The man who tried to contact aliens from his grandma’s living room – The Guardian

In the mid-1960s, when he was a boy living in rural Michigan, John Shepherd began thinking of ways to make contact with alien life forms. It was round about the time that a show called The Outer Limits was on television, he recalls. I remember being fascinated by the idea of somehow building my own scientific instruments to explore the mysterious phenomenon that is extraterrestrial life.
In 1972, from the living room of his grandparents house, he began chasing his dream by broadcasting a series…

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