Black Annis This week we crawled into the Dane Hills of Leicester to meet Black Annis, the blue-skinned, iron-clawed hag of English folklore who supposedly lurks in a cave and snatches anyone who wanders too close. We dug into where the legend came from, why a monster this grotesque might have been invented in the […]
The Pet Mimic What could be scarier than having to get out of your warm, cozy bed when your cat is scratching on your door? How about when the scratching is coming from the TOP of your door… This week we opened up the listener inbox for three stories, starting with a 2 AM “cat” […]
Samhain – The Origins of Halloween To celebrate the spooky season, we traced Halloween back to its Gaelic roots in Samhain, the ancient Irish festival where the veil between worlds supposedly wore thin. Along the way we got into fairies, the púca and a very unlucky piper, the Dullahan, Stingy Jack and his turnip lantern, […]
The Kecksburg UFO Incident On December 9, 1965, a brilliant fireball was seen across at least six U.S. states and Ontario before reportedly crashing into a wooded ravine near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, where volunteer firemen found a large, seamless, acorn-shaped metal object with a hieroglyph-like ring around its base. Within hours, military personnel sealed off the […]
The Polybius Conspiracy This week, we dove into the Polybius Conspiracy, the 1981 Portland arcade legend about a mysterious, unmarked cabinet that supposedly turned kids into zombies, with Men in Black collecting “data” at night. We dug through the creepy-fun origin story, the real-life arcade raids and Atari’s secret field tests, and the game-industry skeptics […]
The Van Meter Monster This week, we head to a sleepy coal mining town in Iowa to dig into one of the strangest and most underrated cryptid cases in American history, the Van Meter Monster, a 9-foot, bat-winged, beak-faced, horn-headed creature with a literal blinding searchlight beam shooting from its forehead and a stench so […]
Is AI a Threat to Humanity? Is AI a threat to humanity? Are we PAST the point of no return? Are you remembering to say “please” and “thank you” when chatting with your favorite bot? 🤖 Today’s episode is all about what the experts are saying in terms of where we are, timeline-wise, regarding our […]
Cursed Games: Vol 7 We’re back with Cursed Games Volume 7! It’s been 6 months since the last one and we made it count, lighting a candle, watching the lights in the studio do things we still don’t have an explanation for… but anyway… First up was the Fed Up Game, a parallel universe ritual […]
The Monster with the Sharp Teeth This week, we’ve got two listener submissions, both connected by one very specific and very unsettling detail. Starting with Colt’s story from 2015, where he and his friend were gaming late at night while their German Shepherd suddenly bolted out of the room, and when Colt glanced at the […]
Creature Feature: Vol 7 We’re back with Creature Feature Volume 7 and three listener-submitted stories that cover the full range of cryptid weird — starting with Brian from the deep woods of Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, who at 16 had a roadside encounter with something that looked like a deer but absolutely was not. Then we […]