Episode 03: Exam Conditions

Summary

High Strange – Episode 03: Exam Conditions

Podcast by: Tenderfoot TV & iHeartPodcasts
Date: February 20, 2026
Host: Payne Lindsay
Main Guests: Dave (Broadhaven primary witness), Dave’s mother, Rancher from Oregon (segment)

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Episode Overview

This episode continues High Strange's deep dive into mysterious encounters, focusing on a celebrated mass sighting at a Welsh primary school in the 1970s — the Broadhaven UFO incident — before expanding into the wave of bizarre events and subsequent contamination from hoaxes that followed. The episode examines themes of collective memory, social trust, skepticism, and how extraordinary events are investigated, explained, or lost to ridicule. In the final segment, the show explores cattle mutilations in the US, setting up contrasts between physical evidence and ephemeral, subjective accounts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Broadhaven Primary School Sighting: Firsthand Memories

• Dave’s Recollection (03:13–09:15):

  • At age 10, Dave, a voracious reader and skeptic, recounts his classmates’ excitement during lunch break: "They were describing it as a flying saucer. It didn't seem like they were having a joke...they actually sounded like they meant it." (03:41)
  • Despite initial disbelief, Dave investigates and sees a "silver, 45ft long object" rising silently from behind the trees: "I've got something in front of me that shouldn't exist but does." (04:50)
  • He describes receiving an intrusive mental message: "There was a suggestion there that I should leave the area." (06:12) He notes, "It was more like a caution. Please leave the area. I've been told to get away." (06:19)

• Aftermath: Emotional and Cognitive Disturbances (06:42–08:08):

  • The children ride home in "complete silence... didn't say a word" despite the extraordinary experience (07:13).
  • Dave is "switched back on again" only when he arrives home and blurts out his story to his mother (07:40), who believes him instantly.

2. The School's Skeptical Response: 'Exam Conditions'

• Headmaster’s Test (09:42–11:40):

  • The headmaster isolates all 14 claimants, seating them separately and asking each to draw and describe what they saw.
  • All independently draw nearly identical objects: silver cigar shapes with domes and a red light. "The headmaster... went white. All of those illustrations depicted the same object." (10:30)
  • The school faces a press frenzy, with national and then international attention.

• Mother’s Perspective:

  • "I believe they saw something which is not common in the environment." (11:59)

3. Wider Social and Official Fallout

• Official Inquiry (12:10–13:29):
  • Media storm ensues. Military officials (RAF Broady, US Naval facility) interview witnesses, still state “nothing to do with us.”
  • Broadhaven becomes the center of the so-called Welsh Triangle: "Silver scar shaped objects sighted off the Gower Swansea coast. Another one in Larn... The Welsh Triangle." (19:08)
  • Sightings continue and become more dramatic, now involving reports of “occupants.”

4. Escalation: The Silver Suited Figure and Contamination by Hoaxes

• Poltergeist-Like Events & the 'Silver Man' (20:44–22:25):

  • Ripperston Farm incident: a family reports seeing large, faceless, silver-suited beings (“The arms were exceptionally long, their legs were exceptionally long and they definitely didn't have face.” – 21:57)
  • Police consider them the most frightened family they encountered (22:44).

• Hoaxes and Social Noise (23:12–26:23):

  • Ministry of Defence (MoD) inquiry is short-circuited when an adult is spotted in a silver fire-suit, hoaxing as an alien.
  • The region is now awash with pranks (a dislodged bomber fuel tank placed as a fake ‘crash’, others making up stories for tobacco).
  • Dave notes most children remain consistent in their accounts, but "you always get a couple of kids who will jump on a bandwagon." (30:02)
  • The interviewer comments: "This is how real events get buried. Not by disproving them, by surrounding them with stupidity until nobody wants to touch them." (30:32)

5. Enduring Family Belief and Reasonable Skepticism

• Dave’s Mother’s Testimony (Phone Call) (31:28–33:28):

  • She instantly believed Dave, knowing her son’s honesty: "I could always tell if he was telling me a fib or not. But I knew this was genuine." (32:03)
  • Still convinced, noting the story has never unraveled among the witnesses.

• Personal Reflections After 50 Years (33:35–37:33):

  • Dave’s theorizing evolves: extraterrestrial, interdimensional, hidden earth intelligence—all considered. “A lot of it makes no sense... an intergalactic visitor be coming here to look at primary school kids?” (36:03)
  • “If suddenly declassified documents... said sorry, it was one of ours, I would be happy with that. But it's been 50 years... and nothing.” (37:03–37:33)

6. Broader Narrator Reflection: The Drift from Agency to Autopilot

• Narrator’s Monologue (38:00–40:26):
  • Reflects on how systems, belief, and skepticism work: “You lose control in small handoffs... Until suddenly you look up and realize a lot of your life is running on autopilot.”
  • Cautions against “drifting,” paralleling how consensus around strange events ebbs away over time.

7. Segue to Physical Evidence: Cattle Mutilations

• Oregon Rancher’s Story (40:26–44:15):
  • Details the discovery of two mutilated bulls—surgically removed testicles, penis, and tongue; no blood/fight/struggle marks.
  • Observes surgical precision: “Whoever's doing this understands anatomy. I mean, surgical precision... At no point in my life have I ever experienced anything like that.” (43:44)
  • Introduces theme of physical traces vs. ephemeral, witness-driven events.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “There was a suggestion there that I should leave the area.”
  — Dave, describing a foreign, cautionary thought upon seeing the craft (06:12)
• “The headmaster went round, gathered up the pieces of paper, started looking... and went white. All of those illustrations depicted the same object.”
  — Dave, on the corroborating drawings done under 'exam conditions' (10:30)
• “This is how real events get buried. Not by disproving them, by surrounding them with stupidity until nobody wants to touch them.”
  — Interviewer, on the effect of hoaxes and ridicule (30:32)
• “If they had lied, somebody would have spilled the beans by now, and this has never, ever happened. They still tell you exactly what happened... all these years later.”
  — Dave’s mother (32:30)
• “If suddenly declassified documents... said, okay, it was one of ours, I would be happy with that... But it's been 50 years and nothing.”
  — Dave (37:03–37:33)
• “You lose control in one big moment. You lose it in small handoffs... Did I actually choose this, or am I just going along with it because it's easier? ...We just need to stay awake inside it.”
  — Host/Narrator, reflecting on agency, belief, and the drift into autopilot (38:00)
• “Whoever's doing this understands anatomy. I mean, surgical precision... At no point in my life have I ever experienced anything like that.”
  — Rancher on bull mutilations (43:44)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:13] – Dave recounts the original Broadhaven sighting
• [06:09] – The strange, intrusive “suggestion” to leave the area
• [09:42] – School headmaster isolates witnesses under exam conditions
• [10:30] – All children independently draw the same object
• [12:10] – Global media and official investigations descend on Broadhaven
• [18:29] – Wave of sightings; the 'Broadhaven Triangle' is born
• [20:44] – Ripperston Farm; the escalation to occupant encounters
• [23:12] – Hoaxers muddy the waters; official inquiries collapse
• [31:28] – Dave and his mother discuss belief, memory, and family trust
• [33:35] – Dave’s present-day thoughts: still no satisfying answers
• [38:00] – Host’s broader meditative reflection on belief and control
• [40:26] – Rancher’s chilling account of cattle mutilation in Oregon

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Conclusion

This episode masterfully reconstructs the Broadhaven school sighting and the explosive aftermath, spotlighting both the emotional intensity and the skepticism that shape such events. Through engaging firsthand testimony, it explores the mechanics of group witness, the corrosive effects of ridicule and hoax, and the search for meaning in phenomena that resist tidy explanations. The narrative’s pivot to physical evidence in later cases raises the enduring challenge: are we dealing with mass delusions, something stranger, or evidence radically misunderstood? High Strange continues to embrace curiosity and doubt in equal measure, asking listeners to withhold easy conclusions — but never to shy away from the questions.

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[Dave]

I was 10 at the time. I was coming up to 11. The school was very much like a small family. It was only 125 pupils. We were all close. It was a nice atmosphere to grow up in. Lunchtime came around. I thought I'd rather stay in and read a book than go out in that weather. But some of the kids went out. I was a very voracious reader at that time. The end of lunchtime they came in. Groups of them were saying that they'd seen something out in the playground. A number of them were saying that they'd seen an object. They were describing it as a flying saucer. It didn't seem like they were having a joke. It really didn't. They actually sounded like they meant it. But I am a total skeptic. I have no belief system. I don't believe in UFOs, as simple as that. The teacher at the time was the headmaster, Ralph Llewellyn. He dismissed it as a joke. The headmaster was dismissing it as some wind up that was going on some joke that they were trying to play. We finally broke up at the end of school. I'm still not believing it. There's no way that flying sauce is gonna be happening around Pembrokeshire. Twinal Bell went at the end of. I went up to the top of the school to see if I could actually see anything. Investigate a bit closer. I stepped over the perimeter fence and as I got one foot over it literally rose up from behind trees. I froze this thing. It was about 45ft long. Silver. It was just rising from behind the trees vertically. No sense of repulsion at all. What I'm seeing in front of me is real. I've got something in front of me that shouldn't exist but does. Yeah. I have no problem with accepting that somewhere out in the cosmos there might be other life. But I didn't think it was visiting. I was looking at this thing. Was going to stand here and watch it for as long as I could. And that's where the weirdness sort of starts. There was a thought in my brain. I should leave.

[Interviewer]

What do you mean a thought?

[Dave]

Something that wasn't mine. There was a suggestion there that I should leave the area.

[Interviewer]

So it wasn't like instinctual response.

[Dave]

No, no, no, no, no. I had absolutely no fear at all. The moment that I appreciated what I had in front of me, I had that thought I should leave. It wasn't to run away out of fear. It was more like a caution. Please leave the area. I've been told to get away. I did run.

[Interviewer]

Dave says a thought appeared in his mind. It wasn't fear, it wasn't instinct. It was like a third party suggestion not to scream or panic, just leave the area.

[Dave]

Something that didn't come to me until a few years later. I can remember getting in the taxi and the journey home. The journey home was done in complete silence. All of us, including the taxi driver, didn't say a word.

[Interviewer]

Wouldn't you guys be talking about this crazy thing you just saw?

[Dave]

That's the weird thing. I was in a car with another two witnesses. A group of us had just seen a flying saucer, a ufo. We said nothing at all.

[Interviewer]

Why?

[Dave]

I don't know.

[Interviewer]

I'm not asking you to decide what that means. I'm asking you to notice how specific it is.

[Dave]

The taxi dropped me off about 10 minutes later. I got out the taxi and the moment I saw my mother, it was like, mum just saw a ufo. It was like suddenly I'd switched back on again.

[Interviewer]

What'd you tell your mom?

[Dave]

I just said, I've just seen a flying saucer.

[Interviewer]

Fear is chaotic. This isn't. It's procedural. A simple thought. Leave the area and then Dave runs.

[Dave]

I mean, my mother knows me. There was no disbelief. The moment I said it, she instantly saw that I was being truthful. We went back down to the school that night to have a look. Obviously by then it got dark, it was February, saw nothing at all. Following day, we went back with a local reporter called Hugh Turnbull, who worked for the Western Telegraph. We went back down the school again, investigated the area in which I'd seen the object.

[Interviewer]

What'd you see?

[Dave]

There was a broken branch. Telephone pole had been dislodged, which had just been recently repaired. The cross piece on the actual pole had been knocked at about 45 degrees. They couldn't really put it down to anything other than something knocking into it. There was no reasonable explanation for anything that we'd seen.

[Interviewer]

The ride home, you have three kids who allegedly just saw a flying saucer. No adrenaline, no replay, no disbelief, just silence. The second Dave got home, everything switches back on. He tells his mother and she Immediately believes him. She can tell by his face. That's the first adult truth test in this story.

[Dave]

By Monday morning, the national press were already phoning the school. Monday morning we got into school instantly. The headmaster pulled all of the ones who had claimed to have seen the UFO to one side and isolated us. There's about 14 of us. He then put us in exam conditions, sitting apart from each other with him, observing, gave us all a piece of paper and said, I want you to describe and draw what you saw.

[Interviewer]

This is when the headmaster does something really smart. 14 kids separated. No collaboration, no discussion. Exam conditions, draw what you saw.

[Dave]

We all drew the UFO that we'd seen, A brief description of it. Then once we'd finished, the headmaster went round, gathered up the pieces of paper, started looking at the pieces of paper and went white. All of those illustrations depicted the same object. His kids had seen something. It totally blew his mind and he didn't know what to think. They all depicted a silver scar shaped object, a dome that covered the middle third of the craft with a red light on top. We all drew the same object. No collaboration whatsoever, no social media, no Internet, nothing.

[Interviewer]

What does that tell you?

[Dave]

It pretty much confirms that we all saw the same thing. Something strange came out of the skies and landed in the Welsh village of Broadhaven.

[Narrator]

It was spotted three times by children

[Dave]

from the local school. I've just been on the phone to their headmaster.

[Dave's Mother]

I know that 16 children saw it. And do they all see the same thing, do you think? I got them to draw and write what they saw with similarity between all their descriptions. And do you believe it? I believe they saw something which is not common in the environment.

[Dave]

Media all around the world, TV crews arriving from everywhere. The children say the object had a

[Narrator]

large dome, it was cigar shaped and

[Dave]

was silver in color. It sort of dawned on us at that time that this was something a little bit more serious. Senior officers from RAF Broady and the US Naval facility wanted to talk to us and find out what we'd seen. They looked at the illustrations we'd done, chatted with us as a group. They basically said, we have no idea what you've seen. We can categorically state it has nothing to do with us, but we honestly believe you've seen something. The phones were being left off the hook at the school. The headmaster was completely losing his will to live. We weren't trying to sensationalize it, we were just saying what had happened. If you can find the old clip. I think the old clips are still on YouTube and all.

[Dave's Mother]

My friend Pellet here was trying to find a way over the stream and I was looking at the bushes up the top of the trees and then.

[Interviewer]

Was that you?

[Dave]

That was me. I remember that bloody top and that haircut. I was in the school playground.

[Dave's Mother]

The spaceship, it looks a cigar shape

[Dave]

with a dome on.

[Dave's Mother]

Had yellowy orange to red light on top of it. In Bordhaven in Wales. Some extremely interesting pictures. Some of the things they told me they couldn't have known about. Impossible. My friend Philippe here was trying to find a way over the stream and I was looking at the bushes up the top of the trees and then suddenly this silver cigar shaped object seemed to pop up from behind the bushes trying to take off. Then it disappeared again. Were you frightened at the time? Yes.

[Dave]

Now we got some younger people in the studio who claim to have had encounters of their very own.

[Dave's Mother]

We just ran off, we were so scared.

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[Dave]

It wasn't just the Broadhaven coast. Other incidents in the area started happening. They call it the Broadhaven Triangle.

[Dave's Mother]

An area here in Pembrokeshire where sensible

[Interviewer]

down to earth people are constantly seeing

[Dave's Mother]

strange objects in the sky, mysterious lights. It's an area where an entire classroom

[Dave]

of school children saw from their playground a ufo.

[Interviewer]

Are you all honestly going to say

[Dave]

that you think that the things you

[Interviewer]

saw were shall say not of this world? Do you think those are related yeah,

[Dave]

basically the same objects. Silver scar shaped objects sighted off the Gower Swansea coast. Another one in Larn. Yet another flying saucer to add to the lengthening list of tame sightings over Pembrokeshire countryside. From the south of Wales, right round to the southwest, the Welsh Triangle. Is it all really a case of mass hysteria or is there some reality in the unreal? The people who live around Broadhaven will tell you that what they've experienced is real enough. There was another case, the Riverstone Farm case. Things were happening there that were almost like poltergeist activity.

[Interviewer]

This story doesn't stay contained, it only starts spreading.

[Dave's Mother]

I could see this huge big light, this flying saucer.

[Dave]

I knew the people involved. I had no reason to doubt what they were saying.

[Interviewer]

After the Broadhaven school incident, reports were coming in from all across the region. Different objects in the sky, the same shapes and colors. There were other tales in that region that play out like a nightmare.

[Dave's Mother]

When you're an ordinary farming family and you're convinced you've seen spaceships and creatures from another planet, how do you persuade friends, neighbors and the world in general

[Narrator]

that you've not taken leave of your senses?

[Dave's Mother]

That's the constant problem that's faced Billy and Pauline Combs. When it happened to me the first time I thought, you know, I'm imagining things.

[Dave]

Over the years I've sort of tried not to dwell on, on certain parts of the story.

[Interviewer]

What, what kind of details?

[Dave]

Occupants. This silver suited figure was wandering around Pembrokeshire.

[Interviewer]

Local residents claim to have seen an enormous metallic like man jumping fences, standing in the window, other strange lights in the sky and encounters that feel way more personal.

[Dave's Mother]

The silver suited man was the most terrifying experience of it all.

[Interviewer]

Something was happening, but what?

[Dave's Mother]

The arms were exceptionally long, their legs were exceptionally long and they definitely didn't have face. And they were faceless people. No eyes, no mouth. This thing got the heads look, jumped over this gate. There's something wrong about it. No man could jump that gate.

[Interviewer]

Ripperston Farm. This isn't a side quest, this is escalation. The phenomenon leaves the schoolyard and enters private homes. Police were called out the night of the incident at the Coombs farm. It's probably of all the incidents in

[Dave's Mother]

my 26 year service that's the most frightened family I have come across.

[Interviewer]

Do you see occupants?

[Dave]

No. A lot has to be who your

[Dave's Mother]

witness is, the age of the witness,

[Dave]

perhaps the social status of the witness,

[Dave's Mother]

certainly the educational background, the integrity.

[Interviewer]

And then the contamination arrives.

[Dave]

The MoD asked the local MP what's happening down in Pembrokeshire. By the time the local MP had been asked that a hoax had been perpetrated. A guy walking around Pembrokeshire dressed in a firefighter's suit, this silver suited figure that was wandering around Pembrokeshire, everybody knew the incidents that he was responsible for.

[Interviewer]

You know, did they sort of conflate these two things?

[Dave]

Yes. When the MP was asked what's going on in Pembrokeshire regarding UFOs flying sources, he got told about this person walking around Pembrokeshire in a silver suit pretending to be an alien. And everything was closed down after that. That was the level of the inquiry.

[Interviewer]

Why do you think that happened, the hoax thing?

[Dave]

Because bedroom is full of idiots. We arrived in school one morning to find the headmaster going absolutely nuts. There was what looked like a bomb in the front playground of the school. We identified it as the long range fuel tank off a bomber. It was the fuel tank off a bomber. This rocket shaped projectile plonked in the playground as a joke. Our headmaster got in touch with the media, said about it, they came down and photographed it. Obviously this is the UFO that you saw.

[Interviewer]

Let's zoom out for a second. You have all these kids who claim to have seen the same UFO in their schoolyard. Then subsequent sightings of a similar object all around the region for months. Then it gets weirder and darker. People claim to see this large metallic man stalking them. Then there's reports of an actual man dressed up in a silver suit.

[Dave]

Yeah, there were hoaxes at the time. I mean I know of one personally. He gave his story for the price of a half ounce of tobacco with no truth in it whatsoever. We met one day and he actually thought I was lying and confirmed it to me that he was lying and said what about you? And I went, no mate, who is this? Now that I don't want to confirm. If you get in contact with any of the kids that saw this object. They all, except for two, maintain that they saw that object.

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[Dave]

Now, the two that claim they didn't and that they made it up. Oh, God, how can I put this? When something's happening like that, you always get a couple of kids who will jump on a bandwagon. The majority of us kids will tell you flat out straight that we saw what we saw. However, throughout all this time, I've known that these particular ones were possibly not being completely honest.

[Interviewer]

This is how real events get buried. Not by disproving them, by surrounding them with stupidity until nobody wants to touch them. Hoaxes don't erase the signal, they just drown it.

[Dave]

Over the years, I've sort of protected those two because I don't want two people who just joined in at the time because something was happening who now say, oh, no, we didn't see anything at all. I don't want those two having a negative impact on what the rest of us really did see. It's almost slipped into folklore. Just press the green thing.

[Dave's Mother]

Can you see it?

[Dave]

She knows they're here, by the way, because I said to her earlier on,

[Dave's Mother]

Hello.

[Dave]

Hi, ma'. Am.

[Dave's Mother]

Oh, hi.

[Dave]

Hi. Don't swear because you're being recorded.

[Dave's Mother]

Oh, dear. It's a shame.

[Narrator]

She can swear.

[Dave]

Ma', am, have you got two minutes? Do you remember the day I came home from school after seeing the ufo?

[Dave's Mother]

Oh, yes, definitely.

[Interviewer]

When he came home, what did he say?

[Dave's Mother]

He said he had seen a ufo. I thought, oh, you're joking, you know, boy. Anyway, I could tell by his face that he was telling me the truth, because I could always tell if he was telling me a fib or not. But I knew this was genuine. I knew something had happened. Yes, I believed him.

[Interviewer]

All these years later, what do you think happened that day? What do you think these kids experienced

[Dave's Mother]

after all these years? I strongly believe that they saw something, a ufo, which can't be explained because, I mean, if they had lied, somebody would have spilled the beans by now and this has never, ever happened. They still. They still tell you exactly what happened. The same thing now, all these years later.

[Interviewer]

Was he a good kid?

[Dave]

Yeah, that's what I. Yeah, I was thinking that as well.

[Interviewer]

You're right.

[Dave's Mother]

Yes, you're right. Were on time.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

What do you think it was after all these years?

[Dave's Mother]

Well, I keep an open mind, but I. I believe that there is something up there. I don't know, I. It's my feeling that there is something. I haven't seen anything myself, but yeah, I do believe there's something there.

[Dave]

Okay, Mum, Talk to you soon anyway, Mum.

[Dave's Mother]

All right. I might get him paid, but.

[Dave]

Yeah, by the word. In the early days, I'd have probably thought that by now we'd have had confirmation we're being visited. The one thing that we have had in confirmation of in recent years is that these damn things exist. Whether we know what they are or where they're coming from, or whatever. Confirming that these things exist. Major piece of vindication for me. Whilst I can't go out and say, okay, the aliens visited, but I can go out and say the people, look, US Government has confirmed these damn things exist. Now please, will you stop saying they don't exist? I mean ghosts. You either believe in ghosts or you don't. You can't prove that ghosts exist. We have proved that UFOs exist.

[Interviewer]

All these years later. You've had almost 50 years to think about this. What do you think it was that you saw that day.

[Dave's Mother]

You went then?

[Dave]

I think I've probably entertained all hypotheses. Extraterrestrial, that it's one of ours, extra dimensional. Even the possibility that these things are not coming from anywhere else, that they're a lot more local than we think, possibly coming from here. And by here, I do not mean human intelligences here, I mean another intelligence here. I mean, I suppose the cop out is to say aliens. A lot of it makes no sense an intergalactic visitor be coming here to look at primary school for kids. I'm more inkling that a lot of it could possibly be more in our neighborhood dimensionally or another inhabitant of this planet that we just pretty much unsure about. If there was a whole logic in the whole phenomena, it'd be a lot easier to pin down where you think this is coming from. I've been led down certain paths where I'm thinking, yeah, it's definitely aliens. It's got a bit. Yeah, yeah. And then all of a sudden there's, oh, no, it's not. It's not aliens. Some of these objects seem to be showing the ability to dimensionally changed in some ways disappearing in apothe logic. They don't seem to operate on the same physical plane as conventional aircraft. Unfortunately, my, my knowledge of quantum mechanics isn't good enough to actually sort of get down on this. But, I mean, don't think I haven't tried. Perhaps there is a desire in me that I would like it to be aliens or an interdimensional species or something like.

[Interviewer]

Why?

[Dave]

Because it confirms that there's a greater universe out there. However, if suddenly declassified documents were made available from the mod or something that says, okay, sorry, it was one of ours, I would be happy with that.

[Interviewer]

But it's been 50 years.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

And nothing.

[Dave]

Absolutely nothing.

[Interviewer]

We're moving into a world where fewer things will stop and ask us, what do you want? Most systems are just going to guess, optimize and decide what makes sense based on data and probability. And the annoying thing is, most of the time they'll be right enough that it feels stupid to argue. That's the shift that's easy for all of us to miss. The future doesn't take your choices away. It just makes it easier to stop making them. You don't lose control in one big moment. You lose it in small handoffs, one Click, 1 Default, 1 sure, that's fine. Until suddenly you look up and realize a lot of your life is running on autopilot. The skill that matters now isn't resisting technology or just opting out of the world. It's noticing when you're drifting, pausing long enough to ask a simple question. Did I actually choose this? Or am I just going along with it because it's easier? That question shows up everywhere. What you tolerate, what you let slide because you're tired or busy. We don't need to fight the future. We just need to stay awake inside it. Because once you stop choosing, something else always chooses for you. As strange as Broadhaven is, it still sits in the realm of witness, experience, sight, sound, memory, and human perception. Humans sometimes aren't the most reliable witnesses. It doesn't mean it didn't happen. But maybe the details aren't always perfect. And when it comes to high strange stories, there are some that leave physical traces, physical evidence. And some of them don't make any sense at all. We're talking about cases where animals are found dead in wide open country with entire sections of their bodies removed with a level of precision that defies any easy explanation. No blood, no tire tracks, no signs of other animals, no signs Of a struggle, period. One of the most unsettling stories I found Happened not long ago in eastern Oregon.

[Rancher/Witness]

It was a very hot first of August. The livestock crew was managing livestock out on the range, had cowboys out. Later on that morning, I received a call from my cowboss on the radio. We had these handheld radios that could reach across the ranch so that we could stay in communication. He calls me on the radio and he says, one of our range bulls is dead. It looks like there's some odd, weird things about this animal. He was kind of describing for me, what he was seeing, and so I started asking questions. It was probably about 40 minutes later, he calls me on the radio again, and he says, you will not believe this. We found another range bull that is dead, and it is nearly in the exact same condition as the one he had found earlier. And I said, okay, I'm gonna jump in my pickup and I'm gonna come up there and take a look at it. Now I got two range bulls. Both have the same mutilations on their body, and that is just absolutely unheard of. I walked up to the very first bull, and as I'm walking up to him, I can just see his back. He's laying on the ground. If you didn't know, you'd say he was just laying there asleep. Walk around on the other side so that I could see his belly and his legs. And that's. That's when I saw that he had had his testicles completely removed. The penis was completely removed. After a little bit further investigation,

[Dave]

we

[Rancher/Witness]

saw that his tongue had been removed as well.

[Interviewer]

You're.

[Rancher/Witness]

You're looking at this, and you. And you're trying to process it in your brain because nothing makes sense about it. There's no struggle marks on the ground. There's no indications that they'd put up a fight. There was no bite marks. There was no bullet wounds. It was so odd. I went back to the ranch, called the sheriff's office, and we got in touch with the state police, Notified the forest service, what we had found. Whoever's doing this understands anatomy. I mean, surgical precision. I've spent my whole entire life around livestock. At no point in my life have I ever experienced anything like that. It makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. You start thinking, okay, how could this happen? Who would want to do this? What's the reason behind it? What's the purpose? I'm not naive to think there is an other life in the universe. Why is it being done?

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High strange is a Production by Tenderfoot TV in association with iHeart Podcasts created, hosted and edited by myself, Payne Lindsay. Executive producers are myself and Donald Albright. Editing by Mike Rooney, Cooper Skinner and myself. Original score by Makeup and Vanity set sound design, mixing and mastering by Cooper Skinner Additional production by Mike Rooney, Dylan Harrington, Eric Quintana, Sean Nurney and Meredith Stedman. Our cover art is by Polygon. Special thanks to Oren Rosenbaum and the whole team at UTA, the Nord Group, Station 16 and Beck Media and Marketing. Check out the show's [e-mail] and if you're enjoying the show, please help us out by rating and reviewing the podcast and share it with your friends. Thanks for listening.

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