It Gets Weird
405 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 68 ratingsLongtime friends Nile and Kyle are the leading conspiracy, cryptozoology, and paranormal experts in their fields. Well, at least in their apartment. Join them and a revolving door of friends every Sunday for a deep dive into the curious, the unexplained, and the outright weird.
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Episode 353 - Health Goth (Gitmo Pterosaur)
May 07, 2023 20:21 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBHey 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" t...
Episode 352 - Conjuring Jimmy Stewart
April 30, 2023 22:29 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBThis week the whole IGW extended crew (including Jules and Garrett) is back together again for a journey through some Mantis alien/cryptid encounters.
Episode 351 - Blue Collar Avengers (Disappearing Towns)
April 23, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBHey 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
Episode 350 - Call Me Miss Cleo (FYD)
April 16, 2023 19:50 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBHey 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 thi...
Episode 349 - Have To Use My Toes (UFO Cover-Up? Live!)
April 09, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBHey 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!
Episode 348 - Fiscally Responsible Cryptid (The Snallygaster)
April 02, 2023 20:48 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBHey 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 crypto...
Episode 347 - The Shape Of Most Planets (Ausso One)
March 26, 2023 17:32 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBHey 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!
Episode 346 - A Job In UFOs (UFO Crash Recovery)
March 19, 2023 19:36 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBHey 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!
Episode 345 - Spirit Box Art (Art Bell, Part 2)
March 12, 2023 19:28 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBHey 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!
Episode 344 - A Seasoned HAM (Art Bell, Part 1)
March 05, 2023 18:26 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBHey 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 roc...
Episode 343 - Scooby Doo Stuff (Van Meter Visitor)
February 26, 2023 21:17 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBHey 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...
Episode 342 - An Exquisite Corpse (Alien Grab Bag)
February 19, 2023 17:33 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBHey 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...
Episode 341 - An Exopolitical Horse Pill (Exopolitics, Pt. 2)
February 12, 2023 19:26 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBHey 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 regardles...
Episode 340 - Now With Politics (Exopolitics, Pt. 1)
February 05, 2023 18:49 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBHey 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!
Episode 339 - The Only DVD (Dexter UFO)
January 29, 2023 21:07 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBHey 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!
Episode 338 - Draft Dodging Bigfoot (History of Bigfoot)
January 22, 2023 20:01 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBHey 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!
Episode 337 - Manifesting (Plant Cryptids)
January 15, 2023 21:06 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn about a whole new world of cryptids: the formally undiscovered and often monstrous plant life of cryptobotany! We've gathered a handful of stories about weird plants from around the world. Have you heard the one about the man-eating gourd that grows from the burial mounds of ogres and evil sorcerers? How about a tree that grows barnacles that give birth to geese? We discuss all this and so much more!
Episode 336 - A Reverse Hat (Monte Cristo Haunting)
January 08, 2023 19:07 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate our first Australian haunting - the Monte Cristo house! Do spirits that suffered terrible, untimely deaths lurk the halls and rooms of this lonesome mansion? Did a maid spike a baby down a stairwell? Will Kyle cool it with the gross-out humor? The answer to both is...maybe not. We discuss ghostly grifts, the history of Monte Cristo and its owners, the ghosts that supposedly dwell there, and so much more!
Episode 335 - Snapped In Half (Monongahela Cryptids)
January 01, 2023 21:19 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we brought river monster expert Garrett to discuss a couple monstrous, river-dwelling cryptids. Does a massive, two-headed snapping turtle lurk in the murky waters of the Monongahela? Is he accompanied by a half-man, half-fish hybrid? What about a monstrous salamander? Which of these cryptids are in a polyamorous throuple? We discuss all this and so much more!
Episode 334 - The Burden of Knowing (Peter Beter, Pt. 2)
December 25, 2022 18:18 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our journey into the early New World Order conspiracies of Dr. Peter Beter. What happens when the Rockefeller Crime Cartel, the "Zionists Bolsheviks," and the new Kremlin powers start vying for control of moon? We wrap up Dr. Beter's odd beliefs about "stagflation" and the secret struggle for power over the entire world! All this and more!
Episode 333 - Last Week's Dinner (Peter Beter, Pt. 1)
December 18, 2022 23:34 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we began a journey exploring a semi-obscure conspiracy theorist, Peter Beter. What shadowy, world-dominating factions are vying for power over Earth, and who emptied Fort Knox of all its gold? We also make our pitch for collectible gold ingots and bars, a way to make gold-collecting more fun for everybody! Oh, unfortunately we also have to address some anti-semitism. You know, the conspiracy theorist's classic. All this and more!
Episode 332 - Reiki Readjust My Spine (Gulf Breeze Six)
December 11, 2022 17:59 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we discussed the incredibly strange story of the Gulf Breeze Six. What happens when six members working at a European NSA base go AWOL and fly to Florida on a mission to kill the Antichrist? Weirdly enough, turns out not much - what with there being no Antichrist to kill...as far as we know. We discuss Vance Davis and his crew of paranormal military fellows and their bizarre beliefs, plus so much more!
Episode 331 - Star Jelly Cotton Candy (Purple Goo UFO)
December 04, 2022 17:47 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the story of four Philly policemen who discovered a bizarre UFO: a big, weird mass of glowing, purple goo that fell from the sky like a parachute. We discuss the original report, plus the game of telephone that took place when writer and radio broadcaster Frank Edwards got a hold of the story. Was the 1958 movie The Blob inspired by real events, or is this another case of unidentified flying star jelly? All this and more!
PATREON FEED DROP - It Gets Weird-ish: Paranormal Activity
November 27, 2022 19:26 - 1 hour - 70 MBKyle and I both had some personal and technical issues come up this week so we are dropping an episode of our Patreon bonus content to our main feed. This episode is the beginning of our series going through the Paranormal Activity movies. The rest of this series can be found on on patreon.com/itgetsweird in our $5 tier. We hope to get back to normal episodes ASAP but we appreciate you all bearing with us as we get some things sorted.
Episode 330 - Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland (FYD)
November 20, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we got Garrett and Jules to join the Weird Boys for a special occasion...an extremely weird documentary on UFOs and aliens funded by a little corporation known as Disney. Why did Disney make this odd little TV documentary, and how is it not locked deep inside the vault? Why did Mike Eisner volunteer for the incredibly violent opening segment? Is "Butt Cheek" the sexiest name a person can have? All this and more!
Episode 329 - That One Guy (UFO Disinfo, Part 3)
November 13, 2022 21:57 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we close the book on our brief history of UFO disinformation campaigns...for now. We talk about the wave of cattle mutilation in the 1970s, the obsession with alien anal probes, and possible human explanations for both. We also discuss the story of Paul Bennewitz and Richard Doty, two men embroiled in an intense UFO disinfo psyop. Did the US military go out of its way to ruin one man's life with UFO-induced psychosis? All this and more!
Episode 328 - Hallucinogen Mixers (UFO Disinfo, Part 2)
November 06, 2022 19:01 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue our investigation into the United States government's UFO disinfo conspiracy! We get in-depth on the Washington, DC fly-over incident, the strange mishaps of Edward Ruppelt, Soviet versus United States Cold War covert operations, and faked UFO events possibly crafted under the banner of the MKULTRA project! All this and so much more!
Episode 327 - The Government's Greatest Troll (UFO Disinfo, Part 1)
October 30, 2022 19:24 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin part one of a series on the history of government disinformation in ufology! To kick things off, we revisit some of the UFO classics: Roswell, Kenneth Arnold, the Maury Island Incident, and the Washington DC flyover! We also detail some of the early days of Project Blue Book, inter-military squabbling, and UFO-based sabotage, conspiracy, and psychological operations!
Episode 326 - Pro Hut (Raynham Hall Hauntings)
October 23, 2022 17:41 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, we investigate the haunted history of the infamous Raynham Hall in England! How did this mansion of British highfalutin politicians and their intermingling families create a volatile location for ghosts and spirits? Is this era of ghost stories the result of the rise of Gothic literature, or is the Brown Lady ghost really the result of painful, lost love? We discuss all this and much more!
Episode 325 - Grunch Loan (The Grunch)
October 16, 2022 15:47 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the Grunch. We Grunch it up. "Grunchatize me, cap'n" we here at It Gets Weird always say. "That'll be a Grunch for me!" What the heck is a Grunch, and does it still terrorize the old roads of New Orleans? Did a Voodoo Queen accidentally birth the Grunch from a Devil Baby, or is a Grunch the result of backwoods inbreeding? Which meal is Grunch? We answer all these questions and more!
Episode 324 - Vibrational Babies (Arcturian Primer)
October 09, 2022 17:12 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile put together an alien primer episode on the Arcturians, a race of blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-da guys who operate on a higher dimensional plane that you, like, can't even fathom, man. How do Arcturians connect to Starseeds on planet Earth? What is Arcturian society like? Hell, what does Arcturian bonin' look like?? We ask (and try to answer) all these questions and so much more!
Episode 323 - Ghost Genres (Bobby Mackey's Music World)
October 02, 2022 18:14 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we took a trip down to good ol' Kentucky to check out a honkytonk hootenanny of a haunted location: this is Bobby Mackey's Music World! What paranormal entities draw the likes of Ghost Adventures and Buzzfeed Unsolved to this country nightclub? Is it haunted by the specter of a beheaded woman? Is there a portal to hell in the basement? It only costs $10 for staff to take you to the basement to check it out. Join us as we investigate!
Episode 322 - Foot Stuff (Hoia Baciu Forest)
September 25, 2022 15:09 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, we take a trip to Romania to visit the haunted Hoia Baciu Forest! It's also possibly plagued by demons, maybe a portal to another dimension, and probably regularly visited by UFOs. Yes, this place may be the weirdest spot in all of Romania. How did a shepherd and his flock of 200 hundred sheep disappear here, never to be found? Why do we keep coming back to foot stuff? Who knows!
Episode 321 - Abba Meets Gucci (West Virginian Cryptids)
September 18, 2022 19:53 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, we took a trip to West Virginia to take a look at two very different cryptids: the hoax-esque Abbagoochie and the very creepy story of the Beast of Beckley. Was one man and his family tasked by the FBI to eradicate a highly dangerous chimeric cryptid? Is the shadowy, four-eyed monster lurking in the West Virginian woods actually a demon? We discuss all this and so much more!
Episode 320 - Hollywood Bad Boy (Monarch Hollywood, Pt. 2)
September 11, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, Jules "Da Movies" Hollywood joins the Weird Boys to discuss more Monarch Mind Control and how it's used in Hollywood media! We talk about Disney's influence in the mind control game, which big movies are not-so-subtly controlling our brains, and the twinning phenomenon between great directors in the Monarch world such as Martin "Marty" Scorsese and Francis Ford "The Ford" Coppola. Which directors do you think are twinsies? All this and more!
Episode 319 - Bad Faith Pop (Monarch Celebrities, Pt. 1)
September 04, 2022 20:04 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin our long and absurd journey into the world of Project Monarch and the celebrities that are supposedly mind-controlled by Monarch's shadowy agents. Are beloved celebrities like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, and Jay Z programmed to act on behalf of the secret, evil cabal that runs the world from behind the scenes? Or is this whole conspiracy actually decades-long fallout from the Satanic Panic of the 1980s? We discuss all this and more!
Episode 318 - Prime Memester (Falkirk Triangle)
August 28, 2022 17:40 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn of a region in Scotland where UFOs seem to love to congregate. This place is known as the Falkirk Triangle, a location that exploded with odd UFO sightings throughout the 1990s. We also talk about a 1979 UFO case that sets the stage for the weird sightings that would follow. Was Robert Taylor attacked by a UFO's spiky balls? Why do UFOs haunt this region of Scotland? We answer all these questions and more!
Episode 317 - Bookshelf Pranks (Reality Shifting)
August 21, 2022 18:27 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we discussed two stories of humans who have shifted into alternate realities. What would you do if you woke up and suddenly small, unexpected things were totally different from how you remember them? How does one adapt to life in a new, slightly different timeline? Why do they call it oven when you oven the cold food of out hot eat the food? All this and so much more!
Episode 316 - Catnip and Cow Tales (Kyshtym Being)
August 14, 2022 17:34 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate the strange tale of a Russian woman who finds a small, baby creature just outside her village and takes it home as her newfound son. Was the Kyshtym being a stranded extraterrestrial creature or was it merely the figment of a geriatric's overactive imagination? Did the Russian secret service assassinate an elderly woman to keep the creature secret? Did a drunk man accidentally crush the Kyshtym being to death? All this and more!
Episode 315 - Dip Your Wings (Winged Cryptids)
August 07, 2022 18:54 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, Nile brings two winged cryptids to the table: Frank Shaw's Gargoyle and the Owlman of Cornwall! Did a NASA archivist witness a strange beast one fateful evening? Has a magician in Cornwall, England managed to catalogue the bizarre sightings of an Owlman whose motives remain unclear to this day? Listen as the Weird Boys melt and succumb to delirium in the broken air conditioning apartment heat!
Episode 314 - Epic Pie Episode (Skinwalker Ranch: Tokyo Drift)
July 31, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, we wrap up our more in-depth coverage of the legendary Skinwalker Ranch! What was Robert Bigelow actually doing on the land where all these paranormal events happened? How does Bigelow's organization tie into Pentagon money? Is Skinwalker Ranch just a scam or do the various owners over the years genuinely believe the phenomena is real? Is horniness an emotion? All this and more!
Episode 313 - What's In An Aoli (Revenge of Skinwalker Ranch)
July 24, 2022 16:36 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This Garrett joined us to return to an infamous topic: Skinwalker Ranch. Instead of yelling at one another at ranch, this time we shifted focus and sternly discussed aoli. We also get more in-depth on the goings on of Skinwalker Ranch, from weird mothership UFOs and indestructible wolves to inter-dimensional entities and ghostly apparitions! Are aliens horny for cows, or is it the other way around? What really happened to the Sherman family? All this and more!
Episode 312 - Back to Square One (Alpha Draconians)
July 17, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBHey there friends and weirdos! This week, Jules is back to talk with the Weird Boys about the extraterrestrial race known as the Alpha Draconians! We learn about the origins of the reptilian aliens and their various forms. Some are huge, sexual dragons, while others are shapeshifting racism dogwhistles. Plus, we talk vibrational energies, mating claws, and Robert E. Howard. All this and more!
Episode 311 - Decidedly Bad Vibes (Borley Rectory)
July 10, 2022 17:22 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, the weird boys discuss the haunting of Borley Rectory, often referred to as the "most haunted place" in England. Is the ghostly nun that wanders the lands of Borley Rectory England's "most famous ghost," or is it merely an attention-grabbing hoax? Is a famous haunting also a great resource to tap into to cover up your sordid affair? We discuss all this and more!
Episode 310 - What Makes a Wolfman? (Kentucky Wolfmen)
July 03, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, girlfriend of the show Jules joins Kyle and Nile to discuss the various wolfmen of Kentucky! Does a wild pack of supernatural wolf-humanoid creatures stalk the forests and bourbon trails of Kentucky? Will the Weird Boys be forced to watch Wild Hogs for the podcast? Is the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes all hogged up? All this and more!
Episode 309 - UFO Drinks (Allagash Abductions)
June 26, 2022 15:43 - 1 hour - 66 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, Kyle tells Nile about an infamous UFO abduction case from the 1970s, typically referred to as the Allagash Abductions. Were four art students plucked from the waters of the Allagash that fateful night, or is it all an attempt at a money-making hoax? What kind of UFO-themed drink do you think would be absolutely bangin'? All this and more!
Episode 308 - How to Poison a Sasquatch (Albert Ostman)
June 19, 2022 17:53 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we talk about a man named Albert Ostman and his experience being kidnapped by a family of Sasquatches! How do you escape Bigfoot captivity with only coffee, tobacco snuff, and your wits and live to tell the tale? Was Ostman meant to breed with these Bigfeet? Also, what exactly does Bigfoot have going on "down there"? We answer all these questions and so much more!
Episode 307 - Not the Beatles in India (Parapsychology, Part 3)
June 12, 2022 18:07 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we complete the broad overview of the history of parapsychology and psychical research. We talk about the Society for Psychical Research's involvement with Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, plus J.B. Rhine and the "golden age" of parapsychology. And yes, there are telekinetic horses! You can stop asking for the telekinetic horses - we've got 'em in this episode!
Episode 306 - Ectoplasm Shooter (Parapsychology, Part 2)
June 05, 2022 16:46 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, Kyle tells Nile all about the late 19th century, early 20th century methods of the freshly-formed Society for Psyhcical Research! What kind of so-called "scientific methods" did this ragtag group of philosophers, Spiritualists, and poets employ? Did this scientific method of researching the paranormal work? According to some of their reports...yes. All this and more!
Episode 305 - Grand Canyon Cures (Parapsychology, Part 1)
May 29, 2022 17:55 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBHey there friends and weirdos! In this one, Kyle tells Nile all about the origins and history of psychical research and the various societies for parapsychology! How did we get from "animal magnetism" and mesmerism to the "rigorous" academic pursuit of physical explanations for paranormal phenomena? Very carefully! And sometimes without the proper academic rigor. Part one of a two part episode!