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Episode 197: The Mechanical Sounds in the Forest Phenomenon feat. Cryptonaut Podcast

Welcome to Episode 197: The Mechanical Sounds in the Forest Phenomenon feat. Cryptonaut Podcast. Sometimes the scariest things in life are actually the most mundane, such as an everyday object (or even a sound) appearing in a location where it shouldn't. What would you do if while camping in the wilderness - miles away from civilization - you suddenly awoke in the middle of the night to the deafening roar of man-made mechanical noises all around you? You Let's Get Haunted with special guests Marc and Rob of Cryptonaut Podcast as we read and listen to firsthand accounts of hikers and campers who have met with this bizarre phenomenon that only seems to be growing more common in recent years. What could these noises be the product of? Bugs and birds? Ghosts and Fairies? Cryptids and Aliens? Or something else?

My sticker/T-shirt illustration (with type design by Marc Storrs), my original illo for American Monsters and various eyewitness sketches and a Japanese toy inspired by the classic Russian CE3K case of the...

VORONEZH ALIENS: In what may be the most bizarre extraterrestrial encounter ever reported, dozens of eyewitnesses claimed that in the autumn of 1989, a trio of colossal, robotic, three-eyed aliens—along with their boxy mechanical companion—landed and attacked a pair of teens in a Russian park.

Here’s our podcast about this bat shit crazy case: https://cryptonautpodcast.com/podcast/42-voronezh-aliens/

Hey! So, the below titles are subject to change, because I’m letting my husband steer the ship a little, but I originally requested a 50s/60s Essential Westerns list from an insomniac film wonk who has seen every movie and television show known to man, and this is what he gave me:

So like first and foremost start with The Searchers (1956) because it's kinda the defining western of that era and it's also just a really good movie. Other than that there's like not really a strict progression of what to watch in what order for what I'm listing:

--Dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone (1964, 1965, 1966) --Django, Sergio Corbucci (1966) --High Noon, Fred Zinneman (1952) --The Big Country, William Wyler (1958) --The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah (1969) --3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves (1957) --Gunfight at the OK Corral, John Sturges (1957) --Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray (1954) --Winchester '73, Anthony Mann (1950) --Shane, George Stevens (1953) --The Gunfighter, Henry King (1950) --True Grit, Henry Hathaway (1969) --Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone (1968) --Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill (1969) --The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, John Ford (1962) --Hang 'Em High, Ted Post (1968) --The Magnificent Seven, Sturges (1960) --The Misfits, John Huston (1961) --Hud, Marvin Ritt (1963) --Ride the High Country, Peckinpah (1962) --The Unforgiven, Huston (1960) --The Professionals, Richard Brooks (1966)

You should also probably watch The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) because it's the movie that moved the western from the kind of standard cowboy movie it was in the 30s and 40s to the social commentary movie it became in the 50s and 60s

Stagecoach (1939) is also really good but that's for completely unrelated reasons and has basically nothing to do with the rest of this list