This Week in the Unexplained: UFO Files, Ghost Hunters & Ancient Mysteries
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This Week in the Unexplained: UFO Files, Ghost Hunters & Ancient Mysteries

Ash Ellis rounds up the biggest UFO, paranormal and unexplained stories from the last seven days. Ten minutes. No filler. Just the strangest stories of the week.

26 Sep 2026

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

IN THIS EPISODE

  • This week on Pursuit of the Paranormal, Ash Ellis rounds up the biggest UFO, paranormal and unexplained stories from the last seven days.
  • We look at the US Navy’s release of more than 1,300 pages of UAP-related emails, new details surrounding AARO’s private UFO workshop, and the Galileo Project’s latest attempt to bring hard data and triangulation into UAP research.
  • Away from UFOs, Sam and Colby are heading to Netflix, mysterious giant stone circles have been discovered high in the Andes, and Paranormal Prison returns with a heavy-metal twist.
  • Ten minutes. No filler. Just the strangest stories of the week.
  • 🎙 Pursuit of the Paranormal 👽 UFOs • Ghosts • Paranormal • High Strangeness

EPISODE TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introducing This Week in the Unexplained
00:38 US Navy releases 1,321 pages of UAP emails
02:46 AARO’s private UAP workshop and Uruguay connection
04:01 Galileo Project publishes UFO triangulation results
05:48 Sam and Colby are coming to Netflix
07:56 Mysterious giant stone circles discovered in Argentina
09:22 Paranormal Prison meets heavy-metal music
10:26 Final roundup and what comes next
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Hello pursuit of the paranormal podcast fans.

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I shall is here and something a little bit different

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for this episode and something we're going to

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do every couple of weeks and we're going to have

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a look at the kind of latest news breaking news

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interesting stories from all around the paranormal

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world that's happened in the past couple of weeks

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last week or two So yes, let's join us for episode

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one this week. We have got UAPs. We've got document

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releases. We've got interesting TV developments

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couple of them actually and some heavy metal

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news. So the first story we're going to look

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at is heading over to the US and not only do

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we have the big tranche of UFO files released

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by the US government recently, this week the

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US Navy has released 1 ,321 pages of emails and

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documents connected to Scott Bray, the former

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deputy director of Naval Intelligence. and this

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is probably the biggest story we're going to

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cover this week. So Scott Bray, that name might

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sound familiar, he was one of the officials who

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appeared at the first open US congressional hearing

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on UFOs back in 2022. The documents were obtained

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by researcher John Greenwald through a freedom

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of information act that he submitted in May 2022.

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It took him more than four years to get this

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information to the black vault. So the emails

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cover terminology including UAP, UFO, the UAP

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Task Force, ATIP and OSAP, meaning there's potentially

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a lot of material in there relating to the modern

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US government's investigation of UFOs. But there's

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an interesting catch, as always. More than 300

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pages were completely withheld. So although more

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than 1 ,300 pages sounds like a huge information

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dump, there's still a substantial amount. The

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Navy decided it wasn't going to be released.

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It will take a while for the researchers and

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all those clever people over on X to go through

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this information. I'm sure in the coming days

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and weeks, we will find out the more interesting

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bits and nuggets that come out. So keep tuned

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on X for that, I guess. That's the only information

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that seems to find its way, unfortunately. We

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have recently opened our X account, I deleted

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a couple of years ago, but it's kind of a must.

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be placed for UAP News, sadly. But this story

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is just another reminder of how much correspondence

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was happening behind the scenes during that 2017

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to 2022 period when UAP suddenly became a serious

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government issue again after that New York Times

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article, the very famous one. So, stay with the

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Pentagon with this next story. New documents

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have also revealed more about a previously known

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private UAP workshop organised by Arrow, the

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all -domain anomaly resolution office. The workshop

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took place outside Washington DC in August 2025,

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just over a year ago. Newly released records

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include an agenda identifying speakers and panel

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members, discussions about foreign participation,

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and indications that Arrow was already considering

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another workshop before the first one had even

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happened. But one of the more interesting details

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about this is the Uruguay. Documents describe

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meetings between Pentagon officials and representatives

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from Uruguay's official UFO investigation organisation.

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Those discussions about and include reciprocal

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briefings, possible future cooperation, meetings

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with senior ARO staff and even a private Pentagon

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tour. None of that means they've got crossflying

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sources somewhere, but it shows that it's not

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just an American discussion. And the fact that

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Uruguay is quite interesting and what's going

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on down there that we've not been told about

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yet. It's also interesting to think what other

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countries might have had these private arrow

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meetings that we've not been told about yet.

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Next story, a little bit more scientific, the

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Galileo project. So Avi Loeb and Galileo project

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have released their first triangulation results

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from the UAP observatories. And this is one of

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the biggest kind of problems we've got with UFO

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videos, is distance. So imagine you're filming

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a little bit of light across the sky. It looks

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incredibly fast. This is an issue we have with

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lots of the reports that we get. Unless you know

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how far away the object is, don't actually know

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how fast it's moving. A tiny inset to pass it

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closer to your camera will appear to travel across

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the frame faster than a plane several miles away.

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you've got no idea how far away a little light

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in the sky is. So that's what Galileo project

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they've been trying to kind of battle trying

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to address. So they've got multiple observing

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stations separated by several kilometers and

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if two or three stations detect the same objects

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from different positions the researchers can

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triangulate it and calculate roughly how far

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away it actually is. Once you've got the distance

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You can then start working out things like speed,

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altitude and acceleration of the object. So this

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project's latest work demonstrates that the system

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can now do that with objects detected by its

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observatories. Not announced that they found

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anything, but we're getting there on a more scientific

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side of things. So we get reports and it'll say

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like, oh, the object was about 4 ,000 feet high.

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And then we're heading us like, there's no way

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of knowing that. There's like zero way of knowing

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that. It's just, I guess, more than anything.

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It's hard to do the rest of the investigation

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based on guests that work. Hopefully, this will

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show some good results in the future. But it's

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going the right path. And that's the main thing.

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Moving away from UAPs and UFOs now, onto more

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paranormal things. And these are a divisive herring

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on the paranormal YouTube. But they are the biggest,

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one of the biggest, probably the biggest. Sam

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and Colbert. And they are one of the biggest

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ghost hunting channels on the internet. And they

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are now moving on to one of the biggest streaming

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networks in the world. Sam and Colby are coming

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to Netflix. Full names Sam Goldback and Colby

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Brock have built an enormous audience investigating

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supposedly haunted locations with their main

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YouTube channel sitting at one of 16 million

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subscribers. Their annual Halloween event, Hell

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Week, has become massive as well with individual

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investigations receiving millions. sometimes

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tens of millions of views and from October 1st

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a collection of their panel investigations will

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appear on Netflix but they're not abandoning

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YouTube it's a non -exclusive arrangement it

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means the content will be on YouTube as well

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as Netflix kind of making it more mainstream

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I guess and obviously Sam and Colby are quite

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divisive I like him he just got not take it too

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seriously they're not It's not real content,

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you know what I mean? They're having a laugh

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and they're having a bit of fun in these locations.

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Watch it for what it is and just have a laugh

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and they'll get too stressed about it, some people

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have seen it too for some reason. But I think

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there's a bigger story here. Paranormal investigation

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is traditionally balanced between TV shows like

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Most Haunted, Ghost Adventures and then the huge

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explosion of paranormal YouTube channels. And

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now we're seeing them two worlds merge. Netflix

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clearly believes this is a mainstream audience

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for creator -led paranormal investigation rather

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than Produced produced TV panoramic retrogations.

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So maybe we might start seeing more. I mean,

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there's loads of Amazon, which is like easy to

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get an Amazon that is for Netflix. So it's quite

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a big, big thing. And if millions of people do

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start watching on Netflix, that loves to open

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the door and Netflix might say, hang on, there's

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a market here. We need to explore this a bit

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more. Moving on to the next story now. And this

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is not really paranormal, I guess, maybe a bit

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more Indiana Jones. But researchers are investigating

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a strange collection of enormous stone circles

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discovered high in the... Can you bear with me

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with this one? Cordillera del Tigra in Argentina.

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And when I say high, we're talking more than

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3 ,000 meters above sea level. This site contains

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large circle of stone formations, connected by

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what appear to be passageways alongside walls,

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ditches and partially buried stones. Some of

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these circles measure around 27 to 35 meters

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across. They were originally noticed by mountaineer

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Carlos Gobble while he was working at satellite

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imagery in May 2025. Researchers have now visited

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the incredibly remote location and at the moment

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nobody knows exactly what these structures are.

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They've been compared with geoglyphs but archaeologists

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haven't yet established their age. Who constructed

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them or what their purpose might have been. Obviously

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we're not jumping to aliens, last civilizations

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or ancient astronauts. But there's something

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I absolutely love about the fact that in 2026,

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with satellites and mapping and internet coverage,

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covering pretty much every inch of the planet,

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we're still discovering enormous sites that apparently

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we knew nothing about. We just sort of asking,

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who built this and why? And why'd nobody found

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it before? That's pretty crazy. And finally,

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you're a fan of panel investigation and heavy

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music. There's another interesting crossover

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happening and this is awesome. and alien ant

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farm so apparently ghosts are into metal now

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and i am here for it love the used love lawn

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ashore alien ant farm i can take some of their

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songs uh emotionless and white good hollywood

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undead is is that a joint not joint death yeah

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is that a joint death band or is that hollywood

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vampires no it's hollywood vampire you know me

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hollywood undead that's a show about them but

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the others sound absolutely amazing And that's

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it. This is the first episode of our UAP and

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paranormal news roundup. We will be back in a

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couple of weeks if anything has happened. Oh,

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things will happen. We guarantee there will be

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news stories over the next couple of weeks, particularly

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in the UFO world and nothing else. So anything

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that grabbed your attention, let us know. Any

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stories you missed that you'd like us to talk

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about or look into, drop us a message. Are you

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more interested in government documents and UAP

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disclosure, or ghost investigations, or... mysterious

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archaeological discoveries. Let us know on social

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media. Until then, keep listening. Have a good

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evening.
PURSUIT OF THE PARANORMALGreg & Ash