This is like a mixtape of other 70s paranormal documentaries, Journey Into the Beyond, Mysteries from Beyond Earth, The Amazing World of Psychic Phenomena, The Force Beyond, Unknown Powers and Death Is Not the End.

Because this film acts as a massive clip show, it required a small army of producers to clear the rights and wrangle the reels. Here is the expanded roster of the players behind the curtain and the madness they put on screen. The credits for Beyond Belief read like a “Who’s Who” of independent hustle:

Alan Baker: Wearing two hats as both producer and director, Baker had the unenviable task of editing these disparate paranormal threads into a cohesive (and creepy) 90-minute experience.

Ron Libert: CEO of Libert Films International from 1973 to 1976, as well as Apollo Productions. He also worked with producer, writer and director Robert J. Emery as part of American Pictures Corporation. He produced eleven other movies, including Roy Colt & Winchester Jack, The Devil with Seven Faces, Encounter With the Unknown, Angela, Willy & Scratch, My Brother Has Bad Dreams, Alan Ormsby’s The Great Masquerade, Charlie Rich: The Silver Fox In Concert, the aforementioned Death Is Not the End and Never Too Young to Rock.

Hal Lipman: Known almost exclusively for NFL documentaries, Lipman is the true wildcard here. Seeing his name next to automatic writing and alien abductions is the cinematic equivalent of a linebacker doing a tarot reading.

Malcolm Pierce Rosenberg and David S. Wiggins: One and done producers.

Charles E. Sellier Jr.: Before the internet told you what to watch, Sellier was out there four-walling. For the uninitiated: he’d rent out the whole theater, keep 100% of the ticket sales and bypass the studio middleman. According to his IMDb bio, he had a 52% success rate in the domestic market. Compare that to the big Hollywood studios, which were lucky to break even on one out of every seven movies. That’s because Sellier didn’t guess; he tested. He marketed movies like they were bars of soap, pre-testing everything to make sure the audience was already hooked before the first frame even rolled. Even Orson Welles told the guy, “Young man, you are light-years ahead of the rest of the industry.” And he didn’t just stop at theaters. He took his “what does the audience actually want?” data to NBC and made The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. In 1981, Variety listed the top independent champs, and Sellier’s name was all over it with movies like In Search of Noah’s Ark, The Boogens and Hangar 18.  Let me pile on some more facts: Sellier wasn’t just a producer; he was a best-selling author. He spent 22 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list with The Lincoln Conspiracy. Whether he was investigating the Bible or hunting for Bigfoot, the guy knew how to tell stories people needed to see through his Sunn Classics company.

You can tell this isn’t a Sunn movie because it’s hosted by Richard Mathews, not Brad Crandall. But you do get to learn about telepathy, hypnotic regression and past lives (that would be the Death Is Not the End footage), psychokinesis, ghosts (always ghosts), UFOs and alien abductions, automatic writing, and so much more.

The film kicks off with the legendary Cleve Backster, a polygraph expert who claimed that plants and even yogurt have feelings. You get to see distressed yogurt reacting to remote stimuli under an EEG. From there, it jumps to Sister M. Justa Smith, a nun and biologist, proving that faith healers can actually repair damaged enzymes in a lab setting.

One of the most wince-inducing segments features Jack Schwarz, a man who claimed total control over his involuntary systems. He pushes a 5-inch sailmaker’s needle through his bicep on camera, pulls it out, and then, through sheer non-attachment, stops the bleeding instantly.

Then, a group of researchers in Toronto creates a ghost. They invented a fictional 17th-century aristocrat named Philip, gave him a fake backstory, and held a seance. To their shock, the fictional Philip started rapping on tables and sliding furniture across the room. Is this any stranger than the story of Matthew Manning, a British teenager whose home was plagued by teleporting objects and automatic writing? You’ll be amazed to see the walls of his room covered in hundreds of signatures from spirits, including one from a man named Robert Webb, who supposedly lived in the house in 1733.

This wouldn’t be a 70s weirdness documentary without aliens. Get ready for the harrowing testimony of Charles Hickson, the Mississippi shipyard worker who claims he was kidnapped by creatures with lobster-claw hands in 1973. This is bolstered by interviews with nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman and astronaut James McDivitt, who recounts his own unidentified sighting during the Gemini 4 mission.

Beyond Belief is a time capsule of an era where science and the supernatural were having a very public, very weird first date. They broke up soon after.

You can watch this on YouTube.