Lost Time and Long Shadows | Tinfoil and Tan Lines Finale

In the final episode of Tinfoil and Tan Lines, Logan brings the series full circle with two unforgettable stories of abduction, missing time, and lingering questions.

First, he revisits the eerie 1976 Allagash Abductions—a summer canoe trip in the Maine wilderness that ended in one of the most chilling and corroborated alien abduction cases on record. Four men, a strange light, and hypnotic regressions that would haunt them for decades.

Then, Logan opens up about a deeply personal event: a 1992 road trip through Yuma, Arizona that should have taken hours—but somehow stole much more. With a U-Haul full of memories, a sleeping family in the cab, and thirteen hours unaccounted for, what happened on that desert stretch still defies explanation. Years later, nearly everyone in that vehicle—including one dog—developed cancer.

From the rivers of Maine to the sun-scorched highways of the Southwest, this final chapter threads together the uncanny, the unprovable, and the unshakable truth: some shadows follow you home.

Cue the tape one last time.
This is “Lost Time and Long Shadows.”

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Transcript

Logan Mathias (00:00)
I ever looked at a clock and thought, man, there's just no way that much time went by. Yeah, me too. Now imagine that clock wasn't broken. You were. This is Tinfoil and Tanlines. And tonight, we're talking about what happens when the time doesn't just get lost. It gets taken.

One story takes us deep in the woods of Maine and the other well, it's mine and Happened in the middle of the Arizona desert. So for our first story, we're gonna go no, we're gonna go all the way back to 1976 to the Allagash for Now who were they? Well You had a couple of twins Jim and Jack There's their buddy Chuck and Charles now all of them were in their 20s at the time. So

seemingly in pretty good health. And all of them are art students from Massachusetts. And what's interesting, they're all outdoorsmen. And I'm pretty sure you know the typical type. You know, they're going on trips, canoe trips, camping trips. ⁓ You know, they're very outdoorsy. Somebody you would expect to be wearing like a Patagonia jacket, right? And I hate to, I hate to stereotype like that, but you get it, right? Okay, so.

They went on a two week canoe trip into Maine's Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Now this place is very remote lakes and rivers and has no access roads, no cell towers. And incidentally, it's the 1970s. So who the hell cares about cell towers at that point, right? They had to portage canoes and gear between the lakes. It wasn't a tourist trip. It was rugged. It's a wilderness adventure. All right, so let's get to the event itself. Okay.

This is still in 1976 and again, no cell towers. Remember these guys are outdoorsmen. Now, I'll venture to say they're probably not ones that lend themselves into paranormal phenomenon. It's just a guess. And they certainly wouldn't probably lend themselves into UFOs. But nonetheless, here they are. Now the event happened on Eagle Lake. So I guess they decided to go night fishing. Now I've never gone night fishing. I've gone fishing before, but

Not entirely too sure why night fishing is better. And those of us in our, or those of you in our audience, let us know. Well, does it make it any better? Anyway. So they built a massive bonfire on the shore so they could find their way back. Cause you know, there's probably not a ton of ambient lighting out there. It's given the fact that it's very remote. So it's sort of like a landmark, right? So here's where that becomes a massive key. Okay.

That's going to come into play and normally it would take hours for that to burn out, right? If it's a massive bonfire. So anyway, while on the lake, a bright object appeared in the sky. Now, first they all thought it was a plane. Okay. I would have probably as well, but it stopped. Hovered, pulsed and changed colors. Now in 1976, there were no drones.

So they wouldn't have thought it was something like that. And it has some very interesting characteristics for a quote unquote plane. Now here's where it gets interesting. Then a beam of light came out from it shot right now. Kind of similar to a lot of the stories that you're used to hearing about. Right. Now the beam itself, it's described as solid focused light, kind of like, you know, like those sci-fi tractor beams, right? We all know. The beam.

It locked onto their canoe. Now, of course, being any rational human being, they started to panic. So what do they do? Like anybody else, they paddled furiously back to the shore. However, they all blacked out. They don't remember reaching the shore. No sound, no splash, no, my God moment. Just, you know, jump cut. Here we are.

back at the shore. So I don't know how quick it kind of dawned on them that they were back on shore, right? But here they were. And they're all kind of, I would imagine kind of at this standoff pace looking at each other like what the hell just happened? Now here's, here's where the bonfire comes into play. It had burnt down to glowing embers. I remember what we talked about. Something that size would burn in

probably hours. remember, you know, bonfires as a kid, you know, you'd set that, it'd go all frickin night, right? Very little needed from us to keep it going. Just throw pallets on it or whatever. But ⁓ if you're not even maintenance-ing it, it can still go for hours. But they were, in their minds, gone for only minutes. Now their last memory, at least clear memory, was paddling away from that light.

So if you're paddling furiously and then magically on the shore, how'd you get there? Right? It's interesting. And none of them talked about what happened. Right? So they're probably all looking at each other and you know, they're in that silent agreement. Right? I have to admit it when guys go out and do these sort of things, we all want to alpha up. Right?

I mean, I would say the majority of us, granted there are some that it's not as important to them and I get it. But by and large males are known to do this will alpha up. And when I say alpha up, it's just that, that knowing of, Hey, uh, uh, let's just, let's just all forget it. Right. That's all silently forget anything crazy just happened. Right. But somehow they all knew something happened. Something, something way off had happened.

Now, before I get much deeper into this story, or for any other story for that matter, you know, we always look at these events and think of, think of them very transactional, right? You have the setup before, right? You've got the incident where you get all your facts kind of put together and then you get the kind of fallout, right? You know, a lot of it becomes what happened to them, what happened to the story.

Was it, what was it? It all starts to boil into explaining the situation, but in a very transactional way. Why? Because, well, you know, we're trying to figure out what's real, what's not, and trying to be very objective and subjective about what, what has happened. Okay. But we, tend to forget that there's a, there's a very non-tangible aspect to this, right? There is the effects it has on an individual.

I'm not talking about the, you know, the potential fame, the, you know, the, being known now as a, as an experiencer, you know, all these other things that we think about. But we tend to forget that there's a very human aspect to this. For some folks, they think that, you know, you tell people this story or you, you know, you sort of come clean about some incidences that you've been through.

And now somehow you're in the limelight, right? And they think that, well, you're going to sell your story and all these sorts of things, right? Well, that's not always necessarily true. In fact, it's for the most part, it is very untrue. People tend to lose a lot. Okay. There's no, I don't know. There's no golden ticket to go to a Wonka's factory here. All right. A lot of it is, is very damaging. It hurts people.

It destroys lives and for decades it impacts. Right. So let's keep that in mind when we sort of start building into the next part of the story. We're going to talk a lot more about it in depth later, but keep in mind there's a very human part to this and we tend to forget that too much. Okay. So what happened? Right. So Jim.

poor guy started suffering from unexplained seizures. I don't know how many of you out there have had a seizure. It is probably hands down one of the craziest, most unnerving things you can ever experience as a human and still live. It's a complete shutdown of everything that you know to be real. And you're just stuck there. Now it's only happened to me once.

and it was due to her brain bleed. So my mileage may vary. I don't know if everybody experiences the same thing, but it is a very unnerving thing to go through. And what made it worse is the doctors couldn't explain them. No, they had no idea. And the nightmares that he had from it, I mean, they just kept coming. He had nightmare after nightmare and the dreams. Well, they're kind of all the same. He dreamt about being paralyzed, being watched, floating.

or being examined. Now, Jack also had light sensitivity. He had strange rashes. Now, all four began talking to each other. And then they realized that all of them had the same dream for years. So what does a rational person do with all this? Well, some of them will go for therapy. And Jim did exactly that. He reached out to Dr. Raymond Fowler. He's a respected UFO researcher and a MUFON investigator.

So Fowler suggested hypnosis. Now all four men agreed to separate sessions, which is probably pretty smart. And they were never told of what the other said. Now here's the great part. Under hypnosis, each of the men recalled the same terrifying story. Being beamed aboard a metallic sterile craft, humanoid beings about three to four foot tall, with oversized heads, black almond shaped eyes,

No facial expressions. They all seem to communicate telepathically and they all did medical experiments, which included, of needles, everybody's favorite skin sampling and lights in their eyes or even in their hands. One ever remembered seeing bodies and tubes or pods and emotionally they were numb but afraid. What does that sound like to you? Kind of sounds like your classic gray

alien. So why does this case still matter? Well, the credibility for one, okay, for people and multiple corroborate corroborating witnesses. So no financial motive, no big book deals at the time, all paths, the polygraph test and the stories have stayed consistent over decades. Now Fowler did publish the Allagash abductions in 1993.

So there was a little bit of monetary input, but pretty much just for Fowler. So let's kind of talk about some of the physicality of it. The campfire. Now the fire is basically the anchor of this whole thing. You can't fake fire consumption. It's a physical proof that time really did pass without it. And maybe, maybe we write it off as dream, right? We're dealing with missing time, missing time grounded in reality.

So here's where things get, I think they get pretty personal. Okay. I told you at the top, this wasn't just a story about a couple of guys in the woods, right? There's a very real element to this for me. And it's, it's one that I rarely talk about in public. So now I guess I've decided to put it in public in perpetuity. ⁓ But this is something that happened to me and it's something that I, I'll never forget, but oddly enough, I can't remember either. So here's.

Here's kind of the breakdown. Okay. It was 1992 and I have very vague memories of this. Now granted much older now, and 92 was some time ago and you you would expect some memory loss, but I can tell you just a couple of years after the event, I still wasn't any more clear about it. So 1992, right. And I was driving a fully loaded U-Haul. Okay. And we're not talking about

The tiny little trucks, we're talking about one of the big home mover trucks, big guy, right? And inside the cab, I've got my dad, my grandmother and two other dogs. Let me tell you something. It was tight quarters. Now, of course I'm driving. And I was moving my dad and my grandmother and everybody from San Diego to Tucson. And anybody who's made that drive will tell you that there's some, there's some pretty long stretches in the desert there. Right. So we were on the interstate eight.

heading through Yuma at the time of the event. I can't tell you the exact time this happened, but we were going through Yuma and just past Telegraph Pass, we were forced off of I-8 by military police. Yes, military police, not local cops, no explanation, no signage, really just kind of like a, you can't go this way, right? Well, you do what you're told, right?

So they directed us to the frontage road, which all of this seemed pretty normal at the time. I mean, I just wasn't thinking clearly that it was something crazy. High insight is different, but so they directed us to the frontage road. Now here's where it gets interesting. At the end of this frontage road, it turns to dirt, then washes, All right. And when we first got off, I kind of felt like I was going through all these left and right turns.

And I definitely felt this loss. Like I didn't know where the hell we were. And I was really unsure. And then nothing. Now, when I say nothing, we're talking about the absence of everything. And sometimes when you're conscious, still, or when you're sleeping, there's this little baseline of objectivity that knows you're still around. Right? Now here's where it gets interesting for me. I don't remember getting back on IE.

Right. My next memory is we're just on the freeway and a drive that would normally take seven hours or so took us 13. Now everybody else in the cab, aside from me was asleep. They don't remember anything. I mean, of course, even the dogs were silent, I'm the only one that would have had to remain conscious because somehow we made it back on I-8. Now it was later in the evening. I'll grant you that.

But you would think that a normal person would at least remember going through all of that. And I didn't remember any of it. So this incident has kind of stayed with me for a long time, obviously. And I guess recently it kind of came back into into my forefront of my mind, especially while doing this ⁓ this mini series. And we're talking about UFOs. And I just I looked up on Google Maps. I'm like. All right, so let's see where this frontage road goes. More importantly.

where it ends. Guys, it literally ends. After it turns into dirt, it's unpassable terrain. And the Gila Mountains are in the way. I mean, once you're off of that, you're not going anywhere else. There's a huge mountain range in your way. The next on-ramp is in LaGuarda, which is way beyond the range of any U-Haul, let alone a fully loaded U-Haul.

And a fully loaded U-Haul can't navigate washes, sure can't climb a mountain, and reach the freeway without some serious off-road intervention. On a bit of sadder note, every single passenger, including one of the dogs, develops some form of cancer. Now we'll go into too far into detail because it's private, it's my family, but as you guys know, I developed thyroid cancer, and I've never understood that.

I mean, it's, it's very odd. I never begin, or I guess I've never been able to shake the feeling that something, something happened out there and I have no idea what it is. I have no doubt it was an auditing. I just don't know what. I mean, we were just lost. Additionally, we were gone. You know, it's, just, it adds to some of these.

These patterns, right? The commonalities. The sudden memory blackout. Impossible logistics. A canoe in a lake, or in my instance, a U-Haul in a mountain range. Multiple witnesses. Post-event illness or trauma. A lack of explanation. And an emotional heaviness and fear that doesn't fade. That just seems to be a thread that I just can't really ignore, you know?

Now, of course, we can talk about what the possible explanations or theories are, right? Now, of course, you've got your classic alien abduction. We talked about it with the guys at the lake, right? And then potentially with myself, right? I don't know, but yeah. And then you look at the military aspect, because we were in fact led off the road by military, you know?

He think about temporal displacement or time slips. Sure. And we've talked to Mike Ricksecker and I got to concede that's a possibility. ⁓ but I would think I'd have a little bit more or tangible, ⁓ cognizant memory of that. And then of course you got, you know, the energy fields like radiation exposure. Well, with all of us developing cancer, can't deny that's a possibility. Of course, you know,

Sometimes the weirdest thing about these stories isn't what people say, it's what they can't. Four guys in Maine, one guy in Arizona, different settings, same silence. They all lost time. What they really lost was a piece of themselves. And with that, I'm gonna tell you thank you so much for being a part of this little mini series. This is the last one and... ⁓

I really appreciate you guys' time. It's just something that I, it was a passion project I kind of wanted to do. And honestly, a good portion of it was so I could tell my story. But if you guys have liked it, please let us know. Reach out to us on the socials. And guys, we're getting close. We're getting real close to ⁓ the season four premiere of Generation X Paranormal. So guys, with that, I appreciate it and we'll see you down the road.