The Cryptonaut Podcast

In the twilight of the 19 th Century the citizens of a small Indiana town would be assailed by a bizarre, airborne beast that would not only terrify eyewitnesses but cause to believe that the end of the world was nigh. Episode Reference Links: CRAWFORDSVILLE MONSTER: (INDIANA, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us   Cryptonaut Podcast Enamel Pin set: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com/product/cryptona...

In the autumn of 1965, a devout radio station personality had a run-in with a rocket ship and trio of tiny, unmistakably alien, robotic entities, which, according to the eyewitness, resembled mobile, autonomous, seemingly self-aware beverage containers. Episode Reference Links: LONG PRAIRIE TIN MEN: (MINNESOTA, USA ) http://www.cryptopia.us   Cryptonaut Podcast Enamel Pin set: https://cryptonautpo...

In this post-modern world wherein consensus reality seems less and less tethered to objective facts there are still a few headlines that one expects never to have to read; a string of words so bizarre that they manage to grab a chokehold on one's imagination with a strange mixture of fascination, fear and astonishment. One such headline was delivered via the Daily Mail on February 6 th , 2012, and...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!   GEORGIA STALKS: (GEORGIA, USA) In the summer of 1951, an amateur aviator had a terrifying mid-air collision with an unidentified flying object, but as alarming as this airborne accident was; far and away the most memorable aspect of this all too close encounter were the manifestly mechanical pilots who managed to navigate their aerodynamically challenged vehicle o...

During a trip in the early morning of 1974, a Japanese truck driver had a face-to-inhuman-face encounter with a bizarre apparently cybernetic being who requested his help with a unique physiological problem. What made this already surreal situation even more inexplicable was the fact that this creature claimed to be a contingent of a group of extraterrestrial refugees who had found sanctuary on pl...

In 2005, villagers living in a rural Thailand farming community claimed to have had a close encounter with a small, spectral, red-eyed entity, which eyewitness claim was eerily unbound by the laws of gravity or physics. Episode Reference Links: GHOSTLY SCARECROW OF CHIANG RAI: (THAILAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/12/scarecrow-of-chiang-rai-thailand/   Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Sto...

In the Christmas season of 1979, a British housewife had an encounter with a trio of flying, fairy-like entities that almost certainly remains the weirdest account on record at West Bromwich Police Station. Episode Reference Links: SPACE FAIRIES: (ENGLAND) http://cryptopia.us   Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: Use promo code "HELLOR SPACE" for 30% off https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-...

You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout I'm telling you why #cryptoclaus Episode Reference Links: Santa Claus Sightings on Christmas Eve https://www.thoughtco.com/santa-claus-sightings-2594781   Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: Use promo code "HELLOR SPACE" for 30% off https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-cryptonaut-podcast?ref_id=7702   3D Printed Giant Space Brains of...

In the waning days of the summer of 1964, a bow hunter got separated from his party and became lost in a vast track of Northern California forest… but as nerve wracking as the prospect of spending the night alone with only a bow and a few arrows for protection must have been, it would be nothing compared to the unrelenting carousel of terror that would confront him on his night long vigil. Episode...

On an autumn evening in 1965, a group of British youths were cruising the town when one of them had a terrifying encounter with a fiery fiend that would leave him scarred for life. Episode Reference Links: FELIXSTOWE FIRE DEMON: (ENGLAND) https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/10/felixstowe-fire-demon-england/   3D Printed Giant Space Brains of Palos Verdes: Use discount code "HAMMERPANTS" for 20% off...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!   Sugar Bundle Not long after the turn of the 20 th Century two armed guards had a brief but terrifying encounter with an entity of unknown origin that possessed a bizarre defense mechanism, which seems like it might have been culled straight from a classic sci-fi comic… were it not for the fact that the event occurred a full 18 years before the invention of the mod...

Paranormal babies, existential orgasms and time travel scams. You've been squatched! Episode Reference Links: Bride-to-be Amethyst Realm is about to marry a ghost — and says they've already consummated the marriage https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/marriage/bridetobe-amethyst-realm-is-about-to-marry-a-ghost-and-says-theyve-already-consummated-the-marriage/news-story/e9cda0b0fdb12341d...

While this flying, ape-faced monstrosity may share the same moniker as the affectionate, yellow plumed character adored by millions on Sesame Street, anyone who encountered this abomination in the late 1970s will tell you that this creature is anything but lovable. Episode Reference Links: TEXAS BIG BIRD: (TEXAS) https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/10/big-bird-texas-usa/ !!CYBER MONDAY SALE!! Crypt...

According to the files of Project Blue Book, a young, immigrant miner had an all too close encounter with a trio of colossal, cycloptic, insectoid creatures whose appearance and secret message were so disturbing that the eyewitness passed out from sheer terror. Episode Reference Links: GARSON INVADERS: (CANADA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2015/02/garson-invaders-canada/ Cryptonaut Podcast Teepubl...

In the spring of 1973, two children had a run in with an inexplicable clown-like entity that eerily beckoned to them from beneath a bridge and managed to lead them into what some have speculated was an alternate dimension. Episode Reference Links: SAM THE SANDOWN GHOST CLOWN: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/11/sam-the-sandown-ghost-clown-england/   Bridge To Magonia https://bridgetomag...

This crimson-eyed, crab-clawed, owl-like entity is was first seen haunting the chapel near a wood shrouded church that had been erected in the middle ages and is said to have haunted the young women of the Cornwall area for over 4 decades. Episode Reference Links: OWLMAN OF CORNWALL: (ENGLAND) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/12/owlman-of-cornwall-england/   Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store:  ...

Happy Halloween! This week we are exploring the darker side of everyone's favorite hairy hominid.   Episode Reference Links: PARACON AUSTRALIA MAGAZINE - 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Paracon-Australia-Magazine-Rob-Morphy/dp/0987452754 Cryptonaut Podcast Bigcartel Store:   https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com   Cryptonaut Podcast Teepublic Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-crypton...

In the mid-70s a Japanese farmer was awoken from a deep sleep by a pounding on his front door. Little could he have anticipated that this unwelcome visitor would be an inexplicable entity hell bent on taking him off world… nor could he have imagined that his alarming experience would permanently alter his brain chemistry. Episode Reference Links: KITAMI ABDUCTORS: (JAPAN) http://www.cryptopia.us/s...

This now legendary creature first came into the public consciousness in the late 1970s, when, over the course of just over 24-hours, no less than six eyewitnesses claimed to have encounters with this bizarre, quasi-humanoid life form. Episode Reference Links: DOVER DEMON: (MASSACHUSETTS, USA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/03/dover-demon-massachusetts-usa/   LOREN COLEMAN INTERVIEW http://www.c...

We are back with the third installment of E.S.M.B! Curses be damned, we got a werewolf in the fire hole.   Episode Reference Links: Satan Ruled Out As Experts Puzzle Over Mysterious Flaming Pit In Arkansas https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/flaming-satan-pit-arkansas_us_5bb70309e4b01470d050362c   There's Convincing Evidence Werewolves Have Been Terrorizing A Small Village In England For Decades...

During the late 1990's a rural Venezuelan family endured a months long reign of terror at the hands of a vengeful witch who assumed the form of a diabolical winged chimera in order to torment not only the man who betrayed her, but his family as well. Episode Reference Links: VENGEFUL BRUJA OF RUBIO: (VENEZUELA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/10/vengeful-bruja-of-rubio-venezuela/   Cryptonaut Po...

In 1977 a young man from Washington State had a run-in with a quartet of handy capable creatures that may well be some of the strangest extraterrestrial beings ever reported. Episode Reference Links: CYCLOPTIC ALIENS OF HARRAH: (WASHINGTON, USA)   http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/10/cycloptic-aliens-of-harrah-washington-usa/   Cryptonaut Podcast Tee Public Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/u...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!   Bremerton Monstrosity   In a coastal naval port city just after WWII, a young woman had a terrifying encounter with a huge denizen of the deep… but not in the water… in her own basement. Flipper   On a lonely stretch of rustic road in central Mexico, a teenage slingshot hunter had had a face-to-face encounter with a hulking, quasi-humanoid entity that, quite frank...

In what has to be considered one of the most unsettling cases in the history of ufology, an unsuspecting Bolivian shepherdess was tending to her flocks of sheep and llama when she had a terrifyingly violent encounter with an entity of unknown origin that would leave her literally scarred her for life. Episode Reference Links: POTOSI SHEEP SLAYER: (BOLIVIA) http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2018/09/poto...

At the dawn of the 20th century three people claimed to have had a pair of harrowing run-ins with a hulking, horned, albino beast, which some scientifically minded people have proposed was a lost subterranean species, while others insist that this demonic entity likely crawled its way up from the bowels of hell itself. Episode Reference Links: COPENHAGEN DEVIL (NEW YORK, USA) http://www.cryptopia....