Author and researcher A.W. Finnegan joins the show to discuss his book The Sleeper Agent: The Rise of Lyme Disease, Chronic Illness, and the Great Imitator Antigens of Biological Warfare.

After his own experience with Lyme disease led him down a years-long research path, Finnegan began digging into the history of biological warfare, Nazi virologist Erich Traub, Project Paperclip, Plum Island, and Cold War experiments involving ticks, insects, migratory birds, and infectious disease.

Throughout the conversation, Finnegan lays out his argument that the history of Lyme disease may be far more complicated than the commonly accepted story, pointing to declassified documents, scientific research, government programs, and the concept of immune tolerance as pieces of a much larger puzzle.

We also discuss vaccine research, COVID-era biodefense, government experimentation, why biological weapons can be uniquely difficult to distinguish from naturally occurring outbreaks, and the controversy that follows anyone willing to question established explanations.

Toward the end, Finnegan shares some of the research he has uncovered since publishing The Sleeper Agent and gives a glimpse into his next project, which takes an entirely different direction into the history and folklore surrounding jinn.

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Katie Jo returns to Tinfoil Tales for a conversation that starts with remote viewing and quickly goes much further into the strange possibilities surrounding human consciousness.

We discuss experiments involving remote viewing and psychokinesis, the Monroe Institute, out-of-body experiences, spontaneous knowledge, altered states of consciousness, and the growing interest in studying experiences that have traditionally been pushed to the fringes. Katie also shares some of the remote viewing experiments her own group has conducted and why she believes there is still much more to understand about what the human mind may be capable of.

From there, things get considerably stranger.

Katie discusses filming with people who identify as psychic and sanguine vampires, including unusual experiences she witnessed while participating in group energy exercises. We also get into crisis apparitions, strange figures appearing along rural roads, astral projection, precognitive dreams, psychedelic experiences, and whether some reported hauntings could actually involve consciousness somehow projecting itself beyond the physical body.
The conversation eventually turns toward the possibility that fairies, goblins, aliens, cryptids, and other entities reported throughout history could represent different interpretations of the same underlying phenomenon. We also discuss mysterious humanoids, strange experiences in caves, human involvement in alleged abductions, intuition, Dogman sightings, and why sometimes the most dangerous thing encountered during a paranormal investigation may simply be another person.

It is a wide-ranging return conversation about consciousness, perception, the paranormal, and the uncomfortable possibility that the boundaries between all of these subjects may not be as clear as we think.

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Every highway has a dark side—and some roads carry travelers who never reached their destination. In this special journey, host Dave Schrader explores chilling tales of haunted highways, phantom hitchhikers, ghostly vehicles, unexplained lights, roadside cryptids and supernatural encounters from across the globe. Buckle up, set the cruise control for Crazy Town and prepare for a terrifying ride through the shadowy realm between this world and the next.

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