mike lucht
KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!
Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! NEW EPISODES POSTED UP ON HUMPDAYS! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness! Support...
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CRYPTID CATCHERS - "GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL!" 21.10.2026 45:05
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is exactly what it says on the tin! Put it up in ya! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kookandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES:- Keel, John. Our Haunted Planet (1970) and The Eighth Tower (1975)- Paulides, David. Missing 411: Western United States (2012) and subsequent volumes- Rosales, Albert S. Humanoid Encounter...
WEREWOLVES? DOGMAN? GODDAMN! 21.10.2026 1:12:27
HEYYOOOOOOOO! What's up you beautiful KOOOOOOOOKS! This episode covers werewolf and dogman encounters! AND! It's also the episode where Mike either reveals his ignorance or makes some enemies he's too tired to deal with! Or neither! But either way, just what the heck is going on with all these garshdern werewolf and dogman encounters? This episode covers at least around 40ish...SO SOMETHING MUST B...
HUMAN SACRIFICE & ULTRA-TERRESTRIAL BLOODLUST! - "KOSMONOSFERATU!" 20.10.2026 1:48:44
AHHHHHH FUCK! I DON'T EVEN WANNA DO THIS PART! SPACE VAMPIRES Y'ALL! I'M SO TIRED! I GOTTA GET BETTER! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES: Scott Corrales' "Alien Blood Lust-Are There Vampires in Outer Space?" w/ Tim Beckley, Sean Casteel, Tim R. Swartz, Hercules Invictus, & Nigel Watson (2019) (HELL YEAH! JUST ONE SOURC...
A BESTIARY OF ASTRAL PREDATORS! (PRESENTED IN SICKLY SURROUND SOUND!) 12.10.2026 1:46:51
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! HEYYYOOO! This episode is a look at the various beasties that one might encounter whilst amidst walkabout amongst the astral plane! Not only that, but it's also full of tons of handy dandy tips and tricks on how to defend one's self whilst amongst thust realmst! All of it presented by a man in the midst of losing his voist! PLEASE TO ENJOY! Email is!: kooksandcr...
ROBERT "BOB" MONROE & THE GATEWAY PROCESS - "THE PROJECTIONIST!" 10.10.2026 42:40
HEYYOOOOOOO! WASSUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOKS! This episode covers the life and work of good old "Bob" Monroe and his creation of "The Gateway Process" and "hemi-sync" technologies! This episode acts as the primer for what comes next, as we begin to dip our toes into THE ASTRAL REALM! If you wanna get up in there, then get this all up in you! PASS THE LOOSH PLEASE! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksan...
JOE FISHER, HUNGRY GHOSTS, & THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS - "SPIRITED DECEPTIONS" 10.10.2026 1:01:55
Wanna learn it? Listen up! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES:Fisher, Joe, The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts, Paraview Press, 2001.Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Princeton University Press, 1964.Harner, Michael, The Way of the Shaman, Harper & Row, 1980.Iamblichus, De Mysteriis, Translated by Em...
THE SCIENCE OF CHANNELING & WALK-INS - "CALL 1-666-COLLECT" 07.10.2026 1:26:01
HEYYYOOOOOOOO! SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This is a continuation of our look into the spirit world, specifically the act (and "art"?) of spirit/alien/praetor-human intelligence/ultra-terrestrial CHANNELING! Just open up your psychospiritual bits and let the voices ride the meat-machine! Mmmmyup. PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. S...
THE SCIENCE OF SPIRIT POSSESSION - "DSM-666!" 06.10.2026 1:39:22
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is exactly what it says on the tin! ALSO! This episode is the first in a spooky season long series examining THE SPIRIT WORLD! WOOOOO! Oh wait, no, I meant BOOOOOOOOOO! No, no, no, that's not quite right either...[INSERT GHOST NOISES]...there, that's better! Are schizophrenics possessed by parasitic entities? Is civilization at large possessed by "THE WETIKO!"...
GENIUS LOCI, SPIRITS OF PLACE, & CRYPTIDS - "THE HILLS HAVE EYES...& ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!" 01.10.2026 49:53
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Show respect and pay your dues when in the hood of the nature spirits and cryptids. It's not just a good idea...IT'S THE LAW! Or at least, maybe it should be. AGAIN...like back in "ye olden tymes...es". PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES: *"Demons and Spirits of The Land: Ancestral Lore and Practice...
HIGH STRANGENESS HORRORS OF THE VIETNAM WAR - "THE BUSH, THE FRONT, THE SHIT, & THE NANG!" 01.10.2026 35:45
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! Man, if you thought the regular, everyday, manmade horrors of the Vietnam war were bad enough, just check out some of the extra weird shit that allegedly went down out there during the conflict! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. NOTE: While I normally wouldn't use fake AI images for my thumbnails...
THE STRANGE CASE OF CLAUDETTE SOUCHON - "AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!" 01.10.2026 59:55
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a WEIRD'UN! There's very little info on it and it's highly obscure but what we do know is just out and out strange. What happened to Claudette Souchon in 1978, as she went out on a horsey ride amongst her property? Listen up and come along on a journey that explores not only Claudette's story but also explores some of the region's folklore, as well as taking a look in...
OTHERS ENCOUNTERS WITH THE DERO - "CLOWN OPS. CORROBORATORS?" 30.09.2026 48:19
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a variety of ALLEGEDLY REAL encounters by various regular, everyday folks with those subterranean horrors known as "THE DERO!" Bask in just how much they sound like many of today's misc. alien encounter and/or abduction stories. HMMMMM, SUSPICIOUS! NO? PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SO...
RICHARD SHAVER (Ver2.0) - "GET DOWN...LIKE...WAYYYY DOWN!" 30.09.2026 1:22:41
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a new and improved version of Richard Sharpe Shaver and the exploration of what would come to be known as "The Shaver Mystery!" This one's pretty crazy and it has IMMENSE INFLUENCE! on not just UFOlogy in general, but conspiracy culture as a whole! PLEASE TO ENJOY! Email us!: kookandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES: *The Sec...
HORRORS IN THE CORNFIELDS! - "LOST IN THE MAIZE!" 25.09.2026 1:02:04
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Question: Just what the hell is up with cornfields? Why are they so creepy and weird? Well, as it turns out, this ain't exactly nothin' new. In fact, they've pretty much ALWAYS been creepy as fuck! Not only that, but they seem to play host a WIDE VARIETY of utterly mind bending high strangeness: cryptids, aliens, ritual occultism, homicide, and some of the creepie...
VORTEXES & WINDOW AREAS - "ALL UP ON THAT WINDOW CRACK!" 25.09.2026 50:16
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode is a bit of an introductory look at so called "vortex" areas and "window areas" where ALLLLLLLLLL TYPES OF WEIRD SHIT HAPPEN! This episode essentially asks the question..."What up wit dat?" ALSO! Can these so called "window areas" be connected with and/or (perhaps much scarier) WEAPONIZED? Let's take a look, shan't we? LET'S SHAN'T! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: koo...
ALLEN GREENFIELD - "ASTRO-SUPER SARGASSO OCCULT UFOLOGY!" 24.09.2026 1:36:48
SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This is a WEIRD'UN! This episode covers the work of ALLEN H. GREENFIELD! We're talking about the intersection of UFOLOGY & OCCULTISM! Greenfield is on the forefront of the eternal battle for human evolution, a war that's being fought between the good UFOnauts vs. the men in black...a.k.a. "THE BLACK LODGE!" Through the use of Greenfield's qabalistic code, he's deciphered the...
RED TRIANGLE MARKS IN ALIEN ABDUCTIONS/CATTLE MUTILATIONS - "WATCH THE RED DOTS!" 17.09.2026 1:13:42
HEYYOOO! WHAT'S UP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOKS! This episode is an exploration of the reoccurring symbolism of the much dreaded red triangle mark(s) attributed to alien abductions, cattle mutilations, and even potentially showing up in old witch BBQ party cook books of "yay olden tymesese...s"! This episode is as as close to a one stop shop for all your triple dot thoughts as one could ever possibly d...
JACQUE VALLEE & THE CONTROL SYSTEM HYPOTHESIS - ''LE GRAND FROMAGE!'' 16.09.2026 1:11:11
HEYYOOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT'S UP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This episode explores the "CONTROL SYSTEM HYPOTHESIS" as formulated by the one and only UFO folk saint, JACQUES VALLEE! MY MAIN MANG! BOOYAKASHA! GET WIT' IT YO! KNOWMSAYYYNNNNN! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES: - Anatomy of a Phenomenon (1965) by Jacques Vallee- Passport...
GLIMMER MEN, PALE CRAWLERS, & MEMETIC MONSTERS - "MEMEZOIDS!" 15.09.2026 1:39:54
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS IS A BIG'UN! Lot's of hypothetical craziness in this one. We got tulpas, egregores, memetic entities, pale crawlers, glimmer men, imposter entities, "tulpatronics" (yes, I'm back at it again), and the relationships we share with our fictions. It's heavy psychedelic shit...MAN-MAN-MAN-MAN-Man-man! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright...
JAMES SHELBY DOWNARD (Ver2.0) - "CONSPIRACY LITERACY" (a.k.a. "CONSPIRACY NERD GEEK OUT!") 11.09.2026 1:04:14
WOOOOOOO! What's up you beautiful kooks! Here's a "redux" of James Shelby Downard's weird as worldview, incorporating "his" new book "Stalking The Great Whore" (by author Adam Gorightly, strangely enough). Is Downard a literary hoax? Are his associates "problematic"? (You can bet your bippy they most definitely are!) Listen up and listen good, I say, I say, PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcrank...
RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINES...OF DEATH! (a.k.a. "NINCOMPOOPERY!") 08.09.2026 1:00:11
If I sound extra energetic, it's because a pretty girl on the street, not in any kind of customer service capacity whatsoever, smiled at me. It was pretty great. Anyway, here's an exploration of Rube Goldberg and his fantastical fantabulous machines...if they were designed TO KILL! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES: http...
CHICKEN-MAN CRYPTIDS & COCK MONSTERS (no, seriously) - "DEEZ NUGZ!" 05.09.2026 47:08
OH YES! IT'S REAL! Bask in all this "Gallinaceous" glory! AND HORROR! THE HORROR! IT'S GOTTA BE HEARD TO BE BELIEVED! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES:*Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Book VIII):*Pseudo-Geber (Paul of Taranto), Summa Perfectionis & Alchemical Manuscripts*Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus*Barandiar...
THE REAL WU-TANG VS. SHAOLIN - "WU-TANG MUTHAF_CKA!" 05.09.2026 58:26
"(*fighting noises)...Bastard! I didn't know who you were!"...this episode examines the REAL life history of both the "Wu-Tang" (or Wudang) and Shaolin, martial arts, occultism, and all the stuff behind the kung-fu flick and hip-hop mythology! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES:Shahar, Meir. The Shaolin Monastery: History...
THE GAME OF SATURN Pt.2 - "SOUL EATER BOOGALOOSH!" 04.09.2026 49:24
The final episode of "The Game of Saturn" series...this one gets weird y'all. PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email is!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com. SOURCES:* Adams, Peter Mark. The Game of Saturn: Deciphering the Sola-Busca Tarot and the Dark Renaissance Codex (2017)* Dick, Philip K. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011)/VALIS (1981)* Gnostic Scriptures (e.g., The...
THE GAME OF SATURN Pt.1 - "TO THOSE WHO'D SAY 'EAT LEAD', I SAY "TAST MY STEEL!'" 03.09.2026 1:28:57
The Penultimate episode in "The Game of Saturn" series. PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comAll music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.comSOURCES:Bossard, Abbé Eugène. Gilles de Rais, Maréchal de France, "Barbe-Bleue" (1886) Bataille, Georges. The Trial of Gilles de Rais (1965) Petit, J.-M. Gilles de Rais: Ou, La gueule du loup (1993)De l'Epinois, H. La Ligue et les papes (1888...
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