It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we venture into a "yokai-esque" territory with a story about gut bug monsters from medieval Japan! Do little devilish monsters live inside our bodies that influence our health and give us diseases? The answer is yes - science confirms it. But what kinds of bugs? Sinister little beetle men who snitch about your misdeeds to the gods? Turtle clumps that wear l...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile brings to the table three fascinating stories of aliens with a running theme: silver. All three stories - the Falkville Metal Man, the Risley Silver Humanoid, and the aluminum-clad extraterrestrial abductors of José Antonio da Silva! The stories run from hoax-y to eerie, but all are decidedly very interesting. We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we conclude the story of the OG ufologist, Major Donald Keyhoe! We get to the bottom of the "big question" - was Keyhoe silenced for speaking UFO truths, or is there something else fishy going on? We talk UFO lecture circuits, book deals, movie consultations, television appearances, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle talks with Nile about some of the earliest days of ufology with the story of the prototypical ufologist, Donald Keyhoe. How did Charles Lindbergh's aide in the world's first cross-Atlantic solo flight become the world's most famous ufologist of the 1950s? What UFO theories does Keyhoe develop with early ufology? How did he become the director of NICAP?...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week friend of the show Jules joins the Weird Boys to discuss the paranormal phenomenon known as "ghost trains." When Lincoln died and all his fans around the US gathered to mourn him as his corpse rode around on a train, did the collective anguish create a ghostly spirit train? What about the train disasters around Britain? How can Jules bring Harold Ramis into...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we travel down south to the Florida / Alabama border to talk about the monstrous and possibly indestructible Two-Toed Tom! Does a red-eyed, gargantuan, evil gator stalk the swamps of the Panhandle looking for human prey? Is he 14 feet long or 24 feet long? Does this beast of a lizard have a gator harem, on top of all that other stuff?! We discuss all this a...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we once again get to examine another angle of the infamous Roswell UFO crash. If a crack, covert squad of secret crash saucer retrieval agents salvaged the UFO at Roswell, wouldn't it follow that the alien technology would end up utilized for human-based technology? Can we explain big leaps in technology with the acquisition of extraterrestrial tech? A cert...

Hey there friends and weirdos! It's episode 400, and you know what that means - we're doing a new kind of Campfire Stories! Garrett and Jules join our co-hosts to roleplay through a scenario filled with cryptids, aliens, ghosts, and conspiracies! Join us for our milestone celebration!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we return to our documentary series - "FYD" - to discuss 2022's "Shock Docs" Alien Abduction: Betty and Barney Hill. It's been many years since our discussion of the story of the infamous abduction of the Hills, so we hope that this new(ish) documentary series could teach us something new. Is this story experiencing a renaissance? Are the Hills the first ca...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a trip to Illinois and work our way along the Mississippi River to uncover the bizarre story and history of a cryptid known as the Piasa Bird! What is the Piasa Bird and what are its origins? As it turns out, the story is a lot more complicated and confused than much of the internet assumes it to be. We unravel the historical mystery surrounding thi...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about the various ghosts of murdered wives haunting the Hampton Court Palace in London! Who are these "restless royals" and what drove them to haunt the halls, galleries, and staircases of the palace? Our guess: the really crappy husbands they had in life. We discuss candlestick spirits, ghostly queens, and extramarital affairs - all thi...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude the story of Debbie Jordan-Kauble and the Copley Woods Incident! Budd Hopkins concludes his investigation of the strange, extraterrestrial happenings surrounding Debbie, but Debbie continues on the path of ufology. She also begins to incorporate more Fortean subjects into her purview, especially the paranormal. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we get into part two of the so-called "Copley Woods Incident," a strange UFO encounter that left a small-town Indiana woman with memory loss, missing time, and bizarre illness. Ufologist Budd Hopkins is on the scene helping Debbie uncover her lost memories and interpret the strange phenomenon that seems to be happening around her. As the memories are teased...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin the story of Debbie Jordan-Kauble and the so-called Copley Woods incident! When ufologist Budd Hopkins receives a letter from a distraught Debbie about her bizarre encounter in small-town Indiana, a three year investigation begins to uncover the truth. We also talk local pizza places, magic spells, bugs under rocks, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile investigates a cryptid surprisingly close to podcasting headquarters: the Maryland Goatman! How did a terrifying and murderous goatman wind up living under a paranormal Crybaby Bridge? How many has he killed in his murderous rage over lost sheep? And how exactly does one "cruise" for Goatmen? We discuss all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week friend of the show Jules joins Nile and Kyle for a discussion about two fascinating sea monsters. Our appetizer begins with the Barmouth Monster, a Welsh cryptid that supposedly lives in the Menai Strait. Is it a plesiosaur? A monstrous alligator? For our main course we talk Bobo! That's right, we're talking Bobo, the legendary monster lurking in Monterey B...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile investigates the claims made by a man who goes by Robert Morning Sky in his earth-shattering text, the Terra Papers! What can we learn about extraterrestrial races through these Terra Papers, and what qualifications does Morning Sky have to back up this story? Turns out, maybe not a lot. We talk the secret alien races, take a little dip into some New A...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude the story of Pat Price, the psychic extraordinaire who may or may not have been killed for his incredible abilities. What weird beliefs was Price bringing to the Stanford Research Institute? Was it the KGB or the CIA who killed him? Or did Pat's heart simply give out? We discuss all this and more in the final episode of the so-called greatest ps...

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we tell the story of Stanford Research Institute's "true" psychic star, Pat Price! After dabbling in mayoral politics and policing, how did this Scientologist come to work with the fellas at SRI on their CIA-funded Stargate Project? Was he truly capable of unbelievable psychic feats, so much so that the CIA ended up wanting him for themselves? We begin w...

Hey there friends and weirdos! It's officially the first episode of 2024, and we thought it might be nice to bring long-time friend of the pod onto the show, Jules! Nile tells Kyle and Jules all about an eerie creature referred to by the internet as the "Not Deer," a deer-like cryptid that just has something about that feels...off. Are people really experiencing a sinister, deer entity around the...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue what we've dubbed  "Psychic Winter," diving deep into histories of the people connected to Project Stargate. This is the third and final episode of our multi-part series on Uri Geller, psychic extraordinaire and litigious spoon-bender! What kinds of experiments were blowing the minds at Stanford Research Institute and the CIA? And what exactly a...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Uri Geller in the middle of a series of connected episodes that have come to be known as "Psychic Winter." In this one, we talk about Uri's life after leaving the military, his rise to fame in Israel, and his discovery by both the CIA and American parapsychologists. We discuss the very odd Uri lore drops from his early days as a glo...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue what we've dubbed "Psychic Winter," diving deep into histories of the people connected to Project Stargate. We've talked Ingo Swann, Harold Puthoff, Russel Targ, and a number of other folks, but this week we're covering the most famous Stanford Research Institute psychic: Uri Geller. What are the origins of this self-proclaimed psychic and how d...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about the African cryptid that supposedly terrorized folks around Kenya and Uganda throughout the 20th century! Is this a case of a misidentified hyena, or is there really a bear-lion-hyena hybrid stalking villages, eating livestock, and sucking the brains out of hapless human victims? We discuss the origins of this creature, possible ex...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we're wrapping up the story of Ingo Swann, prolific artist and psychic extraordinaire! But when the Ingo Swann story wraps up, a whole bunch of new stories about psychics, secret government programs, and mysterious connections appear. We talk about Swann's sudden turn towards ufology and the bizarre UFO encounter that changed his life, plus the various spoo...