KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

'SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This was some of the most brain melting intensive research I've done in a while! This episode covers djinn warfare, various historical instances of actual djinn warfare, cross-cultural analogs of entities equivalent to djinn, & plasma consciousness! PLUS! A look at modern & future supernatural warfare! This one infested my brain pretty hard! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email...

WHAT'S UP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOKS! Here's a bit of a light hearted little romp, something of a pre-dinner antacid tablet to the horrors coming around the corner. In this episode we explore [SEE TITLE]! It's got everything: the supernatural, occultism, UFOs, aliens, ANCIENT ALIENS (take a shot), weird science, cryptids, AND SO MUCH MORE! This episode is dedicated to all the cats I've ever loved...

SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode explores the weirdness that is the life and legacy of Ted Owens, a.k.a. "The PK Man"! Perhaps one of, if not THE MOST, well documented individual instance of a man gifted with psychokinetic abilities by space mantises who used his abilities to control the weather and gamble on sporting events. A TALE AS OLD AS TIME! As stated at the beginning of the epi...

HEYYYYOOOOOO YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! This here's a bit of a short anthology, giving you fine folks a pair of paranormal stories, while allowing me time to work on improving the show! These are two COMPLETELY TRUE tales of paranormal terror and...bad craziness! First, the tale of the Hinton Ampner Haunting! Then, the Cutun Haunting of Nicasio Torres! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com...

Here's that companion piece I was talking about in the other episode. This one covers (much like the title says) post-Soviet "Para-journalism", urban legends, as well as "urbex legends". It's a mixed bag of stories about abandoned Soviet bioweapons labs, weird physics defying anomalies, fish-man surgical experiments (I ain't hardly bullshittin' neither, check dat shit out!), Kozyrev Mirrors, and a...

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! This episode happened because I stumbled across some material I just couldn't stop reading about. So...I made an episode about it! Listen up as this episode explores the actual real life subculture of dangerous urbex mutants who breach the guarded perimeter of the poisonous radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (or just "The Zone", if you're one of the cool kids!). We'll expl...

This is the final bits and conceptual pieces of the "Megalopolimancy" trilogy, parts that didn't quite fit anywhere else of ideas that I really, really, wanted to harp on a lot more. That, and maybe a dash of fancy foot play...but in wordplay. Wait...is it "fancy footwork"...is that the saying? Well fuck that, I prefer play over work. Anywho, give it a listen, it puts a nice little nerdy bowtie on...

HEYYOOOOOOO! This one was a lotta fun! I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I did researching it and putting it together! In this episode, we're closing out the big, huge, and super crazy "Megalopolimancy" trilogy, with an intense exploration of some of the stranger theories behind the infamous Whitechapel murders and the historical phantom of London, "JACK THE RIPPER!" Specifically, w...

Here's some extra content in celebration for 200 subscribers on YouTube! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! Here's some more farm animal lore, surrounding goat folks! Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comSOURCES:SOURCES:Albert Rosales' "Humanoid Encounters Series"https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Panhttps://www.mythfolks.com/goatmanhttps://www.coasttocoastam.com/alternate/amp/show/2024-08-11-show/https://science.how...

WOOOOO! Gotta lotta stuff to do! Please give it a listen! HAPPY BICENTENNIAL...TO ME! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! PLEASE TO ENJOY! (P.S. Sorry about my voice, I'm a little under the weather and just got the shit kicked outta me...by life.) Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com SOURCES:wikipedia.orgchinaknowledge.desailingstonetravel.comfolklorescotland.comfandom.comhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/https://www...

Sup you beautiful kooks! Have you ever wondered if there's more to the design and creation of the major cities we inhabit? Some underlying intelligence or lifeforce? Why is your city the way it is and who made it that way? This here's the first episode in a multi-part series covering everything it says in the title AND SO MUCH MORE! The first third of the episode is an introduction to some of the...

HEYYOOOOOO! It's a muthaflippin' bonus episode where we take a look at the many literary and esoteric foundations that helped put this whole wacky ass multi-part series into action! In this episode we'll explore sources such as: "OUR LADY OF DARKNESS" by Fritz Leiber, misc. Lovecraftian works featuring "non-Euclidean geometry", Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's "FROM HELL" (not the shitty Hollywoo...

Sup KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Here's a folkloric exploration of various "pig man" legends. From medieval lore to modern day cryptid encounters, we jump in the pigpen to get down and dirty with this particularly weird modern day legend with roots that stretch way, WAY back. PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comSOURCES: * Claude Lecouteux - "Phantom Armies of the Night" * Jacqueline Simpson &...

Just wanted to say farewell to a good friend. It kinda didn't seem right to just cram it into the middle of an episode. I also chose not to use his given name for the privacy of both his family and friends. There's also quite a bit I chose to omit, as it largely originates from a place of anger and feelings of helplessness, which (amongst other reasons) I didn't want to include in what's essential...

Hidey-hidey-hidey-HOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAH! Sup you beautiful kooks! Here it is, the finale of the "Black Magic Academies" world tour! This episode covers: "DOMDANIEL", Mt. Longhu and the "Fangshi" ritual masters, Mt. Kurama and it's Tengu teachers, another (almost obligatory at this point) dip into "Gu/Kodoku Magic", the Azande witches of central Africa, the Siddhas and Nagas of MT. (mufuggin') KAILASH...

Sup KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! As I'm still working on the final episode of the "Black Magic Academies" series, in order to maintain a (somewhat) consistent, coherent release schedule, here's a BONUS(-ish) episode on ALGOL..."THE DEMON STAR!" PLEASE TO ENJOY! Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.comSOURCES:Domains of life sciences in spacefaring: what, where, and how to get involved | npj Microgravity - https...

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! WOOOOOOO! Sorry, I know it's a little late....but it's a big'un! In this episode we travel to Europe and examine various traditions/anomalous phenomena hotspots throughout Spain. specifically "THE SALAMANCA", as well as the Spanish/French border, "The Clever Folk" of the U.K., "The Benandanti" of Italy, and the goddamn grandaddy of ALL so called "black magic academies"..."THE...

This is a hastily thrown together ultra mega super duper coverage of the deceased and/or missing scientists, along with tangential explorations into: the dangers of "the hitchhiker effect", "hyperstitional warfare", and the mysterious "Mr. Axelrod"! All this plus a who's who exploration of all of the scientists currently at the center of the FBI/Congressional Oversight Committee's investigations,...

Here's an episode about some Southwestern American and Mexican shapeshifter sorcery. I mispronounce quite a few words. But overall, this is meant to be part of the current ongoing series covering so called "black magic academies" and their potential connections to anomalous phenomena hotspots (with shapeshifters, ghost lights, and other high strangeness along the way)! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: k...

SUP KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! I love you all and you look MARVELOUS! This episode is the first in a series of speculative wanderings around the globe, looking into the potential connections between anomalous phenomena hotspots and the recurring folkloric concept of "black magic academies"! This episode will cover North and South America, with a special focus on Chile's RECTA PROVINCIA! Sharp-eyed/ ear...

Sup Kooooooooooooooooks! Here's a FAR SUPERIOR version of one of the first episodes we ever did that now seems like it was literally 2-3 years ago. Because it probably was. Literally. This one covers a lot more of Keel's conceptual contributions to ufology and high strangeness in general. Ultraterrestrials. The Superspectrum. Window Areas. Transmogrification. AND SO MUCH MO'! Extremely light on an...

Arrr me hearties! Welcome to a bonus episode of Kooks, Cranks, & Iconoclasts! This old chestnut from the sea features tales of nautical terror, including: sharks eating seamen, psychic squid induced mutiny, the SS TEXASSSS!, syphilis, mer-monsters, cannibalism, blubber, and madness at sea! This episode also features a special guest, your host "Captain Basterd's" little brother, "Mr. Nasty" (a....

Once again, my beautiful kooks, a little something different. Just WTF do BUNNY RABBITS have to do with UFOs, cryptid encounters, folklore, the paranormal, and high strangeness? Listen and find out! PLEASE TO ENJOY! Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com SOURCES:Other than the various sources listed/mentioned in the episode, I also used information from... The Brave New World Order: Movie Synchronici...

Here's a short bonus episode full of mind blowing information! JEG ELSKER NORGE! PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com SOURCES:*A Brazilian Poltergeist. In the best documented case of a… | by T*A Team | Truly*Adventurous | Mediummedium.com *The Terrifying Case of a Brazilian Poltergeist - Neatoramawww.neatorama.com *THE GUARULHOS POLTERGEIST: A REASSESSMENT OF ANDRADE S (1984) MONOGR...

Sup kooks! Here's more delicious black goo phenomena fo' dat ass! PLEASE TO ENJOY! BTW, NORWAY ROCKS! THANKS FOR SHOWING UP TO ME NORWEGIAN PEEPS!Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com SOURCES: I. The Occult & Typhonian CurrentGrant, Kenneth: Cults of the Shadow (1975). (The primary source for the "Cult of Ku," the "17th Kala," and the connection between sexual alchemy and extraterrestrial "leaka...