By Tim Binnall
The mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe, a fascinating UFO landing case from Zimbabwe, and the unseemly world of international shipping were among the riveting realms explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about a historic Congressional hearing on UFOs, eerie cases of mysterious mail, and a perceived portal to heaven that appeared in the sky over Florida. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
One of the more tantalizing UFO cases in recent years occurred back in 1994, when sixty-two students in Zimbabwe reported seeing a silver disc land in their schoolyard and two beings emerge from the craft. On Sunday night's program, filmmaker Randall Nickerson discussed his new documentary which revisits this truly mystifying event which has become something of an iconic tale in contemporary UFO lore. He detailed the challenges involved in picking up the case after so many years and recounted how he labored to track down as many of the then-child witnesses today to get their adult perspective on the encounter that shaped their lives.
In what many hope was another incremental step in solving the UFO riddle, this past week saw Congress hold their first public hearing on the mysterious phenomenon in over 50 years. The inquiry provided an enlightening look at what is said to be the Pentagon's current effort to identify and determine the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena being spotted by military personnel. While the event did not result in a bold declaration that we are being visited by extraterrestrials, is was a cornucopia for food for thought to those long-intrigued by the UFO phenomenon and, oddly enough, inspired Geraldo Rivera to share his own very weird encounter with the unexplained.
The life and death of Marilyn Monroe was in the spotlight on Thursday night's program as investigative reporter Mark Shaw discussed a new Netlflix documentary on the Hollywood icon that, he contends, contains a litany of problems. He specifically took issue with how the film, which is titled The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, covers the star's mysterious passing as having come by way of suicide, since he believes that Monroe was actually murdered. Shaw also decried her psychiatrist's notes being shown in the documentary as being highly unethical and offered his own theory for the events which ultimately led to the star's untimely death.
This past week saw a pair of puzzling mysteries surrounding mail, of all things, wind up in the headlines, beginning with a woman in New York state who inexplicably received several pieces of decades-old postage that had been sent from her late parents during vacations at locations around the world. How and why the weirdly disparate mail wound up suddenly being delivered to the woman's home is unknown, though she expressed some comfort from the spooky blast from the past. Meanwhile, in Virginia, it was revealed that a man has been receiving unsettling messages from a mysterious individual calling themselves 'Molly Mae' and that the missives have gotten increasingly creepy.
The fascinating world of maritime crime was explored on Saturday night's program as reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel recounted a wild 2011 incident involving the hijacking of the shipping vessel Brillante Virtuoso. They explained that their research into the case led them to discovering the shocking level of corruption found in international shipping due to its fragmented and unregulated nature. Zeroing in on the Brillante, the told the story of how the ship had been seemingly overtaken by pirates, but was actually an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that wound up with one crew member dead in a still-unsolved murder.
A trio of videos possibly showing paranormal activity popped up on our radar this past week, starting with a case out of Ontario where a couple filmed an eerie triangular craft silently gliding across the night sky. Following that, a motorist in Florida was stopped in his tracks when he spotted a wondrous illumination appear in the predawn sky. Somewhat resembling a portal, the peculiar sight was dismissed by skeptics as the result of a nearby rocket launch, but the witness believes it was a sign from heaven. And, finally, a group of ghost hunters in England got quite the scare thanks to an inexplicable series of booms that caused them to flee a haunted underground tunnel in fright.
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