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The remarkable story of experiencer Lucinda starts in 15th-century Spain, when almost her entire family was murdered by unknown persons for unknown reasons. Fast forward to modern times, and her father is first kidnapped by the town witch, then becomes an abductee. Now, this high-level corporate executive is involved, too.  Not an Unknowncountry subscriber? The perfect time to start is always RIGHT NOW. Click here to explore our inexpensive recurring and one-time-only plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Dreamland, we speak with Christopher Robinson, known as the “Dream Detective,” a man who has spent decades studying precognitive dreams — including his own. Robinson had a precognitive dream of the Lockerbie bombing so clear that he came under police suspicion. Listen as he tells the agonizing story of what it is like to have clear precogs but be helpless to prevent the disasters that follow. This powerful, heart-rending show goes down into the very depths of what it means to see the future. Deep humanity, deep mystery.  This is a very eerie show, especially toward the end. Listen carefully! Visit Christopher at The Premonition Man. Get his book here. Want more of our insight, unique interviews, and reporting, plus access to our vast archive of podcasts and news stories rarely covered by mainstream media, and almost never seriously? Subscribe to Unknowncountry today! To get started, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A child in an ancient castle is terrified by seeing blood on the floor from a long-ago murder. Next, she experiences a lifetime of psychic events. And then the shocking appearance of a sacred presence: The Lady--and she spends years with the Lady in her life. In this unforgettable Dreamland episode, Whitley Strieber speaks with Amanda, whose experiences with a sacred feminine apparition span decades—from the terrifying psychic awakening at age five to a profound encounter at Montségur, in the Cathar country of Southern France. What emerges is not just a story—but a call. A call to rediscover the sacred feminine, the deeper self, and the hidden dimensions of human experience. Is The Lady a Marian presence? A manifestation of the divine feminine? Or something even more mysterious? This is not an ordinary conversation. It is an initiation. Happy Easter Not an Unknowncountry subscriber? The perfect time to start is always RIGHT NOW. Click here to explore our inexpensive recurring and one-time-only plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dreamland guest host James Faulk interviews Ryan Kralik about his book, "It From Us: An Information-first Framework and the Purpose of Consciousness," and how his cosmic framework accommodates anomalous experiences throughout history. Kralik argues that information lies at the root of reality rather than matter or energy. Kralik shares his personal journey into remote viewing, beginning with a surprising experiment with his wife that produced accurate descriptions of a hidden marble, leading him to further explore the phenomenon and develop a framework that explains UAPs, telepathy, near-death experiences, and other anomalous phenomena. He describes how his information-first approach could reconcile both materialist and idealist perspectives, viewing coherence as the fundamental constraint driving physical reality, and theorizes how UAPs might operate as consciousness and intent amplifiers rather than conventional spacecraft using known physics. Faulk and Kralik also explore the limitations of AI, whether it will ever achieve true consciousness, and the potential for collective human cognition to affect reality. Want more of our insight, unique interviews and reporting, plus access to our vast archive of podcasts and news stories rarely covered by mainstream media, and almost never seriously? Subscribe to Unknowncountry today! To get started, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prior to the retirement of General William “Neil” McCasland in 2013, Monica Jacinto Reza was one of the most important materials researchers at  Rocketdyne, who had developed a material called Monalloy, which freed the United States from the need to use Russian-made rocket engines to move classified satellites into orbit. Listen as Whitley unpacks the ways in which her work as a Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne would have been connected to the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB, which was commanded until mid-2013 by General Neil McCasland, who disappeared on February 27.  The Air Force started funding Reza’s superalloy work in 1999, and McCasland’s budget directly funded the programs that depended on Reza’s alloy — including the AR1 engine, the Hydrocarbon Boost program, and Air Force propulsion. When Reza’s team in California shipped data to the government for qualification, it landed inside McCasland’s laboratory. While law enforcement has not made any connection between the two cases, the question has to be asked: why have both of these people disappeared? Want more of our insight, unique interviews and reporting, plus access to our vast archive of podcasts and news stories rarely covered by mainstream media, and almost never seriously? Subscribe to Unknowncountry today! To get started, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

General William McCasland oversaw one of the most sensitive scientific organizations in the United States Air Force, responsible for advanced aerospace research, propulsion systems, and classified technologies. His name surfaced unexpectedly in the now-famous Podesta–DeLonge UFO Email Exchange, where he was referenced in connection with discussions about possible recovered craft and non-human technology. Soon afterward, McCasland quietly retired from public life. Why would one of the most senior scientists in the U.S. Air Force be mentioned in conversations about extraterrestrial technology? What role might the Air Force Research Laboratory have played in investigating unknown aerospace materials? Above all, why has he disappeared? In this episode of Dreamland, we explore the career, responsibilities, and mysteries surrounding the general who may have stood closer than almost anyone to the deepest secrets of advanced aerospace research. Topics discussed include: • The mission and capabilities of the Air Force Research Laboratory• The significance of the Podesta–DeLonge email chain• Why Russia or China might have been interested in McCasland’s work• Scientists and researchers connected to advanced propulsion programs. Whitley discusses what might have happened with Debrief editor Micah Hanks. Check out Whitley’s 2026 Book Release “Transformation 2026”: Click here Check out his New York Times bestselling book Communion: Click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens when reality stops behaving the way we expect? This week on Dreamland, we explore the strange territory where UFO encounters, synchronicities, and mystical experience begin to blur the boundaries of ordinary life. Our guest is Meredith Spearman, creator of the Substack Maze to Metanoia, where she examines what she calls the maze of high strangeness—and the profound inner transformation that can follow encounters with it. Spearman is a writer, professor, and registered nurse whose work explores consciousness, anomalous experience, and the psychological upheaval that can follow encounters with the unknown. Through her writing, she suggests that UFO encounters and other anomalies may act less like isolated events and more like catalysts—experiences that shatter consensus reality and force us into a deeper inquiry about mind, meaning, and the nature of the universe. In this conversation, we ask:Are anomalous experiences simply mysteries to be solved—or are they initiations? What happens when the strange begins to reshape our understanding of consciousness, spirituality, and reality itself? Sometimes the maze is not something we escape. Sometimes it is the path that transforms us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Dreamland, guest host James Faulk interviews Matthew Roberts, a former Navy cryptologist who has turned his anomalous experience onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt during the Gimbal UFO event into a transformative initiation. Roberts discusses his experiences with UFO phenomena, including encounters with non-human entities and the development of his understanding of consciousness and spirituality. We then explore the potential connection between Roberts' experiences and broader themes of human evolution, psychological development, and the need for a spiritual awakening in society. We explore the now unfilled role of mystery schools and initiatory practices in stabilizing civilizations, as well as the possibility of a new spiritual paradigm emerging in response to current societal breakdown. Finally, we dissect the potential for government disclosure of UFO-related information, in light of Trump's recent announcements on disclosure, as well as how any such transparency will impact public understanding of the UFO/NHI phenomenon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From an early age, she knew something was strange. At the age of 5, she had a disturbing dream about a distraught woman. All of her life, she remembered this woman–how she looked, but not why she was so upset. Then, in her early twenties, she recognized the woman: it was her. She had become the figure in her childhood dream. And then it started… This is the first time this witness has ever spoken publicly about what has happened to her.  Hear more stories like this from Unknowncountry.com’s vast archive and while you’re at it, why not subscribe? Where else will you find so much knowledge, much of it all but impossible to uncover? Support this precious project. Subscriptions start at $4.95 a month. ⁠Click here⁠ to explore our options.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Famed Anunnaki expert Dr. Heather Lynn reveals explosive new findings about their powers and their motives in the distant past, then shows how modern elites are seeking to understand and make use of their secrets. But for what? We were once enslaved by them. So who are the world-ruling elites who are taking such an interest, and why are they doing it? An underwater city off the coast of Cuba is mentioned in this discussion.  There was supposed to be a major expedition to learn more about it. Instead, it disappeared from the news. Read more about it in this story from Unknowncountry.com’s vast archive. Click here. And while you’re at it, why not subscribe? Where else will you find so much knowledge, much of it all but impossible to uncover? Support this precious project. Subscriptions start at $4.95 a month. Click here to explore our options.  Get the Anunnaki Revelation today! Click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, author and journalist Nick Cook discusses his career as a journalist covering defense technologies, his newest book, and where his years of research into consciousness and the UFO phenomenon have led him for fundamental conclusions. Cook is the author of a classic in the UFO field, “The Hunt for Zero Point,” which probed the possibilities around anti-gravitic technology, limitless energy, government secrecy, and much else. His most recent project, “The Light Beyond The Mountains,” was serialized on his “Rogue Icons” substack.  By integrating the work of Donald Hoffman, Ingo Swann, Philip K. Dick, Robert Bigelow, Edgar Mitchell, Jacques Vallee, Garry Nolan, and many others, Cook arrives at some fundamental conclusions about the nature of reality, humanity, plasma, and the UFO.  To visit “Rogue Icons” and read more of Cook’s work: https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcook/p/uaps-buybacks-and-stewardship?r=1fir1&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Nuccetelli joins Whitley with an explosive interview covering not just his congressional testimony, but how it felt to be up close and personal during one of the most intense, frightening and provocative series of UAP encounters ever recorded, as massive unknown objects repeatedly penetrated high-security areas at Vandenberg Air Force Base. From Jeff's Congressional testimony: "I personally witnessed one of these events and investigated others. Six other service members — all direct eyewitnesses — have provided the information I share today. The incursions began on October 14, 2003, when Boeing contractors reported a massive,glowing red square silently hovering over two missile defense sites. After several minutes, it drifted east and vanished behind the hills.This event — now known as the Vandenberg Red Square — was later referenced by Representative Luna during the first public hearing on this topic. Official Air Force records documenting it are now held by AARO and the FBI." Held, yes, but NOT released! Jeff has his own great podcast! Don't miss a single episode. Click here. Not an Unknowncountry supporter? Now’s the time!! Click here to choose YOUR plan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, we explored whether or not some GATE programs could involve more than just enhanced learning. THIS WEEK, Desta Barnabe tells us some actual witness stories, including her own, and we ask the question: is it STILL going on??  Get Desta Barnabe's intense and very important book. Click here. Not an Unknowncountry supporter? Now's the time!! Click here to choose YOUR plan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could there be something deeper, something hidden, going on in some Gifted and Talented (GATE) programs? Researcher Desta Barnabe had some very strange memories associated with her GATE experience and set out to research them–with startling and deeply concerning results. Could at least some of the programs involve finding bright children with unusual abilities such as psychic talents, telepathy and other strange skills? If so, why? And what happens to those children?? This provocative and intense show will be run in two parts, week one starting on January 16 and week two on January 23.  Get Desta Barnabe’s intense and very important book. Click here. Not an Unknowncountry supporter? Now’s the time!! Click here to choose YOUR plan.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legendary Kennedy researcher Mark Shaw explores the fundamental abuse of power that defines the connection between the  Mafia and hidden forces within the government. He offers explosive new information about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, including the hidden role of Mafia boss Carlos Marcello and the real assassin of RFK. He details his discovery of a confession by Marcello that he was behind the killing of RFK, and probably JFK as well. He calls for transparency in these historical cases and also in the Jeffrey Epstein case, which is, as this show is being aired, in the process of being sanitized by the Department of Justice just as the Kennedy files were a few years ago. WHEN WILL IT END??   Visit Mark at his website MarkShawBooks.com where you can contact him if you have any information that might be useful to him. Explore Mark's books on Amazon! Click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices