The Cryptonaut Podcast

In what has to be one of the most intriguing, confounding, and flat-out jaw-dropping flaps in the annals of ufology, a roughly 300-day stretch in 1970 and '71 plunged Finland into an unprecedented wave of high strangeness. Citizens across the country were left stunned by the sudden emergence of tiny, space-suit-clad beings—entities that seemed to hail from a reality heavier, slower, and infinitely...

A glowing forest guardian, a matte black goblin, an octopus spider sprinting through the snow, and a soldier with spider trap intel. Four quick hits of pure high strangeness straight from the listeners!   The Cryptonaut Hotline: 315-370-6853   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Hellorspace.com - Cryptonautmerch.com   Sta...

For those who find themselves slipping into the untethered realms of high strangeness, the only thing weirder than a run-in with an anomalous animal: is a confrontation with an un fathom able "thing" that not only defies classification but is in possession of powers beyond comprehension. These curious critters range from the merely odd to the utterly insane, but one thing is absolutely certain… on...

A UFO drops a box, a gray giant zaps a kid's hallway, and a red-winged dude flies off in a metal bus. Buckle up kiddos! The universe brought its weirdest.   Episode Reference Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734280653427204/permalink/2935292343326023/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734280653427204/permalink/2936719216516669 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1734280653427204/permalink/292966...

In 1949, a man driving along the Pan American Highway en route to Lima, Peru, caught sight of a large, glinting object hovering over the desert floor. Though he could have little expected it, this chance encounter would send him careening into the world of high strangeness and make him the focus of one of the most bizarre cases in the whole of ufology.  The Cryptonaut Hotline: 315-370-6853   The C...

For centuries an aristocratic Scottish family were said to hide a terrible secret; one that gave rise to rumors of a quasi-humanoid creature kept hidden from the world within the crumbling stone walls of the highland castle they called home; a diabolical descendant who's appearance—thanks to a witch's odious spell—was so distressing; so damnably revolting that it was dubbed the "Monster of Glamis"...

In what has to be one of the strangest sagas in paranormal lore, a star-crossed British family endured a maelstrom of moist mayhem when, in 1933, they became the victims of what was referred to as a "water ghost" but which modern supernatural scholars have re-branded a "hydro-geist". This wet wraith's reign of terror lasted for 6-months and left both paranormal historians and the soaked survivors...

A shadowy figure darting through a hallway, a hulking beast haunting a Tennessee golf course, and a possible run in with the Wicomico Catman? Three encounters that turn folklore into fear! The Cryptonaut Hotline: 315-370-6853   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Hellorspace.com - Cryptonautmerch.com   Stay Connected with...

Across time, space and the infinite bandwidth of consciousness itself, individuals from all walks of life are clashing with a nefarious breed of etheric arthropods that feed not on flesh and blood but psychic energy; leaving their victims a hollow shell of their former selves and exposing a thus far hidden—and for many horrific—realm of reality. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon....

Anyone who's served in a time of armed conflict knows that few things can compare to the chaos, confusion and constant fear of war. The stress that puts on a human being is tremendous and, for many, debilitating. But, for an even unluckier few, these already anxiety inducing situations were made all the worse by the addition of aggressive eight-legged atrocities who were as eager to kill as their...

For many the sight of a spider of any size is enough to trigger an anxiety attack, but—lurking in some of the most remote pockets of the world (and sometimes far too close to home)—are an array of enigmatic arthropods; massive monstrosities so aggressive, so utterly terrifying that they'd make even the most ardent spider lover's blood run cold. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...

Reactions to spiders can range from fear to fascination but, for an unlucky few, encounters with these surreal spider-like anomalies can not only strike terror, but leave those involved question not only their memories, but the very nature of reality. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Hellorspace.com - Cryptonautmerch.com...

On the cusp of the 20th century,  a group of horrified Hoosiers claimed to have encountered something utterly unexpected lurking in the murky, mud-filled depths of the paranormally plagued Ohio River; a group of vicious, quasi-reptilian humanoids that locals swiftly christened: "Mud Mermaids". The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch...

From a kindhearted spirit tucking in a farm kid on a cold Washington night, to a reeking, rotting canine corpse haunting a California townhouse, and finally to a jealous Tennessee entity that hums, laughs, and floods rooms with blinding light—three firsthand encounters reveal the paranormal at its most tender, terrifying, and downright bizarre. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...

In the 1990's, a military doctor found himself serving in one of the most remote outposts on Earth: McMurdo Station, Antarctica. It would be during his 11-month stint that the doctor's worldview would be shattered by a stupefying series of disclosures involving colossal kaiju, international intrigue, mad science, black budget genetic atrocities, archaic abominations and—as if it could get any wors...

To some, Antarctica is a pristine, windswept landscape filled with austere beauty. For others—especially those unlucky enough to stumble across its indigenous inhabitants—the continent at the bottom of the world is a frigid, Lovecraftian hellscape filled with baffling behemoths and flesh eating fiends so malefic they defy the imagination.  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cr...

In what has got to be one of the most bats**t crazy paranormal encounters on the books, a woman was relaxing in her Northern California home when she claimed to have encountered a bevy of increasingly bizarre beings, all of which coalesced into a whirlpool of metaphysical madness representing what may well be one of the last great paranormal vortexes in the United States. The Cryptonaut Podcast Pa...

In the decades preceding the 20th century, the murky depths of the lakes, rivers and swamps of Australia and New Zealand seemed to be infested with an array of abysmal—and extremely aggressive—unknown animals; moist monstrosities which have forever etched themselves on the global psyche. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores...

On an impulsive excursion into the Mexican wilds, three teenagers would confront not only deadly snakes and the ominous prospect of being lost in the woods after dark, but something much more insidious; an armada of UAP and a small army of glow-in-the-dark entities who seemed hellbent on bringing them down.    The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptona...

A Kentucky man spots a terrifying "Glimmer Man" near a lake rumored to hide a monster. In rural Illinois, a childhood game is interrupted by a grotesque, clawed creature that vanishes into thin air. And in Poland, a man sees a headless, metallic humanoid lounging in a former mass grave site. Something unnatural lurking just out of sight. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryp...

From Yogi, Smoky, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh to Baloo, Fozzi, the Berenstain Bears not to mention the Magic Kingdom's own Country Bear Jamboree, pop culture is littered with examples of talking bears. But, fanciful though these characters they may be, there are genuine reports of humans interacting with an uncanny array of these hyper-intelligent carnivores… who, beneath their teeth, claws and...

In the mid-60s, an Oregon family was thrust into a supernatural gauntlet involving UAPs, dazzling indoor light shows, cycloptic beasts, dancing aliens, a smoking dome, possible poltergeist, an ominous (and evidently bulletproof) shadow stalker and—to cap it all off—a pack of spider-like tree stumps roaming the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. In fact, this onslaught of metaphysical mayhem got so in...

In 1986, a boy named Greg endured a night of hellish torment at the hands of a sinister, giggling shadow child, who—while under the watchful eye of its pernicious parent—tortured its human counterpart in what was evidently a diabolical twist on the time honored tradition of "bring your kid to work day". The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podc...

In the mid-50s a pair of Finnish brothers had a terrifying, all too close encounter with a speeding saucer. While the boys were both scared by this near miss, for one of them—Osmo Liene — his ordeal was just beginning as just days later, at the stroke of midnight, a trio of aged aliens would invade his home to interrogate him... and reveal something that no one should ever know. The Cryptonaut Pod...

In most children, the dread of bedtime stems from equal combination of FOMO and a fear of the dark. But for some kids, and even a few you adults, that fear is founded on all too real experiences with anomalous and sometimes highly aggressive entities that's prove—beyond the shadow of a doubt—that humankind's millennia long fear of the dark is not unfounded. Kerry Bernard: https://kwbernard.com   T...