34.01 - MU Podcast - Cursed Exposure

Mysterious Universe

Photography and the paranormal have always shared a strange chemistry—an eerie interplay of light, shadow, and the unknown. In our Season 34 opener, we venture deep into chilling accounts of cursed cameras that seem to bring death with every click, psychic photo séances where the dead imprint themselves onto film, and long-forgotten experiments suggesting photography may capture echoes of the past… or even the soul. From haunted Polaroids to Russian scientists claiming to photograph time itself, we unravel the unsettling history of spirit photography—and how it continues to haunt the present.

Then in our Plus+ extension, we follow the trail into the neuroscience of DMT, exploring a controversial theory: have alien intelligences hijacked the molecule? With insights from Andrew Gallimore’s new book 'Death by Astonishment', we confront disturbing accounts of malevolent entities intercepting psychonauts, twisting ancient rituals into interdimensional traps. Could the veil be weaponized?

All that and more in this new season’s unnerving opener.

• Russian Scientist Invents Camera To Take Ghost Photos
• Collection of unique photographs includes pictures of dinosaurs, WWII soldiers
• Photographing the past - a surprising discovery in the scientific world
• Forgotten Experiments
• Bizarre Cases of the Men in Black Caught on Film
• The Problems of Taking Pictures of Monsters
• The Mothman Prophecies
• Fate October 1956
• Fate Magazine January 1954
• The Strange Saga of the “Phantom Photographers”
• Modernity fears new fascist analogue film camera – ‘Pentax 17’
• Ted Serios
• The Story Of The Chronovisor
• Human Photonic

• Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug
• Building Alien Worlds
• Reality Switch Technologies
• Alien Information Theory
• Andrew R. Gallimore Substack
• Shamans in the Amazon
• This camera turns your photos into frames from a movie
• Pentax 17

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