It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn the terrifying stories of a couple lake monsters from around North America. Does a lizard-like beast live in the depths of Lake Thetis? Did a swamp-thing creature attack some prankster kids all the way up in Canada? Is there a confluence of cryptozoological energy around central Ohio? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we return to the top secret MK-ULTRA program and one of its most die-hard soldiers: hypnotism and brainwashing specialist, Dr. Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West. Who is Jolly West and how did he come to be involved in the CIA's clandestine network of academics doing research on mind control? How did Jolly get involved with so many ridiculously shady moments in hist...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a look at an obscure alien encounter from Conil, Spain. How did this story stay afloat among all the UFO reports during a 1989 flap? How did two UFO researchers looking into the same case make the timeline very confusing? Are these playful aliens who love tossing the ol' ball around? Or is there a better terrestrial explanation? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude the confusing story of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer and begin the story of James Jesus Angleton. What is the "Wilderness of Mirrors," and how does it play into the strange things that occur around the investigation and trial of Ray Crump? Is poetry the answer? Is it communist counter-intelligence? What the hell is going on here? This won't b...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin a journey we're going to call the "Wilderness of Mirrors." In part one, we officially dip our toes into JFK conspiracy for the first time by investigating the story of Mary Pinchot Meyer and how her murder unfurls a massive web of strange conspiracy. We also touch on the man who may be responsible, at least in party, for how confounding this story...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile decided to get to the bottom of the damn thing. What exactly is adrenochrome and how did it become wrapped up in some of the most deranged conspiracy theories of the era? Is Hunter S. Thompson really who's to blame for all these absurd stories? Or is there any actual merit to adrenochrome as a drug used exclusively by the shadowy elite? We discuss all...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules joins the podcast to discuss three bizarre cryptids all connected by a theme — a theme that everybody but Kyle will have to guess at the end of the episode! Did an underwater welder witness a living firehose in the Gulf of Mexico? Is there a mutated octopus monster living in the walls of a haunted London townhouse? How did an unknown squid creature en...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided to watch and discuss another installment in the "Shock Docs" series of documentaries. This one is called Demon in the White House, an exploration of the strange paranormal happenings in America's most sacred of politics buildings. Do ghosts of tragically dead children roam the halls of the White House? Or is it something far more sinister — a dem...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we indulge in a Thanksgivingtime haunting, discussing the ghosts of the Dock Street Theater! How is it that both John Wilkes Booth and his father Junius Brutus can't seem to escape bad vibes in theaters? And how did Nettie Dickerson become a vengeful spirit dressed in red? Do Nile and Kyle finally have a business idea that's going to make them the big bucks...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our coverage of the history of the CIA and UFOs! Does the CIA's history amount to anything more than a series of flubs and total exasperated disinterest? Why does the Majestic-12 hoax keep coming back over and over again? Is it all just a grift after all? We also talk HomeGoods, the infamous Joker-Batman boner situation, and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin an overview of the CIA's strange history with the UFO phenomenon. We've heard a lot about the US military and Air Force intelligence's relationship to UFOs, but what the hell has the CIA been up to with all this UFO stuff? Are they also involved in the cover-up? How did the CIA bungle the interception of a mysterious morse code signal recorded from...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate stories about a mysterious monkey cryptid known as the Devil Monkey! Why does this weird, multifaceted critter sound a whole hell of a lot like a kangaroo? Is it a vicious beast or something supernatural, or perhaps intelligent? We talk monkeys, self-help, more sad dog stuff, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a good look at some bizarre alien counters from around the world! In our first encounter, two French kids run into four bizarre beings with silky, black bodies. Did these aliens get spooked by the two kids, fly into their spaceship, and fly away in a panic? Then in Brazil, did a bus driver get abducted by a bunch of bizarre robotic beings and shown...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle the secrets of the hidden, mystical city of the Philippines referred to as Biringan. We learn about Engkantos, the spirits and elementals who populate the mysterious city, and discover the secret to identifying them as they walk amongst humanity. What happens when the veil is thin and you pass through Biringan? What do you do when an Engkant...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate the store of Claude Edwards, the "no-nonsense" Missouri farmer who bared witness to a UFO carrying alien entities. How did these creatures come to be known as the Tuscumbia Penguins and just what was it that Edwards saw that fateful Valentine's Day morning? Is there any terrestrial explanation for the extraterrestrial penguin critters? We dis...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we examine the apocalyptic visions, theories, and rituals of the various characters who became enthralled with a comet that passed through the nearby heavens back in 2011. Was this comet a bigger, badder, more Nibiru-like object than science had initially assumed? Or is it a harbinger of doom like the Silver Surfer? We revisit some favorite characters in th...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take more than the recommended dosage of Benadryl so we can visit...the Hat Man. Who is this shadow entity? How did all the memes about him start? And who exactly was the first person to make note of the Hat Man's existence, telling the world about the evil lurking in the shadows? We learn how to expel the Hat Man, draw up some comics about bigfoot and a...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules joins Nile and Kyle to learn about a cryptid from the deep south: the Alabama White Thang! That's right, it's a Thang and not a Thing. Is this guy just a weird white Bigfoot variant? Or is it closer to a dog-beast creature of some sort? We also ask the big questions: who up pondering they orb? Is this a penthouse set up type thing? We discuss all the...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Kyle tells Nile all about the story of Donald Shrum and his harrowing all-nighter fending off a group of strange humanoid aliens! Can a cigar-shaped mothership UFO, a small saucer scout ship, a pack of five or six humanoid goggle-eyed aliens, and a vapor-expelling robot take down natural born survivalist Don Shrum? What about the fishy intrigue of the miss...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, long-time friend of the show Collin joins the Weird Boys to learn about Jane Adams and the Devil Baby haunting of Hull House! How does the story of a "devil baby" travel across the midwest United States and why did thousands of people flock to Hull House to catch a glimpse of this mythical monster? Who is Jane Adams and how did her settlement house become...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude the story of Sidney Gottlieb, the so-called "Poisoner in Chief" who operated the CIA's super secret MK-ULTRA program from the shadows. Was the hippie counter-culture movement the result of a CIA-funded LSD operation? How did the freaks over at the CIA create actual James Bond-style spy gadgets like suicide pills and instant-kill poison assassina...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue our journey into the life and work of the CIA's mad chemist, Sidney Gottlieb. How did Gottlieb end up working on MK-ULTRA with all the spooks and kooks that came with it? And how exactly did they pull off this disturbing mind control conspiracy without the public's knowledge? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin a psychedelic journey into the truth behind the man who ended up running the infamous MK-ULTRA program. How did an unassuming but fastidious Bronx boy earn the nickname "Poisoner in Chief?" What weird historical crap had to happen to bring MK-ULTRA into being? And how did the secret agents involved justify all this maniacal stuff to themselves? We...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile and Jules finish the Encounters docuseries together. In episode three we get the story of an alien experience in a small Welsh school, known as the Broad Haven Triangle. Then in the final episode we learn about the mysterious Lights Over Fukushima, the strange UFO sightings that followed the 2011 nuclear disaster. Does the Spielberg-produced UFO-theme...

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules fills in for Kyle as we tackle a UFO documentary mini-series put out by Netflix by way of Amblin Television. We discuss the two cases involved in these episodes - the Dublin/Stephenville mass UFO sighting and the Ariel School UFO case - and how they're presented by the documentary. Jules gets to learn how UFO cases handle information from law enforcem...