It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we're chock full of ghosts, spooks, ghosts, ghouls, specters, and so on. This week we visit one of THE most haunted locations in the United States, and based on the horror stories surrounding the place it's easy to imagine angry spirits roaming the halls. What is the history behind the Trans-Allegheny Asylum and how did it earn its reputation for being extr...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate a classic conspiracy that was propagated online in the mid-2010s: the disappearance of Kenny Veach and the mysterious "M Cave." Who was Kenny Veach and how did he disappear that fateful day in 2014? Where is the so-called "M Cave" and is it connected to UFOs? Or perhaps a grander military conspiracy? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes us to the freezing waters of the Antarctic where a crew of Japanese sailors witnessed none other than...a Godzilla. Well, a godzilla-esque cryptid, at least. And its name IS officially Antarctic Godzilla, so there's that. What fuzzy, dorsal fin-having beast lurks in these cold ocean waters and can it propel itself fifty feet into the air by rocke...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle and Nile got together to check out a very, very fresh documentary. Directed and written by Seth Breedlove, From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle hit streaming services in late April of this year. Covering a variety of bizarre occurrences such as mysterious disappearances, cryptid sightings, UFO experiences, and more supernatural...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Garrett joins the Weird Crew to investigate the truth...of the Fay Folk. Are Fairies real? We're hoping to answer this question and so much more with the help of a group of women who have been communing with Elves for a very long time now. How can you attract Fairies into your life? How do you communicate with them? What does a Fairy accent sound like? All...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we explore extraterrestrial life from a perspective that's...a little bit different. Yeah, that's right, we're finally uncovering the truth about our furry feline friends. Is it true cats are aliens? Or is it possible that cats are placed here to be cute and fuzzy and captivate humans, secretly working as spies for the alien overlords. Can we create a bette...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we attempt to uncover a mystery. What is Anglamarke? Who is Guenn Eona Nimue? What do collage art, extraterrestrial beings, consciousness, Hermeticism, psychic powers, and elves got to do with all this? Who are the other six mysterious members of Anglamarke, and has Kyle managed to uncover one of them with some internet sleuthing? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn all about the lore of the massive, unkillable Specter Moose of Maine. Is this thing a cryptid? A ghost? Or just a moose with a genetic mutation? What is the statistical possibility of running into a moose in Maine, anyway? And why DON'T we pluralize it as 'meese'? We get to the bottom of these questions and much more! 

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we wrap the chilling UFO abduction story of three Kentucky women - Mona, Elaine, and Mary Louise. After MUFON and APRO settle their argument and kick off their hypnosis sessions, frightening details of alien beings and strange experiments are uncovered. All three women find themselves irreversibly changed by their encounter with these strange beings, sea...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin a deep dive into an alien abduction case full of strange, intriguing details. This UFO manages to get a three-for-one deal, abducting a trio of women late one night after a birthday hangout. Did this UFO seize control of their car? Why did merely witnessing the UFO cause headaches, tingling, and pain? And was the alien abduction presaged by a myste...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we went on another globe-trotting adventure, but this time in search of the legendary creature we've all come to love: Mothman. How do sightings of winged humanoids outside the US get filtered back into the American culture as Mothman? Are Mothman's travels a sign of something "sus" as the kids like to say? And why do we all want to romance the Mothman? All...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week concludes our discussion of the preeminent conspiracy researcher, Mae Brussell. Can Mae truly draw a line between the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King? How exactly do intelligence agents create a patsy? And did the CIA manufacture Charles Manson and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst to destroy the counterculture and the political left? We dis...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle is back to continue the discussion about the OG conspiracy theorist, Mae Brussell. In this one we explore the origins of the American brand of fascism and nazism, as well as the people Brussell identifies as the primary financiers of post WWII American deep politics. It turns out fascism was never defeated, it merely moved underground. All this and muc...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules steps in for Kyle while he's sick to chat with Nile about the 2023 documentary "Satan Wants You." In this doc, the infamous Satanic Panic of the 1980s is investigated from the perspective of psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient, Michelle Smith. What is the true story behind the infamous Satanic tell-all, 'Michelle Remembers'? Are Nile and Jules s...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we spent some time learning about the ur-conspiracy theorist, the Queen of Conspiracies herself, Mae Brussell. Who was Brussell and how did she end up on a path researching the deep state? What exactly did she do to earn the nickname "Queen of Conspiracy"? Why does her legacy matter? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this week's episode Nile turned to an unlikely source: a coworker from his day job. Through this new source we explore a new angle of the Roswell crash: the conspiracy theories of Annie Jacobsen. Were Stalin and Mengele somehow behind the legendary crash of an extraterrestrial craft? Will we unlock new Roswell truths from this dynamite new source? Will Kyle finall...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigated tales of so-called spontaneous human combustion, venturing into the world of parapsychology, anomalous phenomena, and the paranormal. Can human beings just burst into flames, or is there something more otherworldly going on? Can young girls create mysterious and highly localized fires with a mere glance? Does a global incendiary poltergeist...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week for our big 500th episode we gathered up beloved friends of the show Jules and Garrett to have a big round-table discussion about the specter haunting ufology: the Roswell Incident. To continue mixing things up, Nile decided to research the alien conspiracy side of Roswell and Kyle researched the "human deception" angle. Can this braintrust of podcasters fi...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile gets fired up about a witch-hunt in 17th century Loudun, France. How did the events that transpired in Loudun inspire the Ken Russell film The Devils? Was there really a conspiracy to destroy the life and reputation of Father Urbain Grandier? Is a horny nun and her sisterhood of devil-possessed ladies at the center of this conspiracy? We discuss all th...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided it had been far too long since we checked in with our good buddy Bigfoot. What's Bigfoot been up to the last couple years? Turns out, scaring lights of hunters, hikers, and young men with fireworks. We also dig a little bit into the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and the work they're doing to investigate the mysteries of the world's most...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we checked out the documentary Saucers, Spooks and Kooks, based off the Adam Gorightly book by the same name. Much like a similar documentary we've enjoyed previously (Mirage Men), this documentary covers the Bennewitz Affair in depth, pulling on the many threads that connect to his story. How does Bennewitz and the psychological operation used against him...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a trip down undah to talk about one of the biggest UFO events in Australia! A big group of schoolchildren witness the so-called Westall UFO; some even faint in terror. Was this a UFO or a secret government test that used UFO fever as a cover-up? When mysterious men show up and start threatening school staff, is it an Australian visit from Men in Bla...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we rope friend of the show KT back into a discussion of our favorite Cosmick Traveller, Dirk Gillabel. In this one we explore beyond singing bowls, tarot, and gnomes. How does the etheric body work? How can you use astral projection to contact sound-light beings? Did Dirk have a chance encounter with a Dragon entity in 90s New York? Who is the Lady with the...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile brings a new-ish cryptid to the show: snakes. Love 'em or hate 'em, we've got two stories of monstrous snakes that terrorized small town folks in the US back in the 50s and 60s. How big can snakes really get? What kinds of genitalia do they have? Do we really want to talk at length about snake genitals? Yes we do. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided to learn about Smashing Pumpkin's notorious front-man, Billy Corgan. It turns out Mr. Corgan is no stranger to the strange and supernatural...did he witness a true shapeshifter in-person? Was the United States government interested in roping in Corgan's rock 'n roll influence for clandestine projects? Did Corgan actually narrowly avoid getting pu...