Welcome to the Cryptonaut Podcast hosted by Marc Storrs, Chris Carnicelli and Rob Morphy. Exploring everything from Aliens, Cryptozoology, Cryptids, Ghosts, Monsters, The Occult, Paranormal Phenomenon, UFOs, Ufology and Unsolved Mysteries .... all while keeping a close eye on our reptilian overlords that dwell in the flat, hallow, robot infested Earth. This is the Cryptonaut Podcast.
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#405: Arachnid Anarchy Part 1: Bio-Mechanical Behemoths And More!
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58:56Reactions to spiders can range from fear to fascination but, for an unlucky few, encounters with these surreal spider-like anomalies can not only strike terror, but leave those involved question not only their memories, but the very nature of reality. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast The Cryptonaut Podcast Me…
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#404: Malevolent Mud Mermaids Of Indiana
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1:03:12On the cusp of the 20th century, a group of horrified Hoosiers claimed to have encountered something utterly unexpected lurking in the murky, mud-filled depths of the paranormally plagued Ohio River; a group of vicious, quasi-reptilian humanoids that locals swiftly christened: “Mud Mermaids”. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c…
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#403: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 38: Ghosts, Ghouls And A Jawless Dog From Hell
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1:10:04From a kindhearted spirit tucking in a farm kid on a cold Washington night, to a reeking, rotting canine corpse haunting a California townhouse, and finally to a jealous Tennessee entity that hums, laughs, and floods rooms with blinding light—three firsthand encounters reveal the paranormal at its most tender, terrifying, and downright bizarre. The…
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#402: Hell On Ice Part 2: The Terrible Truth
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1:22:24In the 1990’s, a military doctor found himself serving in one of the most remote outposts on Earth: McMurdo Station, Antarctica. It would be during his 11-month stint that the doctor’s worldview would be shattered by a stupefying series of disclosures involving colossal kaiju, international intrigue, mad science, black budget genetic atrocities, ar…
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#401: Hell On Ice Part 1: Antarctic Abominations
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1:03:02To some, Antarctica is a pristine, windswept landscape filled with austere beauty. For others—especially those unlucky enough to stumble across its indigenous inhabitants—the continent at the bottom of the world is a frigid, Lovecraftian hellscape filled with baffling behemoths and flesh eating fiends so malefic they defy the imagination. The Crypt…
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#400: The Santa Cruz Conundrums: High Strangeness In Suburbia
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1:07:39In what has got to be one of the most bats**t crazy paranormal encounters on the books, a woman was relaxing in her Northern California home when she claimed to have encountered a bevy of increasingly bizarre beings, all of which coalesced into a whirlpool of metaphysical madness representing what may well be one of the last great paranormal vortex…
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#399: Demons From Down Under: Bunyips, Euroa Beasts And The Masterton Monster
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1:12:05In the decades preceding the 20th century, the murky depths of the lakes, rivers and swamps of Australia and New Zealand seemed to be infested with an array of abysmal—and extremely aggressive—unknown animals; moist monstrosities which have forever etched themselves on the global psyche. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/crypto…
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#398: Invasion Mexico: The La Rumorosa Incident
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1:05:13On an impulsive excursion into the Mexican wilds, three teenagers would confront not only deadly snakes and the ominous prospect of being lost in the woods after dark, but something much more insidious; an armada of UAP and a small army of glow-in-the-dark entities who seemed hellbent on bringing them down. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://ww…
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#397: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 37: Encounters from the Edge: Glimmer Men, Cornfield Creatures, and the Headless Thing.
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1:01:28A Kentucky man spots a terrifying “Glimmer Man” near a lake rumored to hide a monster. In rural Illinois, a childhood game is interrupted by a grotesque, clawed creature that vanishes into thin air. And in Poland, a man sees a headless, metallic humanoid lounging in a former mass grave site. Something unnatural lurking just out of sight. The Crypto…
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#396: Uncle Bobby’s Bonkers Big Bear Bonanza
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1:05:51From Yogi, Smoky, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh to Baloo, Fozzi, the Berenstain Bears not to mention the Magic Kingdom’s own Country Bear Jamboree, pop culture is littered with examples of talking bears. But, fanciful though these characters they may be, there are genuine reports of humans interacting with an uncanny array of these hyper-intellige…
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#395: Stumps Addendum: Crawlers, Creepers And Midnight Peepers
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1:18:55In the mid-60s, an Oregon family was thrust into a supernatural gauntlet involving UAPs, dazzling indoor light shows, cycloptic beasts, dancing aliens, a smoking dome, possible poltergeist, an ominous (and evidently bulletproof) shadow stalker and—to cap it all off—a pack of spider-like tree stumps roaming the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. In fac…
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#394: When Shadows Attack: A Living Nightmare
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1:00:08In 1986, a boy named Greg endured a night of hellish torment at the hands of a sinister, giggling shadow child, who—while under the watchful eye of its pernicious parent—tortured its human counterpart in what was evidently a diabolical twist on the time honored tradition of “bring your kid to work day”. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.pa…
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#393: Ufonauts, The Future And A Boy Named Osmo
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1:11:44In the mid-50s a pair of Finnish brothers had a terrifying, all too close encounter with a speeding saucer. While the boys were both scared by this near miss, for one of them—Osmo Liene — his ordeal was just beginning as just days later, at the stroke of midnight, a trio of aged aliens would invade his home to interrogate him... and reveal somethin…
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#392: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 36: Night Terrors
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1:05:20In most children, the dread of bedtime stems from equal combination of FOMO and a fear of the dark. But for some kids, and even a few you adults, that fear is founded on all too real experiences with anomalous and sometimes highly aggressive entities that’s prove—beyond the shadow of a doubt—that humankind’s millennia long fear of the dark is not u…
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#391: Jailbreak Area51! Part 3: Alien Aftermath
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1:26:06After a hostile alien escaped from Area-51’s allegedly impenetrable S-2 Annex, the Military Police and elite search and containment units were put on red alert. While these teams were in pursuit of the insidious insectoid, a pair of OSI Agents were hot on their trail doing their best to cover up the enigmatic events as they happened… all the while …
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#390: Jailbreak Area51! Part 2: Enter The Quataloid
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1:10:26While on a camping trip in an abandoned mining town just outside the Nellis Air Force Range, a husband and father of two was killed by a bizarre, bug-like being who had escaped from the S-2 Annex of the notorious Area-51. Following the escape, a pair of OSI officers were tasked with finding out how the mantis-like monstrosity had managed to get out…
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#389: Jailbreak Area51! Part 1: The Silverbow Incident
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1:02:45Of all the bizarre claims made about the arid patch of government owned Nevada desert known as Area-51, among the strangest—and most disturbing—has got to be the alleged escape of a highly predatorial, non-human prisoner and its horrifying encounter with an unsuspecting family who had the bad luck of running into this vile vermin while camping in t…
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#388: Holy Death: Curse Of The Chihuahua Man Bat
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1:12:20In 2009 a spate of sightings involving a massive, multi-winged monstrosity held Mexico’s municipality of Guerrero in a thrall of fear. While some believed this thing was a denizen of hell; others were just as sure it was a divine apparition. But from wherever it hailed, all who stared into it’s burning red-eyes and lived to tell the tale knew that …
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#387: The Zaragoza Goblin: An Urban Imp
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1:12:56In September of 1934—just a week before the violent eruption of protests and political strife that marked Spain’s short-lived “October Revolution”—a family living in a Zaragozan apartment complex became the targets of an eldritch entity that would torment not only them but everyone else who entered the building during in its month long siege of hor…
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Are you ready to dive headfirst into the Murky monster infested waters of the uncanny, the inexplicable, and the straight-up weird? Then Welcome to the Cryptonaut Podcast—where high strangeness is the lowest bar, and nothing is off limits… "Monsters are real.. Aliens are here.. and honestly, we’re just trying to cope."…
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#386: E.S.M.B. - Face Wing-Wing Mouth: The Pride Of El Yunque
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1:05:57Puerto Rico’s legendarily monster infested El Yunque National park has been the site of an amazing array of truly terrifying (and potentially lethal) paranormal phenomena. But few of these cases can compare to an event that took place in 1981, that involved a turbine powered UFO, tiny pilots, a smoke-show Nordic doctor and a pair of anesthetic spra…
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#385: Cosmic Cuisine: Fast Food Of The Gods
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1:10:22Of all the logic defying antics that have allegedly occurred between human beings and E.T.s, few are more perplexing than those involving food of unearthly origin. These alien appetizers are sometimes offered in good faith and other times exist only to incapacitate unsuspecting earthlings. But whether the motivations of these inexplicable entities …
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#384: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 35: Doppelgängers vs Mimics
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55:37There are few opponents more cunning, insidious or dangerous than the individual we see every single day staring back at us from within a mirror. Being us, they know all of our most shameful secrets, egregious actions and illicit desires. What’s more they know how to hone these wispy concepts into devastating weapons which they wield with uncanny a…
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#383: I Killed A Super-Sexy Psychic Werewolf
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1:16:18In 2017, a trucker was hauling a load down a desolate stretch in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest when he had a confrontation with a mammoth monstrosity that left him fearing for both his sanity and his life… but, terrifying though this life threatening encounter was, little could he have imagined that this violent brush would be just the beginn…
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#382: Cold War Creepers: Russian Lake Monster Mania
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1:09:48Spanning some 5,600-miles from east to west and 2,800-miles from north to south, Russia is a sprawling land mass that boasts a near unfathomable 2.8-million lakes. Bearing this in mind it should come as no surprise that the former Soviet Union is not only infested with lake monsters, but that those on offer are some of the craziest cryptids on the …
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