#1 · The Men Who Stare at Goats
2026-10-17 · 17 min · College of Phenomenology
Vera and Marcus open the file on The Men Who Stare at Goats: Lt. Col. Jim Channon's hand-illustrated First Earth Battalion manual, a proposal for 'warrior monks' loyal to the planet, and the real officers it inspired, including a two-star general who tried to walk through his office wall. They visit Fort Bragg's real Goat Lab, a medic-training facility, and follow the claim that civilian martial-arts teacher Guy Savelli stared one goat to death, aiming at number sixteen while number seventeen fell. Then they turn to the government's long-running remote-viewing programs, Joe McMoneagle's famous Typhoon submarine session, and the 1995 review that split a statistician and a skeptic. It's a story where almost everything strange really happened, and the strangest parts are still open questions. Enroll free at thesupernaturaluniversity.com
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- Jim Channon (Wikipedia)
- First Earth Battalion (Wikipedia)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats, book (Wikipedia)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats, film (Wikipedia)
- Albert Stubblebine (Wikipedia)
- Remote viewing (Wikipedia)
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