The Hypnotist - Alien Abductions

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Alien abductions.Hundreds of people say it’s happened to them.They’re not looking for fame or attention.Some keep it a secret...haunted by memories they can’t explain. In Day 3 of PRETEND’s Halloween Marathon, we meet Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist who risked his reputation to study these so-called abductees. Using hypnosis and relaxation techniques, Mack tried to uncover whether these encounters were dreams, delusions, or something far stranger. Why would a man of science devote his life to stories most people laugh off? And what if the people he studied weren’t crazy at all? This episode is part of a larger series I produced on hypnosis. Check out the rest of the series. Season 8 of PRETEND: https://open.spotify.com/episode/05forE4OuW9zgsI9OZ7XHy?si=71eca84e0f5843ba Listen ad-free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1813212 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.4	Hey guys, it's me Javier.
0:40.0	I hope you're enjoying my Halloween marathon.
0:43.5	Today, I'm going to play you part three.
0:45.4	Now, this is a different choice for a Halloween episode, but it's creepy nonetheless.
0:52.4	This year, my family and I decided that we were not going to decorate our house with ghouls and goblins and monsters.
0:59.0	Everybody does that. Instead, we put out alien decorations. There was UFOs all over my lawn and it was a hit.
1:07.0	So today, I am going to play you part four of a series that I did back in season
1:13.9	eight. It was a hypnosis series. And this episode is about alien abductions. I'm not talking
1:20.6	about people who are going out to the media seeking attention, saying that they've been abducted
1:26.2	by aliens. This episode is about a respected Harvard psychiatrist who studied people who secretly
1:34.0	said that they experienced some kind of abduction and he used hypnosis to try to draw that
1:41.2	experience out.
1:42.5	It's a really fascinating episode. I don't know what you guys think about, aliens, UFOs, and all that stuff, but check it out.
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