We’re back on the alien train, folks! In this episode, Paige tells us about her husband’s “alien abduction” experience, and we discuss the science and psychology that may be behind your favorite ET encounter stories, from sleep paralysis to recovered memories from surgeries gone wrong. The only thing we know for sure is that your brain is a very weird place! You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or Pandora.
Here are the sources we used for this episode:
Podcasts: Strange Arrivals, Episode 11, “Extraordinary Claims”
Websites:
- https://www.livescience.com/20250-alien-abductions-origins.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alien_abduction_claims
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_insurance
- https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=sociology_articles
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/philipklass.html
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-abduction-or-accidental-awareness/
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/201207/five-traits-could-get-you-abducted-aliens?page=1
- https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/06/11/why-alien-abductions-are-down-dramatically/qQ3zdBIc2tLAf3LVms8GLP/story.html
- https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/abducted-by-aliens.aspx
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleepless-in-america/201709/alien-abduction-part-1
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleepless-in-america/201709/alien-abduction-part-iii
- https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/abducted/https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schacterlab/files/clancey_et_al._2002.pdf