The Cryptonaut Podcast

What began as a staring contest between a nurse and a pair of E.T.s just before dawn on New Year's Day, 1970, quickly blossomed into one of the most harrowing UFO flaps in North American History; one that not only involved a wide variety of alien craft, but which may hold one of the keys to the aliens' otherwise enigmatic agenda. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpo...

In the wee hours of New Year's Day, 1970,  a group of night shift nurses would bear witness to a peculiar—and evidently incapacitated—flying saucer piloted by a pair of bizarre humanoid beings in what would become one of the strangest events in the history of Canadian UFO research… one that would forever alter the lives of those involved. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cry...

During the Cold War, both Soviet and American military units were forced to contend not only with the strange circumstances surrounding the discovery of mysteriously downed aircraft, but also the terrifying implications involved in both of these seemingly inexplicable incidents. In this installment  we travel to the nearly impenetrable jungles of Laos to expose one of the darkest and most sinister...

At the height of the Cold War a unit of seasoned Soviet paratroopers were choppered into an isolated Siberian forest to recover a downed military transport plane; little suspecting that their seemingly routine mission would ultimately reveal a mystery that would haunt them for the rest of their days. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast...

When folks imagine encountering inhuman entities they tend to envisage eerie, isolated, out-of-the-way locales like foreboding forests, murky marshes or dark, desolate dirt roads, but dedicated Fortean investigators know all too well that bizarre beings can appear anywhere and at anytime... and, like the rest of us, sometimes they need to go shopping too.   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://...

This week we present a triptych of paranormal encounters involving a voracious vampire, a bio-mechanical monstrosity and an epic duel between a man and Leviathan that is literally the stuff of legend; all culled from genuine newspaper articles of yesteryear courtesy of Adam Benedict's essential  "Monsters in Print". The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cr...

In "Dogs vs. Monsters" we chronicled some of the most bizarre and terrifying encounters ever witnessed between humankind's beloved canine companions and all manner of vexatious varmints. Now, in this episode, we pull back the covers' of paranormal lore even further bring you some of strangest—and most unnerving—tales of Dogs vs. Aliens.   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cry...

Though run-ins with mysterious monsters are rare indeed, there is another, even more extraordinary occurrence; eyewitnesses who claim to have not only encountered inexplicable entities, but also the enigmatic agents evidently tasked with capturing these bizarre beings. Who are these mystifying monster hunters, who do they work for and— perhaps most intriguingly—what's behind their so far inscrutab...

In what has to be one of the oddest extraterrestrial encounters on record, two teenage boys were driving down a remote stretch of Idaho highway when they had a terrifying encounter with a flying saucer and a pair of diminutive, inhuman entities who—for reasons unknown—seemed hellbent on not only stealing their car, but the kids themselves… in what turned out to be just the beginning of a mini-inte...

While hairy, hulking, forest dwelling monstrosities and elephantine entities swimming in murky inland lakes have fascinated those with a Fortean bent for centuries; the fact remains that the vast oceans are the most abundant source of life on Earth and one of the few places where both mainstream scientists and cryptozoologists agree there are amazing biological discoveries yet to be made; here we...

In the dead of night during the summer of 1947—in the midst one of the most monumental flaps in UFO history—a young Kazakh herder was rounding up his livestock when he was blasted back by a mini-cyclone created by an impaired flying saucer. What happened next is not only one of the strangest close encounters on the books... but one that was very nearly lost to ufology. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patre...

In the late 1960s—during the thick of the Vietnam War—a group of five Soviet scientists and engineers would bear witness to what seemed to be a battle between terrestrial forces and an alien intelligence that left, in its wake, a bizarre black object that became the source of an unimaginable horror. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast...

In the summer of summer 2019, a teenager was vacationing with his family when he came face-to- inhuman-face with an ancient mythological monster outside, of all places, a rural southern gas station... and a young man wakes up to find he's sharing his bed with something that has seemingly crawled out of the grave; proving, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that sometimes the real nightmares begin after...

Following a late night of hard partying, a teen snuck into his basement bedroom, turned his stereo on low and began to drift off to sleep; little suspecting that he was about to be roused by a bizarre, bipedal being that can only be described as a walking nightmare. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store: Hellorspace.com Stay...

On a frigid, winter's day in the late 1970s, three boys were playing on a frozen New Jersey field when they received the shock of their young lives in the form of a cube-like UFO that hovered overhead. But as frightening as this flying box might have been, it would be this object's vivid yellow occupants, a bizarre hawk-faced being and a slow-motion feminine fiend that would send shivers of terror...

In the autumn of 2010, a health care worker from Oklahoma claimed not only to have seen one of the weirdest organic UFOs on the books, but also to have been spirited away to the Sirius star system where he had an intensely sensual, face to fishy-face encounter with a group of highly intelligent, shape-shifting, amphibious anthropoids; one of whom he referred to as the "Heart of the Deep." The Cryp...

There are hundreds of cases involving dogs interacting with paranormal phenomenon; growling at hairy wild men, snarling at invisible entities or even cowering before UFOs. But occasionally canines have encounters that go beyond these brief brushes with the unknown; sometimes dogs have direct, flesh and blood contact with inexplicable entities… In this episode we're going to explore some of the mor...

In days of yore parents used fairy tales to invoke images of wild-eyed monsters to keep their children away from the very real ravenous beasts that dwelt in dark corners of our world. In the 20th century, as many wild places were tamed and once apex predators were driven away in droves, belief in these bellicose beasts began to fade. But, in the summer of 1987, one unfortunate French boy would fin...

After enduring months of relentless attacks at the invisible hands of a sinister specter known as the Dagg Demon, the victims were given a burst of hope that their nightmarish ordeal might finally be coming to an end. But the diabolical being that had been tormenting them was about to undergo a bizarre transformation that would lead one of the Dagg children to a tragic fate… and dark revelations a...

For three hellish months the Dagg family had been attacked by a nefarious inhuman force that had been psychically and physically attacking all within their remote farmstead and seemed hellbent on driving everyone past the brink of madness… but little could the frazzled family have suspected that an unlikely hero was about to arrive on the scene. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon....

Near the end of the 19th Century, a family living in an isolated Quebec farmhouse were going about their normal daily lives when, without warning, their world was turned upside down by a months long series of bizarre events that culminated in a terrifying encounter with a sinister shape shifting hell spawn that has gone down as one of the most haunting paranormal events in Canadian history.. The C...

The modern era of ufology is riddled with people who claim to have had relations with alien creatures that go well beyond the friend zone resulting in sometimes strange and often intense sexual encounters between human beings and decidedly inhuman entities. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store: Hellorspace.com Todd Purse - C...

For decades paranormal researchers have been fascinated and confounded by the apparent connection between faerie folk and aliens. Here are few of the bizarre beings that seem to tread that nebulous line between the realms of magic and that of high-extraterrestrial science, creatures which we have dubbed "Fae-liens."   The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The...

The most haunted village in Kent! Hairy Hands will get you …   https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1504607/most-haunted-place-uk-pluckley-kent-ghosts-spt https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1512905/halloween-news-scary-story-hairy-hands-dartmoor-uk-spt The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast   The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Store: Hellorspace.com Todd Purse - Crea...

The field of cryptozoology is infested with patently peculiar creatures, but there are some anomalous animals that take this already strained standard to an entirely new level of weird… the Ultra-Cryptids! Today we're going to add a few new names to the ever evolving list of this motley menagerie.  Research by Cole Herrold The Derry Township Fog Humanoid   https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot...