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The Hidden Zoo
by The Hidden Zoo
Join Blake and Don as they dig into the world of cryptozoology in order to make fun of the ridiculous creatures people claim to have seen around the world.
Episodes
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Episode 104 - Whaler, Whaler, Wally Gator
Blake is on a movie again, so Don is joined by former co-host Ryan! Back again! Our subject is a Nebraska Lake monster with a very...interesting physiology. Also, trans rights are human rights! Further Reading...
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Episode 103 - Get a Rope
This week, Don convinces Blake to download a bad app called Paranormal Map so he can troll the other users. And he also tells the tale of the Altamaha-ha, a river cryptid from Georgia. Also, violent 90s salsa commercials!
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Episode 102: Mammal Teeth
This week, Blake and Don review/ridicule a deeply mediocre cryptid movie: Legendary, starring Dolph Lundgren and some other people. It's free on Amazon Prime video if you, too, want to spent two hours watching a bunch of interchangeable characters chase a humongous lizard. Also, a quick review of...
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Episode 101 - Get Your Tribal Band, Graduate, and Go See Creed
This week Blake brings a seriously fascinating cryptid that is in more military history books than it is cryptozoology books, by a wide margin: the Rock Ape. Also, Rambo!
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Episode 100 - Nazi Monkey
This week Blake and Don are joined by special guest Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie on Twitter) of Behind the Bastards and Uprising: A Guide from Portland to discuss a cryptid they have been dancing around since the very beginning of this show. That's right, we're finally giving the full show...
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Episode 99 - Too Hot to Handle, Too Cold to Hold
This week Don's research gets away from him, so he runs Blake through another AI Dungeon! Sorry for two so close together, but this one goes whackadoo. We promise you'll like it.
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Episode 98 - Bigbury
This week, Blake is back! He tells us a bit about the movie he worked on and then goes into detail about the cadborosaurus, a Canadian sea monster. Also, ficus plants!
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Episode 96 - Clearly Sasquatches Should be Power Rangers
This week Don and his friend Cameron play an AI Dungeon that begins with an Albert Ostman-inspired scenario and quickly goes sideways. And violent. And a little psychotic.
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Episode 96 - Keep on Basque Truckin'
This week, Don invites his old friend Aaron to guest host and they discuss life, the universe, and Octo-Squatch. Don and Aaron do incredibly cool science shows that teach science while also blowing things up! Find them on http://www.explosionsinc.com. They don't swear this much during a science...
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Episode 95 - Only the Squatchiest
This week Don and special guest Jeff wax nostalgic about their shared hometown, discuss shitty rust belt economies, and then cover the Ohio Grassman, Ohio's very own sasquatch. Also, Bruce Springsteen!
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Episode 94 - Mansion, Nunnery, Prison, Asylum
This week Don and special guest host Sean (Blake is still shooting a movie) discuss Star Wars (of course) and then dig into the wonderful world of the Michigan Melonheads. Also, the death of Wolverine!
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Episode 93 - Butter Beast's Big Beautiful Bodacious Bubble Butt
This week, Don tells Blake all about a beast from Kentucky, the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes! It's very silly. Also, Blake has a big Hollywood job!
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Episode 92 - Amy Good Gorilla
We are back after a bit of a hiatus to learn about the agog we, an African cryptid, but mostly we talk about great ape language and cognition and the 1995 cinema classic Congo. Also, corvids!
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Episode 91 - Half Man, Half Goat, Half Man
This week we talk about the new season of The Mandalorian (of course)! Then a quick DC-area cryptid, and then Blake navigates the Amazon looking for DeLoy's Ape in another AI Dungeon! It gets sexy, then it just gets weird.
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Episode 90 - Stalin's Yetis by Arthur Dyatlov, Winner of the Caldecot Medal
It's time for another Halloween special! in 2018 we told you about cryptids that legitimately creeped us out, and this year we do the same! Kind of! Really, they're more cryptid-adjacent. Also, Tomb Raider!
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Episode 89 - Your Time Life Operator
This week Blake has been digging through his collection of Time Life hardbacks...And he found the one about cryptids! We meander through the pages of a classic cryptozoology book. Also, we try to make a Will Smith rap about Jaws!
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Episode 88 - Randy Sparxxxxxx
This week, Don tells Blake the tale of the Tennessee Wildman! Which turns out to not be much of a tale, but man does the one guy who claims to have seen it have a pathetic paranormal research group. Also, labor uprisings!
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Episode 87 - Budget Reynolds
This week we discuss a phenomenal bigfoot horror movie called Night of the Demon! It's available on Prime Video, it has lots of cheap blood and mayhem, some nudity, rampant breaking and entering by Bigfoot hunters, and all sorts of other insanity. Watch it! Watch it now! Also, bulbous organic…
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Episode 86 - Dutch Angles
This week we review a very bad movie that you can watch on Amazon Prime Video this very moment: Rise of the Chupacabras! Strap in, kids, cause it ain't good.
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Episode 85 - Deli 5
This week Blake tells Don about the Monkey Man of Delhi, and we speculate about generational naming conventions in the Star Wars universe. Also, an accidentally racist Wolverine comic!
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Episode 84 - Cryptid Fanfic: The Legendary Journeys
This week we are proud to present our second virtual Gen Con 2020 panel, in which we stage dramatic readings of cryptid erotica! The show is always tagged explicit, but this one is ESPECIALLY explicit. Thanks to guests Denise, Jon, and Tom.
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Episode 83 - Mythical Monsters and Folktale Fauna Live at Virtual Gen Con 2020
This week we are coming to you with a recording of the Facebook lifestream we did for Gen Con 2020! It's a survey of why we think cryptozoology is silly and some of the silliest cryptids we've covered in the years we've been doing this show. Blake and Don are joined by friends of the show Denise,...
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Episode 82 - Monghost
This week Blake and Don are back to their old tricks, with the story of Gef the talking mongoose from the Isle of Man. Also, and update from the Centre of Excellence!
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Episode 81 - Hitler Zombies?
Blake is back! As promised, it's time for a Blake-centric AI Dungeon, and he's on a mission from Bigfoot in...TEAM BARF TEAM ACTIVATE!
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Episode 80 - Murder, Mystery, and Mothmen
This week Blake is out of town, so Don got his blessing to invite his friend Julia to guest on the show, and he takes her on a wild ride through our old friend AI Dungeon! She and Mothman have a surprisingly compelling adventure!
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Episode 79 - Bigfoot: Alien Ghost?
This week Blake and Don are joined by returning guests Tom and John to discuss the Amazon Prime documentary "The Bigfoot Alien Connection Reveled." It is somehow more ridiculous than it sounds. Also, updates from Don's cryptozoology class!
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Episode 78 - Stop Strumming Your Bass, Danny
This week Blake and Don tear the hell out of the 2012 Asylum Films production "Bigfoot," starring Danny Bonaduce. Also, updates from the Centre for Excellence!
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Episode 77: P is for Pants
This week Blake and Don are joined by returning guest Denise to discuss the Fresno Nightcrawler, the world's creepiest pair of pants! Also, Don signs up for an online course in cryptozoology!
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Episode 76 - Spocamel
This week Blake and Don offer a lake monster double feature with Ogopogo and Igopogo, Canadian lake monster with silly names. Also, they invent a small town cryptid for Spokane and discuss Star Wars blasters.
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Episode 75 - Ducktales, A-Woo-Hoo
This week, Don and Blake discuss a couple of cryptic-adjacent weird stories: the disappearance of the USS Cyclops and Indrid Cold. Also, the dark, racist history of Duckburg!
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Episode 74 - All The Squatch News You Can Use
This week Blake and Don are joined by their friend Alexe, last heard telling us about the Grootslang, and they surprise her with silly Bigfoot news. Also, weird stuff from Catholic school!
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Episode 73 - 5/5 Sasquatches
This week Blake and Don give a full SPOILERiffic review of Max Brooks' upcoming sasquatch-centric novel "Devolution." SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS! Also, jobs we had as kids and weird crimes!
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Episode 72 - Peepers
This week Don brings Blake the tale of the Albatwitch, a Pennsylvania cryptid that likes to steal apples. Also, history!
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Episode 71 - Butt Cameras
This week, we dig into SPOILERS for Tiger King because we just can't stop talking about it, and then we cover three more fake diseases in another Pandemic Special! Do you hate windmills and love having your bones cracked? Then this episode is not for you!
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Episode 70 - Bawitaba
This week we spend a whole lot of time discussing Tiger King and laughing our asses off about it. Then we do a Pandemic Special: diseases that people think exist but really don't. Skin fibers!
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Episode 69.5 - Yowie on Ice
This week, in the back half of our epic two-parter, we finish off the list of the 69 sexiest cryptids! Also, we get confused about sorftcore erotic manga!
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Episode 69 - Dudes!
It is our long-awaited 69th episode spectacular, coming to you in two parts! In part one, Blake gives us a spoiler-free review of an upcoming Max Brooks novel about squatches, and we cover the first half of our list of the 69 sexiest cryptids known to mankind.
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Episode 68 - Squatchnapped
This week Don tells Blake the story of Albert Ostman, who claimed, in 1957, to have been kidnapped by sasquatches in British Columbia in 1924. We hear his own words, because it was just easier than summarizing them. Plus we get to hear his odd fascination with assigning the squatches clothing...
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Episode 67 - I'm Not Gonna Say It's Yetis, But It's Yetis
This week Blake and Don discuss the strange lack of mysterious disappearances attributed to cryptids after learning that some weirdos think the Dyatlov Pass incident was all Yetis. Then we have a lightning round of which cryptid caused which mysterious disappearance!
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Episode 66 - This One Weird Trick Will Make You An Owlman - Cryptids Hate It!
This week Blake takes in the story of the Owlman, a beast from Cornwall whose story is inextricable from that of Tony "Doc" Shiels, a magician/artist/cryptozoologist/probable charlatan/guy who hangs out with naked witches. Also, CATS! Further Reading Owlman Pictures Thought Catalog - 12 Facts…
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Episode 65 - Bigfoot Justice
This week Don makes up for his lack of a real animal in the Elephant Humanoid episode, and then he takes Blake on a neural network generated adventure courtesy of AI Dungeon! Blake has to hunt down Bigfoot and bring him to justice, with help from an ornery AI dungeon master. Check out AI Dungeon!...
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Episode 64 - Jizz Wailin'
This week Don covers the Elephant Humanoid, which is, surprisingly, not actually exactly what it sounds like. And, of course, we talk about Star Wars, but we also go off on tangents about DB Cooper and Ghostbusters! Further Reading CryptidWiki - Elephant Humanoid Mysterious Universe - The Strange...
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Episode 63 - Orang Batman
This week Blake tells us about the Orang Bati, a giant bat cryptid from Indonesia, who is somehow distinct from the Ahool, another giant bat cryptid from Indonesia. Also, more Star Wars and a survey of New Zealand Cryptids!
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Episode 62 - Hair Breadth Escapes of Railroad Employees and Passengers
This week Don tells Blake the tale of the Crawfordsville Monster, which is, believe it or not, a monster from Crawfordsville, Indiana. It was only seen once before, but has the distinction of being the first cryptid we have covered with official D20 system stats. Also, Star Wars! Further Reading...
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Episode 61 - Go Fouke Yourself
This week Blake regales us with the tale of the Fouke Monster, source of the Boggy Creek film series. Also, The Mandalorian. SPOILERS! The video we talk about up top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stISzPngwh4&feature=emb_logo
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Episode 60 - Bigfoot Conference Roundup
This week we are back with a double dose of Bigfoot conferences! We have special guest Emma, who happened to attend the Arkansas Paranormal Conference the week before Don attended the Bigfoot Toledo and Paranormal Conference. We cover them both, and have a lot to say about a speaker who talked at...
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Episode 59 - Impossible Burger
This week we're back in the saddle with a cryptid. A ghostly cryptid. It's from New Jersey, and it's just plain silly...And also possibly real.
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Episode 58 - Space Mummies
We are back! Don and Blake return after a long hiatus to cover some life stories and bigfoot news that they missed. Topics include the FBI, Bigfoot in North Carolina, Skunk Ape III, and Bigfoot conferences. Also, Sindey Poitier! He is still alive!
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Episode 57 - Always a King or Queen in Narnia: Garden Hermit's Greatest Hits
This week we tackle the yeti and learn all about how bumbles bounce and Jimmy Stewart's side hustle as a cryptid smuggler. Also, we invent a C.S. Lewis-based prog rock band while exploring weird European traditions.
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Episode 56 - Two-Stroke Terror
This week Don tells Blake about the batsquatch, which is exactly what it sounds like. Somehow we completely miss the opportunity to talk yet more about Bigfoot Nixon Batman. Also, car repair! Further reading Mysterious Universe - Bizarre Encounters with the Batsquatch Batsquatch on Cryptidwiki...
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Join Blake and Don as they dig into the world of cryptozoology in order to make fun of the ridiculous creatures people claim to have seen around the world.
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