It Gets Weird

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!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile goes back to the "age-old" conspiracy of Flat Eartherism. Or...is it as old as the conspiracy theorists claim it is? Who was Samuel Robotham and how did a failed British Socialist commune open up the space for Sam's mission against accepted science? How did this creep's Flat Earth vision spread? Are you from the Dry Gollum Universe or the Wet Gollum Universe? All this and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle brings us back to the world of Japanese folklore by way of Yokai. We talk about the crossover of Shinto beliefs and the origins of Yokai, as well as a human-faced tree that bears unnerving fruits, the horse-based possession of a wealthy exotic meat-lover, a vengeful turtle ghost that sometimes doubles as the proprietor of a restaurant, and the horrible yokai-ification of a particularly unpleasant stomach bug...all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile gives us another alien primer on the "Nordic" alien phenomenon. Who are these tall, white aliens and why are they visiting Earth? Like so many extraterrestrial visitation truthers, it kinda depends on who you ask. Strangely enough, the whole gamut between hippies and racists are into the "tall white" alien race stories and they all have their own experiences with the intergalactic visitors. Are the Nordic aliens benevolent humanitarians, or is something more sinister lurking behind this mythology? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about the modern, living pterosaur cryptids, some of which that seem to be lurking at infamous US war crimes spot: Guantanamo Bay. Did a US marine witness a pair of supposedly extinct winged dinosaurs while "hanging out" at the base? What about the little girl who lived by the base as a child who claims to have seen a "flying dinosaur?" We also learn about the man who seems to be spearheading the campaign to disclose, uh, pterosaur "truths" to the public, as well as his odd means of disseminating information. All this and more!

This week the whole IGW extended crew (including Jules and Garrett) is back together again for a journey through some Mantis alien/cryptid encounters. 

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules gets to learn all about the phenomenon of disappearing towns as Nile takes her from Urkhammer, IA to Doveland, WI (not Texas) and much more. Then they take a detour on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and their exciting movie roles in another universe

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile and Jules hold down the fort while Kyle is gone by watching the HBOMax Original Documentary - Call Me, Miss Cleo. In this documentary episode, we learn about the life and history of television psychic medium, Miss Cleo. What is this documentary attempting to do? Is there any actual creative force or point of view in it, or is it just trying to give you some basic information and pad time with nostalgia? Oh also, do you remember Blow Pens? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle watched the infamously disastrous "documentary" UFO Cover-Up? Live! so you don't have to! We talk about how everything fell apart behind the scenes, plus the bizarre intelligence connections that had the producer of the UFO disclosure watching his back. Did smug serial liar Rick Doty collaborate with Bill Moore to turn this UFO program into a complete sham? We talk disinfo, disclosure, strawberry ice cream, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss a Maryland native cryptid known as the Snallygaster! Is the Snallygaster truly a dragon-like chimeric beast, or is it a regional catch-all term for a conceptual boogeyman? Or is it, perhaps, a scapegoat for illegal alcohol peddlers during prohibition? And is this creature locked in an eternal battle with its natural enemy, another cryptid known as the Dwayyo? We try to get to the bottom of what's true and what's not with this bizarre cryptozoological creature!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the truly bizarre experience of Karl Higdon, an oil production worker who claims to have met a humanoid extraterrestrial going by the name "Ausso One." Did this hapless human stumble onto an alien during a typical hunting trip? Did that alien take Karl and five elk all the way to a distant planet full of dazzling lights and monolithic towers? Or was it all just a bizarre drug trip in the middle of the woods? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discussed UFO crash retrieval and the work of Clifford Stone! What shadowy agencies are watching the skies and organizing to shutdown and reclaim downed extraterrestrial craft? Did ex-military Freedom of Information Act warrior Clifford Stone blow up the government's spot vis-a-vis recovered UFO tech, or is this just another alien psyop? Did project Moon Dust and Project Blue Fly exist, or is it all another conspiracy? We discuss all this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we do our final episode covering the life of Art Bell. In part two, we discuss the legacy of Coast To Coast AM and all the infamous broadcasts, callers, and controversies therein! We discuss a seemingly endless hole, black magic witches, the Halle-Bopp comet incident, and a panicked man trying to disclose secrets about Area 51 before it's too late...we talk Art Bell's legacy and the troubling end to his career. All this and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we get into part one of a two-part story about the life and legacy of the most infamous paranormal radio host of all time: Art Bell! Coast to Coast AM and Art Bell loom large over the World of Weird, and so in part one we talk about his life leading up to creating this paranormal talk show. We learn about Art's passion for HAM radio, Japan, and, uh...women, I guess. We also talk about Art's early radio career, going from Japanese entertainment and rock radio to the beloved talk show host of the weird and alien. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile tells us the story of the Van Meter Visitor, a bizarre pterodactyl-esque cryptid that terrorized small-town Iowa for five days! What sort of arcane ability allows a giant, winged humanoid to produce a bright, blinding light from a horn on its head? Was the town of Van Meter justified in collapsing a huge mine in their backyard to try and combat the creature? Where does the Visitor rank on the cryptid power rankings, à la Super Saiyan power levels? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we explore three stories of truly bizarre and un-classifiable aliens. Did weird, saluting, block-headed blob men land in a school teacher's backyard on a winter evening? Did two Japanese schoolchildren encounter wrinkly, fanged vampire-like extraterrestrials? And did a Canadian miner run afoul of three insectoid, cyclopean entities that commanded him to enact a sinister plot? And finally - can we build the perfect alien by throwing together some weird shapes and stuff? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our journey into the overview of exopolitics with an exploration of the so-called "galactic COINTELPRO." Roll your eyes as hard as you'd like, but there seem to be folks out there who consider the covert psychological operation known as COINTELPRO to be a smokescreen of smokescreens. Was the true goal of COINTELPRO to do a big spooky psyop on UFO and exopolitcal truthers? Probably not, but we try to get to the bottom of the story regardless. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes on the incredibly expansive topics known as "exopolitics." We focus on the work of a man named Michael Salla, the dude behind exopolitics.org. We see this term tossed around a ton in conspiracy and UFO circles, but what exactly are "exopolitics?" We attempt to define this term, discuss the inception of this idea and its history, alien abduction insurance, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the Dexter / Hillsdale Michigan UFO incident. It's 1966 and a farmer and his son find themselves confronted by a mysterious UFO in their front yard. This sighting leads to "mass hysteria" and a Project Blue Book investigation by the big man on campus, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. We also discuss smoking cigars indoors, quantum leaping to prevent the assassination of JFK, a Hoosiers DVD UFO, and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about the humble beginnings of the cryptid classic, our boy Bigfoot. We discuss the possible historical and mythological origins of bigfoot, ancient texts on big hairy guys, a sasquatch sad dad and his not-quite-nuclear cryptid family, and whether or not former president Teddy Roosevelt had a close encounter with a murderous bigfoot...all this and much more!