34.01 - MU Podcast - Cursed Exposure

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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