It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week on It Gets Weird Kyle tells Nile the story of Frank Edwards, a pioneer of news radio and an important figure in the early days of ufology. How did Edwards go from traveling with a snake oil salesman around Illinois to becoming a prominent UFO reporter and in the top three radio shows in the nation? We talk his involvement in the Kenneth Arnold sighting of 1...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes Kyle and Jules on a journey to the East India Trading Company to tell the tale of ghostly ship captain, the Flying Dutchman! Was a remarkable but overly ambitious Dutch sailor become cursed with undeath? Was he approached by an angel when he wouldn't chill out? Will he ever be able to deliver his letter to his loved one? The big lesson of this ep...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle guides us through the various giant mosquito cryptids from around the world. From creatures the size of an eagle, to blood-suckers the size of a human man, we talk big bugs bugs doing big bug things. Can you keep all that tasty blood inside your body? We also discuss our favorite bugs, to-scale weapons, and how a mosquito deals with The Thing of John C...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the exploration of alien implant research with the story of badass alien hunter, Derrell Sims! Is Derrell Sims the hero in the fight against evil extraterrestrial forces humanity needs, or is he simply the hero humanity deserves? How did one man rule over the Houston UFO Network and eventually end up a mainstay of Discovery channel alien televis...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile experiences the 2013 documentary 'Mirage Men' for the first time with Kyle revisiting it alongside him. Directed by John Lundberg and written by Mark Pilkington (author of the book by the same name), Mirage Men explores the mythology of UFOs in America, focusing on the relationship this mythology has to a man named Richard Doty. We talk UFO disinformat...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we are joined by friend of the show Jules as Nile dives into the world of alien implants and their removal. We talk feet doctors, an old episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! and some alien implant researcher drama. All this and more on this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle investigates another "living dinosaur" cryptozoological conspiracy theory. Does a crocodile-like dinosaur still stalk the deep, open ocean, attacking and killing whales as its prey? What is this mysterious creature that's come to be called "Whale Eater," and is this enormous predator the perpetrator behind a whale crime that occurred on the English coa...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile continues to tell the story of the mysterious airship sightings at the turn of the 20th century. In part two, we focus on the Aurora, Texas "airship" crash and learn how these sightings have been brought into the continuity of ufology. Also, Kyle pitches himself as a really good youth pastor, and we learn all about his steampunk airship garage. All th...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile begins part one of an investigation of  a slew of mystery airship sightings between 1896 and 1897 across the United States. Were eccentric wannabe aviators causing a ruckus, or was it all a big, elaborate prank performed by a prankster society? Or was it, like many UFO enthusiasts such as Jacques Vallée claim, some of the earliest recorded sightings o...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Kyle teaches Nile about the history of Pennsylvania, how that history led to the localized practice of a Christian mysticism called "pow-wow", and how pow-wow is used to defend against a mysterious entity known as Trotterhead. What the hell is Trotterhead and how can you defend your livestock and farmhouse from him? Is he a Bedgoblin? A Night Hag? Does he...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile tries to get to the bottom of the real life story that inspired the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist! Did one "Roland Doe" undergo a harrowing exorcism as a young boy, or were some of the details fudged? Did Jesuit and Catholic priests do battle with the Devil, resulting in a badass epic fight between Saint Michael and Satan himself, or is The Exorcist'...

This week, Kyle tries to pull the wool over your eyes as we delve into two of the more famous creature hoaxes in history. We take a look at the Fiji Mermaid and the De Loys Ape while also discussing chimera, ape genitals and the joy of a good old-fashioned con man!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile goes back to the "age-old" conspiracy of Flat Eartherism. Or...is it as old as the conspiracy theorists claim it is? Who was Samuel Robotham and how did a failed British Socialist commune open up the space for Sam's mission against accepted science? How did this creep's Flat Earth vision spread? Are you from the Dry Gollum Universe or the Wet Gollum Un...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle brings us back to the world of Japanese folklore by way of Yokai. We talk about the crossover of Shinto beliefs and the origins of Yokai, as well as a human-faced tree that bears unnerving fruits, the horse-based possession of a wealthy exotic meat-lover, a vengeful turtle ghost that sometimes doubles as the proprietor of a restaurant, and the horrible...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile gives us another alien primer on the "Nordic" alien phenomenon. Who are these tall, white aliens and why are they visiting Earth? Like so many extraterrestrial visitation truthers, it kinda depends on who you ask. Strangely enough, the whole gamut between hippies and racists are into the "tall white" alien race stories and they all have their own exper...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about the modern, living pterosaur cryptids, some of which that seem to be lurking at infamous US war crimes spot: Guantanamo Bay. Did a US marine witness a pair of supposedly extinct winged dinosaurs while "hanging out" at the base? What about the little girl who lived by the base as a child who claims to have seen a "flying dinosaur?" We also lea...

This week the whole IGW extended crew (including Jules and Garrett) is back together again for a journey through some Mantis alien/cryptid encounters. 

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules gets to learn all about the phenomenon of disappearing towns as Nile takes her from Urkhammer, IA to Doveland, WI (not Texas) and much more. Then they take a detour on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and their exciting movie roles in another universe

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile and Jules hold down the fort while Kyle is gone by watching the HBOMax Original Documentary - Call Me, Miss Cleo. In this documentary episode, we learn about the life and history of television psychic medium, Miss Cleo. What is this documentary attempting to do? Is there any actual creative force or point of view in it, or is it just trying to give you...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle watched the infamously disastrous "documentary" UFO Cover-Up? Live! so you don't have to! We talk about how everything fell apart behind the scenes, plus the bizarre intelligence connections that had the producer of the UFO disclosure watching his back. Did smug serial liar Rick Doty collaborate with Bill Moore to turn this UFO program into a complete...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss a Maryland native cryptid known as the Snallygaster! Is the Snallygaster truly a dragon-like chimeric beast, or is it a regional catch-all term for a conceptual boogeyman? Or is it, perhaps, a scapegoat for illegal alcohol peddlers during prohibition? And is this creature locked in an eternal battle with its natural enemy, another cryptid known a...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the truly bizarre experience of Karl Higdon, an oil production worker who claims to have met a humanoid extraterrestrial going by the name "Ausso One." Did this hapless human stumble onto an alien during a typical hunting trip? Did that alien take Karl and five elk all the way to a distant planet full of dazzling lights and monolithic towers? Or...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discussed UFO crash retrieval and the work of Clifford Stone! What shadowy agencies are watching the skies and organizing to shutdown and reclaim downed extraterrestrial craft? Did ex-military Freedom of Information Act warrior Clifford Stone blow up the government's spot vis-a-vis recovered UFO tech, or is this just another alien psyop? Did project Moon...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we do our final episode covering the life of Art Bell. In part two, we discuss the legacy of Coast To Coast AM and all the infamous broadcasts, callers, and controversies therein! We discuss a seemingly endless hole, black magic witches, the Halle-Bopp comet incident, and a panicked man trying to disclose secrets about Area 51 before it's too late...we talk...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we get into part one of a two-part story about the life and legacy of the most infamous paranormal radio host of all time: Art Bell! Coast to Coast AM and Art Bell loom large over the World of Weird, and so in part one we talk about his life leading up to creating this paranormal talk show. We learn about Art's passion for HAM radio, Japan, and, uh...women,...