The Cryptonaut Podcast

In the mid-1970s a pair of amateur archeologists stumbled upon a frightening scene that involved body bags, floating eyes, strange, small faceless humanoids, flying trains and a terrifying hybrid beast that tracked the duo in the dead of night. Patreon Shout outs!  The Cryptonaut Podcast Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/792059594527745/ The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon....

In the early 1960s, the lives of a Brazilian father and his young sons would be utterly devastated by a home invasion consisting of a terrifying group of whispering shadows that were conspiring to kill, a pair of oddly shaped UFOs and a fog of noxious yellow smoke from which, for one of unlucky soul, there would be no return. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcas...

Cases of creatures showing up from the dark recess of the Earth's primordial past, or of alien entities that seem to have been generated beyond the boundaries and genetic rules of our home world have been the stuff of myth and legend since the dawn of humanity, but there is another altogether more subtle phenomenon; one that deals with human beings who are like us in every way save one—the world t...

Not long after the turn of the 20 th Century, a group of intrepid explorers set out to find a fabled cave in the mountainous, desert wastelands of South Africa. Though their journey had been fraught with danger, it would be nothing compared to the utterly bizarre beast that one of them would encounter within a cavernous orifice, which the indigenous Nama people had dubbed the "Wondergat" or, as it...

In the dead of winter, in the middle of the 20 th Century, a solitary axe man ventured into an isolated stretch of New Hampshire forest to cut down pine trees for the fast approaching yuletide season. Little could this intrepid seasonal businessman have predicted that his annual moneymaking venture would land him smack dab in the middle of one of the creepiest unidentified creature confrontations...

There is not a culture on Earth whose peoples do not have what some claim to be historical tales of mammoth, quasi-reptilian, often fire breathing monstrosities known as dragons. This globally ubiquitous beast's origins have been traced back to 40,000 years ago when legends of these savage saurians first emerged from Sub-Saharan Africa. But now, as modern technology canvasses the planet and tradit...

If the French New Wave maestro Jean-Luc Godard had decided to film a neo-realist, sci-fi interpretation of a Hardy Boys mystery, it could have been no more thought-provoking, surreal or disconcerting than the actual events that purportedly befell to a group of unsuspecting French youths autumn of 1973. Cryptonaut Podcast Enamel Pin set: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com/product/cryptonaut-po...

The 2 for 1 Mystery Bag Monday!   MANDURAH GOBLIN: (AUSTRALIA) While world was caught in the throes of the great depression, one family wiled their days away in a simple shack on a once remote expanse of Australian coastline; but their rural respite would be shattered by a brief yet utterly shocking home invasion by a diminutive goblin-like being that seemed to have sprung fully formed from the pa...

In the mid-1970s a lone motorist had the shock of his young life when he nearly drove headlong into a small army of semi-humanoid, helmet clad, frog-like fiends who were standing vigil in the muddy fields adjacent to an isolated crossroads in rural France. Cryptonaut Podcast Enamel Pin set: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com/product/cryptonaut-podcast-enamel-pin-set   Cryptonaut Podcast Bigca...

In the late 1970s, the proprietor of a Japanese snack bar was using his portable ham radio rig to talk to his brother from an isolated mountaintop perch when an alarming series of events unfolded which would twist the seemingly immutable laws of optical physics and eventually culminate in a startling physical encounter with an utterly bizarre inhuman entity who does not appear to have originated o...

The Mothman is far and away the most famous cryptid to hail from the great state of West Virginia. but, just twelve years earlier in the waning days of the summer of 1952, a group of courageous boys and one mother would have a harrowing encounter with a massive monstrosity so bizarre that, by century's end, it was destined to become a global pop culture sensation that would eventually rival even t...

Near the end of the 1950s – in the wee hours of a bitter January morning – a devoted mother was driving through a violent snowstorm in order to visit her son. Although the visibility was near zero, she managed to catch sight of a piece of technology that was beyond her understanding and, what's worse, she also spied the mind-boggling beings that were apparently occupied the massive vehicle. Crypto...

For one New York couple, what began as a romantic evening to be spent marveling at one of nature's most magnificent wonders transformed into one of the weirdest, and potentially alarming, cryptid encounters on the books; an event that would forever change the way these eyewitnesses would look at the skies. Cryptonaut Podcast Enamel Pin set: https://cryptonautpodcast.bigcartel.com/product/cryptonau...

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...