Episodes

What happens when you step away for a while… and then come back to the microphones? This week’s episode isn’t about one mystery. It’s about the space between them. After taking some time off, we finally sit back down, shake off the rust, and catch up on life, burnout, and the weird in-between season feeling of being away from the show longer than we meant to be. We talk honestly about why the break happened, what the time away did for us creatively, and what it felt like to come back and h...

What if the greatest mysteries of the year…weren’t just the stories we covered,but the moments we shared along the way? As the year winds down and the lights glow a little softer, we’re closing out the season by looking back, looking ahead, and leaning fully into the feeling that makes this time of year special. This week, we’re trading deep dives for deep reflection. We talk about our favorite episodes of the season - the ones that stuck with us, surprised us, scared us, made us laugh,...

What if one of the most famous monsters in the world… wasn’t just a legend of the mountains - but the centerpiece of a secret Cold War operation? High in the Himalayas - where the air thins, the snow never melts, and the mountains feel ancient and alive - Sherpas whisper about screams echoing across the ridgelines. About something powerful enough to snap a yak’s neck with a single blow. About a creature that walks like a man… but is anything but human. For centuries, locals have known it b...

What if one of the most mysterious places on Earth… wasn’t in the ocean, or the jungle, or buried in some ancient ruin — but hidden beneath the frozen surface of a Siberian lake? A place older than civilization. Deeper than imagination. And stranger than anything the X-Files ever dared to film. This week, we journey into Lake Baikal — the world’s oldest and deepest lake — a place so vast and so ancient it feels less like a body of water and more like a boundary between realities. For th...

What if the movies you remember from childhood… never actually existed? The ones you swear you saw — on a worn-out VHS tape from Blockbuster — with a wild plot, bad dubbing, and a cover burned into your brain… But no one else remembers them. This week, we rewind to a stranger era — a time when movie aisles stretched like cathedrals of neon light, and every clamshell box whispered something incredible. The age of the VHS fever dream. Together, we’ll explore the blurred line between the real and ...

The Djinn – Ancient Horrors of Smokeless Fire What came before ghosts? Before demons? Before the monsters we tell around campfires and in dark basements? This week—for our HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR finale—we turned our eyes to something far older. The Djinn. Ancient beings said to be created from smokeless fire—not angels, not demons… something in between. Hidden. Watching. Whispering. Throughout this episode, we’ll uncover the origins of the Djinn, and then descend into the chilling encounters ...

What is it about dolls that unnerves us so deeply? Maybe it’s the way they watch us. Maybe it’s because they’re made to look alive… but never blink. Or maybe—it’s because all over the world, people keep finding dolls in places where no doll should be. Last week, we opened the case on Annabelle, Robert, Peggy, Letta Me Out, and other infamous possessed dolls. This week—we go deeper. Into the places where dolls are left behind, half-buried, waterlogged, hung in trees or locked in glass cases. Thi...

What is it about dolls that unnerves us so deeply? Maybe it’s the way they watch us. Maybe it’s the fact that they look human—but aren’t. Or maybe it’s because, across every corner of the globe, people swear these lifeless toys are anything but. This week, we’re opening the display case and peering into the glassy gaze of haunted dolls from around the world. From countless famous cases in the USA to Australia’s “Letta Me Out” doll that screams from the trunk it was found in…these aren’t just be...

A knock at the door after dark should be ordinary. But what if it isn’t? For decades, people all over the world have told the same unnerving story: pale, monotone children with jet-black eyes asking to be let inside. Some call them Black Eyed Kids. Some say they vanish when refused. Others whisper that letting them in leads to sickness… or worse. From Brian Bethel’s late-night encounter in a Texas parking lot, to a 1923 Louisiana farm where a woman was haunted nightly by a black-eyed boy, the...

The air around us hums with voices we’re not meant to hear. For decades, strange radio signals have slipped through the static—buzzing tones, eerie music, and robotic voices reciting endless strings of numbers. They’re called numbers stations, and they may be the creepiest reminder that the Cold War never really ended. From Russia’s infamous UVB-76 “Buzzer” to the haunting Swedish Rhapsody music box, from Cuba’s Atención broadcast that landed spies in a U.S. courtroom, to an unplugged RAF rad...

The story of Garth Brooks should be one of pure country music legend: a small-town Oklahoma kid who rose to become one of the best-selling artists of all time, breaking records and redefining stadium shows forever. But lurking in the darker corners of the internet is a bizarre and unsettling theory: what if Garth Brooks isn’t just a country superstar… what if he’s secretly a serial killer? From comedian Tom Segura’s offhand joke about Garth’s “serial killer smile” to internet sleuths mapping ...

The Appalachian Trail is more than just a path through the mountains... it’s a living, breathing museum of history, folklore, and mystery. Beneath its sweeping vistas and quiet ridgelines, countless hikers have stumbled into something far stranger than blisters and black bears: ghostly figures, phantom lights, and encounters that leave them questioning what’s real and what belongs to another world. From Civil War battlefields still echoing with unseen soldiers, to spectral figures wandering f...

On a clear night along the Appalachian Trail, you might expect to hear the wind through the trees, the crunch of your boots on gravel, maybe the call of a whip-poor-will in the distance. But for over two centuries, hikers, settlers, and locals have reported something else: strange creatures lurking just beyond the campfire glow. From apple-snatching tricksters in Pennsylvania to headless hulks in West Virginia, the Appalachian Mountains are alive with legends of monsters that refuse to be for...

On the night of February 19th, 1994, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez was rushed into Riverside General Hospital in California. She was weak, disoriented, and fighting for her life. But within minutes, something happened that no one in that ER could have prepared for: doctors and nurses began collapsing one by one. In total, 23 medical staff were poisoned simply by being in the same room — five of them hospitalized. What happened to Gloria Ramirez? Why did her body seem to emit toxic fumes? And how d...

This week on That Would Be Rad, we’re heading into the heart of a real-life catastrophe and the enduring mystery it birthed: The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri. On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado tore through Joplin—one of the deadliest and costliest in U.S. history. In the storm’s wake, survivors (especially children) began telling eerily similar stories: glowing, winged figures who shielded them from debris, guided them to safety, and then vanished. From roadside rescues and ditch-side mira...

This week on That Would Be Rad, we’re joined by the creative duo and founders of Sozo Bear Films: Luke Pilgrim and Brad Kennedy - as they share the story behind their latest mini-docuseries, Unknown Ellijay. Set in the quiet mountain town of Ellijay, Georgia, the series explores the eerie legends, paranormal encounters, and cryptid sightings that have haunted the area for generations. From ghostly tavern tales to whispers of the elusive Dogman — and yes, even stories of Bigfoot lurking in ...

This week on That Would Be Rad, we’re diving deep into the legends of American Dragons—winged, scaly nightmares that allegedly terrorized the skies and waterways of the 19th and early 20th century. From a flying serpent that attacked a speeding train in the Colorado Desert, to bulletproof lake monsters, salt-encrusted horse-eaters, and the legendary Tombstone Thunderbird, these tales blur the line between folklore, cryptid encounters, and pure frontier madness. We’ll travel coast to coast ...

Little America: The Redcaps & The Hidden in the Hills Could ancient America have been home to a forgotten race of tiny people? And what do murderous goblins, Appalachian cave legends, and buried skeletons have to do with it? This week on That Would Be Rad, we’re digging into one of the strangest stories you’ve probably never heard—the bizarre discovery of thousands of tiny human graves across Tennessee and Ohio, and Montanta in the 1800s, and the folklore that might connect them to something mu...

Could James Gunn’s Superman be the fresh start DC fans have been waiting for? And… where the heck have we been all summer? This week on That Would Be Rad, we’re finally back behind the mics after a month-long hiatus to talk all things Superman—the new movie, what worked, what didn’t, and whether you should rush to the theater (don’t worry… it’s spoiler-free… mostly). We’ll cover: 🦸‍♂️ Our (mostly spoiler-free) thoughts on James Gunn’s Superman 🎥 Why this reboot feels different—and how it sets ...

Could some of history’s most revered saints have had... superpowers? This week on That Would Be Rad , we take a strange and fascinating journey into the world of Catholic sainthood — where documented miracles, ancient testimonies, and unexplainable phenomena blur the line between faith and the fantastic. We’ll cover: What it actually takes to become a saint The difference between canonization and just being considered “holy” Why miracles are required — and how the Church investigates th...

In this week’s episode, Woody and Tyler head deep into the heart of Transylvania to explore one of the strangest, most unnerving places on Earth: Hoia-Baciu Forest —a dense, twisted woodland often called the Bermuda Triangle of Romania . Locals say it’s cursed. Visitors report ghost sightings, lost time, and physical attacks. And somewhere in the center? A perfectly circular dead zone where nothing grows... and everything feels wrong. From disfigured faces in the trees, to UFO sighting...

In this nostalgia-packed, mushroom-fueled episode, Woody and Tyler plunge headfirst into the pixelated madness of one of the strangest movies of the 1990s… The Super Mario Bros. movie. Yes—the live-action one. Yes—with Bob Hoskins. Yes— that one. Released just weeks before Jurassic Park , this movie was supposed to be a surefire hit. Instead, it became one of the most confusing, chaotic, and accidentally brilliant disasters ever to grace the big screen. This week, we explore the biz...

In this mind-bending episode, Woody and Tyler dive headfirst into some of the strangest, most compelling time travel stories ever recorded. We kick things off with the eerie case of Sergei Ponomarenko —a man who allegedly disappeared in 1958 and reappeared decades later... without having aged a day. Then, things get even weirder . From the possibility that the Roswell crash was actually a time machine from Earth’s distant future, to a bizarre theory involving a cosmic tug-of-war between ...

This week on That Would Be Rad … What if your entire life—your memories, your relationships, your struggles, your dreams—was nothing more than a line of code? What if you’ve already lived 54 million other lives… ...and just don’t remember any of them? In this mind-bending episode, we dive headfirst into simulation theory through the lens of two radically different but equally fascinating thinkers: First, we explore the work of physicist Melvin Vopson , who believes time might not be wha...