An audio reading of two chapters from my recent book Hidden Experience will be featured on THE UNSEEN. This weekly podcast is hosted by Whitley Strieber on his site, Unknown Country.
The two chapters were both heavily illustrated when they first appeared on the blog back in 2010. The images posted below are meant to accompany my spoken words on the audio book excerpts. These photos and illustrations should help the listener visualize the verbal stories.
The companion audio podcast is linked HERE
(Click on any image for a hi-rez view)
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(the first audio excerpt)
CHAPTER 6
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The Map
(the first audio excerpt)
CHAPTER 6
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The Map
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
― Philip K. Dick
Lotsa owls in Missouri
Tuesday March 9, 2010
Mac Tonnies' book, The Cryptoterrestrials (above) arrives in the mail. On the same day an series of amazing owl image (below) arrive in my email inbox.

Photos by Faren Fite, over 200 owls he saw in rural Missouri.
Video footage of the owls
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Byron North Dakota and Anya Briggs
Friday, March 12, 2010

The yellow line passes between Lockwood and Greenfield along US-Highway 160 in Missouri. This is the approximate location of those amazing owl photos.
Without really thinking about it, I took a plastic ruler and set it against my computer monitor, and the three push pins line up EXACTLY in a straight line. I gotta say, this partially freaked me out, and at the same time, I sorta knew they were gonna line up before I even started.

A weird line, connecting the three dots across a BIG section of the US map. Byron in RED, Kansas City in YELLOW and those owls in BLUE.
I used some of the google-map tools to create a straight line on the map. There are 820 miles between the red push pin up North in Byron and blue push pin down in Greenfield Missouri, on the road where the owl pictures were taken, with that straight yellow line plainly bisecting Kansas City

The hometown of my pal Mac, and the yellow line passes right through the city.
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audio download / 19 minutes long / posted March 12, 2010
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The push pin making Byron North Dakota also aligns with another line |
My gut reaction to that razor sharp blue line was that it was somehow pointing directly at me! It felt like the floor dropped out from under where I sat.
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Update on the yellow line on the map
Friday, March 26, 2010
Pink Pin: My cute house in Idaho
Green Pin: Byron Wyoming
Red Pin: Byron North Dakota
Yellow Pin: Kansas City Missouri
Blue Pin: The site where the guy saw over 200 owls!
Yellow Line: 835 miles long
Blue Line: 690 miles long
White Line: 995 miles long
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Mysterious star map?
Friday, April 9, 2010
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Three days in the Pryor Mountains
Three days in the Pryor Mountains
December 2018
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15 mils north of Byron Wyoming is the Montana border, 15 miles north of the border is the Pryor Range |
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The closest owl I have ever been to in the wild, close enough to touch. (this is a found photo, but closely matches what I saw) |
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Dream image with a raven
Dream image with a raven
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
tidy art direction from the 1970's
I had a vivid dream just before I awoke, this happened on the morning of August 18th. I clearly saw a graphic poster with Helvetica bold text.
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CHAPTER 8
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The Night in the Tent
The Night in the Tent
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
—H. P. Lovecraft
Irrational fear inside our tent
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Image drawn a few days after the event
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(the second audio excerpt)
Sweat lodge and a curious scratch
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Sketch book image of the very humble sweat lodge in Arizona. A simple structure made from arching re-bar, old blankets and canvas. In the foreground is a fire pit with collection of VERY hot rocks.
An odd this scratch made of tiny blisters
Natascha, Howard and me (with a cat) early in the morning at the Spider Rock campground