TL;DR: We expose another of the numerous disinfo agents running around these days. The first part is a dry examination we can do concerning any suspected agent. The second part is the moist, juicy center containing his strange connections to other famous (fake) events, which you are free to convince yourself are mere coincidence.

Where to begin with Dr. Farrell? We’ll begin at the end with what he does now. Even if you’re somewhat familiar with him, I wish to bring everything into sharp focus (which you will note is the opposite of what disinfo agents do). At his site Giza Death Star, we are told:

Giza Community is a community of speculation, commentary, and opinion centered around current events, history, humanities, and the sciences, and the written works and commentary of Dr. Joseph P. Farrell.

Now, that alone is very interesting not for what’s there, but for what’s not there but should be. I get it—that’s a hard thing to notice but I’ll get back to it. In the meantime, Take a look at his bibliography in Giza Death Star: About Joseph P. Farrell. His leadoff book was The Giza Death Star, published 1/1/2002. Amazon tells us:

This is physicist Joseph Farrellis' amazing book on the secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Among the topics discussed in detail….

“Detail”? They spelled his name wrong and Farrell has evidently never caught that in 23 years. Also, Is Farrell a physicist? Not according to anything else you’ll see, but further down the page under “About the author” they confirm it with:

Joseph P. Farrell is a physicist and researcher who lives in Oklahoma.

Again, he has apparently never corrected or clarified any of this in 23 years. They also left out the first half of his career but, again, we’ll get to that.

Farrell has this drawn out, authoritative, professorial style. However, unlike almost every other teacher you had growing up, he’s not an asshole. He’s a smart, cool dude you could smoke a bowl with. That’s the impression you’re supposed to get. But he’s not here to smoke, nor am I. Let’s go back to his bibliography and I’ll tell you what’s going on.

Farrell is here to sit next to you in the slot-car Jeep and point out the sights as he takes you on a ride through “Occult Paranormal Nazi Secret Breakaway UFO Breakthrough Physics Tech Bankers Park”. It’s an amusement park, and if you look up the etymology of “amuse” you will not be amused. At the end of the day, he’ll send you home with a belly full of ice cream and a head full of air, and somehow with the smug sense that you know more than the normies.

To pause for a moment and compare my work to his, I can’t see that he’s driving towards any sort of synthesis or conclusion. That’s because rides at the amusement park just go in a big circle. For myself, as diverse as the topics I write about may seem, I am definitely driving towards a conclusion. But it’s like building a pyramid, one that includes the capstone this time. You have to start at the bottom and go brick by brick. It’s laborious, but we’ll only get there by trying.

Note that I’m not the only one saying he’s a disinfo agent, although there appears to be literally only one other. Some website called “All Religions Are One” has this to say about him:

Joseph Patrick Farrell is a disinfo agent of the Coast to Coast scene, used to spread disinfo about UFO's (expanding on the Die Glocke mythology like Nick Cook), pyramids, NASA, the JFK ritual, Operation Paperclip, Atlantis, Nikola Tesla, extraterrestrials,...

That’s not quite the summary I would give but I wanted to show you how far anyone else has gotten. I’m not vouching for the site, either. See that ellipsis? That’s not mine, it’s theirs, although there’s no reference to where they copied the text from. Maybe they just don’t know what ellipses are for. That and the fact that I would disagree with about 95% of their other content are why I would not vouch for them.

I will, however, give them credit for stating his full middle name, which I only found one other place. Frankly, it may not even be correct but at least they tried. That brings up the next point, a hallmark of disinfo agents: Dr. Farrell is virtually a ghost.

All that is available are various “about the author” type bios such as on Giza Death Star, Audible, and Amazon. Scrape it all together and you could put it on a laminated 3x5 note card, like for a CIA agent going out on his first mission: “This is who you’re supposed to be. Keep it in your pocket.”

You may have been asking why I didn’t go straight to Wikipedia. I did, and you can see for yourself there is no article for Joseph P. Farrell. This is where the plot thickens. You see, there was a page on Farrell, but they sent it down the Memory Hole over a decade ago.

You have to look closely at the bottom of that wiki “error” page, but there remains a link to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph P. Farrell. Their basic case is, “This guy is full of it.” Okay, I think so too, and typically you would write some fancy form of that on his page. Has wiki ever been reluctant to blackwash and badmouth someone on their own page? Of course not, that’s half the reason Wikipedia exists. But that’s not what wiki did here. They annihilated it from existence.

Almost. You can find an archived version of the page here from just a few weeks before Dr. Joseph P. Farrell was stricken with the ancient practice of damnatio memoriae. The point is, there is a 0.000% chance anyone would ever stumble across that page. Also, do you see where he was educated in physics? Me neither. But okay, Joseph, the pyramids are giant laser beams.

So why did they do it? Beats me, really. All I can do is guess. But I love to guess! It’s like looking for a small thermal exhaust port just below the main port. In this case, I think the two-meter port is two decades of his life’s work—perhaps we could say vocation—that it appears we are supposed to forget existed. I promised we’d talk about what was missing and this is it.

You can stitch together this timeline: He publishes a book in 1982, gets a doctorate from Oxford in 1987, publishes two more books in 1989 and 1990, then publishes a four-volume set in 1997. All of this work concerns some kind of arcane and tedious Christian historical something-or-other that I can’t believe very many people in the entire world are interested in. But some folks really like this kind of lore, apparently including Farrell.

At least he did. There’s a five year break after he spent those two decades on this, uh, electrifying research. Maybe he needed it. But refer back to all those bios: he makes no mention of this two decades of his life and work. He mentions the doctorate from Oxford because that’s supposed to impress us, but has nothing to say about the rest.

Indeed, how and why does one transition from patristics to Demigod of Deep Conspiracy? In precisely what way does the one integrate with the other? Alternatively, if he eventually came to see patristics as boring and pointless and even wrong, wouldn’t it be worth telling us that patristics is boring and pointless and even wrong?

What’s ironic here is that Farrell has been on The Higherside Chats numerous times as one of Greg Carlwood’s favorite guests. Carlwood had a negative experience growing up Christian and eventually left the church. He misses no opportunity whatsoever to slam Christianity, overtly or subtly, because real experiences shape real people. But not Farrell, huh?

So beginning in 2002, for no reason he ever bothers to explain, Farrell takes off at an (ahem) unbelievable pace: 27 book in 23 years, according to his Giza Death Star bibliography. Actually, it’s 28 because he left the latest one out. He’s clearly too busy writing books to make sure his website is up to date. Somehow, though, he never seems in a hurry in his interviews. He also freely invites people to email him. Who the hell has time for that?

None of the books have links to where they are available for purchase. And why would they? He casually mentioned on his most recent THC appearance that he’s rich. I suppose he doesn’t need the money from all these books. But then why does he write them? Doctor’s orders? Hates golf? Watched all of Netflix? If you can convince yourself this is all the behavior and history of a real person, there’s no more I can say.

Or is there? On to the fun stuff….

When I was stumbling about trying to find any genealogical information on the spooky Dr. Farrell, I found this arcane tidbit which would at first seem unlikely to yield anything important: Person Page - 64434: John Cockburn Thomson

That’s from a site called The Peerage, which is an unofficial but terribly elaborate effort to track all the bloodline aristocratic dickheads in Britain and Europe. I think we all realize how crucial bloodlines are to those people. Patristics may not be electrifying, but I found this one line to be so:

John Edward Joseph Farrell was the son of John Arthur Farrell and Hon. Lucretia Pauline Mary Preston. He married Harriet Nichols.

Farther down the page you can see John Arthur has another son named Arthur William Patrick Joseph Farrell, so we get the full name too. I may need to elaborate on why it caught my eye.

I hope you would agree that the Montauk Project would fit in well as an attraction at Dr. Farrell’s amusement park. We first learned about it in the book, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, written in 1992 by—you remember it now, don’t you?—Preston Nichols.

The Montauk Project wiki page contains a link for Preston which leads to… the book. That leads to another point. I scraped around and around for info on Preston and came up empty. Preston has no existence outside of the Montauk Project. He’s an even ghostlier ghost than Joe. Just a guess, but I think “Preston Nichols” is a fake name dreamt up for a fake project, and They got it climbing up the old family tree. Or maybe sheer coincidence, right? And here you thought the Stranger Things association to Montauk was strange.

Well, yet stranger and even more coincidental is Farrell’s connection to DB Cooper. Tell me you would have guessed at something like that before reading the title of this post. For a case that has been so thoroughly studied and discussed, you wouldn’t think this information would be hard to find, but I had terrible trouble digging up this:

Big List of FBI agents Associated with Norjak (Martin Andrade 9/22/2016)

Norjak Case Agents (All Norjak Case Agents are Seattle-based.):

2. Larry Carr, 2007-2009

5. Ron Nichols, 1977- 1990(?) Norjak case agent when money was found in 1980

6. Charlie Farrell, 1971-1977, original Norjak case agent

Three hits out of six. I’ll write it up one of these days but yes, the DB Cooper hijacking was faked. The point is, you can see Farrell and Nichols had control of the case for the first two decades.

You may be wondering why I bolded “Carr” above. Any guess? It’s another name from the list of people of the Salem Witch Trials. You’ll have to wait for the whole analysis and links but, yes indeed, there were Coopers living in Salem at the time of the SWTs, and several other names from the list show up as key players in the phony hijacking.

As a final note, one of the handful of genealogical crumbs we were handed about Farrell was that he was born in the innocuous and boring Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I feel I need to suggest it’s not so innocuous:

In 1981, to take advantage of recently relaxed state usury laws, Citibank relocated its primary credit card center from New York City to Sioux Falls.

Thanks, Sioux Falls, way to go. More intriguing to me is that its founding involved an Army officer who was also tangled up in some weird and sus military action involving Mormons, of all people. Who can bother unraveling it. Anyway, he was named James Allen. Please consult the list. SWT FTW!

Bonus: I came across this academic takedown of Farrell, in which the author devoted to him a whole chapter in a big-ass fancy book published by Cambridge University. See how much of this summary you can read without SYH:

16 - Occulture in the academy? The case of Joseph P. Farrell

I suppose my point is that I keep finding out just how different a world most of the world lives in, a place where research like that makes sense, has value, and counts as insight.

The huge controversy as I write concerns Trump pulling funding from Harvard University. If he does so for Harvard and for every other bullshit university—for any reason he cares to state—then I’m in support of it. I think perhaps that’s actually the idea behind what he’s doing.

Thanks as always for reading!