The Cryptonaut Podcast

Enough was enough. After enduring years of abuse at the hands of an uncanny array of arcane abominations, John Edmonds strikes back with a vengeance. As the bloodshed intensifies into an orgy of chaotic carnage and inter-dimensional portals rip through the fabric of space-time, John, like the mythic heroes of yore, receives a razor-edged gift from the proverbial gods

With alien abductions, animal mutilations and anomalous entity attacks on the rise, John Edmonds goes public with his story, incurring the wrath of would-be assassins, the notorious Men in Black and violent greys. But just when things were at their darkest, John would find it within himself to fight back against the malevolent monstrosities arrayed against him in order to save the woman he loves.

Having declared war on the malevolent metaphysical forces slaughtering his animals and infesting his home, John Edmonds was unprepared for the escalation of violence and stunned by a new wave of sinister spectral assailants. But what he’d initially assumed were just the restless dead proved to have more divergent origins as the bulk of these beings seemed to hail from both hell and space.

From the moment he moved onto the ranch John Edmonds found himself the victim of a malignant metaphysical manifestation which seemed hellbent on not only driving him from his dream home, but quite literally out of his mind. As he learns about the property’s brutal history nefarious paranormal forces drew first blood forcing the homeowner to declare war.

Take the supernatural antics surrounding Skinwalker Ranch—including UFOs, bizarre beasts, animal mutilations, poltergeist and portals—add to it black-eyed doppelgangers, M.I.B. and alien factions caught in a turf war; top it all off with a '70's samurai-sploitation cherry and what do you get? The ultra-bizarre yet unnervingly true case of the notorious Stardust Ranch... welcome to the weirdest, wildest paranormal hot spot in the we...

Fortean lore is riddled with anxiety inducing accounts of creepy critters, but few of these anatomical anomalies are more alarming than the eerie entities who are, inexplicably born without a face. How these bizarre beings manage to stalk their prey lacking eyes, ears and a nose—let alone consume it without a mouth—is an enigma that perplexes all who ponder the existence of these faceless, fear inducing fiends.

“It crawls.... It creeps.... It eats you alive! Indescribable... indestructible... insatiable! Bloated with the blood of its victims! Nothing Can Stop It!” These are just a fistful of the gloriously hyperbolic taglines used to market one of the 50s’ most memorable creature features—“The Blob”—but while nearly every movie fan is at least familiar with this amorphous, undulating mega-mass from another world, very few are aware of the...

These two brief, yet bizarre—and in one case extremely brutal—cases are emblematic of the kind of unexpected encounters that human beings across the globe claim to have had with creatures that lurk beyond the pale of rational explanation. Are we dealing with cryptids, aliens, faerie folk, occult incarnations, inter-dimensional entities or something that, as yet, defies description? Let’s dig in.

From fetid, stump ridden swamps to murky lakes infested with slippery, tentacle-like strands of seaweed that wrap around your ankles with uncanny strength to backwater bayous and even roadside drainage ditches; life thrives in the dark, wet corners of our world. In this episode we’re exposing some of these strange, semi-aquatic critters to the light.

In the spring of 1974, an enigmatic orb known as the Betz Sphere came crashing down creating a cyclone of controversy before disappearing just as cryptically. In the decades that followed the mystery has only deepened, leaving lingering questions such as: What was it? Where did it come from? And—most alarmingly considering its destructive potential—who has it now?

June 12th, 2023: We are living through an incredible moment in the history of ufology. The events, incidents and revelations that have occurred during the last weeks—regardless of what their eventual outcomes may be—have shaken the foundations of many human-centric beliefs and may well force us to look at the universe, and our place in it, with fresh eyes.

With the media, the military and misanthropic millionaires (not to mention fringe flying saucer fans and terrifying trespassers) closing in on all sides, the beleaguered Betz family allowed the object to be taken before a Blue Ribbon UFO panel for a potential $50,000 prize; meanwhile seemingly sinister forces were gathering behind the scenes.

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, quite literally, a doomsday device.

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. 

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 become indistinguishable from the re...

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 infamous missing persons cases of t...

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.

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.