Slaying Monsters

Matt, Katie, and EJ continue their investigation of Mokele Mbembe and the legends of neodinosaurs in Africa. Roy P. Mackal and James Powell travel to Lake Tele to investigate rumors of sauropods. They never actually see one, but they talk to lots of people who have... after buying them a drink and offering them supplies of course. Mackal is convinced and launches a second expedition. Meanwhile, ri...

Matt sits down with author and filmmaker Adam Gorightly for a conversation on aliens, government disinformation, and conspiracy theories. Adam's new movie, Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks follows the story of scientist Paul Bennewitz, who was targeted by a mind-bending counterintelligence campaign that gave rise to enduring UFO lore. The themes of this incident spread into the 1980s UFO scene, and even...

Matt, Katie, and EJ dive into the latests in weird and paranormal news for June. A missing employee of Los Alamos is found dead after a year. A journalist covering the Epstein case claims she's been the target of directed energy weapons. A celebrity exorcist loses his job. And a Sasquatch attempts a carjacking.    Missing Los Alamos worker found dead:  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0723mr8j3p...

Matt, Katie, and EJ continue their investigation into Mokele-Mbembe and the Neo-dinosaurs of Africa. Cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson gets in on the action after his own encounter with a flying creature that he swears was a pterosaur not a bat. HIs contemporary Bernard Heuvelmans believes him and includes a chapter on living dinosaurs in his book, On the Track of Unknown Animals.    Meanwhile, cr...

Matt, Katie, and EJ continue their investigation into the rumors of Mokele-Mbembe and the living dinosaurs of Africa. Alternative historians claim that an ancient city in Zimbabwe is the lost biblical city of Ophir. Early cryptozoologist Willy Ley gets in on the speculation too. He believes that there's a prehistoric monster etched on a Babylonian Gate and that German explorers encounter dinosaurs...

Matt, Katie, and EJ tackle the latest Fortean news. We talk about the Department of War's UFO files, and the real purpose of UAP monitoring programs like Project Blue Book. Then, we cover the meeting of televangelists who claim they were instructed to bring UAP disclosure to their congregations. And we dive deep into the four different species of aliens, and their real origins. Plus, a new sightin...

Modern science tells us that the dinosaurs died out some sixty-six million years ago. But, according to rumors, there may be a place you can find them alive. For generations, explorers and locals claim that living dinosaurs stalk the wilds of the African jungles, hiding from discovery in one of the most inhospitable regions of the world. If true, this could be a revelation so profound that it woul...

Matt, Katie, and EJ conclude their investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers. Following the disappearance, rumors circulate. Some say the keepers were attacked by violent storm kelpies - water monsters which worshiped the stone henge on the island. Others claim they were swallowed by a sea monster, driven from the depths by a violent storm. But the tru...

On a chilly December day in 1900, a lighthouse on the Flannan Islands in Scotland was found deserted. The three keepers who’d been living there were gone, leaving no trace but an overturned chair and plates of uneaten food. Their bodies were never found. In the intervening century, the story of the missing keepers of the Flannan Island Lighthouse has become rife with speculation and mystery. What...

Matt, Katie, and EJ tackle the latest in Fortean news. A worrying number of scientists and engineers from government sanctioned programs are missing, with more and more being discovered every day. Vice President JD Vance believes he's figured out the demonic truth behind the UFO phenomena. An antarctic research submarine reveals puzzling objects before disappearing. And Gregg Phillips still swears...

Matt, Katie, and EJ conclude their investigation of the Allagash Abductions, the story of four campers encounter with beings from another world. MUFON investigator Raymond Fowler believes he's encountered a decades-long case of alien abduction. His research on the Allagash Four reveals, to him, injuries consistent with medical experimentation. But when one of the four makes a startling confession,...

Matt, Katie, and EJ continue their investigation of the Allagash Abductions, the alleged alien abduction of four campers in the Maine wilderness. Ufologist Raymond Fowler agrees to put abductee Jim Weiner under hypnosis after meeting him at a UFO symposium. At first, Jim doesn’t recall anything, but the more the MUFON hypnotists push, the more he remembers. Jim recounts the story of strange scient...

Matt, Katie, and EJ tackle the latest in Fortean news. A new documentary may reveal that the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film is fake. The disappearance of a high-ranking Air Force General sparks conspiracy theories. An alleged new weapon may explain Havana Syndrome. Ghost elephants on the storm and exploding asteroids in the air. Plus, the fastest way to get to a Waffle House.    Teleported to a Waf...

Matt, Katie, and EJ continue their investigation of the Allagash Abductions, the story of four campers' alleged encounter with extraterrestrials in the Maine wilderness. A decade after the event, abductee Jim Weiner begins experiencing strange sleep disturbances. Assuming these are repressed memories of his encounter, he dives headfirst into the world of UFOs and alien abductions. Jim's research u...

In 1976, four men on a camping trip in the remote Allagash Wilderness Waterway experienced an otherworldly encounter. Allegedly, they were abducted by aliens who performed a series of experiments on them, before returning them to their campsite with no memory of the events. But when all four were independently studied, they all told the same story: one of shimmering lights in the sky, hypnotism, p...

Matt, Katie and EJ tackle the latest Fortean news. Did Obama cheekily reveal that aliens are real? And will Trump finally be the president to get to the bottom of it? What's the betting odds that you'll be abducted by aliens? And did a secret Russian research program find out the truth about flying saucers? Plus, there's a Sasquatch loose in Quantico military base and EJ has a special announcement...

Matt, Katie and EJ conclude their investigation into the legends of Sewer Cryptids. Focusing on New York City, we examine the legendary cow tunnels that may have been used to move livestock underground in the 19th century. Then, we take a bite out of the most infamous sewer cryptid of them all: the sewer gator. Were New York residents actually flushing baby alligators into the sewers, where they g...

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation into the legends of Sewer Cryptids. During the mid-19th century, journalist Henry Mayhew chronicled the lives, work, and philosophies of London's lower class. He became particularly fascinated with the toshers, men who crept through the sewers looking for lost valuables. Their experiences, toiling away in the dingy tunnels, gave rise to fantastic tal...

Matt, Katie and EJ discuss the latest in Fortean news. Has the US unleashed a top-secret sonic weapon in Venezuela? Will aliens finally reveal themselves at the 2026 World Cup? And is Steven Spielberg hiding real UFOs in his latest movie, Disclosure Day? Plus, we reflect on the life, times, and outrageous theories of Erich von Däniken, the founder of the Ancient Alien hypothesis.    Sonic weapons...

Beneath the streets of all major cities lie a mirror world of darkness. A sprawling network of interconnected tunnels and passageways, where all manner of monsters could lurk. As long as we’ve had sewers, we’ve had stories of the things that lived down there, in the dark, waiting for you to step just a little too far from the comfort of your home.    According to legends, our sewers are home for f...

Matt, Katie and EJ conclude the saga of the Yeti hand heist. With Tom Slick’s plan in motion, Peter Byrne returns to Nepal and smuggles out a thumb and finger from the Pangboche Hand. To ally suspicion, the fragments are passed to Hollywood legend James Stewart and his wife Gloria. Using Stewart’s celebrity to bypass scrutiny, the fingers are hidden in Gloria’s lingerie bag and quietly flown to Lo...

Matt, Katie and EJ tackle the latest in Fortean news, discussing Senator Macro Rubio's concerns about UAPs, the alleged upcoming alien war, chem trails and mysterious teleportations.    Marco Rubio thinks aliens are tampering with our nukes https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ufos-are-switching-our-nuclear-weapons-off-source-claims-1762011   Whistleblower claims aliens have been spying on earth for billions...

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation of the Yeti Hand Heist - the most hair-raising crime in cryptozoological history. Cryptid enthusiast and oil baron Tom Slick joins forces with Yeti hunter Peter Byrne, and together they embark on their on expedition, fraught with dangerous terrain, restrictive government regulations, and the constant fear that any collected evidence would be confisca...

Matt, Katie and EJ continue their investigation of the Yeti Hand Heist - the daring theft of a mummified yeti hand from a Tibetan monastery. Oil baron Tom Slick Jr. falls in love with cryptozoology and dreams of discovering an unknown species. Meanwhile, The Daily Mail conducts a yeti hunt in the Himalayas. They uncover preserved relics of the monster, or so they think. There's only one way to fin...

Matt, Katie and EJ discuss the latest in Fortean news, talking about 3i/Atlas, the alleged alien probe and aliens spying on nuclear tests. We also hold the first Fortean Quizzo! Play along and see how much you know - or don't - abut the world of high strangeness.    3i/Atlas radio signals:  https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-radio-signal-from-comet-3i-atlas-ends-debate-about-its-nature/   UAPs...