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🗓️ 8 May 2020
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Rob Kristofferson of Our Strange Skies is back with another episode of Uncle Rob's Alien Story Time. We've got an update on the Herbert Hopkins men in black story we covered on this week's free episode, and another wild ass encounter from Maine.
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0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Spencer. |
0:02.0 | We're back with another episode of Uncle Rob's Alien Storytime. |
0:05.5 | And this week, he has an update on the Herbert Hopkins situation that we talked about on this week's free show. |
0:11.7 | And he's got another wild-ass UFO story from Maine for us. |
0:16.2 | Enjoy. |
0:27.9 | As you can tell from this week's episode of the What If Podcast, Maine has its fair share of UFO sightings. |
0:34.1 | In fact, it has one of the most famous UFO abduction cases on record, Yalagash abductions. |
0:39.7 | Nomar Slavic has published two books concerning the strange happenings that have occurred over Maine skies. The second, called Otherworldly Encounters, evidence of UFO sightings and |
0:46.4 | abductions, has a curious, if only sad, update regarding the Herbert Hopkins men in black encounter. |
0:53.9 | In 2008, the doctor's nephew, Howard Hopkins, wrote a number of blog posts concerning the |
0:59.7 | physician's men in black encounter. |
1:02.9 | Howard was one of Maine's famous writers. |
1:05.7 | Granted, not as famous as Stephen King, but he had a wide audience nonetheless. |
1:11.6 | Dr. Herbert Hopkins' story first appeared in the tabloid star in the mid-1970s, but it was more well |
1:18.4 | known for being featured in Time Life's Mysteries of the Unknown series. |
1:23.7 | He was a brilliant doctor, as his nephew notes in the posts, but during the time of the |
1:28.5 | Mib encounter, Dr. Hopkins had begun drinking heavily, and he had also had a fascination |
1:33.7 | with 50s horror and sci-fi pulp novels and comics. |
1:38.5 | Quote, my uncle was, unfortunately, a fantasy-prone individual, craved the center of attention and limelight, |
1:45.6 | and on a base level, he sometimes just made things up, no matter how hyperbolic, to top |
1:50.8 | everyone else. As brilliant as he was in many areas, however, he was unskilled at fiction, |
1:58.0 | end quote. For a guy unskilled at fiction, he did a pretty good job on this |
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