It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile investigates a cryptid surprisingly close to podcasting headquarters: the Maryland Goatman! How did a terrifying and murderous goatman wind up living under a paranormal Crybaby Bridge? How many has he killed in his murderous rage over lost sheep? And how exactly does one "cruise" for Goatmen? We discuss all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week friend of the show Jules joins Nile and Kyle for a discussion about two fascinating sea monsters. Our appetizer begins with the Barmouth Monster, a Welsh cryptid that supposedly lives in the Menai Strait. Is it a plesiosaur? A monstrous alligator? For our main course we talk Bobo! That's right, we're talking Bobo, the legendary monster lurking in Monterey B...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile investigates the claims made by a man who goes by Robert Morning Sky in his earth-shattering text, the Terra Papers! What can we learn about extraterrestrial races through these Terra Papers, and what qualifications does Morning Sky have to back up this story? Turns out, maybe not a lot. We talk the secret alien races, take a little dip into some New A...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude the story of Pat Price, the psychic extraordinaire who may or may not have been killed for his incredible abilities. What weird beliefs was Price bringing to the Stanford Research Institute? Was it the KGB or the CIA who killed him? Or did Pat's heart simply give out? We discuss all this and more in the final episode of the so-called greatest ps...

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we tell the story of Stanford Research Institute's "true" psychic star, Pat Price! After dabbling in mayoral politics and policing, how did this Scientologist come to work with the fellas at SRI on their CIA-funded Stargate Project? Was he truly capable of unbelievable psychic feats, so much so that the CIA ended up wanting him for themselves? We begin w...

Hey there friends and weirdos! It's officially the first episode of 2024, and we thought it might be nice to bring long-time friend of the pod onto the show, Jules! Nile tells Kyle and Jules all about an eerie creature referred to by the internet as the "Not Deer," a deer-like cryptid that just has something about that feels...off. Are people really experiencing a sinister, deer entity around the...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue what we've dubbed  "Psychic Winter," diving deep into histories of the people connected to Project Stargate. This is the third and final episode of our multi-part series on Uri Geller, psychic extraordinaire and litigious spoon-bender! What kinds of experiments were blowing the minds at Stanford Research Institute and the CIA? And what exactly a...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Uri Geller in the middle of a series of connected episodes that have come to be known as "Psychic Winter." In this one, we talk about Uri's life after leaving the military, his rise to fame in Israel, and his discovery by both the CIA and American parapsychologists. We discuss the very odd Uri lore drops from his early days as a glo...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue what we've dubbed "Psychic Winter," diving deep into histories of the people connected to Project Stargate. We've talked Ingo Swann, Harold Puthoff, Russel Targ, and a number of other folks, but this week we're covering the most famous Stanford Research Institute psychic: Uri Geller. What are the origins of this self-proclaimed psychic and how d...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about the African cryptid that supposedly terrorized folks around Kenya and Uganda throughout the 20th century! Is this a case of a misidentified hyena, or is there really a bear-lion-hyena hybrid stalking villages, eating livestock, and sucking the brains out of hapless human victims? We discuss the origins of this creature, possible ex...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we're wrapping up the story of Ingo Swann, prolific artist and psychic extraordinaire! But when the Ingo Swann story wraps up, a whole bunch of new stories about psychics, secret government programs, and mysterious connections appear. We talk about Swann's sudden turn towards ufology and the bizarre UFO encounter that changed his life, plus the various spoo...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we enter part one of a discussion about one of the most famous psychics in history, Ingo Swann. How did Ingo Swann enter the infamous CIA-funded and US military-backed research project into psychic powers, now known as Stargate? What kind of influence did Swann have on this project and did it produce results, or was it all a buncha bull? And why do all thes...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about a man named Mike Adams, a guy who refers to himself as the "Health Ranger" and runs a number of conspiracy theory websites. What would you like: some Y2K doomsday prepping? Sandy Hook denial conspiracy? "Alternative" medicine? 9/11 trutherism? Mike's got it all, baby! And he'll spew it all loud and proud on the hundreds of absurd w...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we explore the Ozarks to learn the story of the so-called "Blue Man," a man-like cryptid that has some Bigfoot bonafides. Is there a hairy man-like guy hiding out in one of the thousands of caves in the Ozarks, or is her just a tall tale told by weird old 19th century racists? We talk blue fur, our new sponsor (MEN ONLY), and Rob Lowe's 2017 hit TV show enc...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile and Kyle watched the 2023 documentary "Beyond The Light Barrier," about the story of South African contactee Elizabeth Klarer! Written, directed, and produced by Uga Carlini with narration by Dr. John Kani, its name is derived by a book written by Klarer with the same name. What do Elizabeth's believers and skeptics have to say about her legendary stor...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we wrap up our overview of Cassiopean channeler and savior of the universe, Laura Knight-Jadczyk. We learn more about Laura's odd hodgepodge of conspiracy beliefs, all of which seem to point to her being perhaps the most important person in the entire universe - nay, all of reality! We also learn some pretty bizarre conspiracy ideas surrounding psychopaths,...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin part one of our exploration of the exopolitics of Laura Knight-Jadczyk, the Cassiopean aliens, and the Fellowship of the Cosmic Mind! Do you ever look at the big world of nutjob conspiracy theories and think to yourself, "Well, I can't just choose one!" If so, you may have some kinship with Laura Knight-Jadczyk, a "jack of all trades" of conspiracy...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle takes Nile on a trip to Spain for some spooky season hauntings at Palace de Linares in Madrid! Did one obscenely wealthy family's terrible tragedy fuel the flames for a ghost-filled palace? Or is this just a cautionary tale about the bourgeoisie flaunting unbelievable wealth? What spirits lurk in the underground,  bedrooms, and life-size dollhouse of P...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about a very special kind of cryptid lovingly referred to as a "globster." What is a globster, you ask? It's an awful lot like what you may already be imagining - a goopy, limbless, mostly featureless unknown creature. How did these weird blob-like animals mystify people for years and years as they washed up on shores around the world? W...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we finish (for now) the story of Ed Walters and his family's close and frequent encounters with UFO spacecraft. After twenty visitations by UFOs buzzing through Gulf Breeze, Florida, do Ed and Frances Walters get any answers about the phenomenon? Do we come to understand why these beings seem to focus on Ed? And after a $200,000 book deal, does Ed Walters's...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Ed and Frances Walters and their experience with a deluge of UFOs in the Gulf Breeze area during the 1980s. In this third episode, Ed continues to have absurd and up-close encounters with UFOs. This time, however, other people near Ed get to see the objects as well. With investigators from MUFON officially getting in on the story, w...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Ed and Frances Walters and their experience with a deluge of UFOs in the Gulf Breeze area during the 1980s. In this second part, Ed continues to be harassed by persistent UFOs and more bizarre details are tacked on with these experiences. Locals in the area also continue to write in to the newspaper with their own sightings and as t...

Hey there friends and Weirdos! This week Jules steps in while Kyle is away as we talk about a documentary currently available on Shudder about the making of The Exorcist. The whole doc is an interview with Friedkin about his creative process and digging in to how he made various choices and where he found inspiration for this movie. We talk inspiration, the soothing power of organizing, and Friedk...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Kyle begins the journey through the tale of the Gulf Breeze UFO encounters of Ed Walters starting in the 1980s. We talk the Oprah interview, some tactics for dealing with aliens, and try to figure out what daytime talkshow hosts are alive. All this and much more in this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week on It Gets Weird Nile recounts the tale of an Arizona hotel and how it went from speakeasy and lounge to one of the most haunted locations in the state. The hotel (which just so happens to be located off of the infamous Route 66) has a veritable grab bag of spooky stuff - spectral mafia men, disembodied crying babies, and the souls of two murdered women who...