This Paranormal Life - The ‘Lost’ Disney UFO Documentary

Episode Date: August 18, 2026

In 1995, the Walt Disney Company produced one of the strangest television specials in history. Viewers tuned in, thinking they were about to hear all about the latest Disney attraction at Tomorrowland, but instead, the documentary began to tell stories about alien abduction and even show real life footage of UFO’s. What was supposed to be a fun TV special… became one of the strangest mysteries in American television. Get your tickets to our London Live Show! Become a commune member to get access to bonus episodes: ⁠https://thisparanormallife.com⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1995, the Walt Disney Company produced one of the strangest television specials in history. Viewers tuned in thinking they were about to hear about the newest Disney attractions, but instead they were greeted with this. Hello, Michael Eisner, head of the Walt Disney Company. In a top secret military installation somewhere in the United States, there are those who believe that the government is hiding the remains of an alien spacecraft that mysteriously crashed to Earth. But more and more scientific evidence of alien encounters and UFO sightings, the idea of creatures from another planet might not be as far-fetched as we once thought. For the next hour, the documentary continued to tell stories about alien abduction, secret government organizations, military cover-ups, and even show real-life footage of UFOs.

So why did Disney, one of the biggest family entertainment companies on Earth, produce a UFO documentary insisting that aliens were real. Why was this television special referred to as the Lost Disney UFO Documentary? And if aliens are real, would they be tall enough to ride Space Mountain? All of these questions you can find the answer to on THIS Paranormal Life! Hello everybody and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast, where every week we investigate a wild paranormal story and decide once and for all if it truly is paranormal.

My name is Rory, his name is Kit, and as you can tell, we have an insane story to cover today. I need to know more. You're going to find out more. Don't worry, Kit. This is what we're doing today. We're talking about one of the strangest mysteries in American television, a TV special that's known online as the Lost Disney UFO documentary.

Some people claim that this only aired one. or in a handful of cities, other people believed that it was pulled from the Disney archives by the government. For whatever reason, this documentary was almost erased entirely from the company's history. Luckily, at some point, a copy of the documentary began circulation online. And I'm happy to say, Kit, we have a full copy. We have the tapes. That's right. We have the documents.

Now, before we dive in, I want to say thank you to Ginny Morial. who emailed in and said, Hey, Kitten Rory, I love your show, both podcast and YouTube. I discovered this, quote, Lost Disney UFO documentary from 1995 on YouTube, and I would love to know your take on this. Ginny, are you a fucking alien? I don't trust anything anymore.

I don't trust anyone or anything. But I guess, thank you. Whatever. We have talked about this story. I think maybe I mentioned it once on a podcast before, and I maybe even investigated the documentary, but for whatever reason at the time didn't think it warranted a full investigation. I couldn't have been more wrong.

I think the... Because you've been cashing government checks for years now, brother. Well, the wildest thing about this documentary almost isn't what is in it, but the fact that it exists at all. Sure. And the circumstances around it, which, and what happened when it was released,

all of which we're going to talk about today. We will get into it. Just whenever you mentioned that this was pulled from the Disney vaults by the government, I'm imagining the Disney vault is a lot like the kind of Svalbard seed vaults for the Armageddon. The Disney Vault is in, you know, the Arctic Circle of Norway kind of buried into the ground. And that's where they keep the original Prince of Moulin.

Yeah, yeah. And you also have to be, you have to be careful if you're talking to a German person, because if you're talking about Disney's vault, they'll be like, yes, Walt, Disney. And they're like, no, Disney's, they have a vault. Yes? The man himself, Walt Disney. No. Plenty more shit jokes to come.

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Come on in, we have hundreds of episodes waiting for you. Let's dive in. Lock the doors behind them when they come in. Okay, before we dive into the documentary itself, we're going to talk about why this thing was made. And to do that, we have to jump all the way back to the mid-1990s to a little place called Walt Disney World in Florida. At the time, Disney was redesigning Tomorrowland, one of the most famous sections of the Magic Kingdom. The rides here had become kind of stale, and the crowds were getting a little bit bored. So, Disney knew exactly what they needed to do.

They needed to turn Tomorrowland from a fun, futuristic look at the wonders of tomorrow, into an alien freak fest. Did they need to do that? They basically did. I think it started as like, you know, welcome to the world of tomorrow. And it's that very like 1950s, 1960s. The Jetsons. The Jetsons, the Atomic Age, that kind of vibe.

And then I think by the time we got to the 90s, they were like, we need to get some little freaks running around here. This was at the time of X-Files coming out. A lot of alien movies in pop culture. So to modernize, Tomorrowland make it a little bit more exciting, they turned to the king of science fiction himself, George Lucas. Now, George and the team both agreed that what Tomorrowland was missing

was a really scary ride, which I don't think anyone has ever said about Disneyland. You don't this place is missing? Childhood trauma. Yeah. You know, the kids are getting a little too comfy here. Right. It's like, and not to gas up Disneyland too much, but it's like, I'm not to gas up Disneyland too much, but it's like, I'm asking a six-year-old what a Michelin Star restaurant is missing. Chicken Nuggies.

It's like, well, sure, but you know, you're not the designated audience for this place. Yeah. So let's just let it be what it is. They didn't let it be what it was. And instead, they created an attraction called the Extra Terrorrestrial Alien Encounter. Wow. Yeah. Terrorrestrial.

This ride is now famous for being one of the most terrifying attractions that Disney ever built. And I mean that in the absolute worst way possible. Spoiler alert, the ride doesn't exist anymore, if you couldn't have guessed. But I do have a description as of what happened when you went on the ride. So halfway through the experience, a futuristic technology demonstration goes wrong. A teleportation signal is diverted through an unknown planet, through an unknown planet and as a result, the teleportation tube explodes and a towering winged carnivorous alien is let loose into the room.

That's... A power cut plunges the entire room into total darkness and guests are restrained in their seats. Maintenance workers who attempt to restore the power are mulled to death and fluid slash blood sprays into the faces of the audience. I love it so far. Love the idea of people

being plunged into darkness. I mean, that's really letting you know, that's now that's filmmaking because that's letting people's imagination do the hard work. The ride was shut down

after just a few weeks because the crowds were screaming so much that no one could hear any of the information or dialogue during the ride. Yeah. Ah, come on.

You can't do anything anymore. do anything fun. I know. One user on Reddit, called Blaze Eternal, said, I'm one of the lucky few who got to experience it before it officially opened, and before they had to tone it way down because someone literally had a heart attack. It was fantastic. Someone commented and said, like,

I will never forget feeling the hot blood of a man sprayed into my face after watching him get killed by an alien. Like, imagine, and then imagine walking off that in your first feed like, so teacups? Like, what should we do now? The children look like they've just come back from Vietnam. What movie is this tied into? What intellectual property is this a part of?

Nothing. You know? Nothing. It ain't even from something. That's the thing. You know, this isn't Indiana Jones. This isn't, you know, Winnie the Pooh's

logged Luge race or whatever? I think Fun fact originally this was supposed to be the alien from alien

That was supposed to be kind of the cinematic tie-in was that a xenomorph I think he's called gets loose Why would anyone want to do that?

And I think the imaginers were like No, that is wait why would we set a xenomorph loose in a room

full of children? Sorry, had you used that term Imagineers up to this point or are you dropping that for the first time. No, that's what they're called. They're called the Disney

Imagineers. I'm not making that out. You're like the qualified imaginers. They said it wasn't possible. That's like Disney's Apple geniuses. Yeah, or Subway's sandwich artists. Making their jobs sound a little cooler than it probably is. Now, this absolutely bizarre alien encounter ride is only the start of today's case. Because as we know, to promote this wild new attraction and the redesigned Tomorrowland, Disney decided to produce a brand new television special called Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland. Mmm. The special even had an introduction by Disney CEO Michael Eisner himself, which we heard in our intro.

However, viewers at the time were left confused when the TV special barely mentions the new attraction at all. In fact, it almost immediately goes off the rails, disclosing government secrets, showing real-life classified UFO footage and interviewing witnesses who talk about aliens stealing their blood. I feel like the best way for us to investigate and understand this strange documentary is simply to talk through it and break it down into clips here on the podcast. As I said, audio listeners, do not worry, I will be narrating and guiding you through each clip. You won't miss a thing. Let's start with the beginning of the documentary. Okay, it kicks off with a very very

very classic Disney opening. You know, imagine the whole family are sitting down in front of the boob tube. They're like, come on, kids. They're going to talk about the brand new Disney ride. And the documentary starts and it kicks off with cartoon clips from Beauty and the Beast. Aladdin. It shows the Disney castle and fireworks going off in the background. It's playing the, you know,

uh-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-w Walt Disney. It's very cute, very sweet. like all hand painted and everything, then the screen cuts to black. And the next thing we see is Michael Eisner, the Disney CEO, standing in front of a crowd of men with loaded rifles. This is, this is the full intro clip to the documentary. Tonight we celebrate the new Tomorrowland in Walt Disney World in Florida with a television special that's out of this world. Hello, Michael Eisner, and the Walt Disney Company. secret military installations somewhere in the United States, there are those who believe that

the government is hiding the remains of an alien spacecraft and mysteriously crashed to Earth. With more and more scientific evidence of alien encounters and UFO sightings, the idea of creatures from another planet might not be as far-fetched as we once thought. In fact, one of you out there could have the next alien encounter. Enjoy tonight's special. I'm going to walk over and see if I sneak a peek. Maybe not. Okay, so, all right, at least we understood

why the armed guards were there. They're guarding the facility. Yes. And at the end, Michael tries to take a step towards it. And children just watched six armed men point guns at the CEO of Disney.

It's an incredibly strange start. From this point onward, the TV special only gets It starts rapidly moving through UFO sightings in the 20th century, showing actual footage of UFOs captured by civilians. And this is footage that if it was released today, it would be genuinely on par with what we've seen being released by the US government. I mean, even more insane to think about knowing that this came out in 1995.

But one of the wildest videos captured comes from Gulf Breeze, Florida. which might sound familiar to listeners of the podcast. Because that is where we recently hosted an episode that talked all about UFO sightings. However, even having done that episode and reviewing a bunch of UFO footage, I hadn't seen this footage before. Right. Which is kind of insane that it existed back in 1995 and I still hadn't seen it. I hadn't seen a video which shows what I can only describe as a 20 foot.

coffee cup hovering in the sky. Uh, well, Rory, anything's possible with the Imagineers. Let's check out that video right now. For the last few months of 1994 and lately in 1995, Gulf Rees, Florida has been ground zero for alien encounters. Especially during the day, extraterrestrial craft have become common ornaments in the uneasy skies. Nah, but...

What the do, do you? Right there. There she is, right there. Oh, my God. Residents of Gulf Breeze routinely aim their home video cameras at the horizon. More often than not, they capture an astounding alien display. Oh, look, there is. Right out there.

What the? Okay, yeah, Roy's right. We're just getting a variety of orbs and pretty interesting objects, except the first one was... The first one is one of the most insane things I've... There is a venti macchiato offering two and a half miles up. There's a venti macchiato from Michael Mouse. That's a grande spaceship from the planet Starbucks. Just spinning in the sky.

It's so wild looking. Yeah, it's so weird that it's like, like, that was a type of like 3D animation, right? In the 2000s was like you could have, like the like the, like the, famous early internet dancing baby gif. It's kind of just rotating like that. It's very surreal to watch. It really is. And again, this is 1995.

And Disney is live on television showing this to the world. It's either mind-blowing and true or the most irresponsible thing they could do is a media company imaginable to just broadcast absolute lies. And then just tell everyone that this is certified UFO footage. I think the thing that makes it maybe transcend a little bit for us is like if you were just a viewer sitting down being like, oh, I'm just going to watch this Disney documentary, they've got a UFO ride coming out. So now they're talking about UFOs. We know about the Gulf Breeze UFOs.

A lot of the stuff they talk about in the documentary, it'll be some general stuff. But then it goes into some incredibly specific UFO and paranormal stories that we only know about because we've been doing this podcast for nine flipping years, you know? Okay. So you can tell that they don't want to just skim the surface. There's some deep cuts, which we're going to talk about right now. After luring the audience in with all of this UFO footage, you'd think this would be a good time to start talking about

the new attraction at Tomorrowland. Wrong! Instead, the documentary starts claiming that extraterrestrial encounters on Earth are here because of humanity's use of nuclear weapons, which attracted the attention of intelligent life in the universe. Not no. Not no, though. Not no, but an insane thing to start rambling about in the middle of a Disney documentary.

Yeah, I mean, it is, as you say, like this is... It's like when we went to go see the presumably Best Picture Award winner of the 2027 Oscars. Disclosure Day. We don't laugh. Don't know why I'm laughing. and, you know, Spielberg O himself famously, a UFO nut, and he did manage to pack in a good amount of famous UFO references of cases that would indicate that he really knows his stuff and so on.

And this is a little bit like that. I mean, again, if you're just making a piece of light entertainment, you don't need to get into the theories about the proliferation of nuclear armament that is causing aliens to journey to Earth. But that is true, if you see, study UFO stuff, that is a very common thing that aliens in encounter stories communicate to human beings is we've come to intervene because of the potential for destruction of life on Earth. Do we need to explain that to a child to try and sell tickets to a Disney park? Probably not.

If anything, that would scare them more than the ride. It's just like, hey, little buddy, just so you know, humanity's use of nuclear weapons and genocidal war crimes. crimes is the reason why the guys upstairs are coming down to take away your dad. It's like they're taking away my, your dad, your father's blood. Yeah. You know, I. Oh my dad. You're not specifically. Actually. Yeah. Oh, you mean just like the fathers of the universe. No. Jeremy Michaels. Your father. To give you an example of just how quickly things are going off the rails in this documentary, imagine you're tuning in to see what shape the f-churros are in New Tomorrowland, and instead you're hit with this.

And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, and a fire unfolding itself. It's a video of a nuke, guys. It's a video of a nuclear explosion. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels Ezekiel

chapter one Is that it? That ain't really the Bible though, is it? Really? Some shit about it with the wheels? I think that's in the Bible. Right? It's, I forget the name of the guy

who they've, the actor they've hired to like host the documentary. At one point he starts... Look at a shitting smirk as well. There's no in the bars he just dropped on everyone. He starts reading the Bible and implying that aliens have been visiting us forever. Yeah. What was the bomb to do with the...

He's reading the Bible against shots of nuclear bombs going off. This is really playing out like a Fri-Napom death music video. It's just like, cool, shot of an explosion. And aliens. Bible verses? Bible verses. At this point, did it, did no one when they were watching this just like hit the pause button and be like, guys, what are we doing here?

I should have approved the script before I said, I let you all make this. This is insane. Need I remind you about the airships of, Colin McAish. Thank you, Phil, because I couldn't remember there for a second. The clone McInche, where there were astronauts, came down from ships flying through the sky,

and they swam through our air like it was water, and their anchor, yes, an anchor, was lodged in a church. This is Kit halfway through a Disney documentary. She's like, you're supposed to be talking about... In Clown McNish, yeah. You're supposed to be talking about Spider-Man's swinging ride. So, Spider-Man, he's kind of like the airship of Claude McNeish.

He swung down from the sky. Where would be the lies, though? In this point in the documentary, the program enters familiar UFO territory, telling the audience about some of the most famous UFO and alien encounters that have taken place. starting of course with Roswell New Mexico. Hopefully all of our listeners are familiar with Roswell, New Mexico, and if you aren't, or you need a refresher, we did a two-parter on it.

It is episode 61 and 62 of this paranormal life. And you know, it makes sense that they talked about Roswell, because in the 1990s, Roswell was really the central story at the heart of American UFO culture. But to my surprise, the documentary then went on to reference a lot of deeper cuts. UFO stories that are pretty deep down the rabbit hole.

They talk about the Mantel incident where a U.S. soldier was shot down by a UFO. They talk about the secret government group called the Majestic Twelve. They talk about Jimmy Carter's UFO experience, which I actually don't think that even we have covered yet on the podcast. It's kind of like you said, Kit, you can tell whoever wrote and directed this thing,

they don't actually give a fuck about tomorrow, They've just been handed a megaphone and they're going to scream as many government secrets into it as they can before they're dragged off stage. We have a ride called Alien Encounter where our audience will encounter an alien. Can you make a documentary about that and then promote the ride? And they're like, the lead guy's like, yep, absolutely. And he just went off and went down the biggest rabbit hole of all time. Talking about real stories and real government secrets. It could be like this podcast.

Maybe he started making the documentary as a skeptic, and he comes out the other side, six pots of coffee later, 10 packs of smokes down. He's like bags under his eyes. He's pointing to a wall and says Pepe Sylvia. He's like, you don't know how deep this thing goes. They're like, we just told you to make up documentary

narrated by Mickey Mouse. Mickey's not in it. Mickey's, the mouse has nothing to do with this. The mouse is an informant for NASA. It turns out the entire cast of Disney was just genetic experiments gone wrong. Oh, yeah. Goofy was a experimental laboratory robot that escaped. He was supposed to be serious.

Because they're all animal human hybrids. Oh, yeah. Donald Duck, that was a duck. They tried to infuse with the DNA of a man. To make a super soldier. Did it work? And he's like, he's trying to. He's trying to say kill me.

Yeah. He's. It's disturbing. Don't get me started on Pluto, the one who actually seems like a dog. Oh, no, that used to be a guy. Goofy's just there looking at his own hands. Well, he'll... Why did you make me?

There's something so disturbing about Goofy shaking someone. We used to be children. We used to... Imagine being a security guard who's like guarding the jail with her all kept. And one night, Mickey is like, like, uh-huh, please, I need help, mini-stick. It's like, uh, all right, everyone who gets the wall, please, help, she's struggling. And then you like come in and Donald just comes behind you, turns your neck.

Run, run, run, my monsters. Tell the world, get help. She needs a doctor, uh-huh. Here, I'll hold your gun. Now, one of the coolest parts about this documentary, is because it had a big old Disney budget, they've actually managed to find archived news footage and government videos discussing flying saucers that even I have never seen before. Footage that would have been recorded in what looks like

the 50s or 60s, a time where maybe government organizations were a little more playful with the concept of flying saucers. And I've got a great example of that. Here's a fun, old school, what looks like almost news or military video talking about flying saucers. Army fighter planes are on patrol for flying saucers. Cameras installed to photograph them. Fortin Oregon, the area from which came the first weird reports. This flying saucer patrol shows how the air forces, while not putting too much stock in the mysterious things in the sky, are investigating.

The control tower is in touch. And on the watch, so are a whole lot of people these days. They're seeing flying saucers everywhere. Lots of fantastic discs flying through the air. Isn't that insane? I think part of what makes that tonally so different to media about UFOs in 2026 or the modern age is like, speaking of giving people a job, back then they were like, Hey, Davey, we need a piece of music for the feature on UFOs this afternoon.

He's like, no worries, kid, I got you. Yeah, we never should have got rid of that vibe, I think, like for the news at all. Because it's just, it's so infectious, you know? Yeah. Imagine just like, you know, the big band playing? And someone's like, a second plane just hit the towers. It's like, all right, that's really bad news, but like, yeah, I guess we're talking about it in, like, at least a fun way. It was as if they were so trained from, like, the Second World War era to everything had to be really positive and upbeat.

Yeah. Everything was very like patriotic. We've lost two nuclear submarines this week. Unable to trace them. Russia's circling the United States. We're worried an attack on Washington is imminent. We recommend going to your bomb shelters immediately, as anyone outside in the next five minutes will be vaporized. In other news, Mrs. Featherbottom's been selling lemonade on the street corners for only five cents. And also that tone of voice, you know, really works.

So maybe next time you have to deliver like a devastating piece of information, let's say you're a vet or something like, just put on that voice. He was like, I'm so sorry to tell you that your dog has got cancer. Yes, she's going to die within the next three days. I'm so sorry for your loss. Shut up, old boy, I'll give you a minute now for your feelings. I mean, also, like the video itself just really makes the whole experience of seeing a UFO so casual. Yeah.

Where they're like, yes, everyone's doing it. Everyone's looking at the sky and everyone's seeing orbs. And then the final shot here is of an unidentity. with my disc in the sky. Yeah, I think this is what I'm trying to understand, because this clip is not dated in the documentary. I mean, it's safe to assume it's from, what do you think, 1950s?

Yeah, potentially. It feels like at a time where they're being, like maybe the government hadn't, hadn't, you know, instructed a complete shutdown and quite the level of secrecy that we're used to. So this is kind of like a fun thing is like, and don't worry, the boys in the skies are keeping a night out for those pesky flying saucers.

And then obviously one of them crash landed on earth and it was full of little guys and the government was like, you gotta stop making those videos. You gotta stop talking about the little flying saucers. Yeah, I can really think of... But sir, everyone in... Stop! I stopped doing that f***ing voice!

I know you don't really sound like that, Craig. All right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But, boss! I don't know if I can stop anymore. You better stop because we have your wife and children in a warehouse. Oh, God. Oh, please, no. Deborah, spare them.

Oh, that pesky government is at it again. Yeah, I think that was the gist of the time. I can't really think off the top of my head, but I think the timeline is like 47 Roswell, straight after the Second World War. And then, like, I know after that we're getting into the Cold War, but I think there might have been a time of UFO activity between the late 40s and the early 50s in which

maybe the Cold War wasn't really underway. Yeah. And so they hadn't had this lockdown on intelligence quite yet. Yeah. So that's been the tragedy with UFO research is that it has been seen through the prism of national defense and stuff for the last 80 years. But there might have been a little bit of a time where there's more naivety and curiosity about it. And it's just a bit silly, a bit fun. Probably flying saucers were appearing in like comic books and cartoons and things like that.

Yeah, you know, whimsical and fun in the way that, you know, people thought that lead makeup was good for you. And then we learned. It was a simpler time. After a few more of these clips and discussing in detail for some reason the length the government has gone to to cover up UFOs in the past, the TV special then moves on to what I would say is the most traumatizing part. Video testimonies from alien abductees. Oh, good. Again, this is to advertise a theme park ride.

Yeah. Just so that we all remember why we're here. The abductees are like, it's not fun, by the way. None of this is fun. Yeah, we'll get onto that in a whole in a second, but yeah, but one of the experts kicks off this section by describing the most common alien that is encountered in most cases. He says, people generally describe one particular type of figure, which is a particular type of figure, which is a very common alien that is a common alien that is encountered. a small figure, three and a half to four and a half feet tall, huge head, huge black eyes, hairless, grayish white skin, tiny slit for a mouth that doesn't move, and I would say that accounts for

about 85% of the descriptions. I would agree that's spot on. Then it moves on to the witnesses, real people who describe their encounters and their families' encounters with extraterrestrials. And I was genuinely quite quite surprise kit to see these testimonies from 1995 and presumably earlier share a lot of similarities with cases that we've investigated even in the last couple of years. Got it. Let's check that out.

There's some that are very, they talk about the reptilian being like sexually aggressive and then there's some that look like prey and mantis that are very mean and very violent. I thought this was mental illness. Then my son started speaking about little airmen's coming into his room and taking us up. And there was even one point where he said, they took blood out of you, Mama. He wanted guarding all the time. He wouldn't go to bed at night unless I slept with him. He was angry.

And the other thing was, is he started setting traps. One night, my husband came home from work, and there's these little colored stones all over the garage. and Dea my husband said, what is this for? And he says, well, this is when the airmen's come. They slip and fall on their butts.

It's, uh, I think your kids go to move school or something. That is only, that is a very short, uh, sample of some of the abductee testimonies. The wildest part, I would say,

is that this is an official Disney TV special and there are sections of the witness testimonies that are so graphic, I can't play them on this podcast. Why? I'll tell you later, but it's people with some pretty extreme stories about things that happen to them. Okay. Okay.

That, listen, you can listen to the full testimonies on the documentary. You can now find it online. It's worth watching in full if you have any interest. But it's some pretty crazy stuff. After 45 minutes of disclosure, the program shifts tone for the last, I would say, five minutes to briefly talk about Tomorrowland and the extra terrestrial alien encounter ride. You get almost whiplash from the turn of events. Hearing someone talk about their child say aliens took their mother's blood and then going, But just a reminder, there's a new ride at Disneyland.

Women are like crying in the seats, like having mental breakdowns. I don't think this documentary has served the purpose. Where's the fun? And what's the point? It's absolutely wild. Yeah, it feels like the whole idea behind this special was to get the general public excited about the alien ride, which we've seen it is essentially a simulation of having a real-life alien in Canada. encounter, but in no way does it make it seem like this is something you want to happen in your

life? Well, and to that end, I feel like maybe they did fumble it because when you put it that way, I'm like, it is a cool idea on paper. I think if you polled people about who wants to have an encounter with an alien, I think the number would be surprisingly high that a lot of people, their curiosity means that they want to see something or have an experience as long as it doesn't endanger their life or something. So, you know, it's like the movie Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters, like, I think that iconic moment of the walkway coming down and you see the silhouetted being, it's like

getting to experience that in 4D is kind of a cool idea. The overwhelming experience of this giant craft, that's a fun idea. But teeing it up in the context of like trauma and violence and a terrifying experience. Not the way to sell tickets. Which is also extra hilarious because if you shoot this entire documentary, inform children that there are aliens out there,

but then go, but don't worry, you can experience an alien encounter at our theme park and it's totally safe and it will be fun and fine. And the first thing that happens on the ride is the test tube explodes and the alien gets loose. And a guy's blood

bursts into your face that would just be the most dramatizing thing your parents would be like don't worry I don't know what they were doing with the documentary that was really weird this is going to be a totally normal ride where nothing can go warning you know the lights start flashing

powers going out and your parents are like it's part of the ride don't worry you're watching men get ripped in half it's not part of the ride You're not in danger. Everyone's life is a danger, danger. So what happened to the ride? Well, after years of declining popularity and increasing complaints from park guests about

how terrifying it was, Disney announced on September 21st, 2003, that it was being shut down and replaced. Fun fact, it was actually replaced by the now existing Lilo and Stitch ride, I believe. Really didn't know what ride you were gonna say. Yeah. But yes, they were like, okay, let's make it about an alien people like. I'd like to think they re-skinned it, but it's all the same mechanics. Yeah. And Stitch gets loose and rips a guy in half.

Yep. And he's just like, B'b-Bibh-Bah-Bah-Bah. Stitch famously came from a test tube. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they have like used a lot of the original, like, setting and everything like that. Um, but believe it or not, That is not the end of the story. Sure, it was incredibly weird that Disney made this thing in the first place, but what's possibly even weirder is what happened after it was released. After its broadcast, the TV special largely disappeared.

Unlike other Disney specials, it didn't get rerun or have a widely promoted home release, and over time, copies of the program became rare, almost a collector's item. Because of this, rumors surrounding it began to swirl. Did Disney fly a little too close to the sun? What if the documentary was suppressed or hidden by the government to cover up some of the information being leaked to the public? Now, as you know, luckily, the TV special was eventually uploaded online from old VHS copies that people had in their personal collections. And now you can watch the entire thing on YouTube thanks to the archivists, which is the only reason why we've been able to do this podcast. But the story and the mystery doesn't end there.

Because long before the Alien Encounters documentary aired, rumors had already circulated about Disney's involvement with the government specifically regarding UFOs. This is a really cool story that I had never heard before, and I think it goes hand in hand with this insane documentary. The story goes that a Walt Disney animator named Ward Kimball was approached at one point by the US Air Force to help work on an educational project that was designed to inform the general public about the existence of UFOs.

Which is crazy to think about because if this is true, it means at some point before 1995, the US Air Force was considering a world where the existence of UFOs is disclosed so publicly they almost hired Disney to do the fucking cartoons. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, I guess the cynical take here is, you know, was the logic of making a piece of media, you know, to be like, Hey, boys and girls, it's Colonel Sanders here. And, you know, we want to talk to you a little bit today about UFOs.

But just because something is unidentified in the sky doesn't mean that it's aliens. you know, it could be our adversaries in China and Russia. And that is why we must raise US taxes to fund the military industrial complex. Sorry, kids. I'm getting a little head of myself. Anywho, you get the idea. Just because it's a UFO doesn't mean it's aliens. Thanks for this PSA. Make sure to go to KFC to try our new chicken buckets.

Use Code Roswell for $2 off your chicken bucket. Fun fact, we're chicken to them. and earth is just one big bucket one big bucket oh they'll snap our necks and drink our blood it's going off script

yeah on the mic Colonel just a reminder to stay on track it Of course son I'm sorry I seem to have lost my composure there for a moment Tabinous forehead Sweatting and the blood of the innocent Now that's the gravy.

They're probably looking down in some mighty big telescope thinking those humans are finger-looking good. Colonel, sorry there, sonny. And of course the animals, the dogs, the cats, well, that's popcorn. Maybe. Popcorn chicken bites. What is this? Colonel Saunders addressing the U.S. public.

To disclose government information. I mean, in capitalist America, maybe that it would be, it would be like, yeah, Ronald McDonald being hired to be like, for a limited time offer, you can get two happy meals for the price of one. And the toy is out of this world. And it's like all these little toys, it's like, these toys are actually based on recovered aircraft that crashed Earth from another galaxy. They're like, they'll sneak it into the pop culture. We're joking, but, you know, we recently did an episode on has disclosure started, is the government admitting to the public that UFOs exist. And I don't know if you saw in the last couple of weeks,

but Dr. Phil was posting videos being like, so it seems the UFOs are real. Compelling evidence that aliens are coming down. And everyone online was just like, I am starting to think this disclosure. because if Dr. Phil is talking about it is laying down the law on what's happening, it's like, all right, who cut the check for $3 million for him to make that video? Yeah.

Like, Dr. Phil isn't doing it for the good of his health. Yeah. Keep an eye out for like when the Kardashians start posting like UFO footage. That's how you know it's someone's getting paid. Yeah. Which is, honestly, it's kind of a cool world we've ended. up in where people are now getting paid to talk rather than getting paid not to talk. Guys, our email address, contact at this paranormal life.com.

We'll talk. I think if the last 10 years have shown us anything, we'll talk. Can you imagine that if the only advertiser we get for this podcast is the US government paying for double yeses every week? We can only dream, Roy. They're like, like, really? This week's episode is about the pig man of Wimble. And they're like, just give it a double yes.

Just say yes to everything. This is what we're doing now. Yeah. Now, of course, this story about Disney working with the government is difficult to verify. Apparently the project collapsed when official footage and evidence failed to appear. I'm not entirely sure what that means. But it's important to note that the rumors of this story existed even before the strange UFO documentary in 1995. Now, look, what is the logical explanation behind?

all of this. Well, in later years, the writer and director of the special, Andrew Thomas, said that when he talked to Disney about their vision, he said they wanted him to create something that felt real, that focused on the truth and reality of alien encounters. So he decided to shoot the entire documentary almost as if Disclosure Day had already happened. And I think that's where this weird vibe comes in, is a Fairplay to Disney, they kind of gave him a blank check. And we're like, we want you to talk about all of this and treat it as if it is real. Talk about real stories, interview real people.

And that's going to get people really excited to go check out our alien ride. Yeah. Which is, I can see the logic there. I think they missed the mark a little bit when they start quoting Ezekiel in the Bible and showing B-roll of nuclear bombs. that might scare children. So honestly, Kit, we're kind of at our conclusions today. That's where they leave the documentary.

After all of that, they say, go check out our ride in our amusement park. As I said, I would suggest, if any of this is of interest to you, go watch the documentary yourself. You can find it on YouTube. Without ads, it's only 45 minutes long, so you can blast through it.

And it is a real strange piece of Disney history. You know, if you like those YouTube series, like defunct land, the kind of focus on obscure Disney facts and things like that. This is a great little mystery in the company's past. It's very cool.

Usually, we will decide at the end of an episode whether or not something truly is paranormal. I think this week we can decide whether or not the official Disney UFO documentary

really disclosed real life UFO encounters. I feel like we, to some extent, we know it did when, as you point out, we've covered, we've already covered, I mean, we could get granular. If you pick apart the stories that are contained within the documentary, we've given individual yeses and those to some of those. Yeah. The bit that's probably more speculative that I wouldn't know how to sign off on is the actual

footage of UFOs in the thing. Because I think the coffee cup and stuff. The coffee cup is wild. Yeah, because I think the danger of making this type of documentary that's kind of introductory to the topic that's an overview that's trying to just paint a picture of the kinds of cases that have happened in the last 80 years. There's not a lot of like pressure for every piece of media that you're showing to be a verified real piece of media.

So, you know, yeah, I don't believe that even most of those pieces of footage are even real. I mean, I even showed you just a fraction of some of the footage. I think some of it, some of the cases they even reference by name, and I think if you Google it, you can read that like some of it is highly debated, whether it's real or not. But like, you know, they talk about Roswell, they talk about the Mantel UFO. They talk about a lot of different cases that we have confirmed. as being double yeses on this podcast. So honestly, I think I'm going to give it a yes. I think the lost Disney UFO documentary does genuinely disclose real paranormal events.

Sure. Yeah. I guess that makes it a yes. Yeah. There you go. That's a double yes. Oh my God. I feel like you engineered an interesting episode for you to guarantee yourself a yes. I feel like... I actually imagined it. Did you, all right? Did someone... I think you'll find. Did someone place an insider polymarket bet with Rory that the next episode of this final life would be a yes? And Rory was like, I have to guarantee kids going to skip this a yes.

I loved this. Thank you to the person who emailed this in. I, you know, this isn't even the first time that we've covered interesting kind of American theme park history. We did an entire bonus episode once on the ghosts and the haunted history of Universal studios in Los Angeles. And it was, we actually went to the park and did an on-site investigation. Yeah. It was really cool. Maybe we can play a clip of it at some point at the end of this podcast so you guys can check it out. I think this in particular is just such an insane part of Disney's history.

And it's so amazing that this documentary has been found and shared online so people can experience it. It's just a different time, wasn't it? I feel like nowadays, like Disney has changed so much now being like Star Wars and Marvel and like very polished and having this like voice and this vision. Insane to think that in 1995 they were like, let's pay a guy to just make this documentary. Do we want to watch it beforehand? Just put it live. I'm sure it's fine. And it talks about praying mantis creatures sucking women's blood.

Yeah. In the middle of the night. It's absolutely unhinged. It's great. And that was Lilo and Stitch 2. Yeah, I agree. I like this kind of like corporate history thing. I think when you say that phrase, it sounds boring.

But I think when you look at the world's biggest, kind of most famous, longest running companies, they often have such strange histories. There's always something, you know, unique or interesting. Like if you dove into Sony and the history of the PlayStation, there's going to be some wild stories along the way of a prototype device. that never made it to production. Like, I think if you are a gamer, I think that was a thing, wasn't it?

The Nintendo PlayStation. Yes, yeah, yeah. There's weird stories that are fairly obscure, and Disney would probably have more than any other, probably, let's face it. Yeah, if you do like it, Defunct Land is a really fun channel that talks about, like, parks and rides that were closed and, like, the weird history of Disney and, like, all of that sort of stuff. It's a really great YouTube channel that I don't know if they've covered, they must have covered this in some form, at least talked about this ride that used to exist. Which listeners to the podcast, please let us know if anyone had the pleasure of experiencing this ride before it was shut down.

It wasn't that long ago. You just, you have to be a certain age. They really don't make them like this anymore. Truly. If we ever have enough money to open up a theme park in the commune, 90% of the rides are going to involve spraying blood in the faces of children. Blood Mountain The teacups of blood Yeah

It's a bloody world after all Yeah Indiana Jones in the Temple of Blood Yeah it's kind of a spin-off Yeah Theme park really I actually did The closest I've got to

experiencing a ride like this Was actually here in London I wrote it down in my notes There's a place In central London near Holborn I think maybe you've been to it Phil the novelty automation thing, it's unbelievably cool. It's kind of like an old school arcade amusement place, but it's filled with like satirical arcade machines. So one of them is called like

divorce simulator. And it's like you, it's like an arcade game where you play through having a divorce. But there was one called like probe or alien life or something like that. And you It's shaped like you're in like a laboratory and you're the scientists and you sit down on this bench and you move this joystick to like laser bits of alien cells to like eliminate parts of the cells. But at some point in the ride it starts to go wrong and the cells start to like escape and tentacles come out the side and one enormous tentacle comes a. up through the seat and into your ass. All right. No, that's not okay. I'm not even joking.

It comes up out of the seat, straight up into you. It's fantastic. You've got to go check it out. I won't call me a millennial snowflake then because I'm not okay. That's not okay. We have to sign a waiver for that time. Oh, you can spray a little blood in children's face, but you can't have an alien.

Probe your guests. Yeah, I'm not sure. Unbelievable. Who cares? It's a double yes. Got it on the podcast, which means if my calculations are correct, we got a streak going. Jeez, so true. Boom, so true.

Two in a row. And let me think forward to next week. Oh, boy. The street continues? You know, it's the podcast equivalent, Rory, of a tentacle up your ass. It's unexpected and unwelcome, to be quite honest. Okay. We should have balanced these out a little bit more.

because my next episode, after yours, not good. Oh, really? Not good. It's not good. Because I didn't say my wasn't good. I'm just saying, you know, I don't know if we're getting yes. Yeah.

That's going to be tough. Should have balanced these out. Yes, no, yes, no. But instead, I've gone, um, Hey, listen, we have a bad reputation. Hey, Phil out of your canteens is about to be a drought. Yeah. Is it a great story?

You bet it is. Do I actually think that this book exists? No. Okay. There's a little spoiler there. There's a little spoiler for you. But it's going to be a great episode. I'm sure Kitts will be as well.

Let us know if you enjoyed this week's episode. I know it's a bit of a different one, but I thought it was so fun and so cool to get to play all these clips and investigate kind of a corner of the paranormal world that we don't get to visit a lot, the silly side. Yeah, here, here. That was a great investigation.

And just like we said, the best way to support this podcast is to head on over to this paranormal life. and sign up for our Patreon, join the commune where you can get a ton of extra cool rewards, including a monthly bonus episode and a weekly bonus episode called The After Party, where we talk about everything that goes into making this podcast, the behind the scenes, and also in cases like this one, we get to, you know, talk about all the stuff that we didn't have time to talk about in the main episode. You know, there's a ton of other.

clips from the documentary that I didn't get to talk about. Maybe behind the paywall I can play some of those bits that I said were a little too X-rated for the main episode. Because there's one bit in particular that I was like, this would bring the vibe down. Okay. If I mentioned, if I played this on the main episode, maybe not on an after-party episode. It didn't stop me. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing videos of guys getting sprayed in chicken blood. I'll say what it is now. We'll beep the sentence. and then Kit can know exactly whether I should have left it in or not.

Okay. Well, you shouldn't just, that's not going in the after party then. So that's not going in the after party. It's not like, oh yeah, the after party, we kick back and we talk about, no, we don't. You just said I should have put it in this one. And I was like, well, no, I don't think I should have. We're not psychopaths. We shouldn't talk about that at all.

Okay. Well, maybe we won't play it on the after party. So we're not going to play that in the after party. There's only one way to find out. Are you insane? They played it in a Disney show to advertise a theme park. It's just f***. I'm telling you.

You guys can watch it. It's on YouTube. But tune into the after party. And as I said, you can also get access to the bonus episodes, one of which was our big investigation into Universal Studios. And if you want a little taste of what those bonus episodes are like to see if you want to sign up, how about a clip from that episode right now? On March 15th, Universal Studios held its grand opening ceremony in North Hollywood.

The whole city came out for multiple days of celebration to launch the future of moviemaking. As part of that celebration, Aviator and stunt pilot Frank Stites was set to impress the crowd with a series of acrobatics. Welcome to the second day of celebration to commemorate the opening of Hollywood Studio Lot. Why? in the sky. It's pilot Frank Stites, stuntman star of the silver screen. Hundreds of attendees watched in awe as Frank performed a series of gravity-defying stunts. But it wasn't long before Frank lost control. His plane went spiraling down towards the earth, falling 100 feet out of the sky, crashing down towards the studio in a ball of fire,

where he died on impact. Damn, CGI is crazy already. Oh, my God. Yeah, what a stunt. It's like it's coming right at us. Yeah. Oh, terrible, terrible, terrible circumstances. Well, that is, I will say, that is the problem with death defying stunts.

There's a fine line between death defying and death confirming. Yeah, sometimes death's pretty hard to defy. Yeah. The crazier it is, the harder it is to defy. As I said, if this happens during day two of your celebrations, maybe skip day three, maybe skip day four, maybe skip the opening. Make a movie. All right. You've been open for like a week and you haven't done anything yet.

You just had guys killing themselves in planes. It's like, whoa, sorry about that, folks. Now, if you look over here, Lionel, the Lion Tamer is going to whip a beast. It's like, well, this surely isn't going to go well. Julie from HR is going to eat a sore. Julie, no. Yes, an analogy that would come to mind would be if opening day of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, if an umpalumpa fell into a molten vat of chocolate and died, you know, at least when all those

kids died in Willy Wonka's factory. At that, by that point, he was making really good chocolate. Right, so they did die and it didn't impede the factory's running at all. Yeah, if he'd done it at the opening ceremony, people would be like, yo, shut this down. Shut this factory down. You're a madman. But when the kid's like drowning in the chocolate river, the mayor's like, well, hold on a second. Let's shut this down because I love this dude's chocolate. Yeah.

My kids actually are obsessed with his motherf-frizzed chocolate. So let's, you know, maybe the kid shouldn't have been playing by the river. Maybe it's his fault. Yeah, that is in the recent Wonka movie. I think he does accidentally poison everyone with his chocolate. What? Yeah. But not like, they don't die.

No, I think they become very hairy over, like, over their entire body. Oh, it's like a fun thing, yeah. Okay. It wasn't anything like that dramatic. Yeah. Well, it ruined his business. So it was drunk. He was insolvent after that.

I mean, doesn't half of his chocolate do weird shit anyway? Because all he just said, oh, that's the hairy bars? You guys ate the hairy bars? one of his things don't you even know a fucking blueberry like that didn't get him in trouble but the one makes you float

for the hairiest across the line they're like that's f*** a nine-year-old ate that we thought he was a gorilla and shot him we thought he was a gorilla we shipped him to China he's in China now

there you go guys if that sounded good you can listen to the whole episode over on this paranormal life dot com. So check it out. And of course, one of the other things that we do is if you support us over there, we give you a shout out at the end of the podcast. That's what we're going to do right now. So, thank you to Jacob Theder. If that was my name, I would just, I would make everyone call me Lord Fader. Yeah. Lord Fader. Yeah.

You'd be finding places to slot it in. Like I'd make my voicemail. You'd call me. It'd be like, we've got a voicemail and be like, people hang up. All right, they're like, no, please leave a message. Claire, Claire is that you? I tried to call you a bunch of times you didn't answer. And I hope this guy's got kids. Oh, yeah.

So you can pull the... If you... I am your father. Fader. Wait, is that what he says? If you had a... If you were a Jacob Fader and you had a kid, would you call it Luke?

or would you call it Darth? Because if you could either have a kid called Darth Fader or you could say, Luke, I'm your father. The problem is Darth isn't a name. But you could say Garth. Garth Fader. That's pretty funny.

Garth Fader. I like it. Thank you, Lord Fader, for supporting us. Lord. Lord could work. Yeah. Thank you also to Megan Feeley. I feel like Megan designed that flipping arcade machine.

you're talking about some psycho making a feely alien machine. Yeah, Megan, you're going to be our Imagineer. We're commissioning you to me. The commune needs at least one Imagineer. Yes. Because most of our kind of frontal lobes aren't functioning due to lack of nutrition. So we need one person with ideas. We're going to call them imagine fears.

Because every ride that you create, Megan, we want it to be more terrifying than the last. We want to, we need to create a ride that is called, um, uh, leaving the commune. So it's like, hey, here's what happens if you try and leave the commune, and we're just spraying blood in children's faces. Right.

We're just, we're like, we'll pick something, and we'll really do this. It won't even be like an act. We'll just like pick someone out of the audience. No, but it's a ride. And pull them in half. On the ride.

Oh, yeah, sorry. It's like, it's a mechanical or. But sometimes it like, it will be for real. Just to, you know, Megan, we want to, we want them to feel, feel what it's really like to leave the commune. Really what it's really.

Which will happen. Anyway, job opening is coming up, Megan. So, you know, apply the link in the description. And I think you'd be a shoe-in. I think you'd be a great catch for the commune. So, look, pay's not great, is it? But look, lots of room to move up. We're going to die one day.

The commune will need a new king. True, true. So, you know. But you do have to wait until we die. That is the only. And that doesn't mean kill us. No. You're not allowed to do that.

We've had to tell a lot of people that, unfortunately, in the past. So thank you, Megan. Thank you also too. Blind Barnacle. Blind Barnacle sounds like the name of one of the terrible mascots we'd have at the park. Instead of like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, we have Blind Barnacle. There's sort of just like a piece of ocean coral that you can't even if you touch it, it's like, oh, f*** me. Like, I'm bleeding.

bleeding. Yeah. And blind barnacle doesn't know where they're going, where they're walking. So they're just walking into groups of people shredding their skin. But you know, you're wondering what's the implication of the blind thing? Aren't all barnacles blind? Yes, but it's kind of, it's kind of an ironic thing because the barnacle is actually a seer. Now, it uses its third eye to see how you die.

So that's kind of the fun theme park thing. Yeah. So you go to the blind barnacle and it says car crash. 90% of the time the cause of death is Barnacle. It's mostly because you're out to be killed by the blind Barnacle. So if you want to know how you're going to go, get a picture with the blind Barnacle. Get a picture with the Blind Barnacle. Thank you, Blind Barnacle. Thank you to everyone that supports us over on this paranormal life.com.

I told me car crash. I haven't got in the car since. Just think if I stay away from them. You got car crash? Yeah. That's rare. Really? Yeah. Yeah. What'd you get? Barnacle.

I haven't been back to the communists. That's why I'm too scared to come back. He really said, if I see your ass again, it's on site. Thank you to everyone that supports the show. Everyone that supports us, they are the reason why everyone else gets to listen every week and has continued to be able to listen. And we've got to make the show for so long and have so much fun doing this. So thank you so much.

I hope you love this week's episode and we will see you next Tuesday until then my name is Rory his name is Kit bye bye