Episodes
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#428: The Lacerta Files Part 4: End Game
After shattering a once-pragmatic journalist's grip on reality with a mind-bending tour through good and evil, magic and…
#427: The Lacerta Files Part 3: Reality Unraveled
Though he couldn't tell whether it was a government agency or some shadow-drenched cabal, journalist Ole K. became…
#426: The Lacerta Files Part 2: Hidden History & Secret Wars
Questions and answers flew fast and furious between the once skeptical reporter and the exotic entity sitting across…
#425: The Lacerta Files Part 1: Meeting The Neighbors
In 1999, a Swedish journalist and UFO debunker prepared for the strangest interview of his career. In an…
#424: Zhiguli Ice Tombs: Russia's Frozen Horror
In the 1930s, a horrific cave in nearly took the life of a Soviet prisoner. Having barely survived…
#423: E.S.M.B. Crypto Hotline Part 1: Friendly Ghosts, Box Ships, Fast Food Weirdness
Nice ghosts watching your back, a box UFO minding its business, and a McDonald's toy that absolutely wasn't.…
#422: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 41: Haunts, Horrors and High Strangeness
A quiet house answers back… and a dark forest shows the wrong kind of life. Doors shake, footsteps…
#421: Back Road Bedlam: The Clatter Brook Nudists
Whether surrounding a small town or a major metropolis, the back roads of our world are filled with…
#420: The Lizard Queen: Mistress Of Copper Mountain
For some the intersection between folklore and real world is cut and dry; one is fact, the other…
#419: Hellzapoppin: The Devils Of Bracken County
There are places where trauma—both physical and metaphysical—festers like a cancer; corrupting the soil, sinking into the dark…
#418: E.S.M.B. - Holiday High Strangeness: Minus Rob
Christmas Eve isn't just for Santa. From glowing elves and grinning bedroom goblins to winged humanoids and green…
#417: Labat House Madness: Fae Fight Back!
Beginning in the late 1960s, an array of French kids began having bizarre run-ins with a bevy of…
#416: The Kinnula Humanoids: Scourge Of Finland
In what has to be one of the most intriguing, confounding, and flat-out jaw-dropping flaps in the annals…
#415: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 40: Specters, Spines & Snow Crawlers
A glowing forest guardian, a matte black goblin, an octopus spider sprinting through the snow, and a soldier…
#414: Ultra-Cryptids: Reality-Shattering Tales From The W.T.F. Files
For those who find themselves slipping into the untethered realms of high strangeness, the only thing weirder than…
#413: E.S.M.B. - Humanoids Vol 1. Part 7: Minus Rob
A UFO drops a box, a gray giant zaps a kid's hallway, and a red-winged dude flies off…
#412: Jelly-Eyed Space Mummies
In 1949, a man driving along the Pan American Highway en route to Lima, Peru, caught sight of…
#411: The Glamis Abomination
For centuries an aristocratic Scottish family were said to hide a terrible secret; one that gave rise to…
#410: Wet Hell: The "Water Ghost" Of Bell Lane
In what has to be one of the strangest sagas in paranormal lore, a star-crossed British family endured…
#409: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 39: Shadows in the Hall, Terror in the Woods
A shadowy figure darting through a hallway, a hulking beast haunting a Tennessee golf course, and a possible…
#408: Arachnid Anarchy Part 4: Astral Spiders
Across time, space and the infinite bandwidth of consciousness itself, individuals from all walks of life are clashing…
#407: Arachnid Anarchy Part 3: War Spiders
Anyone who's served in a time of armed conflict knows that few things can compare to the chaos,…
#406: Arachnid Anarchy Part 2: Giant Spider Invasion
For many the sight of a spider of any size is enough to trigger an anxiety attack, but—lurking…
#405: Arachnid Anarchy Part 1: Bio-Mechanical Behemoths And More!
Reactions to spiders can range from fear to fascination but, for an unlucky few, encounters with these surreal…
#404: Malevolent Mud Mermaids Of Indiana
On the cusp of the 20th century, a group of horrified Hoosiers claimed to have encountered something utterly…
#403: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 38: Ghosts, Ghouls And A Jawless Dog From Hell
From a kindhearted spirit tucking in a farm kid on a cold Washington night, to a reeking, rotting…
#402: Hell On Ice Part 2: The Terrible Truth
In the 1990's, a military doctor found himself serving in one of the most remote outposts on Earth:…
#401: Hell On Ice Part 1: Antarctic Abominations
To some, Antarctica is a pristine, windswept landscape filled with austere beauty. For others—especially those unlucky enough to…
#400: The Santa Cruz Conundrums: High Strangeness In Suburbia
In what has got to be one of the most bats**t crazy paranormal encounters on the books, a…
#399: Demons From Down Under: Bunyips, Euroa Beasts And The Masterton Monster
In the decades preceding the 20th century, the murky depths of the lakes, rivers and swamps of Australia…
#398: Invasion Mexico: The La Rumorosa Incident
On an impulsive excursion into the Mexican wilds, three teenagers would confront not only deadly snakes and the…
#397: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 37: Encounters from the Edge: Glimmer Men, Cornfield Creatures, and the Headless Thing.
A Kentucky man spots a terrifying "Glimmer Man" near a lake rumored to hide a monster. In rural…
#396: Uncle Bobby's Bonkers Big Bear Bonanza
From Yogi, Smoky, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh to Baloo, Fozzi, the Berenstain Bears not to mention the…
#395: Stumps Addendum: Crawlers, Creepers And Midnight Peepers
In the mid-60s, an Oregon family was thrust into a supernatural gauntlet involving UAPs, dazzling indoor light shows,…
#394: When Shadows Attack: A Living Nightmare
In 1986, a boy named Greg endured a night of hellish torment at the hands of a sinister,…
#393: Ufonauts, The Future And A Boy Named Osmo
In the mid-50s a pair of Finnish brothers had a terrifying, all too close encounter with a speeding…
#392: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 36: Night Terrors
In most children, the dread of bedtime stems from equal combination of FOMO and a fear of the…
#391: Jailbreak Area51! Part 3: Alien Aftermath
After a hostile alien escaped from Area-51's allegedly impenetrable S-2 Annex, the Military Police and elite search and…
#390: Jailbreak Area51! Part 2: Enter The Quataloid
While on a camping trip in an abandoned mining town just outside the Nellis Air Force Range, a…
#389: Jailbreak Area51! Part 1: The Silverbow Incident
Of all the bizarre claims made about the arid patch of government owned Nevada desert known as Area-51,…
#388: Holy Death: Curse Of The Chihuahua Man Bat
In 2009 a spate of sightings involving a massive, multi-winged monstrosity held Mexico's municipality of Guerrero in a…
#387: The Zaragoza Goblin: An Urban Imp
In September of 1934—just a week before the violent eruption of protests and political strife that marked Spain's…
The Cryptonaut Podcast Trailer
Are you ready to dive headfirst into the Murky monster infested waters of the uncanny, the inexplicable, and…
#386: E.S.M.B. - Face Wing-Wing Mouth: The Pride Of El Yunque
Puerto Rico's legendarily monster infested El Yunque National park has been the site of an amazing array of…
#385: Cosmic Cuisine: Fast Food Of The Gods
Of all the logic defying antics that have allegedly occurred between human beings and E.T.s, few are more…
#384: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 35: Doppelgängers vs Mimics
There are few opponents more cunning, insidious or dangerous than the individual we see every single day staring…
#383: I Killed A Super-Sexy Psychic Werewolf
In 2017, a trucker was hauling a load down a desolate stretch in Michigan's Manistee National Forest when…
#382: Cold War Creepers: Russian Lake Monster Mania
Spanning some 5,600-miles from east to west and 2,800-miles from north to south, Russia is a sprawling land…
#381: Big Yellows Part 2: The Unstoppable Enemy
In the last days of the Vietnam War, six heavily-armed Marines—while hiking through the darkness of the DMZ—narrowly…
#380: Big Yellows Part 1: Scourge Of The Jungle
Near the end of the Vietnam War a battle hardened team of American Marines were sent on a…
#379: The Unthinkable Horrors Of Littlefield
In a move straight out of '80's horror flick, a group of Texas teens broke into a decrepit…