Toby Ball
@tobyballnh.bsky.social
Podcasts: Rip Current, Strange Arrivals, Crime Writers On...
Books: The Vaults, Scorch City, Invisible Streets
Other stuff, too...
Books: The Vaults, Scorch City, Invisible Streets
Other stuff, too...
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Toby Ball
@tobyballnh.bsky.social
· May 10
Demi Moore & Colman Domingo Board Roger Ross Williams’ ‘Strange Arrivals’ For See-Saw Films
Demi Moore and Colman Domingo are set to star in 'Strange Arrivals,' a new romance directed by Roger Ross Williams.
deadline.com
Amazing news! Strange Arrivals is coming to the big screen, starring Coleman Domingo and Demi Moore.
An incredible team is behind this, including director Roger Ross Williams, scriptwriter Jane Anderson and producer Samantha Lange!
More here: deadline.com/2025/05/demi...
An incredible team is behind this, including director Roger Ross Williams, scriptwriter Jane Anderson and producer Samantha Lange!
More here: deadline.com/2025/05/demi...
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I can’t get a message like this and not share it. To get episodes of Crimes of the Centuries early and ad free, go to www.grabbagcollab.com.
January 23, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I can’t get a message like this and not share it. To get episodes of Crimes of the Centuries early and ad free, go to www.grabbagcollab.com.
The Deep Dive books - 2026!
February
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart Reid
March
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
April
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
1/3
February
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart Reid
March
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
April
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
1/3
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Deep Dive books - 2026!
February
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart Reid
March
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
April
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
1/3
February
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination by Stuart Reid
March
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
April
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
1/3
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For six years, I’ve reported on the Elwood Jones case and raised questions about an incomplete investigation. Today, the prosecutor agreed — and dropped all charges. New episode is up.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#truecrime #podcasts #wrongfulconvictions #elwoodjones #WhatIfTheyreWrong
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#truecrime #podcasts #wrongfulconvictions #elwoodjones #WhatIfTheyreWrong
Elwood Jones Finally Free: Prosecutor Says He’s ‘Excluded’ As Rhoda Nathan’s Killer
Podcast Episode · What If They’re Wrong? After the Accusation · 12/15/2025 · 31m
podcasts.apple.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
For six years, I’ve reported on the Elwood Jones case and raised questions about an incomplete investigation. Today, the prosecutor agreed — and dropped all charges. New episode is up.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#truecrime #podcasts #wrongfulconvictions #elwoodjones #WhatIfTheyreWrong
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#truecrime #podcasts #wrongfulconvictions #elwoodjones #WhatIfTheyreWrong
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S2 E6: Threats
Podcast Episode · Rip Current · S2 E6 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Lost Coast Outpost ran a nice review of Rip Current. You can read it here: lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/dec/8/t...
There’s a New Podcast About the Timber Wars and the Judi Bari Story, and It’s Pretty Darned Good
lostcoastoutpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Lost Coast Outpost ran a nice review of Rip Current. You can read it here: lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/dec/8/t...
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This season of More Like Ancient Fail-iens with Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social included a 2-parter on Skinwalker Ranch with Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social & a Prototypes episode with Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social. Check out the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
More Like Ancient FAILiens
TV Reviews Podcast · Did aliens build the pyramids? What's with all the abductions? And why do they like gold so much?In More Like Ancient FAILiens, journalist Brandon R. Reynolds and podcaster Toby B...
podcasts.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This season of More Like Ancient Fail-iens with Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social included a 2-parter on Skinwalker Ranch with Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social & a Prototypes episode with Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social. Check out the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Here's a fun article from @nytimes.com about UFO tourism in New Hampshire. It mentions the Strange Arrivals podcast and movie. Great visuals, too.
You can hear the podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Betty and Barney Hill story is told in season one.
#nytimes
#podcasts
#UFO
You can hear the podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Betty and Barney Hill story is told in season one.
#nytimes
#podcasts
#UFO
Strange Arrivals
History Podcast · Biweekly Series · Welcome to Strange Arrivals, where host Toby Ball unravels history's most famous cases of extraterrestrial encounters. This season three, we look at UFO researchers...
podcasts.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Here's a fun article from @nytimes.com about UFO tourism in New Hampshire. It mentions the Strange Arrivals podcast and movie. Great visuals, too.
You can hear the podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Betty and Barney Hill story is told in season one.
#nytimes
#podcasts
#UFO
You can hear the podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Betty and Barney Hill story is told in season one.
#nytimes
#podcasts
#UFO
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S2 E5: Spotted Owl Week
Podcast Episode · Rip Current · S2 E5 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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@tobyballnh.bsky.social
1) DnD resurgence came with Stranger Things
2) you ABSOLUTELY need to do the reading of the Book of Enoch with former guests!
3) Brandon falling into his Texas roots with his “y’all” near the end of the ep - classic!
Loved this episode!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
1) DnD resurgence came with Stranger Things
2) you ABSOLUTELY need to do the reading of the Book of Enoch with former guests!
3) Brandon falling into his Texas roots with his “y’all” near the end of the ep - classic!
Loved this episode!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Aliens and Bigfoot with David Farrier
Podcast Episode · More Like Ancient FAILiens · 11/28/2025 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@tobyballnh.bsky.social
1) DnD resurgence came with Stranger Things
2) you ABSOLUTELY need to do the reading of the Book of Enoch with former guests!
3) Brandon falling into his Texas roots with his “y’all” near the end of the ep - classic!
Loved this episode!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
1) DnD resurgence came with Stranger Things
2) you ABSOLUTELY need to do the reading of the Book of Enoch with former guests!
3) Brandon falling into his Texas roots with his “y’all” near the end of the ep - classic!
Loved this episode!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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I had so much fun talking with @tobyballnh.bsky.social and @brandorey.bsky.social on
More like Ancient Failiens podcast 🛸🛸🛸🛸
Check it out!
open.spotify.com/episode/4SJU...
More like Ancient Failiens podcast 🛸🛸🛸🛸
Check it out!
open.spotify.com/episode/4SJU...
Mysteries of the Sphinx with Maggie Rahr
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I had so much fun talking with @tobyballnh.bsky.social and @brandorey.bsky.social on
More like Ancient Failiens podcast 🛸🛸🛸🛸
Check it out!
open.spotify.com/episode/4SJU...
More like Ancient Failiens podcast 🛸🛸🛸🛸
Check it out!
open.spotify.com/episode/4SJU...
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I’m entranced @tobyballnh.bsky.social
New podcast about visionary environmentalist Judi Bari comes out Nov 5 -- Rip Current by @tobyballnh.bsky.social. Judi overcame polarization and exposed divisive tactics used to break social movements. We'll see where Rip Current takes this important story. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Rip Current
History Podcast · Series · On the morning of May 24th, 1990, a pipe bomb exploded in the car driven by Judi Bari, a leader in the radical environmental group, Earth First!. She was critically injured,...
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m entranced @tobyballnh.bsky.social
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I’ve lived my entire life without watching a single episode of Ancient Aliens.
Well, more like Ancient FAILiens…
Podcast life
RIP to my Tubi recommendations
I’ve lived my entire life without watching a single episode of Ancient Aliens.
Well, more like Ancient FAILiens…
Podcast life
RIP to my Tubi recommendations
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
@tobyballnh.bsky.social
I’ve lived my entire life without watching a single episode of Ancient Aliens.
Well, more like Ancient FAILiens…
Podcast life
RIP to my Tubi recommendations
I’ve lived my entire life without watching a single episode of Ancient Aliens.
Well, more like Ancient FAILiens…
Podcast life
RIP to my Tubi recommendations
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At the start of Rip Current ep. 2, hear me describe an encounter with visionary environmentalist Judi Bari one year after the vicious car-bomb attempt on her life. #Judibari @tobyballnh.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
S2 E2: Arrival
Podcast Episode · Rip Current · S2 E2 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At the start of Rip Current ep. 2, hear me describe an encounter with visionary environmentalist Judi Bari one year after the vicious car-bomb attempt on her life. #Judibari @tobyballnh.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The first episode of Season 2 of the Rip Current podcast is in your podcast feeds! This season: radical environmental activist Judi Bari - her battles with the timber industry and the pipe bomb that nearly killed her. Listen on any podcast app or here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The first episode of Season 2 of the Rip Current podcast is in your podcast feeds! This season: radical environmental activist Judi Bari - her battles with the timber industry and the pipe bomb that nearly killed her. Listen on any podcast app or here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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New podcast about visionary environmentalist Judi Bari comes out Nov 5 -- Rip Current by @tobyballnh.bsky.social. Judi overcame polarization and exposed divisive tactics used to break social movements. We'll see where Rip Current takes this important story. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Rip Current
History Podcast · Series · On the morning of May 24th, 1990, a pipe bomb exploded in the car driven by Judi Bari, a leader in the radical environmental group, Earth First!. She was critically injured,...
podcasts.apple.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New podcast about visionary environmentalist Judi Bari comes out Nov 5 -- Rip Current by @tobyballnh.bsky.social. Judi overcame polarization and exposed divisive tactics used to break social movements. We'll see where Rip Current takes this important story. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-1890), The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees, 1889, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, private collection
September 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-1890), The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees, 1889, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, private collection
Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford in 1975, died today at age 95. A divorced housewife, she'd spent 18 months as an informant for the FBI on San Francisco's radical underground. A wild story and the subject of my podcast Rip Current. You can listen here: shorturl.at/SeaqU
Rip Current
History Podcast · Series · California, September 1975. Within a span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women, working separately, tried to assassinate the president of the United States, Gerald R...
shorturl.at
September 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford in 1975, died today at age 95. A divorced housewife, she'd spent 18 months as an informant for the FBI on San Francisco's radical underground. A wild story and the subject of my podcast Rip Current. You can listen here: shorturl.at/SeaqU
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MAJOR RULING: Appeals court tosses key evidence from Elwood Jones case. Officer who found victim's pendant can't be cross-examined (he's dead), so his testimony is OUT of the retrial. Prosecutors once called this evidence 'better than a fingerprint.' #TrueCrime #Podcasts #Journalism
Dead Men Can’t Testify: A New Ruling in the Elwood Jones Case
Podcast Episode · What If They’re Wrong? After the Accusation · 09/16/2025 · 24m
podcasts.apple.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
MAJOR RULING: Appeals court tosses key evidence from Elwood Jones case. Officer who found victim's pendant can't be cross-examined (he's dead), so his testimony is OUT of the retrial. Prosecutors once called this evidence 'better than a fingerprint.' #TrueCrime #Podcasts #Journalism
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The Slocum Massacre is such an important story. This week’s Crimes of the Centuries: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
September 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Slocum Massacre is such an important story. This week’s Crimes of the Centuries: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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We really do need some silliness in our lives right about now. Here’s one way to find some. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
#MLAF #morelikeancientfailiens #podcasts #grabbagcollab #GBC @tobyballnh.bsky.social
#MLAF #morelikeancientfailiens #podcasts #grabbagcollab #GBC @tobyballnh.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We really do need some silliness in our lives right about now. Here’s one way to find some. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
#MLAF #morelikeancientfailiens #podcasts #grabbagcollab #GBC @tobyballnh.bsky.social
#MLAF #morelikeancientfailiens #podcasts #grabbagcollab #GBC @tobyballnh.bsky.social
I had a fun interview with Michel Gagne on Paranoid Planet, focusing mostly on the Hill abduction case. It actually ended up being a two-parter! You can hear part 1 on any podcast app, or here: www.paranoidplanet.ca/podcast/epis...
Welcome to Paranoid Planet
PARANOID PLANET is a podcast about conspiracy theories, paradigm shifts, and critical thinking that offers serious and lighthearted conversations with people who believe in conspiracy theories, and wi...
www.paranoidplanet.ca
July 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I had a fun interview with Michel Gagne on Paranoid Planet, focusing mostly on the Hill abduction case. It actually ended up being a two-parter! You can hear part 1 on any podcast app, or here: www.paranoidplanet.ca/podcast/epis...
There's a new episode of More Like Ancient Fail-iens, with guest @danagould.bsky.social ! Available on any podcast app.
July 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
There's a new episode of More Like Ancient Fail-iens, with guest @danagould.bsky.social ! Available on any podcast app.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
July 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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CLIP: Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social discusses the limited picture typically portrayed by biased UFO archivists & investigators with guest Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social & Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social on Expanding Frontiers. WATCH: youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8Cn...
June 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
CLIP: Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social discusses the limited picture typically portrayed by biased UFO archivists & investigators with guest Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social & Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social on Expanding Frontiers. WATCH: youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8Cn...
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WATCH: Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social explains to Erica Lukes & Jack Brewer how his assessments of the Hill case & alleged alien abduction developed as he conducted research into regressive hypnosis & evolving narratives for his Strange Arrivals podcast series. CLIP: youtube.com/clip/UgkxZYC...
June 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
WATCH: Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social explains to Erica Lukes & Jack Brewer how his assessments of the Hill case & alleged alien abduction developed as he conducted research into regressive hypnosis & evolving narratives for his Strange Arrivals podcast series. CLIP: youtube.com/clip/UgkxZYC...