The Watcher in the Wheat | Just Another Tin Foil Hat

Sep 26, 2025

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Zelia Edgar brings us back to September of 1954. On a quiet farm in Alabama, 12-year-old John Jacob Swaim was running a tractor across his family’s fields when something caught his eye. Standing in the wheat was a small, unnerving figure — a strange entity with pointed ears and a sharp nose, crouched down, silently watching him.

In this episode, we explore one of the most chilling and overlooked encounters of the 1950s UFO wave. Was Swaim’s “Watcher in the Wheat” an alien, a folkloric trickster, or something far stranger? Join us as we peel back the layers of this eerie case and examine how it fits into the larger history of high-strangeness encounters.

If you enjoy stories of UFOs, close encounters, and strange beings in unexpected places, this episode is one you won’t want to miss.

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