Episodes
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Episode 33 - Creepy Cryptids
Monday Oct 29, 2018
Monday Oct 29, 2018
It's time for a special Halloween episode! Don tells Blake why the Grey Man of Ben MacDhui creeps him out so much, and it has something to do with sleep paralysis. Then Blake talks about a creepy immortal Russian Slenderman. We spice things up by making fun of ghost hunting shows and pitch yet another TV show: Ghostsquatch!
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Episode 32 - The Great Pterosaur Hunt of 1862
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
People have been claiming to see pterosaurs in the skies for decades, and white people have been conflating pterosaur sightings with Native American Thunderbirds for almost as long. This week Blake takes us on a journey through the world's various large prehistoric bird things, and we decide what type of hoax we would do if we ever did a hoax.
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Episode 31 - Down-Home Cryptid BBQ
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
This week Don tells Blake about Raystown Ray, a lake monster that lives in a man-made lake! How did he get there? Where does he hide? Why does the Visitors' Bureau care so much? All this and our painful half-recollections of the Problem Child franchise.
Further Reading
The Huntingdon County Visitors' Bureau 2006 Press Release (scroll down)
http://www.raystownray.com/index.asp?section=Home
List of Raystown Ray sightings
http://www.raystownray.com/index.asp?section=Sightings
CryptidWiki - Raystown Ray
http://cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Raystown_Ray
CryptoMundo - How did Raystown Ray Get in the Lake?
https://cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/how-did-raystown-ray-get-in-the-lake/
Ray's theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCo_SR6Vg4M
Scientific American - Why the Long Neck?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/why-the-long-neck/
Pic of long-neck Ray
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/cryptidz/images/8/8c/Raystown_ray.png/revision/latest?cb=20140518021724
Pic of nothing claimed to be Ray
http://www.raystownray.com/raystownray/images/RAY0.jpg
Pic of the black swallower
http://r.ddmcdn.com/s_f/o_1/DSC/uploads/2015/12/blackswalloer-banner-1223.jpg
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Episode 30 - Lumpers and Splitters
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
This week Blake digs into the past for what turns out to be the first cryptid for both him and Don: Mokele Mbembe, a still extant dinosaur supposedly roaming the Congo. Also we talk about paleontology, thagomizers, and the 90s sitcom "Dinosaurs."
Here's a link to the painting by Peter Paul Rubens we talk a bit about.
http://www.peterpaulrubens.net/images/gallery/the-hippopotamus-and-crocodile-hunt.jpghttp://www.peterpaulrubens.net/images/gallery/the-hippopotamus-and-crocodile-hunt.jpg