TL/DR: We’ll itemize and trace the “witchy” references found in a 90’s TV series.

The show—technically speaking—has only a single tenuous connection to the Clancy and Morley cases. Except for one thing: when you understand all the associations and the full context, it sure looks like Clancy, Morley, and the TV show are all Salem Witch productions. Alternatively, it’s all just one big coincidence.

Nowhere Man (American TV series) is a mystery science fiction thriller that aired from August 1995 to May 1996. Ive forgotten the details but I believe I stumbled across a tip (probably on r/conspiracy) saying something like, “They really tip Their hand on that show!” You know how it is. Anyway, I finally got around to it.

Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guide's label of "This season's coolest hit," the show was cancelled after one season.

Oh, see?! Proof that They revealed too much and it was shut down! Except that I do not at all agree. I think it was shut down because the main character—who is about 98% of the show—is totally unsympathetic.

Nowhere Man is the story of photojournalist Thomas Veil, who discovers that his life has been abruptly "erased"…. In the course of a single evening, every trace of Tom's identity is gone.

He’s the Everyman who finds himself in an extraordinary and baffling situation, and you identify with and root for him as he bit-by-bit attempts to unravel the mystery. Great setup, but no. Tom is annoyed and annoying. He comes off like he’s always on the verge of asking to speak with the manager because he’s put up with a lot already and the staff knows that and should do better.

(BTW, watch the outstanding film Memento from 2000 for the opposite of this.)

Frankly, I had no thought going into it that the Salem Witches were involved in Nowhere Man. It ran only one long season of 25 episodes. About halfway through, it occurred to me that a goodly amount of the character names were Salem Witch names. I let it go as mere happenstance.

Contrary to what you may imagine, I don’t go scraping around for this stuff. I’ve got enough of a backlog already. Halfway through the run, I even let a real big red flag go. I’ll save that for the bonus because there’s a point I wish to illustrate with it.

In Episode 16, “Shine a Light on You”, I finally could not ignore the presence of the Witches. The plot involves a UFO appearing in a tiny fictional town that Veil is passing through. The resident flying saucer buff is named “Bud Atkins”.

That is clearly a reference to prominent Ufologist Budd Hopkins (1931-2011). His full name was Elliot Budd Hopkins and he was most certainly a Salem Witch. Interesting trivia: Budd saw his first UFO in Truro, MA. Duxbury is due east across the mouth of Cape Cod Bay, but it’s about 30 miles so bring your binoculars.

Similar to the films covered in the last post on Devonsville and the one before on Crimson Altar, you can only see the faint echoes of an answer you already know.

The organization against which Veil struggles is unnamed, pervasive, compartmentalized, ruthless, possesses unlimited assets, has infiltrated numerous organizations, leverages how the human mind actually works, and (for almost the entire show) pursues goals that their assets neither understand nor feel they need to understand. All of this seemed quite familiar to me, regrettably.

I do not conclude they were sending any message about themselves. They were only drawing from a context they had some knowledge of or—more probably—simply utilized elements injected externally from higher up the compartmented structure.

For example, none of the numerous Salem Witch names have any pattern or meaning, so far as I can tell. If I’m wrong about that, who could be receiving any message encoded therein? If you, personally, wish to learn about the history, structure, and operations of the Salem Witches, then study the Salem Witches. Don’t watch some dumb old TV show, for Christ’s sake. Again, more on this in the bonus.

So what was that tenuous connection I mentioned at the top? The show takes place in a different locale every episode, sometimes in real cities like DC or Milwaukee, and sometimes in small towns for which phony names are used.

That UFO episode takes place in Rockville, Colorado, which does not exist. Partway into it, a guy who gives Tom Veil a lift says that he has to go drop some stuff off in “Morley”. Can you believe it? There is indeed a tiny town called Morley but it’s in Michigan, not Colorado.

Oddly enough, I was watching this 30-year-old show as I was doing all the research for these Clancy/Morley posts. That really was a coincidence. Trust me, it’s not like I don’t believe coincidences exist.

I did have my radar on, as always, and that’s when I noticed the names. But I also noted the series was created by Lawrence Hertzog (1951-2008), which I am fairly certain is Hebraic name and not Salem Witch. There was just not much to go on—until that “Morley” line dropped and I knew I would eventually be writing what you’re reading. Then the research began.

[Herzog] is best known for creating the cult series Nowhere Man, which aired for one season during 1995–1996 on UPN.

If you look at his IMDb page, I would be surprised if you’d ever heard of any of his other credits. And not even Nowhere Man, until now, so this show was an unusual landmark.

In addition to continuing work in the entertainment industry, Hertzog also hosted a podcast entitled Drinks with Larry and Lauren in Los Angeles, featuring himself and his former assistant Lauren Proctor.

Boldface mine, of course, and there you have it: the vector. Do you really have any doubts this was a Salem Witch production?

The next subject to examine was at the main character, “Thomas Veil”, who is in nearly every scene. He was played by Canadian actor and producer Bruce Greenwood (b1956). No, Greenwood isn’t a Witch name but we do have some intriguing items to discuss.

Bruce has a long filmography. Leaving judgment out of it and going by some sort of technical mark, the most prominent among several awards he has won was his Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Regular Series by an Actor.

That performance was in a Canadian series, Road to Avonlea (1990-1996), specifically the episode “Stranger in the Night” first aired 2/13/1994.

That puts it a year-and-a-half before Nowhere Man. What am I suggesting? That Avonlea was another Witch production, and that Greenwood was noticed there and tapped for the later project.

What’s the evidence for Avonlea? Not to get into the whole thing, but it follows the adventures of young Sara Stanley, and second billing goes to Jacqueline Burroughs as the mean schoolteacher, Henrietta King.

More conclusive is this: the series was created by (are you ready?) Kevin Sullivan (b1955). It really got absurd with all those Sullivans in the Clancy case, didn’t it?

Further, Kevin’s wife, President of Sullivan Entertainment International and COO of the Sullivan Entertainment Group, is Trudy Grant. We are told she has been “part of the establishment of the Canadian entertainment industry for nearly thirty years” and “has won numerous awards for her work in television and film” . Of course she has.

The most prominent of those many awards is her Peabody, an award for media equivalent to what a Pulitzer Prize is for journalism. You will not be surprised to learn it is named after George Foster Peabody.

Fun tangent: The Giles and Martha Corey Memorial, still selling us the narrative over three centuries later that these two “witches” were “executed” during the Salem Witch Trials, is located in Peabody, Massachusetts. The town was formerly part of Salem itself. It is named after another George Peabody, who is considered the father of modern philanthropy.

Another role for which Greenwood is known was in Capote, the 2005 biopic about Great American Novelist Truman Capote (1924-1984). Greenwood plays Capote’s lover, Jack Dunphy (1914-1992).

Was Capote a Salem Witch also? I can tell you he was born Truman Streckfus Persons. What do you think the chances are his real birth name was Parsons? We saw just in this mini-series that Amber Heard is the daughter of a Parsons.

Do you know where Capote died? It was at the home of his friend, Joanne Carson (1931-2015). And you guessed it, she was the second wife of Johnny Carson, who we were just discussing in the Devonsville post. Imagine that.

Nor was Jack just some guy from Capote’s past. We aren’t here to gossip or settle the issue, but you can read up on how Jack and Joanne were feuding over his very ashes. Anyway, a Capote post will come one of these days.

In 1985, Greenwood married a woman named Susan Devlin. Not a Salem Witch name as far as I’m aware, but I must tell you what I came across. You see, in 2014 a woman named Martina Devlin published a book titled, The House Where it Happened.

It’s historical fiction, based on events in 1711 known as the “Islandmagee witch trials”. These are believed to be the last witch trials to take place in Ireland. Back to witches in Ireland, whodathunk? Eight women were tried, one of them named (ready?) Janet Carson. You cannot make this shit up.

There is one more prominent role of Greenwood’s that we need to discuss, and surprisingly (or maybe not) it turns out to be the segue to the event that has pushed the Lindsay Clancy circus to the side: the failed execution of Christa Pike. Do you already see the connection? Good for you. A post is coming on it.

Bonus: Are we to associate the name of the series with the famous Beatles song, Nowhere Man (song)? It is nowhere in the show, not played or referenced or alluded to. However, The Beatles was a (UK-equivalent-of) Salem Witch project. Another post for another day.

The question stands: is it just a cool title for a show about a guy whose life has vanished? Perhaps, but I should mention two things:

• The mother of John Lennon was born Julia Stanley.

• One of the two judges at the Islandmagee witch trials was James Macartney (1651-1727).

Controversial bonus: Isaac Weishaupt does a ton of media analysis such as we have done in this and the last two posts. If you’re a fan of his, you aren’t going to like what I have to say. Punch out now.

His “analysis” gets loonier each time he posts. The problem is not just that it’s ridiculous and useless, it’s that such material functions as a form of disinformation. His followers think it all means something. None of them will ever ever ever get anywhere near any of the things we discuss. He believes he’s censored but I can guarantee you he’s silently supported by You Know Who. They certainly aren’t stupid enough to miss that trick.

What he does is no more than pattern recognition, which he then forces into desired conclusions. I would now like to attempt to out-do him at his own lame and foolish game. You see, I consider the height of his outlandish and absurd efforts to be his “Grey Lodge” search-for-the-Truth/grift.

This is a 55 (yes, fifty-five) episode podcast series analyzing the entire run of Twin Peaks. Oh man, is he impressed with his own work! I feel like he’s a guy sliding away from sanity but—again—no one seems to notice.

Anyway, in that very same UFO episode I mentioned, Tom Veil accidentally leaves behind a clue for those pursuing him. It’s a matchbook from the hotel at which he’s staying, zoomed in so we can see the name: “The Ben-Stark Hotel”. Well, the name rang the faintest of bells so I googled it and one of the first results was:

it's just me or Benjen Stark (from Game of Thrones) looks incredibly similar to a younger BOB? (r/teinpeaks 7/1/2025)

I just started a re-watch of GoT and the similarity is uncanny, isn't it? is it just me?

This got 238 upvotes from Twin Peaks dorks so I’ll accept their judgment. If you’re not familiar with “Bob”, he’s the final boss of the whole series:

Bob is an interdimensional entity from the Black Lodge, a realm which exists on an alternate plane of reality. While "possessing" humans, he commits horrible crimes to elicit pain, fear, and suffering in those around him.

There it is, ladies and germs, I cracked the code and tied together a three-decade-old series wiped from broadcast, another profoundly occult series by one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinema history, the hottest media franchise of the last 15 years, and loosh being harvested by the interdimensional Devil. Are you not entertained? Brooooo!

Except I’ll be the first to say it’s all bullshit, mere pattern recognition without investigation for relationship. Totally dumb. You know what I did notice and do think is meaningful? The matchbook cover clearly shows the Ben-Stark Hotel is located in “Salem, Ca.” Checkmate.

This finishes up the Clancy and Morley mini-series, although we’re sure to keep having the mainstream controversy pumped down our throats for a while. Thanks very much for reading!