Mysterious Universe

Mysterious Universe

Always interesting and often hilarious, join hosts Aaron Wright and Benjamin Grundy as they investigate the latest in futurology, weird science, consciousness research, alternative history, cryptozoology, UFOs, and new-age absurdity.

Episodes

34.07 - MU Podcast - The Orb Pilots

August 15, 2025 • 75 mins
They’re often dismissed as harmless lights in the sky, but the glowing orbs that haunt the edges of our reality may be far more than they appear. In the quiet fields near crop circles and the forgotten corners of the world, witnesses report beings emerging from these luminous spheres. Others speak of noxious vapors, choking fog, and the sense of something watching, something intelligent. Are these orbs alive? Are they scouts, probe...
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34.06 - MU Podcast - Web of the Plasma Angel

August 9, 2025 • 64 mins
New Age communities often promote "love and light", but many hide darker influences. This episode explores clairvoyant Maya Zahira’s claims of false-light entities manipulating spiritual groups through energy healing and channeling. She describes encounters with shapeshifting beings, demonic attachments, and energy-draining cords, revealing unseen dangers in these practices. From a plasma entity posing as a divine force in a church...
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34.05 - MU Podcast - Truth Lurks in Shadows

August 1, 2025 • 76 mins
Despite the fierce efforts of skeptics to dismiss the supernatural, a persistent truth emerges: countless ordinary people continue to report chilling encounters with the unknown. In this episode, we explore unsettling tales of crisis apparitions, haunted landscapes, and bizarre energies that seem to seep through the fabric of our everyday world. From phantom hands that grope in the darkness to strange portals opening in suburban ho...
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34.04 - MU Podcast - The Occult Wyrm

July 25, 2025 • 81 mins
The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster is far from settled. This episode dives deep into the legends and firsthand accounts of strange beings not only in Loch Ness but in surrounding bodies of water—creatures described as black-skinned beasts, spectral water horses, and other mythic entities that seem deeply tied to the land itself. Are these guardians of the landscape? Spirits of place? We revisit the curious investigations of Ted H...
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34.03 - MU Podcast - Treading the Infinite

July 18, 2025 • 74 mins
In this episode, we dive into the radical theories of parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo, who suggested that many hauntings, abductions, and even poltergeist phenomena might not come from outside forces, but from within ourselves. Could we be unknowingly manifesting our own paranormal experiences? And what if some forms of mental illness or multiple personality disorder are actually cases of spirit obsession or full-blown possession? ...
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34.02 - MU Podcast - Underground Hybrid Vault

July 11, 2025 • 80 mins
Eric Nanstiel lived an ordinary life as a graphic designer and single father. But buried beneath that normalcy were decades of terrifying experiences: glowing orbs emerging from closets, unexplained blackouts, and chilling encounters with beings that defy explanation. When his memories resurfaced they revealed a disturbing truth: a life entangled with non-human entities conducting invasive experiments, extracting genetic material, ...
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34.01 - MU Podcast - Cursed Exposure

July 4, 2025 • 78 mins
Photography and the paranormal have always shared a strange chemistry—an eerie interplay of light, shadow, and the unknown. In our Season 34 opener, we venture deep into chilling accounts of cursed cameras that seem to bring death with every click, psychic photo séances where the dead imprint themselves onto film, and long-forgotten experiments suggesting photography may capture echoes of the past… or even the soul. From haunted Po...
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33.22 - MU Podcast - The Orphan Tulpa

June 13, 2025 • 78 mins
What if one of the most iconic characters in pop culture wasn’t just a fictional hero, but a living archetype, an entity with its own will, forged in the minds of millions and fed by the imagination of its creators? Legendary comic book writer Alvin Schwartz thought his time with Superman was long over. But when a mysterious seven-foot-tall monk appeared at his doorstep claiming to be a tulpa, Schwartz was thrown into a mind-bendi...
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33.21 - MU Podcast - The Shimmering Hunter

June 6, 2025 • 80 mins
While public interest in the unexplained continues to grow and topics like cryptozoology and UFOs become more mainstream, some phenomena still remain too unsettling to discuss openly. Among these are the chilling encounters with cloaked or invisible entities, shadowy beings whose presence is felt more often than openly reported. Countless eyewitnesses have described terrifying experiences of unseen figures seemingly watching, stalk...
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33.20 - MU Podcast - The Fractured Self

May 30, 2025 • 79 mins
Few psychiatrists have ventured beyond the confines of Western clinical thinking. Dr. Ralph Allison was one of the rare exceptions. While treating patients diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, he began to encounter alters that were far more than psychological fragments. These were fully formed, autonomous entities with their own histories, intentions, and, in some cases, violent desires. Some existed to protect. Others sou...
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33.19 - MU Podcast - Roots of Vengeance

May 23, 2025 • 72 mins
The idea that invisible entities share our world is unsettling enough, but what if some of them dwell in ancient trees, ready to unleash devastating consequences on those who violate their sacred domain? Around the world, countless cultures don’t just believe this, they act on it. In this episode, we uncover eerie tales of tree spirits and vengeful fae, revealing that belief might not even matter. Disrespect their woodland homes, a...
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33.18 - MU Podcast - The Agent of the Dreamscape

May 16, 2025 • 74 mins
We begin with Ben’s first-ever lucid dream, set in a glowing, otherworldly version of Tokyo. The moment he becomes aware inside the dream, a grey-suited figure appears and violently tackles him mid-flight. Known only as “The Agent,” this strange man triggers a wave of recognition and fear. Was he a projection of Ben’s subconscious, or something far more real patrolling the boundaries of the dream world? The experience sparks a dis...
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33.17 - MU Podcast - Demonic Dangers

May 9, 2025 • 79 mins
Can unseen forces truly take hold of a human life? In this episode, we explore disturbing phenomenon of spirit possession — not just as religious dogma or psychiatric diagnosis, but as a real-world enigma that challenges both science and faith. While some cases can be dismissed, others present undeniable signs: levitation, supernatural strength, bizarre skin markings, and personalities that emerge with impossible knowledge. We exa...
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33.16 - MU Podcast - Memories of 2545

May 2, 2025 • 76 mins
When is a dream just a dream? Could recurring visions of a futuristic Tokyo—one with neon-lit skyways, android garrisons, and flooded shopping malls—be something more? This week, we look at the extraordinary story of a woman who’s been visiting the same future city since early childhood. Through years of out-of-body experiences and strange astral journeys, her vision of this place became increasingly vivid, consistent, and shocking...
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33.15 - MU Podcast - The Premonition Men

April 25, 2025 • 75 mins
Throughout history, rare individuals have surfaced with uncanny mental abilities—figures who briefly captured the spotlight, altered events in extraordinary ways, and then faded into mystery. But what truly empowers them? Are they awakening a lost human skill, channeling spirits, or manipulated by darker, hidden forces? In this episode, we revisit the life of Ted Owens, the “PK Man,” who claimed his psychic abilities—from weather c...
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33.14 - MU Podcast - Lucid Warrior

April 18, 2025 • 89 mins
After a string of terrifying sleep paralysis encounters and bizarre lucid dreams, Tyler found himself thrust into a reality-bending journey that defies all logic. In this episode, we dive into his shocking claims from the book 'Bleed Through: Tales from Another Timeline', where he’s recruited by a covert black ops team to fight a levitating alien spider entity inside a classified containment chamber. As his dream-world experiences ...
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33.13 - MU Podcast - Beast Harvest

April 11, 2025 • 72 mins
The mystery of cattle mutilations continues to baffle even the most seasoned researchers, with no clear answers despite decades of investigation. While some high-profile cases grab the headlines, it’s often the lesser-known incidents that reveal the strangest and most telling patterns. In this episode, we head to a remote farm in North Dakota to examine a chilling series of events that may be one of the most compelling links betwee...
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33.12 - MU Podcast - The Undergrounders

April 4, 2025 • 77 mins
The theory of ultraterrestrials—non-human intelligences that reside in hidden subterranean realms and subtly influence human affairs—has long been overshadowed by the more popular extraterrestrial hypothesis. But what if the so-called space visitors contactees described in the 1950s and beyond were actually ancient breakaway civilizations from Earth itself? We dive into the rich history of crypto-terrestrial lore, from secret under...
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33.11 - MU Podcast - Alien Hauntings

March 28, 2025 • 74 mins
This week, we uncover a series of chilling encounters that blur the boundaries between alien abduction and ghostly haunting. From the UK’s strangest archives, reports emerge of shadowy beings invading bedrooms, missing time linked to fog-shrouded roads, and apparitions mingling with classic extraterrestrial phenomena. Are these entities disguising their true nature? Or are hauntings and abductions just different masks of the same f...
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33.10 - MU Podcast - La Piramide dei Segreti

March 21, 2025 • 74 mins
A wave of viral speculation has swept across social media following claims by an Italian research team that new satellite-based radar technology has revealed vast hidden structures beneath Egypt’s Giza Plateau. Enormous underground cylinders, spiral shafts, and five mysterious chambers allegedly lie beneath the Pyramid of Khafre—some even linking them to the legendary Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. But does the data hold u...
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