Jeb and Blake extinguish our cigarettes, put our trays in the upright position, and head out the back of the plane in search of the elusive skyjacker known as D. B. Cooper.

Nimoy Fashion Alert - dimly lit corporate office edition.

D. B. Cooper - Wikipedia

The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (Movie) - if you buy it on Amazon we get a few pennies.

Recent Netflix series on D. B. Cooper

Blake's friend Rick Ollerman offered some opinions on vintage round parachutes.

Later we meet Nimoy outside where you can make out more of his ensemble.

Of course this is an episode about D. B. Cooper - who for Jeb and I, evokes the classic "MIB" look.

This ain't deal-a-meal. This is a different Richard Simmons.

There is some great photography in this episode. I liked seeing the reservoir and dam. Imagine landing there on a stormy November night without jump boots...  

Finally - kudos to the faceless Cooper stand-in who lugged stuff around in the anonymous re-creations. 

Jeb and Blake join Leonard Nimoy's search for Pompeii!  (Well - is it really about finding Pompeii?  Or is it about finding a possibly Christian cross in Pompeii?  Tune in and find out!)

Links: 

• Depictions of the crucifixion in Medieval Art

• People debating the cross at Pompeii

• Christian graffiti at Pompeii

• House of the Faun - Pompeii

• About that "lost Legion" thing

• Discovery and rediscovery of Pompeii

• Giuseppe Fiorelli 

• Terentius Neo

• Lupinar

• Villa of Mysteries

• Dinosyian Mysteries

• Greco-Roman Mysteries

• Thyrsus

Nimoy Fashion Alert!

Hey - it's NOT a Jumpsuit.

We complain but there really is WAY too much red-shift in the majority of this episode:

You need pumice? WE GOT BUCKETS OF PUMICE!

Jeb and Blake track the last cryptozoology episode of the original In Search Of… as we join the late Peter C. Byrne in a search for "The Abominable Snowman."

Imagining the Wild Man: Yeti Sightings in Folktales and Newspapers of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills

More on Tom Slick - MonsterTalk

Monty Python "abattoir" sketch

Searching for Sasquatch (affiliate link)

Article about Byrne still "hunting" in his 90s.

The Eternal Return

Bigfoot Map

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds (YouTube)

Horror in the Heights - Kolchak Episode with Rakshasha

NFA - "Proof of Life" 

Crevasse photo we mention from the episode.

Jeb is right at home as we go In Search Of... Mexican Pyramids! Links from research

Sacrifice City

Great Pyramid of Cholula

Templo Mayor

Ruz' Palenque Dissertation

The Christmas Robbery of the Century

Secrets of the Maya Temple (1958)

Museo (2018) movie about the robbery - affiliate link

Mystery of the Meridas Ciudad Maya nightclub

Music/Art film tied to the nightclub site

Operation PBSuccess - CIA and Guatemala 

Mystery film we think MAY have sourced part of this episode.

Director Jean Chartier 

Pyramid Comparison visual tool (wikipedia)

Nimoy Fashion Alert!  Jungle Cotton Blend edition:

There are actually subtle stripes on that shirt!

This episode has some amazing models - so cool:

And - of course - it wouldn't be ISO without some reenactments...

Dr. Joe Nickell recalls his experiences working on the Season 4 episode of In Search Of… dealing with The Shroud of Turin. note: This interview will be cross-posted to MonsterTalk. The interview contents will be identical, but the framing intro/outro will be unique to the respective shows. 

In Research Of… (Patreon)

In Research Of (free feed)

In Search Of… The Shroud of Turin (YouTube)

Joe Nickell covered by The Daily Mail

That's Incredible! segment on THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. (YouTube)

Joe Nickell's website

Joe's Amazon Author's Page (affiliate link)

Jeb and Blake unwrap the mystery of the shroud of Turin! (Which might, it turns out, be neither a shroud, nor from Turin - talk amongst yourselves!) Link to ISO on YouTube: While it lasts!

The bucket brigade saves the shroud in re-creation...

NFA - A return to "the Night Gallery?"

Young Joe Nickell at work in Alan Landsburg's NYC apartment:

The Rev. Francis Filas (1931 - 1985 - NYT OBIT)

Prescriptive Linguistics

Descriptive Linguistics

Overview of use of Christ in Medieval Art

Secondo Pia, photographer who discovered the "negative effect" on Shroud. (also, dead ringer for Seth Myers)

Just saying...

Modern research suggests "blood on shroud" was applied artistically, not organically.

More on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 

Dr. Harry Gove (Obit)

The Shroud of Turin Research Project 

Recent book that confirms Nickell's findings 

The ISO team take us back to Colonial Virginia to investigate the cold-case of the lost colony of Roanoke. Jeb and Blake learn about armadas, plays, and rock diaries.

Beach Action Nimoy Fashion Alert!

The Money Shot...

Blake thinks the ISO actor is giving off Keenan Wynn vibes.

And we've already discussed the ties between Rod Serling, Leonard Nimoy, Night Gallery, and more, so the visual similarities to this scene and Planet of the Apes might not be 100% coincidence.

The famous "Dare Stones" preserved with all the decor and pomp appropriate their historical significance:

Links for this episode:

History Channel's reboot of ISO covered this.

Antiquarianism

Play Sid Meiers Colonization 

Book by David Stick on topic

Park Ranger Phil Evans  

The full text of the Dare Stones 

We're going to need a bigger boat!  Jeb and Blake head to Australia to investigate the idea that Great White sharks are immortal!

Links: 1977 San Diego article about Sea World's shark exhibit

Article about weird things allegedly found inside sharks.

Henri Bource - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bource

Groo the Wanderer

NFA - on the beach!

Sharks are famous for their teeth - and Nimoy's have improved since season one as well.

Nimoy just walking on the beach manages to attract a diver's audience.

Diving pioneer and explorer, Hugh Edwards.

Ray Keys at Sea World has lots of great shark information.

And don't forget researcher Dr. William Gladstone! (You can find him on twitter at @DrBillGladstone)

Jeb and Blake have a look at the Season 4 episode UFO AUSTRALIA which covers the Kaikoura UFO Sighting and the disappearance of Frederich Valentich. 

• Retrospective of the Kaikoura UFO sighting
• Better version of the video than what is in the episode
• Westall UFO case (Blake mentioned - but is not in ep)
• Skeptical Inquirer (McGaha & Nickell)
• Transcript of the Valentich air traffic discussion
• Psychic Hippie Lawyer article

Nimoy Fashion Alert shot on location at the San Fernando Aerospace Solar Observatory. 

Jeb, Blake and Alex French go in research of The Amityville Horror!

Typewriters 101 site

History vs Hollywood: Amityville

History of the House

The Warren Omission

The Calamityville Horror

The Dictionnaire Infernal

Nimoy gives us the calm and rational look in the midst of so much weirdness!

So many faceless re-enactors in this one!

Horror writer Jay Anson and his trusty typewriter!

And this episode is quite notable for giving us a look at Father Mancuso from the book. Aka Father Ralph Pecoraro. Aka Father Delaney.  Aka "Jimmy the Shadow" .

The Lutz couple at the table.

The two versions of Jodie the Pig:

And we gotta include the super creepy ISO doll.  Kudos to the prop dept. 

Jeb and Blake look back at the ISO team's coverage of the global manhunt for the terrorist known as "Carlos." This episode gets an Explicit tag because of language.

Nimoy Fashion Alert:

Dr. Frederick Hacker (Obit) 

Carlos - aka The Jackal  (Wiki)

Raid on Entebbe (Wiki)

Carnaby Street, England (Wiki)

Friendship University, Russia (Wiki)

News story about how Carlos got his name

Nydia Toban (Obit) 

Carlos's Lawyer/"wife"