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June 20, 2024

Ep. 178: Sam the Sandown Clown

This week it's a summertime holiday story for the summertime holiday season as Sean introduces us to the creature fondly remembered as the Sandown Clown. This C-team cryptid (maybe) is reported to have chatted with two vacati...

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May 2, 2024

Ep. 172: Ancient Aliens

This week we're tackling the "ancient astronaut" hypothesis: the idea that ancient humans had repeated contact with extraterrestrials that is borne out in their myths, art, and monumental achievements. How were the Great Pyra...

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Aug. 4, 2022

Ep. 96: Weird Appalachia - The Flatwoods Monster

The American region of Appalachia, much like our native New England, is a land of folklore and high strangeness, and this is perfectly exemplified in the story of the Flatwoods Monster - a maybe-alien, maybe-cryptid that burs...

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July 14, 2022

Ep. 93: Fire in the Sky - The Travis Walton Abduction

On November 5, 1975, a crew of loggers driving home after a long day of work saw a strange light through the trees. They decided to follow it, and found themselves face to face with a flying saucer. For Travis Walton, nothing...

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Jan. 13, 2022

Ep. 67: Hudson Valley UFOs (w/ the NY Mystery Machine podcast)

This week, we're teaming up with our friends at the New York Mystery Machine podcast for a crossover look at UFOs and abductions in the Hudson Valley! Adam and Christina from NYMM join us for part 1 of the saga as Sean introduces us to the Hudson...

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Nov. 11, 2021

Ep. 59: Valiant Thor

On March 16th, 1957, a Venusian named Valiant Thor landed his flying saucer in Alexandria, Virginia. After meeting Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon at the White House, Thor would live in an a luxury apartment in the base of the Pentagon for the...

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Aug. 19, 2021

Ep. 48: New England UFOs

For almost as long as America's been a country, there have been stories of strange lights and objects zipping around the North American skies. This week, we've chosen some particularly intriguing tales from the New England states - Massachusetts,...

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May 20, 2021

Ep. 36: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 2

The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of advanced alien life in the universe - and the total lack of evidence for it here on Earth. In the conclusion to our two-part series, Sean focuses on the Fermi Paradox...

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May 13, 2021

Ep. 35: The Fermi Paradox, Pt. 1

Are we all alone in the universe? There are hundreds of billions of galaxies - the largest hold trillions of stars, the smallest a few hundred million. It seems impossible that there wouldn't be civilizations out there, some of them far more advanced...

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Feb. 25, 2021

Ep. 24: The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction

Let's go back to 1961 for the first major UFO abduction story in American history - the Betty & Barney Hill Incident! During a dark night in rural New Hampshire, Betty & Barney Hill (and their pet dachshund, Delsey) were coming back home from a...

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Oct. 27, 2020

Ep. 7: George Adamski & Orthon of Venus

In episode 7 Sean guides us through the lesser known (but still incredibly strange) story of George Adamski, the first reported extraterrestrial contactee in U.S. history. Did Adamski really pal around with a being calling themselves “Orthon of...

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