It Gets Weird

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle takes Nile on a trip to Spain for some spooky season hauntings at Palace de Linares in Madrid! Did one obscenely wealthy family's terrible tragedy fuel the flames for a ghost-filled palace? Or is this just a cautionary tale about the bourgeoisie flaunting unbelievable wealth? What spirits lurk in the underground,  bedrooms, and life-size dollhouse of Palace de Linares? We discuss all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells Kyle all about a very special kind of cryptid lovingly referred to as a "globster." What is a globster, you ask? It's an awful lot like what you may already be imagining - a goopy, limbless, mostly featureless unknown creature. How did these weird blob-like animals mystify people for years and years as they washed up on shores around the world? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we finish (for now) the story of Ed Walters and his family's close and frequent encounters with UFO spacecraft. After twenty visitations by UFOs buzzing through Gulf Breeze, Florida, do Ed and Frances Walters get any answers about the phenomenon? Do we come to understand why these beings seem to focus on Ed? And after a $200,000 book deal, does Ed Walters's story of alien intrigue and mystery break the field of ufology wide open? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Ed and Frances Walters and their experience with a deluge of UFOs in the Gulf Breeze area during the 1980s. In this third episode, Ed continues to have absurd and up-close encounters with UFOs. This time, however, other people near Ed get to see the objects as well. With investigators from MUFON officially getting in on the story, will the Walters family finally get answers? Or will the UFO grift finally reveal itself? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the story of Ed and Frances Walters and their experience with a deluge of UFOs in the Gulf Breeze area during the 1980s. In this second part, Ed continues to be harassed by persistent UFOs and more bizarre details are tacked on with these experiences. Locals in the area also continue to write in to the newspaper with their own sightings and as the alien visitations intensify, Ed and Frances face a difficult question - is it time for Ed to go public about the UFO assault? All this and more!

Hey there friends and Weirdos! This week Jules steps in while Kyle is away as we talk about a documentary currently available on Shudder about the making of The Exorcist. The whole doc is an interview with Friedkin about his creative process and digging in to how he made various choices and where he found inspiration for this movie. We talk inspiration, the soothing power of organizing, and Friedkin's one admitted 'flaw' in the movie. All this and much more on this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Kyle begins the journey through the tale of the Gulf Breeze UFO encounters of Ed Walters starting in the 1980s. We talk the Oprah interview, some tactics for dealing with aliens, and try to figure out what daytime talkshow hosts are alive. All this and much more in this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week on It Gets Weird Nile recounts the tale of an Arizona hotel and how it went from speakeasy and lounge to one of the most haunted locations in the state. The hotel (which just so happens to be located off of the infamous Route 66) has a veritable grab bag of spooky stuff - spectral mafia men, disembodied crying babies, and the souls of two murdered women who don't take kindly to men visiting the room they were killed in. We talk all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week on It Gets Weird Kyle tells Nile the story of Frank Edwards, a pioneer of news radio and an important figure in the early days of ufology. How did Edwards go from traveling with a snake oil salesman around Illinois to becoming a prominent UFO reporter and in the top three radio shows in the nation? We talk his involvement in the Kenneth Arnold sighting of 1947, the Washington Fly-Over of 1952, and how he got wrapped up in a ufologist conspiracy postmortem. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes Kyle and Jules on a journey to the East India Trading Company to tell the tale of ghostly ship captain, the Flying Dutchman! Was a remarkable but overly ambitious Dutch sailor become cursed with undeath? Was he approached by an angel when he wouldn't chill out? Will he ever be able to deliver his letter to his loved one? The big lesson of this episode - don't mess with mysterious ghost ships, especially the Dutchman. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle guides us through the various giant mosquito cryptids from around the world. From creatures the size of an eagle, to blood-suckers the size of a human man, we talk big bugs bugs doing big bug things. Can you keep all that tasty blood inside your body? We also discuss our favorite bugs, to-scale weapons, and how a mosquito deals with The Thing of John Carpenter's The Thing fame. All this and more on this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue the exploration of alien implant research with the story of badass alien hunter, Derrell Sims! Is Derrell Sims the hero in the fight against evil extraterrestrial forces humanity needs, or is he simply the hero humanity deserves? How did one man rule over the Houston UFO Network and eventually end up a mainstay of Discovery channel alien television? We talk exotic animal handling, drama in the UFO community, and the exciting new It Gets Weird rebrand. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile experiences the 2013 documentary 'Mirage Men' for the first time with Kyle revisiting it alongside him. Directed by John Lundberg and written by Mark Pilkington (author of the book by the same name), Mirage Men explores the mythology of UFOs in America, focusing on the relationship this mythology has to a man named Richard Doty. We talk UFO disinformation, government distrust, the grand UFO conspiracy, and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we are joined by friend of the show Jules as Nile dives into the world of alien implants and their removal. We talk feet doctors, an old episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit! and some alien implant researcher drama. All this and more on this week's It Gets Weird!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle investigates another "living dinosaur" cryptozoological conspiracy theory. Does a crocodile-like dinosaur still stalk the deep, open ocean, attacking and killing whales as its prey? What is this mysterious creature that's come to be called "Whale Eater," and is this enormous predator the perpetrator behind a whale crime that occurred on the English coast in 2012? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile continues to tell the story of the mysterious airship sightings at the turn of the 20th century. In part two, we focus on the Aurora, Texas "airship" crash and learn how these sightings have been brought into the continuity of ufology. Also, Kyle pitches himself as a really good youth pastor, and we learn all about his steampunk airship garage. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile begins part one of an investigation of  a slew of mystery airship sightings between 1896 and 1897 across the United States. Were eccentric wannabe aviators causing a ruckus, or was it all a big, elaborate prank performed by a prankster society? Or was it, like many UFO enthusiasts such as Jacques Vallée claim, some of the earliest recorded sightings of extraterrestrial spaceships? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Kyle teaches Nile about the history of Pennsylvania, how that history led to the localized practice of a Christian mysticism called "pow-wow", and how pow-wow is used to defend against a mysterious entity known as Trotterhead. What the hell is Trotterhead and how can you defend your livestock and farmhouse from him? Is he a Bedgoblin? A Night Hag? Does he even count as a cryptid? All of the above? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile tries to get to the bottom of the real life story that inspired the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist! Did one "Roland Doe" undergo a harrowing exorcism as a young boy, or were some of the details fudged? Did Jesuit and Catholic priests do battle with the Devil, resulting in a badass epic fight between Saint Michael and Satan himself, or is The Exorcist's inspiration a bit overblown? All this and more!

This week, Kyle tries to pull the wool over your eyes as we delve into two of the more famous creature hoaxes in history. We take a look at the Fiji Mermaid and the De Loys Ape while also discussing chimera, ape genitals and the joy of a good old-fashioned con man!