1368 THE RODS KNOW

**Richard Syrett** (0:00)
All right, let me tell you about something I've been living and breathing for a long time now. If you've ever listened to my podcast, The Rock and Roll Twilight Zone, you know I've always believed there's more going on in rock history than chart positions and gold records. There are shadows, patterns, strange turns of fate that don't quite add up. Well now, I've pulled it all together in my new book, Tales from the Rock and Roll Twilight Zone, Eerie Enigmas and Supernatural Secrets from Rock's Darkest Corners. This isn't just a music book, it's a journey into the unexplained, mysterious deaths, whispered conspiracies, cursed chords, and moments where the veil between this world and something else feels paper thin. It's based on years of research and conversations from the podcast, but expanded, deepened, and taken further than I've ever gone before. The book publishes July 9th, 2026, but you can pre-order right now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or directly from my publisher, Trine Day. For all the details, just head over to therockandrolltwilightzone.com.
If you love rock and roll and you suspect the story didn't end when the music stopped, this book is for you.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:01)
Hey, sweetie, your mother showed me this Carvana thing for selling the car.

**Irena Byriel** (1:05)
I'm going to give it a try. Wish me luck.
Me again, I put in the license plate.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:09)
It gave me an offer.

**Irena Byriel** (1:10)
Unbelievable. Okay, I accepted the offer.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:14)
They're picking it up Tuesday from the driveway.

**Richard Syrett** (1:16)
I haven't even left my chair.

**Irena Byriel** (1:18)
It's done. The car is gone. I'm holding a check. Anyway, Carvana, give it a whirl.

**Richard Syrett** (1:23)
Love you.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:24)
So good, you'll want to leave a voicemail about it.

**Irena Byriel** (1:26)
Sell your car today on Carvana.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:29)
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**Irena Byriel** (2:05)
Is Antarctica hiding something significant from the public?
Yep. See that? Oh, yeah.

**Richard Syrett** (2:12)
Immediately. Yeah. Good one. Good one.

**Irena Byriel** (2:14)
And I've done a video on that and I'll tell you, there is something there. There is some sort of giant hole there. There was no wall. There's no ice wall or whatever that people say. But there's some sort of giant hole. I don't know if it's a portal of some type, but it involves extra trash rails. They also said there was some type of like an energy weapon. There's something there, like there's something like a re-engineered technology that's in Antarctica. I just thought I'd add that. That's what they told me.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:44)
Richard Syrett's Strange Planet, following the truth wherever it leads, exposing evil and corruption and the secret machinations of powerful elites, revealing the highest strangeness beneath the surface of our supposed reality, coming to you from the great white north and his studio beneath the stairs. Here's Richard.

**Richard Syrett** (3:10)
Hey there and welcome to Strange Planet. Well, you've seen them all over social media. Brass rods, crossing mysteriously, pendulums, answering impossible questions, young influencers claiming to communicate with spirits, extraterrestrials, even interdimensional beings. To many people, it looks like harmless entertainment, maybe even a digital age Ouija board for TikTok. But beneath the viral videos and algorithm driven mysticism lies something far older. And perhaps far stranger. For centuries, dowsing rods were used to locate hidden water, minerals and unseen energies beneath the earth. Ancient cultures believed certain individuals possessed the ability to sense realities hidden from ordinary human awareness.
So what happens when those ancient practices collide with modern questions surrounding consciousness, UFO disclosure, simulation theory, artificial intelligence, and humanity's growing hunger for spiritual meaning in an increasingly synthetic age? Tonight on Strange Planet, we explore that question with Irena Byriel, an Australian Filipina medium and advanced dowsing practitioner who has spent more than two decades investigating ESP, multi-dimensional communication, energetic perception, and what she describes as the forgotten potential of the human mind. Unlike traditional water dowsing, Byriel claims her work requires entering a semi-channeled state in which the rods become extensions of the electromagnetic field, tools capable of accessing hidden information and communicating with unseen intelligences that may exist just beyond the veil of ordinary perception. Her investigations have taken her deep into some of the most provocative mysteries imaginable, Atlantis, Antarctica, portal locations, UFO phenomena, consciousness expansion, ancient civilizations, and the growing belief that humanity may be awakening to abilities modern materialism has long ignored or forgotten. Tonight, we're not simply talking about paranormal curiosities, we're exploring whether the human mind itself may function as a kind of receiver, and whether reality is far stranger, more interconnected, and more conscious than we've ever been taught to believe.