That Would Be Rad

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we travel deep into West Africa for a chilling cryptid story, a strange eyewitness account, and one of the most unsettling monster legends we’ve ever covered: The God in the Water. In Burkina Faso, there is a place called Dafara. A hidden chasm in the earth. A rocky ravine. A murky pool. And according to the people who lived near it, something was waiting bene...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we dive into one of the darkest, strangest, and most infamous werewolf stories in recorded history: The Werewolf of Bedburg. In 1589, a farmer named Peter Stumpp was accused of terrorizing the German countryside for decades. According to the accounts of the time, Stumpp had made a pact with the Devil, received a mysterious belt that allowed him to transform in...

In this special ad free Summer Rewind episode of That Would Be Rad, we're revisiting one of our favorite road-trip rabbit holes: the strange creatures, bizarre legends, unexplained lights, haunted waters, and forgotten mysteries of Michigan. What started as a family vacation to Northern Michigan quickly turned into an obsession. Between the endless forests, crystal-clear lakes, tiny logging to...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad , we dive headfirst into one of the strangest intersections of religion, history, folklore, and the modern UFO phenomenon. For decades, reports of mysterious craft and non-human intelligences have captured the imagination of millions. Governments investigate them. Fighter pilots report them. Entire belief systems have formed around them. But long before congres...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we accidentally tumble headfirst into one of our favorite kinds of episodes. The kind that feels like staying up too late with your best friend talking about all the weird, nostalgic stuff that shaped your childhood. After an unexpectedly chaotic week of migraines, broken computers, school events, sports, and life generally trying to body slam us through a fol...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we sink our teeth into one of the weirdest and most unsettling true stories we’ve ever covered: the Southend Werewolf. Picture this: a regular, easy-going guy from Essex named Bill Ramsey who spent almost forty years fighting something vicious that lived inside him. Out of nowhere he’d get hit with freezing cold chills, see a wolf staring back at him in the mi...

Thanks to all the listeners who’ve been sending in tips and links on this one, this topic blew up fast!! In this gripping episode of That Would Be Rad , we dive into one of the most disturbing patterns of 2025–2026: the growing wave of scientists (many tied to advanced propulsion, nuclear, aerospace, and fusion research) who have turned up dead or simply vanished. From Huntsville, Alabama to Los A...

Thanks to Listener Matt Armstrong for sending in this absolute banger of a submission! In this epic episode of That Would Be Rad , Woody takes you on one of the wildest journeys in early American history - the true survival odyssey of Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Shipwrecks, slavery, starvation, cannibalism, miraculous healings… and then the story gets really weird. Around 1534, th...

Forty years ago this month, a scrappy little creature feature crawled out of New Line Cinema and straight into cult status. This week, we’re throwing it a proper 40th birthday party and no full plot recap, just the good stuff: the wild trivia you’ve forgotten (or never knew), the behind-the-scenes practical effects magic, how it held its own in one of the craziest movie years ever, and the gloriou...

What if someone went missing… and actually came back? This week, we head into the mountains of Wyoming to look at a case that starts off simple - just a guy taking a day off to go elk hunting -and turns into something that doesn’t fit neatly into any explanation. Because at some point during that hunt… something happens. Something that affects the environment around him. Something he can’t explain...

What if some of the strangest moments in alien movies weren’t plot holes at all? This week, we dive into the weird world of alien movie fan theories - the kind of ideas that start off sounding ridiculous… and then slowly start to make a little too much sense. Because if you’ve watched enough sci-fi over the years, you’ve probably had that moment where something in a movie makes you pause. A strang...

What if one of the strangest mountains in Europe wasn’t just a mountain? This week, we head to the border of Germany and Austria to explore the mystery of Untersberg - a massive limestone mountain looming over the city of Salzburg that has been surrounded by strange stories for centuries. At first glance, Untersberg looks like any other peak in the Alps. But beneath the cliffs and forests lies a v...

What happens when you look down at a crosswalk… and the street looks back? This week, we dive into one of the strangest urban mysteries ever embedded into public space: the Toynbee Tiles - handmade plaques hidden in plain sight with a message that feels like a code, a prophecy, and a dare all at once: “TOYNBEE IDEA / IN MOVIE 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER.” We trace how these tiles sta...

What starts as a random music discovery turns into a full-on time capsule. When Woody stumbles onto “Sit Still” by Christopher Stopa, he’s convinced it’s a long-lost Radiohead track - until a deep dive reveals a whole other story behind the voice, the song, and the artist who stepped away from music entirely. That rabbit hole leads us to a bigger conversation about forgotten songs, near-misses, an...

What happens when you step away for a while… and then come back to the microphones? This week’s episode isn’t about one mystery. It’s about the space between them. After taking some time off, we finally sit back down, shake off the rust, and catch up on life, burnout, and the weird in-between season feeling of being away from the show longer than we meant to be. We talk honestly about why the brea...

What if the greatest mysteries of the year…weren’t just the stories we covered,but the moments we shared along the way? As the year winds down and the lights glow a little softer, we’re closing out the season by looking back, looking ahead, and leaning fully into the feeling that makes this time of year special. This week, we’re trading deep dives for deep reflection. We talk about our favorite ep...

What if one of the most famous monsters in the world… wasn’t just a legend of the mountains - but the centerpiece of a secret Cold War operation? High in the Himalayas - where the air thins, the snow never melts, and the mountains feel ancient and alive - Sherpas whisper about screams echoing across the ridgelines. About something powerful enough to snap a yak’s neck with a single blow. About a cr...

What if one of the most mysterious places on Earth… wasn’t in the ocean, or the jungle, or buried in some ancient ruin — but hidden beneath the frozen surface of a Siberian lake? A place older than civilization. Deeper than imagination. And stranger than anything the X-Files ever dared to film. This week, we journey into Lake Baikal — the world’s oldest and deepest lake — a place so vast and so an...

What if the movies you remember from childhood… never actually existed? The ones you swear you saw — on a worn-out VHS tape from Blockbuster — with a wild plot, bad dubbing, and a cover burned into your brain… But no one else remembers them. This week, we rewind to a stranger era — a time when movie aisles stretched like cathedrals of neon light, and every clamshell box whispered something incredi...

The Djinn – Ancient Horrors of Smokeless Fire What came before ghosts? Before demons? Before the monsters we tell around campfires and in dark basements? This week—for our HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR finale—we turned our eyes to something far older. The Djinn. Ancient beings said to be created from smokeless fire —not angels, not demons… something in between. Hidden. Watching. Whispering. Throughout th...

What is it about dolls that unnerves us so deeply? Maybe it’s the way they watch us. Maybe it’s because they’re made to look alive… but never blink. Or maybe—it’s because all over the world, people keep finding dolls in places where no doll should be. Last week, we opened the case on Annabelle, Robert, Peggy, Letta Me Out, and other infamous possessed dolls. This week—we go deeper. Into the places...

What is it about dolls that unnerves us so deeply? Maybe it’s the way they watch us. Maybe it’s the fact that they look human—but aren’t. Or maybe it’s because, across every corner of the globe, people swear these lifeless toys are anything but. This week, we’re opening the display case and peering into the glassy gaze of haunted dolls from around the world. From countless famous cases in the USA...

A knock at the door after dark should be ordinary. But what if it isn’t? For decades, people all over the world have told the same unnerving story: pale, monotone children with jet-black eyes asking to be let inside. Some call them Black Eyed Kids . Some say they vanish when refused. Others whisper that letting them in leads to sickness… or worse. From Brian Bethel’s late-night encounter in a Texa...

The air around us hums with voices we’re not meant to hear. For decades, strange radio signals have slipped through the static—buzzing tones, eerie music, and robotic voices reciting endless strings of numbers. They’re called numbers stations , and they may be the creepiest reminder that the Cold War never really ended. From Russia’s infamous UVB-76 “Buzzer” to the haunting Swedish Rhapsody music...

The story of Garth Brooks should be one of pure country music legend: a small-town Oklahoma kid who rose to become one of the best-selling artists of all time, breaking records and redefining stadium shows forever. But lurking in the darker corners of the internet is a bizarre and unsettling theory: what if Garth Brooks isn’t just a country superstar… what if he’s secretly a serial killer? From co...