The Cryptonaut Podcast

From Yogi, Smoky, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh to Baloo, Fozzi, the Berenstain Bears not to mention the Magic Kingdom’s own Country Bear Jamboree, pop culture is littered with examples of talking bears. But, fanciful though these characters they may be, there are genuine reports of humans interacting with an uncanny array of these hyper-intelligent carnivores… who, beneath their teeth, claws and fur, may be hiding an incredible s...

In the mid-60s, an Oregon family was thrust into a supernatural gauntlet involving UAPs, dazzling indoor light shows, cycloptic beasts, dancing aliens, a smoking dome, possible poltergeist, an ominous (and evidently bulletproof) shadow stalker and—to cap it all off—a pack of spider-like tree stumps roaming the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. In fact, this onslaught of metaphysical mayhem got so intense that it sent this poor family...

In 1986, a boy named Greg endured a night of hellish torment at the hands of a sinister, giggling shadow child, who—while under the watchful eye of its pernicious parent—tortured its human counterpart in what was evidently a diabolical twist on the time honored tradition of “bring your kid to work day”.

In the mid-50s a pair of Finnish brothers had a terrifying, all too close encounter with a speeding saucer. While the boys were both scared by this near miss, for one of them—Osmo Liene — his ordeal was just beginning as just days later, at the stroke of midnight, a trio of aged aliens would invade his home to interrogate him... and reveal something that no one should ever know.

In most children, the dread of bedtime stems from equal combination of FOMO and a fear of the dark. But for some kids, and even a few you adults, that fear is founded on all too real experiences with anomalous and sometimes highly aggressive entities that’s prove—beyond the shadow of a doubt—that humankind’s millennia long fear of the dark is not unfounded.

After a hostile alien escaped from Area-51’s allegedly impenetrable S-2 Annex, the Military Police and elite search and containment units were put on red alert. While these teams were in pursuit of the insidious insectoid, a pair of OSI Agents were hot on their trail doing their best to cover up the enigmatic events as they happened… all the while .. tragedy waited in the wings.

While on a camping trip in an abandoned mining town just outside the Nellis Air Force Range, a husband and father of two was killed by a bizarre, bug-like being who had escaped from the S-2 Annex of the notorious Area-51. Following the escape, a pair of OSI officers were tasked with finding out how the mantis-like monstrosity had managed to get out and, more pressing still, what had become of it.

Of all the bizarre claims made about the arid patch of government owned Nevada desert known as Area-51, among the strangest—and most disturbing—has got to be the alleged escape of a highly predatorial, non-human prisoner and its horrifying encounter with an unsuspecting family who had the bad luck of running into this vile vermin while camping  in the high desert.

In 2009 a spate of sightings involving a massive, multi-winged monstrosity held Mexico’s municipality of Guerrero in a thrall of fear. While some believed this thing was a denizen of hell; others were just as sure it was a divine apparition. But from wherever it hailed, all who stared into it’s burning red-eyes and lived to tell the tale knew that this bizarre being was the embodiment of total terror… and what’s worse, it might not...

In September of 1934—just a week before the violent eruption of protests and political strife that marked Spain’s short-lived “October Revolution”—a family living in a Zaragozan apartment complex became the targets of an eldritch entity that would torment not only them but everyone else who entered the building during in its month long siege of horror.

Puerto Rico’s legendarily monster infested El Yunque National park has been the site of an amazing array of truly terrifying (and potentially lethal) paranormal phenomena. But few of these cases can compare to an event that took place in 1981, that involved a turbine powered UFO, tiny pilots, a smoke-show Nordic doctor and a pair of anesthetic spraying, touchy-feely chupacabras; all of which would combine to form one of the most ba...

Of all the logic defying antics that have allegedly occurred between human beings and E.T.s, few are more perplexing than those involving food of unearthly origin. These alien appetizers are sometimes offered in good faith and other times exist only to incapacitate unsuspecting earthlings. But whether the motivations of these inexplicable entities are insidious or altruistic, one thing is abundantly clear; anyone who consumes their...