EPISODE · Sep 25, 2026 · 1H 2M
HORRORS IN THE CORNFIELDS! - "LOST IN THE MAIZE!"
from KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS! · host mike lucht
SUP YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Question: Just what the hell is up with cornfields? Why are they so creepy and weird? Well, as it turns out, this ain't exactly nothin' new. In fact, they've pretty much ALWAYS been creepy as fuck! Not only that, but they seem to play host a WIDE VARIETY of utterly mind bending high strangeness: cryptids, aliens, ritual occultism, homicide, and some of the creepiest folklore and unsettling urban legends I've ever heard (and I've heard some shit y'all!). PLEASE TO ENJOY!Email us!: [email protected] music is license/copyright free from Pixaby.com.SOURCES: (holy shit...it's a bunch!)- MUFON Case 93876 (Ohio Pale Crawler, 2018) - Mutual UFO Network database; reported via Cryptid Maps- Singular Fortean Society case files (Indiana winged humanoid; Winn Corn Monster, Michigan 2003) - investigated by Tobias Wayland- Delphos Ring physical trace case (1971) - APRO (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization); documented at UFOCasebook.com, OpenMinds.tv- Boyd County Barley Circle (Nebraska, 2000s) - Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA); reported by farmer Kelly Riser- Beast of Bray Road (Wisconsin, 1980s-90s) - Originally reported in Walworth County Week; investigated by journalist Linda Godfrey- Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins (Kentucky, 1955) - Police reports; documented in The Sutton Family Case Files- Big Muddy Monster (Illinois, 1973) - Murphysboro Police Department records (open case file)- Alliance, Ohio Entity Encounter (1957) - Regional ufological archives; Sam Aellig Case- Michigan Dogman - Reed City Field Sightings (1987) - Wexford, Osceola, Mecosta county reports- David Lang Disappearance (1880, Gallatin, Tennessee) - 19th-century newspaper serials and parapsychological digests- Feral Husker of Darke County, Ohio (1990) - Local agricultural records and oral histories- Oakhaven Crop-Phantom (Gadsden, Alabama, 1952) - Etowah County historical records- Roachdale, Indiana Incidents (1972) - Don Worley, UFO Annual Tri-County UFO Study Group; Mark Moravec, 'The UFO Anthropoid Catalog'- Coyner Farm Convergence (Augusta County, Virginia, 1973) - Multi-witness high strangeness documentation- Anson County Grid (North Carolina, 1975) - Temporal disorientation documentation- Cornfield Murders/Miller & Braintwain Case (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1981) - Law enforcement records- Gourd & Husk Murders (Yolo County, California, 1999) - Criminal investigation records- National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) - 1973 wave documentation; highway abduction patterns- Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - Minnesota shift worker report; Ohio Dogman-adjacent sightings- Project Blue Book archives - 1957 Ohio flap context; Olden Moore incident- FBI Animal Mutilation files (1975-1979) - cattle mutilation wave documentation- BLT Research Team (Biophysics Laboratory Teams: W.C. Levengood, Nancy Talbott, John Burke) - cellular analysis, germination studies, soil mineralogy- Independent Crop Circle Researchers Association (ICCRA) - geometric analysis- Piezoelectric/Strain Hypothesis - Michael Persinger, Paul Devereux- Plasma Vortex Theory - Terence Meaden- Aztec (Mexica) Rites of Chicomecóatl and Centéotl - Mesoamerican agricultural ritual documentation- Skidi Pawnee Morning Star Ceremony - Ethnographic records; last documented execution April 1838- Maya Young Maize God (Hun Hunahpu) Sacrifices - Popol Vuh; Mesoamerican iconography- Germanic Feldgeister and Korndämonen traditions - Roggenmuhme, Hafermann, Chochlik, Żytnia Panna- Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Husk Face Society (Gagonsa/Gajesa) - William N. Fenton, Iroquois Maskology (1987)- Appalachian and Midwestern oral tradition - Bell-Ringing Ritual; Corn Witch rhymes (Indiana, 1937; Illinois, 1952)- "Bohunk" folklore evolution - Jan Harold Brunvand, The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1981)...THERE'S WAY MORE BUT THIS IS ALL I CAN FIT. BUT IF YOU WANT'EM, I GOT'EM!Call 988 and get up off that corn mash.
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