Up and Vanished - Where Things Stand in Up and Vanished

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

There has been meaningful movement behind the scenes in Up and Vanished. Because of the serious and legal nature of what is unfolding, we are being deliberate with the next update. More is coming soon.In the meantime, I want to introduce Season 2 of my investigative series High Strange. It’s my passion project exploring UFOs and the unexplained through the same journalistic lens, storytelling, and production you expect from Up and Vanished. If you are looking for another real mystery to dive into while we prepare the next official update, this episode includes a little preview from the new season of High Strange. You can listen to High Strange right now wherever you listen to podcasts. Thank you for sticking with us. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to a tenderfoot TV podcast. Hey guys, it's Payne. I want to start by saying this is not the big up-and-vanished update you were probably hoping it was, but it's coming. And it's coming carefully. The last two episodes we dropped were heavy. And behind the scenes, a lot's been happening since then. Conversations with different agencies, ongoing steps with the families. But make no mistake at all.

We are going to share it and we're going to share all. all of it. And I can tell you this, things are finally moving in the right direction. You've helped keep these stories alive. We're currently preparing for an even more extensive update. In the meantime, I want to share something with you that's personal to me. A couple years ago, I launched a show called High Strange. It's basically my passion project. A full-scale investigation into UFOs and the unexplained. Before you roll your eyes and hit stop, just hear me out. It's real raw journal It's me, applying the same investigative lens, the same production value, the same storytelling

discipline you expect from up and vanished. It's cold high strange, and it's out now. Here's a clip from our new season so you can fuel it out yourself. December the 26, 1985, I had a nice day with my family. It was me, my wife, and our son, who was then six. beautiful afternoon, right after Christmas, we'd have a wonderful Christmas, little country house we'd bought a year before,

went to bed, and in the middle of the night, became aware of the fact that there were noises around me. It felt like I was in a room full of people, and I was supposed to be in my bedroom alone with my wife. It was just something wrong. Finally, I woke up, Open my eyes.

I couldn't get up. Couldn't rise off the bed. And then I realized I'm not on my bed. I'm in somewhere else. This room with an arch door and a little black window in it, it was really weird. What a hair is that? Is there?

Is that somebody big? I don't think I wrote that. I saw these big black. black eyes peering at me from about two feet away. Something's eye. It looks ooh. It's got eyes out. And eyes.

We're salved eyes. I found myself in a room full of what looked like gigantic insects. It was horrifying. I sell something that looked like it had a hood on it. Near the corner and I'm dead root. I don't want it to be that. The head of the New York State Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Donald Klein, he had solved many criminal cases with hypnosis.

The world's best forensic hypnotist, he was the real deal. The memory began to come back under hypnosis. They would be constable the last day so pay attention to my voice but you remain asleep to remain in the habit

they could stay they would move very slowly and then very quickly they were not of this world at all that was when I thought I'm having a nightmare they didn't go away thinking

God this is real I became crazed I was on a little hot, and I couldn't get off of it. I couldn't move, and I kept trying to imagine my bed. I couldn't do that either. It was so vivid. It was like real life. I remembered those faces, and they weren't human. It was sticking into my mind.

It would melt a noise like a voice. I don't know where it came from, but it was a mechanical voice, clearly. And it would repeat. What can we do to help you? stop screaming. Why don't you like me? I'm hearing this voice. Jesus. What can we do to help you stop screaming?

I do you help me. Oh shit. I'm sorry. Gigantic insects. Very scary. They were not silly looking at all. Ever when you were a kid maybe watch a praying manass, how it creeps so gracefully and smoothly along and then whang!

That gets it. the little fly that's after. That's how they moved. One of them was about five feet tall. The others were all very small. They showed me a needle. They're going to put it in the side of my head. Touches my head.

I realized then, this was physical. You got to stay relaxed now. It's cold high strange, and it's out now. Thank you for sticking with Up and Vanished. The next update is coming. And when it drops, you'll understand why we took our time. Until then, here's High Strange.