{"id":155,"date":"2019-10-29T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?p=155"},"modified":"2019-10-29T19:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:18:44","slug":"10-28-19-the-man-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/10\/29\/10-28-19-the-man-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"10.28.19. The Man in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5599\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-155-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=155-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/gralienreport\/102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"102819_The_Man_in_Black.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/subscribe\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>This week on\u00a0<em>The Micah Hanks Program<\/em>, as Halloween is just around the corner, we bring in the season with tales of haunted houses, mysterious monstrous eggs found deep in the ocean, and a whistleblower&#8217;s story of searching for extraterrestrials.<\/p>\n<p>Then for our &#8220;Unidentified October&#8221; segment, we look at eerie stories of &#8220;ghost lights&#8221;, and how geophysics might hold the key to understanding strange lights seen in the night in various places around the world for centuries. James Waldo, a professional geologist with the Army Corps of Engineers, has seen them on many occasions in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, and gives us a few ideas on what their causes might be.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the conclusion to our Halloween series for 2019, we look to one of the most frightening and ubiquitous terrors of all time: that of the &#8220;Man in Black.&#8221; Since ancient times, our fear of darkness has led us to view mysterious, black-clad strangers as omens or harbingers of misfortune. This universal theme of a mysterious evil force embodied in an odd, and at times a mischievous stranger, has become a staple of the horror novels written by &#8220;The Master Storyteller&#8221; Stephen King over the years. What are the origins of this ultimate evil, and why does it so often take the form of a mysterious &#8220;Man in Black,&#8221; whether in fiction, folk traditions from around the world, or even modern literature pertaining to UFO encounters?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are links to stories featured in this week&#8217;s episode:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzz.ie\/news\/worlds-scariest-haunted-house-offers-e18000-can-can-finish-341176\">&#8216;World&#8217;s scariest haunted house&#8217; offers $20,000 to anyone who can finish it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/lifestyle\/lifestyle-buzz\/divers-find-giant-mysterious-egg-floating-in-ocean\/ar-AAJmRKE?ocid=spartandhp\">Divers Find Mysterious Giant Egg Floating in the Ocean<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/23\/us\/edward-snowden-joe-rogan-conspiracies-trnd\/index.html\">Edward Snowden searched the CIA&#8217;s networks for proof that aliens exist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf040\/sf040p15.htm\">William R. Corliss: Quakes And Ufos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf031\/sf031p16.htm\">Are nocturnal lights earthquake lights?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science-frontiers.com\/sf016\/sf016p12.htm\">Earthquake Lights And Crustal Deformation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.looper.com\/167026\/the-untold-truth-of-randall-flagg-from-the-stand\/?utm_campaign=clip\">The untold truth of Randall Flagg from Stephen King&#8217;s <em>The Stand<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gralienreport.com\/x\">BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-midtext\">Sign up today and get access to the entire back catalog of<strong>\u00a0The Micah Hanks Program,\u00a0<\/strong>as well as \u201cclassic\u201d episodes of\u00a0<em>The Gralien Report Podcast,<\/em>\u00a0weekly \u201cadditional editions\u201d of the subscriber-only\u00a0<em><strong>X Podcast,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0the monthly\u00a0<strong>Enigmas\u00a0<\/strong>specials, and much more.<\/div>\n<p>Like us on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GralienReport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MicahHanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@MicahHanks<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>Follow Micah on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/micah_hanks\/?hl=en\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Halloween special edition of the podcast, we look at one of the most frightening and ubiquitous terrors of all time: the &#8220;Man in Black.&#8221;<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/micahhanks.com\/podcast\/2019\/10\/29\/10-28-19-the-man-in-black\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,120,119,118,110,116,111,112,114,115,113],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10.28.19. 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