Episode 11 – Catch and Release: How a Bear-Fighting Lumberjack Escaped from a UFO
Strange Woods Walkers! We're talking about alien abduction!! FINALLY! We're gonna dig in with the story of Travis Walton, a real deal abductee that shared his incredible story. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa? We also have a super creepy listener story and a very special announcement. It's gonna be a good episode, y'all.
STOP! INSIDE JOKES AHEAD! If you haven’t gotten to listen to the episode yet, spoiler alert! This post contains lots of stuff that will make waaay more sense if you listen to the episode before or while reading. So if you haven’t already, pump the brakes and listen to the episode or just click above to play so that you can be in on all the shenanigans to follow!
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To start off, CONGRATULATIONS to Jonathan and Hannah on the news of their pregnancy! We're all so excited for this addition to the Strange Woods family! You are already loved, little cryptid!
LISTENER STORY ALERT!!
Welcome back, Jeremy Arp! He’s got some great ones and this one was no exception…
Bruh.
Is there an exorcist in the house???
Creepy demonic voice, arched back, room got super cold, CONE OF SILENCE! YIKES!
And it all took place on a…what? Full friggin moon. Just saying.
Alien Abduction: Travis Walton
1975. Nighttime. A remote stretch of road from the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest en route to Snowflake, AZ. Loggers. Glowing lights in the forest. Full-on witnessed alien abduction. Whoa.
Travis Walton is arguably the most famous and substantiated alien abduction victim. At 22 years old, he and his coworkers on the logging crew he worked on were part of an amazing and history-making incident. On the way home from a job, they saw a glowing, hovering craft in the forest, and when Travis jumped out of their truck to investigate, he was struck by a beam of light and disappeared. He was then missing for 5 full days before turning up outside of town with little memory of what had happened to him or where he had been.
The search for Travis was massive, involving ground searches, helicopters, and sniffer dogs and it lasted for 5 days. Heavy suspicion by the police and the public was on Travis’s coworkers that they had concocted a crazy story about alien abduction to cover up that they had actually killed Travis. However, all of them had the same unwavering story about what happened, and all of them passed polygraph testing.
Over time, Travis did recover some memory of his time away. He described several amazing things, not the least of which is that he fought aliens. And it wasn’t that hard.
Over the last four plus decades, Travis has never changed his story. He wrote a book called The Walton Experience in 1978. It was adapted into the 1993 movie Fire in the Sky.
He’s still giving interviews and is a guest at conferences to discuss his story.
This is a really great video about his abduction story by the incredible Mr. Ballen…
And also…here’s a side-by-side of Travis Walton and the My Pillow guy, Michael Lindell.
I, (Brandi here…hello) personally think he looks like an older version of the guy from Yes Man and Jumanji, Rhys Darby.
You guys be the judges.
We also touched on the proximity of the abduction site to the Apache reservation and the Native American ties to aliens. Pretty close. Hmmm…
So the theories:
1) Actual abduction. And why not? The stories of Travis and all the witnesses have stayed consistent since the incident.
2) Government conspiracy. Maybe Travis and his coworkers happened upon something technologically advanced that they couldn’t quite grasp or identify and assumed aliens. And then the government held onto Travis and released him a few days later and let him believe he was abducted.
3) Naked owls. Travis woke up surrounded by naked owls and punched one. (shrug)
Some other stuff we discussed...
UFO sightings on arcgis.com
Whoa! They seen ’em! Check it out at this link below!
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=6cd609921ebc44ff914a4e8059813b16
Crazy art that happens when lightning strikes sand...
Marvin the Martian and his big red hairy friend...
Aliens in the water?
Is there an underwater base of some sort that holds alien life? USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects) though not as well-known as UFOs in general are still a topic of discussion and fascination. There are multiple books, documentaries, and TONS of videos on the subject. And it stands to reason that in our planet’s most mysterious and unexplored terrain, there are definitely things we have yet to discover. Topic for a future episode perhaps? Ooooooooo.
Phoenix Lights
In case you never heard of these, the Phoenix Lights were a series of lights that were seen by literally THOUSANDS of people hovering over NV and AZ one night in 1997. It covered about a 300 mile stretch and lasted about 106 min. The official explanation of the lights was military flights and exercises called Operation Snowbird. However, the event captured the attention and imagination of the nation and is still discussed 26 years later as possible evidence of extraterrestrial life…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights
Where are yooooooooou...aliens?
We can’t skip over Tom Delonge and his contribution to the topic of aliens. Your boy is hella invested. And we at Strange Woods Podcast have a special place in our hearts for this guy because Blink 182 was a big deal and remains a favorite. Check out his books for some great reads!
And finally...the most important stuff...poop
Do squirrels poop? What does toad poop look like? What about the pooping of an owl? All burning, compelling questions that will now be answered.
Squirrels, yes. They poop. And it looks like this:
Proof. Irrefutable. Now aren’t you glad you got to see that? Just wait. You’re gonna love this next one.
Toads. Do they poop? Oooooooh buddy, do they ever! Watch.
Mmhm. That’s impressive.
What about owls? They actually have some poop, but very little. They regurgitate (barf) to eliminate the majority of their waste. The pellets are actually, yep, puked up. Check it out.
And in case you were curious, this is Jeremy’s art project from the disgusting regurgitated owl pellets that he and his son collected, separated out, and assembled.
Good job, Jeremy…? Yaaay.
There we go! We hope you enjoyed this episode, and we’re so thankful and grateful for all the love and support for the podcast. We now have MERCH so if you want to check that out, we’ve got you, fam. It’s available in the link at the top of the page. Here’s a preview: designs for shirts and decals!
Thanks again for stopping by! Until next time, don’t be a dirty owl puncher and stay strange! 😉
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