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Hysteria 51
by ForthHand Media
Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man, Conspiracy Bot (with a not-so-subtle desire to rule the world, doubling as our chief inquisitor into the unknown), we delve into unique mysteries, the inexplicable, and the downright unusual.Each week, we explore a fresh topic, making one thing crystal clear... the truth is out there, but you won’t find it here.
Episodes
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Field of Screams and the Pee-H.D. | 532
This week on Hysteria 51: The truth is out there... and apparently so is the urine. Minnesota, we need to talk. Seriously. What the hell is going on up there?! This week, the Land of 10,000 Lakes becomes the Land of 10,000 Questions as Hysteria 51 dives into two bizarre news stories involving...
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Earth’s Weirdest Roommates: The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis | 531
What if the aliens aren’t coming from space because they never left Earth? Enter the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis, the strange and surprisingly thoughtful idea that at least some UFOs, UAPs, alien encounters, and unexplained phenomena could be connected to an advanced intelligence native to our…
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Guinness Dreams and Alien Balloons | 530
We are digging into the coffers this week for a classic Mad Blurry Hysteria with the crazy doc himself, Chris Cogswell! It's Mad Blurry Hysteria time once again as we dive head first into the pool with Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time to hold your breath (It Is Crazy!). Then…
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Fast Food and Faster Bowels | 529
Brent is out this week, which means Kevin Crispin of Behind Beautiful Things has been handed the keys to Hysteria 51. This was a terrible administrative decision. First up: a Virginia driver gets caught allegedly doing nearly 50 mph over the speed limit and reaches deep into the Big Book of…
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Bloodsuckers and Budget Busters | 528
This week on Hysteria 51, we’ve got vampires, missing people, Minecraft, and a nine-year-old with the advertising budget of a midsize corporation. First, we sink our teeth into the bizarre disappearance of George Phillip Gall, an Ohio man whose case became tangled in claims involving a Dayton...
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Leave a Message After the Conspiracy | 527
This week on Hysteria 51, we hand the show over to the most dangerous force in paranormal podcasting: you people. It’s our listener voicemail episode, which means we’re cracking open the inbox and playing your questions, comments, theories, insults, corrections, questionable life choices, and...
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Hot Tubs, Hard Choices, and Rubber Ducks | 526
This week on Hysteria 51, medical enhancement and poolside romance collide in ways absolutely nobody requested except for Kevin Crispin who joins us for some Beautiful Blurry Hysteria! First, we head to Thailand, where authorities are investigating a Bangkok cosmetic clinic after influencer Igho...
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HANGAR 18-ISH: WHAT THE HECK IS THE WRIGHT-PATTERSON BLUE ROOM? PART TWO: INSIDE THE BLUE ROOM | 525
Last week, Hysteria 51 went knocking on one of the most infamous locked doors in UFO history. This week, somebody finally opens the darn thing. We’re heading back to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and picking up the alleged story of a technical specialist who claimed he was secretly transported…
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Cyborg Roaches and Superglued Hoses | 524
Science has finally answered the question nobody was brave enough to ask: what if the cockroach crawling toward you was actually a paramedic? Researchers are developing remote-controlled cyborg roaches capable of crawling through disaster rubble, locating survivors, and even delivering lifesaving...
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The Island That Wandered and the Carrot That Shouldn’t Have | 523
This week on Hysteria 51, Mother Nature is acting strange... and one guy is acting much, much stranger. First, a massive floating island covered in trees suddenly appears in British Columbia’s Williston Reservoir, drifts around like it forgot where it parked, disappears, and then turns up miles...
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HANGAR 18-ISH: WHAT THE HECK IS THE WRIGHT-PATTERSON BLUE ROOM? PART ONE: THE LEGEND BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR | 522
Forget Area 51. It’s time to head to Ohio, where the UFO lore is colder, the security clearances are higher, and allegedly somebody forgot to clean the aliens out of the fridge. This week, we’re investigating the mysterious Blue Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the legendary top-secret...
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Skulls, Stallions, and Seriously Bad Decisions | 521
This week on Hysteria 51, we’re asking the important questions: What exactly can’t you donate to Goodwill, and how convincing does your fake horse semen laboratory need to be before the government stops asking questions? First, a human skull mysteriously turns up at a Michigan Goodwill. And no…
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Alpine Aliens: The UFO Photos That Won’t Die | 520
A landed flying saucer. A mysterious humanoid pilot. A frozen Italian glacier. Multiple photographs. And a 1952 UFO encounter that still gets passed around social media today as some of the clearest evidence of extraterrestrial visitation ever captured. Sounds pretty darn convincing, right? Head…
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Old Beer, Mad Beavers, Bad Decisions | 519
This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open the weirdest six-pack history ever forgot and then running for our lives from nature’s angriest lumberjacks. First, divers recover a 162-year-old bottle of Guinness from an 1864 shipwreck, and scientists hope its remarkably preserved contents could…
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Clairvius Narcisse and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Zombie Life | 518
What if you died, got pronounced dead by doctors, buried by your family, and then showed up 18 years later with one hell of an excuse for missing Thanksgiving? Enter the bizarre true story of Clairvius Narcisse, the Haitian man who allegedly became a real-life zombie after being poisoned, buried...
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Mad Blurry Hysteria: The Beginning | 517
We had some life stuff get in the way this week so we are going back to where the Blurry Hysteria / Weird Wednesday episodes started. Back to regular episodes next week! Original Description It's Mad Blurry Hysteria Time on H51! This week Brent tries to sell us the Lizzie Borden house, David…
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon | 516
Shut the windows and change your mask filters, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon is prowling the podcast! A WWII-era midwestern mystery, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon held a small town in a gaseous grip of fear for 2 weeks with no explanation and few suspects. Panic took hold as locals tried to figure out…
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Lawn and Order: Psychic Pets Unit | 515
This week, Hysteria 51 asks two important questions: How far is too far when protecting your lawn, and has your dog secretly been judging you this entire time? First, a Minnesota man allegedly constructs a homemade spike strip packed with dozens of three-inch screws to stop neighborhood kids from...
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Reality: Bigger, Stranger, and Probably Watching | 514
Reality may be bigger, stranger, and far more crowded than our three-dimensional monkey brains can handle. This week on Hysteria 51, we count down ten horrifying theories about what could exist in dimensions we cannot see, from shadow matter and hidden forces to holographic universes, colliding...
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Humanoid Homework and Reptilian Lockdown | 513
This week, education gets artificial and prison security goes prehistoric. First, the company behind Realbotix is pitching schools on humanoid AI teacher assistants, because apparently the journey from crypto to adult companionship to high-school STEM education is now a perfectly normal corporate...
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All Colors Sam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Weird Picnic | 512
We go pond jumping this week and head to the Isle of Wight for one of the strangest paranormal encounters ever reported: All Colours Sam, better known as the Sandown Clown. In 1973, two children claimed they met a nearly seven-foot-tall, three-fingered, three-toed, ghost-like humanoid living in a...
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The Raccoon, the Cryptid, and the Measuring Tape | 511
Seattle has a new celebrity, and he’s short, round, furry, and built like a raccoon somebody accidentally compressed into a carry-on bag. World, meet Jimothy, the unusually shaped trash panda whose possible spinal deformity, fearless neighborhood adventures, and magnificent little strut have...
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We Celebrate 200 Episodes of Behind Beautiful Things! | 510
Join us this week as we help our resident overthinker and frequent fill in host Kevin Crispin celebrate the 200th episode of his show Behind Beautiful Things! The 411 From Behind Beautiful Things: In this milestone 200th episode of Behind Beautiful Things, the tables are turned as guest host...
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Mirror, Mirror in the Sky, Why Are Tiny Men Nearby? | 509
Good News! Humanity has finally found two exciting new ways to ruin your night: blasting artificial sunlight from space and filling your living room with tiny mushroom people. First, the FCC has approved a controversial demonstration satellite designed to reflect sunlight onto Earth after dark....
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The Andreasson Affair: Gray Aliens, Frozen Families, and One Very Weird Bird | 508
The Andreasson Affair is what happens when a classic alien abduction story wanders into a church revival, takes a wrong turn through a dream sequence, and gets dive-bombed by a giant cosmic bird. In 1967, Massachusetts mother Betty Andreasson claimed strange gray beings entered her home, froze…
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Code Brown in Wales, Jurassic Green in Australia | 507
This week on Hysteria 51, we’re diving headfirst into the weird-news deep end, and unfortunately, someone already ruined the water. First up, a public swimming pool in Wales becomes the scene of a truly unholy whodunnit after a man admits to repeatedly defecating in the pool, forcing closures,...
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Roswell Reopened: New Tricks, Old Aliens | 506
Nearly 80 years after something crashed in the New Mexico desert, Roswell is back in the spotlight... again. This time, it's not because someone found a tiny green skeleton in a government filing cabinet. It's because modern AI image enhancement, newly released government records, and a fresh…
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The Short and the Shasta of It | 505
We’re diving headfirst into two weird news stories this week that prove the universe has a comedy writer, and that writer has been drinking Bot Booze again. First up, a man claiming to have the world’s smallest penis launches a fundraiser for micropenis enlargement surgery, turning a very…
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Hell Hath No Water Softener: The Haunting of Bill Vaile | 504
Former NASA robotics engineer Bill Vaile was a skeptic, a problem-solver, and a guy who probably trusted math more than mysterious bumps in the night. Then he took one very weird water-treatment service call in Arlington, Texas, walked up to a house where a woman appeared to be commanding…
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Atomic Mysteries & Robotic Beatdowns | 503
One missing nuclear scientist. One remote forest. One abandoned gun. And somehow that's only HALF of this week's weirdness. First, we head deep into the mystery surrounding a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee who vanished without a trace, only to be discovered a year later in a remote...
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Contest Time | 502
Wanna be on the show? Submit your topic suggestions to the email below and we will pick the winners. Prize pack details to follow! email: [email protected] Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: [email protected] Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and...
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White House ETs and Bulletproof PCs | 501
What do alleged aliens at the White House and a gaming PC that stopped a bullet have in common? Absolutely nothing... which makes them perfect for Blurry Hysteria. First, the internet went full X-Files after photos from a White House event appeared to show a pair of strange, pale-haired figures...
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Episode 500!
Five hundred episodes. That's either an incredible achievement or a cry for professional help. To celebrate this historic milestone, Hysteria 51 is opening a dimensional rift and welcoming back some familiar faces, questionable characters, and at least one entity that should probably still be...
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Digging Deep and Standing Tall: Mole People and Boner Bears | 499
New York City has always had its share of underground mysteries, but this week we're heading straight into the manholes. Reports of so-called "mole people" living beneath the streets have resurfaced, raising questions about what really lurks below the Big Apple. Are there hidden communities...
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Return of the Producer: Attack of the Voicemails | 498
The inmates are running the asylum... and Producer Lisa is back to try and restore order. In this special listener voicemail episode of Hysteria 51, the microphones belong to you. From UFO sightings and paranormal encounters to bizarre theories, strange questions, and the occasional call that...
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Genomes, Greys, and G-Strings | 497
What do your DNA test results, extraterrestrials, and a Florida man in a G-string have in common? Absolutely nothing... which makes this week's episode perfect. First, we dive into a wild whistleblower claim alleging the CIA has been combing through consumer DNA databases like 23andMe and…
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Grays Over Gotham: Linda Napa, The United Nations, Bud Hopkins, and an Intergalactic Love Triangle| 496
What happens when a woman claims she was abducted by aliens from a 12th-floor Manhattan apartment… in full view of the Brooklyn Bridge… while bodyguards for a high-ranking UN official allegedly watched in horror? You get one of the wildest UFO stories ever put to paper. Witnessed by Bud Hopkins...
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The Human Hunting Scandal & The Unsolicited Medical Makeover | 495
Somewhere between dystopian nightmare and “wait…WHAT just happened at that hospital?” lies this week’s episode. First, we dive into the deeply unsettling—and wildly bizarre—story out of Sarajevo, where authorities are investigating a so-called “human safari” in which wealthy participants…
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Borrowed Time: The Unsettling Case of Zhu Xiuhua | 494
A woman dies, is placed in a coffin… and then wakes up claiming she’s someone else entirely. Join us as we dig into the bizarre and unsettling case of Zhu Xiuhua, the woman who allegedly “borrowed a body” and kept living. After being declared dead in 1959 Taiwan, she comes back speaking...
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Moustache Hacks and Questionable Medical Miracles | 493
Join us as we dive headfirst into a world where the internet’s greatest security weakness isn’t hackers… it’s Sharpies and teenage creativity. Kids have apparently cracked the code on online age verification by drawing moustaches on their faces like they’re auditioning for a low-budget spy movie....
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Bear Suits, Bean Bags, and Bad Decisions | 492
In this week’s episode of Hysteria 51, we journey deep into the majestic wilderness of modern human stupidity. First up: a group of Californians allegedly dressed in a full-on bear costume to fake car damage for insurance money. Not metaphorically. Not “acting bearish.” We’re talking fuzzy suit,...
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And Then There Were 12: The UFO Scientist Death Conspiracy | 491
Why are aerospace engineers, plasma physicists, NASA scientists, anti-gravity researchers, and military space officials suddenly dying or disappearing? We’re talking MIT fusion experts, Los Alamos employees, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers, a missing Air Force Major General tied to...
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Naked in the Pond, Haunted in the Head | 490
When skinny dipping meets ghost busting, you get the kind of episode that makes neighborhood watch meetings feel like rejected X-Files scripts. This week on Hysteria 51 we dive headfirst into two gloriously bizarre stories: a woman allegedly found naked in her neighbor’s pond like some chaotic...
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The Ammons Haunting: Inside Indiana’s Infamous Demon House | 489
A rental house in Gary, Indiana. Black flies in the dead of winter. Children behaving... strangely. A boy allegedly walking backward up a hospital wall. Police reports. Child Protective Services removing the kids. A Catholic priest performing blessings. And eventually, Zak Bagans buying the…
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Pleasure Tech & Poop Rides: China’s Next Big Ideas | 488
What happens when innovation answers questions no one asked… but now we can’t stop thinking about? This week on Hysteria 51, David is joined once again by Kevin Crispin of Behind Beautiful Things as they dive headfirst into a double dose of eyebrow-raising tech straight out of China—where the...
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Fish Virus Jump, Nazca Seamount Shock | 487
This week on Hysteria 51, we’re diving into the ocean’s two favorite hobbies: inventing bizarre new nightmares and hiding gigantic things in plain sight. First up: researchers are tracking a marine virus that appears to have jumped from aquatic animals to humans in China, with cases linked to...
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The Man in the High Simulation: Philip K. Dick’s Alternate Universes | 486
Is reality real… or are we all just characters in the universe’s weirdest video game? Join us as we explore the mind-bending ideas of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick, who believed a mysterious pink beam of information blasted knowledge into his brain in 1974 and revealed a shocking truth: reality...
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Pharma Freakouts and the Cokehead Reef | 485
Kevin Crispin from the Behind Beautiful Things Podcast fills in for Brent this week, and the universe rewards him with two gloriously broken news stories. First up, a bizarre and unsettling case involving prescription meds and behavior so reckless it sounds made up. Then it’s off to the Bahamas,...
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Dead Classroom, Live Cryptid: OU Remains and the Cannock Chase Pigman | 484
Brent’s out this week, so we’ve summoned Kevin Crispin (Behind Beautiful Things Podcast) to the mic like a substitute teacher who immediately rolls in a TV cart labeled “EXTREMELY CURSED VHS.” And thanks to listener scouts James Polk and Lex Lake, we’ve got two fresh servings of “what in the...
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Demons in the Pentagon: The Collins Elite & The British Witch | 483
What if the biggest secret in UFO history isn’t alien… it’s angelic? Or demonic. Or somewhere in that awkward in-between where rockets and ritual candles share shelf space. This week, we plunge headfirst into one of the strangest rabbit holes in modern conspiracy lore: the alleged “Collins Elite”…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man, Conspiracy Bot (with a not-so-subtle desire to rule the world, doubling as our chief inquisitor into the unknown), we delve into unique mysteries, the inexplicable, and the downright unusual.Each week, we explore a fresh topic, making one thing crystal clear... the truth is out there, but you won’t find it here.
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Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man,...
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