It Gets Weird

Welcome back to It Gets Weird! This week Kyle tells Nile and Jules all about the declassified US government operation known as "Stargate Project." This one's for fans of MKULTRA and The Men Who Stare At Goats. In fact, both the book and film about Goat-Staring Men are loosely based off of Stargate Project! What exactly is Stargate Project? A combination of spoon-bending, extrasensory powers, and r...

Welcome back, weirdos! This week the boys try to talk about the moon but end up on Mars. Yep, that's right, we're back on the red planet with returning friend of the show Garrett to discuss Richard Hoagland, a conspiracy theorist who specializes in extraterrestrial theorizing. Hoagland not only is most famous for his belief that the Face of Mars is part of a Martian city, but also for his HOGwild...

Greetings, earthlings! On this episode of It Gets Weird, Kyle introduces Nile to Black Boomerang UFO sightings of Poughkeepsie, New York. This is the story of one Greg Boone, an author who worked for the local newspaper. Between Greg and his anonymous photographer accomplice, they believed they had the UFO story of the century...until the cover-up of the century stamped out their dreams. We also d...

Welcome back to It Gets Weird! This week, Nile tells Kyle about one of the most infamous exorcism cases of all time: the exorcism of Anneliese Michel. Nile tells Kyle all about the devils inside of poor Anneliese, one of whom may or may not have been Hitler. Yes, the Adolf Hitler. An admittedly upsetting case, we still try to find the funnies in the midst of contemplating demon-possessed violence....

Hey there friends! This week Kyle mentally breaks Nile trying to explain a really zany conspiracy theory about a disease called toxoplasmosis. What seems to start out as a generic gov't conspiracy turns into a gauntlet of madness. What organization ISN'T a part of this wide-reaching conspiracy to dull the masses with...cat poop disease? Is your pet turning you into a mind-controlled slave? Listen...

Hello again friends! Welcome to the first episode of 2019, the Year of the Cryptid. This week, we discuss projected cryptid visibility rates for the new year. Oh, and we talk about "Am Fear Liath Mòr," or "Big Grey Man," a Scottish folk tale teetering somewhere between cryptid and paranormal entity. Nile gets literal, Kyle squirts some funny juice, and the boys generally try to get to the bottom o...

To end the year right, Kyle came back to illuminate Nile on the Tunguska Event. For the uninitiated, the Tunguska Event was a massive unexplained explosion in Siberia that puts your favorite explosions to shame. Now, when no blast crater could be found, conspiracy theorists came up with all sorts of fun explanations for this massive blast. Science may think they know what happened, but we get to t...

Welcome back to It Gets Weird! This week we're doing our second ever holiday special! Kyle (who is now dead) has been replaced by Jules (who is actually pretty funny) and now Nile takes on the task of explaining a Christmas-time legend: the Krampus! How will Jules handle the traditional podcast blood contract? Is coal enough or should naughty kids go to hell? Just remember: the Krampus can't get y...

Welcome to a new episode of It Gets Weird! This week, Kyle and Nile fight through mental exhaustion to bring you the legend of the Thunderbird - a Native American tale turned cryptid. How did a game of cryptozoological telephone turn a fantastic legend into a cryptid? What happens if you roll up a buncha snipers into a katamari ball and why is it the world's most dangerous weapon? Will Nile and Ky...

Hey there weirdos! It Gets Weird is here to bring you a new episode. This week, Nile's sick and Kyle's trying to get everyone lost in the woods! Jules also joins the boys to discuss the national park conspiracy known as Missing 411. If you're unaware of the Coast to Coast favorite David Paulides, we'll get you up to speed. Are park rangers intentionally screwing up missing persons investigations?...

Welcome back to It Gets Weird! This week, Nile tells Kyle all about the United States's and President Eisenhower's first contact with extraterrestrial beings. Many will tell you that this meeting definitely took place (including Eisenhower's own great granddaughter). Did Eisenhower have diplomatic relations with ETs? Was he hot for dentist? What exactly IS a conspiracy?! Answers to these questions...

Hey folks, welcome back to It Gets Weird! This week, Kyle addresses a long-beloved topic: numbers stations.  Why have these mysterious shortwave radio stations been broadcasting for so long, some even for decades? Who's behind them? Is it aliens? Illuminati agents? Even more terrifying: does Russia have a Dead Man Switch radio station that'll launch a nuclear attack in the event something goes hor...

By the eternal boys, it's a new episode of It Gets Weird! This week, Jules joins our hosts for a discussion of the famous Tennessee haunting by the Bell Witch! We've gotta admit, this is the most direct ghost in any haunting we've ever heard of - the Bell Witch seems to know what she wants. She even got to spook a witch hunter and Andrew Jackson! Even better, the legend persists to this day and yo...

Hello folks, and welcome back to It Gets Weird. This week Kyle tells Nile and Cromzor all about the famous Australian crytpid: the Bunyip! Just what is the Bunyip? The boys try to get to the bottom of this rabbit hole, but the answers are nebulous. Is it a benevolent water spirit? Is it a monstrous devil that devours humans? Is the drop bear more of a threat than the Bunyip? If you shake the eight...

Greetings, weirdos! Welcome back. This week, Nile tells Kyle all about the massive, conspiratorial government base at Dulce, New Mexico. Do aliens and shady gov't operatives intermingle underground, performing hybridization projects on humans? Was there an aliens vs humans civil war underneath our very soil? What would be the point of a human-horse-starfish hybrid and what exactly is a starfish go...

This week we hope you have your phone with the YouTube app at the ready, because our conspiracies begin with an infamous viral vid: the Norwegian (or Norway) Spiral. The Spiral freaked out hundreds of European folks, as well as the whole internet. It also kicked the proverbial hornet's nest of conspiracy theory, all of which we tackle this week on a new It Gets Weird!

Hello It Gets Weird listeners! This week Nile tells us all about soul scalping, a conspiracy for fans of the reptilian agenda! We also talk about Sherry Shriner, a peddler of this specific aspect of the reptilian conspiracy. She also proclaims herself to be the only true resource for saving your soul from the reptilians using an amazing device called an Orgone Blaster. Is it like Math Blasters? Is...

Hello fans of the weird! The IGW crew is back with guest and friend of the show Mike Ritchko from Pop Culture Role Call! This week, Kyle talks about conspiracy theories associated with the Egyptian Pyramids! What do you know about the Great Pyramid? We're hoping to flip what you believe to be true about these "miraculous" structures on its head. Was it aliens? Egotistical kings? Or perhaps it's be...

It's that time of the week again and It Gets Weird is here to bring you another "documentary" special! Well, sort of. This week we watched a show called Paranormal Survivor, which isn't exactly a documentary, but close enough. This show tackled three different stories about folks who have been through paranormal encounters and have come out the other side "surviving." The boys have some ideas on h...

Hey everyone, time for a new episode of It Gets Weird! This week, Nile tells Kyle the tragic story of the seer Baba Vanga.  Kyle also learns about her terrifying - and terrifyingly dope - prophecies. We also give ourselves a full-blown existential crisis in this one. Are we just God's clicker game app? What happened to World War III? Are you ready to get on the Vanga Bus?!

Hello oneironauts and lucid newbies! Welcome to a sleepy "dream"cast with the It Gets Weird boys. This week Kyle elucidates Nile on the subject of lucid dreaming - specifically, how to enter a lucid dream state. Are you WILDin' or DILDin'? Do you wanna fly around like a bird in this wonderful dream, or are you just trying to get dream-laid? How does one escape the Rodney Dangerfield nightmare? No...

Hello friends and family, we're back again! We'll never stop comin'. This week, we're heading back to the Vatican for a slew of conspiracies leaking out of one place: the Vatican's "Secret Library." So grab your library card, dodge the shushing papal librarians, and uncover the secrets of the Chronovisor, the Vatican flying machine, proof of extraterrestrial life, and much more...

We're back, a sasquatch's story! This week we have friend of the podcast Kim on to discuss the Bigfoot / Human War of 1855. Yes, really. According to urban legend, humans fought a short-lived but super-de-duper violent war with...a bigfoot. Or rather some bigfeet. Three of them. Sounds absurd, right? Grab your saber, pistol, and mightiest steed - this one's a doozy.

Normally we deal with dead dogs here on IGW, but this week they get to strike back in the form of Hellhounds. Guest host Jules joins us as we talk about some hellhound stories from around the world. We also get to the bottom of some guard mix-ups, try to link every popular fantasy franchise to these devil dogs, and much much more. Make sure your soul is cleansed and then give this episode a listen...

Hello everybody! It's what you've all been waiting for...a brand new Campfire Stories! This time we've got friend of the podcast Matt to play our next victi- er, uh, guest! What will Matt choose: a spooky alien encounter in Loveland, Texas or a haunted video game cabinet in Portland, Oregon? Listen, if you dare...