Brothers of the Serpent

This week Drew takes us through the Arthur Conan Doyle saga with the fairies, and how he fell for hoaxed photographs....but we also read some of Doyle's writings on the subject of fae encounters, and they seem entirely rational. We then spend some time reading and discussing the topic of Homo Floresiensis, also known as the "hobbits" of the island of Flores. There are tales of encounters with "little people" that persist on this island to this day, despite the fact that the fossil evidence of these "hobbit" people is at least 12,000 years old, and perhaps as old as 50,000 years. We then move on to tales from Japan, with very similar themes, trickster beings that can be beneficial as long as the humans interacting with them abide by their word.   We will be performing at Howl at the Holler for the annular Eclipse on October the 14th, see the link for details: https://howlattheholler.com/ The Lebanon extension for our upcoming Egypt trip in February has a pre-extension, see the link for details: https://unchartedx.com/site/2023/09/28/feb-24-lebanon-tour-baalbek-still-available-now-with-8-day-jordan-option/   Thanks to all of you who support the show with donations and through Patreon. If you want to add your support, go to https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent Executive Producers: Anne who Knits Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Associate Executive Producers: Captain River Rat Chris James Daniel Gandy Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks

Marty Garza joins us again for the 12th part in his series on the strange history of UFOs, aliens, magic, demons, spirituality, consciousness, psychic abilities, dark government agencies, wars, and weapons development. This time we dive deep into some strange connections in myth from ancient biblical and Hebrew texts, shamanism, contact with the spirit world, angels and demons, the Book of Enoch, and CIA projects researching psychic abilities. As always, Marty brings the goods with his detailed approach. We hope you enjoy this latest installment in the UFO series.   Thanks to Troy Hoover for the amazing episode art!

Drew returns for Part 2 of Tales of the Little People, an in depth look at the high strangeness contained in the stories of people's encounters with the supernatural in the form of the Fae Folk.  We discuss similarities with UFO and cryptid sightings in modern times, as well as ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists.  The discussion then spills over into a Patreon extension.    Join our Patreon, support the show, and get access to continued discussions and bumper tunes! http://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent   --Episode art by Troy Hoover--

Long time listener and friend of the show Drew(LP McQuack in the Discord) joins us this episode to discuss one of our favorite SnakeBros topics - the Little People. Fairies, the Fae, the Good Folk, the Sidhe....they are known by many names and come in many forms. In this episode, the first of a series on this topic, Drew takes us through a collection of tales of the Little People, with weird common elements and high strangeness.   Executive Producers: Jess Redmon Andrea Johnson

Harvest was crazy this year, over 30 tons of grapes, but it's all fermented and in barrels or tanks at this point. Hopefully we are almost back to a regular podcasting schedule. We returned with a live show, talking about the winemaking process and showing some videos, then reading and responding to listener emails. Executive Producer: Luke Miller Associate Executive Producer: Edfu_TextYa_Later

We met Dr. Ballard at the Cosmic Summit, and decided we'd love to have her on the podcast to discuss her work. She is a Geologist and Biogeographist, and a member of the Comet Research Group. She became interested in the YDIH and started drilling lake cores looking for evidence of biomass burning. She joins us this episode to discuss her background, her interest in the YDIH, and her related field and lab work, as well as some of her current interests and possible future projects. You can find out more about here here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne-Ballard/research   Links to her thesis as discussed in the episode: A Lateglacial Paleofire Record for East-central Michigan https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=ucin1250268463 Joanne Ballard PhD Dissertation, https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3492/ Evidence of Late Quaternary Fires from Charcoal and Siliceous Aggregates in Lake Sediments in the Eastern U.S.A. She also sent us a lot of interesting links to articles and papers after the episode, listed below: Sergei Leshchinskiy study on bony malformation of late Pleistocene mammoths of Siberia and Poland, acidification of the landscape https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0081-new-theory-on-why-the-woolly-mammoth-became-extinct/?comm_order=best https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/616417 Did inbreeding doom the mammoths - fossils from the North Sea, Jelle Reumer https://www.science.org/content/article/did-inbreeding-doom-mammoth Pygmy mammoths of the Channel Island of California https://www.amazon.com/Pygmy-Mammoths-Channel-Islands-California/dp/0962475084 Other late occurring relict populations of mammoths occurred on Wrangei Island (Siberia), Pribolof Island, St Paul Island. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040618070946.htm#:~:text=Using%20accelerator%20mass%20spectrometer%20(AMS,after%20the%20last%20glacial%20maximum. Hartnagel and Bishop 1921. Online book, read about Mastodons, Mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals of New York state, buried in the peat.  161 pages.   https://books.google.com/books?id=9rxRAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Blue Babe, bison carcass 50,000 years old, Professor Dale Guthrie https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska A North American permafrost study.  For reference regarding the shaken--not stirred cocktail of mammals/trees/sediments/ice. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bor.12036

Harvest time is here, busy season for us, but we're still trying to catch up on your emails! Laura joins us in studio for this live-to-youtube episode of Listener Comms. We read a bunch of interesting and funny emails, and get into a long conversation about the "end of the world", and how we think about it. What are the ways the world could be destroyed? Do we think about the destruction of civilization, or a huge extinction level event? How do you survive? Do you want to survive? Executive Producers: deal99 Associate Executive Producers: Johnathan Bracken Edfu_TextYa_Later

We dive deeper into the latest science on Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, discussing the dating, the retaining walls, the midden mounds around the sites, and the lithics, bones, and other artifacts discovered in the enclosures. We streamed this episode live on youtube, so we also respond to comments and questions from the chat, and read some emails at the end of the episode.

The lines between UFOs, religion, magic, the paranormal, and government intelligence agencies have never been more blurry and difficult to define as they are in this installment of Marty Garza's series on the UFO subject. Marty's deep research and ability to reveal threads of an enormous hidden web of conspiracy and connection is unparalleled in the UFO world. Come with us down the rabbit hole of The Spookiest Story Never Told, Part 2! And if you want to hear some of our conversations between segments, which is always interesting when we have Marty on, you can join our Patreon and hear the full episode, with extra audio between the segments: https://www.patreon.com/posts/psode-022-291-2-85736995?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link   Thanks to all of you who support the show, it really helps! Here are our Producers for Episode 291: Executive Producers: Charles Mills Philip Baklamov Matt Shy Peter Shell Zachariah Baker Associate Executive Producers: Captain River Rat Chris James Daniel Gandy Dave Cortes Patrick Hicks

This was a live-to-youtube stream where we are joined in the Cube by Laura to talk about the Cosmic Summit, the many great speakers and presentations there, and to respond to listener communications and live chat questions. Thanks to all of you who joined the live show!   Here is our affiliate link for purchasing the Cosmic Summit presentation videos: https://www.howtube.com/cvoYplI3Cs9E