The Cryptonaut Podcast

During the late 19 th Century—in what has to be one of the most mind boggling cryptid accounts ever published—a hardworking youth was sent to fetch a bull from a field adjacent to his family farm when he stumbled across a colossal creature that looked as if it had clawed its way out of the pages of a Medieval bestiary for the sole purpose of challenging the bucolic bovine to a violent clash of all...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday! VIETNAMESE NIGHT FLYER Southeast Asian lore is riddled with legends of flesh-eating and peculiarly feminine flying fiends, but in 1969, while on guard duty near war torn Da Nang in South Vietnam, a group of three U.S. Marines spied a glowing, winged, woman-like being that would terrify them to the cores of their souls. COSMIC VENGEANCE: THE MEDUSA RAY In the late 19...

THE FIRST ANNUAL CRYPTONAUT PODCAST CREEPY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR The Christmas season is a time for family, celebration, gift giving and, for some, faith but, for the children of Iceland, it's also a time for impending horror as they crawl under their covers knowing that they'll be in for two weeks of weird and oft times chilling visits from eccentric ogres, a juvenile delinquent devouring...

In the early decades of the 20 th Century an isolated stretch of South African beach became the equivalent of box seats to one of the most amazing sea battles ever witnessed by human eyes; this spectacle was made all the more fantastic due to the fact that the foam churning conflict pitted two of nature's most malicious mammals against one of the weirdest critters ever put down on public record. T...

At the tail end of the 20th century, Japanese fishermen had a face to inhuman face encounter with a colossal, quasi-humanoid creature that was the first n a string of sightings of gargantuan beasts who seem to have spontaneously emerged from the arctic depths to both mystify and terrify eyewitnesses and lay claim to the crown as the new lords of the seven seas. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: http...

One of the most bizarre—not to mention flat out terrifying—mysteries of the modern age concerns the enigmatic deaths of nine young, yet experienced, Russian mountaineers whose cross-country skiing trip ended in a tragedy so ghastly and perplexing that it has mystified experts for over six decades. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Fa...

This cycloptic sky demon—which has terrorized the citizens of rural Maryland for nearly three centuries—was said to be a bizarre amalgam of reptile, bird and feline; complete with an array of octopus-like tentacles and a metallic beak and talons capable of shredding human flesh in a matter of seconds.   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podc...

Alleged to live in the forests of Thessaly these noble, yet barbaric hybrid-beasts were said to bear the head and torso of a human blended at the waist with the powerful body and legs of a horse. Universally recognized to be the product of Greek mythology, there's absolutely no tangible evidence to indicate that these fictional fiends were anything but imaginary; save for one indisputable fact… pe...

In 1934, just as Hitler was ramping up the sinister war machine that would plummet Europe into years of blight and carnage, a Dutch newspaper photographer drove his jet-black sedan to work, never anticipating that before the day's end his cherished auto would be at the epicenter of an hours long episode of road rage as well as one of the oddest motor vehicle mysteries on the books. The Cryptonaut...

During the summer of 1973, the town of Murphysboro, Illinois, became the epicenter of one of the most infamous cases of monster-mania on record when terrified locals reported a series of extraordinary encounters with a huge, hairy, mud-slathered monstrosity, which tormented the citizens of this small community for near two weeks before its reign of terror abruptly ended, resulting in one of the st...

Bursting into the Victorian era like a diabolical super-villain, this red-eyed, flame spewing, cape-clad thug terrorized first London, then all of England during a nearly 70 year reign of terror that some say was of demonic or even extraterrestrial origin, but what others insist was a prosperous cabal of scientifically gifted and supernaturally endowed men who assumed the guise of this enigmatic e...

Black Eyed Kids are a bizarre and terrifying phenomenon that seems to dwell in that nebulous void between demonology, cryptozoology, ufology and the paranormal. For decades, tales of chilling encounters with these sinister beings have emerged; insinuating themselves into the subconscious of the human race and leaving millions both perplexed and horrified by the implications of these undeniably evi...

Not long after the dawn of the 1970s, two brothers excavated a pair carved, sandstone heads that were buried in their backyard. Delighted by their finds, the young siblings rushed home to show off the curious artifacts; never suspecting that these simple yet sinister sculptures carried with them an ancient curse that would unleash a paranormal Pandora's Box on all those foolish enough to take poss...

In one of the most haunting legends to come from the British Isles, this unidentified monstrosity is said, by some, to be a vile, phantasmagorical killer from beyond the grave. Others suggest it may be an inter-dimensional interloper or even a demon, but there is some evidence to suggest that it may be a bizarre, yet decidedly biological creature which lurks in the filthy labyrinth of the London s...

In the dead of night, in the winter of 2008, Vladimir and Olga Voronezhskiy were sucked up in a beam of light by an alien spacecraft populated with crawling, caterpillar creatures and a looming Grim Reaper-like being. In the hours that would follow, this ordinary couple would not only be subjected to ghoulish experiments, but would learn startling secrets about an intergalactic war, the nature of...

In 2008 a Ukrainian couple claimed to have been snatched up by curious creatures from another world. But, while many aspects of their experience mirror those of classic alien abduction lore, there were a few strange twists that transformed this case from a run of the mill extraterrestrial encounter into one of the most bizarre interplanetary kidnappings on the books. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon...

Although she's allegedly been threatened by her fellow countrymen for divulging a what some consider to be not only a sensitive, but also sacred national secret, an Icelandic mom has come forward to reveal that citizens of Europe's most sparsely populated country have for centuries been engaging in carnal relations with pocket-sized, non-human entities… and that the sex is fucking awesome! The Cry...

At the dawn of the 20 th century, the tiny town of Van Meter Iowa became the epicenter of a series a terrifying incidents with one of the oddest entities ever chronicled; an utterly bizarre, bioluminescent, beast that drove the local populace into a state of sheer panic. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Fan Page: https://www.faceboo...

Recorded live at the Thirsty Pug - June 29th 2019 THE SALESMAN In the late 1960s, a teen from the east coast of England would have one of the most traumatizing and outright bizarre all-too-close-encounters on record, when she was confronted by what she initially assumed was a door to door salesman, but what she quickly came to realize was an entity unlike any she's ever encountered… one which drov...

Throughout the second half of the 20 th Century, numerous residents of Virginia claimed to have encountered remarkably similar and distinctly diabolical entities, which have been referred to as both " Trollics " and " Moon Worshippers ," but that most people would recognize as the image of a classic crimson devil; albeit in miniature. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crypton...

Just after the turn of the 20 th Century, a blissful couple purchased a picturesque cottage in north England's desolate Peak District, utterly unaware of the fact that the property came with a curse that the original owners would return on All Saints Day… original owners who were not only replete with evil, but also evidently capable of transmuting their vile spirits into very stone effigies meant...

In 1964 a Dodge 330 Limited Edition, that was dubbed the " Golden Eagle " by her owners, rolled off the assembly line and directly into paranormal lore by becoming what many say is the most evil car in America. If its pedigree is to be believed, this diabolical vehicle has been indirectly responsible for the deaths of as many as 32 individuals during its 55-year reign of terror. The Cryptonaut Pod...

Just after the turn of the 21 st Century a pair of Chilean boys had a brief, yet chilling, run-in with a bizarre, psychic, self-illuminated, bipedal being, which seemed to synthesize the incongruent attributes of canines, platypus, porcupines, wild boars, goats and a quanco or—as it is more commonly known—a rugby ball. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The...

Following his son being chased down and attacked by a massive furry fiend in a field just outside their remote and heavily forested Copalis Beach home, Jon, a husband and father of two, had two burdens weighing heavily on his mind; first and foremost how could he protect his family from this monstrous threat, and the second; how could he explain to them that the creature stalking their family was...

In the mid-1960s, a family of four living in an isolated and densely forested stretch of the Pacific Northwest had a series of terrifying encounters with a massive man-like beast that seemed to be disturbingly focused on their children—in particular their 4 year-old son—leading to an all-out assault and attempted abduction that would leave the young family reeling in horror. The Cryptonaut Podcast...