The Cryptonaut Podcast

As the mystery surrounding this seemingly sentient silver sphere deepened, the father of ufology,  Dr. J. Allen Hynek, compounded the controversy and—though military officials declared that it posed no danger to the public—other scientific factions revealed that this allegedly harmless object might in fact be an alien weapon of mass destruction with the power to annihilate billions; making it, qui...

This bizarre, allegedly self propelled metallic orb was discovered by members of the Betz family in the mid-1970s and rapidly became an object of fascination, controversy and alarm for scientists, military officials and ufologists as the story of this mystery sphere spread like wildfire through the media… with some suggesting that this seemingly innocuous object might be an alien artifact.   The D...

We share our world with monsters. Since a time immemorial, the human race has told legends of the feral fiends that occupy the most inhospitable corners of our collective world. But what if we co-exist with these often carnivorous creatures—not at a distance, but in our day to day lives? What if some of these highly intelligent cryptids have refined their camouflage to such a degree that they've b...

In what has to be one of the wildest alien brushes on the books, a retired used car salesman claimed to have an extraordinary encounter with a flying saucer and a septet of bizarre, bald, occasionally nude beings who utilized a piece of wonky tech yanked straight out of a 1950's poverty row sci-fi flick. He also had dealings with the Men In Black and in the process may have solved one of the most...

In one of the most remote regions on Earth, the Australian Outback, a motorcycle patrol officer would have an encounter with a pair of inexplicable entities and their hella-sweet ride, which would leave him forever questioning the nature of reality. The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp/B0B8528ZB6/ The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcas...

In 1959 and again in 1971—the heart of the Shōwa period—the crews of two Japanese ships encountered a pair of bizarre and utterly inexplicable sea-bound behemoths that seemed to have crawled out of a giant monster movie and into the real world.   The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp/B0B8528ZB6/ The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  ...

Within the already wild and weird world of the unexplained there are encounters that are so extraordinary they deserve a subset all their own. Today we'll be exploring just a few of these utterly inexplicable entities.. The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp/B0B8528ZB6/ The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Mer...

For most the Easter Bunny is a beloved childhood icon offering up sweet memories of simpler time. But, for an unlucky few, the Easter Bunny is less a cherished fantasy figure and more of a haunting reality wherein this furry, long-eared fiend has become the stuff of living nightmares. The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp/B0B8528ZB6/ The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: http...

The already weird world of High Strangeness is chock full of guano-caliber craziness, but few phenomenon compare with the outlandishness of a category or creature known as Mimics. These bizarre beings evidently have the ability to imprecisely "mimic" the appearance of both human beings and animals with results that are—according to various eyewitnesses—disturbing to say the least. The Devil's Acad...

In what is indisputably one of the most horrifying paranormal encounters on the books, three Girl Scouts were playing flashlight hide-and-seek in the woods when they suddenly found themselves being stalked by a ghastly inhuman entity that seemed hellbent on tearing them limb from limb… and one of the girls has the scars to prove it. The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp...

On the warm Sunday morning of July 31st, 1960, several Batavia boys walked into city police headquarters and told a strange story to the officers on duty; a story involving a huge, hairy, shrieking "man-beast." Episode Reference Link: https://www.cryptopia.us/site/2011/01/batavia-bigfoot-real-hoax-or-both/   The Devil's Academy: https://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Academy/dp/B0B8528ZB6/ The Cryptona...

Throughout the world terrified eyewitnesses have encountered an array of odd entities that seem to have a strange synthesis of animal and human DNA: Bat and Lizard-Men. These bizarre bigeneric beasts have been recorded in many shapes and sizes,  but it may surprise some to find out that a preponderance of these sightings hail not only from the U.S., but from the 30th State of the Union… Weird Wisc...

In 1975, a man named John Womack was cruising down a rural Alabama road never once suspecting that he—like a cosmic Alice in Wonderland—was just seconds away from hurtling down a ufological rabbit hole inhabited by silver saucers, sentient fireballs, liquid light, octo-plants and an increasingly outlandish array of enigmatic entities engaged in an epic crusade to rid the galaxy of invisible, evil...

In the mid-1970s, a man driving through a rural region of Alabama would find himself thrust into one of the most psychedelic alien abduction episodes ever recorded: one which involved liquid light, an extraordinary ensemble of extraterrestrial entities, a conversation one might concoct while tripping balls and a celestial conflict between these alien beings and their sworn enemies—the ultimate evi...

A staple of Halloween dioramas, biology classrooms and fright flicks, the human skeleton has been, since a time immemorial, a source of both fascination and fear. But as haunting as images on the silver screen or etchings in old books may be, they pale before the real-life encounters that many have reported with allegedly undead skeletal remains. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon...

During the scorching summer of 1973, a secluded Pennsylvanian Amish community was terrorized by a mammoth, mutant monstrosity in a frightening 3-day flap that would prove to be every bit as brief as it was baffling; making it a small, but essential part of one of the strangest series of paranormal events in American history. Research by Cole Herrold: https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2...

In the midst of what seemed to be a full-scale alien invasion, the city of Varginha became the epicenter for a pitched battle between dedicated UFO investigators seeking the truth and the military leaders doing their best to conceal it—and the cover-up that followed would prove to be every bit as bizarre as the incident itself.  The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpod...

Starting with a warning from NORAD regarding an incoming unidentified object on January 13th,  1996, the Brazilian city of Varginha would host what would prove to be one of the most fascinating, frightening and frenzied episodes in the history of ufology; one that involved deadly aliens, a panicked populace and an anxious army tasked with transporting the fetid fiends. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patre...

With multiple alleged alien encounters occurring throughout Varginha, January 20th, 1996 would prove to be one of the most eventful dates in Brazilian ufology, but even after the sun set the day was far from over. Arguably the most terrifying incident of that incredible 24-hour period had yet to transpire… and for one unfortunate individual the result would be nothing short of tragic.   The Crypto...

Following the crash landing of a UFO just outside the city, citizens surrounding Varginha, Brazil began reporting sightings of bizarre, red-eyed creatures darting in and out of the forest. Before long these accounts began coming from the city proper and by the end of the day of January 20th, 1996, there would be dozens of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen or come into direct contact with these...

In the mid-1990s, the small, industrial town of Varginha, Brazil was plagued by an array of unnerving occurrences beginning with the fiery crash of a UFO and resulting in multiple sightings of small, oily, red-eyed entities whose reign of terror has to be considered one of the most significant events in South American ufology; an incident that has come to be known the world over as "Brazil's Roswe...

On Earth, the undulating, uncannily intelligent aberration of natural selection known as the octopus is relegated either to the oceans' murky depths or the controlled confines of an aquarium. In the last episode we explored an array of cases wherein human beings were forced to contend with cephalopods of a supernatural nature, but today we turn our attention to cases where these tentacled terrors...

Those of us who've had horrific nightmares of floating alone in a vast, dark ocean only to feel the slippery, sinewy grasp of an unseen tentacled terror wrap around our leg before yanking us down into the briny depths have always woken up to the dubious comfort that to actually confront one of these malignant molluscs we'd have to choose to go to the sea… but for an unfortunate few, encounters wit...

In the autumn of 1973, a group of unrelated individuals would endure an increasingly strange series of encounters with bizarre beings and aerial anomalies that seemed almost as if they were just the tip of a full-scale alien invasion. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores: Cryptonautmerch.com - Hellorspace.com   Stay Connect...

From the Fresno Night Crawlers to even more obscure oddities like the Riverside Brain Tickler and the Crazy Critter of Bald Mountain, the cryptid rich west coast of the United States is known for its cavalcade of kooky creatures, This week we add two more names to this illustrious and ever growing list; a pair of odd entities known as the Medford Shmoos and the Black Star Penguins   The Cryptonaut...