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 […]
Peggy the Haunted Doll This week, Charlie took us deep into the case of Peggy the Doll — allegedly the world’s most haunted doll, a baby-sized blonde blue-eyed nightmare currently in the possession of British paranormal investigator Jane Harris, who runs an organization literally called Haunted Dolls and received Peggy from an elderly anonymous woman […]
Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 5 We’re back with Extraterrestrial Encounters Volume 5,! We start with Lilli, a day-one listener from a small farming town in Ontario, who went out one night, blacked out, and woke up in the middle of a cornfield with no memory of how she got there, a story she’d been quietly filing […]
The Haint This week, we headed down to the Lowcountry to dig into one of the South’s most fascinating and frustrating paranormal entities — the haint — which depending on who you ask is a ghost, a demon, an evil spirit tied to the earth, or honestly all of the above, rooted in the rich […]