Podcast Archive » The Unseen – 2019

Marissa Ryan is a psychic medium as well as psychic investigator. The focus of the discussion is the emotional end of her work as well as her personal experiences. This ranges from her work with law enforcement to private readings. Mike did a session with Marisa a decade ago and they discuss the remarkable accuracy of ...continued

Why are some coincidences be so deeply personal and powerful? Why do they overlap with so many other strange phenomena? There seems to be a connection to other events like past lives, OBEs, NDEs, psycho kinesis, premonitions and times of heightened emotion. This is a lively conversation between two people who’s lives have changed due ...continued

Alan Stivelman directed what might be the most beautiful documentary ever made on the subject of UFO contact, Witness of Another World. Whitley spoke with Alan about his powerful film, and this amazing interview is archived on Dreamland. Alan directed an earlier film in 2013, Humano. This is an intensely personal exploration into the mysteries of shamanism. It tells the ...continued

Mike Clelland started a blog in 2009 to try to make sense of the odd experiences that were unfolding in his life. His writings were a sort of public diary, written in real time as the experiences were happening. All the clues pointed to one thing—ongoing UFO contact. Those blog posts defined a transformative chapter of ...continued

On this episode we will explore magic with my guest Michael M. Hughes.  Michael calls himself a “magical thinker” and he shares the experiences that shaped his outlook on the deepest of mysteries. Michael is both a ceremonial magician and stage magician, and well versed in the history of magical traditions. He’s also an author and political ...continued

Is there a difference between synchronicity and magic? Alan Abbadessa Green has been at the forefront of the realm of the Syncromsitics. This is not the stuff of dry academics, his approach is both creative and lively. His insights come from his own direct experiences with powerful synchronicites. Alan runs a website focused on synchronicity called The ...continued

Why are Bigfoot witnesses surrounded by the same strangeness that plague UFO experiencers? This episode explores these mysteries with researcher Timothy Renner. He’s an author, artist, musician, podcaster and Bigfoot researcher with a focus on his home state of Pennsylvania. Why does the researcher become part of the research? Timothy has written and illustrated four books, and ...continued

Mike Clelland said this about his latest book: “I wrote about the most difficult time of my life as it was happening, and posted it on a blog. I’d been confronted with a chain of strange events that seemed impossible to understand. I tried to dismiss what was happening, but all the clues pointed to one thing, ...continued

William Konkolesky has documented his childhood contact experiences in a book titled Experiencer: Raised in Two Worlds. He is also the State Director for the Michigan chapter of MUFON. William has approached his life of strange experiences in a way that is both honest and grounded. His insights come from deep personal challenges and facing ...continued

Is the UFO contact experience connected to the mythic faerie realm? Author Joshua Cutchin has written extensively on these overlapping subjects. Is an ancient folklore still alive today, welling up in the modern close encounter experience?  Joshua has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal, and holds a Masters in Music Literature and a Masters in ...continued

audio reading of Wilderness by Car Sandburg, 4 minutes and 37 seconds A note from Mike: The Unseen will be on hiatus for a few weeks. I have a second career teaching advanced lightweight backpacking skills. I’ll be deep in the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park guiding trips for most of September. I’ve been teaching and guiding ...continued

Grant Cameron has been researching UFOs since 1975, and his ideas about the mystery behind them have transformed over the decades. A few years ago his focus was on what the US Presidents might know, and this abruptly changed after a profound download experience in 2012. He was hit with a deep knowing that consciousness ...continued

A routine x-ray found an anomalous bit of something metallic, about the size of a fingernail, in the leg of Terry Lovelace. This discovery gave rise to horrific nightmares, spontaneous recall and intrusive thoughts—all surrounding a 1977 camping trip to Devils Den State Park in Northern Arkansas. Because of his standing in the legal community, he ...continued

Laura Bruno has had a lifetime of remarkable experiences. She talks with Mike about overcoming debilitating brain trauma and dedicating her life to helping others heal. She has used her psychic and intuitive skills to resolve soul wounds that hold us back from our full potential. In this episode she does a mini astrology reading ...continued

Author and researcher Preston Dennett is here to talk about his most recent books, The Healing Power of UFOs  and Schoolyard UFO Encounters. Both these powerful book force the reader to consider the overall agenda of the UFO occupants. Something is playing out with an very specific purpose. Preston speaks at length about the hundreds of strange ...continued

Mike has a powerful conversation with his editor, fellow experiencer and friend, Suzanne Chancellor. They dig into the challenges and strangeness in their lives. Suzanne is a lifetime experiencer and contactee. Although most might label her experiences as “alien abductions”, she has now come to realize that the experience is far more complex, and surpasses the ...continued

Cheryl Costa is a journalist, researcher and author. Together with her spouse Linda, they wrote the 2017 book, UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015. The first book of its kind, it presents data and analysis from over 100,000 sighting report during the first 15 years of the 21st century. This book is full ...continued

Will Bueche talks about his work with the late Dr. John Mack, the Harvard psychiatrist and author of the 1994 book ABDUCTION, and the 1999 book PASSPORT TO THE COSMOS. Over the years Will has been cataloging, digitizing and transcribing the sessions and writings of Dr. Mack. Will has worked closely with the John E. Mack ...continued

Bret and Julie Oldham are a husband and wife paranormal research team who also wrote a book together titled, Afterlife Encounters: Ghosts, Spirits, and Near Death Experiences The fear of death is perhaps our greatest fear, yet their book is filled with heartening true stories of encounters with those who returned from the afterlife to console, ...continued

Elizabeth Anglin is a lifelong experiencer, and her youth was a storm of terribly strange events. She wrote a book about these turbulent years titled, Experience: Memoirs of an Abducted Childhood. This is the first volume of a multi-part series. Elizabeth would eventually meet Dr. John E. Mack, becoming one of his first patients as ...continued

Brad Abrahams is a documentary filmmaker and commercial director from Canada, currently based in the USA. We discuss his documentary LOVE AND SAUCERS, the powerful story of  David Huggins, an unassuming 72 year-old who claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings. At the heart of his experiences is an inter-species romance ...continued

Lance Mangia is the producer and director of the recent documentary, Third Eye Spies. His film explores the hidden history of the secret remote viewing projects that began at Stanford, and continued within the military. The story follows Russell Targ, a physicist and parapsychologist who was part of the initial team that began the research into ...continued

In 1997, Chad and Alta Dillard had what  they call “the night of missing time.” The husband and wife couple, along with their friend Christine saw a huge glowing orb above the street, and what happened next changed their lives.   The interview explores the high strangeness and emotional challenges that come with UFO contact, including soma ...continued

Robbie Graham, the author of Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood’s UFO Movies, has pursued the UFO mystery for more than half his life. This 2015 book is an examination of the interplay between Hollywood’s UFO movies and the phenomenon itself, from 1950 to present day. He explores the how this mysterious ...continued