Crypts and Corks

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! Buckle up because this one is one for the story books! We're doing a deep dive into the legendary Baba Yaga of Eastern Slavic folk and fairy tales. This marvelous woman is a whole bop and vibe: living in the woods where life and death meet in a house standing on chicken legs, riding around in a mortar and pestle, and striking fear into the hearts of a many youn...

Send us Fan Mail Bonjour Corkies! This week we're heading to France to discuss how Napoleon may have had some supernatural help on his many military campaigns. Throughout his illustrious career and reign as Emperor of France Napoleon credited the guidance of the Little Red Man of Destiny. Which is cute and all until you realize the Little Red Man of Destiny was an actual spirit which appeared...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week we're discussing the infamous and enigmatic Flatwoods Monster. This fashion forward monster...cryptid...alien...thing has fascinated and beguiled since it's first spotting. But what is he...she...they....it? The theories are endless and Paul presents quite a few along with the history and mystery of the Flatwoods Monster! Don't forget to lik...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week we're visiting what is purportedly the most haunted house in America: the Whaley House! The oldest brick building in California it has witnessed most of the history of San Diego. But, from its earliest days there seems to have been something otherworldly wandering its halls. From botched executions to government raids to theater kids living in the att...

Send us Fan Mail Ahoy Corkies! Sadly this week Paul is down for the count for some kind of illness that doctors describe as being between an STD and the bubonic plague. So his loss is our gain as we're joined by special guest co-host Mike! Today we visit the northern shores of Lake Superior which is said to never give up her dead. This especially true in the case of the lake freighter SS Kaml...

Send us Fan Mail Sex, drugs, rock and roll, a string of sudden deaths, mysterious disappearances, a body buried in the floor. This Hollywood club has it all! Yes, today we’re discussing the famous…or infamous Viper Room. This Tinsel Town landmark has a long and storied history from jazz bar to grunge club. And with so many celebrities passing through some of them have even stuck around. Join us th...

Send us Fan Mail Happy St Patrick’s Day Corkies! This week we’re heading to the Emerald Isle to explore the fascinating fairy stories and folktales of Ireland! Sit back and relax as DJ takes on a storytelling journey through Ireland’s rich storytelling and cultural history!  Don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe! Got story suggestions or personal stories? Email us as cryptsandcorks@gmail....

Send us Fan Mail Don't forget to like, rate, and subscribe! Got story suggestions or personal stories? Email us as cryptsandcorks@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram: @cryptsandcorkspod Facebook: Crypts and Corks Tik Tok: @cryptsandcorkspod Twitter/X: @cryptsandcorks DJ: @therealdeejpowers on TikTok, Instagram, and Threads Paul: @paulember on TikTok and Instagram

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week we’re on an endeavor to catch em all! And no not those, the clinic doesn’t do punch cards anymore. But Pokémon! Today Paul takes us through the history and sightings of the infamous Thunderbird (no, not the car, see Dad I do listen to your car talk). This cryptid has a long history from Aboriginal times to the modern day. And it inspired a whole Pokémon to...

Send us Fan Mail Greetings and salutations Corkies! This week we are verily excited to go back to Ye Olde England in the 1100s to explore one of the oddest cases: The Green Children of Woolpit. In the mid Twelfth Century two children were found in an old wolf trap outside the village of Woolpit wearing odd clothes, speaking a strange language, and like a ferny, froggy cabbage were unnaturally GREE...

Send us Fan Mail Hi Corkies! This week we’re traveling to the high Himalayas to explore the history and lore behind the Yeti! This elusive creature has been known to the locals for centuries and has been a feature of  Buddhist writings long before westerns stumbled on what they would call “the abominable snowman.” Join us DJ tells us of a friendly Yeti guarding a monk, mysterious snow prints, and...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This year for Valentine’s Day we’re going dark. We’re going back to the earliest days of this holiday and exploring its dark origins. It hasn’t always been chocolates and roses! It used to be blood sacrifices and martyrdom. Don’t believe us? Listen in as Paul takes us through the dark and twisted history of Valentine’s Day! Don't forget to like, rate, and subsc...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week we're visiting the Emerald Isle to explore Ireland's most haunted house Loftus Hall. This historic manor home has a long and bloody history (HOT!). And to cap that off it's the sight of a visit from Devil himself. DJ takes us through the storied history of invasions, battles, and renovations gone wrong and the terrifying hauntings of a disap...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! We know you've crossed oceans of time for this episode! Have you ever wondered why we consider vampires sexy? Well it's your lucky day! DJ takes through the evolution of the undead from dreaded decomposing demons to sultry sensual sparkling objects of desire. From Carmilla to Twilight we explore how and why vampires have become heartthrobs in popular cultu...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week we dive into the fascinating and totally true* story of the Manhattan Alien Abduction of Linda Napolitano. Linda claims she was abducted by a group of aliens through the window of her 12th floor window of her Manhattan apartment building in front of 23 witnesses including a high ranking government official who she name dropped. She then teamed up with UFOl...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! Today we’re going deep into a childhood to face one of the scariest beings of all Furbies! These little animatronic toys are creepy as all get! From frightening phrases to working without batteries, these things have run the gamut of spookiness. But are they all haunted or are they vessels for wandering spirits? Listen in and find out! Please consider donating to: -...

Send us Fan Mail Ahoy Corkies! This week we’re going to one of America’s haunted locations: the Queen Mary! Once Britain’s first super liner she had her career interrupted by World War II where her speed and stealth earned her the nickname The Grey Ghost. After the war she returned to passenger service only to have her career cut short by the jet age leading her to become a hotel and tourist attra...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s haunted location has everything. Jail cells. Crazed cults. Fax machines. Channeling evil into non-dairy milks. You may think that’s a joke but listen to this week’s episode as Paul tells us how this Old West jail house became home of a cult and part of an insane murder and may even have ties to the Oklahoma City Bombing. This one’s a real doozy so buckle up and get rea...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This week we’re visiting beautiful Iceland and exploring their holiday folklore. You thought Krampus was bad? Think again. Iceland has Gryla, who hungers after naughty children, and the Yule Cat, who stalks boys and girls who got no new clothes for Christmas. And it doesn’t stop there with not 1, not 2, but 13 mischievous Yule Lads come to torme...

Send us Fan Mail How do you define evil? I don’t mean from a dictionary. I mean legally speaking how do we define evil? Legally speaking what constitutes evil? Can someone be held liable for evil? How can we put it on trial and prosecute it? While you think on that, how do we medically define evil? What are the symptoms? How can we test for it? Is there a cure? In modern law and medicine there is...

Send us Fan Mail This week we return to Fox Hollow Farm to see what lingered from the crimes of Herb Baumeister. While investigators are still finding bodies buried there, something more spectral remains. Phantom figures in the woods, disembodied foot steps, and maybe even something demonic. Paul fills us in the second and final part of the crimes and hauntings of Herb Baumeister. Please consider...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! This week Paul takes us in a whole new direction into true crime with the story of serial killer Herb Baumeister. This story is full of crazy twists and turns as Paul covers Herb from childhood through his disgusting homicidal spree. And the story doesn’t end there as this is only the first part of the story! So make yourself a peanut butter sandwich and open your f...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Corkies! Home is meant to be a place of safety and refuge. But one man’s dream home for him and his children soon became a waking nightmare which continues to haunt him to this day. Especially after a chance introduction takes him back into the middle of it all. Will he be able to escape it or will be sucked back into it and lose his life and soul to whatever darkness has cl...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Corkies to what is possibly our strangest case yet! We're traveling to the Gobi Desert in search of the Mongolian Death Worm (cue DJ quaking in sheer terror). Paul tells us all about this huge squiggly creature which delights in eating both animals and humans. This episode is either going to make you book a flight immediately to Mongolia to search for it or make...

Send us Fan Mail What’s new Corkies? This episode we’re joined by the fabulous Citrus again! Join us as we go to Argentina and delve in the strange afterlife of First Lady, popular saint, and cultural icon Eva “Evita” Peron. Yes, that Evita from the musical (and Madonna movie). While the musical ends with her death in reality it just was the start of a whole new chapter; a third act if you will. J...