Richard Syrett's Strange Planet

For thousands of years, the evidence has been buried beneath deserts, ancient cities, and forgotten ruins. Now, remarkable archaeological discoveries are bringing some of the Bible's most extraordinary stories into sharper focus. Richard Syrett joins bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza to investigate lost civilizations, biblical mysteries, and ancient prophecies that may hold startling implications for our future.

GUEST: Dinesh D'Souza is a New York Times bestselling author, filmmaker, political commentator, and prominent Christian apologist. Known for his provocative books and documentaries exploring history, politics, faith, and Western civilization, he has spent decades challenging conventional wisdom and defending Christianity...

What really happens at Burning Man after dark? Investigative journalist Alex Newman ventures deep into the Nevada desert, uncovering disturbing accounts of occult rituals, spirit channeling, psychedelic encounters with mysterious entities, and the gathering's powerful Silicon Valley connections. Is this merely radical self-expression, or something far more sinister?

GUEST: Alex Newman is an award-winning international investigative journalist, author, founder of Liberty Sentinel Media, and senior editor of The New American. Known for exposing powerful institutions, global influence networks, and ideological movements, Newman recently ventured inside Burning Man with a camera crew to investigate its controversial spiritual practices...

He was riddled with tumours, suffering heart complications, and in such agony he could barely operate a TV remote. Then came a near-death experience, an encounter with mysterious beings, and an astonishing recovery he attributes to the smallest molecule in the universe. Richard Syrett meets Greg the Hydrogen Man.

GUEST: Greg the Hydrogen Man spent more than twenty years working in the medical field before his own health collapsed under the weight of tumours, heart complications and debilitating chronic pain. Desperate for answers, he experienced what he describes as a profound near-death encounter involving mysterious beings and...

What if you're not really in charge of your own body? Richard Syrett welcomes Dr. Sean O'Mara to expose the astonishing microbial universe inside us, the invisible organisms influencing our cravings, and the dangerous fat hiding around our organs. Can his revolutionary Living Diet reclaim our health from within?

GUEST: Dr. Sean O'Mara is a physician, researcher, former undercover narcotics agent, criminal prosecutor, emergency medicine doctor and retired U.S. Army colonel. He specializes in investigating visceral fat, the dangerous internal fat surrounding our organs, using advanced MRI imaging. Author of Growing Better Not Older, O'Mara champions...

What if the price you pay depends on how desperate you are? Investigative journalist Sarah Westall joins Richard Syrett to expose the unsettling world of AI shopping surveillance, secret consumer profiles and algorithmic pricing. Are corporations merely tracking our purchases, or learning exactly how much they can squeeze from us?

GUEST: Sarah Westall is an investigative journalist, technology entrepreneur and host of Business Game Changers. With a background in computer science, engineering and systems design, she has led telecommunications technology teams, built an international business and taught at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Her...

What if the gods of ancient Egypt never disappeared? Richard welcomes Lucious Lyran, who claims to have communicated telepathically with non-human intelligences. From the Anunnaki and humanity’s mysterious origins to UFO encounters and the entity known as “the Lady,” Lyran explores a disturbing possibility: the ancient gods are still here.

GUEST: Lucious Lyran is an author and researcher exploring ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial intelligence, human origins and consciousness. In his book What You Are Not Allowed to See, he draws upon Egyptian, Mesopotamian, biblical and Indigenous traditions, alongside his own reported experiences of telepathic contact, to advance a prov...

Did someone murder Nikola Tesla to steal his most dangerous invention? When the legendary inventor died in 1943, his secret papers became the prize in a shadowy wartime intelligence struggle. Author Steve Ubaney reopens the case, uncovering suspicious circumstances, competing suspects, and a trail that leads somewhere truly explosive.

GUEST: Stephen B. Ubaney is an author and historical investigator whose provocative Who Murdered? series challenges the official accounts of some of history's most famous deaths, including Elvis Presley, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Princess Diana. In Who Murdered Tesla?, Ubaney turns his investigative eye to the mysterious final days...

EP. # 1421 THE KIRK ASSASSINATION: What If the Security Failure Wasn’t an Accident?

Who failed Charlie Kirk? Dave Hodges joins Richard Syrett to examine Utah Valley University’s explosive After-Action Report, and the contradictions it raises about Kirk’s security. Who chose the courtyard? Were warnings ignored? Why didn’t key TPUSA personnel participate? And does the documentary record tell a very different story about what happened?

GUEST: Dave Hodges is the host of The Common Sense Show, a journalist, former teacher and psychology professor who covers politics, national security, government accountability and controversial current events...

Former Green Beret Paul Bock was recruited to investigate the UFO mystery for elements of the U.S. government. What he encountered changed everything. Bock says disclosure may be hiding something far more disturbing: deceptive entities, forbidden contact, and the emergence of a new religion built around non-human intelligence. His warning: beware.

GUEST: Paul Bock is a former U.S. Army Green Beret who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. In 2022, he was brought into an effort examining the UAP phenomenon for elements of the U.S. government, giving him access to figures at the centre of...

What if ghosts aren’t dead, Bigfoot isn’t always here, and UFO encounters reveal something stranger than visitors from space? Naturalist and cryptozoologist Brittany Barbieri explores “The Bending of Time,” the provocative possibility that time slips, apparitions, cryptids and missing time may be glimpses of a reality hiding in plain sight.

GUEST: Brittany Barbieri is a naturalist, cryptozoologist, field researcher and television personality who has spent more than two decades investigating the strange edges of the natural world. Featured on Discovery Channel’s Lost Monster Files and host of Get Weird with Brittany Barbieri, she explores everything...

UFOs that survive missiles. Government whistleblowers. CE5. Fatima. The Nephilim. L.A. Marzulli returns with the expanded Rungs of Disclosure, arguing we may be approaching something far bigger than extraterrestrial contact. What if the ultimate deception isn’t hiding the truth about UFOs—but convincing humanity what they really are?

GUEST: L.A. Marzulli is an author, filmmaker and veteran researcher exploring UFOs, ancient mysteries and biblical prophecy. His work investigates the provocative possibility that the UFO phenomenon is not simply extraterrestrial, but part of an ancient supernatural reality—and a coming deception that could challenge everything humani...

Psychic medium Sloan Bella returns to Strange Planet for a journey beyond the headlines—into the Charlie Kirk assassination, secrets inside the Royal Family, Bill Gates and global power, UFO disclosure, AI and the chilling possibility of the Antichrist. What does Sloan see coming next—and are we ready for it?

GUEST: Sloan Bella is a Hollywood psychic medium, astrologer, author and metaphysical teacher who has spent decades reading the people, patterns and unseen forces behind major cultural events. Known for her provocative predictions and fearless investigations into celebrity, politics, the paranormal and prophecy, Sloan looks beyond the...

An ancient prophecy predicts a final pope who will lead the Catholic Church and Rome itself to their ultimate destruction. But what if Peter the Roman isn’t Francis or Leo XIV? Richard Syrett welcomes Dustin Wray Hockensmith to investigate a startling theory involving Benedict XVI, a disputed succession, Vatican intrigue, and a prophecy nearing its end.

GUEST: Dustin Wray Hockensmith is a former U.S. Army captain and Special Operations psychological-warfare specialist who commanded 185 soldiers during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He’s also a singer-songwriter, recording artist and creator with nearly half a million YouTube subscribers. With best...

What if overpopulation isn’t the crisis, but the cover story? Richard Syrett sits down with Charlie Robinson to trace the hidden history of eugenics and population control, and its reach into medicine, food, finance, climate policy, digital currency and AI. Eight tentacles. One disturbing question: who decides how many of us remain?

GUEST: Charlie Robinson is the bestselling author of The Octopus of Global Control, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire and Hypocrazy. He hosts the Macroaggressions podcast, co-hosts The Union of the Unwanted and Day Zero, and is a founding member of the Independent Me...

Tillie Treadwell has seen ghosts, UFOs, strange beings and the nearly invisible Glimmer Man since childhood. But what if the real mystery is Tillie herself? Richard Syrett sits down with Tillie and her husband Artemaeus to explore unusual brainwaves, heightened senses, missing time—and whether some people are biologically wired for the paranormal.

GUEST: Tillie Treadwell is a lifelong paranormal experiencer whose encounters reportedly began in childhood and include ghosts, UFOs, missing time, unexplained beings and the elusive “Glimmer Man.” Her experiences have taken an unusual turn as researchers have examined aspects of her physiology, including brainwave activi...

What if UFOs aren’t wandering aimlessly through our skies, but carrying out a mission? Richard Syrett talks with researcher Larry Hancock about eight decades of UFO activity, from nuclear facilities and missile fields to encounters with ordinary people. Are we witnessing reconnaissance, signaling, and an intelligence that has begun studying us?

GUEST: Larry Hancock is an author and national-security researcher specializing in Cold War history, intelligence operations and the UFO phenomenon. A U.S. Air Force veteran with degrees in history and anthropology, he spent more than 30 years in the computer and communications industry and has wr...

What if your financial decisions aren’t really yours? Richard Syrett sits down with Comedy Store CFO, CPA and somatic therapist Bob Wheeler to explore the hidden programming behind money, success and self-sabotage—and what decades inside Hollywood taught him about fame, fortune, human behaviour and the unseen forces pulling our strings.

GUEST: Bob Wheeler is a CPA, financial expert, author, comedian and somatic therapist—and the longtime CFO of Hollywood’s legendary Comedy Store. He is the author of The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money and host of the Money You Should Ask podcast. Wheeler’...

What happens when the grid goes dark, banks close, grocery shelves empty and law and order begin to disappear? Richard Syrett sits down with retired Air Force Colonel Dr. Drew Miller to explore why he believes societal collapse is coming—and what ordinary people can do now to survive it.

GUEST: Dr. Drew Miller is a retired United States Air Force Colonel, former intelligence officer and former senior executive with the Department of Defense. A Harvard-trained public-policy expert, he is the founder of the Collapse Survival Institute and CEO of Fortitude Ranch, described as the largest survival-community ne...

Twenty-five years after 9/11, disturbing questions remain. Richard Syrett joins author Mark H. Gaffney to follow the money into the shadow world of black budgets, military exercises, classified aviation technology and the mysterious E-4B over Washington, and confront Gaffney’s explosive theory: What if the hijackers were themselves hijacked?

GUEST: Mark H. Gaffney is an author, researcher and environmentalist who has spent years investigating unresolved questions surrounding September 11. His books include Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology and The 9/11 Mystery Plane and the Vanishing of America, with a foreword by the late Dr. David Ray Griffin. Gaffney’s work...

Hollywood made Rudolph Valentino its first great male sex symbol. Death made him immortal. Filmmaker Giovanni Sticco reveals Valentino’s secret fascination with séances, astral projection and the afterlife, his shocking death at 31, the mysterious Lady in Black, reported hauntings, and the single red rose still linking legend to eternity.

GUEST: Giovanni Sticco is a filmmaker, producer, director, author, comic-book creator and founder of Hollywood Tower Productions. His work explores horror, science fiction, UFOs, paranormal mysteries and Hollywood’s stranger history. The son of rock-and-roll cult figure Johnny Stark, Sticco is the author of A Single Rose...

What happens when a career lawman starts investigating crimes involving occult rituals, and then turns his detective skills toward the paranormal? Richard Syrett sits down with former law-enforcement official Larry Lawson to explore haunted crime scenes, apparitions, unexplained evidence and a chilling possibility: What if some “ghosts” aren’t dead people at all?

GUEST: Lawrence “Larry” Lawson spent more than four decades in law enforcement and criminal justice as an investigator, instructor and police academy director, including work involving cult and occult-related crime. His fascination with the paranormal began in 1980, after witnessing a full-bodied apparition inside Miami’s Dade Count...

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Richard Syrett revisits the questions he dared ask when most broadcasters wouldn’t. Then, the story turns personal: pilot and The Big Bamboozle author Philip Marshall, his shocking murder-suicide, and the mysterious disappearance of Richard’s correspondence with him. What happened to those emails?

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What if “Satan’s throne” wasn’t a metaphor? Jonathan Cahn reveals the astonishing mystery of the Altar of Pergamon, unearthed in Turkey, transported to Berlin, and linked to Hitler, the Holocaust, Soviet communism and nuclear Armageddon. Is an ancient spiritual power still shaping history—and our world today?

GUEST: Jonathan Cahn is a New York Times bestselling author, biblical teacher and one of the world’s most recognized voices exploring the intersection of Scripture, prophecy and world events. His bestselling books include The Harbinger, The Oracle, and The Return of the Gods.

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The Nazca Mummies may be real, but not extraterrestrial. Steve Aspin and Dr. Andreas Lück challenge decades of UFO assumptions, arguing the mysterious Peruvian bodies could be terrestrial biological organisms and that so-called alien-human hybrids may actually be genetically engineered humans. A provocative, science-driven journey into one of ufology's greatest mysteries.

GUEST: Steve Aspin spent more than 35 years working in surgery and medical diagnostics before turning his investigative skills toward the UFO and abduction mystery. Author of Out of Time and co-author of Investigating the Impossible, Aspin explores the possibility that the phenomenon may involve genetics, f...

In 1970, police officers were called to a bizarre disturbance in St. Catharines, Ontario, and reportedly witnessed phenomena they couldn’t explain. Psychology professor and paranormal investigator Peter Sacco joins Richard Syrett to reopen the case, separate evidence from legend, and ask the unsettling question: what if the haunting was real?

GUEST: Peter Andrew Sacco is a Canadian psychology professor, author, filmmaker and veteran paranormal investigator who brings an unusual perspective to the supernatural: he understands both the mysteries of the paranormal and the ways the human mind can deceive itself. He hosts the award-winning television series The Pa...

Citizen D steps out from behind the blurred face to reveal what really happens inside the secretive world of crop-circle makers. Humans create the formations—but who inspires the designs? Strange lights, prophetic dreams, missing time and impossible synchronicities suggest something else may be guiding the hands that flatten the fields.

GUEST: Citizen D is a crop-circle insider and author of It Can't Be People: Voices From the Inner Circle. Once convinced crop circles must have a non-human origin, he spent years immersed in England’s clandestine circlemaking community, eventually participating in the creation of formations himself. What...

What if someone could see what’s coming? Richard Syrett sits down with Dr. Douglas James Cottrell—Canada’s “Edgar Cayce” and the legendary “Man with the X-Ray Eyes”—to peer beyond 2026: AI, UFO disclosure, war, economic upheaval, America, Canada, the Great Awakening—and one prediction we can put on the record.

GUEST: Dr. Douglas James Cottrell is an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, intuitive and broadcaster who has spent more than four decades exploring the hidden potential of human consciousness. Once dubbed “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes,” Cottrell uses what he calls quantum meditation to access information...

America is drowning in debt. Its borders are strained, institutions distrusted, bureaucracy entrenched and currency relentlessly diluted. Historian Jeremy Ryan Slate argues we’ve seen this movie before. Using his provocative Roman Pattern, Slate joins Richard Syrett to ask: Is the American Empire merely declining, or quietly being dismantled from within?

GUEST: Jeremy Ryan Slate is a historian, entrepreneur, author and media host whose work examines the recurring forces that shape the rise, transformation and decline of civilizations. He holds a Master’s degree in European History, specializing in the Early Roman Empire, from Seto...

Silicon Valley once promised better technology. Now its high priests promise immortality, artificial consciousness and human-machine transcendence. Richard welcomes Dr. Steve McVey to ask whether AI is becoming a synthetic spiritual authority, whether a soul can be uploaded, and whether humanity is approaching an awakening—or constructing a counterfeit religion.

GUEST: Dr. Steve McVey is a bestselling author, theologian and provocative voice exploring the intersection of spirituality, consciousness, neuroscience and quantum thought. He has authored more than two dozen books, including Grace Walk, Beyond an Angry God, Quantum Life: The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 52 Lies He...

Before the hockey mask. Before the machete. Before Jason Voorhees became a horror icon, there was Ari Lehman, the first Jason in 1980’s Friday the 13th. Richard explores Jason’s unlikely birth, horror as modern mythology, our fascination with evil, the paranormal, and why monsters never really die.

GUEST: Ari Lehman holds a singular place in horror history as the first actor to portray Jason Voorhees, delivering the unforgettable final jump scare in the original 1980 Friday the 13th. But Lehman’s story extends far beyond Crystal Lake. An accomplished musician, composer, jazz pianist and lifelong student of monste...

UFOs have escaped the fringe. With TIME declaring “The New Case for Aliens,” filmmaker and MUFON Media Relations Director Ron James joins Richard Syrett to examine the state of Disclosure, emerging government files, scientific acceptance, and the bigger question: Are we witnessing genuine transparency—or a carefully managed narrative?

GUEST: Ron James is an award-winning filmmaker, investigative researcher, and Media Relations Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He is the creator of the acclaimed Accidental Truth documentary series, exploring the evidence surrounding UAPs and the political, scientific, intelligence, and cultural forces shaping the Disclosure debate. His work a...

For nearly forty years, Richard P. Jackson has entered allegedly haunted homes, confronted claims of demonic possession and participated in exorcisms. Trained by legendary investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, Jackson reveals what he believes lurks beyond the veil, why some spirits deceive, and what happens when you challenge the darkness.

GUEST: Richard P. Jackson is a veteran paranormal investigator and medium whose extraordinary journey began when his own family encountered something terrifying in a New England farmhouse. Seeking help brought him to Ed and Lorraine Warren, who became his mentors. He later studied mediumship at Lily Dale...

Has truth become the ultimate casualty of the culture wars? Richard Syrett sits down with journalist Shane Cashman, who embedded himself with some of America's most controversial figures, including Ye and Alex Jones, to expose how media narratives, algorithms, public shaming, and faith are reshaping our understanding of reality—and who gets branded the villain.

GUEST: Shane Cashman is an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Good Villains: My Journey to the Frontlines of Fame, Controversy, and the War on Reality. Best known for immersive reporting, he has spent years embedded with some of the world's mo...

Former heavyweight boxing champion David "Nino" Rodriguez has survived brutal fights, brushes with death, and a life-altering spiritual awakening. Now, as host of Nino's Corner, he's battling on a different front—truth, faith, and spiritual warfare. Richard Syrett explores the hidden war for humanity's soul in this riveting conversation.

GUEST: David "Nino" Rodriguez is a former heavyweight boxing champion turned podcaster and truth-seeker. As host of Nino's Corner, he interviews whistleblowers, intelligence insiders, pastors, journalists, and researchers on government secrecy, AI, UFOs, media manipulation, and spiritual warfare. His remarkable journey from the boxing ring to the front li...

Since the 2017 UAP revelations, the conversation has shifted from fringe speculation to front-page headlines. Richard Syrett welcomes award-winning journalist Chrissy Newton to examine the state of disclosure, media responsibility, credible evidence versus hype, and where the global push for transparency on the UAP mystery may be headed next.

GUEST: Chrissy Newton is an award-winning Canadian broadcaster, journalist, and host of Rebelliously Curious. As Director of PR and a writer for The Debrief, she covers UAPs, aerospace, intelligence, and frontier science with a commitment to evidence-based reporting. A frequent contributor to television documentaries including Ancient Aliens and Alien...

Dr. Anthony Fauci's dramatic Senate testimony—and repeated invocations of the Fifth Amendment—have reignited the COVID debate. Richard Syrett welcomes physician and researcher Dr. Michael Schwartz to examine the newly released Fauci Diaries, compare them with frontline clinical data, and ask whether history is finally catching up with questions first raised years ago.

GUEST: Dr. Michael J. Schwartz is founder and CEO of Medisure and was among the first physicians in New Jersey to oversee large-scale COVID-19 testing, helping collect real-world clinical data from more than 44,000 diagnostic tests during the pandemic. Author of Fauci's Fiction, he has...

Award-winning special effects artist Colleen Coffman spent decades creating cinematic illusions—until she says the impossible began appearing in real life. In The Adventures of a Sketch Diary, she recounts astonishing encounters with fairies, elementals, shadow beings, and a chilling artistic pact with a mysterious entity that forever changed her understanding of reality.

GUEST: Colleen Coffman is an award-winning special effects artist, illustrator, paranormal experiencer, and author of The Adventures of a Sketch Diary. After more than 25 years creating creatures and illusions for film and theater, she began documenting extraordinary encounters she believes occurred outside the studio—incl...

Artificial intelligence is transforming civilization—but could it also be laying the foundation for the prophetic system described in Revelation? Richard Syrett welcomes retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis to explore AI, surveillance, digital currencies, spiritual deception, and whether humanity is building the infrastructure for the End Times.

GUEST: Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Robert L. Maginnis is a West Point graduate, national security strategist, bestselling author, and former Pentagon advisor. Drawing on decades of military intelligence and defense policy experience, he examines the intersection of emerging technology, geopolitics, biblical prophecy, and spiritual warfare. Hi...

The next 36 months could redefine civilization. Astrological forecaster and futurist William Stickevers reveals why humanity is entering the Fourth Turning—a historic period of upheaval, technological revolution, economic disruption, and geopolitical realignment. Is the future already unfolding exactly on schedule? The patterns may surprise even the most hardened skeptics.

GUEST: William Stickevers is an internationally recognized astrological forecaster, geopolitical analyst, and futurist who has spent nearly four decades tracking the intersection of astrology, economics, history, and global affairs. Renowned for his bold, time-specific forecasts, he helps governments, investors, and private clients anticipate major geopolitical, financial, and technological tu...