Cracking Cryptids and Curios
Your journey into the world of the weird and macabre starts here! Join hosts Matt and Angel as they traverse into folklore, cryptids, cursed items, strange events, and the generally bizarre world we all live in. The goal of this show is to catalogue the strangest things our world has to offer and individually rank each and every one of them to definitively answer ”what is the weirdest thing out there?” We also laugh a lot because we are genuinely having a good time. Podcast cover art by Squidtamer @SquidtamerDA
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Doppelgangers. Doppelgangdudes. Doppelgangsters. What ever you call them, beware! These insidious duplicates may just be out there to ruin your life! Or just inconvenience you. Or not really interact with you at all. So maybe they are just really unpredictable! Join Matt and Angel as they investigate various levels of doppelgangers, discuss their own doppelgangers, and so much more!
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
AI art is all the rage and the woman of the hour for horror related imagery is Loab! This creepy woman "discovered" in the latent space of an AI art generator is the brain child of multimedia artist Supercomposite. Considered one of the first fully digital cryptids, we had no choice but to see what this frenzy was all about! Join us as we discuss Loab, AI art, the philosophy of art, AI art horror movies, and so much more! We also begin the journey to no longer be idiot slobs.
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
Sunday Dec 18, 2022
The wait is finally over. Roll out the red carpet. Get on those nice pants. It is time to hand out some awards. We have created the "Golden Curiosity" Award to highlight entities, events, or strange objects from the past few seasons. Come join the fun and see if your favorites win an award!
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Sunday Dec 04, 2022
Deja Vu. The story of the Lake Tota Monster goes back centuries... or does it? Join us as we investigate this lake monster, in the fabled Lake Monster episode!
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Mermaids. Innocent tricksters or malicious demons!? The thin line between those is apparently blurred in the salty seas of the world. Around the globe, cultures have stories of mermaids which have given us a story as old as recorded time! Join us as we dive deep and gorge ourselves until we are full to the gills with mermaid lore.
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
The news just won't stop! This time Matt and Angel look at Black Eyed Children in the news, a man who makes "Frankenstein Warriors" out of dead bugs, human-sharks, and reports of an alien-like deep sea shark that took the internet by storm. Jawsome!
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
The duo heads back to Africa after a multi-month break from recording to investigate the Nandi Bear! Some call it demonic, some call it a man-eater, and to some it is just an animal yet to be properly identified. How will the Nandi Bear rank against the cornucopia of cryptids ranked so far? Find out now!
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
We diverge from our normal programming to review and discuss the newest Hellraiser movie. Movies have been a huge part of this show, so now we introduce a segment we have wanted for a very long time! Join us as we give a rundown of everything that happens in the new Hellraiser movie and discuss the highs, and lows, of all of it! How will this movie rate!? Find out!
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
If you hear a knocking upon your door in the midst of the night. Don't answer. Not because of the possibility of it being Black Eyed Kids coming to enact their insidious plans, but because it is just really inconsiderate of that person. We advocate a strict no-answering-the-door-past-8:00-PM policy.
But say it IS a paid of Black Eyed Kids (BEKs), don't let them in. These little rapscallions will beg and plead and tug on your heart strings, but always remember: don't let them in.
In this episode, Angel speaks briefly about a beloved hobby involving hidden "treasures."
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
These news shoes are back in style! We return with more absurdly odd news. This time we cover space cyborgs coming to kill us, the foods of the future, scamming the government millions of dollars, and a woman who speaks an alien language while she is on live TV!
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
After a year plus long absence of curios, we once again rank a strange item! This time around we travel to the 1700s to find an automaton chess player dressed as a Turkish man. The 1700s had robots!? Join us on this journey to discover the reality behind this robotic chess player who played against people such as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon. There are so many twists and turns in this story, you may throw your back out!
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
In the not so distant past, Trevor Henderson brought Sirenhead into this world. Since then, his creation has grown to become one of the most beloved horror icons on the internet. We delve deep to find the hidden tid-bits of Sirenhead lore to see how powerful this entity truly is. We also create our own amalgamation of destruction to see if it can stand against Sirenhead in battle!
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
We had so much fun with our news wrap-up mini-season that we decided, hey, let’s not shoe-horn the news onto our proverbial feet any more, let's have some dedicated time to let those news shoes breathe. We can break them in, walk around and see how they fit.
These proverbial news shoes will be of all different shapes, sizes, and styles. We may be trying on news shoes that detail paranormal phenomena, or news shoes that are about how people for some reason keep designing artificial intelligences that are going to inherently make our lives worse. Even news shoes about Angel's favorite thing: aliens.
This episode has news shoes related to being buried alive, blowing up the moon, psychic submarine shenanigans, and the wild lives of ghost hunters.
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
What does every child love? Beans! That's right. These two kids just can't get enough beans to eat. From parts unknown, these kids just show up in a wolf pit and just want some beans. Oh yeah - their skin is green too. Join us as we take a look at this weird event!
Sunday May 15, 2022
Sunday May 15, 2022
At one time this entity was the most well known sea serpent in the world. The story of the Champlain Sea Serpent goes back centuries... or does it? Join us as we investigate this lake monster, in the fabled Lake Monster episode!