Phenomena City Limits

Night of the Living Geeks

Phenomena City Limits is a monthly podcast in which we explore examples of high strangeness and the weird world around us: UFOs, cryptids, ghosts, and other mysteries! Join our hosts Taylor, Seb, and John as they navigate the Phenomenon and discuss the bizarre! New episodes drop at the start of each month.

  1. Phenomena City Limits S03E03 - Castle Peterhof and The Order of The Black Cross OR Twisted Oakland Roots

    May 6

    Phenomena City Limits S03E03 - Castle Peterhof and The Order of The Black Cross OR Twisted Oakland Roots

    Slightly late, but here we are with what will be our last episode until Hellier 3 drops. And this time we take a look at the mysterious Castle Peterhof in late 19th century Oakland, CA wherein its owner led quite the life before his castle on the hill (albeit a small hill) caught fire and burnt down. There's all sorts of esoterica, mysticism, and occult discussion in this one. Very bizarre!

    1h 2m
  2. Phenomena City Limits S03E02 - The Treacherous Time Machine OR Look What This Carpenter Built

    Mar 1

    Phenomena City Limits S03E02 - The Treacherous Time Machine OR Look What This Carpenter Built

    March is Time Traveler Awareness Month and we swear that wasn't already in mind when we decided to finally review the copy of The Treacherous Time Machine that Seb acquired last year. Written by Maj. Donald G Carpenter (under the fantastic pseudonym Merlin Mesmer Merlino), the book comes across as one part fan-fiction, one part pilot for a 60s era family comedy. It's interesting, to say the least! And we also go into why Major Carpenter has a set at the table of the history of UFOlogy.

    54 min
  3. Phenomena City Limits S03E01 - The Strangest House in Santa Cruz or Bizarre Lessons in Kitchen Design

    Jan 1

    Phenomena City Limits S03E01 - The Strangest House in Santa Cruz or Bizarre Lessons in Kitchen Design

    New Year! New Season! New weird topics! We start 2026 by looking at the history (and mysteries) surrounding an unusual house built in the 1940s in Santa Cruz, California. We look into the stories surrounding Kenneth Kitchen who built this structure (which you can drive by and see even today!) and the legends that quickly built up around this incredible home.

    55 min
  4. Phenomena City Limits S02E09: The Santa Cruz Humanoids OR Keep Santa Cruz Weird!

    11/01/2025

    Phenomena City Limits S02E09: The Santa Cruz Humanoids OR Keep Santa Cruz Weird!

    Friends and listeners, we're back! Now in our every other month format, we're here with what we're calling out last episode of Season 2 (it'll make more sense in January when we kick off season 3) and an absolutely bizarre tale of a complete cornucopia of high strangeness with the Santa Cruz Humanoids! Not one, not two, but nearly a half dozen different types of oddball uprights in this woman's neighborhood in Santa Cruz. Were they really there? Was her street suddenly Grand Central Station for weirdness? And does Santa Cruz's proximity to where the 37th parallel hits North America have anything to do with it? Bonus! Seb saw The Haunted Objects Podcast live in Sacramento and gives a full report!

    1h 15m
  5. Phenomena City Limits S02E08: Gumby's Close Encounter OR Clay DNA Will Save Us All

    09/01/2025

    Phenomena City Limits S02E08: Gumby's Close Encounter OR Clay DNA Will Save Us All

    Everyone loves Gumby, right? That adorable though oddly shaped clay scamp who's always getting up to adventures with his friends? So what happened one episode in 1988 when Gumby encountered the grays!? Yes, this month we're looking at 7 minutes of UFO and alien lore expertly crammed into a single Gumby story. Did Clokey have an encounter of his own? Could Communion have influenced this story? And what the heck does DMT have to do with any of it! Also, Programming Note, because of life and various other things, we're having to move to record every other month. We're bummed to be doing fewer episodes, but it does give us time to do more research! So, see you in November!

    51 min
  6. Phenomena City Limits S02E07 - John Titor OR Pix of Your Time Machine or It Didn't Happen

    08/01/2025

    Phenomena City Limits S02E07 - John Titor OR Pix of Your Time Machine or It Didn't Happen

    August is here and, with that, our Summer of John comes to a conclusion with the return of co-host John Pingel and our topic: John Titor! From his early faxes to Art Bell in 1998 to his online postings of the early 2000s, we take a look at Titor's claims, his possible motives, his manner of travel, and potentially the reality that it was all just cooked up by a couple of Florida boys! Regardless, Titor's story came at a time where a late night radio tale could become an internet urban legend.

    1h 12m
  7. Phenomena City Limits S02E06 - John Frum OR What if God Was One of Us?

    07/01/2025

    Phenomena City Limits S02E06 - John Frum OR What if God Was One of Us?

    This month it appears we ask the question that no one else really has: what if John Frum were an actual person? Yes, we're looking at the John Frum Movement on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific. This cargo cult is legendary, but then we start to research who John Frum could have been and things get really interesting from there!

    1h 9m
  8. Phenomena City Limits S02E05: Stardust Ranch or Date Night with Your Doppelganger

    06/01/2025

    Phenomena City Limits S02E05: Stardust Ranch or Date Night with Your Doppelganger

    We have two big things happening this month, friends! First, we have our first guest host as Seb is out on assignment. And we tackle the massive, wild, utterly bonkers story that is the Stardust Ranch in Buckeye, Arizona! From the original desire to have horse and dog rescue to the grays to the Brillomen to abductions, doppelgangers, the legendary katana, and the freakin' Galactic Council...Stardust Ranch is an amazing tale that would make one helluva Hollywood film!

    1h 48m
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About

Phenomena City Limits is a monthly podcast in which we explore examples of high strangeness and the weird world around us: UFOs, cryptids, ghosts, and other mysteries! Join our hosts Taylor, Seb, and John as they navigate the Phenomenon and discuss the bizarre! New episodes drop at the start of each month.

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  • Creator
    Night of the Living Geeks
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    61
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Night of the Living Geeks
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