Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'

A show made of audio message conversations between Mike J and Daniel Grothe. Crypticconvos on Facebook "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey . Visit the Website or Mikey's   GoFundMe or donate with PayPal . The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said. Facebook   — Daniel is on it.  X — is gonna give i...

The last episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you for all you did. Thank you for being there.  "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey . Visit the Website or Mikey's   GoFundMe or donate with PayPal . The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said. Facebook   — Daniel is on it.  X — is gonna give it...

Ten letters. Ten people who waited decades to say it. Contractors. Archivists. Analysts. A game warden who stopped running solo checks. A detective who never closed the file on Carol Ann Dempsey. The Wormhole. Nothing else. "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey . Visit the Website or Mikey's   GoFundMe or donate with...

The official scientific explanation for spontaneous human combustion is that you are a candle. Your fat is the wax. Your clothes are the wick. A wrapped pig confirmed it. The report was filed. Everyone went home. One problem. Nobody can explain who lit the match. Tonight Daniel goes through the cases the science couldn't close. Also: Gilberto Valle donated eighty-six dollars to a sick dog in Austr...

An NYPD cop with a badge, a gun, a psychology degree, and a username on a fetish website that I will not be repeating in a place where the algorithm can see me. He never touched anyone. He just wrote things down. Detailed things. Things with oven temperatures. A jury said guilty. A judge said hobby. He currently works in construction. I have chosen not to ask what he builds. The Cannibal Cop - Gil...

This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt — ancient European Wildmen. The Wilder Mann. The Basajaun. A Soviet scientific expedition into the Almas that your history teacher never mentioned because your history teacher was useless. Also a wild boar showed up and derailed everything because that's the world we live in now. You're welcome. "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." I...

PITC is back. No explanation. No apology. Daniel just walked back into the Crypt like he never left — and the Wormhole has been backed up for two months. Somebody's gonna have a bad time. New episode. Now. Please consider helping Mikey & my little family: > Website: https://danielgrothe.us/save-mikey > GoFund. Me:  https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb > PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/.....

It’s Christmas… but the joy isn’t landing. In this special holiday episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt... demonic Elf on the Shelf incidents, a drunk chain-smoking Santa with a naked Grey alien “helper”... Then we get serious. From Reagan and E.T. to Close Encounters and Taken, Spielberg’s long UFO history becomes the springboard into something darker: what if disclosure never happens because the...

🎄🩸 Merry Christmas… I guess. 🩸🎄 So yeah — the Christmas Special with the Mikes didn’t happen. Shocking, I know. But fear not, my festive little ghouls… predictions were made, holiday feelings were felt (against my will), and the halls are officially decked with bones and existential dread. Listen on all the apps, on my website, and — and I swear on my Art Bell shrine — artbell.us actually work...

A show that was probably a mistake… I mean, absolutely a mistake. The Mikes are here—yeah, that’s right, for ONE week only. And through some cosmic lapse in judgment I decided to open the wormhole for Larry the Dog. And look, I know… that was a mistake. I admit it. My bad. I’ll say sorry on behalf of both timelines. But listen anyway! It’s painful, it’s emotional, it’s ridiculous—so basically perf...

Daniel has somehow survived: Thanksgiving (barely) Black Friday (he still has bruises from that old lady with the shopping cart) Survivor Series (don’t even ask) Cyber Monday (his bank account is now a haunted house) Stranger Things (long story…) …and his first Perchtenlauf, where he learned that Austrian demons run faster than American ones. And naturally, he’s back in the Crypt—sarcastic, trauma...

Daniel survives another Thanksgiving by weaponizing spite, reading your possessed-poultry emails, and dragging us all back to Chernobyl where Mothman apparently moonlights as a safety inspector. The Mikes on Mics finally crawl out of whatever cornfield abduction they were enjoying, grace us with their presence for exactly one episode like the prodigal fanboys they are, and spend twenty minutes sim...

Mike and Mike could not link up yet again.... So yeah I'm here to save us all! Get ready for some out of this world audio! And Cranberry Sauce...  Please consider helping Mikey & my little family: > Website:  https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart > GoFund. Me:  https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb > PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/... “The darkness is your best friend… because you ca...

Halloween is over. The pumpkins are rotting, your candy hangover has settled into the marrow, and guess what? We’re not done. Not even close. This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt, we’re crawling into the vault of cinema — the realhorrors. The reels that were burned, buried, locked away, or politely swept under the studio rug because apparently “society can’t handle that.” Meanwhile, the Mikes fro...

Trick or treat, you sexy witches and you ugly, rotting ghouls… it’s Halloween. And honestly—fuck the last few months. We don’t care. The network doesn’t care. It’s Halloween, and that’s all that matters. So the Mikes and I did the only thing that made sense in this flaming madhouse of a year:We came together to give you the special you actually deserve. Please… have a safe and happy Halloween—beca...

This week, we go out in style — or at least in sarcasm. The Wormhole is wide open, and somehow the Mikes made it back through — though Mike S looks like he aged three centuries... Nothing says “Halloween spirit” like trying to make sense of Vince Russo’s booking logic while surrounded by demons. And if that’s not horrifying enough, we’ve got five brand-new listener horror stories straight from you...

The Mikes talk about.. Wrestling.. I guess? And... Just when you thought it was safe to defrost Grandma’s leftovers… I drag you screaming into Part Two of the Halloween Story Special — five new tales straight from The Wormhole that will ruin your appetite, your sanity, and possibly your relationship with CM Punk. Because here in the Crypt, we don’t just tell ghost stories—we deep fry them and serv...

I’m kicking off Halloween season the only way I know how — with five brand new horrors from The Wormhole! The Mikes aren’t here (thank God), which means it’s just me, the darkness, and whatever’s breathing behind you right now. Happy Halloween, you weirdos. Please consider helping Mikey & my little family: > Website:  https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart > GoFund. Me:  https://gofun...

Between beer steins and UFOs grounding planes over Munich... October is dark, weird, and it’s heartbreakingly human. Please consider helping Mikey & my little family: > Website:  https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart > GoFund. Me:  https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb > PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/... “The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.” ->  Listen t...

Life changes. Body changes. Paranormal rebrands. True crime dead-ends. Basically: one wrong street, one wrong date, one wrong snack at 7-Eleven and—boom—you’re the next cold case file. Also, the Mikes on Mics give their predictions for Wrestlepalooza. Which is like asking two drunk raccoons to predict the stock market. Listen now 👉 www.danielgrothe.us And yeah, Mikey’s fundraiser is on the site t...

This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt, we’re talking about mushrooms. Not the fun pizza kind… no, we’re diving into the fungal nightmares that want to crawl up your spine and wear you like a sock puppet. And just when you thought it couldn’t get weirder… enter Woooooo! … a flamboyant Grey Alien. Meanwhile, the Mikes decided the world really needed their take on WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia. Nothin...

🎃💀 BIG RETURNS this week on Piledrivers in the Crypt! 💀🎃 Yeah, apparently I don’t know when to stay dead. New episode is out—and no, it’s not just me screaming into the void (though close). We’ve got: Crimes so pointless they make your life choices look reasonable. BIG RETURNS you didn’t ask for but are getting anyway. The Mikes on Mics rambling about wrestling like it’s a holy text. It’s dark...

The Alien Interview.. Yes it's real. And... Yes the wall has arrived. This might be the last Episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you my friends. It's been a ride! Please  consider helping Mikey & Me: > Website:  https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart > GoFund. Me:  https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb > PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/... “The darkness is your best friend… beca...

Messages from the Past ... Insider Messages... from the WiD? w/ Daniel Grothe archives. Plus: The Mikes on Mikes… talking wrestling… or politics… or maybe both? Please  consider helping Mikey: > Website:  https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart > GoFund. Me:  https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb > PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/... “The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide i...

Bikinis, BBQs… and bloodshed. It’s summer, baby. And guess what? The sun’s trying to kill you. Not the government. Not your neighbor. Not some guy on a podcast screaming about lizard people and fluoride. Nope. Just our good ol’ flaming death orb in the sky turning the Earth into a microwaved Hot Pocket of doom. Meanwhile… over at the Kayfabe Zone with the Mikes on Mics... things are getting way to...