The Cryptonaut Podcast
Welcome to the Cryptonaut Podcast hosted by Marc Storrs, Chris Carnicelli and Rob Morphy. Exploring everything from Aliens, Cryptozoology, Cryptids, Ghosts, Monsters, The Occult, Paranormal Phenomenon, UFOs, Ufology and Unsolved Mysteries .... all while keeping a close eye on our reptilian overlords that dwell in the flat, hallow, robot infested Earth. This is the Cryptonaut Podcast.
The Gospel Of Miami Part 1: 1996 — The Fall Of Heaven
In late 1996—with the world teetering ever closer to the edge of a new millennium—something extraordinary began to spread among the youngest and most vulnerable of America's homeless population. It was a story. Not a rumor nor urban legend but a complex mythology that seemed to have erupted, fully-fledged, over the course of a single night. An underground phenomenon that spontaneously emerged from coast to coast—told by the dead to the living—detailing an epic battle between heaven and hell; wherein the utterly unthinkable occurred.
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Patreon Clip Show Summer 2026: Centaurs, Lionoids, Ghost Cows and Headless Horrors.
The quest for vengeance has begun! Centaurs are in the mine, Lionoids are creeping behind you, a Ghost Cow is just around the corner and a Headless Horror haunts the Highlands.
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#447: E.S.M.B. Crypto Hotline Part 3: Reality Glitch, Orange Rods, CE5, Dogman and Bigfoot Encounters
An airplane to seems disappears into thin air. A listener crosses paths with an orange rod and possibly a Dogman. A group of teenagers fire a bottle rocket at Bigfoot… and get way more than they bargained for.
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#446: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 44: The Phantom Rider & the One Legged Thing
Something stole a man from his bed. A cyclist raced through solid walls. And a one legged thing hopped out of a child's nightmares and into reality.
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 7: It Never Ends
The paranormal pandemonium that had engulfed Braxton County in the summer of '52, was finally beginning to ebb. But this odyssey of the bizarre would never truly end and the legacy of the Flatwoods Incident is one that will likely endure for the ages.
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 6: WTF is Going On?
In just over 24-hours, the sleepy hills of Braxton County were swept up in a tsunami of high strangeness from which it would never fully recover. In the midst of the chaos surrounding what many were beginning to believe was a full-scale alien invasion, a pair of intrepid paranormalists—one a globetrotting adventurer, the other a hometown hero—arrived at the scene and walked directly into the eye of this supernatural cyclone. Their investigation would become the stuff of legend, converting a fleeting news sensation into one of the most enduring, influential and significant UFO legends ever told.
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 5: Bashful Billy & Co.
For the citizens of Braxton County, West Virginia, a surreal sequence of events would not only transform their once tranquil town into a whirring blender of metaphysical madness, but forever alter the landscape of modern ufology; resulting in the equivalent of ontological whiplash for those swept up in these reality-shattering events... Yet even for those left clinging to the frayed lashes of sanity, stranger things were still to come.
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#442: Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 4: All Hell Breaks Loose
Frightened, rattled and violently ill, a group of intrepid eyewitnesses managed to jump fences and hurtle down a steep slope in order to evade a perilously close encounter with one of the most bizarre beings on the books. But, despite their narrow escape, for most of this ill fated posse—not to mention the rest of Braxton County—the worst was yet to come.
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 3: Enter The Green Monster
On the night of September 12th, 1952, eight eyewitnesses claimed to have had a run-in with a being so bizarre it not only left them in a state of shock but rocked Braxton County, West Virginia, to its very core. Though their encounter was brief, it set off a chain of events that would forever change this quintessentially quiet American town, leaving generations both frightened and fascinated by the existence of what locals refer to as: "The Green Monster."
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 2: The Invasion Begins
History books rarely mention it, but the summer of 1952 played host to one of the most alarming UAP flaps ever recorded. While most UFO buffs are familiar with the "Washington Invasion" of late July, few know of the September incursions that carried anomalous objects over some of America's most sensitive sites. The U.S. government viewed the events as an aerial intrusion by enemies unknown—the response was a stark order to USAF pilots: "Shoot them down!"
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E.S.M.B. Swedish Space Cyclops And Friends: Minus Rob
Two bizarre encounters from rural Sweden: a retired farmer watches cone shaped cyclops like figures bounce across a foggy bog, while a teenage girl comes face-to-face with silent humanoids in silver suits searching through a moving freight train.
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Flatwoods Monster Redux Part 1: Watch The Skies!
West Virginia plays home to some of the most bizarre beasts and eccentric entities ever put to paper, but even among its outlandish ilk, there's one that stands out from the rest: the Flatwoods Monster. For all that's been written about this mechanical goliath, the story most know is only a small part of the truth. When all the surviving accounts are stitched together, what emerges is something much stranger—and potentially far more terrifying—than most would dare to imagine.
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House Of The Inexplicables
Within the various schools of paranormal study there exist an array of biological anomalies so bizarre they strain the credulity of even the most ardent true believers. We're not talking about the kinds of creatures who startle random hikers or abduct late night stargazers; that's child's play. No, we're talking about truly bizarre beings that lurk in the inky darkness beyond the edge of the established unknown—a cadre of creatures so unique, so incomprehensible, that only one word can hope to encapsulate their existence: "Inexplicable".
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Strange Saga Of Mrs. X
In the midst of the psychedelic 60's, a woman known only as Mrs. X had a series of increasingly outlandish encounters with objects and entities beyond reckoning. It is a case that forces us to wonder whether she was born with an innate gift… or the victim of a para-psychological curse.
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#435: E.S.M.B. Crypto Hotline Part 2: Abductions, Ghosts And Faceless Entities
A possible abduction attempt in Ontario.. missed only by a few inches and a listener is caught in back-to-back waves of high strangeness that doesn't fade…
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#434: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 43: The Cyclist, The Disk And The Mantis
A grinding metal whine, a cyclist moving too slow to exist, and a fear that drops in like it came from somewhere else.
A black disk waits under the clouds… then lifts straight up and erases itself. Years later, it answers back..
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Florida Aquanaut Invasion
Starting in the mid-1960s, an array of anomalous, semi-aquatic oddities made a massive splash in and around the beaches, lakes and waterways of the already ocean locked Florida peninsula... Was this mini-incursion merely a chance for our marine brethren to explore terra firma? Or was this the Vanguard of an attack from the true ruler's of this waterlogged orb we call home: All hail the Aquanauts!
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Dark Destinations: Welcome To Hell
On this Earth there are extraordinary places; places that seem to defy logic; places so unique that its mere mention can make even the most cynical heart skip a beat. Stonehenge is one such place, and the events alleged to have occurred there in 1971 are nothing short of nightmare fuel… Our next stop on this horror-filled odyssey takes a terrified eyewitness from the bucolic backwaters of Down Under and drags her kicking and screaming into the darkest, depths of hell.
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Curious Carcasses: The Evidence That Almost Was
In the shadowy labyrinth of the paranormal, every turn feels like the turn; the one that finally breaks the case wide open. You move forward with that electric sense of impending revelation… only to slam, again and again, into dead ends. Most never get past that. But every so often, usually when it's least expected, someone makes it to the end of the corridor. And there, waiting in the dark, is something... Something wrong... Something lifeless... Something that shouldn't exist… but does. And if it's real? It doesn't just answer questions... It changes everything.
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Interdimensional Oddities: Wart Head And The Slime Monster
In 1966, the fabric of reality was torn to shreds by a bizarre beast, thrusting a group of Malaysian students and their terrified teacher headlong into a state of paranormal pandemonium… The high strangeness continues with a Tennessee family who were not only terrorized by a freakish, hairy, wart-faced fiend, but violently attacked in their own home by the savage thing who could vanish in a puff of smoke.
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429: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 42: The Obelisk and Area X
A quiet drive home ends with dead lights, screaming static, and a chunk of missing time. At Area X, UAPs dart across the sky, the forest throws rocks back, voices echo yours, and a black shape steps from the shadows.
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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 consciousness, UAPs, psychic powers, soul extraction, and the confounding five-tiered architecture of reality, the saurian siren changed course. Leaving the metaphysical maelstrom behind, Lacerta turned to the nuts and bolts of ufology; legendary crashes, controversial UFO photographs, and the shadowy agenda of the Greys… and at last, the curtain lifts on the elusive figure who made these encounters possible: the mysterious facilitator known only as E.F.
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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 certain of one thing: he was being watched. After a string of nerve-shredding, too-close encounters with whoever, or whatever, was tailing him, Ole managed to secure a second meeting with Lacerta. This time, the enigmatic saurian didn't just dip into ancient history. She dove headfirst into the nature of souls, psychic phenomena, the principles behind what we call magic… and, casually, the underlying framework of reality itself.
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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 from him. With each new exchange, they forged a deeper understanding of our species shared history, but—fascinating though the ties that bound us may have been—it would be the revelation of the existence of a group of "others" that filled the room with dread. The reason why? These others were ancient, insidious, and brought with them the unmistakable threat of a reality bending, world shattering, extinction-level event… And what was worse? They're already here.
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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 empty room, he watched as the door opened and a strikingly beautiful woman entered. She told him that she was there to reveal the truth of humanity's origins and our place in the cosmic hierarchy. The reporter had spoken with others making similarly outlandish claims but the key difference here was that the stunning woman now sitting across from him was poised, confident and anything but human.
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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 the ordeal, little could this man have imagined that destiny would lead him into an icy mausoleum filled frozen nightmares before sending him on a collision course with one of paranormal lore's darkest of denizens.
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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.
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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 wander, bones bend, and something disappears where it shouldn't.
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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 intriguing sights and bucolic backdrops, but for an unlucky few, this potentially pastoral paradise can be a gateway to… high strangeness.
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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 fantasy. But those who've peered through the cracks in consensus reality know the truth; our world exists at a crossroads between the seen and unseen; the known and the unfathomable; and that, when we least expect it, these realities can come crashing together in ways that shatter our perceptions… and for one Russian miner an encounter with a beautiful, in-humanoid would offer this mere mortal a glimpse into a world beyond imagination.
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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 earth with tendrils born of violence and fear; venomous, black roots that sink so deeply into the land that time itself seems unwilling to move on. Bracken County, Kentucky is one such place. A nexus where the history is rich, the land is bloody, and—if witnesses are to be believed—the Devil himself once took a midnight stroll.
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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 lit visitors, these encounters suggest something else prowls the night. Lock the doors… This episode unwraps Christmas's darkest visitors.
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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 diminutive, pot-bellied, elf-like entities that left investigators wondering if this might not be the opening of a new era of high strangeness.
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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 of ufology, a roughly 300-day stretch in 1970 and '71 plunged Finland into an unprecedented wave of high strangeness. Citizens across the country were left stunned by the sudden emergence of tiny, space-suit-clad beings—entities that seemed to hail from a reality heavier, slower, and infinitely stranger than our own… creatures who proved more than capable of harming anyone foolish enough to try to capture one.
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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 with spider trap intel. Four quick hits of pure high strangeness straight from the listeners!
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#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 a run-in with an anomalous animal: is a confrontation with an un fathom able "thing" that not only defies classification but is in possession of powers beyond comprehension. These curious critters range from the merely odd to the utterly insane, but one thing is absolutely certain… once you've see one, your world will be never be the same again.
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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 in a metal bus. Buckle up kiddos! The universe brought its weirdest.
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Jelly-Eyed Space Mummies
In 1949, a man driving along the Pan American Highway en route to Lima, Peru, caught sight of a large, glinting object hovering over the desert floor. Though he could have little expected it, this chance encounter would send him careening into the world of high strangeness and make him the focus of one of the most bizarre cases in the whole of ufology.
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The Glamis Abomination
For centuries an aristocratic Scottish family were said to hide a terrible secret; one that gave rise to rumors of a quasi-humanoid creature kept hidden from the world within the crumbling stone walls of the highland castle they called home; a diabolical descendant who's appearance—thanks to a witch's odious spell—was so distressing; so damnably revolting that it was dubbed the "Monster of Glamis".
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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 a maelstrom of moist mayhem when, in 1933, they became the victims of what was referred to as a "water ghost" but which modern supernatural scholars have re-branded a "hydro-geist". This wet wraith's reign of terror lasted for 6-months and left both paranormal historians and the soaked survivors perplexed as to why it had chosen to attack them
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