Episode 207: The Alien Photo That Shut Down 4Chan

Let's Get Haunted

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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SKIP TO 00:4:00 TO GET TO THIS WEEK’S EPISODE It’s the Season 7 Premiere!! Welcome, Haunties, to “Episode 207: The Alien Photo That Shut Down 4Chan”. On February 22, 2017, a photograph supposedly depicting an alien was posted to 4Chan’s paranormal board, /x/. The post was entitled “24489 Taken approximately 24 miles northwest of Luke Air Force Base Phoenix Arizona Lab H4C”. The picture was online for no more than 30-60 seconds at most before, without warning, the entire 4Chan website crashed and went offline. Since then, hundreds of threads have sprang forth on Reddit, 4Chan, Facebook, Quora, Instagram, TikTok, and more as internet sleuths try to track down the photo and determine its legitimacy. Join us on this wild season opener as we fall down an internet rabbit hole, examine potential recreations of the photo, and even interview a 4Channer who was there when the original post went down! TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 - HOUSEKEEPING 00:04:00 - THE 2016 TO 2017 SHIFT 00:11:12 - REMI AD 00:14:28 - 4CHAN 00:31:34 - BETTER HELP AD 00:32:55 - DESCRIPTIONS OF THE POST 00:44:13 - NUTRAFOL AD 00:45:44 - ALIEN SIGHTINGS IN ARIZONA 01:01:12 - MIRACLE MADE AD 01:03:28 - PHOTOS 01:17:00 - THEORIES 01:24:45 - INTERVIEW 01:39:00 - CLOSING CREDITS —— THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED!! Find out more about this week’s advertisers below: REMI: Save your smile and your bank account with Remi! Get up to 50% off your custom-fit mouth guard at https://www.shopremi.com/HAUNTED today! BETTER HELP: This week’s episode is brought to you by Better Help! Give online therapy a try at https://www.betterhelp.com/GETHAUNTED to get on your way to being your best, least haunted self. NUTRAFOL: For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering LGH listeners $10.00 off your first month’s subscription & free shipping when you go to https://www.nutrafol.com and enter the promo code HAUNTED. MIRACLE MADE: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://trymiracle.com/haunted and use the code HAUNTED to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. —— Other Important Stuff: Join the Patreon today! https://patreon.com/letsgethaunted LGH Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: [email protected] —— BACKGROUND MUSIC [1]“MAGIC TRANSITION SOUND - NO COPYRIGHT” BY SOUND TRUST, LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNHMu3Upgu4 [2]“(Free) Horror Ambiance - Ominous Background Music” by ESN Productions, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAO3x-Uhfoo [3]“[No Copyright Music] Bossanova Music _ Today's Diary” by Chiro aka 부구미 BuGuMi on Youtube, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NwW5oPwaGo [4]“Elevator” - Local Forecast License Dar Golan - Elevator Music - Royalty free music, “Elevator Music (Royalty Free, Infinite Loop)” by Dar Golan, free download link here: https://www.dargolan-free.com/funny-music [5] “Scary Forest Ambiance” by Royalty Free Sounds, link to purchase license to the music like we did: https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/scary-forest-ambience/ [6] Ghost Stories Incorporated - Premium Horror Tracks Vol. 2 - 05 Pendulum Suite - “The Evil Pianist” purchased here: https://ghoststoriesincorporated.bandcamp.com/album/premium-horror-tracks-volume-2 KEYWORDS: Horror, scary, storytelling, halloween, cryptid, legend, urban legend, haunted, haunting, ghost, creature, reddit, 4chan, TikTok, Tumblr, spooky, paranormal, supernatural, alien, internet, mystery, curse, cursed, crime, true crime, folklore, urban legend, mystery, mysterious, unsolved, unresolved, history Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
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0:21.4	Conditions apply.
0:22.6	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected.
0:28.7	On the beach.
0:49.3	Welcome. Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted with your host, Nat Strawn, and Ali.
1:18.2	Welcome back haunties to episode 207 of Let's Get Haunted. It is our season seven premiere. And if you guys would like to listen to the intro to this week's episode, head over to Patreon.com forward slash let's get haunted on tier two. We recorded like 40 minutes of an intro. It's way too long to put on this episode. We're trying to be snappier and more efficient this year. So go ahead and check it out over there. Yeah, this is our first episode back of the new year. For those of you guys who don't know, we take a break. So in January, we didn't upload any new content. We were still working
1:28.9	behind the scenes. But that way, it just gives us kind of a buffer so that we can start to get
1:33.7	prepared for the coming season because we put out an episode every single week.
1:37.8	If you would like to sign up for an annual subscription of our Patreon, you get a 12% discount.
1:46.9	And we only keep that option open through this week. So this episode goes live on February 5th. We're going to keep that option open for a
1:52.3	few more days just so that everybody gets the memo. And then that annual option disappears.
1:57.3	And it disappears forever. Unless I realized recently, if you had an annual option last year
2:03.0	and it doesn't expire until the end of February, you can renew it automatically. But for anyone else,
2:08.1	this is your last week. So you got to get over there and you got to subscribe because we've got
2:12.5	tons of really cool stuff coming out this year. Yeah. And if you become an annual Patreon subscriber,
2:18.8	you can shout your own self out at the end of the episode. We make like a big recording
2:23.8	compiling of everyone who signed up for the annual and they put their names in. You don't have to,
2:29.7	but you can. And in order to do that, we need to close it after February. So that way, at the end of
2:36.0	every month, we're not adding more to that list because that's just another. That's just a, honestly,
2:41.3	just a cluster fuck. In 2025, are we still cursing? Is this still not a family-friendly show?
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