In the first half, prolific author and former medical examiner Patricia Cornwell discussed her journey into writing forensic thrillers. Initially a journalist, she was fascinated by crime and forensic science, leading her to spend six years working at the Richmond, Virginia Medical Examiner's Office. Her fictional protagonist, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is featured in a series of novels, including the latest, "Identity Unknown," which intertwines elements of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) with forensic investigation. Cornwell described a gripping scenario in which Scarpetta investigates a death that appears to involve an alien abduction, complete with crop circles and possible radiation exposure.
One of her other Scarpetta novels, "Unnatural Death," delves into a crime scene in Virginia where two people were murdered, and a Bigfoot footprint was found. In her research for this book, Cornwell explored the scientific basis of Bigfoot, referencing fossils from China suggesting a creature as tall as 10 feet.
The discussion also touched on interest in the paranormal, survival instincts, and the nature of consciousness, as well as her non-fiction book about Jack the Ripper. She detailed aspects of her investigation including being given access to the original letters Jack the Ripper was said to have sent to newspapers, which she compared to the letters of the artist Walter Sickert, and she concluded that Sickert was likely the Ripper. Cornwell announced that a long-awaited television adaptation of the Scarpetta novels will be coming to Amazon Prime in 2025, starring Nicole Kidman as Kay Scarpetta and Jaime Lee Curtis as her sister.
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Independent researcher Fritz Zimmerman spent 12 years in the field investigating 700 mound and earthwork sites in the Ohio Valley. In the latter half, he shared his research into these burial mounds and sites, which he says are home to Shadow People, cryptids, ancient dwarf races, giants, UFOs, and more. Elaborating on the mounds' historical context, he revealed that they date back as early as 800 BC, making them some of the oldest in the nation. According to Zimmerman, some of the mounds and earthworks are associated with ancient giants, the people known as the Amorites who controlled Babylon from 2000 BC to 1600 BC. "One of their calling cards," he said, "was advanced mathematics...they knew pi and the square roots of numbers," and discovered the Pythagorean theorem of triangles 1000 years before Pythagoras.
He suggested that the Amorites were called the Nephilim in the Bible and that they initially came to America to mine copper. He theorized that these giants eventually intermingled with tribes like the Dakota Sioux, leading to their eventual disappearance. At the top of Fort Hill in southern Ohio, at a four-foot stone wall "that undulates like a great serpent," he saw a large black mass that was humanoid in shape, which initially seemed about 8 feet but then grew in height as it moved toward the trees. Other witnesses at the site also reported seeing the shadow figure, he reported. One reason such entities would be at the site is that "the mounds were a portal that connected the living with the dead," he noted. A man who lives near a burial mound told Zimmerman that his car was surrounded by strange cryptids that looked like giant hamsters-- about 30 of them that seemed quite menacing. The creature known as Mothman that multiple witnesses saw in West Virginia in the 1960s may have actually been the ancient winged Babylonian demon called Pazuzu, Zimmerman added.
News segment guests: Lauren Weinstein, Steve Kates