The Watcher in the Wheat | Just Another Tin Foil Hat

Somewhere in the Skies

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Zelia Edgar brings us back to September of 1954. On a quiet farm in Alabama, 12-year-old John Jacob Swaim was running a tractor across his family’s fields when something caught his eye. Standing in the wheat was a small, unnerving figure — a strange entity with pointed ears and a sharp nose, crouched down, silently watching him. In this episode, we explore one of the most chilling and overlooked encounters of the 1950s UFO wave. Was Swaim’s “Watcher in the Wheat” an alien, a folkloric trickster, or something far stranger? Join us as we peel back the layers of this eerie case and examine how it fits into the larger history of high-strangeness encounters. If you enjoy stories of UFOs, close encounters, and strange beings in unexpected places, this episode is one you won’t want to miss. Subscribe to Just Another Tin Foil Hat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustAnotherTinFoilHat Please take a moment to rate and review us on Spotify and Apple. Book Ryan on CAMEO at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/UFxzyzHOaQ PayPal: [email protected] Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SomewhereintheSkies Discord: https://discord.gg/NTkmuwyB4F Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ryansprague.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomewhereSkies Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somewhereskiespod/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryansprague51 Order Ryan’s new book: https://a.co/d/4KNQnM4 Order Ryan’s older book: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Store: http://tee.pub/lic/ULZAy7IY12U Proud member of SpectreVision Radio: https://www.spectrevision.com/podcasts Read Ryan’s articles at: https://medium.com/@ryan-sprague51 Opening Theme Song by Septembryo Copyright © 2025 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. #UFOs #AlienEncounters #HighStrangeness #UFOHistory #ParanormalPodcast #SomewhereInTheSkies #WatcherInTheWheat #UAP

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0:00.0	D'AX
0:02.0	Darcy and Daphne Davenport are married musicians who move to a remote cottage in the Welsh countryside to finish Daphne's new record.
0:10.0	Maybe I should just go back to London for a few weeks to finish the record there.
0:13.0	How about yesterday? You were recording for hours.
0:15.0	Yeah, it was all rubbish.
0:16.0	When Darcy explores deep in the forest to record audio samples, he stumbles upon a mystical sound never meant to be heard by human ears.
0:30.4	What is this?
0:31.7	Sounds like a spell.
0:33.1	It's sublime.
0:35.3	Drawn by the sound, a strange child soon becomes a part of their lives.
0:39.3	I followed the music.
0:40.3	You could hear that?
0:41.3	Sound travels here.
0:42.3	And from the forest comes something far older and far more dangerous than they could have ever imagined.
0:48.3	They're the old ones. If you stay out of their way, they'll stay out of yours, probably.
0:52.3	And their lives soon begin to come apart.
0:55.7	Darcy is tainted.
0:58.2	There are things I haven't told you.
1:01.2	When words are left unspoken, beware what fills the silence.
1:06.2	There is a veil between this world and fairy.
1:11.2	If you let the fairies in, they will guide you.
1:18.9	You're not scared of me, are you?
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