Hysteria 51

We are digging into the coffers this week for a classic Mad Blurry Hysteria with the crazy doc himself, Chris Cogswell! It's Mad Blurry Hysteria time once again as we dive head first into the pool with Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time to hold your breath (It Is Crazy!). Then it’s DNA time – from the air… (nothing to worry about there). And finally, George Knapp brings out more U...

Brent is out this week, which means Kevin Crispin of Behind Beautiful Things has been handed the keys to Hysteria 51. This was a terrible administrative decision. First up: a Virginia driver gets caught allegedly doing nearly 50 mph over the speed limit and reaches deep into the Big Book of Excuses to blame the one force powerful enough to override traffic laws: McDonald’s breakfast. Was the Egg M...

This week on Hysteria 51, we’ve got vampires, missing people, Minecraft, and a nine-year-old with the advertising budget of a midsize corporation. First, we sink our teeth into the bizarre disappearance of George Phillip Gall, an Ohio man whose case became tangled in claims involving a Dayton vampire coven, occult rituals, and alleged human sacrifice. Netflix even produced a documentary about the...

This week on Hysteria 51, we hand the show over to the most dangerous force in paranormal podcasting: you people. It’s our listener voicemail episode, which means we’re cracking open the inbox and playing your questions, comments, theories, insults, corrections, questionable life choices, and whatever else you decided was important enough to leave on our voicemail. Will we learn something? Possibl...

This week on Hysteria 51, medical enhancement and poolside romance collide in ways absolutely nobody requested except for Kevin Crispin who joins us for some Beautiful Blurry Hysteria! First, we head to Thailand, where authorities are investigating a Bangkok cosmetic clinic after influencer Igho “Tiny” Ubiribo died following a penis enlargement procedure involving hyaluronic acid filler injections...

Last week, Hysteria 51 went knocking on one of the most infamous locked doors in UFO history. This week, somebody finally opens the darn thing. We’re heading back to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and picking up the alleged story of a technical specialist who claimed he was secretly transported to a restricted facility filled with technology nobody could identify, machinery scientists were suppos...

Science has finally answered the question nobody was brave enough to ask: what if the cockroach crawling toward you was actually a paramedic? Researchers are developing remote-controlled cyborg roaches capable of crawling through disaster rubble, locating survivors, and even delivering lifesaving injections. It’s innovative. It’s brilliant. And it guarantees you’ll never confidently swat another b...

This week on Hysteria 51, Mother Nature is acting strange... and one guy is acting much, much stranger. First, a massive floating island covered in trees suddenly appears in British Columbia’s Williston Reservoir, drifts around like it forgot where it parked, disappears, and then turns up miles away. Scientists have explanations involving debris, rising water, and vegetation, but we prefer to beli...

Forget Area 51. It’s time to head to Ohio, where the UFO lore is colder, the security clearances are higher, and allegedly somebody forgot to clean the aliens out of the fridge. This week, we’re investigating the mysterious Blue Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the legendary top-secret facility supposedly used to store and study crashed UFO wreckage, Roswell debris, exotic technology, stra...

This week on Hysteria 51, we’re asking the important questions: What exactly can’t you donate to Goodwill, and how convincing does your fake horse semen laboratory need to be before the government stops asking questions? First, a human skull mysteriously turns up at a Michigan Goodwill. And no, it wasn’t an old medical specimen gathering dust in somebody’s attic. The FBI is now involved, DNA testi...

A landed flying saucer. A mysterious humanoid pilot. A frozen Italian glacier. Multiple photographs. And a 1952 UFO encounter that still gets passed around social media today as some of the clearest evidence of extraterrestrial visitation ever captured. Sounds pretty darn convincing, right? Head to the Bernina Alps with us as we investigate the bizarre case of Giampiero Monguzzi, the Italian photo...

This week on Hysteria 51 , we’re cracking open the weirdest six-pack history ever forgot and then running for our lives from nature’s angriest lumberjacks. First, divers recover a 162-year-old bottle of Guinness from an 1864 shipwreck , and scientists hope its remarkably preserved contents could help recreate the stout as it tasted in the 19th century. Because apparently archaeology has finally st...

What if you died, got pronounced dead by doctors, buried by your family, and then showed up 18 years later with one hell of an excuse for missing Thanksgiving? Enter the bizarre true story of Clairvius Narcisse, the Haitian man who allegedly became a real-life zombie after being poisoned, buried alive, dug back up, drugged, and forced into labor. We explore the terrifying history of Haitian zombie...

We had some life stuff get in the way this week so we are going back to where the Blurry Hysteria / Weird Wednesday episodes started. Back to regular episodes next week! Original Description It's Mad Blurry Hysteria Time on H51! This week Brent tries to sell us the Lizzie Borden house, David swears Nibiru is gone for good, and Chris flirts with Tom DeLonge on twitter. All that and more on this wee...

Shut the windows and change your mask filters, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon is prowling the podcast! A WWII-era midwestern mystery, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon held a small town in a gaseous grip of fear for 2 weeks with no explanation and few suspects. Panic took hold as locals tried to figure out what was happening in their small Illinois community. To this day, no one knows exactly who perpetrated a...

This week, Hysteria 51 asks two important questions: How far is too far when protecting your lawn, and has your dog secretly been judging you this entire time? First, a Minnesota man allegedly constructs a homemade spike strip packed with dozens of three-inch screws to stop neighborhood kids from biking across his grass. Because apparently a “Keep Off the Lawn” sign lacked the medieval menace he w...

Reality may be bigger, stranger, and far more crowded than our three-dimensional monkey brains can handle. This week on Hysteria 51, we count down ten horrifying theories about what could exist in dimensions we cannot see, from shadow matter and hidden forces to holographic universes, colliding branes, M-theory, and countless alternate versions of you making equally terrible decisions. Could gravi...

This week, education gets artificial and prison security goes prehistoric. First, the company behind Realbotix is pitching schools on humanoid AI teacher assistants, because apparently the journey from crypto to adult companionship to high-school STEM education is now a perfectly normal corporate career path. Could a lifelike robot help teenagers learn science, or will “Sally” spend the semester e...

We go pond jumping this week and head to the Isle of Wight for one of the strangest paranormal encounters ever reported: All Colours Sam , better known as the Sandown Clown . In 1973, two children claimed they met a nearly seven-foot-tall, three-fingered, three-toed, ghost-like humanoid living in a metal hut near Sandown Airport. Normal British stuff, we are pretty sure. Sam wore a pointed yellow...

Seattle has a new celebrity, and he’s short, round, furry, and built like a raccoon somebody accidentally compressed into a carry-on bag. World, meet Jimothy, the unusually shaped trash panda whose possible spinal deformity, fearless neighborhood adventures, and magnificent little strut have transformed him into an internet sensation, local icon, and living reminder that charisma has absolutely no...

Join us this week as we help our resident overthinker and frequent fill in host Kevin Crispin celebrate the 200th episode of his show Behind Beautiful Things! The 411 From Behind Beautiful Things: In this milestone 200th episode of Behind Beautiful Things , the tables are turned as guest host Kelly—Kevin's sister (and, yes, a doctor!)—takes over the microphone to interview Kevin. Together, they re...

Good News! Humanity has finally found two exciting new ways to ruin your night: blasting artificial sunlight from space and filling your living room with tiny mushroom people. First, the FCC has approved a controversial demonstration satellite designed to reflect sunlight onto Earth after dark. Supporters say space mirrors could power solar farms and illuminate disaster zones. Vampires say Hell No...

The Andreasson Affair is what happens when a classic alien abduction story wanders into a church revival, takes a wrong turn through a dream sequence, and gets dive-bombed by a giant cosmic bird. In 1967, Massachusetts mother Betty Andreasson claimed strange gray beings entered her home, froze her family in place, passed through solid doors, and whisked her away for an encounter packed with medica...

This week on Hysteria 51 , we’re diving headfirst into the weird-news deep end, and unfortunately, someone already ruined the water. First up, a public swimming pool in Wales becomes the scene of a truly unholy whodunnit after a man admits to repeatedly defecating in the pool, forcing closures, cleanups, refunds, and presumably one very traumatized lifeguard whistle. It’s part crime story, part co...

Nearly 80 years after something crashed in the New Mexico desert, Roswell is back in the spotlight... again. This time, it's not because someone found a tiny green skeleton in a government filing cabinet. It's because modern AI image enhancement, newly released government records, and a fresh wave of UAP investigations have conspiracy theorists and skeptics arguing harder than ever over America's...