Creepy Acres Presents: This Week in Creepy History
Sometimes hilarious, but always creepy, join hosts Laura Kram and Creepy Acres very own resident Bigfoot, Sam Squatch, as they delve into mysterious cryptid encounters and inexplicable occurrences to bring you "This Week in Creepy History"!
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In the spring of 2017, the Chicago land area would find itself rocked by numerous sightings of a strange, 7-foot-tall, emaciated, humanoid with glowing eyes. While all claimed it had wings the descriptions varied from bird-like to bat-like to insect-like. The witnesses were just as varied, rich and poor, from police and loading dock workers to professional athletes and people just out walking their dogs.
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In the spring of 1933, an article in a Scottish Newspaper, "The Inverness Courier", titled "Strange Spectacle on Loch Ness" would recount a tale of a couple's sighting of a colossal creature thrashing about in the waters of the Loch. This story would give birth to a monster, ignite imaginations around the globe, and forever change the world!
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In April of 1973, the city of Enfield, Illinois, a sleepy little village , would find itself at the epicenter of one of the most bizarre and brief cases in all of cryptozoology! A mind warping tale of a hideous 3-legged, hissing, abomination seemingly from another world that would be dubbed the Enfield Horror!
Join hosts Laura Kram and Creepy Acres' very own resident Bigfoot, Sam Squatch, as they speak with p...
In the first weeks of March 1972 the city of Loveland, Ohio, a sleepy suburb of Cincinnati, was the scene of one of the most bizarre and unusual cases in all of cryptozoology. 2 different police officers, 2 weeks apart, would both separately encounter what some would describe as a 3-foot-tall, bipedal, frog faced entity. What was perhaps more outrageous was that this wasn't the first time Loveland, Ohio had be...
In the early part of 1897, the American midwest found itself at the epicenter of a bizarre technological mystery. Sightings of inexplicable flying machines whose appearance was decades ahead of their time, but whose impossible maneuvering capabilities often defied the very laws of physics, appeared over the heartland of the United States and captured the imaginations of the nation. What were these strange craft? W...
It's year's end and you know what that means? CRYPTMAS! I mean Christmas... It's our Christmas special!
Join hosts Laura Kram and Creepy Acres' very own resident Bigfoot, Sam Squatch, as they speak with Mister Sam Shearon! Renowned artist and master of the macabre, Working with a star studded lineup, Mister Sam's artwork has graced everything from book covers, album covers, and...
Beginning in November of 1966, a small town in West Virginia would find itself at the epicenter of a bizarre and mind boggling nightmare. Reports of an inhuman winged monstrosity haunting an abandoned World War II munitions factory just outside town would begin to flood local newspapers. The Creature would eventually be labeled the Mothman by the press, and as the number of sightings grew so too did its legend, But...
In 1903, a tiny town just west of Des Moines, Iowa, would find itself terrorized by an antediluvian monstrosity that seemingly clawed its way out of an nightmare. The 8-foot-tall entity boasted massive bat-like wings, a beak , and most peculiar of all... a blunt horn on its head that radiated a blinding beam of light. It would be dubbed the Van Meter Visitor and its story would quickly be catapulted into legend. ...
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106 years before the appearance of the now-infamous mysterious lights over Phoenix, Arizona, another U.S. city was terrorized by a seemingly otherworldly visitor that inexplicably appeared in its skies in September of 1891. The Crawfordsville Monster, as it would be dubbed, would be seen by some as a harbinger of doom, while it would cause others to speculate about the existence of great atmospheric ...
On August 4, 1577, St. Mary's church in Bungay, Suffolk, England and The Holy Trinity Church located 12 miles (19.3 km) south in Blythburough, Suffolk, England were both packed with parishioners for Sunday services despite a thunderstorm ravaging the area. Soon, a mysterious dark entity seemingly birthed by the storm itself would enter those holy places and leave the congregations of both forever shaken. Hos...
On July 25, 1977, a pair of mysterious colossal feathered monsters appeared in the skies over Illinois. In the weeks that followed they would leave one small community shaken to its core and one family forever devastated. Hosts Laura Kram and Creepy Acres' very own resident Bigfoot, Sam Squatch, speak with the one and only Troy Taylor, author of 140+ books, including Weird Illinois and Monsters of Illinois: Mys...
On June 25, 1973, a mysterious white-furred giant, slathered in muck and mud, shambled out of Illinois' Big Muddy River, and the small town of Murphysboro was never the same again. Join hosts Laura Kram and Sam Squatch as they interview Chad Lewis, one of the authors behind The Big Muddy Monster: Legends, Sightings, and Other Strange Encounters, and explore This Week in Creepy History!
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