The Phantom Air Raid That Plunged LA into Darkness • Mystery Files

Ryan saving the country on his wedding day by getting naked was not what I was expecting to hear during this episode

The tangents in the most recent Mystery Files episodes are incredibly funny. Maximum "just two guys chatting in a basement" energy.

Their name cards should say “Ryan’s friend” and “Shane’s friend” regardless of who’s presenting

To clarify the bird theory, we currently track bird migration using radar because they travel in such massive groups. They might not have realized at the time that those groups could show up on radar

the panic in Shane’s eyes when Ryan told him to read the headline out loud 😭

Shane: "If you hit me you lose points" Ryan: immediately aims for Shane

George Takei wrote a graphic novel about his experience in a Japanese internment camp as a child if people want to learn more about that. Public libraries have it!

“Plane go fast” is the insider knowledge I come to Watcher Entertainment for

"We're under attack Ryan!" "Oh, I see." - every midwesterner when the tornado alarms start

Ryan has surprisingly good aim when blindfolded lmao

I'll say what we're all thinking: it's always nice to see Carter.

I've read about this case several times and every time I come away with the same conclusion - one twitchy finger set off group panic. You see it happen with armed police all the time. One of them fires one bullet and the rest just start wildly shooting too, with no clue what's happening or who they're shooting at. There is no evidence at all of anything being there, but one person shooting at something they imagined, based likely on panic or a searchlight hitting a cloud, and suddenly everyone else is firing too. After the fact people will try to justify the panic, so statements about what they saw cannot be accepted as being unbiased. They didn't want to look foolish or unprofessional, so it was in their interest to invent justification.

Happy Friday boogaras and shaniacs

It’s Friday, I am tired from teaching, I open YouTube and am reminded that, yes, today is Friday. The ghoul boys have uploaded an episode of mystery files. I smile. Life is good.

Maybe it was awakened by Ryan yelling "booo" repeatedly throughout this ep, but suddenly I can't unsee Ryan and Shane as those two old Muppet dudes that hang out on the sidelines bickering constantly and heckling all the other Muppets whenever they get the chance

Between "plane go fast" and the jar of peanut butter, Shane has taught me more science and physics in two seasons than I ever got in school.

can you please do episodes on the following: -Where is Canadian Clubs hidden whiskey? -Where are the hidden Gems of the Book "The Secret"? -The Kentucky Alien invasion in the 1950's -The mysterious birds of Audubon's "Birds of America" book -The Montana Hyena -The mysterious abandonment of Portlock Alaska -The theories of what is behind the Missing 411 cases in the US. -Kasperov vs Deep Blue computer -What hit Officer Val Johnsons Car? -Why are there Piranhas in Americas Waterways? -Dalnegorsk Spaceship remnants. -What did Captain Mantell encounter over FT. Knox? -Who were the Sea People that collapsed the Bronze Age Civilizations? -The strange encounter between Woodrow Derenburger & Indrid Cold. -Did Patience Worth write poetry from beyond the grave? -The Green Children of Woolpit -What flew over Washington DC in July of 1952? -Shag Harbor incident -Flight 2501 & the Michigan Triangle -Meat Rain of Coach farm -The Clairvoyance of Lady Wonder -Americas First bank heist with Pat Lyons -The blue people of Kentucky -What guards the treasure of the Superstition Mountains? -What scared the Herrman family in 1958? -Ted Serios' "Thoughtographs". -What causes the "Third Man Effect"? -Where is the City of El Dorado? -Where is the Gold of the Cara Nevada? -Could Charles Hatfield make it rain? -How did Alfred Hobbs pick the Bramah lock? -What caused the sinking of the M/S Estonia? -What was the substance that inspired "The Blob". -What caused the "La Pain Maudit" incident? -Who was the Real Shakespeare? -The Beast of Bladenboro (I especially want Shane to do this one).

5:35 Shane sounds like a stressed history teacher trying to get the class back on track

In the 1950s a flock of birds triggered an early warning system and were mistaken for Soviet bomber attack, so I would definitely lean towards it being birds here too

11:58 Their commitment to noting how nice it is to see Carter is my favorite running gag