Hellier 2.5 "The Unknown Country"

                                      
Aphrodite, goblins, Ufonauts, Crowley are all connected.

Karl thinks Amy doesn't feel real since they had so much info from her, which is what I kinda said since it was like they were being fed info.  However they needed to find out whether everything was real or not. Agh my ears with the profanities!! Ha.  Tyler thinks she knows "sluff" as Wriste is a "puppeteer" who Karl refers to as a "player."  Connor didn't want to follow up on the emails.  He was frustrated they couldn't throw the e-mails out.  Greg had an argument with Tyler as he wanted to plan everything out, but Tyler just wanted to go ahead with it now.  Tyler and Greg did a recon at Somerset which Dana was against and added her own warnings about what to do and what not to do.  Against her warnings they did end up in caves.  They heard noises akin to whispering.  Chancing on a plethora of gigantic bones. 

Karl expresses his opinions over the differences between Amy and David's e-mails since he was more eloquent and she was to the point, using her phone to send them.  Connor thinks she's frightening since she knows of the terms of sluff and also Ufonauts since it would've required research.  Also concerned about "the Gatekeeper."  She shouldn't have had knowledge of  'staffs and wands.'  As well as "cloaked figures."  Tyler refers to Brad Steiger and his mention of Norma Hall's encounter with a humanoid.  As well as their sensitivity to light.  Reading from BN Nunnelly, The Humanoids: Real Life encounters With Beings That Can't Exist, about two campers who heard screaming from the copper mine.  Spotting two hooded men carrying wands.  Human sacrifice, torture turns up but Tyler posits there would've been reports of missing persons, yet there are bones in caves.  Mentioning the death and disappearance of one person with remains found in the cave.

Some have mentioned the green, shiny eyes at 22.00 minutes on the YouTube upload and again a few seconds later.  Not sure if they are eyes, though they do appear so as they seem to have moved, wonder if it was some equipment glare??

With Tyler's research, Greg thought back to Hellier, such as the cave systems.  Karl did a search on Somerset and the Green Man and mentioned Julia Somerset, wife of the Earl of Somerset.
The Green Man in reference to Beltane, the Celtic Fire Festival which is about life and new creation.  Karl looked at the locations and all of the points are on the 37th Parallel and between the 36 and 38 paranormal phenomena is seen.  Karl dissected maps with the relevant locations and found some intersecting near Hellier, some from Point Pleasant, others even end up near his apartment.  Where Derrenger met Indrid Cold at Ashland and Somerset was on that same line.  So did Indrid visit there.  He also added some test areas such as John Tenney's at Royal Oak and didn't pass there.  Adding straight lines can't be drawn on a globe.  Which is why maps are used: flat.  Flat earth theory?? has been eluded to by some saying that's one reason why the earth isn't round.

Greg found Amy was in jail as he didn't get any replies to his e-mails.  Thus they assumed she was in a safe place.  But how safe with those undercover cops running around.  How did she end up there with break and enter charges for starters.  Being kinda suspicious aside from her brother being a criminal.  From watching far too many paranormal shows and reading books, I always said Kentucky has a hell of a lot of paranormal activity of all kinds. 

Hellier 2.4 "Your Green Man"

                                                
During their live stream for their Travelling Museum, Greg noticed an e-mail with "Urgent life or death please respond" in the subject line.  A longer version of an e-mail David had sent before.  Tyler had planned the trip and before he left for a lead, Greg told him of the e-mail.  From an Amy referring to "Ufonauts" as Dana says only someone familiar with that term would use it.  Amy says she's next on the list...With reference to "the Green Man; the heart of your Green Man is here."  Greg thought someone had watched Hellier and was trying to ingratiate themselves in this.  Thus as Tyler remarked, Greg went paranoid at the thought of being watched.  The Green Man is a pagan face, surrounded by leaves, a symbol which is familiar.  It is associated with the growth cycle each Spring and a symbol of rebirth.

Greg looked at court records and finds Amy's legitimate and has a brother in prison until 2026.  The e-mails originated from Somerset, Kentucky so they spelled panic for Tyler heading out on his own.  Greg saying that John Tenney is the only one who he's heard using "Ufonauts" but that's since he's "old school."  Tyler explained how he would annoy Greg over the Goblins way back even before the e-mail and how years ago he received a book, The Humanoids and refers to 'cave captives' from the book and missing persons along the Appalachian trials.

The woman, Amy wrote again at 3.58am as she went camping by the lake with her ex boyfriend.  Greg thought her emails were akin to providing answers to the David e-mail.  Such as addresses which they didn't have for him.  She e-mailed around 9 times.  "Sluf" also mentioned in her e-mail which was on the old photos of the coordinates of Terry Wriste.  Slang from the Vietnam War meaning "short little motherfu**er" a racist term for Vietnamese.  'Short' as in goblin.  The same coordinates Tyler was going to.  He was more interested in finding out what was happening than being afraid to venture out there alone.  He finds a happy birthday balloon in the middle of the woods as almost a marker, crumb of a clue.  But he found nothing at the coordinates .  He hears a "rumbling" in the distance which turns out to be a helicopter.  Police helo??

Amy was told to contact Greg by a 'Doug.'  They'll "know him by the warning."  Tyler lost his compass in the woods as he texted Greg and got lost then chanced upon finding a trail.  Coming to a road in the distance.  One last thing Tyler had to find out was who lived at the white house by the coordinates.  The door is opened by an old woman and he spots a carving in the tree nearby.  He asks if it's the Green Man but she says it's only an old man.  As he thinks if maybe it's a conspiracy everyone's in on.  A policeman approaches him and asks what he's doing.  Taking his info down.  He was undercover and a whole squad of them followed him out of North Carolina.
Amy vanishes after telling them she had proof of the Ufonauts, the rituals in caves and sacrifices and "scarier versions of the stuff in Hellier." 
Greg thought of doing the 'alien abduction experiment' but stopped it.  At Brown Mountain and the goblin aspects seemed unrelated.  Greg had the intention of being at Brown Mountain to be abducted.   

Can't get past the coincidences for want of a better word that keep popping up here and any cynic would think they were being led down this merry dance by someone or something just to see how far they would take the bait and lead to nothing coming out of it at the end.  Don't get me wrong I like the twists and turns of this and the mystery in between the lines and all the info they keep finding, just can't help but think someone wanted them to come down to earth with a bump.  It is intriguing none the less as I like a good investigation and this one joins all the dots.  As well as wanting to know about the murder, yet to watch.

Hellier 2.3 "Borderlands"

                                         
Point Pleasant and The Mothman area is where Greg and Dana road tested their very first car and this place and the Mothman "has become like a representation of change." Karl says the Mothman case might be related to Hellier but they had to check it was investigated. This is where Point Pleasant is relevant to both these. Greg refers to the God Helmet
(used by Nick in an ep of Paranormal Lockdown 3.6 Bobby Mackey's Music World - so if you've seen that then you know what this helmet is, how it works and what it does.  http://mila255.blogspot.com/2018/04/paranormal-lockdown-36-bobby-mackeys.html Thought how cool it was that Elizabeth redesigned it for use here.) 
Dana wants to wear it and do a 30 minute session.  Connor has his doubts especially since his season 1 experience where he saw the tin can which left him shaken.  And also now since they want a message from 'them' out there, so they're kind of provoking all of this in order to take this further.

Dana thinks the Domes is where Mothman hangs out and is unsure if it's where there is energy. The God Helmet has given people visions of God and hence the name.  So this device simulates those areas.  It is used in psychiatrist experiments and they can further add to someone's psychic abilities.  Dana has worn the helmet in the region of ten times. She also had side effects in needing to be alone and needy in the ten days after wearing the helmet in the past.  So it is overwhelming for her.  This version is the only "non-official lab model" of the helmet.  The effects are felt emotionally and physically.
Greg prompts her to think of Indrid Cold and who he could have been in contact with.  Dana sees a non-human, long face.  Greg tells Dana to ask questions and this leads to a conversation.   She was told there was a database of English language and emotional communication was the key.

Connor in the 'Estes Method' (see season 1) found the words and signal decreased in volume.  The session was longer than 30 minutes.  Dana says the aliens use pictures and emotions to communicate.  They refer to borders and bridges, Ashland, Point Pleasant, are all border towns with bridges. These are key and Tyler refers to travelling and "transition" and it could be a "doorway or window oo another place."  I thought of portal when that was said.  One location connected with Terry they say is Ashland where he met Indrid Cole and the other is located where the coordinates he sent to Greg.  These were in the middle of nowhere.  Tyler travelled to those coordinates and the night before leaving, Greg received an email...wow had to watch the next ep just to find out what this email contained.

Hellier 2.2 "And the Dead"

                                               
Re the obit from ep 2.1, nothing was posted.  Finding out that Indrid was dead was a big blow. But Connor suggested they could speak with Taunia as she's a little lady and only three and a half hours away by car in Parkersburg.  She relays her father's experience and her mother didn't let the children hear.  They were in a ship, Indrid was chasing 'humanoids' and the ship crashed.  The two visitors to see her were Indrid's sons, Connor and Connard [how I spelled it] (that speaks of being 'conned' which crossed my mind just now) described as normal looking.  She thought they're all here re Mothman etc since the Appalachian Mountains provide a convenient hiding place. The best way to contact the Cold family was through her, so they leave a note.  Any results?

Karl says that it's all about looking at information they couldn't know of and not seeing whether Taunia's details are right or not true, that is irrelevant.  Derenberger says Indrid was just visited by him as they just wanted to meet their government. Whereas Terry Wriste is some sort of a general.  Greenfield's book was about the cipher so could figure it out, which Karl worked out and tried to crack it.  They found the address in Ashland, Kentucky.  Boy one hell of working out in that cipher! Upon reaching Ashland they're told that mental health is a big problem.  The town also has burial mounds and Charles Manson lived there as a child for a time.  That gives credibility to the mental health element in some ways.  How much of an influence did this town have on him at such a raw age.  It was meant to be the age of innocence, the eyes of a child and all that. The library was the only place open.

The Wagon Wheel restaurant was only there in 1978 but in 1979 it's gone and covered by a parking lot (move over Richard III!)  Which was close to their timeline of events located at 123 17th Street. As the restaurant existed they thought Terry Wriste is real and he exists and he was actually there.  Karl couldn't find any record of a cemetery near a church.  The title referring to the burial mounds and not necessarily a cemetery.

They also find 'Parsons' on the ground, the name of the police chief in Point Pleasant and also mentioned in Derenger's book.  Tyler felt they were walking "in the footsteps of Terry Wriste" and where that would take them now who knows.  This episode was following the trail they found and reminded me of following a breadcrumb trail that someone has left for them purposely.  That someone possibly being Terry if indeed he is real.  Then his name in anagram has 'twisterer' in it too, so were/are they being led round in circles being fed ample snippets of clues.  Or is something major on the horizon.  Onwards to ep 3!

Hellier 2.1 "Noise and Signal"

                                               
Hellier returns for season 2 with more into their investigation started in season 1.
Cincinnati February 2018.

The hand of Fatima/Mary/Miriam was spotted by me when the camera was panning the bookshelf. Here and in the world for those who do garner meaning from it.  Also known as the Hamsa - five (Middle Estern) as in five fingers.  A symbol to ward off evil and evil gazes.  It is about protection, bringing good fortune.  Okay that was digression.
Also the synchronicity element is so relevant too, firm believer in that as well, as it's affected me in lots of ways and not just in relation to the paranormal.

Lots of talk on Tyler who's really into this, as well as his research skills, enthusiastic and being hands on with the investigations.  That'd be me then, love my research in whatever I do, not just the day job! This looks at what new information has surfaced since season 1 and how it affects the current season 2 aspects of the investigation, deciding what they want to continue with.  First off the list was David who appears to have vanished off the face of the earth.  As Greg said he wasn't sure of he even exists or was just a 'conduit' per se to get them to investigate.  As well as mentioning the house that Greg and Dana had found.  Having footage of the house too.  David Matthew Parsons owns the house after researching this address.  David was found online and they realized that the wording in his Facebook posts and the emails didn't fit and he wasn't a doctor either.  Taking that as a strange coincidence and they accepted it wasn't who they were looking for.  Except for the synchronicities.

Connor explained how the Harliss name and his sister's research into their family ancestry with their grandmother, found this name in relation to family and how their great, great, great grandfather was named Joseph Harliss who owned land in a part of Pikeville, Kentucky.  So the goblin pics could've been taken at Harliss Creek.  Which he thinks could be "noise" in this area.  Needing to see if they can follow leads due to such discoveries. Greg wanted to email David and Terry again.  Connor wondered if Terry had seen their 'teaser' for this case and started the email again, and whether it's someone who follows either Dana or Greg on social media.  So Greenfield could be Terry.  Allen Greenfield is the author of  Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts thus concentrating on who Terry is.  According to Woodrow Derenberger, Indrid Cold was accompanied by two others, Karl Ardo and Demo Hasan.  So the EVPs they got in season 1 could have been in reference to that Karl.  That has to be more than synchronicity.
Stillwater Bridge was in Minnisota and where Indrid could be.  Eerily similar to Point Pleasant, such as the bridge and a Mothman statue also found in Point Pleasant, Virginia.  Taunia Derenberger-Bowman wrote Beyond Lanulos Our Fifty Years With Indrid Cole. It says that Indrid is dead. Posted on Facebook by Taunia 18 September 2018.

A little more summary in this opening as a recap which may have been useful or helpful if you haven't watched season 1, but I just wanted to get right into it.  Forget impatience but there was a lot I wanted to see in this ep especially since I won't have a chance to watch them all in one go. But glad to see the synchronicity element was still present and how that still played a big part in their clues and search for some sort of meaning to what has gone before and was yet still to come.  As the title suggests some critics have viewed the first part as being just that - 'noise' with little going on here.  At least there were pieces to the continuing puzzle that could be seen as possible signs, a 'signal' to their quest, in my view.

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

                                              
Lots of dramas being churned out about Agatha Christie, as well as her books being remade over and this one delved into an aspect of the writer's personal life after her divorce and meeting her second husband, Max Mallowan.  A rather comical tale which had her wanting romance, not for the romance factor per se, but rather for research.  Romance not to be equated with sex, as Katherine Woolley (Katherine Kingsley) tells her, not it's different, but romance still being a precursor to sex, right.  Katherine suggests Agatha (Lyndsey Marshal) should visit their (her husband Leonard's (Jack Deam) dig in Iraq when she can't get anywhere with her romance story.  Which she finally decides to do but still wants her male publishers to publish the 'romance' book when it's completed.  Not too impressed, they're more interested in the Belgian detective and his little grey cells solving mysteries.  The publishers wouldn't be too impressed with her, 'cutting off and feeding it' joke either in the beginning.

Finally she travels to Iraq and after the train not being able to go all the way as the conductor tells her, the earth has been sick.  She finally arrives at the dig site only to find a man who's been shot and she drives him for help, though only after she drives over him twice, his leg to be precise.  She draws in a pad for help and the concierge who speaks English, not that she notices, sends for the doctor and tells the boy she's a mute.  The doctor tells her next time she should use a bigger gun since the bullet missed the bone in his head.  That was the beginnings of this comedy. 
Finding out that when the tomb was opened a man was found dead inside.  When she arrives at the house of her guests, the Leonard's, she stumbles upon a hanged monkey belonging to Katherine.  Thus the mystery ensues, Max (Jonah Hauer-King) the shot man is also an archaeologist too.  Leading to plenty of digs and not just of the excavating variety.

More an allusion to one of the Poirot stories, set in Mesopotamia, or thereabouts, such as Appointment With Death for example, and how Agatha could have come up with that plot, but probably didn't.  As dinner is served, the suspects gather, Lord Marmaduke Ponsonby (Rory Fleck Byrne) Lucy (Bronagh Waugh) strangely Pearl (Crystal Clarke) wasn't present at dinner as she was meant to be Katherine's companion; but was relegated to a "dog's body".  Some digs at men and how they don't listen to women, much less think they can be intelligent, as Pearl has a doctorate too.  Agatha sends a telegram to Conan Doyle who suggests she perform an autopsy on the monkey's liver to ascertain cause of death.  Though neither she nor Max know where the liver is or what it looks like.  Eventually she removes it herself after some bungling from Max, so much for being an archaeologist and adds some chemicals to find the monkey was poisoned and most likely drank the strychnine, which could have also been used on the dead man in the beginning.

Plodding on and investigating Agatha finds from Sir Constance (Stanley Townsend) that his wife Lucy who is younger than him and is 24 is having an affair with someone younger too.  But she doesn't figure out who that is.  Enlisting Max's help in investigating she finally learns who the suspects are, to cross off the list.  As well as being enamoured with Max to the point of having sex, so much for romance.  Rudely interrupted by an explosion.  She tells him she didn't want that, apologizes when he says she used him for sex.  And so she uses again when she tells him that she wants him.

Eventually working out who the murderer is, yes it was obvious, she solves the mystery, writes two books, one a 'romance' and gets the man too.  Had its ups and downs in this but it was watchable, if only it wasn't riddled with ad breaks almost every ten minutes.  Shows Christie is still popular, even with lots of author name droppings such as Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, as mentioned.  Well, curses, this could've been much better than the end result...