The Solway Spaceman: An Intergalactic Photo Bomb | 192
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Nothing worse than a photobomb. There you are minding your own business, taking a picture of your lovely daughter and next thing you know some idiot time traveler / astronaut / inter-dimensional being drops his/her/its mug into your frame. And while we’ve all been through it, there’s a famous version we’re talking about this week - The Solway Firth Spaceman. Where did the other figure come from? Could this be a real, true documentation of a close encounter? How much is free film for a year actually worth? We dive in deep and see what develops. Plus, Conspiracy Bot actually did research this week (albeit unsuccessfully, but...ya know...baby steps). Brent channels his inner British housewife from the 1960s (it wasn’t a huge leap). And John starts talking about time travel again (we wish it existed so we could go back and stop him). All of that and more on the podcast that doesn’t do a ton of photo shoots, but when we do they’re in the UK and they involve a spaceman – Hysteria 51.Special thanks to this week’s research sources:Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IVVideosBrain Scratch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtXstgx_8-YBBC Look North, January 10, 2008 - https://youtu.be/ItiPAxD1t34WebsitesSolway Firth Spaceman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_SpacemanSolway Firth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_FirthBBC - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-27391210RationalWiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_SpacemanDr. David Clarke - https://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/the-solway-spaceman-photograph/r/todayilearned - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1by8qm/til_in_1964_a_man_photographing_his_daughter_in_a/c9bierv/The Whitehaven News (waybackmachine) -https://web.archive.org/web/20140709010824/http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/home/famous-ufo-sightings-from-the-past-1.578420?referrerPath=1.386555"The Men in Black are real.." The Free Library - https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Men+in+Black+are+real.-a061067536Times and Star - https://web.archive.org/web/20141009131045/http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/features/e-t-phone-cumbria-1.76788National Space Centre - https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/blue-streak-success-failure-extraterrestrials/
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| 0:00.0 | They say I'm disturbed. |
| 0:02.0 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:05.0 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:07.0 | You're justly school who are not crazy. |
| 0:11.0 | With hysteria. |
| 0:12.0 | You can't handle the truth. |
| 0:15.0 | Rain is gone. |
| 0:17.0 | This is hysteria 51. |
| 0:20.0 | The truth is out there. but you won't find it here. |
| 0:26.0 | They're coming for you. |
| 0:27.0 | Look, there comes one of them now. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome in Hysteria Nation to the podcast that doesn't do a ton of photo shoots. |
| 0:38.0 | But when we do, they're in the UK and they generally involve a space man. |
| 0:42.0 | This is Hysteria 51. |
| 0:44.0 | Broadcasting from the Lower Fourth Dimension otherwise known as Chicago, |
| 0:48.0 | we are your hosts and captains on this journey to the stars. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm John Goforth and this is Brent Hand. |
| 0:54.3 | Thanks John I am excited for today's episode. It's all about a single photograph and I |
| 0:59.2 | like to think of myself as a bit of a photography buff if I do say so myself. |
| 1:04.0 | As long as we don't have to see a photo of you in the buff I'm good. |
| 1:08.0 | Have to or want to, I mean, maybe we should take a poll. |
| 1:11.0 | Hysteridation. |
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