Cryptopedia - A Paranormal Podcast
Cryptopedia is an exploration of the myths and legends that haunt the human mind. Each week Brandon and John will take you on a journey exploring the mysteries of the world, tackling the tales with a dash of skepticism and an extra helping of humor.
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This week, something big happened, and we talked about bears.
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The Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan: Bears - Servheen, Herrero, Peyton
The evolutionary history of bears is characterized by gene flow acros...
This week, Brandon kind of breaks John with one of the most brazen liars we've covered on the podcast.
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THE MAN WHO MET A VENUSIAN (ALLEGEDLY) | Denver Public Library Special Collections and Archives
This week, Brandon and John discuss the greatest soft drink on the market. We also talk about a dinosaur hoax, but listen: if you can get to a Hannaford...
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Brandon has a wardrobe malfunction at the beach, and we add another *man to the pantheon.
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Vegetable Man (cryptid) - Wikipedia
The Case of the Vegetable Man of West Virginia | Skeptical Inquirer
This week we take a trip through the Florida Everglades in search of the most elusive cryptid: The Florida Man.
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This week we take a trip to Italy. Did you know the Gorillaz have a music video set there?
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John had a twenty-minute conversation this week with the Loch Ness Monster and decided to finish up an episode five years in the making. Also, Brandon starts talking about Loch Nussey, which, of course, was a whole thing.
So yeah, the explicit tag is load-bearing this episode.
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In Liue of an episode description (it's literally about flying manta rays), here's the original name of this file Brandon posted to our internal repository of episodes (unedited):
"E204 EVERY MORNING THERE A HALO HANING FORM THE CORNER OF_ GET IT_ITS SUGAR RAY AND THE TOPIC WAS RAYS 06282026.mp3"
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...OOP animals are on the docket this week as John tells Brandon about the leggy marsupials for the second time.
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Unexplained! : 347 strange sightings, incredible occurrences, and puzzling ...
This week Brandon tells the story of one of history's least mysterious mysteries.
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The Mary Celeste - Dannye Chase
The Curse of the Mary Celeste | National Underwater and Marine Agency
After our Mother's Day break, we're back. And future John writing this now realizes how morbid the timing of this episode is! This week, we cover an infamous Poltergeist case overshadowed by a particularly depressing true-crime story.
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Somehow, we've been doing this for eight years and 200 episodes. This week, we talk about that one "true" story from the third Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book.
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On the cusp of episode 200, John decides to clear some of his backlog and finally cover a cryptid he's been trying to write about for years. Turns out it wouldn't be that easy.
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This week, Brandon takes the reins again, as John comes down off some kind of persistent cough. We almost talked about the cryptid, but someone needs to let everyone know that Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame is also the singer for Blur.
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This week, Brandon talks about a sea monster that isn't a lump of fat or a whale penis!
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Big stories about big squids: The story of the Britannia and the birth of a wartime urban legend - Jonathan Dyer
As the second Snowpocalypse of 2026 rages, we somehow manage to record an episode on time as we talk about Canada's Roswell.
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In Search of the Truth Behind Canada's Most Infamous UFO Sighting
We're late this week because someone's gonna be able to go into someone else's hospital room. Brandon verifies his hypothesis in the most ill-advised manner possible.
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We're back after a bit of a hiatus! This week, we're talking about some of the weirder Yōkai John could find.
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https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520271029/page/n3/mode/2up
For the (probably) last episode of the year, we figured we would go out on a sort of depressing one. We talk about the time that the US government personally destroyed a person's mental health, as opposed to in a broader societal term.
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This week, things get flipped around because this episode was supposed to come out last time. Is it the result of a demon's curse, or is it just Windows 11 being Windows 11? Listen and find out as we talk about what some call the "most credible" haunting of recent memory.
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