The Cryptonaut Podcast

After surviving an attack by a family of diseased cow devouring monsters, 10-year-old Randy Cutrara thought the worst was behind him. But little could he have known that he was about to be sucked into an insidious conspiracy involving crazy cryptids, amateur autopsies, shallow graves and a clandestine contingent of Indigenous intelligence agents who—by all appearances—are tasked with solving North...

10-year-old Randy and his father were bleeding and terrified; trapped in the back room of an old barn while an enraged, red-eyed, monster named "Mikey" ripped through the rotten walls searching for its human prey. Suddenly, the shrill shriek of police sirens gave the cornered family their first glimmer of hope… but, pray though they might, this night of unrelenting terror had only just begun.   Ar...

In the dog days of the summer of '77, a bunch of boyhood buddies stumbled into the adventure of a life time when they befriended the new kid in the neighborhood; but what at first sounds like the synopsis for a classic ABC After-School Special is skewed by the fact that the "new kid" was a young Bigfoot and the odyssey that ensued is one of the strangest and darkest chapters in the history of cryp...

While on a camping trip in 1977, a group of Michigan boys claimed to have had an all-too close encounter with a hairy, forest dwelling wild-man that resulted in the abduction of one their friends. This terrifying incident would trigger a massive manhunt and lead to one of the craziest cryptozoological cases ever chronicled. Art References: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008529559385&sk...

The paranormal realm is full of inexplicable incidents and entities, but few can be more baffling than the alarming array of reports hailing from folks across the globe—particularly young people—who claim to have had… at times disturbing, occasionally terrifying and always bizarre run-ins with crawling, seemingly self-motivated, disembodied human hands. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www....

Whether worshiped as an embodiment of the divine or reviled as agents of the diabolical, since a time immemorial cats have been associated with paranormal lore. In modern times, the domesticated cat has become a staple in millions of households worldwide but —be they fiend, family or familiar—frightening encounters with truly freaky felines are being reported to this day. The Cryptonaut Podcast Pa...

Growing up is hard. Between the constant confusion, biological flux, peer and parental pressure, and all of the other multifarious hardships of youth, it's a miracle anyone reaches adulthood intact. But, as difficult as the process may be for everyone involved, for two young boys their youthful encounters with the unknown—ghosts and aliens, respectively—left them changed in ways that would effect...

With a whimsical imagination evidently amplified by paranormal powers, a young British girl was able to conjure, seemingly from the ether, fantastical playmates for her enjoyment. Her mythical menagerie was a source of endless delight until the day she accidentally called forth something much more sinister from the etheric realms… The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautp...

Though nowhere near as celebrated as their carnage crazy canine cousins—the notoriously vicious Werewolves—for centuries eyewitnesses claim to have encountered bizarre, bipedal, felid-humanoids known collectively as Werecats. But unlike their clearly crytozoological contemporaries, many reported run-ins with these anthropomorphic animals give the impression that the human race may be co-existing w...

From its craggy peaks and lonely lakes to its misty moors and fetid, peat-filled bogs, Great Britain boasts an alarming array of anomalous animals. England specifically sports more than its fair share of crazy cryptids and  there's a growing body of evidence concerning modern encounters with what appear to be genuine, flesh-and-blood animals. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com...

On an icy eve in the waning days of the 1980s, a pair of Soviet truckers were forced to take a detour down a lonely dirt road. Tired and shivering, the men never once suspected that this rocky bypass would rip them from their workaday world and send them careening headlong into one of the most bizarre confrontations in UFO lore. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpod...

This bizarre, multi-horned, razor-toothed, wooly, white beast is said to stalk the forested areas of the American south and remains one of the most enigmatic—and potentially dangerous—as yet unidentified large mammals said to dwell in the untamed wilds of the U.S.   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Cryptonautmerch.com...

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...