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Send us Fan Mail No drugs. No trauma. No dying, just a quiet room and a trained mind reaching toward a location it has never seen. In episode five of the Altered States series, Mike Porter investigates remote viewing and the CIA's Stargate program, which ran for over twenty years and cost roughly twenty million dollars. From Ingo Swann describing Jupiter's rings before Pioneer 10 confirmed them, to Joseph McMoneagle's Legion of Merit award for sketching a classified Soviet submarine fac...

Send us Fan Mail What if the code people see in altered states isn't a hallucination — but the actual structure of reality? In episode three of the Altered States series, Mike Porter traces a phenomenon that predates computers by centuries: a flowing, symbolic, structured language that appears consistently across DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and deep meditation experiences. From the Shipibo kené patterns of the Amazon to the sacred scripts of West African iboga ceremonies to modern users...

Send us Fan Mail Antarctica is one of the most remote and controlled places on Earth, and one of the most misunderstood. In this episode of Arcane Station, we move from fiction to reality, and then into the theories that live in between. From the isolation and paranoia of The Thing, to real subglacial lakes like Lake Vostok, to persistent claims about ice walls, hidden lands, ancient maps, and unexplained phenomena, we break down what’s known, what’s claimed, and why Antarctica continues to g...

Send us Fan Mail What if the voice calling your name isn’t who you think it is? Across TikTok, Reddit, and paranormal forums, thousands of people are reporting a strange experience: hearing the voice of a loved one when that person isn’t there. Some hear it in their homes. Others while alone in the woods. In a few cases, the voice has even been captured on audio recordings. These encounters are now commonly referred to as “mimics.” But is this just another viral internet trend, or is somethin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Arcane Station, we examine the Mothman case from its origin in Point Pleasant, West Virginia through its modern interpretations. We begin with the 1966–1967 sightings near the TNT area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge, separating documented facts from folklore. From there, we trace the historical archetype of winged humanoids and avian harbinger figures across cultures, including the Strix of ancient Rome, Slavic night beings, Japanese Tengu, Spring-He...

Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of The Science of the Paranormal, we move beyond the limits of human perception and into harder territory: technology, biology, and the structure of reality itself. If Part One explored how infrasound, frequency, and sensory limits shape paranormal experiences, this episode asks a deeper question: what happens when encounters don’t behave like biology alone can explain? We examine why trail cameras and monitoring technology may not be as reliable as we assume, whe...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of this Arcane Station series, we move beyond history and into culture. After centuries of being feared as revenants and monsters, vampires underwent a dramatic transformation. In literature, film, and television, they became romantic figures, tragic immortals, rebels, anti-heroes, and eventually something more personal: an identity people chose to live by. This episode traces how vampires evolved in pop culture—from early Gothic cinema and Hammer Horror, through An...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we examine the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles as a documented case of long-term tragedy, recurring deaths, and persistent claims of paranormal activity. Rather than focusing on rumor or dramatization, this episode presents a structured timeline of verified incidents, including suicides, murders, and suspicious deaths spanning nearly a century. We cover the hotel’s history, its cultural associations, and the presence of known serial killers who resided there durin...

Send us Fan Mail Texas has a long history of strange creature reports, some familiar, others barely remembered, and many that don’t fit neatly into any category at all. In Texas Strangeness – Part 1, we’re laying the groundwork by cataloging the cryptids and unexplained creature sightings reported across the Lone Star State. This episode is a broad survey, covering the usual suspects alongside lesser-known encounters and one-off sightings that appeared briefly and then vanished from the recor...