Peaks and Valleys of Woo

Peaks and Valleys of Woo

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August 20, 2026 · 1h 16m · Season 1 · Episode 27

About this episode

The episode explores the connections between aliens, the paranormal, and the afterlife through the lens of energy and consciousness.

Bryce is fighting laryngitis, but Brent comes to the rescue as Sound, Light & Frequency returns to the woo. After “All About the Woo,” the hosts go even deeper into the possibility that aliens, the paranormal, and the afterlife may not be separate mysteries at all, but different faces of the same phenomenon connected through energy, consciousness, sound, light, and frequency. Using John Keel’s Our Haunted Planet as the launch point, they explore Keel’s idea of “ultraterrestrials” — hidden intelligences that may not simply visit Earth, but haunt, manipulate, monitor, and interact with us through UFOs, Men in Black, missing time, trickster events, tulpas, angels, demigods, and every other kind of high strangeness. Brent brings three new personal stories that push the conversation into stranger territory. First, he recalls working with Alien and Total Recall writer Dan O’Bannon, who took H.P. Lovecraft’s worldview seriously enough to live inside a lead-lined house surrounded by the recorded sounds of amniotic fluid. Then, after a discussion of Twin Peaks and its haunted woods, owls, electricity, evil, alternate realities, and…

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Hosts: Bryce, Brent

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Books & works: Our Haunted Planet, Twin Peaks, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

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