Kraken Cove - The Podcast That Shines a Beacon onto The Bizarre!

Welcome once again to Kraken Cove Podcast! There's an unwelcome visitor to the Cove this week, but never fear! Rowboat Pete sorts him out... literally. Coming up, Benny and Matt discuss the New York Rat Czar, Mouse Utopia, Killer Kites, Flesh Eater Sarcophagus, a colourless Gender Reveal, Bidding on other people's kids and much much more! Tell your pals, spread the word, rate and review, scream it...

New Year, New KRAKEN COVE! After a few months of rather stressful times - including a dead laptop containing all Cove material - we are back with a new machine for weaving the weird, sewing the strange and knitting the nuts, to stretch an analogy to breaking point! This week we look at Sudden Russian Death Syndrome, drugged dolphins, psychedelic salad, a few tricky grenades and the creepy Medjed!...

it's episode 82 and we are giving you a HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!! Woo hoo!! In this episode Matt & Benny take a look at some local creepy tales thanks to our lovely listeners, then take a trip to the Spooky Shores of Britain, Ireland and America to investigate HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES! we hope you have a wonderful Hallowe'en  and remember guys, STAY SPOOKY! Remember to give us a star rating and a review if y...

Welcome back to Kraken Cove, our second Halloween episode! This week Matt & Benny discuss strange sightings off the Filey coast and other cryptid oddities, there's talk of the sad demise of their second favourite lighthouse beam, there's a dive into Who Put Bella down the Wytch Elm leading onto more Witchcraft chat and the 1930's Pennsylvania Hex murders! Please send us your spooky stories, strang...

It's the first October episode of Kraken Cove podcast, so join Matt & Benny around the campfire as they examine a pervy hypnotist, a strange cure for a cobra bite, the mysterious origins of an M.R James story, a lovely new Norwich restaurant and yet another gender reveal mess! Remember, do contact us with your own Spooky Stories for Spooky month!

It's business as usual at good ol' Kraken Cove! In episode 79 Benny & Matt settle down for a bit of casting, and they examine some very rum shennanigans in the Queen's funeral queue, they look at they look at the Mary Celeste of the skies, the L-8 Ghost Blimp, they nip to Ireland to hear of Fairy Voices in the Woods and much much more!!

Kraken Cove Podcast is back with a special episode dedicated to Matt's new career as a full time artist. Together we explore the landscape and studio of a new professional creative, what it takes to survive and the myriad influences and inspirations of everyday life. I hope you enjoy it! Matt

It's episode 77 of Kraken Cove! Yet again we struggle a bit to stay weeekly but hopefully we're still pretty regular! This week Benny and Matt take a pootle around Kraken Cove graveyard, and while there they ponder the opening of a mystery sarcophagus at Notre Dame, some scary scarecrow sexy action, The Sandown Clown, Rock and Roll ghosts, The Japanese Kappa and a brief look at English traditions...

It's Episode 76 of KRAKEN COVE PODCAST and Matt and Benny find themselves in a bit of a pickle, and not of the egg variety! They're locked on the roof of the lighthouse with no way down, so will a bit of casting help them? Not likely, but it's worth a shout! In this episode the lads examine Virgin Boy Eggs, The Canoe Man's efforts to beat the Russians, a possible werewolf at an RAF base, Barry Chu...

It's Episode 75 of Kraken Cove and Benny is out of isolation!! This week is a 'classic' show - daft news stories and lots of laughs, no set theme! This week Benny and Matt take in the warm air of a mild Spring at the Cove and discuss a lass with bloody massive eyebrows, a shot glass sex aid missing in action for four years, a woman in a sexual relationship with a huge toy aeroplane, a dog dirt dus...

It's episode 74 of KRAKEN COVE! This week, please bear with us... Benny got COVID and logistics were a nightmare. there's some rather odd background sounds for the more careful listener and rather stressful recording factors but we did our best! In this show we finally look at a proper big hitter - SPRINGHEEL JACK!!! But not just this super weird pouncer. we look at him in the context of other Pha...

Welcome to episode 73 of Kraken Cove, the Podcast that shines a Beacon onto the Bizarre! This week Matt and Benny take to the Kraken Cove Fallout Shelter to avoid WWIII but don't spend theri time there foolishly! The remote operated lighthouse casts it's beacon onto many strange subjects. This week the lads look at the evicton of a massive swingers club, sentient microwave ovens, The Ghost of Kyiv...

In this episode Matt and Benny kick back with a mixed bag of stories from the local rag, the Kraken Cove Clarion. It's a great paper, full of nothing but strange stories and bits of fun. No huge standout dives this week, just a catch up on headlines, silly stories and some listener input to send Matt and Benny down the usual convoluted warren of rabbit holes! A few links. First, a big thank you to...

Yes, you heard it right, GNOMES!!! You know what they are.... or do you? An essential item in the 70's garden, also a kitsch addition to the modern garden perhaps, but what is a gnome, and why are we even interested in them? Dive into the world of these wonderful little people with Matt and Benny, find out what the Hell is going on at the bottom of the garden, and perhaps solve some very mundane m...

Welcome, one and all, to Kraken Cove Episdoe 70!! Benny and Matt hit the beach for an unseasonal picnic, and while they sip a beer and snaffle a scotch egg, they indulge in a spot of casting! In this episode they focus the lighthouse lamp onto more Ty Delorean news, rumours of outer space sea beasties, a giant forest for the Flat Earthers, some VERY sexy beasts and some wonderful poetry about stra...

The Beast is prowling down The Cove! Luckily Benny and Matt are tooled up and ready to take on the monster. This week in episode 69 of KRAKEN COVE PODCAST the chaps cast the lighthouse beam onto Ty Delorean and his three wheeled wonder, the epic tale of The Beast of Gévaudan and the incredible story of Shavarsh Karapetyan! If you enjoy the podcast, please spread the word! Rate and review on whiche...

Welcome to episode 68 of Kraken Cove, the MANLY Podcast! Yes, the manliest men on the island, Benny and Matt, flex their Fortean muscles to find you fun facts, strange stories and mindbending mysteries! This week the lads look at Men of War Crucible, a testosterone fuelled sausagefest for the terminally inadequate - they cast their light over a long overdue cryptid, THE MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM! They...

It's another edition of Kraken Cove Radio! As Benny nurses a wounded testicle, Matt spins the wheels of steel once again, regailing you, dear listener, with four tales of mystery! We look at the shadowy Irish Vehicular menace, Mr Prawo Jazdy! The Curious and Sinister disappearance and reappearance of Nicholas Barclay! The Valley of Headless Men, Canada's Nahanni Valley! Edward Leedskalnin and the...

It's the night after the night after the night after New Year at Kraken Cove and Matt & Benny emerge from their New Year's Eve-Proof Shelter into the weird world of 2022! The lads discuss Britain's Hannibal the Cannibal, The Devil's Bible, Dishbrain, The Baltic Sea Anomaly, Utsuro-Bune and a brief history of USO's! All this and more at KRAKEN COVE!!

Merry Christmas one and all from the crew at Kraken Cove Lighthouse!! It's episode 65 and Matt & Benny are dry and warm by the fireside at Kraken Cove while the winter winds howl, and the light pours out across the bay. But we cast that light in other directions too! This week we look at the job vacancy for a King of Piel Island, there's Nana Baubles and her record breaking danglers, the totally t...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Cove! Join Ben And Matt as they discuss a poorly pup who has a guilty secret, a massive secret of a different sort in the cellar of an abandoned mill, the 1561 Nuremberg Sky Battle, how astronauts cure Squashed Eye Syndrome and the leaking bones of Santa Claus!! All this and much, much more in Episode 64 of KRAKEN COVE!!

It's Episode 63 of Kraken Cove and Benny is back! After wandering the island for two weeks, lost cold and blind, the lazy lad has finally found the lightlhouse so Matt can crack on with some casting! This week the lads look at a rather embarassing Bomb in a Bloke's Bum, Yvette Fielding's near death horse ouija board mash-up, the possibility of multiple AI Bennys, The Toronto Clown vs Firemen Riot...

Good evening, friends, and welcome to the first edition of KRAKEN COVE RADIO, a show that will occasionally replace the usual style of show when Benny isn't able to make it to The Cove due to blindness, plague, gout or wankstroke. This week Matt treats all you podballs to some smooth tunes and even smoother casting. we've no listings, just a fun pot luck of odd topics, strange snippets and weird e...

Welcome back to Kraken Cove, and we're at Episode 61! After a brief spot of bother involving one of Benny's aquatic amorous encounters, Benny and Matt settle in the safety of the scullery for a spot of casting. And what a selection we have! There's a Mandela Effect missing Thunderbird photo, PornHub casting cars in a sleepy country town, two different kind of monsters and their evil coastal shenan...

Welcome to Episode 60 of KRAKEN COVE PODCAST and here we are at Halloween! Unfortunately Matt has contracted the Plague ( COVID-19) so Benny is keeping him at bay with hammer, nails and the trusty Lighthouse Luger! When the dust settles, we also settle down for a spot of casting! We have a terrifying Dogman encounter, strange lights in a local spot of high strangeness, a lost road that briefly reo...