Today we're sharing the story of George Van Tassel who left a successful aerospace career to move his wife and 3 daughters literally under a rock in the middle of the Mojave Desert where he communicated with aliens, held UFO conventions, and devoted his life to building a time machine. Helping me tell todays story is Andrea from Long Beach and Bel who lives in Texas!

Research and further reading:

George Van Tassel Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_viSR2Yhs

Kim Stringfellow's The PBS So Cal article that shows screenshots of the Popular Science feature on Frank Critzer's home: https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/giant-rock-space-people-and-the-integratron

George Van Tassel's History of Giant Rock Essay: https://www.integratron.com/a-brief-history-of-giant-rock-covering-the-last-90-years-1887-1977/

Photos from the 1957 Flying Saucer Convention photographed by LIFE Magazine photographer Ralph Crane: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/CAXh3kxi5wW_Mg

John Vantine's Visit to the Integratron: https://johnvantine.com/climbing-joshua-tree-integratron/

Change.org "Save the Integratron": https://www.change.org/p/save-the-integratron

Van Tassel family blog on George Van Tassel's death featuring an excerpt from the Star Beacon: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~vantasselfamilyhistoryhomepage/GeorgeVT.html

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Today's episode is about a turn-of-the-century manhunt in the Mojave Desert that’s been told and retold by various folks over the years like a game of white people telephone… We never fully get the truth of what really happened, but I’ll do my best to parse through the tale of Willie Boy whose story has now been portrayed in multiple movies.

Ringa Sunn is joining me today from Pittsburgh, and they're going to tell us all about the post-apocalyptic vibes that make up the great state of Pennsylvania.

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Research used and resources for more learning:

Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton https://www.amazon.com/Willie-Desert-Manhunt-Harry-Lawton/dp/093904627X

The Last Manhunt with Jason Momoa and Lily Gladston: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11399896/

Willie Boy and the Last Western Manhunt by Clifford Trafzer https://www.amazon.com/Willie-Boy-Last-Western-Manhunt/dp/1735861502/

The Wide World Magazine, 1910 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Wide_World_Magazine/WR46AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22willie+boy%22&pg=PA93&printsec=frontcover

Greg Nieman’s feature on Willie Boy: https://cvindependent.com/2022/12/cv-history-in-1909-a-manhunt-for-a-local-native-american-murderer-captivated-the-nation/

A Legend Undone by Anne Japenga http://www.palmspringslife.com/Palm-Springs-Life/August-2008/A-Legend-Undone/

https://www.29palmstribe.org/about/tribal-history/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125002634/william-mike

https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/willie-boy-how-a-manhunt-became-myth/

https://mojaveproject.org/dispatches-item/willie-boy-how-a-manhunt-became-myth/

https://mojavedesert.net/people/willie-boy2.html

https://mojavedesert.net/people/willie-boy.html

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50 miles east of Los Angeles, there’s a town of about 200,000 that was mostly made up of chicken farms and citrus groves in the early 1900s, but by the 1940’s its population grew when Henry Kaiser opened a steelmill. This is the location of Bigfoot phenomena known as the Fontana Speedway Monster. Canadian Tessa is back, joining me as we discuss the various encounters with the Fontana Speedway Monster.

Research!

Fontana Speedway History: https://thegentlemanracer.com/2010/10/2010-07-lost-dragstrip-fontana-drag-city-html/

Into the Darkness: The Speedway Monster of Fontana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yHROwq8m8A

https://sasquatchchronicles.com/the-speedway-monster/

https://eerielights.com/eerielightsblog/the-fontana-monster-sightings-of-66

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