Patterns Tell Stories | UFOs & High Strangeness
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 21 segments
In this episode, we analyze an FBI document that likely inspired important aspects of the Sekret Machines story, along with related reports of automobile engines stalling while in the vicinity of…
[mysterious music] Yeah, dude, I got, um, this document I wanna talk about that kinda links back to, uh, Secret Machines, and I'm, I'm pretty sure the person involved in the document, it's a FBI document released, um, I think it was released decades ago, but they just, uh, un-redacted the person's name in, in the document, so...
And I saw it on, on Reddit.
Someone replied to me in a comment and just kinda clicked that this might be, you know, the individual in real life that Jerzy Stern in the Secret Machines Chasing Shadow book is based off of.
And I just kinda wanted to run through that and, uh, see what you thought about it.
Jerzy Stern's the Polish guy, right? That's, like, in World War II prison.
Yeah.
So Jerzy Stern in the Chasing Shadows book, he leaves a journal for, you know, one of the other characters, uh, to sort of go through and, and find this material.
It's sort of a story of his life.
He wrote it when he was old and, uh, goes back to his time as a prisoner of war in Poland during the Holocaust and, uh, just kind of what he experienced there.
It's a really interesting look at, you know, how perhaps the Nazis were building secret weapons and, uh, kinda goes into the little commler part.
I mean, it's based on real stuff obviously, and signed off on by [chuckles] Neil McCaslin, who's still missing.
I hope he's okay.
Um [chuckles] yeah, that shit's wild.
I just wanted to read a quick excerpt from Secret Machines and then build off of that, um, and then sort of go into the, the document that was released by the FBI.
So this is one little section of Secret Machines, and it's a part of Jerzy Stern's journal, and he's talking about, um, his time working as a prisoner of war, a slave to this, uh, what seems to be a project connected to the, uh, Nazi belt.
If I could preface this, a lot of what was, a lot of what was, uh, put in this book, if I'm correct, was based on the work of a guy named Igor Witkowski-
Yep
... who was a researcher from Poland, I believe, and then, uh, Nick Cook, who's a British author, and he was a former editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
And-
Yeah
...
he, uh, he wrote a great book called The Hunt for Zero Point, where in his investigation of the, the people who are seriously studying the idea of zero point energy, the idea of tapping into this field that seems to be around us at all times, and, uh, it- people think that it's nonsense.
It's, it's this form of free energy, people are calling it.
Nick Cook wrote a whole book where he tries to, like, find who's studying these things in black programs and then backtrack to where the origin came from.
And he ends up in these salt mines all throughout Europe, uh, and one of them is this, uh, I think it's the same mine that they mention in Secret Machines, the Wenkenslahs Mine.
[mysterious music] Yeah, dude, I got, um, this document I wanna talk about that kinda links back to, uh, Secret Machines, and I'm, I'm pretty sure the person involved in the document, it's a FBI document released, um, I think it was released decades ago, but they just, uh, un-redacted the person's name in, in the document, so...
And I saw it on, on Reddit.
Someone replied to me in a comment and just kinda clicked that this might be, you know, the individual in real life that Jerzy Stern in the Secret Machines Chasing Shadow book is based off of.
And I just kinda wanted to run through that and, uh, see what you thought about it.
Jerzy Stern's the Polish guy, right? That's, like, in World War II prison.
Yeah.
So Jerzy Stern in the Chasing Shadows book, he leaves a journal for, you know, one of the other characters, uh, to sort of go through and, and find this material.
It's sort of a story of his life.
He wrote it when he was old and, uh, goes back to his time as a prisoner of war in Poland during the Holocaust and, uh, just kind of what he experienced there.
It's a really interesting look at, you know, how perhaps the Nazis were building secret weapons and, uh, kinda goes into the little commler part.
I mean, it's based on real stuff obviously, and signed off on by [chuckles] Neil McCaslin, who's still missing.
I hope he's okay.
Um [chuckles] yeah, that shit's wild.
I just wanted to read a quick excerpt from Secret Machines and then build off of that, um, and then sort of go into the, the document that was released by the FBI.
So this is one little section of Secret Machines, and it's a part of Jerzy Stern's journal, and he's talking about, um, his time working as a prisoner of war, a slave to this, uh, what seems to be a project connected to the, uh, Nazi belt.
If I could preface this, a lot of what was, a lot of what was, uh, put in this book, if I'm correct, was based on the work of a guy named Igor Witkowski-
Yep
... who was a researcher from Poland, I believe, and then, uh, Nick Cook, who's a British author, and he was a former editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
And-
Yeah
...
he, uh, he wrote a great book called The Hunt for Zero Point, where in his investigation of the, the people who are seriously studying the idea of zero point energy, the idea of tapping into this field that seems to be around us at all times, and, uh, it- people think that it's nonsense.
It's, it's this form of free energy, people are calling it.
Nick Cook wrote a whole book where he tries to, like, find who's studying these things in black programs and then backtrack to where the origin came from.
And he ends up in these salt mines all throughout Europe, uh, and one of them is this, uh, I think it's the same mine that they mention in Secret Machines, the Wenkenslahs Mine.
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