Infinite Rabbit Hole

A cluster of lights hovered slowly over an active war zone in Tehran this week, almost exactly 50 years after Iranian Air Force jets lost all instrumentation chasing an unidentified object in that same airspace. Tonight, filling in on the panel, Sound Man Skeeter joins Jeremy to break down why the new footage is being compared to one of the most credible military UFO encounters ever recorded: the 1976 Tehran Incident.
Then in the briefing: a rigorous, peer-reviewed test of out-of-body experiences was designed to finally settle the question. While it failed on its own terms, it produced a result the lead researcher says she can't explain.
And in quick hits: Stanford says the human brain isn't one organ, it's two ancient nervous systems fused together over 550 million years; Loch Ness just had its busiest year on record; the Mothman Festival keeps exploding in size; a new test pushes on the edges of quantum mechanics; and a very expensive statue gets sunk in the Mediterranean on purpose.
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Three hundred episodes. Six years. And tonight, a voice this show hasn't heard from in almost a year sits back down at the table, just for one night.
This is a bonus episode, dropping outside our normal schedule, and there's no news tonight. Instead, we hand Jeff the entire year he missed, catch him up on everything Infinite Rabbit Hole has become since he's been gone, and close things out with the three of us talking about where the show goes next.
Turns out the mystery behind his disappearance wasn't much of one: an RV, some creative Starlink borrowing, and a year of chosen quiet. If you've been with us since the early days, this one's for you.
Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
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The same week the government strengthened legal protection for UAP whistleblowers, it also released newly digitized footage through its disclosure portal, marketed as new evidence. It's actually the Tremonton, Utah film from 1952, one of the most heavily studied UFO cases in history, already picked apart by Project Blue Book, the CIA's Roberts Panel, and the Condon Committee decades ago. Multiple outlets called the release underwhelming; one called it a distraction outright. Real legal progress and a recycled old file, landing in the very same week.
Should we be worried? Anthropic's own CEO just gave the public a six-month-to-one-year timeline before a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet if safeguards don't catch up, a new poll shows most Americans now share that concern, and a leading AI researcher is publicly backing the alarm.
Also this week: science named its first new living cat species in more than a century, the Tilkeo cat, hiding in plain sight for years in a pattern that mirrors some of cryptozoology's most famous wins. Plus a Singapore data center running partly on living human neurons, hard mountain dew hitting shelves, a very specific million-dollar Bigfoot bounty, a UFO-only art exhibition, and a voice-controlled cryptid-hunting video game launching next month.
Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteRabbitHolePodcast
Website: https://InfiniteRabbitHole.com

A 1937 mural in a Springfield, Massachusetts post office is going viral again, with some convinced one figure is holding a time-traveling smartphone. Astronomer Avi Loeb has built a new telescope designed to chemically analyze UAP orbs in real time. Monterey's historic jail just hosted its first public ghost investigation, and a new paranormal convention is headed to Georgia. Also this week: an AI researcher walked away from a lucrative job to warn the public that the people building AI think it could kill everyone by the end of the decade, and a Navy whistleblower alleges pressure from the Pentagon's own UAP office.
A newly discovered atmospheric pattern at Saturn's South Pole, a ten-sided wave never recorded there before, is puzzling scientists studying the planet, distinct from its famous 40-year-old northern hexagon. Closer to home, the crisis in low Earth orbit is accelerating: satellites are now dodging collisions on a weekly basis, and scientists warn a single coordination failure could trigger a catastrophic chain reaction in as little as three days.
Fifty-nine years after it was filmed, the Patterson-Gimlin footage, the most famous Bigfoot film ever recorded, is getting a brand-new frame-by-frame restoration with zero AI involved, timed to its anniversary. It drops the same week a rival documentary claims newly found rehearsal footage proves the whole thing was staged a year before the famous filming. Jake and CJ dig into both sides of the oldest debate in cryptid history.
Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteRabbitHolePodcast
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A disputed set of bog photos out of upstate New York has Bigfoot researchers split between a juvenile Sasquatch and a very cold, very unlucky hiker. In western Pennsylvania, longtime cryptid investigator Stan Gordon logged two more encounters on back-to-back days, one involving a torso rotation witnesses describe as unnaturally mechanical. Also this week: a troop of chimpanzees has been throwing rocks at the same handful of trees for more than a decade, and nobody studying them has a confirmed explanation why.
Nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, the LUX-ZEPLIN detector recorded what a twenty-year veteran of dark matter research is calling the most interesting single event of his career. The result carries less than a one percent chance of being ordinary background noise, and the team still won't say the word "discovery." It may be the first real trace of dark matter ever directly recorded. It may also just fade away.
A two-year study out of the University of Liège just broke one of the oldest assumptions in near-death research. Neuroscientist Charlotte Marshall's team wired 180 ICU patients with EEG equipment and captured twelve near-death experiences happening in real time, not reconstructed afterward from memory. The brains of those patients weren't shutting down; they showed more neural complexity than a normal, awake brain does. It's part of why a new survey now puts the number of Americans reporting a near-death experience at over sixty million.
Jeremy's Book: https://www.amazon.com/U-F-Elmwood-Cosmic-Puzzle/dp/B0GX1GBMZN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteRabbitHolePodcast
Website: https://InfiniteRabbitHole.com