The Cryptonaut Podcast

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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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 bathroom pipes.

Dwelling within the eldritch realms of cryptozoology, ufology and the occult are an array of eccentric entities, but—lurking on the nebulous fringes of these already weird worlds—are an even more anomalous array of anarchic organisms. In this episode we’ll be taking another deep dive into the unfathomably weird waters of Batsh*t crazy Cryptids. 

As incredibly unique as the vast swathe of humanity seems to be, the fact is that the amount of genetic variation between any two people is staggeringly small. According to Phase 1 of the Human Genome Project, all of the human beings currently populating the earth are 99.9% identical at the DNA level. This serves as a refreshing reminder that despite our seemingly insurmountable differences, we’re all made of the same stuff. But—ev...

Nestled near the southern most point of California, less than 100-miles east of San Diego, is the stark, stunning and utterly inhospitable environ known as the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Dangerous for all the myriad reasons deserts are usually avoided—blistering heat, treacherous landscapes, the constant threat of dehydration and, of course, an overabundance of venomous species—the arid hell-scape that is Anza-Borrego also boa...

Although 1978 was a banner year for Italian ufology, the tail end of this mega-wave would prove to be one of the most intense in history. While the bewildered citizens of Italy had already been plagued by a basket full of bizarre beings, even for them the weirdest—was yet to come.

For approximately two months in the winter of 1978, the nation of Italy was besieged by a bevy of bizarre beings who seemed hellbent on making their presence known to as many eyewitnesses as possible, forcing one to wonder why it was that Italy was chosen to be the epicenter of this curious cosmic convention.

For many, memories of slumber parties revolve around late nights, laughter, junk food, bad movies and gossip sessions that last until first light, but for one group of girls who opted to dabble in the occult, this frivolity gave way to phantom felines and a possible possession, leading these terrified tweens to a hellacious confrontation with diabolical agents from which some may have never recovered. 

In the mid-1980’s a recent divorcé moved to a rural region of north Texas with just a handful of possessions and his faithful dog in tow. Finding steady work and moving into a run-down trailer on a remote stretch of woodland, this hardworking man was ready to buckle down and begin his new life... but little could he have expected that his new home was on land that had already been claimed by a bizarre brute who was about to make hi...

According to thousands of witnesses worldwide, our mystery shrouded world is chock full of utterly enigmatic entities of all shapes and size, but few of these bizarre beings are more frightening and fascinating than the silent, semi-humanoid stalkers known as Shadow People. Here we present two accounts from our listeners who have had all-too close encounters with these terrifying beings. 

In 2010, a young Hawaiian trekked toward the moonlit shores of Oʻahu in order to take in some night surfing. Well aware of the risks involved in this solo expedition, this intrepid water sports enthusiast never once suspected that his dance with danger would begin before he even got into the water with a crazy confrontation that not only shattered his notions of reality, but plunged him headlong into the tumultuous seas of high str...

In going down the winding rabbit hole that is John Edmond’s Stardust Ranch Odyssey one could be forgive for thinking they are being sold a bill of goods; a Franken-fairy tale cobbled together out of various winding occult roads, supernatural subdivisions and ufological cul-de-sacs, until a seemingly complete and (at least to the paranormally inclined) authentic road map emerges, one that feels real but it utterly fictional. This co...

In the summer of 1997 a family of four arrived at a picturesque cabin surrounded by lush Oregon forest nestled on the high cliffs above the Pacific; a paradise on Earth. But—as they unpacked, looking forward to what ought to have been an idyllic fortnight on a stunning stretch of American woodland—they could little have suspected that their dream come true was destined to devolve into a living nightmare that thrust this well educat...

December 11th, 2023—never before in humanity’s long and tumultuous tethering to (and fascination with) the UAP or UFO phenomenon have we, as a species, been closer to the truth: a truth that may well herald a new epoch (for better or worse) of human history. On the cusp of what may well be one of the defining moments for all humankind, it behooves us to consider some of the potential implications that such a revelation might have o...

According to legend the untamed hills and hollows of Kentucky were once home to a population of small, semi-simian humanoids. Reports state that at the turn of the 20th century these pernicious proto-humans were wiped out—much like the Tasmanian Tiger—by overzealous hunters, but there’s evidence to suggest that these diminutive cave dwellers managed to survive at least until the 1990s when they once again made their presence known ...