The Cryptonaut Podcast

While this flying, ape-faced monstrosity may share the same moniker as the affectionate, yellow plumed character adored by millions on Sesame Street, anyone who encountered this abomination in the late 1970s will tell you that this creature is anything but lovable. Episode Reference Links: TEXAS BIG BIRD: (TEXAS) https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/big-bird-texas-usa/ !!CYBER MONDAY SALE!! Crypt...

According to the files of Project Blue Book, a young, immigrant miner had an all too close encounter with a trio of colossal, cycloptic, insectoid creatures whose appearance and secret message were so disturbing that the eyewitness passed out from sheer terror. Episode Reference Links: GARSON INVADERS: (CANADA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/garson-invaders-canada/ Cryptonaut Podcast Teepubl...

In the spring of 1973, two children had a run in with an inexplicable clown-like entity that eerily beckoned to them from beneath a bridge and managed to lead them into what some have speculated was an alternate dimension. Episode Reference Links: SAM THE SANDOWN GHOST CLOWN: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/   Bridge To Magonia https://bridgetomag...

This crimson-eyed, crab-clawed, owl-like entity is was first seen haunting the chapel near a wood shrouded church that had been erected in the middle ages and is said to have haunted the young women of the Cornwall area for over 4 decades. Episode Reference Links: OWLMAN OF CORNWALL: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/12/owlman-of-cornwall-england/   Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store:  ...

Happy Halloween! This week we are exploring the darker side of everyone's favorite hairy hominid.   Episode Reference Links: PARACON AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE - 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Paracon-Australia-Magazine-Rob-Morphy/dp/0987452754 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store:   https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com   Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-crypton...

In the mid-70s a Japanese farmer was awoken from a deep sleep by a pounding on his front door. Little could he have anticipated that this unwelcome visitor would be an inexplicable entity hell bent on taking him off world… nor could he have imagined that his alarming experience would permanently alter his brain chemistry. Episode Reference Links: KITAMI ABDUCTORS: (JAPAN) http://www.cryptopia.us/s...

This now legendary creature first came into the public consciousness in the late 1970s, when, over the course of just over 24-hours, no less than six eyewitnesses claimed to have encounters with this bizarre, quasi-humanoid life form. Episode Reference Links: DOVER DEMON: (MASSACHUSETTS, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/03/dover-demon-massachusetts-usa/   LOREN COLEMAN INTERVIEW http://www.c...

We are back with the third installment of E.S.M.B! Curses be damned, we got a werewolf in the fire hole.   Episode Reference Links: Satan Ruled Out As Experts Puzzle Over Mysterious Flaming Pit In Arkansas https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flaming-satan-pit-arkansas_us_5bb70309e4b01470d050362c   There's Convincing Evidence Werewolves Have Been Terrorizing A Small Village In England For Decades...

During the late 1990's a rural Venezuelan family endured a months long reign of terror at the hands of a vengeful witch who assumed the form of a diabolical winged chimera in order to torment not only the man who betrayed her, but his family as well. Episode Reference Links: VENGEFUL BRUJA OF RUBIO: (VENEZUELA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/10/vengeful-bruja-of-rubio-venezuela/   Cryptonaut Po...

In 1977 a young man from Washington State had a run-in with a quartet of handy capable creatures that may well be some of the strangest extraterrestrial beings ever reported. Episode Reference Links: CYCLOPTIC ALIENS OF HARRAH: (WASHINGTON, USA)   http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/10/cycloptic-aliens-of-harrah-washington-usa/   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/u...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!   Bremerton Monstrosity   In a coastal naval port city just after WWII, a young woman had a terrifying encounter with a huge denizen of the deep… but not in the water… in her own basement. Flipper   On a lonely stretch of rustic road in central Mexico, a teenage slingshot hunter had had a face-to-face encounter with a hulking, quasi-humanoid entity that, quite frank...

In what has to be considered one of the most unsettling cases in the history of ufology, an unsuspecting Bolivian shepherdess was tending to her flocks of sheep and llama when she had a terrifyingly violent encounter with an entity of unknown origin that would leave her literally scarred her for life. Episode Reference Links: POTOSI SHEEP SLAYER: (BOLIVIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/09/poto...

At the dawn of the 20th century three people claimed to have had a pair of harrowing run-ins with a hulking, horned, albino beast, which some scientifically minded people have proposed was a lost subterranean species, while others insist that this demonic entity likely crawled its way up from the bowels of hell itself. Episode Reference Links: COPENHAGEN DEVIL (NEW YORK, USA) http://www.cryptopia....

In what may be the most bizarre mass extra-terrestrial encounter ever reported, dozens of eyewitnesses claimed that in the autumn of 1989, a trio of three eyed aliens — along with their mechanical companion — landed and attacked a group of teens in a Russian park. Episode Reference Links: VORONEZH ALIENS: (RUSSIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/voronezh-aliens-russia/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee...

During the 1960's, no less six eyewitnesses claimed to have had encounters with a floating, ghostly, blob-like creature that was so intimidating two armed men fled from it in mortal terror. Episode Reference Links: KINDERHOOK BLOB: (NEW YORK, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/kinderhook-blob-new-york-usa/ Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautp...

This bizarre, foliage smothered synthesis of plant and animal cast an ominous shadow over a stretch of east Florida beach throughout its decade long reign of terror… and to this day debates rage as to whether or not this leafy fiend's origin is biological or the result of an ancient curse. Episode Reference Links: MOSS MAN: (FLORIDA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/11107/ Cryptonaut Podc...

In the autumn of 1980, four individuals had a terrifying encounter with a half-man, half-feline monstrosity, which some believe may be the result of an exceedingly rare genetic mutation, while others insist the entity is of a decidedly more mystical origin. Episode Reference Links: COMING SOON http://www.cryptopia.us   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/crypt...

The Ohio River and its many tributaries are a hotbed of odd (and often dangerous) cryptid activity, but one of the weirdest creatures ever to have emerged from their gloomy depths has got to be the hulking, gray-skinned, quasi-cephalopod, which at least five terrified eyewitness claimed to have encountered during the bitter winter of 1959. Episode Reference Links: INDESCRIBABLE OCTO-MAN: (KENTUCKY...

Legends of mysterious mass disappearances have cropped up across the globe, but without a doubt, one of the most infamous incidents of mass disappearance in North American history concerns the whereabouts of the over 30 men, women and children who allegedly vanished without a trace from an Inuit fishing village in the first half of the 20th Century. Episode Reference Links: Village of the Dead: Th...

First brought to international attention in the early 1970s following a vicious attack on a pair of unsuspecting teens, this scaly, amphibious humanoid is reputed to be ferociously territorial when trespassers veer too close to the murky depths of Canadian lake it calls home. Episode Reference Links: THETIS LAKE MONSTER: (CANADA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/thetis-lake-monster-canada/   C...

While walking down a dark stretch of rural road, a pair of teenage girls had a terrifying run-in with a peculiar pack of creatures, which, quite simply, should not exist. Episode Reference Links: STUMPS: (OREGON, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2016/06/stumps-oregon-usa/   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast   Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video:...

In the summer of 1972, a group of Japanese middle-schoolers had an experience that can only be called "Spielberg-ian", when, over the course of nearly a month, they had a series of encounters with a small, silver UFO, which they managed to not only photograph, but actually capture... repeatedly. Episode Reference Links: The Bizarre Case of the Kera UFO Encounters https://mysteriousuniverse.org/201...

In 1955, a group of Californian children ranging in age from four to fifteen years had one of the longest, most frightening and out-and-out bizarre encounters with a group of unknown entities ever chronicled. Episode Reference Links: CASA BLANCA ENTITIES: (CALIFORNIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/07/casa-blanca-entities-california/   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepu...

This week the guys answer questions from listeners! Not much monster talk but someone stole a bag of hot dogs at a pirate party.   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/user/cryptonautpodcast   Cryptid Crate Unboxing Video: https://youtu.be/pntKqYTnQOw   Visit http://cryptidcrate.com and use promo code "GRAMPUS" at checkout to get 10% off The entire life of your subs...

In 1978, on a desolate stretch of road housing some of Great Britain's most top secret nuclear facilities, a young service engineer had a terrifying, and potentially lethal, encounter with a bizarre, humanoid entity of unknown origin. Episode Reference Links: SILVER MAN: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/silver-man-england/   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teep...