If “Hellier” was “just a symptom,” and season 2 could be considered a “virus” then where does Planet Weird go from here?
Season 2 of “Hellier” boldly ties all aspects on unexplained phenomena in a mind-blowing fashion that will make you question your core beliefs, and the world we live in. What Greg and Dana Newkirk, director Karl Pfeiffer, Connor Randall, and Tyler Strand have presented here is a courageous journey that goes beyond just the case of “Goblins” in Kentucky. Read our interview with Greg Newkirk that goes behind the scenes of the production here.
The caves in “Hellier” are just a small part of a larger mystery. (Handout)
If anything “Hellier” weaves a narrative that expertly connects the dots between any and all high strangeness. Many believe they (UFOs, cryptids, ghosts, etc) are all connected somehow, but “Hellier” is able to provide a greater map on how they are all connected. The inner skeptic in me at times felt me saying “no way” to myself at some of the theories proposed here, but when tying those notions with familiar literature, history, and knowledge that “no way” turned into a “they may be onto something.” They are on to something here; a weird way that Ufologists, occultists, cryptozoologists, folklorists, historians, and academics can all come together and realize that ultimately they are all studying the same thing; a singular phenomena.
The following isn’t an episode-by-episode breakdown or a formal review, but thoughts that came across while enthralled in the series.
-No hyperbole ; episode five connects the UFO to other phenomenon in a way that will blow your mind if you are into mythology , UFO history and folklore. The reference to the book “Etidorhpa,” which was a book 1895 that tied into the cave mystery that Planet Weird was studying, stood out to me because it was book referenced in Professor Jeffrey Kripal’s brilliant book “Mutants and Mystics,” and suggested to me by him as well.
-Episode six: Terry Wriste sounds a lot like William Cooper ( conspiracy theorist, author of “Behold A Pale Horse”). Wriste could be a real person who encountered these beings in Vietnam, and again in America. His military background could be why he perceives these beings as a “threat.”
-Episode eight: The idea that Greg Newkirk is the “new kirk”. Robert Kirk( folklorist) wrote a book that revealed secrets of fairies and elves and “paid the price for it.” “ The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies (1893)” folklore scholars consider the book the authority on this subject. Kirk died mysteriously before the book was published.
-Episode eight: If Somerset is sitting atop of all this quartz that is causing these vibrations that lead to high strangeness, makes you wonder what is under Skinwalker Ranch, and why it is advised not to "dig" there? Does this mean any paranormal sighting is basically a “glitch” in the universe, and these beings live among us in a different reality or it crosses universes?
-Episode nine: When Karl Pfeiffer is under hypnosis he sees a pyramid with light coming out of it, and is being communicated to be a large praying mantis-like creature, which are both UFO commonalities
-Episode nine:. Hellier. The root being “hell.” If this area is a '“gateway” to another part of the world, could this at one time have been considered “hell?”
-Episode nine: “One man’s angel is another man’s alien,” said Tyler Strand.
-Episode 10: Trying to contact a dead “God” Pan? Where does season three go from here, and what does this all reveal about how all aspects of the unexplained are connected? Let’s pretend not just a God, but various “Gods” exist. If “Pan” was this horned-God of the Earth, does this mean the devil was misidentified from the beginning?
-Question for the skeptics: If “Hellier” is fake or a hoax, imagine the complexity and confidence it would take to hoax experienced paranormal professionals, and assume they’d follow all the clues just intended based off obscurities.
-By MIKE DAMANTE