Episodes

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we travel deep into West Africa for a chilling cryptid story, a strange eyewitness account, and one of the most unsettling monster legends we’ve ever covered: The God in the Water. In Burkina Faso, there is a place called Dafara. A hidden chasm in the earth. A rocky ravine. A murky pool. And according to the people who lived near it, something was waiting beneath the water. Not a statue. Not a myth carved into stone. Not a symbol. A living thing. A creature....

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we dive into one of the darkest, strangest, and most infamous werewolf stories in recorded history: The Werewolf of Bedburg. In 1589, a farmer named Peter Stumpp was accused of terrorizing the German countryside for decades. According to the accounts of the time, Stumpp had made a pact with the Devil, received a mysterious belt that allowed him to transform into a monstrous wolf, and used that power to commit a series of horrifying crimes. But this story is ...

In this special ad free Summer Rewind episode of That Would Be Rad, we're revisiting one of our favorite road-trip rabbit holes: the strange creatures, bizarre legends, unexplained lights, haunted waters, and forgotten mysteries of Michigan. What started as a family vacation to Northern Michigan quickly turned into an obsession. Between the endless forests, crystal-clear lakes, tiny logging towns, and miles of rugged shoreline, it didn't take long before we found ourselves asking the same questi...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad , we dive headfirst into one of the strangest intersections of religion, history, folklore, and the modern UFO phenomenon. For decades, reports of mysterious craft and non-human intelligences have captured the imagination of millions. Governments investigate them. Fighter pilots report them. Entire belief systems have formed around them. But long before congressional hearings, Pentagon footage, and discussions about "non-human intelligence," a group of Orthod...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we accidentally tumble headfirst into one of our favorite kinds of episodes. The kind that feels like staying up too late with your best friend talking about all the weird, nostalgic stuff that shaped your childhood. After an unexpectedly chaotic week of migraines, broken computers, school events, sports, and life generally trying to body slam us through a folding table, we decided to ditch the pressure and just hang out. And somehow that led us into a massi...

In this episode of That Would Be Rad, we sink our teeth into one of the weirdest and most unsettling true stories we’ve ever covered: the Southend Werewolf. Picture this: a regular, easy-going guy from Essex named Bill Ramsey who spent almost forty years fighting something vicious that lived inside him. Out of nowhere he’d get hit with freezing cold chills, see a wolf staring back at him in the mirror, and then black out into these insane rages where he suddenly had crazy strength and acted like...

Thanks to all the listeners who’ve been sending in tips and links on this one, this topic blew up fast!! In this gripping episode of That Would Be Rad , we dive into one of the most disturbing patterns of 2025–2026: the growing wave of scientists (many tied to advanced propulsion, nuclear, aerospace, and fusion research) who have turned up dead or simply vanished. From Huntsville, Alabama to Los Alamos, JPL, MIT, and Wright-Patterson, the body count and missing persons list keeps climbing. Offic...

Thanks to Listener Matt Armstrong for sending in this absolute banger of a submission! In this epic episode of That Would Be Rad , Woody takes you on one of the wildest journeys in early American history - the true survival odyssey of Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Shipwrecks, slavery, starvation, cannibalism, miraculous healings… and then the story gets really weird. Around 1534, the Native tribes of south-central Texas told the four ragged survivors about Mala Cosa - “The Bad Thi...

Forty years ago this month, a scrappy little creature feature crawled out of New Line Cinema and straight into cult status. This week, we’re throwing it a proper 40th birthday party and no full plot recap, just the good stuff: the wild trivia you’ve forgotten (or never knew), the behind-the-scenes practical effects magic, how it held its own in one of the craziest movie years ever, and the gloriously unhinged ride the franchise took afterward. From the Chiodo Brothers building fuzzy alien puppet...

What if someone went missing… and actually came back? This week, we head into the mountains of Wyoming to look at a case that starts off simple - just a guy taking a day off to go elk hunting -and turns into something that doesn’t fit neatly into any explanation. Because at some point during that hunt… something happens. Something that affects the environment around him. Something he can’t explain. And something that, by all accounts, shouldn’t be possible. What follows is one of the strangest e...

What if some of the strangest moments in alien movies weren’t plot holes at all? This week, we dive into the weird world of alien movie fan theories - the kind of ideas that start off sounding ridiculous… and then slowly start to make a little too much sense. Because if you’ve watched enough sci-fi over the years, you’ve probably had that moment where something in a movie makes you pause. A strange detail. A character decision that feels a little off. A plot twist that raises more questions than...

What if one of the strangest mountains in Europe wasn’t just a mountain? This week, we head to the border of Germany and Austria to explore the mystery of Untersberg - a massive limestone mountain looming over the city of Salzburg that has been surrounded by strange stories for centuries. At first glance, Untersberg looks like any other peak in the Alps. But beneath the cliffs and forests lies a vast underground labyrinth. More than 400 caves have been discovered inside the mountain, some plungi...

What happens when you look down at a crosswalk… and the street looks back? This week, we dive into one of the strangest urban mysteries ever embedded into public space: the Toynbee Tiles - handmade plaques hidden in plain sight with a message that feels like a code, a prophecy, and a dare all at once: “TOYNBEE IDEA / IN MOVIE 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER.” We trace how these tiles started showing up decades ago, why Philadelphia became ground zero, and how the mystery spread across ...

What starts as a random music discovery turns into a full-on time capsule. When Woody stumbles onto “Sit Still” by Christopher Stopa, he’s convinced it’s a long-lost Radiohead track - until a deep dive reveals a whole other story behind the voice, the song, and the artist who stepped away from music entirely. That rabbit hole leads us to a bigger conversation about forgotten songs, near-misses, and the strange afterlife of art on the internet. And because this is us… we take a risk... We cold-ca...