Cemetery at Midnight
5/28/20261 hr 21 min
Cemetery at Midnight is the moment the Sound, Light & Frequency origin story moves from strange Hollywood anecdote into something far larger. After the mysterious J.C. crashed the Dark Skies premiere party claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman found themselves pulled into a second encounter — this time at their North Hollywood production offices, where J.C. arrived with a superior and an even more unsettling agenda. What had begun as a party-crasher story now became organized, deliberate, and impossible to easily dismiss.
In this episode, Bryce and Brent recount being told that the Moon sits at the heart of UFO secrecy, and that the “secrets of the universe” may somehow involve sound, light, frequency — and a strange gold-like substance presented as a clue. From there, the conversation opens into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo, Buzz Aldrin, hidden lunar history, and the enduring symbolic power of the Moon in both science fiction and real-world secrecy.
Then comes the proposal that gives the episode its title: a midnight cemetery meeting with an “Admiral,” where the real deal would supposedly be put on the table. For Bryce and Brent, this was the turning point — the moment they had to decide whether they were being offered disclosure, disinformation, or something even more dangerous.
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First 90 secondsBrent Friedman· Host0:01
I remember it being very surreal and a-asking myself several times in the course of the meeting, "Is this really happening?"
Bryce Zabel· Host0:08
Now, there are a couple of things that we should point out here. 30 years is a long time. Three decades is a long time. And so I think we have most of the details of what happened and what was said, or at least the area it was said. Maybe they're a little bit out of order because I didn't- Mm-hmm ... write anything down that day. I went back to work. But I do know that we did ask for some identification, and this was so... what was so weird about the meeting. We ask for identification, we get told, "If the deal comes together, then you'll get it." And I remember thinking, "That's just so crazy. How can we make a deal with somebody that won't tell us who they are?"
Brent Friedman· Host0:45
Yeah.
Bryce Zabel· Host0:45
It just made no sense, and w-we went back and forth on that enough that I think you and I probably had one of those knowing glances exchanged where we thought, "Okay, let's just go with it."
Brent Friedman· Host0:57
Yeah.
Bryce Zabel· Host0:57
The g- the guy's not going to tell us right now. He said something else, by the way, at the... early on in the meeting that I thought was odd. Or, or maybe it was JC, but somebody said that they had done some preliminary background checks on us.
Brent Friedman· Host1:09
Yes. Yeah.
Bryce Zabel· Host1:10
Which was so strange, but they implied that they were preliminary and that the real thing would happen if we agreed to make a deal.
Brent Friedman· Host1:16
Yeah.
Bryce Zabel· Host1:16
They were really gonna look into us.
Brent Friedman· Host1:18
Yes.
Bryce Zabel· Host1:19
Which a-also is deeply uncomfortable, saying a guy that won't tell you his name is going to do a serious background check on you.
Brent Friedman· Host1:27
Yeah.
Bryce Zabel· Host1:27
Listen, at that point, you're probably thinking,