The Cryptonaut Podcast

The world's woods are filled with innumerable dangers: from ravenous carnivores and rabid animals to snake bites, ticks, falling rocks, hidden cliffs or plain old getting lost and dying of thirst… the list goes on and on. But for all of the familiar ways the forest and its denizens can do us harm, it seems there are ominous unknown things that dwell in the shadows of the deep woods that are capabl...

In a pair of truly weird run-ins, we first have a brief yet bizarre encounter between a family and an inexplicable stick figure; we follow up the strange saga of a woman whose increasingly odd odyssey brings her into to contact with a spectral, blue-hued girl, an amorphous bat-like beast and, finally, a curiously kind Grey that seemed to be preparing her for an oncoming tribulation. The Cryptonaut...

At the time of its occurrence in 1645, the strange saga of a young woman named Ann Jefferies—who claimed to have been seduced then literally swept off her feet by a gang of salacious sprites—was scandalous bordering on the obscene, but it would be her subsequent journey into their magical realm and the occult powers she received while there that truly put Ann's life in jeopardy. The Cryptonaut Pod...

One can imagine few things more disturbing than for a person to have their normal everyday life rocked by the revelation that they share their world with malicious, inhuman entities that they once believed were little more than childish fiction. Are we being accosted by tiny, invisible, mal-influencers who corrupt our thoughts and fill our all-too susceptible human minds with terrible suggestion?...

The wild, woolly and always weird worlds of paranormal lore can be broken down into three primary categories: cryptozoology, ufology and parapsychology. If one were to chart these cryptic spheres on a Venn diagram, then—lurking within the shadowy confines of these overlapping spaces—would be the  bevy of bizarre beasts that we've dubbed "The Inexplicables."   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https:...

In the early '70s an Australian geology student hopped on his motorcycle and sped off to visit some intriguing rock formations; never once suspecting that his morning jaunt would send him careening headlong into the most mind-blowing odyssey of his young life—and one of the most incredible alien abductions on the books. Research By Cole Herrold: https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2023/0...

Though our culture brands most children as happy-go-lucky, wide-eyed avatars of carefree joy, those who've spent any real time with youngsters know that kids can also can be complex, confused and creepy AF. Here we have an array of anomalous accounts involving children (both living, dead and likely interdimensional) who definitely dwell on the dark side of reality's spectrum. The Cryptonaut Podcas...

As terrifying as accounts of hunters and hikers running headlong into huge, hairy humanoids in the wild may be, they pale before the rare reports of these bellicose beasts breaking into the sanctuary we call home. So lock your doors and windows, put your back against your sturdiest wall and hunker down as we explore some curious cases of Bigfoot home invaders. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https...

First love is among the most beautiful and, more often than not, heartbreaking episodes anyone can experience. But for one young teen, his first crush became a disturbing supernatural odyssey that brought him to the brink of death and, some say, eternal damnation. All resulting in this curious case becoming one of the most intensely chronicled events in paranormal history The Cryptonaut Podcast Pa...

In the early 1950s, a Filipino teen met an ethereal, blonde beauty who literally swept him off his feet and sent him spiraling down a rabbit hole of invisibility, anti-gravity and, ultimately, possession. Did this unsuspecting kid encounter an alien, time traveler or errant fae? Or was he, as some insist, being manipulated by a demon from the depths of hell? The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https:/...

This week we have a truly terrifying pair of Listener Stories. In our first case a trio of teenage girls are confronted by spontaneous portal, chain wielding shadow men and a malignant metaphysical force. Our second involves a group of hard partying college roommates whose Ouija board experiments inadvertently conjure a massive, inhuman entity with razor-sharp, crab-like claws and an urge to kill....

The odysseys of youth are fraught with perils both real and imagined but for one curious young boy, his obsession with a pair of eccentric neighbors and their odd property would spiral him into a surreal vortex of dark history, crazy cryptids and what he believed were occult rituals. Research By Cole Herrold: https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2022/07/bluefield-frogoyle.html   The Crypt...

During the 2010s, a Mississippi teen in an after school program accidentally caught sight of a reptilian entity's human skin "wardrobe malfunction". This brief brush with the unknown sent her spiraling into an abysmal vortex of terrifying and insidiously invasive encounters with members of this scaly species… as well as a bizarre, primordial creature that took to lurking in the terrified teen's ba...

Dwelling within the eldritch realms of cryptozoology, ufology and the occult are an array of eccentric entities, but—lurking on the nebulous fringes of these already weird worlds—are an even more anomalous array of anarchic organisms. In this episode we'll be taking another deep dive into the unfathomably weird waters of Batsh*t crazy Cryptids.   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon...

As incredibly unique as the vast swathe of humanity seems to be, the fact is that the amount of genetic variation between any two people is staggeringly small. According to Phase 1 of the Human Genome Project, all of the human beings currently populating the earth are 99.9% identical at the DNA level. This serves as a refreshing reminder that despite our seemingly insurmountable differences, we're...

Nestled near the southern most point of California, less than 100-miles east of San Diego, is the stark, stunning and utterly inhospitable environ known as the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Dangerous for all the myriad reasons deserts are usually avoided—blistering heat, treacherous landscapes, the constant threat of dehydration and, of course, an overabundance of venomous species—the arid hell-...

Although 1978 was a banner year for Italian ufology, the tail end of this mega-wave would prove to be one of the most intense in history. While the bewildered citizens of Italy had already been plagued by a basket full of bizarre beings, even for them the weirdest—was yet to come. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Crypt...

For approximately two months in the winter of 1978, the nation of Italy was besieged by a bevy of bizarre beings who seemed hellbent on making their presence known to as many eyewitnesses as possible, forcing one to wonder why it was that Italy was chosen to be the epicenter of this curious cosmic convention. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonau...

For many, memories of slumber parties revolve around late nights, laughter, junk food, bad movies and gossip sessions that last until first light, but for one group of girls who opted to dabble in the occult, this frivolity gave way to phantom felines and a possible possession, leading these terrified tweens to a hellacious confrontation with diabolical agents from which some may have never recove...

In the mid-1980's a recent divorcé moved to a rural region of north Texas with just a handful of possessions and his faithful dog in tow. Finding steady work and moving into a run-down trailer on a remote stretch of woodland, this hardworking man was ready to buckle down and begin his new life... but little could he have expected that his new home was on land that had already been claimed by a biz...

According to thousands of witnesses worldwide, our mystery shrouded world is chock full of utterly enigmatic entities of all shapes and size, but few of these bizarre beings are more frightening and fascinating than the silent, semi-humanoid stalkers known as Shadow People. Here we present two accounts from our listeners who have had all-too close encounters with these terrifying beings.  The Cryp...

In 2010, a young Hawaiian trekked toward the moonlit shores of Oʻahu in order to take in some night surfing. Well aware of the risks involved in this solo expedition, this intrepid water sports enthusiast never once suspected that his dance with danger would begin before he even got into the water with a crazy confrontation that not only shattered his notions of reality, but plunged him headlong i...

In going down the winding rabbit hole that is John Edmond's Stardust Ranch Odyssey one could be forgive for thinking they are being sold a bill of goods; a Franken-fairy tale cobbled together out of various winding occult roads, supernatural subdivisions and ufological cul-de-sacs, until a seemingly complete and (at least to the paranormally inclined) authentic road map emerges, one that feels rea...

In the summer of 1997 a family of four arrived at a picturesque cabin surrounded by lush Oregon forest nestled on the high cliffs above the Pacific; a paradise on Earth. But—as they unpacked, looking forward to what ought to have been an idyllic fortnight on a stunning stretch of American woodland—they could little have suspected that their dream come true was destined to devolve into a living nig...

December 11th, 2023—never before in humanity's long and tumultuous tethering to (and fascination with) the UAP or UFO phenomenon have we, as a species, been closer to the truth: a truth that may well herald a new epoch (for better or worse) of human history. On the cusp of what may well be one of the defining moments for all humankind, it behooves us to consider some of the potential implications...