Did A UFO Kill A Hero Pilot? - The Paranormal Podcast 911

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jim talks with filmmaker Seth Breedlove of Small Town Monsters about his new documentary Lost Contact. The film explores the 1948 death of Captain Thomas Mantell, a decorated pilot who died while chasing a mysterious object over Kentucky. Seth shares what drew him to the story, why it remains an overlooked case in UFO history, and how it connects to the broader conversation about secrecy, heroism, and unexplained aerial encounters. Jim and Seth also discuss how different areas of the paranormal world often stay in their own lanes and whether they might share more common ground than people think. They touch on government explanations, the media’s treatment of Mantell, and the human side of the story that deserves to be remembered. Watch Lost Contact at Amazon: https://amzn.to/4nEk3BU You can find out more about all of Seth’s films at https://smalltownmonsters.com Thanks Seth! This post contains Amazon affiliate links that benefit Jim Harold Media when you make a qualifying purchase. Thank you for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	an important UFO event historic, but you probably don't know about it, but we're going to learn
0:06.0	more next on the paranormal podcast. Welcome to the paranormal podcast. Welcome to the paranormal podcast. I'm Jim Herald. So glad to be with you once again. Now, when it comes to UFOs, we all know Roswell, Randlesham Forest. And I can name off a litany of UFO cases that those of us who follow this subject are familiar with.
0:38.3	There's one we're going to talk about today that we probably should be familiar with,
0:42.8	but many of us aren't.
0:44.1	But the gentleman we have today, Seth Breedlove, has looked to change that with his new
0:50.3	documentary, Lost Contact.
0:53.3	Seth is from Small Town Monsters, and they're the great
0:55.9	documentaries who have been super successful and kind of built a movie studio in the middle of
1:03.4	Ohio, which I think is incredibly being in Ohio, and incredibly cool. And I've seen Seth go from just one guy to building out a whole staff, a whole studio,
1:16.5	and he's really done a great job. And now he's turning his attention to the UFO question.
1:22.0	And we're going to talk about this famous Kentucky case, or maybe not as famous as it should be Kentucky case.
1:28.4	And Seth, thank you for joining us today. I appreciate it.
1:32.3	Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Jim.
1:34.3	So I got to ask you this.
1:37.4	Why did you decide to go in this direction with UFOs?
1:40.9	Because, I mean, Small Town Monst monsters has done a fantastic job with the
1:45.7	cryptid subject. I mean, you've done big foot. You've done everything. Why did you decide,
1:51.4	hey, now is the time we want to kind of expand our horizons and look at the UFO question.
1:58.3	Yeah, I mean, to be honest, we haven't touched UFOs since 20, what was it,
2:04.3	2021, I think that on the trail of UFOs night visitors came out. We've been very focused on cryptids,
2:11.7	especially Bigfoot, for the last couple of years. So one, I mean, I know this is a, this is a weird project too,
2:20.2	because we started filming this in the fall of 2023,
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