Cryptopedia - A Paranormal Podcast

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. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- Cryptids and Historical Memory: The Asserted Antecedents of the Michigan Dogman - Daniel McMahon Who’s a good boy? Not the Michigan Dogman. Michigan Dogman - Wikipedia Cryptidz - Michigan Dogman Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast - Julie Albrecht Royce  Dogman of Michigan - Chad Stuemke Chad Stuemke's Articles and Essays Michigan Dogman - Newspapers.com™ TERRIFIED In Manistee National Park

This week, Brandon talks about a sea monster that isn't a lump of fat or a whale penis! Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- 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. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- In Search of the Truth Behind Canada's Most Infamous UFO Sighting Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia Shag Harbour UFO incident - Wikipedia The Shag Harbour UFO - Skeptoid Shag Harbour Incident: Canada's Undeniable UFO Mystery  Dark Object | Avalon Library Canada "FOIA" Shag Harbour Articles

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. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- https://www.scribd.com/document/537549481/1972-Santa-Isabels-strange-visitor https://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2011/09/argentina-anthropomorphic-phenomena-of.html https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-santa-isabel-entity.71697/ https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Villa_Santina_Aliens https://strangestrangestrange.com/paranormal/ufo/the-1947-villa-santina-incident/

We're back after a bit of a hiatus! This week, we're talking about some of the weirder Yōkai John could find.  Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780520271029/page/n3/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake https://yokai.com/shirouneri/ https://yokai.com/chouchinobake/ https://yokai.com/byoubunozoki/ https://yokai.com/tenjouname/ https://yokai.com/ungaikyou/

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.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast ---   PROJECT BETA - Greg Bishop

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. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast --- The exorcisms of Latoya Ammons - Marisa Kwiatkowski The ‘200 Demons’ House: A Skeptical Demonologist’s Report Demon House Deconstructed - Kenny Biddle Demon House (2019) - IMDb Chlorine-Induced Damage Documented by Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological, and Pulmonary Testing Gary, Indiana - Wikipedia 3860 Carolina St, Gary, IN 46409 | Zillow Intake Officers Report - 2975619 The True Story Behind Netflix's Demonic Possession Horror 'The Deliverance' Exorcism: The story behind the Latoya Ammons story, inspiration for 'The Deliverance' The Exorcisms of LaToya Ammons. Today, I will tell you the weirdest… | by Tasha Pierce | Sinister Silhouettes | Medium Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Symptoms

In a slightly delayed episode, we return to talk about the Sandown Clown after a fatal Windows crash blows up our last recording.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3UsNPpjt8&t=1982s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lhJxCnbcPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AufaEBPgtHs https://www.wihtlore.uk/author/paul/ https://www.youtube.com/@wihtlore/videos

We're back again, talking about bored kids and weird manhunts that result in lasting injuries! Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- The Liverpool Leprechauns (UneXplained Rapid Reads)

This week, we take a suggestion from Discord and talk about how acorns look like the tip of a penis.   Also, I guess this is seven years now?   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 3, Episode 1 - Full Episode Kecksburg, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia The Fireball of December 9, 1965-Part I What are Meteorites? 'Unidentified Flying Object' Falls Near Kecksburg,  Greensburg Tribune-Review headline story, December 10, 1965 Human perception – LBA – OpenUAV Kecksburg Incident | Enigma Labs Project Blue Book - Kecksburg Kecksburg UFO Witness- James Romansky- Passes Away Old-Solved Mysteries : The Kecksburg Incident Residents say UFO landing was a hoax, not unsolved mystery - UPI Archives Great Lakes Fireball - Sky & Telescope February, 1966  Kecksburg Incident and Updates - Stan Gordon Nasa under pressure over 'UFO' NASA kecksburg - James Oberg

This week, Brandon talks about a monster that is very easily linked to teenagers being teenagers.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Cole Hollow Road Monster | Cryptid Wiki Chapter 1: Cole Hollow Monster | CIProud.com Cohomo Monster | New Cryptozoology Wiki Cryptid Profile: Cole Hollow Road Monster (Cohomo) Did a hairy monster stalk Tazewell County?[Illinois] Momo

This week, we talk about hoaxing and flying saucers. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- UFO Headquarters: Investigations on Current Extraterrestrial Activity in Area 51 - Susan Wright Twin Falls, Idaho - Wikipedia The Times-News  Twin Falls, Idaho •  Tue, Jul 8, 1947 Page 1 Today in History, July 8, 1947: Newspaper reports ‘flying saucer' at Roswell’ The Times-News  Twin Falls, Idaho •  Fri, Jul 11, 1947 Page 1 The Times-News  Twin Falls, Idaho •  Fri, Jul 11, 1947 Page 2 The Times-News  Twin Falls, Idaho •  Tue, Jul 15, 1947 Page 4 The Independent-Record  Helena, Montana •  Fri, Jul 11, 1947 Page 1 Deseret News  Salt Lake City, Utah •  Sat, Jul 12, 1947 Page 9 Wurlitzer 4008 Extension Speaker JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas - Kenn Thomas

This week, we talk about one of the more unlikely cryptids we've covered on the show.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Partridge Creek Monster | Cryptid Wiki The Strand Magazine/Volume 36/Issue 211/The Monster of ‘“Partridge Creek.” - Wikisource, the free online library The Chanute Daily Tribune May 11 1908 Our Southern Home Jan 18 1928 The Monster of Partridge Creek: A Dinosaur in the Arctic?

This week, we continue our conversation about the 1947 Flying Saucer Craze.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, by Edward J. Ruppelt The Coming Of The Saucers - Kenneth Arnold The Maury Island UFO Incident: The Story behind the Air Force's first Military Plane Crash Maury Island - Wikipedia How Washington State Spawned the Men in Black FBI's real-life "X-Files" documents strange connection between UFOs and the JFK assassination • MuckRock Maury Island: The Government's Alien Artifacts FBI Records: The Vault — UFO Part 05 Agent Wilcox Memo 08-1947 How Stuff Works - Maury Island Incident

This week, we talk about something that everyone supposedly knows everything about. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Fortean Times 165 January 2003 | PDF I Remember Doing the Time Warp The Chronovisor: The Truth Behind this Secret Time Machine - Discovery UK I Remember Doing the Time Warp Original Text of May 2, 1972 La Domenica del Corriere interview with Father Pellegrino Ernetti on the Chronovisor Time Machine The Chronovisor (Vatican, Time Travel, Time Viewer) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World ON THE TRACKS OF ETTORE MAJORANA AND OF THE CHRONOVISOR

This time, we talk about the sighting that kicked the UFO craze off.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, by Edward J. Ruppelt The Coming Of The Saucers - Kenneth Arnold Flying saucers still evasive 70 years after pilot’s report - Phil Wright The Flying Saucer Menace - Skeptoid Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking - Robert E. Bartholomew Supersonic Flying Saucers Sighted by Idaho Pilot - Chicago Sun Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket - Wikipedia Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia UFO REPORTS 1947 1947: Year of the Flying Saucer | National Air and Space Museum Vintage Aircraft Museum Call Air A-2 The UFO Book : Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial - Jerome Clarke Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 - Ted Bloecher Kenneth Arnold McChord | DocumentCloud

This week, Brandon takes us through Silent Invasion by Stan Gordon, as we talk steel wool, Bigfoot, and people named Steve. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Silent Invasion: The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook by Stan Gordon

This week, we take something like 20 minutes to talk about the deep-sea fish in Godzilla Minus One.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Bakekujira and Japan’s Whale Cults | 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai (Yokai Series Book 1) The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore      Michael Dylan Foster Bake-kujira - Wikipedia 本当にいる日本の「未知生物」案内 最新版 |本 | 通販 | Amazon Kamishibai - Wikipedia Whale and Fish Cult in Japan: A Basic Feature of Ebisu Worship The Gods of the Sea

In a stealth series, we cover what more credulous individuals call Welsh Amityville. In contrast, we just call it sad. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- The Haunting History of Heol Fanog part 2: The Witch Farm or The Welsh Amityville — StrangeOutdoors.com The remote farmhouse that's been called Britain's most haunted house | Wales Online The terrifying real story of the True Horror haunted house Spooky Saturday: The haunted legacy of Heol Fanog | brecon-radnor.co.uk Heol Fanog – Mark Chadbourn The 'true' horror of Heol Fanog: what really happened at the Welsh Amityville? At home with a power-hungry phantom | The Independent Not Seeing Ghosts – Straeon Rhyfedd Case Study of Recognition Patterns in Haunted People Syndrome - PMC

This week, two partial Poles make fun of the Polish people as we tell the legendary story of Stefan Michalak.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast   --- Falcon Lake incident is Canada's 'best-documented UFO case,' even 50 years later - CBC Population of Canada by province and territory - Wikipedia Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 5, Episode 8 - Full Episode Find a Grave - Stefan Michalak When They Appeared: Falcon Lake 1967: The inside story of a close encounter Under the cloud : the decades of nuclear testing : Miller, Richard L. (Richard Lee),  Stefan Michalak, Falcon Beach, Manitoba- Police Report - 26 May 1967  Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome: Mechanisms, Models, Markers, and Medical Countermeasures - PMC The Winnipeg Tribune - 22 May 1967 - Police Report - 18 June 1967  - Police Report - 10 August 1967  The Iron Skeptic - Stefan Michalak

This week, Brandon makes John experience some baffling Deja Vu. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ ---   Hammersmith Ghost murder case - Wikipedia Hammersmith Ghost: An 1803-1804 Haunting - geriwalton.com The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years | In Custodia Legis The Newgate calendar : comprising interesting memoirs of the Apparitions; or, The mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed London Ghosts

This week, we learn that lousy editing will cause people to move across dimensions.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Man from Taured - Skeptoid Japanese economic miracle - Wikipedia The Mystery of the Man from Taured | Snopes.com FRONTIER FORMALITIES (SIMPLIFICATION) (Hansard, 29 July 1960) Fortean Times 2021 June Issue Page 55 The Man from Taured - Julia Louis Article clipped from The Province - Newspapers.com™ The Directory of Possibilities - John Grant r/UnresolvedMysteries on Reddit: On July 1954, A man arrives at Tokyo airport in Japan. He’s of Caucasian appearance but the officials are suspicious. On checking his passport, they see that he hails from a country called Taured. The passport looked genuine, except for the fact that there is no such country as Taured I'm doing some research about the "man from Taured" hoax, and need help searching newspapers articles : r/japan? r/japan on Reddit: I am Japanese. I researched an old newspaper about "man from Taured". Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 249-250 Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Issues 156-160 どこにもない国の、外交官の話〜「ネグシ・ハベシ国大使逮捕事件」から60年、ご存知でしたか？ The Man From Taured, Solved: John Zegrus & How A Real-Life Event Became An Urban Legend

This week, Brandon read his copy out of order.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Wisconsin State Journal Mineral Point Vampire - The Capital Times Urban Plains - Dairy State Dracula The Mineral Point Vampire — Wisconsinology The Ridgeway Ghost of Wisconsin | Into Horror History | J.A. Hernandez Village History | Ridgeway WI Some Wisconsin Ghosts - New York Times Hunting the American Werewolf: Beast Men in Wisconsin and Beyond - Linda S. Godfrey

This week John covers the "world's most tested medium," and questions the validity of those tests.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife - Michael Tymn Leonora Evelina Simonds Piper (1857-1950) - Find a Grave Memorial Piper, Leonora E. - An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural - James Randi A FURTHER RECORD OF OBSERVATIONS OF CERTAIN PHENOMENA OF TRANCE - Richard Hodgeson Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research : Sage, Michel, 1863-1931 Etymology of chlorine by etymonline Different Types Of Psychic Mediums & Their Psychic Abilities, Explained | California Psychics Radical Spirits Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America - Ann Braude The Emancipation of Mrs. Piper - Andrew Lang The Life and Work Mrs Piper - Alta Piper Essays in psychical research : James, William, 1842-1910 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Can Telepathy Explain?: Results of Psychical Research - Minot Judson Savage Spiritism, Hypnotism and Telepathy - Clark Bell, Thomas Hudson The question: "If a man die, shall he live again?" a brief history and examination of modern spiritualism - Edward Clodd Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Is spiritualism based on fraud ?: the evidence given by Sir A.C. Doyle and others - Joseph McCabe Studies in Spiritism - Amy Tanner

This week Brandon channels John as he talks about psychics channelling aliens.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Operation Sunray | Hunting the Entity in the Tsarichina Hole Inside Bulgaria’s Skinwalker Ranch | The Tsarichina Hole The Tsarichina Hole (Bulgaria; 1990s) | The Forteana Forums Tsarichina - Wikipedia Феноменът Царичина - Цялата история (Част Първа) - Пътеводител на Забравената България

This week, John takes a trip back to China and proves someone can be immersed in a new language for practically a month and learn nothing.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Amazon.com: The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge eBook Religious system of China vol.5 - De Groot Hop on pop: jiangshi films in a transnational context - Stephanie Lam Analects: The Sayings of Confucius, Translated by D. C. Lau Zibuyu, “What The Master Would Not Discuss”, according to Yuan Mei (1716 - 1798): A Collection of Supernatural Stories (2 vols) A Brief History of Qi - Yu Huan Zhang, Ken Rose Qi | Definition & Facts | Britannica Yinyang | Definition, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica Hun & Po Ethereal & Corporeal Soul In Taoism What Does the Yin-Yang Symbol Mean? https://www.willbuckingham.com/virtuous-cats/ The Afterlife of Corpses: A Social History of Unburied Dead Bodies in Qing China (1644–1911) - Joohee Suh The custom of "driving corpses" in western Hunan A temporary grave, by a concrete bridge | Historical Photographs of China Jiangshi: Daoist Cosmology in Mr. Vampire - Max Templeman Mr. Vampire - Wikipedia A look at the ghoulish tradition of ancient Chinese corpse-walking The Corpse Walker. Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up : Liao Yiwu : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Walking dead: old China practice of corpse herding, transporting bodies to hometown for burial using long bamboo poles

This week we get to the bottom of the real mystery and provide a recommendation to scout masters.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Goatman’s Summer of Celebrity (Part 1): The Glamour Boy of Greer Island Mystery Still Engulfs Lake Worth Monster Lake Worth Monster: The True Story of the Greer Island Goatman: Blackburn, Lyle: 9781734920666: Amazon.com: Books Greer Island's Goatman - Lake Worth Monster The Lake Worth Monster | TPW magazine | October 2003 Once Upon a Python: When Pete Went Hither, Slither, and Yon

This week, we open talking about praxis, and John reads a bunch of legal documents.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Rosie O'Donnell Show June 1999 Pt 3 Our Haunted House on the Hudson - Helen Ackley The History of the Ackley House, America's Legally Haunted Home 1 La Veta Pl, Nyack, NY 10960 | Zillow Rockland County Property Check LA99-01004751 - Deed (1967) LA99-01004772 - Mortgage (1967) LA99-00726030 - Carol assumption of deed (1949) Legal-Ease: One dollar and other good and valuable consideration - LimaOhio.com Ancestor Search - Margaret Perry Helen Ackley Obituary (2003) - Jacksonville, FL - Florida Times-Union Helen Ackley Nyack People & Places: Skirmish Krew Relives Revolutionary War in Upper Nyack Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 AD 2d 254 - NY: Appellate Div., 1st Dept. 1991 Lawsuit Didn't Have a Ghost of a Chance - Timothy Clifford, Newsday, Combined editions Long Island, N.Y. 16 Mar 1991 18 rms. riv vu. ghosts. - Ronald Sullivan, Marchi 16, 1990, New York Times Spirit of Law Recognizes 'Haunted House' - Los Angeles Times Caveat Specter | Skeptical Inquirer How a House Becomes Legally Haunted: Stambovsky v. Ackley, The “Ghostbuster” Ruling | In Custodia Legis caveat emptor | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute Phones Ringing (Eerily?) For Nyack Spook Home - James Barron, March 20, 1990, New York Times Singer/rapper Matisyahu selling Nyack home; former occupants include Ingrid Michaelson and maybe, a ghost Don't Be Scared! Home at Center of Haunted House Legal Case Available for $1.9M Stambovsky v. Ackley - Wikipedia The History of Nyack, New York Margaret Perry Obituary Ghosts In Japan—Buying A Haunted House

This week, we discover a euphemism and introduce a new segment on accident.   Also, yes, we know the Onion story is still pending a judge hearing, but let us have this one.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Mud Mermaids Were Allegedly Spotted in Ohio River - HubPages Mermaids, Giant Turtles, and Wild Men…Oh My! – The Indiana History Blog Mud Mermaids - Newspapers.com™ Akron Evening Times - Mud Mermaids 2 Ep 147: The Mud Mermaids of Indiana Mermaids in the Susquehanna River? Yes, fishermen once claimed Seal finds unlikely home 100 miles up Hudson River – The Hill Three Historic Explorers Who Were Captivated By Mermaid Sightings

John tried to do a shorter episode this week. Tried is the operative word here. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- BERKELEY SQUARE, Non Civil Parish - 1000516 | Historic England Charles I (r. 1625-1649) | The Royal Family Lord John Berkeley, Royalist General, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland & Ambassador-extraordinary - Twickenham Museum Notes and Queries 4th Series, Volume 10 - 372 Victorian Spiritualism The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill Notes and Queries 4th Series, Volume 10 - 398 Notes and Queries 4th Series, Volume 11 - 85 Fortean Times - The Most Haunted House in London by Jan Bondeson - Christmas 2015 Notes and Queries 5th Series, Volume 12 - 87 (Reproduction of May 10, 1879 Mayfair Article) Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 2 - 417 Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 2 - 435 Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 2 - 452 Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 2 - 471 Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 2 - 514 Notes and Queries 6th Series, Volume 3 - 151 Cornishman May 28 1908 - A City Full of Ghosts Ghosts, Helpful and Harmful - Elliott O'Donnell (171-181) Ghosts of London - Elliott O'Donnell (26-40) https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?37736 Haunted Houses - Charles Harper (106-) The Grey Ghost Book - Jessie Middleton (16-50)  Screaming Skulls: 101 of the World's Greatest Ghost Stories - Daniel Cohen (80-82) Mysterious Universe Article Notes and Queries archives (We pull from a lot of volumes)

Halloween is this week, and Brandon is bringing ghost stories. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Ghosts of Mineral Point | Wisconsin Haunts Tavern Spirits: The Legend of Walker House Tavern Spirits: The Legend of Walker House, part two Ghosts - The Walker House

In memoriam to the bad shows we found along the way, John talks about Gorillas way too much. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths , Naish, Darren  The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave Etymology of zoology by etymonline When the World’s Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition | Science The Internet Classics Archive | The History of Animals by Aristotle Galen's Analogy: Animal Experimentation and Anatomy in the Second Century CE Galen's “errors” - The Lancet Rocky Road: Conrad Gesner Historical Anatomies on the Web: Conrad Gessner Home Historiae Animalium | ODD SALON Zoology Timeline First Voyage of Captain James Cook | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History The Nature of Systematics - Blackwelder and Boyden Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids  A Carthaginian Exploration of the West African Coast. Gorilla Biology - Taylor and Goldsmith Les betes humaines d'Afrique by Heuvelmans, Bernard; [Mackal, Roy] - 1980 The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell by Andrew Battell. Skeptoid: Tracking the Elusive Pongo The missionary and the gorilla | Features | Yale Alumni Magazine 1. From Satyr to Pongo: Discovering the Red Ape An account of the diseases, natural history, and medicines of the East Indies / Translated from the Latin of James Bontius  Notice External Characters Habits Troglodytes Gorilla - Savage and Wyman  The Metaphysics of Apes Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa  - Paul B. du Chaillu. Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature The Cryptid Zoo: Pongo Example of male orangutans displaying the two alternative reproductive Species Information - Orang Utan Republik Foundation Comparing Mountain Gorillas vs Eastern Lowland Gorillas — Gorilla Trekking Safaris Africa African mythology : an encyclopedia of myth and legend - Jan Knappert  Do Mythic Creatures Exist? Show Me the Body | Scientific American How many extant pinniped species remain to be described? Cuvier, Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Globe On the track of unknown animals : Heuvelmans, Bernard

This week, we're talking bugs, hoaxes, and technical difficulties.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Spotting | Project Noah The Beast of Brunei ShukerNature: TRILOBITE BEETLES, CETI EELS, AND THE BEAST OF BRUNEI Trilobite Beetle Facts: Essential Information for Insect Enthusiasts Warhammer Tyranids Tutorial DIY ShukerNature: THE GIANT GRASSHOPPER OF WISCONSIN - FOCUSING UPON A PHONEY PHOTOGRAPH

This week, John begins to tackle the definition of cryptozoology as a discipline.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths , Naish, Darren  The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave Etymology of zoology by etymonline When the World’s Population Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition | Science The Internet Classics Archive | The History of Animals by Aristotle Galen's Analogy: Animal Experimentation and Anatomy in the Second Century CE Galen's “errors” - The Lancet Rocky Road: Conrad Gesner Historical Anatomies on the Web: Conrad Gessner Home Historiae Animalium | ODD SALON Zoology Timeline First Voyage of Captain James Cook | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History The Nature of Systematics - Blackwelder and Boyden Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

This week, Brandon does his take on the St. Augustine Monster as John discovers the ability of his new mixer to be a soundboard. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- St. Augustine Monster - Wikipedia The Saint Augustine Monster | Smithsonian Institution Archives Gigantic Octopus A gigantic cephalopod on the Florida coast On the Giant Octopus (Octopus giganteus) and the Bermuda Blob: Homage to A. E. Verrill

Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon breeding, Vaporeon is the most compatible Pokémon for humans?   This week, we really earned that explicit content rating despite the fact that most of the episode is about academic beef. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Without a Trace : Berlitz, Charles Lusca | A Book of Creatures Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths: Naish, Darren Blue hole - Wikipedia Blue Hole (Red Sea) - Wikipedia Colossal squid - Wikipedia Giant Pacific octopus - Wikipedia Three adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes : Cousteau, Jacques  Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology: 9791576072836: Eberhart, George M.: Books Bernard Heuvelmans - Annotated Checklist of Apparently Unknown Animals With Which Cryptozoology Is Concerned St. Augustine Monster - Cryptidz Verrill, Adison E., A Gigantic Cephalopod on the Florida Coast. A merican Journal of Science and the Arts, Ser. 4, Vol. 3: 79. Verrill, Adison E., Additional Information Concerning the Giant Cephalopod of Florida. American Journal of Science and the Arts, Ser. 4, Vol. 3 : 1 62-63 Verrill, Adison E., The Supposed Great Octopus of Florida: Certainly not a Cephalopod. American Journal of Science and the Arts, Ser. 4, Vol. 3: 3 5 5-56. Diving Into the Blue Holes of the Bahamas St. Augustine Monster - Wikipedia Distinguished Alumnus Forrest G. Wood, Class of 1936 An Octopus Trilogy Pierce, S., S. Massey, N. Curtis, G. Smith, C. Olavarría & T. Maugel 2004. Microscopic, Biochemical, and Molecular Characteristics of the Chilean Blob and a Comparison With the Remains of Other Sea Monsters: Nothing but Whales. Biological Bulletin 206: 125-133.  The Lair of the Lusca - Robert Palmer Où l'on reparle du Triangle des Bermudes Of Sea and Shore, Vol 19, No 1 Of Sea and Shore, Vol 7, No 2 The American Naturalist 1872-12: Vol 6 Iss 12  Of Sea and Shore, Vol 18, No 1

This week, we take a trip to Ohio, only to get sidetracked by how Brandon feels about paper towels on his fingernails. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Un-loch the Mysteries of Ohio's Cryptids The Werewolf of Defiance – Mercer County Outlook Deadspin | Ohio Police Capture Drunken Local Werewolf Toledo Blade - Aug 3, 1972 | Werewolf Case in Defiance Not Taken Lightly By Police Toledo Blade - Aug 3, 1972 | Defiance Werewolf Case Toledo Blade - Aug 3, 1972 | Defiance Residence Suspicious of Their Werewolf The Charles Mill Lake Monster Orange Eyes and the Charles Mill Lake Monster Charles Mill Lake Monster | Cryptid Wiki Orange Eyes | Cryptid Wiki Weird Ohio - Bigfoot of Cedar Bog

What's worse than a pigman in the woods? Pretty much anything, if I'm being honest. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Green Mountains, Dark Tales - Joeseph Citro Weird New England - Joseph Citro Northfield, Vermont - Wikipedia Sam Harris | Cryptid Wiki Newspapers.com - Pigman Search NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE: The Pigman of Northfield, Vermont Strange USA Sam Harris Post

This week we are talking about bears, I mean sloths. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Ground sloth | Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology Gorp | Encyclopaedia of Cryptozoology Beasts of Sherman | Cryptid Wiki Swamp Ape Search Finds Giant Sloth

This week Brandon invents a new month-based band (The Novemberists), and John gets buried in the minutia of 4chan.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Horror Theater – The Rake Know Your Meme - The Rake Creepypasta x/ Creepypasta Archive : Anonymous Creepy Resistance Viral Spooks Media Possible Fallen Angel in Catalonia (subtitled) Hounds of Tindalos - Wikipedia Mystery Alien/Zombie Louisiana Hunting Pic Debunked: It's A Fake

We're back again, this time with a good old-fashioned hoax grab bag!   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/   100 Miles (Skinbone) -  https://youtu.be/tesr1OyymXo John's Dissertation - https://youtu.be/QRAqnvCLADo?si=qxntMgiI_KdKueqT   --- Sources: The Nantucket Sea Monster | American Experience | Official Site | PBS The Summer of Nantucket’s Sublime Sea Serpent | Smithsonian Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Do not Believe Everything about Science Online: Revisiting the Fake Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus in an Introductory Biology College Course Pacific Northwest tree octopus - Wikipedia Honolulu Star Bulletin Flying Saucer Found Here Gigantica fibicus (April Fool, 1941) 10 Animals That Turned Out to Be Hoaxes or Spoofs - Listverse Largest Fish Ever Caught (April Fool's Day - 1939)

After a bit of a scheduling nightmare, Brandon and John are back! This time, they talk about a cherished Manhattan urban legend.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures: Coleman, Loren: 9781416527367 American alligator | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Chinese alligator | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Comparison of bite‐force performance between long‐term captive and wild American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) - Erickson Alligator - Wikipedia Can You Really Escape an Alligator if You Run in a Zigzag? | HowStuffWorks American Alligator | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Sewer alligator - Wikipedia The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York - Corey Kilgannon Alligator in the Sewer Day 2020 Alligator Ad 1934 - Popular Mechanics Live Baby Alligator - FREE! : r/vintageads Behind the Alligator Pet Trade - Fast Company Women with baby alligator - Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Fear or revere: Virginia Tech researcher dives into the complex history of the American alligator 526 Mailable Live Animals | Postal Explorer Surprise at U.P.S.: Alligator-in-the-Box - The New York Times Breaking Fad: Alligators becoming the new pit bulls for drug dealers, cops say - Washington Times Guard alligator 'El Chompo' protected drugs for Pennsylvania dealers, prosecutors say More on Alligators in the Sewers - George Fergus

This time, we're talking about paintings and Britain's obsession with crying boys.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- List of reportedly haunted paintings - Wikipedia The Crying Boy - Wikipedia The Curse of the Crying Boy. “I’ll tell you why the paintings never… | by Emily | Medium A Painting of a Crying Boy Was Blamed for a Series of Fires in the '80s - Atlas Obscura Flight 1 And The Curse Of Arshile Gorky - Artlyst The Real Story Behind The Cursed "Woman Of The Rain" Painting - The Ghost In My Machine The Untold Story Of The Anguished Man Painting - Cumbria, England

This time, John follows the story of the Sykesville Monster through the reporting of the Baltimore AFRO. Meanwhile, Brandon torments his mom. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Sykesville, Maryland - Wikipedia Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte - Wikipedia Baltimore AFRO - Sykesville Hunts for Hairy Monster 7ft. Tall -  Bill Rhoden and Fletcher Roberts Baltimore AFRO - Sykesville Monster Interest Spreads - Bill Rhoden The Baltimore Sun - Dr. W. Ted Roth Obituary  Baltimore AFRO - Similar Monster Seen Last Year in Missouri Baltimore AFRO - Local citizen saw a monster, joins hunt in Sykesville Baltimore AFRO - Is monster eating Balto. kids? Baltimore AFRO - Sykseville monster the real thing Baltimore AFRO - Sykesville monster joins urban set! Show To Feature Tale Of Maryland Monster - CBS Baltimore Monsters of Maryland: Mysterious Creatures in the Old Line State  Pulse of the Paranormal: 'Sykesville Monster' Encounter Bigfoot: The Sykesville Monster w/photos, Md, Carroll County Sykesville Monster | Odyssey Paranormal Research

The Aswang is back, and this time, we have CIA sources that tell us the events actually happened.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/   False Fang: When the CIA Staged a Vampire Attack CIA Vampires: US Meddling in the Philippines - Grey Dynamics How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines | HowStuffWorks Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II – Part I William Blum Ed Lansdale's Black Warfare in 1950s Vietnam The Aswang Project

This week, the madness has spread to Cryptopedia as we pit some of our favorite cryptids against one another in a single-elimination tournament.  Brandon and John debate over the finer points of blood-draining and soul-sucking in this weird installment of the podcast.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/

The saga of Varginha comes to a close this week.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- A história oficial do ET de Varginha - ISTOÉ Independente Varginha UFO incident - Wikipedia 1996 UFO Case The Varginha, Brazil Tale of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd in Brazil - WSJ Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO

This week, John tried to do a short episode, but three hours in Blender had other plans.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The mystery of the Solway Spaceman - BBC News - May 23, 2014 Solway Firth Spaceman - Wikipedia Solway Firth Spaceman - RationalWiki The Real Cumberland Spaceman Woomera Blue Streak Incident The 1964 Solway Spaceman Photograph: Case Report Australian Government Record Search UFOs at close sight: The Solway Firth photograph, 1964 The Men In Black Visit Jim Templeton Security Meeting on marsh 'a joke' - Cumberland News - September 4, 1964  The Solway Spaceman photograph - Dr David Clarke 1964: Cumberland Spaceman / Solway Firth Photograph - Think AboutIts The Draconian / Saurian War Conspiracy 1 - Think AboutIt - Aliens File:Mercury Suit Gordon Cooper.jpg - Wikipedia Captain Jack's Contax/Pentacon Page Car forum discussion about the photo Debunked  The Solway Spaceman   The One Show 2017

We continue the Varginha UFO saga this week and dissect Brandon's scatological hypothesis.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- A história oficial do ET de Varginha - ISTOÉ Independente Varginha UFO incident - Wikipedia 1996 UFO Case The Varginha, Brazil Tale of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd in Brazil - WSJ Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO

An episode almost literally four years in the making, the birb of mythical proportions and size: Dwayne Johnson.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Quarterly Journal Of The Mythic Society : THE BIRD AND SERPENT MYTH Kalipada Mitra Handbook of Hindu Mythology - George M. Williams Garuda - Wikipedia 'Roc': An Eastern Prodigy in a Dutch Engraving | Journal of the Warburg Institute: Vol 1, No 3 Aeon the Terrible | Christmas Specials Wiki | Fandom The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian Marco Polo - Wikipedia Golden Eagle | The Peregrine Fund Harpy Eagle | The Peregrine Fund The Ultimate Utility Helicopter Comparison - Skycore Aviation Sinbad the Sailor - Wikipedia Fairy tales from the Arabian nights - Wikisource, the free online library Nāga - Wikipedia

This week, we had to clean snow, so we just took an hour to talk about our holiday season. Brandon gets a new guitar, and John goes to Asia to get sick. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Spoiler for next week: https://youtu.be/T5mefArAw4Y

Happy 2024! John was in Asia for a month doing stuff and is only just recovering from jet lag, so Brandon recorded this episode with his wife.       Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 YouTube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Spontaneous Generation in Antiquity — TAPA 51:101‑115 (1920) Where Do Eels Come From? Why Nobody Knows How Eels Reproduce Nature Notes: The Journey of the Eel As American as ... the American Eel - Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket Japan researchers collect wild eel eggs for first time

The lost episode is back, this time with both of our voices. Don't worry; we forgot nearly everything from the last time we recorded.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- A história oficial do ET de Varginha - ISTOÉ Independente Varginha UFO incident - Wikipedia 1996 UFO Case The Varginha, Brazil Tale of Stinky Extraterrestrials Stirs Up UFO Crowd in Brazil - WSJ Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO

Time to talk Dinosaurs again! Surprisingly YEC free this week.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Dog and the Dinosaur A Tale from Africa. The Times, November 17, 1919 Dragon Of The Prime. The Times, December 12, 1919. Malayan tapir - Wikipedia Triceratops: Facts about the Three-horned Dinosaur | Live Science. Brontosaurus - Wikipedia Structure and Relationships of Opisthoccelian Dinosaurs Part I. Elmer S. Riggs, 1903 The Brontosaurus Tale. Daily Mail, December 12, 1919. Brontosaurus Hunt. Daily Mail, December 17, 1919. War Dog to Track Brontosaurus. Daily Mail, December 15, 1919. Sauropod tails: up or down? | Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings Manospondylus: Diplodocus: A history of reconstructions - Part 1 Old Lady's Appeal for Monster's Life, Daily Mail. December 24, 1919 The Brontosaurus. Daily Mail. December 16, 1919 Brothers of the Brontosaurus. Daily Mail. December 17, 1919 The Brontosaurus. The Times. February 23, 1920. The Brontosaurus. Daily Mail. December 22, 1919.

Brandon tries to get John angry this week with some YEC stuff, but it's laughably fake.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Acambaro Figures - Famous Fakes and Frauds World Site of Dinosaur Figurines of Mexico: evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted! The Immense Collection of Strange Acambaro Figurines: Evidence of Dinosaurs Living Among Us? | Ancient Origins Acámbaro Figures - Fake Archaeology Expedition Magazine | Mystery at Acámbaro, Mexico: Did Dinosaurs Coexist with Humans?

We're back to Bigfoot, kinda. Hairy hominids, giant feet, and weird mockumentaries are on the menu as we take a trip to the tropics.   John as an epic describing his experiences in New York City; Skip to about 20 minutes or so if you want the Hawaiian Bigfoot gos.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.gg/AWpen8aYQG Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Bigfoot Sightings and Density of the US with Biomes John's Version of the Bigfoot Map In Search of Hawaiian Bigfoot 🤙 The Maui Skunk Ape Aikanaka (mythology) - Wikipedia Bigfoot: The Aikanaka of Wahiawa, Hawaii 1973...and the Obake Files... Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids Bigfoot Encounters Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawai'I (Chicken Skin Series): 9781566472241: Grant, Glen: Books Kawelo DOLE GIANT: (HAWAII, USA) | Cryptopia - Exploring The Hidden World Aikanaka Destination Truth season 7 | Idea Wiki Height-to-Foot-Size Ratio | livestrong The Menehune of Polynesia and other mythical little people of Oceania - Luomala, Katharine Hawaiian Mythology by Martha Beckwith Koke'e State Park's Headless Bigfoot

This week, John begins the podcast by talking about Dilbert,  shock images, and the nightmare that is the internet culture of the aughts. Then we get to Brandon's bread and butter: globsters and dolphin sex chains.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Con Rit | New Cryptozoology Wiki What Are The Con Rít? Hebrides Blob | Cryptid Wiki Hebrides blob - EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki Marine mammals of Vietnam: a preliminary checklist : Smith et al. Inside Vietnam's Whale Temples | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine

This week we almost have a perfect segue, but John was derailed by a card game.  The true horror though is the explanation for this week's creature.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Not Deer | Cryptid Wiki Have A Magical Day — What do you mean by That's Not A Deer in the… Not Deer, or a Deer? | Skeptical Inquirer i don't think that's a deer #notdeer #paranormal #creepy #fypシ | deer | TikTok Some Nightvale Shit - Tumblr More about the Not-Deer! #cryptid #cryptidencounter #NotDeer #deor #wo... | TikTok Not Deer stories : r/Appalachia These deer will not let me have a normal cemetery experience. 😳 #notdeer #spookytok #excusemewhat #nope  Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) | Prion Diseases | CDC The Truth Behind The Not Deer Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation EHD Deer Deaths - Outdoor Life

It's a GOOd thing we had time in our schedule to record an emergency episode. Here's a shorter one this week because technical difficulties is our tagline at this point. Also we're talking about goo.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- BAFFLING BLACK BLOB BUSHWHACKS UNWARY MOTORISTS Fakta La Mancha Negra, Zat Hitam Misterius di Jalanan Venezuela Blob of sticky goo spreading on roads terrifies Venezuelan drivers The Mystery Of The Deadly Black Blob | The Seattle Times Venezuela's Mysterious La Mancha Negra Is Still Unexplained La Mancha Negra - Wikipedia

I hope you're ready to hear John talk about Ontology and falsifiability for half an hour this week because that's what you'll get.  Brandon and John explore the concept of lost media concerning cryptids, revisiting a topic from this podcast's past.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Guide to Cryptid Lost Media : r/Cryptozoology The Lost Media Wiki O parádivé Sally aka "Clock Man" (found Czech animated short film; 1976) - The Lost Media Wiki Cracks aka "Crack Master" (found animated "Sesame Street" short; 1975) - The Lost Media Wiki Nonexistent Objects (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Karl Popper (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) ThunderbirdPhoto - YouTube  The Cryptid Lost Media Iceberg - Truth is Scarier Than Fiction Tombstone Epitaph Article Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Thunderbirds SAGA. May 1963. Thunderbird art by John McDermott | A classi… | Flickr Weird Arizona  - Thunderbird Tombstone Thunderbird Photo| Lost Media Wiki The Citizen, May 31, 1901 Prasad, Deepasri, and Wilma A. Bainbridge. "The Visual Mandela Effect as evidence for shared and specific false memories across people." Psychological Science 33.12 (2022): 1971-1988. Jack Pearl Author Bio http://www.strangemag.com/strangemag/strange21/thunderbird21/thunderbird6_21.html Ivan T. Sanderson - Wikipedia Abominable Snowmen Index A New Routine Tool?: Direct Methods in Crystallography. M. M. Woolfson. Oxford University Press, New York, 1961. viii + 144 pp. Illus. 30s. | Science Bigfoot at 50 Evaluating a Half-Century of Bigfoot Evidence Two feet from Clearwater's past, father's funny legacy leaves a deep impression  Ancient Astronauts  The lost thunderbird photo 2: A bird by any other name, father(s) of cryptozoology, and Propaganda : r/UnresolvedMysteries Interview with a Cryptid Hunter | Canada History and Mystery A GUIDEBOOK TO HIDDEN ANIMALS ShukerNature: THE SPINY-BACKED CHIMPANZEE – A CONGOLESE CHUPACABRA CHIMP!

We open this week to talk about being too high and why the UFO hearings were lame. For the story, Brandon has something a little different for us this week as we take a detour into alternate histories with the Newark Holy Stones.   As a warning, we talk about some pretty flagrant racism in this episode as it relates to the episode topic.   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Newark Holy Stones - Episode 7 — Pseudo-Archaeology Bush: The battle over the Newark holy stones' story The Newark, Ohio Decalogue Stone and Keystone Lost Tribes? A Jewish Look at the Berkshires' Original Residents. Newark Holy Stones - Wikipedia Hebrew in America? | Mormon Heretic ICT - Conspiracy theories threaten Native sacred sites Genesis and Polygenesis | Encyclopedia.com

We're back on that fearsome critter grind this week. John finally covers the namesake of one of the Patreon tiers. Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Fearsome Critters Man and beast in American comic legend - Richard Dorson Chasing the jackalope Jackalope Hunting Licenses! The Legend of the Jackalope | Douglas, WY - Official Website Douglas Herrick, 82; on a Whim He Created 'Jackalope' - Myrna Oliver  Jackalope - Wikipedia Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope | WIRED Douglas Herrick, 82, Dies; Father of West's Jackalope - Douglas Martin. Jackalope fans, take note: Your mythical beast really does exist Life-histories of northern animals : an account of the mammals of Manitoba - Ernest Seton INFECTIOUS PAPILLOMATOSIS OF RABBITS - PMC Lepus, Hase; Lepus Cornutus; Cuniculæ porcellæ Indicæ, Kaninich, Kuniglein. - NYPL's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search Do horned rabbits really exist ? - Papillomatosis Plate 47: A Hare, Jackalope, a Rabbit, and a Spotted Squirrel  Image 132 of The Wonders of Creation.  Śūraṅgama Sūtra - Wikipedia Wolpertinger Wolpertinger - Wikipedia INFECTIOUS PAPILLOMATOSIS OF RABBITS | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press The rabbit papillomavirus model: a valuable tool to study viral–host interactions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

This week we're talking Zoophytes and a multi-century game of telephone. Stay tuned until the end for details on a new venture that Brandon has been heading up for the podcast!   Merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cryptopediamerch Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant - Henry Lee Animal or Vegetable? Legend of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary - Scientific American Blog Network

Today we talk about the greatest tuckshop heist of all time in Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994. Also, there are some aliens?   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The 1994 Ruwa Zimbabwe Alien Encounter Ariel School - Three-Dollar Kit Demystifying Zimbabwean Newspaper and Television Content Available to the Children of Ariel School in September 1994 - Giddierone MUFON December 1994 UFO AFRINEWS 11 UFO AFRINEWS 12 Ariel School UFO Landing Incident - Ruwa, Zimbabwe Drawings Compilation v2 - Album on Imgur Arielphenomenon.com The Ruwa Incident - 62 pupils witness ufo landing Demystifying Zimbabwean Newspaper and Television Content Available to the Children of Ariel School in September 1994 - Giddierone Mack’s Harvard Tenure Reportedly Threatened By Faculty Investigation Rencontre rapprochée à Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994 ? Ariel Case, Zimbabwe (1994): A neglected Hypothesis or disregarded Assumption... (In French). The Ariel School UFO: A Dust Devil? Abduction - John Mack Passport to the Cosmos - John Mack Rencontre rapprochée à Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994 ? Quelques Contre-Tons... The Mysterious Events at Ariel School, Zimbabwe - 16 Sept 1994 - Giddierone The Mysterious Events at Ariel School, Zimbabwe - 16 Sept 1994 - Part 2 - Giddierone   Salvaging Salyut 7 Risky Mission in Space : Pravda Says Cosmonauts Revived ‘Dead’ Salyut 7

This time, Brandon's computer is in flames, and we talk Soviet era space stations.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Russian Cosmonauts Saw 30-Meter Tall-Aliens Smiling At Them In Space During 1980 Flight Of Salyut-7 - Journal News Salyut 7: Space Angels Sighted by Russian Cosmonauts - Space Angels: Aliens or Sign of the Apocalypse? Salyut 7 - Wikipedia The Salyut 7 Incident – Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? - UFO Insight Angel-Like UFOs seen near the Sun by NASA SOHO » Cryptoworld The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station | Ars Technica The Salyut 7 Incident – Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? - UFO Insight Salvaging Salyut 7 Risky Mission in Space : Pravda Says Cosmonauts Revived ‘Dead’ Salyut 7

It's Shark Week on Cryptopedia, as we talk bad "documentaries" and shark penis.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/   --- Megalodon: the truth about the largest shark that ever lived | Natural History Museum Megalodon - Wikipedia Megalodon (bivalve) - Wikipedia Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives | Shows | Discovery+ School bus - Wikipedia Full article: The size of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), revisited The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic superpredator: Inferences from 3D modeling | Science Advances This is What Michael Phelps’ Olympic Diet Was Actually Like Livyatan - Wikipedia Sharks’ teeth are falling! Sharks’ teeth are falling! The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade: Historical Biology Age of Carcharodon megalodon? HMS Challenger (1858) - Wikipedia “Recent” Otodus megalodon teeth – Incertae Sedis Does Megalodon Still Live? The Megalodon | M/C Journal Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the world's oceans - PMC Megalodon Bites Back -- How the Discovery Channel Sank Its Credibility | HuffPost Impact It Came From Basic Cable Discovery Channel defends Shark Week 'Megalodon' special | CNN Discovery’s Megalodon Defense? ‘We Don’t Know,’ Or ‘We Don’t Care’ Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline | Natural History Museum Sharks: Denizens of the Deep | Answers in Genesis

This week we're talking Cadborosaurus and it has surprisingly little talk about Young Earth Creationism.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Case of the Cadborosaurus Carcass: a Review — Tetrapod Zoology Without a specimen, Cadborosaurus remains a myth, scientist says - Victoria Times Colonist Cadborosaurus Gulf of Alaska Carcass | It's Something Wiki

Easter and anniversaries foiled our schedule this week, so here's an older episode to fill the feed and as a refresher for White Things. Back when we recorded two episodes in a recording session and had things like time. --- Produced By: Brandon Boyer Art: Tom Hill Website: cryptopediacast.com Patreon --- The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales White Things: West Virginia's Weird White Monsters Grafton West Virginia, Wikipedia Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, Loren Coleman Mothman wiki entry on the Grafton Monster Sister Lakes Bigfoot Mountain Monsters Grafton Monster

We're talking about Skinwalkers at the Pentagon again, but this time with 90% less discussion of how government contracts work!   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Skinwalkers At The Pentagon: An Insiders Account Of The Secret Government UFO Program -  James Lacatski D.Eng, Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., and George Knapp Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia What is an Orb? Orbs of Light Explained | Haunted Rooms® Hashimoto's disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic Unforgettable Uri Geller Appearance | Carson Tonight Show

This week Brandon takes John to Falkville to talk about Charles Entertainment Cheese, tin foil, and jeggings.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Detailed Report of Jeff Greenhaw's Falkville Incident Alien Encounter Testimonial Metal Man | Cryptid Wiki Metal Man of Falkville | New Cryptozoology Wiki The Metal Man of Falkville Reddit Post Do you believe in the Metal Man? - The Cullman Tribune Robert Summerford Obituary (2007) - Falkville, AL - Decatur Daily

John read a terrible book, so it's time for the Cryptopedia book club, this time it's Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. It turns out UAP research is a questionable use of government funds; who would have guessed?   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Skinwalkers At The Pentagon: An Insiders Account Of The Secret Government UFO Program -  James Lacatski D.Eng, Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., and George Knapp Harry Reid - Wikipedia Political positions of Harry Reid - Wikipedia Mormon cosmology - Wikipedia Bigelow’s Aerospace and Saucer Emporium - Robert Sheaffer Robert Bigelow - Wikipedia. Skinwalker Ranch - Wikipedia Skeptic » Reading Room » Claims About a Government “UFO Program”: How Much is True? Anachronism: Wag the UFO The Hunt for the Skinwalker Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program - The New York Times Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program

This week Brandon somehow manages to make an episode out of a lean cephalopod cryptid and successfully derails John for at least an hour with an academic paper.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Legend of the Oklahoma Octopus (READ THE COMMENTS) The Oklahoma Octopus Drowning rate highest in years Drownings in Oklahoma have more than tripled compared to this time last year Drowning Data | Drowning Prevention | CDC Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? - ScienceDirect

We're back after a bit of a break to talk folklore. I hope you're ready for hoaxes and double hoaxes, because this episode has them in spades.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have [questionable] captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Ozarks - Wikipedia We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks, Randolph Vance 'Ozark Howler' sighting at Devils Den? Game & Fish say photos are a 'hoax' Unlock The Ozarks - Stories - Folklore, Legends, & Myths - Ozark Howler Ozark Howler | Cryptid Wiki Ozark Superstitions | Randolph Vance Daniel Boone and the Ozark Howler  A letter written by Daniel Boone The Ozark Howler | Expedition X | Discovery The Ozark Howler - Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma "Haunted Highway" Utah Skinwalker/Ozark Howler (TV Episode 2012) - IMDb Cryptomundo » Ozark Howler: Faux Cryptozoologie The Double Hoax - Cached Tales of the Ozark Howler: Ashton, Saul, Cornus, Hawthorne Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo - Encyclopedia of Arkansas Podcast Uncovers Ozark Howler Government Conspiracy

We know these aren't technically cannibal plants, but there's a fun rhyme in there, and you can't stop us. Brandon closes out 2022 with a grab bag of the various carnivorous plants he's uncovered in his research.   We're skipping next time's episode for the holiday season, but we'll see you all again in 2023.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- 2007, Oct 18: Cow-Eating Tree Reported in India | Anomalies: the Strange & Unexplained Pili Mara (a.k.a. the "Cow-Eating Tree") | Monsters Here & There Cow-Eating Tree | Cryptid Wiki. Sea and land : an illustrated history of the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the deluge / : Buel, James W. (James William), 1849-1920. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Cândido Rondon - Wikipedia Uncultivated native plants used as sources of food

We take a short break, and the world's fallen apart even more.  To make matters "worse," this might be the dumbest subject we've ever talked about.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Create Paranormal Images - The Something Awful Forums Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet - Kindle edition by Blank, Trevor J., McNeill, Lynne S.. The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life - Kindle edition by Redfern, Nick. Something Awful - Wikipedia Roger Caillois - Wikipedia Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology  Original Mythos - Slender Man Arkive The Slender Man | Creepypasta Wiki Der Ritter (The Knight), c. 1526 Fear Doirich - Wikipedia Slender Man on Coast to Coast Tulpa - Wikipedia sprul pa Research Note Tracking the Tulpa Tulpamancy - Vice Slender Man stabbing - Wikipedia

The spooky season creeps into November this week as Brandon and John talk about poltergeist activity in Canada. We also discuss the secrets of Baja Blast.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- The Great Amherst Mystery, 1888 – Circulating Now from NLM Great Amherst Mystery - Wikipedia The Great Amherst Mystery: Canada’s Most Famous Poltergeist The Great Amherst Mystery: A True Narrative of the Supernatural

It's Halloween, so this week, we're covering a haunted house that happens to be in our backyard. The weird thing, though, is neither of us has heard anything about the place.   Content warning: discussion of child death and death by suicide.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): http://youtube.cryptopediacast.com/ --- Hudson Valley Haunts: Historic Driving Tours: 9780764331732: Zimmerman, Linda: Books The Haunted Shanley Hotel Ulster County, New York - Wikipedia Shanley Hotel (Permanently Closed), New York (+1 845-467-7056) Ghost.Hunters_"Well of Horror" s07-e17 - Video Dailymotion Ghost stories scare up a new life at these historic hotels Ghost Hunters: Haunted House Stories Ft. Abandoned Prison & Shanley Hotel| A&E Our Unforgettable Haunted Experience | Shanley Hotel THE HAUNTED SHANLEY HOTEL - 83 Photos & 32 Reviews - 56 Main St, Napanoch, NY - Yelp I didn't believe in ghosts until I spent a night alone at the notoriously haunted Shanley Hotel - Roadtrippers Shanley Hotel Ghost cat By Stephen Barcelo Gift Shop - The Haunted Shanley Hotel List of Ghost Hunters episodes - Wikipedia THE HAUNTED SHANLEY HOTEL - 83 Photos & 32 Reviews - 56 Main St, Napanoch, NY - Yelp Hotel restoration effort heralds Napanoch revival – Daily Freeman.

You read the title right folks, this week Brandon has the boiling blood but literally! Is this week's creature a bonafide mud-squid or is GM being shady?   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Mystery of the Indiana Oil Pit Squid from Anderson is an interesting read! Wanna See something Weird? — The Oil Pit Squid is a small squid-like creature... Oil Pit Squid | Cryptid Wiki Oil Pit Squid - Freshwater Monster - ALPF Medical Research Creature in Plant 9, Anderson, Indiana https://nolandda.org/strangeness Man Sings Journey Jail but Cops Don't Stop Believin He's DUI

We finally cover the scholastic book fair alumnus Ogopogo.   Because there's a lot of talk about colonization check out these podcasts to learn more about modern perspectives from people who aren't the whitest guys you know: https://youtube.com/channel/UCcbCdJwIdDxEorSGKYaITsQ https://open.spotify.com/show/3MX6m88XlF2eLVIIBBLZoz?si=a73a489086b74aa7   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA ---   Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths , Naish, Darren Ogopogo the Chameleon | Skeptical Inquirer Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 30 No. 1 (Ogopogo: The Lake Okanagan Monster - Joe Nickell) Ogopogo Has Vanished(The Champion chronicle 1931-06-04) The history of Okanagan Lake Okanagan Lake - Wikipedia Syilx Okanagan Nation Okanagan - Wikipedia History of the Okanagan Indian Band Indigenous Communities Get the Rights of “Ogopogo”, the Canadian Cousin of the Loch Ness Monster Don’t call him Ogopogo, call him by his name, Nx̌ax̌aitkʷ’, says Syilx Elder The Okanagan name born from settler folklore —IndigiNews When starting a business and COVID-19 collide The Okanagan name born from settler folklore —IndigiNews Okanagan History Canada’s mysterious lake monster - BBC Travel Cryptozoology A To Z: The Encyclopedia Of Loch Monsters Sasquatch Chupacabras And Other Authentic M Kindle Edition Ogopogo - Wikipedia The Ogo-Pogo: The Funny Fox-Trot - Wikisource, the free online library File:Ogopogo Song Paul Whiteman Orchestra.ogg 'Ogopogo' Sightings Coleman journal 1930-09-18 (Ogopogo Still Lives) Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake | Canadiana Connection Ogopogo Monster – Lake Okanogan | Canada History and Mystery Folden Film Demara Footage

This week we talk about tiny aliens and dirty Napoleonic letters.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Stowell Primary School UFO Incident in Bukit Mertajam 1970 The Weird Invasion Of Miniature Aliens In Malaysia | Journal Online

We take a trip to the mid-west to talk about werewolves and the most dangerous cryptid of all: teenagers in rural areas.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- King Lycaon in Greek Mythology The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf Elkhorn, Wisconsin - Wikipedia City of Elkhorn History The Beast of Bray Road | Cryptidz Watch The Bray Road Beast | Prime Video Was This Wisconsin Town Terrorized by a Werewolf - Doris Gipson Interview Tracking down 'The beast of Bray Road' Linda Godfrey Moon Phases The Haunted Closet: The Golden Book of the Mysterious (1976) Animal Locomotion and Track Patterns ========================= Why Ancient Aliens are problematic Dogon people - Wikipedia Marcel Griaule - Wikipedia Root race - Wikipedia Voltaire - Wikipedia Jean Sylvain Bailly - Wikipedia Atlantis, Carli and Bailly, and a short discussion about ‘demonstration’ in cultural astronomy Dogon people - RationalWiki Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies] | Current Anthropology: Vol 32, No 2

It's Brandon's favorite topic this week: Globsters. In reality, it's just a trojan horse for young earth creationist conspiracy theories.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- The Zuiyo-Maru “Catch” | Genesis Park The Sea Monster of Santa Cruz Zuio Maru monster - basking shark Gambo | Cryptid Wiki 3 More Sea Monster Carcasses and Their Explanations Cryptid Profile: Gambo (AKA: The Sea Monster of West Africa or The Beast of Bungalow Beach) — THE PINE BARRENS INSTITUTE

This week we explore another mysterious triangle, but perhaps it's less mysterious than the internet would have you believe.   Trigger Warnings: Discussions of murder, abuse, depression, and self harm   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Unraveling the Unsolved Disappearances of the Bennington Triangle - pop culture The Bennington Triangle — Paranormal Catalog Bennington Triangle - Wikipedia Bennington Triangle, Vermont – Legends of America The Bennington Triangle's Creepy Disappearances Are Still Baffling Today The Bennington Monster – Obscure Vermont Glastenbury, Vermont - Wikipedia Middie Rivers disappearance clippings · Western CT State University Archives' Digital Collections Paula Jean Welden - Wikipedia Paula Jean Welden Disappears and the Vermont State Police Are Born - New England Historical Society The Biggest Theories About Paula Jean Welden's Disappearance: What Really Happened? Mountain Names: Remembering their Aboriginal Origins The Mountains Through a Different Cultural Lens: An Abenaki Perspective Weird New England - Bennington Triangle The Bennington Triangle: Is This Vermont's Bermuda? Creation Story and The Importance Of Dreaming - An Abenaki Legend Gici Niwaskw (Tabaldak), the Wabanaki Creator Six Strange Rocks of New England, From the Eubrontes to the Man-eating Stone of Glastonbery The Bennington Triangle and the Man-Eating Stone of Glastonbury Mountain The Bennington Monster – Obscure Vermont Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries James E Tedford The Man Vanished Into Thin Air - Basic Trendy The Bizarre Spontaneous Vanishing of James Tedford from a Moving Bus "Terminal burrowing behaviour"--a phenomenon of lethal hypothermia

Join us on a short romp through various spectral bovine bugbears. Warning: there's a lot of alliteration in this one.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- The Legend of the Griggstown Cow | NJ.gov Griggstown Cow | Cryptid Wiki The Bizarre Case of the Griggstown, New Jersey Ghost Cow Remembering the Griggstown Ghost Cow | Weird Animal Report Misty Halloween Was the Perfect Time to See the Griggstown 'Ghost Cow' Ghost Cows of Farm Road 511 – Brownsville Ghost Cows - Brownsville, Texas The Cambria County Ghost Cow | Paranormal World Wiki

This week Brandon unveils his ARG for the world to see, and John takes a trip to the Japanese sea for a listener requested Yōkai .   Note: There was an equipment failure at the end of the episode, and John's audio got messed up, but Brandon was able to salvage it.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Umibōzu – The Sea Monk | 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai Umibōzu - Wikipedia 海坊主 - Wikipedia Umi bōzu | Yokai.com Funayūrei - Wikipedia Japanese Death Legends and Vernacular Culture Rogue wave - Wikipedia

We take a trip to the dark corners of the internet to dredge up a cryptid. To err is human, but what is the Ningen?   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Ningen | Cryptid Wiki Cryptomundo - Ningen The Ningen: Myth, Monster or Make Believe? Limitless Possibilities: Decemystery (2019) 29: Ningen Mirror - Mysterious blubbery monster Mythical humanoid monster 'caught on camera' in icy water off Antarctica - Daily Star Ancient Code - These are the Ningen The Giant Humanoids of Antarctica The Ningen: Monster of the Antarctic Ningen - 4chan /x/ Greentext

This week we're talking about the Warrens and one of their most infamous cases. Also, John rewatched Godzilla 1998 after recording this episode, and despite some truly terrible dialog, it is in fact a decent kaiju movie.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- NESPR | Annabelle Raggedy Ann - Wikipedia The Paranormal to Pop Culture Pipeline | Religion Dispatches

We're back (again)! Life keeps on marching on and sometimes episodes get lost in scheduling. This time, however, we're doing something a bit different. We're talking about a crock of nonsense that got some people killed.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Fate of the Crocker Land Expedition | Natural History Magazine   Crocker Land: The Legendary Arctic Island That Didn't Actually Exist | Mental Floss

We're back! John has a story that takes up the first 25 minutes because his nerdy ass got mono at age 30. Then we talk about one of the most exhausting human beings this podcast has ever covered.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- ROBERT THE DOLL Robert The Doll - Key West, FL The Story Behind the World's Most Terrifying Haunted Doll - Atlas Obscura Robert The Doll: Sloan, David L.: 9780978992187: Amazon.com: Books Robert (doll) - Wikipedia Steiff.com Skeptic » Podcasts » MonsterTalk » Episode Notes for Demon Dolls (episode 114) Wood wool - Wikipedia Old Town Manor Robert Gene Otto, Himself |

So this episode takes about 20 minutes to reach the cryptid, but John read the synopsis of Spice World and that was his whole day. Which honestly leads perfectly into this week's cryptid, Cryptopedia Discord favorite: Goatman.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA   --- The Legend of the Goatman of Prince George's County The Legend Behind the Goatman of Prince George's County | College Park, MD Patch Maryland Goatman | New Cryptozoology Wiki The Terrifying Goatman Who Haunts Maryland | by Hdogar | Lessons from History | Medium The Austin American Maryland's Goatman Is Half Man, Half Goat, and Out for Blood - Modern Farmer Phantoms and Monsters - Real Eyewitness Cryptid Encounter Reports: Supposed 'Maryland Goatman' Observed by Two Witnesses

This week Brandon and John return to Japan to cover the Onryō John actually wanted to cover a month ago. There's some additional discussion of the next generation of night vision technology and its implications.   Also as a reminder, every Onryō episode is going to feature death somewhat prominently.     Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- The Book of Yokai Kuchisake-onna - Wikipedia Kuchisake onna | Yokai.com 口裂け女 - Wikipedia Did You Hear the Story About…Kuchisake-onna (Slit Mouthed Woman) | Pen and Kink Publishing Global Ghosts: 7 Tales of Specters From Around the World - The Atlantic Kuchisake-Onna 「私きれい？」黒髪美女の正体は...都市伝説・口裂け女の発祥に迫る！ Japanese Urban Legends from the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” to “Kisaragi Station” | Nippon.com Inside Japanese Cram Schools Japanese Urban Legends: Kuchisake-onna | Kowabana 飛騨川バス転落事故 - Wikipedia Host and hostess clubs - Wikipedia Kuchi ga Saketemo Kimi ni wa (Even If You Slit My Mouth) | Manga - MyAnimeList.net

This week we talk about a vampire cat, but Brandon wrote this one so expect far fewer Cheetor jokes. We also create a Scooby Doo spin-off, so Warner Brothers you know who to call.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Beast of Bladenboro - Wikipedia The Beast of Bladenboro | North Carolina Ghosts The Beast of Bladenboro | North Carolina Ghosts The Beast of Bladenboro | Laurinburg Exchange Vampire Beast | Cryptid Wiki North Carolina The Robesonian - Jan 5, 1954 The Robesonian - Jan 13, 1954 Here Is Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About The Vampire Beast Of Bladenboro

Trigger Warning: This episode talks about a play including instances of abuse, murder, suicide, and rape.   Grab your time machines and some PBR, we're gonna get a front stage seat at the play best described as Edō Cops. Also, there's a ghost, spoopy.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- The Book of Yokai Japan's Onryō Spirits Inhabit a Purgatory of Revenge and Cosmic Rage - Atlas Obscura Onryō - Wikipedia Tatari Japanese Wikipedia Tatari - Japanese Wiki Corpus Yokai - Oiwa Lady Oiwa: Japan's Most Terrifying Onryō - Association of Paranormal Study Shinrei spot: Oiwa-Inari Tamiya Shrine, Yotsuya | MEAT Yotsuya Kaidan - Wikipedia YOTSUYA KAIDAN

This week Brandon and John talk about an SCP that's too sexy for its own good. Then we talk about someone being incredibly dumb, so yeah, another typical episode.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA --- Does the U-28 Creature Exist? The Case of the U-28 Creature U-28 Creature | Cryptid Wiki U-28 ABOMINATION: (ATLANTIC OCEAN) | Cryptopia - Exploring The Hidden World SM U-28 (Germany) - Wikipedia Did The U-28 See A Sea Monster? | northatlanticblog SOLVED: The mystery of the First World War U-Boat condemned to the depths after being 'savaged by a sea monster' | Daily Mail Online

This week Brandon continues to articulate his love for Sumo, while John gets in the weeds again.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340   Youtube (Videos have captions!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzLzwcqcjvG1WgTASWZ7PA   --- What is Kabbalah? | Reform Judaism Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present Legion (demons) - Wikipedia Dybbuk - Wikipedia The Dybbuk - Wikipedia Sefer Raziel HaMalakh - Wikipedia Spirit possession: Jews don’t do that, do they? The Dibbuk Box The Dybbuk box - Wikipedia Haunted Dybbuk Box Won on eBay Caused New Owner 'Tidal Wave of Bad Luck' | Travel Channel https://bloody-disgusting.com/the-further/3598910/viral-horrors-investigating-ebays-infamous-dybbuk-box/ The Dibbuk Box | Skeptical Inquirer Finally, the truth behind the 'haunted' Dybbuk Box can be revealed Little box of horrors | EW.com Zak Bagans' Dybbuk Box conquered during quarantine | Las Vegas Review-Journal 'Ghost Adventures: Quarantine' — Is Zak Bagans Really Going to Open The Dybbuk Box Tonight? The second Dybbuk Box auction Post Malone's bad luck put down to 'haunted' object - BBC News

The holidays are over and Brandon is spoiling the latest Matrix movie in the first 15 minutes. Join us as we take a trip to Ireland where you can hear us do terrible accents and really earn that explicit tag. Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 --- The myths and legends of Ireland's hound of deep, the Dobhar Chu | IrishCentral.com Dobhar-chu The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Does prehistoric otter explain Dobhar-chú myth? - Independent.ie An Ancient Otter's Big Bite | Cleveland Museum of Natural History Feeding capability in the extinct giant Siamogale melilutra and comparative mandibular biomechanics of living Lutrinae | Scientific Reports

We're back from paternity leave! Brandon's bébé cracks the top 5 babies list, while John has an NDE. Get your tissues ready because this week we're talking boogeymen!   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 --- Boogeyman Definition & Meaning Bogeyman (Boogeyman or Boogie Man): Mythical Monster What Is The Original Boogeyman? This Is Why Looking Under Your Bed As A Kid Was So Dang Terrifying Bogeyman The Ragman | USC Digital Folklore Archives Horror For The Holidays: Meet The Anti-Santa What is the Krampuslauf? The Krampus in Styria: Folklore: Vol 69, No 1 Sinterklaas rituelen en tradities Zwarte Piet: Black Pete is 'Dutch racism in full display' | Racism Zwarte Piet Sack Man The real ragman: Before Escape from Tarkov, New Bedford remembers Rag-and-bone man How Dutch Anti-Racism Campaigners Took on 'Black Pete'

I literally don't even know where to begin on this one. We joke about The Mighty Boosh a lot, but this one broke your hosts.   At the time of uploading, we're awaiting news of the newest cryptid of the Cryptopedia family.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 --- Spontaneous Generation in Antiquity — TAPA 51:101‑115 (1920) Where Do Eels Come From? Why Nobody Knows How Eels Reproduce Nature Notes: The Journey of the Eel As American as ... the American Eel - Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket Japan researchers collect wild eel eggs for first time

We start the second century of Cryptopedia in style as Brandon brings us to North Carolina to tackle another lake monster and John adds yet another celebrity to the Cryptid cosmology.   Discord: https://discord.me/cryptopediacast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=14015340 --- Lake Norman Monster | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom Abandoned town, monster beneath NC lake: 6 eerie legends with real historic roots in NC :: WRAL.com Watch America's Monsters: Champ and Normie | Prime Video Lake Norman Monster Sightings Episode 126 - Normie (The Lake Norman Monster) – The Cryptid Keeper – Podcast 38 Years In the Making: Lake Norman began with the Cowans Ford Dam Duke nuclear plant releases radiation in accident Searching for the Monster of Lake Norman