I feel so late to this thread and I'll take my late ratings or whatever, but if I may...
Local58 is just Kris Straub, author of the webcomics Starslip Crisis, Broodhollow, F-Chords and a few others plus some collabs with the hamplanet Scott Kurtz, stretching out his multimedia horror muse. There's no "there" there. It's a bunch of horror shorts, that's all. Yes, there's the binding agent of all being stuff broadcast on Local58, but people trying to find deep secrets that link "You Are On The Shortest Possible Route" and "Emergency Broadcast" are really digging too deep.
It's like insisting that Gibson's "Gernsback Continuum" is tied to
Idoru (it ain't).
Someone way early on mentioned the "Dark" channels (Dark Skies, Dark Space, Dark 5, etc. etc.) and that young man has gone full history-bites, and I rather like it. Yes there's some mysterious stuff mentioned but he's focused now on more concrete things and honestly, hearing about the USMC's heroism at Bellau Wood, or how Combat Compass fucked the Vietnamese People's Air Force up royally, or all the times the Soviets tried to land a robot on the Lunar surface but only succeeded a couple of days before Apollo 11 touched down on it, that's way more interesting than a bunch of the so-called mysteries.
This is one from today, from his "Dark Skies" channel. Hell I didn't even know this jet existed!
Because I watch his stuff, of course, the YT Algorithm suggested some other "creepy listicle" channel and I watched a few that were so hilariously bad. Bad, because one, the data the kid was spooling off was so out of date it barely merited a raised eyebrow and two, he can't pronounce half the things he says. He was talking about some abandoned ship (I think it was the Mary Celeste, as if that old chestnut hasn't been worn silky smooth), and kept saying "Azores" (which is pronounced "ay-zores" with "zores" rhyming with "sores") as "Ah-zor-ees". God, it was like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Now, y'all wanna see the original "spooky mystery" (but that you actually know is a bunch of bullshit, but has some interesting science facts sprinkled in), most of the Leonard Nimoy narrated
In Search Of... episodes are available on Youtube. Better voice, but brace yourself for 144p as most of them (well...no, all of them) are coming off of videotapes from the 80s and possibly even the late 70s.
Here's a whole playlist, 200 episodes. No drama, no crying, no "s p ooooo k y n arrrrr ator voooooice" trying to sound like...I dunno, a horror movie or some shit. Mr. Spock, holding court on some interesting stuff. A bunch of it is just downright fascinating, and has nothing to do with creepy subjects, like...Tornado Chasing - but in the 1970s when tech was way less advanced than now. The storm chasing one has a team at Kansas State getting permission to "borrow" an F4 Phantom and use its combat radar data and other sensor information in analyzing storm fronts. It's pretty fuckin' cool!
