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Join hosts Matt and Angel as they explore the wildly weird world of strange creatures, items, events, and more! In our exploration of the bizarre we shall rank each thing we encounter in an effort to find out what is truly the most curious this world has to offer!

Cracking Cryptids and Curios Cracking Cryptids & Curios - An ”I Am Actually Traveling Back Into Time” Production

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Join hosts Matt and Angel as they explore the wildly weird world of strange creatures, items, events, and more! In our exploration of the bizarre we shall rank each thing we encounter in an effort to find out what is truly the most curious this world has to offer!

    Series Finale - The Sandman

    Series Finale - The Sandman

    We're not saying goodbye, but how about just see you later? Join us here one last time as in this Season 6 Finale turned Series Finale we investigate everyone's favorite dude who throws stuff in your eyes: The Sandman.
    While we didn't go into the episode with intentions of this being the end, it felt like the right time to unplug the mics. And indeed, the AI assisted intro this episode weirdly predicted the end.
    Thanks for following us on this adventure into the unknown and hopefully along the way you learned something and had a few laughs. 
    Good news! If you enjoy our content, we aren't exiting the podcast world just yet and will be returning in the future with a brand new show about a completely different subject: movies! 
    To all of our Curiosities that have been with us from the beginning, and to those that have jumped aboard this Ghost Train at any time over the years - thank you. Curiosities, you've just been cracked!  

    • 1 hr 52 min
    Season 6 Episode 15 - Amateur Loch Ness Hunt, Is Edgar Allen Poe a Time Traveler?, Unknown Texas Creature Sighting, and Baba Vanga Predicts Everything

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Amateur Loch Ness Hunt, Is Edgar Allen Poe a Time Traveler?, Unknown Texas Creature Sighting, and Baba Vanga Predicts Everything

    Join us as we explore news articles about a Loch Ness jamboree of amateur monster hunters, the possibility of Edgar Allen Poe being a time traveler, a creature spotted in Texas that looks like nothing ever seen, and a deep dive into the predictions of Baba Vanga. Along the way we discover Headless Belmmyes, Baba's animal-humans, and most of all, discoveries about ourselves. Get it while it's hot! This is our final news episode!

    • 1 hr 55 min
    Season 6 Episode 14 - Pozuelos Pyramid

    Season 6 Episode 14 - Pozuelos Pyramid

    Ever be visited by a tall man with honey-colored eyes and white hair nearly down to the ankles who refers to himself as Herulayka, who then requests you build a 22 foot tall pyramid? Well Raymundo Coronas claims to have! Join us as we explore this curious structure created by a farmer in Mexico and see how this ranks in our listings! 

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Season 6 Episode 13 - The Wedge of Aiud

    Season 6 Episode 13 - The Wedge of Aiud

    Suffering succotash - we have discuss the Wedge of Aiud. Not the Angle of Aiud, nor the Hedge of Aiud, or even the Sloped Object of Aiud. The real deal Wedge. This item, found next to some wonderous mastodon bones gives many people pause; how could a clearly modern object be residing next to a dead mastodon!? Could it be... aliens!?

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Season 6 Episode 12 -The Eternal Fire of Centralia

    Season 6 Episode 12 -The Eternal Fire of Centralia

    Opps! All fire! Throughout human history there are examples of all sorts of fires that are just so stubborn they just won't go out! This episode we look at the curious coal fire underneath a Pennsylvania town that just won't sputter out, no matter how many millions of dollars gets thrown at it. 

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Season 6 Episode 11 - Homunculus

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Homunculus

    Horse wombs - also known as nature's gift box. This episode Matt and Angel investigate the alchemical wonder-child known as the homunculus and all it's horse womb shenanigans. Alchemists, where would we be today with out them?

    • 1 hr 23 min

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