Cease to Exist

Halloween special! Instead of turning over every rock on one specific case, we've come up with a new mantra: it's all real! We've rounded up a bunch of spooky stories that occurred on Halloween, while having a roundtable discussion of our favorite Halloween memories and some personal paranormal experiences. We've got a bunch of UFO sightings, a few cat ghosts, strange white humanoids, Halloween we...

For the first time ever, Cease to Exist defers to a real expert: Scott Lyall of Wulver's Stane. Scott is here to tell us about the Gorbals Vampire, a supernatural predator upon which the children of Scotland turned the tables. Scott tells us the tale of a better world where monster hunting replaced screen time.   Along the way, the boys talk about punk shows in Europe, gas station disrespect, and...

Spooky season has arrived, and the fellas begin with a look at Whitley Strieber's short story "Pain," which surprisingly foretells a great deal about where his thoughts about the Visitors would go after Communion and may even hint at possible connections to the Process Church of Final Judgment. After that, we get into the meat of the story: the case of Todd Sees, a man supposedly murdered by a UFO...

Imagine if Indiana Jones were contacted by aliens, reincarnated from Atlantis, and a scientific genius. That would get you close to the claims of "Dr." Fred Bell. In this episode, we walk through The Promise, Brad Steiger's biography of the man. Inside, Nazi assassins are thwarted with quick-thinking karate moves, women swoon, and necklaces hold alien nuclear powers. You may be skeptical of this m...

America's monster through the lens of America's homegrown religion. We've discussed the Mormon drive to cram religious doctrine into American pseudoarchaeology, and now we uncover a distinctly LDS take on cryptozoology. Along the way, we learn how the architect of The Great Society was packin' and that instead of beloved nature protector, Bigfoot may actually be coming for your soul.   Dr. Klint K...

The episode Kyle most feared! A look at the Burrows Cave mystery. Was it just a fraud to con old people into buying fake artifacts? Or was it a cover for looting genuine indigenous artifacts? Does it prove the Book of Mormon? Was this man kissed by a ghost and shot at by Uzi-wielding thugs? These and many more mysteries abound in the tale of Burrows Cave.   The ideas are strange, but as usual, the...

In our longest, deepest dive yet, we look into that slippery character Fred Crisman. Somewhat like a cross between Grandpa Simpson and Forrest Gump, Crisman was there for it all - the first recovery of UFO metamaterials, implicated in the assassination of JFK, a witness to the strange Deros of The Shaver Mystery, and involved in a litany of "bunko schemes."   While we will go through the more fami...

Kyle decided we should share the forbidden, nightmarish content of our group chat, running through the news links we've shared lately. Enjoy a voyeuristic thrill as we discuss the current events keeping us up at night, either horrified by this dystopian future or laughing uncontrollably.   You'll find surrogate carried billionaire organ harvesting flesh sacks, intriguing background on the Waffle H...

The episode that broke Klint and Ryan! Frank Joseph is an alternate-history theorist who dives into topics like Atlantis and Lemuria. It may sound like run-of-the-mill stuff, but the man behind this prolific output of books and magazines is another matter entirely.   Prepare for squirrels on rafts at the Creation Museum, aquatic apes, Supreme Court battles, and too speechless co-hosts who just don...

Our most epic deep dive yet! The Gemstone File is a mysterious, shadowy document passed around among conspiracy researchers, college students, and other fringe characters. It reveals deep secrets of the JFK assassination, Watergate, and world domination by…Aristotle Onassis? Along the way, there are artificial gemstones traded for world secrets, jungle karate action, and a nefarious rewriting of t...

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT! At last, a Dr. Klint Kanopka-led episode! Come along as our resident scientician walks us through the Time Cube hypothesis of Dr. Gene Ray. Prepare to furrow your brow as you grapple with Earth's four simultaneous days, hidden from us in a vast conspiracy going back almost two centuries, as revealed by an elderly marble enthusiast. The saga of the Time Cube begins with a s...

Panic in the skies! In October 1987, Wytheville, Virginia, experienced a bizarre UFO flap, complete with Men in Black reports and strange, albeit all-too-human, visitors to town. Decades later, in November 2024, the NJ drone flap was the most recent concentrated wave of strange objects in the skies. In this episode, we dive into the stranger aspects of these waves, digging into period media accoun...

John Keel is one of the most important voices in UFOlogy and High Strangeness. In this episode, we have a book club discussion of his classic 1970 work, Operation Trojan Horse. Keel's theories about just how DANG weird UFOs are offer major insight into the field today, proving there's nothing new under the Sun.   Available on Apple Podcasts here Available on Spotify here RSS feed available here Fo...

After decades of internet speculation, Cease to Exist finally tracked down some hard information on the bizarre decade-long harassment of Bill and Dorothy Wacker. Combing through 94 pages of police reports, the fellas finally bring something new to the case, more than three decades after it first aired on Unsolved Mysteries. Get ready for a stakeout, psychic crime solvers, and a few named suspects...

We finally tracked down the mysterious Fay at the center of the Sandown Clown mystery. What was All Colours Sam? Well, even Fay herself can't concretely answer that one, but come along for the story of her and Mr. Y's foray into the strange adventure on the Isle of Wight. View our website at www.ceasetoexistpod.com Follow us on Instagram  @ceasetoexistpod Contact us at ceasetoexistpod@gmail.com Im...