It Gets Weird

Kyle and Nile are traveling and so we are unlocking the first episode of our Patreon series on The Prisoner for the main feed! Check out our discussion of this surreal sci-fi classic with friend of the show (and devotee of the series), Jules as we try to get to the bottom of what's going on in this mysterious village

   Jules and Nile watch a documentary about the supposed events that the Wicker Man is inspired by. However the documentary is maybe not as inspiring as we'd hoped. Check out all our thoughts on mid 20th century british occultism and the exploration of the last occult sacrifice in british history.......kinda......maybe?

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we ask a question that somehow didn't occur to us for about a decade: who took the first UFO photo? Well, it's possible it was a man named William Rhodes, depending on who you ask. Did this guy really take the first photograph of a flying saucer all the way back in 1947, hot off the heels of Kenneth Arnold's original sighting? Did Air Force Intelligence try to smear Rhodes as a kook, and if so, why? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we're chock full of ghosts, spooks, ghosts, ghouls, specters, and so on. This week we visit one of THE most haunted locations in the United States, and based on the horror stories surrounding the place it's easy to imagine angry spirits roaming the halls. What is the history behind the Trans-Allegheny Asylum and how did it earn its reputation for being extremely haunted? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigate a classic conspiracy that was propagated online in the mid-2010s: the disappearance of Kenny Veach and the mysterious "M Cave." Who was Kenny Veach and how did he disappear that fateful day in 2014? Where is the so-called "M Cave" and is it connected to UFOs? Or perhaps a grander military conspiracy? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes us to the freezing waters of the Antarctic where a crew of Japanese sailors witnessed none other than...a Godzilla. Well, a godzilla-esque cryptid, at least. And its name IS officially Antarctic Godzilla, so there's that. What fuzzy, dorsal fin-having beast lurks in these cold ocean waters and can it propel itself fifty feet into the air by rocketing out of the ocean? Or is this a tall tale that spread through folklore and mistranslation? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle and Nile got together to check out a very, very fresh documentary. Directed and written by Seth Breedlove, From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle hit streaming services in late April of this year. Covering a variety of bizarre occurrences such as mysterious disappearances, cryptid sightings, UFO experiences, and more supernatural hijinks all concentrated in the forests of Vermont. Is this doc a thumbs up or a thumbs down? Listen and find out!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Garrett joins the Weird Crew to investigate the truth...of the Fay Folk. Are Fairies real? We're hoping to answer this question and so much more with the help of a group of women who have been communing with Elves for a very long time now. How can you attract Fairies into your life? How do you communicate with them? What does a Fairy accent sound like? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we explore extraterrestrial life from a perspective that's...a little bit different. Yeah, that's right, we're finally uncovering the truth about our furry feline friends. Is it true cats are aliens? Or is it possible that cats are placed here to be cute and fuzzy and captivate humans, secretly working as spies for the alien overlords. Can we create a better cat alien conspiracy than the internet? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we attempt to uncover a mystery. What is Anglamarke? Who is Guenn Eona Nimue? What do collage art, extraterrestrial beings, consciousness, Hermeticism, psychic powers, and elves got to do with all this? Who are the other six mysterious members of Anglamarke, and has Kyle managed to uncover one of them with some internet sleuthing? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn all about the lore of the massive, unkillable Specter Moose of Maine. Is this thing a cryptid? A ghost? Or just a moose with a genetic mutation? What is the statistical possibility of running into a moose in Maine, anyway? And why DON'T we pluralize it as 'meese'? We get to the bottom of these questions and much more! 

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we wrap the chilling UFO abduction story of three Kentucky women - Mona, Elaine, and Mary Louise. After MUFON and APRO settle their argument and kick off their hypnosis sessions, frightening details of alien beings and strange experiments are uncovered. All three women find themselves irreversibly changed by their encounter with these strange beings, searching for answers about their captors. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin a deep dive into an alien abduction case full of strange, intriguing details. This UFO manages to get a three-for-one deal, abducting a trio of women late one night after a birthday hangout. Did this UFO seize control of their car? Why did merely witnessing the UFO cause headaches, tingling, and pain? And was the alien abduction presaged by a mysterious military man? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we went on another globe-trotting adventure, but this time in search of the legendary creature we've all come to love: Mothman. How do sightings of winged humanoids outside the US get filtered back into the American culture as Mothman? Are Mothman's travels a sign of something "sus" as the kids like to say? And why do we all want to romance the Mothman? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week concludes our discussion of the preeminent conspiracy researcher, Mae Brussell. Can Mae truly draw a line between the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King? How exactly do intelligence agents create a patsy? And did the CIA manufacture Charles Manson and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst to destroy the counterculture and the political left? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle is back to continue the discussion about the OG conspiracy theorist, Mae Brussell. In this one we explore the origins of the American brand of fascism and nazism, as well as the people Brussell identifies as the primary financiers of post WWII American deep politics. It turns out fascism was never defeated, it merely moved underground. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules steps in for Kyle while he's sick to chat with Nile about the 2023 documentary "Satan Wants You." In this doc, the infamous Satanic Panic of the 1980s is investigated from the perspective of psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient, Michelle Smith. What is the true story behind the infamous Satanic tell-all, 'Michelle Remembers'? Are Nile and Jules sufficiently panicked? All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we spent some time learning about the ur-conspiracy theorist, the Queen of Conspiracies herself, Mae Brussell. Who was Brussell and how did she end up on a path researching the deep state? What exactly did she do to earn the nickname "Queen of Conspiracy"? Why does her legacy matter? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this week's episode Nile turned to an unlikely source: a coworker from his day job. Through this new source we explore a new angle of the Roswell crash: the conspiracy theories of Annie Jacobsen. Were Stalin and Mengele somehow behind the legendary crash of an extraterrestrial craft? Will we unlock new Roswell truths from this dynamite new source? Will Kyle finally get Nile to play Magic: the Gathering? All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we investigated tales of so-called spontaneous human combustion, venturing into the world of parapsychology, anomalous phenomena, and the paranormal. Can human beings just burst into flames, or is there something more otherworldly going on? Can young girls create mysterious and highly localized fires with a mere glance? Does a global incendiary poltergeist haunt the Earth? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week for our big 500th episode we gathered up beloved friends of the show Jules and Garrett to have a big round-table discussion about the specter haunting ufology: the Roswell Incident. To continue mixing things up, Nile decided to research the alien conspiracy side of Roswell and Kyle researched the "human deception" angle. Can this braintrust of podcasters finally crack the Roswell story? Or is it all just a fool's errand? Will Garrett and Jules finally take over It Gets Weird for good? All this and so much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile gets fired up about a witch-hunt in 17th century Loudun, France. How did the events that transpired in Loudun inspire the Ken Russell film The Devils? Was there really a conspiracy to destroy the life and reputation of Father Urbain Grandier? Is a horny nun and her sisterhood of devil-possessed ladies at the center of this conspiracy? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided it had been far too long since we checked in with our good buddy Bigfoot. What's Bigfoot been up to the last couple years? Turns out, scaring lights of hunters, hikers, and young men with fireworks. We also dig a little bit into the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and the work they're doing to investigate the mysteries of the world's most popular cryptid. All this and more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we checked out the documentary Saucers, Spooks and Kooks, based off the Adam Gorightly book by the same name. Much like a similar documentary we've enjoyed previously (Mirage Men), this documentary covers the Bennewitz Affair in depth, pulling on the many threads that connect to his story. How does Bennewitz and the psychological operation used against him and his belief in aliens call into question the entire field of ufology? Listen and find out!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a trip down undah to talk about one of the biggest UFO events in Australia! A big group of schoolchildren witness the so-called Westall UFO; some even faint in terror. Was this a UFO or a secret government test that used UFO fever as a cover-up? When mysterious men show up and start threatening school staff, is it an Australian visit from Men in Black, perhaps? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we rope friend of the show KT back into a discussion of our favorite Cosmick Traveller, Dirk Gillabel. In this one we explore beyond singing bowls, tarot, and gnomes. How does the etheric body work? How can you use astral projection to contact sound-light beings? Did Dirk have a chance encounter with a Dragon entity in 90s New York? Who is the Lady with the Star? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile brings a new-ish cryptid to the show: snakes. Love 'em or hate 'em, we've got two stories of monstrous snakes that terrorized small town folks in the US back in the 50s and 60s. How big can snakes really get? What kinds of genitalia do they have? Do we really want to talk at length about snake genitals? Yes we do. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided to learn about Smashing Pumpkin's notorious front-man, Billy Corgan. It turns out Mr. Corgan is no stranger to the strange and supernatural...did he witness a true shapeshifter in-person? Was the United States government interested in roping in Corgan's rock 'n roll influence for clandestine projects? Did Corgan actually narrowly avoid getting pulled into the orbit of a Satanic cult? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile takes on a dive back into exopolitics from the perspective of a Starseed prodigy named Elena Danaan. Who is Elena Danaan and how does her outstanding Starseed abilities and history play into the politics of the Galactic Federation? What makes her beautiful website so special? What are Elena's current beefs in the New Age industry? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we're ringing in the new year by getting back to our roots. So in this episode we looked at a number of classic UFO cases out of Indiana, hometown of It Gets Weird. We talk Indiana's involvement in the 1952 UFO flap, bizarre cones of darkness-lasers, and the good folks over at the Indiana chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided to close out 2025 with a noided documentary, "CIA Covert Experiments." Did intelligence agents dose an entire French town with hyper potent LSD, causing hundreds of unsuspecting townsfolk to hallucinate? What proof is there that the CIA would dose an entire town as an experiment? Who the hell is distributing this documentary? How does Nile feel after getting to peep the horror with Kyle? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a trip up north to learn about some legendary Canadian ghosts. Does the angry spirit of a beheaded nun roam the streets of Miramichi looking for her severed head? Does the spectral form of a handsome fancy boy stalk the Dungarvon River in New Brunswick, "whooping" loud as hell in a ghostly rage? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we conclude our three part series on the controversial Fortean writer Martin Cannon and his most well-known text, The Controllers. To close things out, we've got the theoretical military applications of Cannon's "human hypothesis" of UFO abductions and mind control. Can abductees become Manchurian candidates for clandestine ops? Can the military craft the perfect psychic soldier? Why was Cannon threatened by spooks after the publication of The Controllers? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we continue learning about Martin Cannon's book, The Controllers. Could an MKULTRA guinea pig be implanted with a device and become remotely hypnotized into believing they're being abducted by aliens? Is it even possible to commit "anti-social behavior" while under hypnosis? And to what end would somebody fake an alien abduction this way? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin our exploration of an infamous text in ufology: Martin Cannon's "The Controllers." We've talked a lot in the past about the extraterrestrial hypothesis of UFOs, but what about a human hypothesis? This is where Cannon's book comes in: a paranoid, human-centric view of the UFO questions, starting with "alien implants." What Earth forces could be putting implants inside of abductees, and how? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we have the...purr-fect (ugh, UGH) alien primer episode for you: Feline Aliens, aka Lyrans. Is there a race of anthropomorphic cat-people living out there in the stars? Were all cats on Earth planted there by ancient aliens? Who are the crazy alien cat people compiling everything we know about this noble extraterrestrial race? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we add a little entomology creamer into our New Age spiritual enlightenment coffee with the tale of...the Butterfly People. When a massive crop circle depicting the Vitruvian Man as a Butterfly Man pops up in the Netherlands, skeptics and believers alike are baffled. Was this design man-made, as the lying media would like to suggest? Or is it alien, perhaps even cosmic, in its design? We tie this event into a bizarre phenomenon that would occur only a few years later: the Butterfly People of Joplin. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules is back with the Weird Crew to discuss Kyle's birthplace...the terrifying city of Cleveland, Ohio! Does a vile vortex of paranormal activity lie at the center of Franklin Castle? Did its original owner secretly live a double life as a deranged killer? Or perhaps the mansion itself is cursed? We discuss all this and much more!

Get inside. Lock the door. They know that you know. And they're coming for you.

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week's episode is mostly focused on an alien encounter known as the Sagrada Família case. A group of children find themselves face-to-face with unearthly one-eyed men who descended from a spaceship. Why did these humanoid, cyclopean extraterrestrials come to Earth? What exactly was their message to these children and what does it have to do with the moon? We also talk about the time 10,000 fútbol fans were witnesses to a flashy, unexplained UFO event. All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we decided to do the oft-threatened mailbag episode. You sent us questions and stories and we responded! What's our Trigun fancasting? What do we know about the conspiracy connections to the GATE Program? What do we think is the least plausible cryptid? We even reserve a little time to extend our best wishes to all, even the "haters and losers" on this special mailbag episode of It Gets Weird. All this and much more! Thanks again to everyone for your submissions! 

Hey there all you lovely weirdos, its spooky season again and that means its times for frights and...familial trauma? This week, Jules and Nile decided to celebrate the season by watching Rob Zombie's divisive reboot of Halloween. We discuss what ol' Rob was trying to accomplish, the absolutely bugnuts dialog of this world, and whether or not this movie satisfies the needed elements of a good Halloween movie. Are we giving him too much credit for some choices? Are we too harsh about his pervert qualifications? Find out on this week's episode!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Jules joins the Weird Crew to revisit a topic from the early days of It Gets Weird: Hollow Earth. Specifically, we learn about the Agarthans, the race of super-tall humanoids who live on the continent in the center of the hollow earth. We also learn about Hollow Earth disclosure, a relatively recent movement among Hollow Earth true believers. Did you know that Agartha has sent an ambassador to prepare us surface-dwellers for the Truth? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we examine a haunted location novel to the show: a spooky lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida! What grisly deaths occurred to produce the seven "known" ghosts that roam the halls of the keeper's house and the spiral stairway of the lighthouse? Does the St. Augustine's Lighthouse's haunted reputation come from it's history stretching back hundreds of years? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we take a trip over to Arizona to learn about another incredibly stinky sasquatch, the Mogollon Monster. Much like the Skunk Ape Sasquatch, this Arizona Apeman brings with it a powerful stench. It's also described by many as a much more "aggressive" kind of Bigfoot, but here the Weird Boys disagree. Is this your run-of-the-mill odorous stanksquatch, or is it a Squatch to watch for? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our story about Indrid Cold by following John Keel's investigation of the Grinning Man. Keel weaves a string of supposedly interrelated events about UFOs, mysterious fires, and nighttime prowlers, all to lead to the question: are UFOs and ghosts the same thing? We also learn some more fun facts about Woodrow Derenberger's visit to Lanulos! All this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we begin our exploration of the origin story of the infamous "Grinning Man", Woody Derenberger's personal relationship with the so-called Indrid Cold, and John Keel's hijinks-filled investigation into the eerie entity. What in the world (or outside of it) is Indrid Cold? Is he an alien? An inter-dimensional being? A paranormal creature? A humanoid cryptid? His story eludes definition but entertains nonetheless. We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we travel to Wales to learn about a bizarre UFO sighting that may have led to a government cover-up. Did a bunch of Welsh folks in the countryside see military craft get into a battle with an extraterrestrial craft? How does this flying object shoot so-called "thick lightning"? Did a portal to another dimension open in the sky that evening? Are there government files locked away that could unlock the truth of what happened that fateful day? We discuss all this and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we conclude our exploration of the Kingdom of Yahweh and the story of its founder, Dr. Joe Jeffers. How does the Doctor of Divinity and True Son Joe run this cult-y UFO-adjacent scheme into the ground? How much more disturbing legal trouble can one man run into before it catches up with him? And how many wives must a man like Joe wed before the jig is up? We discuss the final days of this cult and Dr. Joe and much more!

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we learn the story of Dr. Joe Jeffers and his religious cult, the Kingdom of Yahweh. What are the origins of the Kingdom of Yahweh's religious zealotry? How did a fire-and-brimstone Baptist preacher gain a following of devout Sayers of the True Name? How did the inaugural 1947 flying saucer flap influence the direction of Dr. Jeffer's cult? We discuss all this and much more!