 106

We all know what a UFO is, but what’s a USO? Well it’s like a UFO but in the water. That’s right we’re talking Unidentified SUBMERGED Objects. And, while we know most of them are just the Cthulhu or your …

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Sept. 24, 2018

Georgia Guide Stones: Modern Day Mystery | 105

We don’t often think of mysterious relics as something from our current era. Unexplained monolithic structures with debated meaning and even less certain purpose don’t just pop-up in small town America. But they did. There is...

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Sept. 17, 2018

Robert Smalls: The Civil War's Most Incredible Untold Story | 104

Imagine this for a potential movie: Guy is born into slavery. Escapes his bonds by stealing the ship he’s a slave on and delivering it to the Union (it’s the Civil War). He goes onto captain the very boat he …

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Sept. 10, 2018

Göbekli Tepe: Proof of an Advanced, Ancient Civilization? | 103

Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site full of mysterious monoliths and intricate carvings in Southeast Turkey that shouldn’t exist. Prehistoric hunter-gatherers COULDN’T build these massive structures, cut and transport thes...

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Sept. 3, 2018

Artificial Intelligence: How Frightened Should We Be? | 102

Computers are getting smarter by the day. Soon enough they’ll become self aware and kill us all (for one reason or another). That’s the narrative we’ve all learned from fiction and pop culture over the years, but is it true? …

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Aug. 27, 2018

Skinwalker Ranch: The Science of the Paranormal | 101

By now we all know the story of Skinwalker Ranch (especially if you listened to last week's episode). It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl. Boy and girl buy a cattle ranch. Boy and girl's dogs are …

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Aug. 20, 2018

Skinwalker Ranch: The Art of the Story | 100

We're makin' a home out on the range in this special 100TH edition of Hysteria 51! What do you get when you cross aliens, ghosts, shapeshifters, disembodied voices, cattle mutilations, and more? The only topic worthy of our 1...

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