Send Nudes to the Men In Black

"You asked for it so we covered it: Get ready to get on the train to Bummersville as Chelsea talks about NXIVM AKA that sex cult with the Smallville actress. Spoiler Alert: It's way worse than you thought. And then Cristina talks about how the mythos of the Men In Black started involving some guy in Washington claiming some aliens burned his son and killed his dog."

Presented By: Chelsea
Category: Cult

Founded in 1998, the sex cult and multi-leveling market scheme first hit the news in 2018 after arrests were made.

It began life as self-group, though the reverence to the leaders were already cult like. Several high-profile people took classes with NXIVM.

In 2006, Smallville actress Kristen Kruek joined the cult and brought co-star Allison Mack into it. After Kruek left, Mack become one of the primary recruiters. By that time the group moved fully into cult status. Mack lure into woman in to be sex slaves, encouraging them to starve until they met the leaders beauty standards and branding them with NXIVM logo. Two of her attempted, but failed marks included Emma Watson and Kelly Clarkson. In both cases, she pitched it as program for promoting women.

The arrests came following a 20/20 interview with survivors. The case is ongoing.

Takeaway: Don't let any try and force you to send nudes.

Presented By: Cristina
Category: Extraterrestrial

In 1947, a pilot in named Kenneth Arnold who coined the phrase "flying saucer" and who will never be mentioned on this wiki ever again, was sent by the Air Force to investigate a UFO sighting off the Puget Sound, near Seattle.

Two harbor patrolmen saw 6 "donut-shaped" UFOs while one duty. The objects, the story went, dropped a substance onto the boat, injuring another patrolmen and killing a dog. The story expanded, with one of the men claiming that the first ever Man in Black told him not to talk about what he'd seen and that his son had disappeared, only to resurface as a waiter in a Montana who no memory of how he got there.

Arnold believed the story, especially when the hotel told him they already had a registration under his name. The Air Force, however, didn't buy the claim. They didn't tell him that to save his dignity. The men later recanted their story, first claiming that they were just saying it was a hoax so they didn't get bothered, before confessing they were trying to make a deal with a pulp magazine.