Cracking Cryptids and Curios
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Join hosts Matt and Angel as they explore the wildly weird world of cryptids. This show sets out to crack the mysterious auras around these creatures and explore what makes them unique. Each episode focuses on one cryptid who will then be put through rigorous judging of powers, detectability, lore and mystique, intelligence, and impact on pop-culture. One cryptid will be crowned champion among..
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
5M ago
We're not saying goodbye, but how about just see you later? Join us here one last time as in this Season 6 Finale turned Series Finale we investigate everyone's favorite dude who throws stuff in your eyes: The Sandman.
While we didn't go into the episode with intentions of this being the end, it felt like the right time to unplug the mics. And indeed, the AI assisted intro this episode weirdly predicted the end.
Thanks for following us on this adventure into the unknown and hopefully along the way you learned something and had a few laughs.
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Cracking Cryptids and Curios
6M ago
Join us as we explore news articles about a Loch Ness jamboree of amateur monster hunters, the possibility of Edgar Allen Poe being a time traveler, a creature spotted in Texas that looks like nothing ever seen, and a deep dive into the predictions of Baba Vanga. Along the way we discover Headless Belmmyes, Baba's animal-humans, and most of all, discoveries about ourselves. Get it while it's hot! This is our final news episode ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
6M ago
Ever be visited by a tall man with honey-colored eyes and white hair nearly down to the ankles who refers to himself as Herulayka, who then requests you build a 22 foot tall pyramid? Well Raymundo Coronas claims to have! Join us as we explore this curious structure created by a farmer in Mexico and see how this ranks in our listings!  ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
7M ago
Suffering succotash - we have discuss the Wedge of Aiud. Not the Angle of Aiud, nor the Hedge of Aiud, or even the Sloped Object of Aiud. The real deal Wedge. This item, found next to some wonderous mastodon bones gives many people pause; how could a clearly modern object be residing next to a dead mastodon!? Could it be... aliens ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
7M ago
Opps! All fire! Throughout human history there are examples of all sorts of fires that are just so stubborn they just won't go out! This episode we look at the curious coal fire underneath a Pennsylvania town that just won't sputter out, no matter how many millions of dollars gets thrown at it.  ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
8M ago
Horse wombs - also known as nature's gift box. This episode Matt and Angel investigate the alchemical wonder-child known as the homunculus and all it's horse womb shenanigans. Alchemists, where would we be today with out them ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
8M ago
News, its what's for dinner! Well, not really, but we consume the news. I guess that's different than eating it? This episode we look into a man who believes he is a ghost and invades a home, witches caught eating a deer on a trail cam, recycling pig blood into water, and the mirror world study in which if you believe in yourself you too can be psychic!  ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
9M ago
Hot dog! We have it all this episode! 3200 year old cheese! Butters preserved in bogs! Sarcophagus juice! And people want to eat all of these!? Join us in this, frankly, unhinged discussion of curious foods aged with... time?  ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
9M ago
Sleep Demons. As the ol' saying goes - can't live with them; can't live without them. These little buggers just love to watch us sleep and then deliver a super dosage of dread and despair. How nice of them! Matt and Angel discuss the various forms of sleep demons, their own personal experiences, and even dreams that induce vomiting!  ..read more
Cracking Cryptids and Curios
10M ago
Remember a time when books were written on finely prepared animal membranes? That's insane... on the animal membrane. Join us as we flip the pages of the Voynich Manuscript to finally decipher once and for all this curious book that no one has been able to decipher? What do the words mean? What do the pictures mean? What does any of this mean ..read more