Yeti To Rumble

Did the people of Easter Island cut down every last tree to move their statues, and starve because of it? That's the story most of us grew up on. Russell, Jake, and Kade check it against the roads, the rock gardens, the rats, and what the Dutch actually saw in 1722. Sources: . Terry L. Hunt and Carl P. Lipo — Revisiting Rapa Nui (Easter Island) "Ecocide" (Pacific Science, 2009) 2. Carl P. Lipo, Te...

It's September 1950, two miles off the Golden Gate. A Navy ship sits in the fog and the crew works hoses on deck and what comes out is not seawater. The cloud drifts inland, mixes with the real fog bank, and from the Embarcadero you cannot tell which gray is weather. That week was Operation Sea-Spray, an open-air bacterial test San Francisco was never warned about. Mitch's Podcast: The Gamer High...

Halloween night, 1991. Fog on Bray Road outside Elkhorn. A high-school student’s front tire lifts like she hit something soft then there’s nothing on the asphalt. No blood. No body. Then something runs out of the fog straight at her, chest pumping, and gets hold of the car before she can floor it. We walk the Bray Road nights: the roadside kneel, the kid who watched a “dog” stand up, and the count...

April 16, 2016. Over Mosul. A U.S. recon sensor catches a smooth metallic-looking ball for about one second no wings, no clear engine heat then it’s gone. Seven years later, off Greece, a military IR feed tracks something just above the ocean. The crew writes sharp ninety-degree turns at about eighty miles an hour. Then the lock drops. Both clips are public now. Neither one has a finished name on...

The Mary Celeste left New York on November 7th, 1872, bound for Genoa with ten people aboard Captain Benjamin Briggs, Sarah Briggs, toddler Sophia, and seven crew. Ten days after her last log entry, the Dei Gratia found her drifting near the Azores: wet, disordered, and empty. British vice admiralty hearings in Gibraltar ran into 1873. Surveys, chemical tests, and conflicting theories piled up. We...

Project 112 and Project SHAD were run out of the Deseret Test Center in Salt Lake City from 1962 to 1973, and the military denied both existed until CBS broke the story in May 2000. Sailors aboard the USS George Eastman and USS Granville S. Hall were exposed to sarin, VX, Q fever, and tularemia. Aircraft sprayed Oahu. One test ran inside Pearl Harbor. In March 1968 a VX release at Dugway Proving G...

In 1913, a German army captain wrote down the first account of mokele-mbembe, a creature Congo Basin locals said could stop the flow of rivers. Since then, researchers including biochemist Roy Mackal and engineer Herman Regusters have led expeditions to Lake Tele hoping to prove a living dinosaur survived extinction. We cover the 1981 Regusters sighting, the 1983 Agnagna encounter, the creationist...

Straight from the Department of War's fifth UAP release: DOW-UAP-D101, the Gulf of Oman gunship encounter from September 2021, and four 2026 FBI FD-302 interview forms that haven't been covered anywhere else. Cold orbs on infrared. A digital video recorder that "inexplicably failed." Red lights along a mountain ridgeline. A witness who tried his thermal optic and got nothing back. This episode goe...

In 1587, John White's colonists vanish from Roanoke Island, leaving behind one carved word and no cross of distress. Mitch and Jake walk through the full case: the 1590 search, the Dare Stones hoax, a hidden symbol found under a paper patch on White's own map, and the Hatteras Island dig where a 2025-2026 DNA study may have finally identified what happened to the Lost Colony. Mitch's other podcast...

In August 1977, eleven-year-old Janet Hodgson and her family reported furniture moving on its own at 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, in a case investigated for two years by the Society for Psychical Research's Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair. Witnesses included a police constable, two Daily Mirror photographers, and a physics graduate student, and the case's strangest piece of evidence —...

Two Cold War weapons programs that sound invented and aren't. Project Blue Peacock was Britain's plan to bury ten atomic landmines on the North German Plain, designed at Fort Halstead in Kent and ordered by the Army Council in July 1957. Operation Popeye was the American cloud-seeding campaign flown out of Udorn, Thailand between 1967 and 1972, under the crew call sign Motorpool. Both are fully de...

This year's Pentagon UFO document release includes Gemini 7 astronaut audio from 1965, the 2023 Lake Huron missile shoot down, and an FBI four-year investigation into orb sightings in the northeastern U.S. we break down six of the most detailed cases in the release including the Western US Event AARO calls one of its most compelling files, and the helicopter crew that watched orange orbs swarm a m...

In 1918 the USS Cyclops vanished with over 300 men aboard. In 1945, Flight 19's five planes disappeared on a routine training run. In 1948 and 1949, two nearly identical BSAA airliners vanished a year apart on the same route. This week, Mitch and Russell cover the real history of the Bermuda Triangle - Vincent Gaddis's 1964 article that named it, librarian Larry Kusche's research that debunked mos...

A monk supposedly talked a water beast out of attacking a second time, on this same stretch of Scottish water, almost 1,400 years before anyone called her Nessie. That's where the Loch Ness Monster legend actually starts, not 1933. Mitch and Russell spend this episode walking the timeline forward from there. A local story that turned into a worldwide sensation almost overnight. Faked photographs t...

WARNING: Episode describes topics that many not be suitable for children. A widow burns to ash in her armchair, leaving behind a skull shrunk to the size of a teacup and almost nothing else in the room is touched. An Irish coroner rules a man's 2010 death "spontaneous combustion" after twenty-five years on the job without seeing anything like it. This week, Mitch and Russell dig into the strange 3...

The US Department of War just released classified documents from 1948. Inside: a Top Secret cable from the European Command to the Director of Air Force Intelligence, describing three separate UAP incidents including a flying object that hovered over an American base in Germany for 30 minutes, a UAP that outran US bombers at 30,000 feet over Holland, and Swedish military divers finding an unexplai...

There is a book at Yale University that no one can read. Written between 1404 and 1438, on calf-skin vellum, in a script that appears in no other document on earth. It has 240 pages of plants that do not exist, astronomical diagrams that match no known system, and a section full of bathing figures that nobody has been able to explain. William Friedman, the greatest cryptanalyst of the 20th century...

Project STARGATE was real. For over two decades, the U.S. government trained military personnel to use their minds to spy on Soviet facilities, locate missing people, and gather intelligence no satellite or informant could reach. This week on Yeti to Rumble, we dig into the declassified documents, the cases that are hardest to explain away, and why the debate over what actually happened is still v...

January 1909: a week-long wave of sightings hit southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania. Police officers, postal workers, and entire trolley cars full of passengers all reported the same winged, hooved creature. Schools closed. The Philadelphia Zoo offered $10,000 for its capture. New episode of Yeti to Rumble is out now. We go deep on the Jersey Devil — from the 1735 birth curse to the...

The FBI kept a 1,700-page classified file on UFOs. America's leading meteor scientist examined what was flying over Los Alamos and Sandia Base and concluded — formally, in writing — that it was not natural in origin. Edward Teller, one of the men who built the hydrogen bomb, was in the room when the classified findings were discussed. We went through the actual FBI case file 62-83894 and the pictu...

In 1902, construction workers in Malta broke through a floor and found themselves staring into carved chambers filled with the bones of 7,000 people. The site they discovered had been sealed underground for 4,000 years. One of its chambers resonates at a frequency that shifts human brain activity toward altered states. This week on Yeti to Rumble, we are going into the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum Source...

Britain's most documented UFO case happened not in a field, but next to an active NATO air base — and it lasted three nights. In this week's episode, we go through the Rendlesham Forest Incident: Jim Penniston touching a craft in the trees, Lt. Col. Charles Halt's real-time audio recording, the memo that sat in files for three years, and the physical evidence that the UK government assessed withou...

Stonehenge — The Mystery That Won't Stay Buried. We know who didn't build it (not aliens, not Druids). We know the stones came from Wales and possibly Scotland. We know it took 1,500 years to build. What we still don't know is the most interesting part. This week on Yeti to Rumble, Mitch and Russell go deep on the ancient monument that keeps revealing new secrets — including discoveries from 2024...

We've covered some wild encounters on Yeti to Rumble, but the Flatwoods Monster case is something else. In 1952, seven witnesses in rural West Virginia came face-to-face with a towering creature — glowing eyes, spade-shaped head, a hissing sound — and ran for their lives. The Air Force investigated. The national press came running. And the witnesses never changed their story. Tonight we break down...

Bob Lazar described a craft with no seams, no welds, ceilings built for beings 4 feet tall, and a reactor powered by an element that didn't officially exist yet. He described spacetime distortion propulsion in 1989 — five years before physics published the math. This week on Yeti to Rumble we go deep into what Lazar saw inside S-4, the environmental cover-up that hurt real workers, and why the gov...