It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells us the story of the Van Meter Visitor, a bizarre pterodactyl-esque cryptid that terrorized small-town Iowa for five days! What sort of arcane ability allows a giant, winged humanoid to produce a bright, blinding light from a horn on its head? Was the town of Van Meter justified in collapsing a huge mine in their backyard to try and combat the cre...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we explore three stories of truly bizarre and un-classifiable aliens. Did weird, saluting, block-headed blob men land in a school teacher's backyard on a winter evening? Did two Japanese schoolchildren encounter wrinkly, fanged vampire-like extraterrestrials? And did a Canadian miner run afoul of three insectoid, cyclopean entities that commanded him to ena...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our journey into the overview of exopolitics with an exploration of the so-called "galactic COINTELPRO." Roll your eyes as hard as you'd like, but there seem to be folks out there who consider the covert psychological operation known as COINTELPRO to be a smokescreen of smokescreens. Was the true goal of COINTELPRO to do a big spooky psyop on UF...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes on the incredibly expansive topics known as "exopolitics." We focus on the work of a man named Michael Salla, the dude behind exopolitics.org. We see this term tossed around a ton in conspiracy and UFO circles, but what exactly are "exopolitics?" We attempt to define this term, discuss the inception of this idea and its history, alien abduction i...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the Dexter / Hillsdale Michigan UFO incident. It's 1966 and a farmer and his son find themselves confronted by a mysterious UFO in their front yard. This sighting leads to "mass hysteria" and a Project Blue Book investigation by the big man on campus, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. We also discuss smoking cigars indoors, quantum leaping to prevent the assas...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about the humble beginnings of the cryptid classic, our boy Bigfoot. We discuss the possible historical and mythological origins of bigfoot, ancient texts on big hairy guys, a sasquatch sad dad and his not-quite-nuclear cryptid family, and whether or not former president Teddy Roosevelt had a close encounter with a murderous bigfoot...all this and...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about a whole new world of cryptids: the formally undiscovered and often monstrous plant life of cryptobotany! We've gathered a handful of stories about weird plants from around the world. Have you heard the one about the man-eating gourd that grows from the burial mounds of ogres and evil sorcerers? How about a tree that grows barnacles that give...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate our first Australian haunting - the Monte Cristo house! Do spirits that suffered terrible, untimely deaths lurk the halls and rooms of this lonesome mansion? Did a maid spike a baby down a stairwell? Will Kyle cool it with the gross-out humor? The answer to both is...maybe not. We discuss ghostly grifts, the history of Monte Cristo and its ow...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we brought river monster expert Garrett to discuss a couple monstrous, river-dwelling cryptids. Does a massive, two-headed snapping turtle lurk in the murky waters of the Monongahela? Is he accompanied by a half-man, half-fish hybrid? What about a monstrous salamander? Which of these cryptids are in a polyamorous throuple? We discuss all this and so much mo...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our journey into the early New World Order conspiracies of Dr. Peter Beter. What happens when the Rockefeller Crime Cartel, the "Zionists Bolsheviks," and the new Kremlin powers start vying for control of moon? We wrap up Dr. Beter's odd beliefs about "stagflation" and the secret struggle for power over the entire world! All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we began a journey exploring a semi-obscure conspiracy theorist, Peter Beter. What shadowy, world-dominating factions are vying for power over Earth, and who emptied Fort Knox of all its gold? We also make our pitch for collectible gold ingots and bars, a way to make gold-collecting more fun for everybody! Oh, unfortunately we also have to address some anti...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discussed the incredibly strange story of the Gulf Breeze Six. What happens when six members working at a European NSA base go AWOL and fly to Florida on a mission to kill the Antichrist? Weirdly enough, turns out not much - what with there being no Antichrist to kill...as far as we know. We discuss Vance Davis and his crew of paranormal military fellows...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the story of four Philly policemen who discovered a bizarre UFO: a big, weird mass of glowing, purple goo that fell from the sky like a parachute. We discuss the original report, plus the game of telephone that took place when writer and radio broadcaster Frank Edwards got a hold of the story. Was the 1958 movie The Blob inspired by real events,...

Kyle and I both had some personal and technical issues come up this week so we are dropping an episode of our Patreon bonus content to our main feed. This episode is the beginning of our series going through the Paranormal Activity movies. The rest of this series can be found on on patreon.com/itgetsweird in our $5 tier.    We hope to get back to normal episodes ASAP but we appreciate you all bear...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we got Garrett and Jules to join the Weird Boys for a special occasion...an extremely weird documentary on UFOs and aliens funded by a little corporation known as Disney. Why did Disney make this odd little TV documentary, and how is it not locked deep inside the vault? Why did Mike Eisner volunteer for the incredibly violent opening segment? Is "Butt Cheek...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we close the book on our brief history of UFO disinformation campaigns...for now. We talk about the wave of cattle mutilation in the 1970s, the obsession with alien anal probes, and possible human explanations for both. We also discuss the story of Paul Bennewitz and Richard Doty, two men embroiled in an intense UFO disinfo psyop. Did the US military go out...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue our investigation into the United States government's UFO disinfo conspiracy! We get in-depth on the Washington, DC fly-over incident, the strange mishaps of Edward Ruppelt, Soviet versus United States Cold War covert operations, and faked UFO events possibly crafted under the banner of the MKULTRA project! All this and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin part one of a series on the history of government disinformation in ufology! To kick things off, we revisit some of the UFO classics: Roswell, Kenneth Arnold, the Maury Island Incident, and the Washington DC flyover! We also detail some of the early days of Project Blue Book, inter-military squabbling, and UFO-based sabotage, conspiracy, and psycho...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, we investigate the haunted history of the infamous Raynham Hall in England! How did this mansion of British highfalutin politicians and their intermingling families create a volatile location for ghosts and spirits? Is this era of ghost stories the result of the rise of Gothic literature, or is the Brown Lady ghost really the result of painful, lost love?...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the Grunch. We Grunch it up. "Grunchatize me, cap'n" we here at It Gets Weird always say. "That'll be a Grunch for me!" What the heck is a Grunch, and does it still terrorize the old roads of New Orleans? Did a Voodoo Queen accidentally birth the Grunch from a Devil Baby, or is a Grunch the result of backwoods inbreeding? Which meal is Grunch? We...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile put together an alien primer episode on the Arcturians, a race of blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-da guys who operate on a higher dimensional plane that you, like, can't even fathom, man. How do Arcturians connect to Starseeds on planet Earth? What is Arcturian society like? Hell, what does Arcturian bonin' look like?? We ask (and try to answer) all these questio...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we took a trip down to good ol' Kentucky to check out a honkytonk hootenanny of a haunted location: this is Bobby Mackey's Music World! What paranormal entities draw the likes of Ghost Adventures and Buzzfeed Unsolved to this country nightclub? Is it haunted by the specter of a beheaded woman? Is there a portal to hell in the basement? It only costs $10 for...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, we take a trip to Romania to visit the haunted Hoia Baciu Forest! It's also possibly plagued by demons, maybe a portal to another dimension, and probably regularly visited by UFOs. Yes, this place may be the weirdest spot in all of Romania. How did a shepherd and his flock of 200 hundred sheep disappear here, never to be found? Why do we keep coming back t...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, we took a trip to West Virginia to take a look at two very different cryptids: the hoax-esque Abbagoochie and the very creepy story of the Beast of Beckley. Was one man and his family tasked by the FBI to eradicate a highly dangerous chimeric cryptid? Is the shadowy, four-eyed monster lurking in the West Virginian woods actually a demon? We discuss all thi...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Jules "Da Movies" Hollywood joins the Weird Boys to discuss more Monarch Mind Control and how it's used in Hollywood media! We talk about Disney's influence in the mind control game, which big movies are not-so-subtly controlling our brains, and the twinning phenomenon between great directors in the Monarch world such as Martin "Marty" Scorsese and Francis...