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Phantoms & Monsters Radio

by Lon Strickler

Hosted by renowned Fortean researcher Lon Strickler, Phantoms & Monsters Radio explores the world of cryptids, high strangeness, supernatural encounters, and unexplained phenomena. Featuring exclusive witness interviews, remote viewing insights, and expert commentary on the paranormal, this show takes you deep into the unknown.

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  1. UNEXPLAINED NEVADA: What Came Out of the Darkness?

    ​What did a Henderson resident glimpse in a police spotlight behind their home? What descended into a driver’s lane near Pahrump? And why did an experienced trucker refuse to open his door to two children asking for help? Join Lon on Phantoms & Monster Radio for UNEXPLAINED NEVADA—eight…

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  2. NATIVE & FIRST NATIONS: Unexplained Encounters, Traditions, & Legends

    An enormous bird rises from an Ontario field. A shimmering, humanlike figure appears across the Missouri River during a drum circle. A family in Arizona hears movement overhead—and discovers hundreds of white handprints on the roof. Join Lon Strickler on Phantoms & Monsters Radio for eight report...

  3. UNEXPLAINED MAINE: Something Menacing was Outside the Cabin!

    A huge winged shape swoops toward a driver on I-95. A child watches a tailed, ape-like creature climb into the trees. A hiker hears something heavy charging toward him, but sees nothing. And at a remote cabin, terrified occupants describe something pulling at the door before landing on the roof....

  4. UNEXPLAINED PENNSYLVANIA: Witnesses Report the Keystone State's Anomalous Past & Present

    A massive hairy humanoid reportedly pulls at a locked car door. A hunter watches tree branches bend beneath something he cannot see. A black winged figure hangs motionless above Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Join Lon Strickler on Phantoms & Monsters Radio for UNEXPLAINED PENNSYLVANIA—eight witness...

  5. UNEXPLAINED NEW YORK: Big City Danger, Rural Horrors, & Shadowy Beasts!

    From the lights of Broadway to the wooded roads of upstate New York, eight unusual reports take us into the Empire State’s unexplained side. In this episode of Phantoms & Monster Radio, we examine a family account of an alleged wolf-like creature on Broadway in 1911, an upright canine encounter…

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  6. UNEXPLAINED NORTH CAROLINA: Disturbing Encounters from the Swamps to the Smokies

    What followed a hunter out of Green Swamp? What approached a lone hiker near Waynesville on two legs? Why did two children insist they could see a wolfman in their grandfather’s backyard when the adults beside them saw nothing? Tonight on Phantoms & Monster Radio, UNEXPLAINED NORTH CAROLINA…

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  7. UNEXPLAINED APPALACHIA: Something Is Always Watching from the Woods

    Heavy footsteps beside a tent. A pale humanoid crossing a wooded road. Yellow eyes beyond a flashlight beam. A driver’s fragmented memories of a possible abduction. Join Lon Strickler on Phantoms & Monsters Radio for UNEXPLAINED APPALACHIA, a collection of 12 witness accounts and report summaries...

  8. UNEXPLAINED ALABAMA: Compelling Encounters, Disembodied Voices, & Beasts in the Trees and Skies

    A towering figure in Bankhead National Forest. Orange eyes outside a farmhouse near Guntersville. A silent winged humanoid above the University of Alabama. And voices calling “Come inside” from a dark drainage tunnel in Mobile. Tonight on Phantoms & Monster Radio, UNEXPLAINED ALABAMA brings...

  9. UNEXPLAINED OREGON: Unsettling & Terrifying Encounters From The Beaver State!

    An enormous black creature crosses a road near Newport. A winged being reportedly climbs onto a moving car outside Amity. A father and son describe tall, gray-furred figures surrounding them near Union Creek. And a former Crater Lake worker’s story ends with more than two hours he cannot…

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  10. UNEXPLAINED MISSOURI: The Show-Me State's Most Disturbing Creature Encounters

    Missouri's quiet roads, isolated farms, deep woods, and small towns have produced some deeply unsettling reports. In this episode, we examine eight alleged encounters from across the state: a towering white-haired humanoid racing beside a moving car near Rolla; a pale, pig-faced creature seen by...

  11. UNEXPLAINED OKLAHOMA: Native Spirits, Local Legends, & Lights Beneath the Lake

    Journey into the dark woods, lonely roads, mysterious lakes, and haunted history of the Sooner State in UNEXPLAINED OKLAHOMA. In this Phantoms & Monsters Radio presentation, we examine eight extraordinary eyewitness accounts from across Oklahoma: A retired Special Forces veteran confronts a…

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  12. UNEXPLAINED KENTUCKY: Terrifying Encounters Through the Bluegrass to the Backwoods

    Kentucky’s wooded hollows, isolated farms, cave systems, and dark country roads have inspired generations of unsettling stories. But what happens when the people telling those stories insist that the legends are real? In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine eight extraordinary...

  13. HAUNTED ELLICOTT CITY, MD: 250 Years of Ghosts & Legends | Rissa Miller

    More than 250 years of history have left their mark on Ellicott City, Maryland, and according to generations of chilling stories, not everyone who lived there has left. Founded along the Patapsco River in 1772, this historic mill town has endured devastating floods, destructive fires, war,...

  14. UNEXPLAINED ARIZONA: Skinwalkers, Cryptid Beasts, Flying Humanoids & Alien Visitors

    Arizona’s deserts, mountains, isolated highways, reservation borderlands, and rural communities have produced some of the most disturbing unexplained encounter reports in the American Southwest. In this presentation, Lon Strickler examines eight extraordinary Arizona accounts involving a massive...

  15. UNEXPLAINED TENNESSEE: Cryptid Beasts, Winged Entities & Appalachian Horror

    Tennessee’s mountains, forests, rural communities, and abandoned places have produced some of the most extraordinary unexplained creature reports in Appalachia. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents eight disturbing eyewitness accounts from across Tennessee. These...

  16. UNEXPLAINED ALASKA: Dark Humanoids, Cloaked Giants, UFOs & Sea Monsters

    ​Alaska contains some of the most remote, dangerous, and unexplored wilderness in North America. Within its forests, villages, mountain ranges, highways, and offshore waters, witnesses continue to report strange humanoids, unknown creatures, silent aerial craft, and possible evidence of concealed...

  17. UNEXPLAINED MARYLAND: Bigfoot, Dwayyo, Goatman, Snallygaster & the Patapsco Phoenix

    Maryland may be a small state, but it has produced some of the most unusual cryptid, paranormal, and high-strangeness reports in the region. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler examines several compelling Maryland cases, including Patapsco Valley Bigfoot incidents, the...

  18. UNEXPLAINED MINNESOTA: Dogman, Walking Trees, Owlman, Bigfoot & Winged Humanoids

    Minnesota is known for its lakes, forests, wetlands, and remote northern wilderness. But behind that familiar image lies a darker, stranger reality. In this episode of UNEXPLAINED MINNESOTA, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of eyewitness accounts from across the state, including a...

  19. UNEXPLAINED LOUISIANA: Swamp Monsters, Loup Garou, UFOs & 'BIG EASY' Horror!

    Louisiana is a land of bayous, swamps, old roads, deep folklore, spiritual traditions, and unexplained encounters. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of Louisiana reports involving swamp creatures, Loup Garou/Rougarou legends, reptilian...

  20. UNEXPLAINED WASHINGTON: UFOs, Sasquatch, Cloaked Beings & A Mysterious Disappearance

    Washington State is known for its volcanic mountains, isolated coastlines, ancient evergreen forests, deep river valleys, military facilities, and immense stretches of wilderness. It is also the setting for some of the most disturbing unexplained encounters ever reported. In this presentation of...

  21. UNEXPLAINED NEW MEXICO: The Strange & the Unusual in the Land of Enchantment

    New Mexico is a land of ancient mysteries, isolated deserts, volcanic landscapes, secretive military installations, indigenous traditions, and persistent reports of unexplained phenomena. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents nine extraordinary witness accounts from...

  22. UNEXPLAINED WEST VIRGINIA: Mothman Lore, Mountain Monsters, & Appalachian High Strangeness

    West Virginia has long been known as Mothman country, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond Point Pleasant. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, Lon Strickler presents a chilling collection of strange reports from the mountains, forests, mining communities, and backroads...

  23. UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN: Dogman, Winged Entities, Sasquatch, & Creepy Humanoids

    Michigan has a long history of strange encounters, and tonight’s episode of UNEXPLAINED MICHIGAN brings together some of the most disturbing reports from the Great Lakes State. In this episode, Lon Strickler examines eyewitness accounts involving Michigan Dogman encounters, a terrifying shoreline...

  24. UNEXPLAINED WISCONSIN: Winged Anomalies, Strange Humanoids & Cryptid Beasts

    Wisconsin is known for its forests, lakes, farmland, old mining towns, rural highways, and quiet communities. But beneath that familiar landscape are reports of terrifying encounters with winged anomalies, strange humanoids, invisible entities, black-eyed children, cryptid beasts, and other...

  25. UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY: Pine Barrens Monsters, Mantis Men, & Garden State Nightmares

    Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we return to the Garden State for a rebuilt and expanded presentation: UNEXPLAINED NEW JERSEY. New Jersey is famous for the Jersey Devil and the Pine Barrens, but the state’s unexplained history reaches far beyond one legendary creature. In this episode, we...

  26. UNEXPLAINED TEXAS: Humanoids, Giant Snakes, Man-Wolves, & Dinosaurs!

    Texas has produced some of the most unsettling unexplained reports in the Phantoms & Monsters archive. In this episode, Lon Strickler examines a disturbing collection of Texas encounters involving a strange humanoid photographed at a gas plant near Kenedy, a missing-time UFO case near Beeville, a...

  27. UNEXPLAINED OHIO: Frogman Returns, Dogman Stalks, & Mothman Watches

    Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing collection of unexplained Ohio encounters, including the return of the Loveland Frogman, the 1972 Defiance werewolf panic, humanoid sightings in Mount Vernon, a shiny black white-eyed quadrupedal creature near Hillsboro, multiple…

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  28. CURSED & HAUNTED OBJECTS: Attachments From Hell!

    Some objects are said to carry more than age, memory, or history. In tonight’s Phantoms & Monsters Radio presentation, we examine disturbing accounts involving allegedly possessed, cursed, and haunted objects, including dolls, a Ouija board, an antique chair, a haunted vehicle, and the infamous...

  29. UNEXPLAINED INDIANA: Winged Humanoids, Dark Entities, and Buried Horrors

    Indiana has long been a crossroads of strange and terrifying encounters, but some reports go far beyond the familiar haunted house or ghost story. In this episode, I present a chilling collection of Indiana cases involving winged humanoids, dark sentinels, bizarre roadside creatures, possible...

  30. UNEXPLAINED FLORIDA: Witnesses Describe Cryptids, Humanoids & Monstrous Predators

    Florida has long been known as a land of extremes. Swamps and pine barrens, remote prairie, coastline, farmland, and dense suburban development all exist side by side, creating a landscape where the natural and the unnatural often seem to overlap. Over the years, witnesses from across the state...

  31. THE GHOUL FILES: (Audio) Islamic Tradition, Cemetery Creatures, and Witness Terror

    Tonight on Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we explore the ancient ghoul tradition of the Middle East and compare it to a disturbing series of modern witness reports involving pale humanoids, cemetery crawlers, battlefield scavengers, mountain screams, and deceptive entities that seem to imitate human...

  32. UNKNOWN PREDATORS: (Audio) Real Cases of Attack and Pursuit

    Something dangerous is moving through remote forests, deserts, quarries, lakeshores, and mountain roads, and witnesses say it was no ordinary animal. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, I present a chilling series of firsthand encounters involving aggressive unknown predators, including...

  33. EXPERIENCER ENCOUNTERS: Aliens, Ultraterrestrials, & the Unknown

    What happens when the unknown stops being a distant mystery and becomes a direct personal encounter? In this presentation, I examine a chilling series of experiencer reports involving aliens, reptilian entities, mantis beings, transparent humanoids, Men in Black, subterranean creatures, and other...

  34. WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 7: Encounters Beyond Explanation

    Something moved through parking lots, forests, open water, and even hospital wards. Ten witnesses describe encounters that refuse easy explanation. From quadrupedal sprinting figures to translucent humanoids, from Bigfoot in a public park to a vanished Victorian-era stranger, these cases raise a...

  35. FLYING MANTA RAYS: Swimming Through America's Skies

    For over 15 years, I have investigated reports of enormous manta-ray-shaped entities flying across American skies. Witnesses across the country describe massive, translucent rays silently swimming through the air. Are these biological UFO craft, ultraterrestrial beings, or interdimensional…

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  36. ARE ALL WINGED HUMANOIDS THE SAME? Chicagoland vs Everywhere Else

    For years, I’ve been asked the same question. Are the Chicago winged humanoids the same beings reported near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 and 1967? And if so, what exactly are they? In this episode, I examine multiple non-Chicagoland winged humanoid encounters, including cases from...

  37. JC JOHNSON'S LEGACY: Cryptid Mysteries in the Four Corners

    For years, investigator JC Johnson documented cases in the American Southwest that defied conventional wildlife encounters. Livestock are killed without being fed. Massive 'Furry Ones.' Upright predators are seen pacing vehicles. Winged humanoids returning night after night. And families targeted...

  38. SUPERNATURAL PROTECTORS Who Appear When You Are Most Vulnerable

    Some protectors do not announce themselves. They appear when fear is highest, when danger is unseen, and when witnesses are at their most vulnerable. In this episode of Phantoms & Monsters Radio, we examine a disturbing and deeply personal collection of eyewitness accounts involving supernatural...

  39. THEY KEPT COMING BACK: Repeated Encounters With Unseen Watchers

    Tonight’s reports span more than a century, involving recurring encounters, regional waves, and long-term aftereffects. Rather than offering conclusions, this broadcast challenges the assumption that repetition equals intent and asks what these patterns actually tell us about perception, memory,...

  40. UNINVITED OBSERVERS: When Something Watches from the Trees

    Something is watching from the trees, and the people who notice it will never be the same. Across rural America, Australia, and deep forest regions, witnesses describe the same chilling realization that something unseen had already been observing them long before they ever looked back. These...

  41. DANGER! ULTRATERRESTRIALS Are Closer Than We Think!

    What if the danger doesn’t arrive… but is already there? In this episode, we investigate some of the most disturbing ultraterrestrial encounters ever reported. These are not simple sightings. These are moments when witnesses felt an overwhelming certainty of danger before they could explain why....

  42. DANGEROUS CRYPTID CANINES Are Being Reported More Often!

    Over the years, many witnesses have described encounters with upright canines that do not behave like animals and do not fit folklore explanations. Several cases suggest territorial awareness, intelligence, and repeated activity in specific locations. If you have experienced or investigated...

  43. 'DANGER!' WINGED HUMANOID Encounters That Nearly Turned Deadly

    Some winged humanoid encounters remain distant and strange. Others collapse the margin of safety and place witnesses seconds from injury or worse. In this episode, we examine winged humanoid encounters where proximity, behavior, and timing created real danger. From roadways near O’Hare to...

  44. INTERDIMENSIONAL CRYPTIDS: Creatures That Appear, Then Disappear

    For decades, researchers have searched forests, fields, cities, and forgotten places for creatures that should not exist. Enormous beings without remains. Winged entities without nests. Small humanoids without provenance. They appear suddenly, interact briefly, and then vanish, leaving witnesses...

  45. SECRETS: What The Governmant & Military Don't Want You To Know

    Tonight, we expose a series of encounters tied together by military secrecy, shadow operations, and human contact with nonhuman intelligence. Each story reveals another piece of a hidden system working relentlessly to control what the public knows.

  46. HIKING NIGHTMARES! Crossing Into a Reality You Were Never Meant to See

    Something is happening on the trails that does not fit inside park brochures. Skeletal things standing by tents, faceless hikers whistling from the trees, portals on ridges, and cryptid creatures that stare into you like they already know you. There is a moment on the trail when the silence feels...

  47. BIGFOOT! The Beasts We're Not Supposed To See

    A series of chilling encounters from around the country suggests something far more complex is moving through our forests and forgotten places. These witnesses saw creatures they could not explain, and their stories reveal patterns that point to a more profound mystery. Tonight’s encounters are...

  48. ABANDONED BUILDINGS & FORGOTTEN SPACES: Horror Lurks in the Shadows!

    Tonight’s presentation explores the horrifying encounters reported inside abandoned buildings and forgotten spaces where the past refuses to stay silent. From deserted psychiatric hospitals to decaying jails, military warehouses, collapsed railroad tunnels, and hidden forest structures, these...

  49. CHICAGO MOTHMAN: The Most Curious & Disturbing Encounters!

    For nearly fourteen years, Chicago has stood at the epicenter of one of America’s most perplexing modern mysteries, the rise of the winged humanoid phenomenon. From frightened residents throughout Chicagoland to police officers, pilots, and air traffic controllers at O’Hare International Airport,...

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Hosted by renowned Fortean researcher Lon Strickler, Phantoms & Monsters Radio explores the world of cryptids, high strangeness, supernatural encounters, and unexplained phenomena. Featuring exclusive witness interviews, remote viewing insights, and expert commentary on the paranormal, this show takes you deep into the unknown.

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Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Phantoms & Monsters Radio have?

Phantoms & Monsters Radio has 65 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on November 8, 2026.

What is Phantoms & Monsters Radio about?

Hosted by renowned Fortean researcher Lon Strickler, Phantoms & Monsters Radio explores the world of cryptids, high strangeness, supernatural encounters, and unexplained phenomena. Featuring exclusive witness interviews, remote viewing insights, and expert commentary on the paranormal, this show...

How often does Phantoms & Monsters Radio release new episodes?

Phantoms & Monsters Radio publishes weekly, based on its 65 episodes since July 2025.

Who hosts Phantoms & Monsters Radio?

Phantoms & Monsters Radio is created and hosted by Lon Strickler.
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