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The Basement: Brad Olsen | Hitler’s Escape and the Road to Antarctica Nov 02, 2026

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Brad Olsen paid his own way to Antarctica with an eviction check, a used SUV, and a sailboat that had never crossed the Drake Passage. What he found sent him chasing a story that stretches from Argentine hotels to maps drawn beneath the ice.

Brad and AJ follow the Nazi trail south after World War II, from vanished U-boats to a hidden base in Neuschwabenland. Brad also explains why the largest naval task force in history sailed to Antarctica and came home early.

Then there are the forbidden zones, a hole the satellites won’t show, and a buried craft with a familiar symbol on its wall. Some places stay off-limits for a reason.

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The Hopi Prophecy: The End of the World in Nine Signs Oct 30, 2026

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In 1958, a Hopi elder named White Feather caught a ride on a desert highway and shared a prophecy with the stranger behind the wheel. Nine signs would appear before the end of the world.

Covered wagons, railroads, power lines, oil spills, and long-haired hippies all arrived right on schedule. By 1992, the elders were so alarmed that they carried their warning to the United Nations.

Within hours, a massive storm flooded New York. According to the Hopi, humanity has destroyed itself three times before, and the survivors took shelter underground with mysterious beings from the sky.

Now only one sign remains: the arrival of a new blue star. In 2025, something from another solar system swung around the Sun and started glowing blue.

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The Basement: William Shatner | Beyond the Final Frontier: Life, Death, and What Comes After Oct 26, 2026

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William Shatner joins us on The Basement to talk about the masks we wear for the people we love. Then the conversation turns to stranger ground.

In 1967, Shatner crashed his dirt bike into a prospector’s trench in the Mojave Desert, alone and baking in his leathers. Over the ridge stood a figure dressed in silver, and it led him somewhere.

He also opens up about surviving stage 4 melanoma in the same stretch of time his daughter faced her own diagnosis. He shares the phone call he made to his dying sister, and what it taught him about Captain Kirk’s final words.

From Spinoza to the Great Pyramid’s hidden hum, this is a man still asking big questions. What do we see at the very end? Shatner has a theory.

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Send for a Priest: Three Houses With Something Inside Oct 23, 2026

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A heavy dresser slides out of a bedroom on its own, and a twelve-year-old girl starts speaking in a dead man’s voice. Investigators show up planning to stay eight weeks and end up staying two years.

In Gary, Indiana, a family fights back with bleach, sage, and prayer while something turns on their children. Police officers, nurses, and a social worker see things they can’t explain.

In Atchison, Kansas, a young couple brings a new baby home to an old rental house. Then scratches start showing up on the father, and a psychic gives them a name.

Three houses, three families, and a long list of witnesses. The people who walked through those doors never looked at a home the same way again.

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The Basement: Jeffrey Kripal | Inside the Archives of the Impossible Oct 19, 2026

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Jeff Kripal grew up in Tornado Alley, tried to fast his way to sainthood as a teenager, and then one night in Calcutta in 1989, something happened that he's spent almost forty years writing about. Now he's the man behind the Archives of the Impossible: Jacques Vallée's files, John Mack's abduction research, thousands of letters strangers sent Whitley Strieber. Not believing. Not debunking. Just listening. And he told me a story he's never written down.

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The Basement: Michael Salla | Nordics, Grays, and the Secret Space Program Oct 12, 2026

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Dr. Michael Salla spent years in war zones - East Timor, Kosovo, Sri Lanka - teaching conflict resolution at American University. Then one press conference in 2001 cost him his academic career. Twenty-five years later he's still here, still citing his sources, and he's telling me things about Eisenhower, Antarctica and a soldier named JP that I can't shake. Some of it I couldn't debunk.

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The Titanic Never Sank Oct 09, 2026

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In 1911, the Olympic was the biggest ship in the world, until a Navy cruiser bent its keel. Its owner, J.P. Morgan, couldn't get anyone to pay for the damage.

But the Olympic had an identical twin, sitting unfinished in a Belfast shipyard. Over one empty weekend, the names were changed, and the insurance on the damaged ship jumped to twelve and a half million dollars.

Morgan cancelled his suite on the Titanic, and so did dozens of his friends. Three of the richest men in America got an invitation instead, and all three stood between Morgan and the bank he wanted.

A rescue ship waited in the ice with 3,000 blankets. And the wreck still carries a secret on its bow, rusting through the paint.

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The Basement: Ed Barnhart | Lost Cities, Botflies, and a Magic Number Oct 05, 2026

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Dr. Ed Barnhart found a Maya city nobody had ever touched. Not even the looters. Then he lost it. Thirty years later he's chasing beams of light inside Khmer temples, arguing that Inca walls were melted, and hunting a number a friend guessed 25 years before anyone found it written on a wall. Lost cities, botflies, and a .45 to the forehead.

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The CIA, the Soviet Union, and a Missing UFO Blueprint Oct 02, 2026

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A package from Kazakhstan arrives on a kitchen table outside Boston. Inside are 119 pages, written in Russian by a man his daughter always knew as a plumber.

He died before she could ask him about them. The pages describe a flying saucer down to the coil, the reactor, and the fuel.

Her husband, a former intelligence contractor, starts pulling the thread. What he finds ties back to a secret Soviet city that never appeared on a map, a decades-long hunt for unexplained aircraft, and a research program that spent millions chasing the same physics.

But numbers only tell you so much. We put every claim to the test, from the blueprint to the man who drew it.

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The Basement: Alex Petkas | Julius Caesar's Final 24 Hours Sep 28, 2026

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Dr. Alex Petkas spent years learning dead languages so he could tell you what the greatest men who ever lived were actually like. This one goes everywhere — a library buried by Vesuvius, a coup that broke Sparta, philosophers who got way too close to power, and why Julius Caesar wept in front of a statue. There are hundreds of scrolls under that villa that no living person has read. That's about to change.

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Podcast: Cost of Glory

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