from the unexplained to the mundane. Come join
us on a Journey to the Fringe. Hello and welcome
to Journey to the Fringe. You know what? I'm
just going to leave it that way. We are your
host, Taylor and Chelsea. I worked hard and it's
gone and I don't know where it went. I don't
want to look. We are your hosts, Taylor and Chelsea.
And Chelsea, I think you're going to like the
way this episode goes, so I'm just going to go
right into it. I believe you. Deathbed confessions
have always carried a special weight. In their
final moments, people are taught to shed. pretenses
unburden themselves of secrets and speak truths
they've carried for a lifetime. In the everyday
world, these confessions often involve hidden
affairs, family revelations, or long suppressed
regrets and deeply human admissions meant to
bring closure. And we have covered this in another
episode. Not surprising to you. We have. It was
my... This was season four, episode 93, deathbed
confessions to die for. Wow. Thank you to the
spreadsheet. You keep impressing me. In the world
of the fringe. Deathbed Confessions take on a
very different character. Instead of revealing
personal indiscretions, they claim to expose
hidden histories and suppressed encounters. UFO
crashes covered up by the governments, giants
slain on battlefields, cryptids photographed
with staged trickery, or aliens being glimpsed
in secret facilities. These stories are not just
about personal guilt or reconciliation. They
are framed as revelations of cosmic importance
whispered at the edge of life. The difference
lies in scales and consequences. General deathbed
confessions resolve private lives. Fringe deathbed
confessions attempt to rewrite public history.
They blur the line between folklore and testimony,
between myth and memory, and whether true or
not, they endure because they combine three years
as the well, authority figures, secrecy, and
the emotional gravity of a final revelation.
Tonight we'll explore some of the most famous
of these fringe deathbed confessions. From the
Loch Ness Monster to anonymous insiders claiming
UFO recoveries, each story reminds us that the
truth people choose to tell at the end of their
lives can be as strange and as contested as the
mysteries themselves. So Chelsea, are deathbed
confessions the ultimate truth serum or just
stories amplified by the drama of finality? And
that wasn't a question posed to you. That was
just nothing to mention. But I think that came
up on our last episode that we were talking about.
Kind of what's going on behind the deathbed confession.
And all I can think about right now is whether
or not somebody's going to confess to Skinny
Bob on this episode itself. But to answer your
question, I don't know. Well, that's fair. And
I will spoil it right now. Skinny Bob does not
come up. However, There are quite a few episodes
that we have done that will come up and I just...
especially people that are watching listening
to this right now should go back and listen to
the deathbed confession episode originally because
I think it's a very interesting contrast of a
general deathbed confession to a fringe topic
deathbed confession and you can see the differences
as we go I see what you did because I didn't
have a direction when I did mine I just kind
of take what I could get we somewhat have to
deal with the whole topic of whether or not a
written confession is a deathbed confession but
I find it really interesting the way deathbed
confession is taken in Fringe Topic. I'm curious
what you think as we get going. Now we're gonna
start off with a former CIA operative, the given
name, Agent Cooper. Agent Cooper pops up on the
scene, long known as the Anonymous, and he's
first entered the UFO lore in 1998 when he gave
journalist Linda Moulton Howe over 11 hours of
interviews. In those sessions, he described being
taken to a secret facility as S4 near Area 51,
where he claimed to have seen alien spacecraft
stored in hangar. He spoke of examining artifacts
himself, describing the Roswell crash craft as
looking like heavy aluminum foil, yet weighing
only a few hundred pounds. He also said that
he was shown autopsy footage and told the officials
were interviewing a living great alien. However,
years later, in 2013, at the age of 77, and in
failing health, he agreed to film what he called
deathbed confession, with UFO researcher Richard
Dolan and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. That was
so close to being Richard Dolan. Richard Dolan
is kind of screwed by that. It scared me. In
this interview, he declares, quote, I saw extraterrestrial
spacecrafts inside the base. Several alien vehicles
were stored there and there was a living alien
and I was able to give a description of the creature,
end quote. He also adds, quote, I'm telling you
this because I don't have much time left. I want
the people to know the truth, end quote. But
he already gave like a statement about this.
In 1998, yes. I wouldn't consider it still a
deathbed confession if he's just reiterating.
For years. His identity remained hidden, fueling
speculation about who Andrew - Oh, did he say
his name? People spent a lot of time trying to
figure it out. Apparently, at his death in 2015,
people connected him to Oscar Wayne Wolf, who
was born in Minnesota in 1935, and he served
in the U .S. Army Signal Corps and later worked
with the CIA. Oh! His obituary confirmed his
passing at Green Pine Acres Nursing Home in Minahoga,
Minnesota on March 18, 2015. And I just want
to note, No, he gave the deathbed confession
in 2013. But he didn't confess his name still.
He still remained anonymous. No, he still remained
anonymous. No, I don't accept it. See, because
he already came out and said this stuff, now
the deathbed confession would be like, this stuff
all happened to me, here's my name, now I'm dead.
In theory, yes. That is what we think of as a
deathbed confession, except that one guy who
actually miraculously recovered and had to go
to jail. Right. Okay, but like these things are
things you're getting all... your conscience
before you die, right? How is that any different
than what he said? You're not clearing anything,
you're not getting it off your conscience, you're
still technically going to the grave with it
because your identifying person is not saying
it. Hey Chelsea, I think you should hold some
of these comments until the end because I think
you might notice a pattern that happens in fringe
communities. The revelation that Agent Cooper
was Oscar Wayne Wolf had profound effects on
the story. Knowing his real name allowed researchers
to actually check his background while he did
have military intelligence ties, skeptics noted
gaps in his records that made parts of his testimony
harder to verify. The anonymous mystique gave
his confessions an aura of mystery. Once reeled
as Wolf, a real person with a traceable life,
the story became more grounded but also more
open to scrutiny. For UFO enthusiasts, the reveal
strengthened the narrative. Here was a man with
genuine intelligence connections risking his
final years to tell the truth. For critics, the
reveal weakened the myth. Without anonymity,
inconsistencies in in his background could be
examined and some argue his claims were exaggerated
or fabricated. However, the shift from the anonymous
to Oscar Wolfe transformed the confession from
a shadowy legend into a human story. One of an
aging man, perhaps haunted by secrets, choosing
to speak out before death. So Chelsea, that's
probably the most famous you're going to see
in the UFO community is Agent Cooper. Okay. Okay.
I like his name. It's pretty cute. Yeah. And
he made it up. He got to pick his cute name.
Next up we got Void. Now, Boyd Bushman was a
retired senior scientist at Lockheed Martin and
gave a filmed, death -fed confession in 2014
in which he claimed to have first -hand knowledge
of UFOs, alien beings, and reverse -engineered
spacecrafts. Boyd Bushman spent much of his career
as a senior research engineer at Lockheed Martin
working on advanced aerospace projects. He was
known for patents related to aircraft detection
systems, radiation measurement devices, and propulsion
concepts. In June 2014, just weeks before his
death, he said, sat down for a filmed interview
at his home in Tucson, Arizona. This recording,
later released online, became known as his deathbed
confession. In the interview, Bushman claimed
that during his time at Lockheed Martin, he had
access to information about extraterrestrial
technology and aliens being housed at Area 51.
He presented photographs of beings he described
as extraterrestrials saying, quote, they're about
five feet tall and they have one or two different
races. Some are friendly and some are not, end
quote. He also asserted that the U .S. government
was actively engaged in reverse engineering alien
spacecrafts, including crafts uncovered from
the Roswell crash. He described propulsion systems
that could travel vast distances and claimed,
quote, they can travel faster than the speed
of light. That's how they get here, end quote.
Bushman's testimony was striking because it came
from someone with a long career in aerospace
engineering. His words carried the aura of technical
authority and his willingness to speak openly
at the end of his life gave the confession a
dramatic weight. He insisted, quote, I wanted
to tell the truth, I don't have much time left."
End quote. Unlike the anonymous whistleblower,
Bushman was a verifiable figure with a long career
at Lockheed Martin. His identity gave his claims
more initial credibility. Once revealed, skeptics
examined his photos and statements closely. Some
argue the aliens' images he presented were actually
toys or props undermined in the testimony. We'll
post these up with the episode so people can
see them. For UFO enthusiasts, Bushman's confessions
were powerful. A respected scientist confirming
government secrecy about extraterrestrials. However,
his story remains one of the most cited deathbed
confessions in UFO lore, blending aerospace authority
with dramatic claims of alien contact. I don't
really think it's fair that the government was
putting alien grays up when, you know, there's
a cost of living crisis going on. It's not that
nice. Oh, that was in the... When was this? This
was the mid -2000s? Sorry, 2014. So it's not
really a cost of living. It still was, but not
quite where it's at these days. And to be fair,
maybe they were part of the military. Maybe they
signed up. He does seem really old. I don't know.
Okay, it gives his deathbed some credence. Yeah.
He was definitely old. I don't know what to think
about that one. Next up is Walter Hout. It's
spelled H -A -U -T. So I'm gonna say Hout. It
could be hot. I don't know for sure. First Lieutenant
Walter Hout. the public information officer at
Roswell in 1947. For real? Yeah. Okay, keep talking.
He was the public information officer of the
509th Bomb Group at Roswell on July 8th, 1947.
He issued the now famous press release stating
that the Army had recovered a quote, flying disc,
unquote. No. Within hours, a second release retracted
the claim saying it was only a weather balloon.
Now, After the whole Roswell incident, which
we've covered in multiple occasions, I can't
quite remember the second one which is better
and I don't want to quote the first one which
is far worse, so we're just going to avoid that.
Just, you know Roswell. Hout remained in Roswell
for decades, co -founding the International UFO
Museum in 1991. He was often interviewed about
the incident, but usually stuck to the official
line that he had only been following orders.
In UFO crash at Roswell, Pout appears as a witness,
though not to any actual debris. During a March
1989 interview, he said he knew nothing about
what was recovered. He described being asked
by Blanchard to write the press release, quote,
I didn't hear about it until I guess Jess, who
was Jesse Marcel, head intelligence officer who
initially investigated and recovered some of
the debris, was on his way to the flight line.
He did however describe what Marcel told him,
quote, it was something he had never seen and
didn't believe it was a this planet, I trusted
him on his knowledge." He further stated, quote,
I think there was a giant cover up on this thing,
end quote. In an affidavit signed May 14th, 1993,
he repeated the above claim sequence of events
and added, quote, I believe Colonel Blanchard
saw the material because he sounded positive
about what the material was. There's no chance
he would have mistaken it for a weather balloon.
Now, is there any chance that Major Marcel would
have been mistaken, end quote. By this time,
how with Max Little and Glenn Dennis had opened
the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
Prior to Hout's death, Ufologist Donald Schmidt
conducted interviews with Hout covering material
that Schmidt says Hout requested to be kept confidential
during his life. Schmidt composed and emailed
an affidavit to Hout's family which Hout signed
at his International UFO Museum and Research
Center in front of his daughter Julie Schuster,
staff notary Beverly Morgan and a museum guest.
Schmidt and the family agreed not to release
this 2002 document until after Hout's death.
Hout died in 2005 and in 2007 Donald Schmidt
and Tom Carey published the book Witness to Roswell
which prominently featured the document presented
as the sealed affidavit of Walter G Hout. The
book was criticized for lack of evidence inconsistencies
and with previous accounts and presenting the
2002 document as Hout's affidavit. That's his
statement basically stated that he didn't believe
the official story of Roswell. Yeah, but he had
no evidence otherwise. Yeah, I know and that's
the annoying part of it. I like him. I think
the best so far. He didn't believe it and then
he opened a UFO museum. Yeah, I think importantly
so far he's the truest deathbed confession in
that it's at least around or after when he dies
and he's not really like given any info really
he's just like i don't know what it was i was
following orders and some guy told me that it
wasn't it was alien yeah i like it i like walter
hout next one up an episode you did one on shake
harbor oh i thought you were just gonna cover
someone i did in my deathbed confession no So
we covered Shake Harbor in season two episode
16 a heritage minute the Shake Harbor incident
Wow, look at us not getting you guys to do the
work to find out what episode it's on But anyhow,
you're still gonna get a vague idea of this deathbed
confession because trying to contrast What deathbed
confession means in the fringe community and
I don't think I can find a better Exemplary piece
then this article titled anonymous witness of
Shake Harbor UFO shares quote deathbed confession
hangar quote by TK Randolph on December 30th,
2023. What the hell? This comes from the website
Unexplained Mysteries beneath the wave. Despite
extensive efforts by Canadian Navy divers to
locate the object on the seafloor, no trace of
it was ever found, and the incident was ultimately
dismissed as unexplained. Now, more than 56 years
later, a witness who had observed the object
at the time has contacted unexplained mysteries
via email to describe his experience. Your deathbed
confession is a witness to Shaye Kerber? Yes!
What a son -of -a -bitch! Gives it on his deathbed?
No, Chelsea, re -listen to this sentence. Now,
more than 56 years later, a witness who had observed
the object at the time has contacted Unexplained
Mysteries via email to describe his experience.
Nah, okay, I'll begrudgingly listen to this.
A photograph that he presumably captured of the
object was also included, see below. I'll include
a link to this. Why, of all people, are you contacting...
Unexplained Mysteries, yes. What's his name?
That's probably his website, the guy who used
to do Unexplained Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries.
Never mind, he would be too pure. Rippin' it
up! quote from the email this is a large brilliantly
lit rectangular shaped object and came out of
the water and ascended into the sky and quickly
disappeared this photograph was taken roughly
30 miles away from shea harbor about a week after
the incident that started end quote he wrote
quote as far as I'm aware to the best of my knowledge
no man -made aircraft or submarine possessing
such technologies exist question mark one can
clearly see from the photo enlargement that this
object has no visible means of propulsion wings
engines etc quite extraordinary and remarkable
as to how this object moved and traveled around
end quote quote I have carried this burden for
over 50 years and it is now time to set this
free end quote some burden and then he brought
a picture of it. So Chelsea, those are the UFO
deathbed confessions. Okay, can I get my phone
or hold them to the end? You know what? Overall,
fringe. I actually find there's a distinct difference
between cryptid deathbed confessions and - Oh,
there's cryptid. UFO deathbed confessions? So
I would like to see what your viewpoint is on
UFO deathbed confessions. Overall, it's very
reminiscent of the entire UFO community as a
whole, I feel like. It's a little bit flaky,
kinda doesn't hold any real substance. Walter
Houtt, I like that guy. He seems to the sharpest
shooter of the bunch. He just encountered something.
He thought, oh, there's maybe a little bit more
to this. I'm gonna open a UFO museum and I will
sign an affidavit that I don't know what it was
and I'm suspicious. And one of my friends told
me that he's suspicious as well. I like him.
But at the same time, he was pushed to do it
by a UFO investigator. Who was the UFO, the guy
who wrote the book? Smith, yeah. He asked him
to do it. But he seems like a guy that wouldn't
do it unless that's what he thought because he
did open a UFO. Maybe he just... I don't know
if he would have done it if a UFO investigator
hadn't asked him. You're right. I'm not loving
it. I'm not loving it. I mean the first guy,
we've come a long way since the first guy, who...
What did he do again? Cuper? There's definitely
aliens at Area 51. Oh yeah, the guy who didn't
give his name. Not a fan of that. Nope, not a
fan that he didn't give his name. And he just
put out another statement saying the same thing.
Also, it's great that um... His claim to fame
for his first interview was Lindum Alton Howe
too. I don't want to even think about Lindum
Alton Howe. And then Jeremy Corbell. It seems
flaky, like the usual stuff that we see with
assholes, unfortunately. Yeah. I don't think
there's any substance to it. And I have thoughts
on it too, but I'm going to keep that till the
end. We're going to move on now to some cryptid
deathbed confessions, Chelsea. And who's on the
deathbed? The cryptids? No, the people. How they're
associated with the cryptids, we will see as
the people say things. And actually, the first
one I'm going to cover is Roger Patterson. Aha,
yes. Yes, Chelsea knows who this is, of the Patterson
-Gimblin film from 1967. I didn't know he had
a... I'm already more intrigued. Well, here's
the thing, Chelsea. I do like Walter Hout. I'm
going to put it on record multiple times. Okay.
You're gonna learn some things about deathbed
confessions in the cryptic community now. Roger
Patterson was one of the co -creators of the
1967 very famous Patterson -Gimlin film that
allegedly depicts Bigfoot. Just so we're clear,
this is the Bigfoot video that you're thinking
of. Yeah. It is the most famous Bigfoot video.
Yeah, it's a pretty good video. He did not have
a deathbed confession admitting that the footage
was a hoax. Here's the thing, it came out and
it's very prominent out there that Roger Patterson
admitted that the film was a hoax. That is not
true. Oh, I thought you just said that he did.
I was like, no news to me. It is absolutely out
there in the zeitgeist, if you're in the bigfoot
community, that Roger Patterson came out and
said that the film was a hoax on his deathbed.
He did not. The Patterson -Gimlin film shot on
October 20, 1967 at Bluff Creek in Northern California
shows a large ape -like figure striding across
a clearing before glancing back at the camera.
Patterson and his partner Bob Gimlin claimed
they were investigating reports of large footprints
when they encountered the creature. The film
quickly became the most iconic piece of alleged
put evidence, analyzed for decades by scientists,
skeptics, and enthusiasts. Supporters point to
anatomical details in the gait and muscle movement
as evidence of authenticity, while skeptics argue
it could have been a man in a costume. However,
there's a deathbed confession rumor that emerges
well later. Oh, I'm so excited. Patterson says
this was all a scam, but it's a mix -up. But
he didn't. There's another man that admits to
a deathbed cryptid faking, and we're going to
cover him later. hitter, but he dies in 1993.
Over time, his confession is mistakenly attributed
to Roger Patterson, who fuels the myth that he
admitted to hoaxing the Bigfoot film. But in
reality, Patterson dies of cancer in 1972 at
the age of 38, not that much after he filmed
it, five years. Oh, with no deathbed confession.
No, and those close to him, including Gimlin,
have consistently stated that he never recanted
his story. Gimlin himself has maintained for
decades that the encounter was genuine. The controversy
surrounding the film remains unsolved and believers
argue that the most compelling visual evidence
of Bigfoot, citing biomechanical analyses of
the figure's proportions but skeptics counter.
The Patterson had a history of interest in Bigfoot
and may have staged the film. But you can't take
his deathbed confession into account because
it's not real. whether or not it's real. Nor
do we have the skills to actually tell anyone
whether or not it's real or not. It's true because
you know maybe if it was filmed today we would
be able to debunk it or something like that.
Also I know we talked about this on our Bigfoot
episode but there is a local connection for us
kind of between here and where you are Robert
Gimlin has connections to Harrison Hot Springs.
Yes we have talked about that before I believe
it's in the Harrison Hot Springs episode. We
didn't do it. episode on Harrison Hot Springs.
Well, we talked about Harrison Hot Springs a
lot in one episode. Yeah, we did. In the Bigfoot
episode. This is in... Why does it say it's all
bunny -ups from here? It's in there. I don't
know. Sometime a long time ago. I have one more
Bigfoot confession, and man, I cannot ground
this one, so I'm just going to preface that right
from the start here. This story originates. I
can't find it before anywhere else on the internet.
Okay. From Sasquatch Chronicles, the pod - and
they don't cite any links in their sources. Oh
no, okay. I'm still open to it. And we don't
even need to worry because it's a listener who
did this. He recounts a former law enforcement
officer's death -fed confession. According to
this account, the officer claimed that in the
Dakotas, government officials and law enforcement
shot Sasquatch from helicopters. He described
seeing photographs and audio recordings from
the operation, which allegedly showed multiple
creatures being killed. The officer said he had
carried the burden of secrecy for years, but
wanted to clear his conscience before passing
away. You take with that what you will. I can't
find that corroborated anywhere. I can't find
it stated anywhere else. I don't even know what
to think about what you just told me. I mean,
they're just hunting them in the Dakotas, where
Bigfoot are plentiful, for there are no forests.
Apparently, they're just flying in helicopters
just picking them off, eh? Hmm. Yeah. My last
cryptid death by confession is Christian Sperling.
In April 1934, the Daily Mail published what
quickly became the most famous image of the Loch
Ness Monster, a grey, black and white photograph
showing a long necked small head rising from
still waters of the loch. If you think of a picture
of the Loch Ness Monster, this is the picture.
This picture is credited to Colonel Robert Kenneth
Wilson, a London surgeon who claimed he had taken
the photo while driving along the lock with friends.
According to Wilson's account, he stopped when
he saw something moving in the water, pulled
out his camera, and captured the creature before
it slipped beneath the surface. Because Wilson
was respected professional and reluctant to be
publicly associated with the image, the press
dubbed it the surgeon's photograph. For decades,
the photo was treated as the strongest visual
evidence of Nessie's existence, appearing in
books, documentaries, and tours and brochures
worldwide. The truth, however, came out much
later in in 1994. Christian Sperling, then 90
years old and near death, confessed that the
photograph was a hoax. Sperling was the stepson
of Marmaduke Weatherall, which is not a name
I thought I would ever come across outside of
Sunday comics. A big game hunter hired by the
Daily Mail in 1933 to investigate Loch Ness.
Wetherill had been humiliated when monster tracks
he reported turned out to be made with a hippo
slip. Seeking revenge on the newspaper, Wetherill
enlisted Sperling to build a fake monster and
Sperling constructed a model head and neck from
plastic wood and attached it to a toy submarine.
The stage photo was then passed to Wilson who
agreed to lend his name to the story giving it
credibility. Sperling admitted It was just a
practical joke that went too far, end quote.
His confession... A hippo foot? Yeah! I don't
know how that works, but yeah. It's okay, I just
wanted to make sure I understood properly. His
confession to span decades of belief in the photo's
authenticity, vindicating skeptics who had long
suspected trickery. Yet, even after the hoax
was exposed, the image remains iconic, a reminder
of how myth, media, and human mischief can create
legends that endure long after the truth is revealed.
And Chelsea, that is my last deathbed confession.
I tried so hard to go to Reddit for a story of,
hey, my uncle claimed that he killed a Bigfoot,
or saw a UFO, or anything with a deathbed confession
relating to the Fringe. Nothing. There is zero.
And I find it very interesting because if anything
I feel like that's something you're going to
keep until the grave. But also the fact that
the other stories that even come up around this
have nothing to do with actual deathbeds. I find
interesting. Yeah that is actually very interesting
and... It's almost as if it can be a buzzword
to lend credence. to your story as evidence.
You're right. And even the Patterson Gimlin one,
it's connected to something that's not a deathbed
confession, even though it was said that it was
Patterson's deathbed confession. It's weird how
often people try to claim deathbed confession
as evidence or add the word to make the evidence
seem stronger. Yeah, it is almost like they're
using it as evidence, isn't it? Because not one
of these was somebody saying on their deathbed
this thing despite the fact that's what I started
out looking for and not one of these would make
me believe in anything that they were talking
about no but would it point me to believe it
any more than what they're saying and Chelsea
I should say sorry before we get too far away
from it this Loch Ness monster confession is
the one that's often misconstrued as the Patterson
deathbed confession which is basically saying
in the 90s Loch Ness monster was debunked on
the deathbed so they move it to Patterson oh
okay that was great i don't think i i can't remember
my deathbed confession but i don't think i talked
about anything like this it was just straight
up deathbed confession somebody mistakenly found
out that they didn't like owls and they just
collected owls yeah i like that one I really
like the guy who talked about murdering somebody
and then had to go to jail for it because he
survived. Very different episodes. I do always
enjoy stuff like this because I always end up
disappointed. And it's not that I don't like
listening to these things, it's just that in
the end it just always comes up lackadaisical
for me, unfortunately. Unless it doesn't, but
this one did a little bit. because other than
Walter Hout, I really enjoyed him, but he didn't
really do much, and I think it's just because
he had a UFO museum. And I didn't mind spurling,
but the whole thing, especially with cryptids,
I find if there's going to be a cryptid deathbed
confession, it's going to be debunking something
as opposed to actually like claiming something
fantastic. That's true, because why on your deathbed
would you be like, that was real, if that's what
you've been talking about the whole time, right?
It's just like the first guy. Exactly. And when
we look closely at fringe deathbed confessions,
a pattern emerges. Unlike traditional deathbed
confessions, which often involve deeply personal
secrets revealed in the final hours of life,
these stories are harder to pin down. They frequently
come from anonymous sources or from individuals
who were elderly but not actually dying. And
the details are almost always impossible to corroborate.
The term deathbed confession itself has become
something of a buzzword in paranormal encrypted
circles. It lends drama and gravity to acclaim.
suggesting that the speaker had nothing left
to lose and therefore must be telling the truth.
But in practice, many of these so -called confessions
are simply late -life testimonies retold without
evidence and stretched to fit the narrative of
secrecy and revelation. And here's a key distinction,
encrypted lore Death -fed confessions often refute
the story rather than support it. In Christian
Sperling Admitted the Loch Ness Monster's Surgeon
photograph was a hoax. These confessions don't
confirm the existence of monsters, they dismantle
the most famous pieces of evidence. By contrast,
in UFO lore, death -fed confessions tend to support
the mystery, with insiders claiming to have seen
crash -craft, recovered bodies, or government
cover -ups. That doesn't mean these stories are
powerful. The emotional weight of a final admission,
whether it's exposed a hoax or whispering about
hidden truths ensures they endure. They thrive
because they combine authority, mystery, and
the urgency of last words. Yet we must remember
without names, documents, or corroboration they
remain legends rather than proof. And perhaps
that's the real lesson here. Fringe deathbed
confessions aren't about closure in the way ordinary
ones are. They're about keeping mysteries alive,
whether by tearing down the myths we thought
we knew, or by adding new layers of secrecy to
the unknown. And with that, I have been Taylor,
here with Chelsea. We are Journey to the Fringe.
Thank you all for listening and we'll see you
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