Strange Things with Chris James

Late one evening on December 9, 1965. It was cold and clear. At about 6:00 PM a fire ball was spotted coming from the North West heading South East at an incredible rate. The fire ball was seen as it passed over Canada. Then it entered the United States air space. It flew over Detroit Michigan and Windsor Ontario. As it passed overhead the fire ball was dropping small burning debris that started a...

Hans Kammler was born on August 26, 1901. He died on…well, we don’t really know when he died or if he died at all. Kammler was a German civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects such as just about every death camp the Nazis built. Sometime around 1945, Kammler was put in charge of a research and development complex hidden away near the Check Republic....

In 1917, at Fort Riley Kansas, a bunch of soldiers came down with some strange sickness. They lined up at the sick call and were seen by the Army Doctors. Headaches, nausea, muscle aches, tired feeling. Aspirin was handed out by the hands full and the men sent back to their barracks. It was believed they had either war jitters or maybe a slight case of a cold or the flu. Soon the men became much s...

The first part of the show I talk about William Cooper. Milton William "Bill" Cooper was born on May 6, 1943 and he died on November 5, 2001. William was an American conspiracy theorist, radio broadcaster, and author best known for his 1991 book Behold a Pale Horse. He warned us about multiple global conspiracies, some involving extraterrestrials. Following Cooper I go into the idea that Fort Knox...

Have you ever been someplace, nothing is going on that should cause ill feelings, but you suddenly think something bad is about to happen? You get that overpowering sense something is wrong. What is it about some places that make us feel uneasy or downright terrified? Places that have a history of bad vibes from hundreds of years past but with no explanation as to why people think there is somethi...

Each year 600,000 people go missing and that’s just in the United States. Most of these folks turn back up. They either left without telling anyone or they decided they just wanted to get away from everything and everyone that they thought where their problems. Most of these people didn’t realize they were their own problem and not those they tried to escape from. Here is the second show on missin...

Here is a brief history of Bigfoot. Long before Bigfoot was the name we used for a large hair covered creature seen in the woods we had other names. Names like Hairy Man or Wildman. Some tribes called them Sasquatch or Big brother. Tribes all across the Americas told about creatures or being that lived in the woods around them that mostly left folks alone as long as the tribe didn’t go messing wit...

In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material, usually out of stone or clay. This was a lot like what God did making Adam from clay only man was now meddling in God stuff. Another definition is a Golem is a giant, handmade monster, usually enslaved to a Jewish Rabbi or a...

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of water that runs from Homestead Florida to the Bermuda Island over to Puerto Rico and then back to Homestead. Although it looks like a three sided area, the boundaries are not all that straight. It contains about 1,510,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Ships and planes have vanished while in this one part of the Atlantic Ocean. Here are just a few of the sto...

Some drug companies have been putting things into people's bodies that are questionable at best. The drug companies are in business to make money and they do. Here are a few of the problems facing us today while trying to remain healthy. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

During a war, especially a big one, people will try all kinds of bizarre and unusual ideas. Attaching tiny bombs to bats. Or filling the oceans with so many mines that some are still showing up today. The guys in the U.S. Navy asked for ideas and someone came up with this one. Make the ships invisible…well at least to sonar and radar. The navy was happy with the results so they moved on to the nex...

Chris is an Independent comic artist and cultural critic. He started a paranormal and hot topic podcast "Conspire a Theory" in the past year. Some of his guests have included, Jeff "Crypto Hulk" Stewart and Paranormal Detective Greg Lawson. His podcast is a conversational format peppered with dark humor and common sense. He frequents his local MUFON chapter and he’s a part of a local UFO discussio...

Reincarnation has been around for thousands of years. There are a lot of religions that teach it as being the norm. For some unknown reason it fell out of popularity sometime in the past. Let’s take a look at reincarnation and why it just might be a fact and not fiction. Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, can begin a new life in...

Lyle Blackburn is a native Texan known for his work in writing, music, film, and cryptid research. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including “The Beast of Boggy Creek” and “Lizard Man,” whose subject matter reflects his life-long fascination with legends and sighting reports of unknown creatures. Lyle is also the founder of the rock band, Ghoultown, columnist for the horror magazine,...

Ruben Jose Uriarte graduated from Cal State University at Hayward/East Bay with a B.A. degree in Psychology and Latin American Studies. Ruben is a member of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) as a Field Investigator, State MUFON Director for Northern California and Deputy Director of Investigations/International Affairs. Ruben has been involved with a large network of research organizations and served as...

M. K. Davis has been researching the Patterson Sasquatch film, or the P & G as we call it, for the last 20 years. He has traveled extensively and has amassed one of the largest collection of images from the film. M.K. has trekked the Bluff Creek drainage of Northern California on many occasions and his observations have led to several important discoveries on the film itself. While the Patterson f...

November 5, 1975 Travis Walton was abducted by a flying saucer. Five days later he was returned to the Earth with one heck of a weird story to tell. Travis joins me to talk about what happened that day in 1975. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-things-with-chris-james--4931876/support .

The Mandan Indians tell about King Mordok who came from across the great water sailing on the back of a whale. He me the Mandan Indians and lived in piece with them. In the 1900s a man named Kincaid discovered a cave filled with Egyptian artifacts. Everything was hidden away in the Smithsonian somewhere. In Mississippi there are thirteen mound locations. Some are only a single mound by itself wher...

Noe Torres is a recognized expert in the field of UFOs and the paranormal, Noe Torres is an author, publisher, and member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written one of the most popular books about the famous Roswell Incident, titled Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash, which is...

Gunnar Monson was born the day after John Kennedy was shot, on November 23, 1963. He became interested in Bigfoot after seeing the Paterson Gimlin Film. Gunner read everything he could find about Bigfoot. Once the internet came out searching for information became easier. This also allowed researchers to make contact and compare notes. After not finding a good cup of coffee he started the Sasquatc...

L. A. Marzulli is an author, lecturer and filmmaker. He has written 12 books including “The Nephilim Trilogy” which made the CBA best sellers list. He received an honorary doctorate for the series from his mentor Dr. I. D. E. Thomas, who was the Provost at Pacific International University. He was also honored with the Gold Medallion award from Chuck Missler at the K-House conference in 2014. Becom...

Ken Gerhard is a widely recognized cryptozoologist and field investigator for The Centre for Fortean Zoology, as well as a fellow of the Pangea Institute and consultant for several research organizations. He has traveled the world searching for evidence of mysterious animals and legendary beasts including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabra, enigmatic winged creatures and werewolves. Th...

Linda Godfrey is an author and researcher of the strange and uncanny, and is especially well known as an authority on the upright canine known in Wisconsin as the Beast of Bray Road, in Michigan as the Dog Man, in other places as Skinwalker, Werewolf or a dozen other names. She appeared in, co-wrote and co-produced the History Channel's Monsterquest episode, "American Werewolf," based on her book...

I wanted to do a show about weird creatures that people have run into. As I was digging around all the stories I could find were things I’d already talked about, so I decided to redo the show from last year. More information and better show. These weird creatures were seen by many folks. In Madison Valley, Montana, there was something killing livestock. Back in 1880s, the ranchers and farmers were...

I keep hearing about things that lurk underneath bridges. Things that are sometimes scary and other times just plane deadly. There have been a lot of folks that unintentionally stumbled on something they wish they had never seen. Then there are those that go looking for these creatures hoping to see them, maybe understand them, and just hopefully survive the experience. What is it about bridges th...