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The Waning Moon: UFOs & Their Pentagon Propagandists

Desert Oracle Radio - August 04, 2023 22:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
The United States military branches and intelligence agencies do not control what happens around the world all the time, much as they’d like to. The things we call UFOs occur in the backwoods and on backroads, over the lonely desert playas and mountain lakes, eternally floating around the sacr...

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Where They Built the Bomb

Desert Oracle Radio - July 21, 2023 23:11 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet — the high-desert plateau around Los Alamos is real nice, at an elevation of 7,320'. Lots of people have fallen in love with the climate and clean dry air up there, such as  J. Robert O...

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The Witch Beat

Desert Oracle Radio - July 15, 2023 02:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Tonight we are talking about witches. And interesting religions, new & old. And especially California's incredible occult countercultures—the esoteric stuff that Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Netburn covers for her official newspaper beat: "Faith, Spirituality and Joy." Some of the interest...

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Under the Eye of Power

Desert Oracle Radio - July 07, 2023 22:27 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin Dickey, who has written interesting books about a lot of our favorite topics: ghosts, flyings saucers, and especially the many reasons so many of us...

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Duel in the Desert

Desert Oracle Radio - June 23, 2023 22:40 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Welcome to the American Desert, where we've got a "champagne climate" (nine months of brutal summer), David Hockney's hidden Pearblossom Highway artworks, and wild gunfights in the streets. But springtime is very lovely, if you can catch it. New sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver, written & hosted by ...

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Strange Things Happening Every Day

Desert Oracle Radio - June 16, 2023 20:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
We've got it all tonight: UFO calls from listeners, albino animals appearing worldwide, and something about reduced expectations and fried chicken. New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver, and a clip from our morning appearance on Z107.7 FM's Up Close show. Support the show: https://www.patreon...

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The Haunted Highway

Desert Oracle Radio - June 02, 2023 22:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way you came in. The state line between Nevada and California is unmarked in the Mojave Wilderness, so it’s up to you to know what’s legal or not. Do not ...

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Thru-Hiking With Tahquitz

Desert Oracle Radio - May 19, 2023 22:49 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that the monster did not put an early end to her Pacific Crest Trail adventure, as so often happens in those movies with Reese Witherspoon. Because there's ...

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Space Radio (A Broadcast)

Desert Oracle Radio - May 12, 2023 23:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Tonight we are joined by Joshua Tree bookseller & publisher Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books, along with a transmission from poet & sci-fi author Michael Butterworth. To hear an earlier live broadcast with J-P Garneir and Ken Layne, just call up Episode #065, one of our occasional ho...

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The Nature of Color & Vision

Desert Oracle Radio - April 28, 2023 23:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
The waxing moon is moving through the constellation of Leo, Mars is fading, and Venus hangs heavy in the western sky. Venus seems enormous, especially late at night, low over our western mountains. Meanwhile on the desert floor, and splashed brightly up the desert hillsides, wondrous carpets of ...

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Who By Fire, Who By War

Desert Oracle Radio - April 15, 2023 00:29 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
It's a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldier, wounded deep in psychic battle, like Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, like Che in Bolivia, like good old Ambrose Bierce headed to the deserts down in ...

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Hoppy Easter, From the Desert Fathers

Desert Oracle Radio - April 07, 2023 22:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
On this Good Friday —which wasn't so great for the protagonist — let us be enlightened by the strange koans of the Desert Fathers. These were the 5th Century CE monks who started the whole "move to the desert" trend, leaving their elite lives in the cities for the hardship of a tiny hole dug in ...

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Lost Treasure of Owens Lake

Desert Oracle Radio - March 24, 2023 22:17 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
During these many months of heavy rain & thick snowdrifts, we look around the southwest and notice all those playas, those alkaline dry lakes, blessed with a sheen of fresh water . . . and we remember this used to be a land of lakes, not so long ago. As the last Ice Age came to a close, some 1...

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Awe & Fear in the Holy Wilderness

Desert Oracle Radio - March 10, 2023 23:19 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Apologies if you hear the wind whipping around on the roof of this little radio shack out here tonight. There’s some strip of metal the previous owners tacked down to cover a weak spot in the roof, and it’s slapping around the swamp cooler. And until your host robs a bank, well it’s going to sta...

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Wolf Woman, Wild Woman

Desert Oracle Radio - February 25, 2023 00:14 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a strange visitor brought horror & dismay over the long hot summer of 19&69. Thanks for supporting this program via Patreon.com/DesertOracle. Soundsc...

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The Green Comet

Desert Oracle Radio - February 03, 2023 23:23 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
"What could it be? There was no balloon and there were no aeronauts. Some strange phenomenon had occurred in the higher zones of the atmosphere, a phenomenon of which neither the nature nor the cause could be explained. Today it appeared over America . . . ." Tonight we take a look at the life...

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Encounters With Coyote-Man

Desert Oracle Radio - January 28, 2023 02:35 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that's both a common wild canine and the devious trickster god who created the world.  Also: A lot of people are seeing coyotes stand up and walk away like a man. This is EPISO...

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Space Monsters & Other Earthly Demons

Desert Oracle Radio - January 14, 2023 03:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Night has fallen on the desert. The year is still fresh and new. We don’t all have to talk about stoves, all the sudden. We can do better. Let’s do better. Let’s talk about monsters. Desert Oracle Radio (C)(P) 2017-2023 • http://DesertOracle.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/d...

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The Haunted Mountains

Desert Oracle Radio - January 07, 2023 03:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted White Mountains. Ever since their strange story went national in the mid-1960s, we all know the scene: a dark night on a lonesome highway, and somethi...

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Christmas In Death Valley (With the Lost '49ers)

Desert Oracle Radio - December 23, 2022 22:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
"Gentlemen!" yelled their frontier guide, Captain Jefferson Hunt, "All I have to say is that if you take that route, you will all be landed in Hell!" So began the four-month-long "shortcut" that left the starving Lost '49ers in the middle of Death Valley at Christmas. Hopefully your holidays w...

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The Return of King Ludd

Desert Oracle Radio - December 16, 2022 23:03 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Winter Solstice is coming and the Luddites are celebrating on their flip-phones. That's all we've got to say about it. Listen on your radio in Joshua Tree or Moab or Fresno or various other community stations. And don't forget to support Desert Oracle Radio when you're filling the Christmas stoc...

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The Old Desert Regular Gnostic Advent Calendar

Desert Oracle Radio - December 03, 2022 04:02 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
The desert is the kind of place you think maybe you might *discover* something. A treasure, maybe. The Lost Ark. Some old glass bottles, some old human bones. Maybe a secret history of the ancient world, hidden for 1,500 years in a sealed jar buried in a pile of guano. Soundscapes by RedBlueBl...

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The Grouse and the Goddess

Desert Oracle Radio - November 24, 2022 20:03 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and we are taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival of the Northern Flicker mean, in augury? How has the Triple Goddess survived relentless persecution by the patriarchal religions of bureaucra...

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The Library of Desert Secrets

Desert Oracle Radio - November 12, 2022 03:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
What sort of religious nut was John Muir? What was the mystical and spiritual argument for the creation of America's national parks system? Who planted the tall tales that would become global UFO mythology? And why did the cold voice of recorded robots tell Desert Oracle Radio to immediately lea...

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Desolation Peak

Desert Oracle Radio - November 04, 2022 22:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation Peak. ALSO: Our last stage show, coming up Nov. 10 (next week!) in Los Angeles, with Ken Layne & RedBlueBlackSilver. PLUS: Campfire Stories in the Uta...

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John Lennon's UFO (Some Time In New York City)

Desert Oracle Radio - October 18, 2022 23:13 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Happy October, friends. This episode comes to you from the West Village, NYC. We'll see you next in Oakland (10/21/2022) and Portland (10/23/2022). Thanks to RedBlueBlackSilver for the magical soundscapes & to you for supporting this independent radio show via our Patreon page. Keep the desert i...

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Famous For Nothingness

Desert Oracle Radio - September 30, 2022 21:21 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
It's tourist season in the Mojave again, never mind the lingering heat and $6-a-gallon gasoline. What's the attraction to this dried-up old desert? Did the fad peak in 2020? Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio #169: FAMOUS FOR NOTHINGNESS. Soundscapes and Old Desert Regular haunted-gospel or...

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Like a Hurricane

Desert Oracle Radio - September 09, 2022 22:38 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
Night has fallen on the desert, and if you’re in the Western Mojave around Joshua Tree National Park and all the way out to Kelso and Las Vegas, you might already have the buckets out for any newly discovered leaks in the roof, because rain is in the forecast for the whole region. Up to 80% chan...

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Down in the Flood

Desert Oracle Radio - August 19, 2022 22:34 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
An interesting thing about a raging flash flood is how quiet it is, for the most part. Sometimes you’ll hear a pinyon log sort of bonk against a boulder, but the silt and the mud absorbs most of the sound. Sometimes, you feel a rumble from the ground below, a pleasing sort of rumble. Like it’s f...

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Death Valley's 1,000-Year-Flood

Desert Oracle Radio - August 12, 2022 22:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 759 ratings
It sure has been a wild week or two, especially here in the Mojave. Just a few days after massive flash floods washed out a number of roads within Mojave National Preserve — the completely washed-out Baker-Kelso road in particular — Death Valley got it hard. Weather chaos, monsoon deluges, UFOs ...

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