Cryptopedia - A Paranormal Podcast

This week we're talking Zoophytes and a multi-century game of telephone. Stay tuned until the end for details on a new venture that Brandon has been heading up for the podcast!

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The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant - Henry Lee

Animal or Vegetable? Legend of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary - Scientific American Blog Network

Today we talk about the greatest tuckshop heist of all time in Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994. Also, there are some aliens?

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The 1994 Ruwa Zimbabwe Alien Encounter

Ariel School - Three-Dollar Kit

Demystifying Zimbabwean Newspaper and Television Content Available to the Children of Ariel School in September 1994 - Giddierone

MUFON December 1994

UFO AFRINEWS 11

UFO AFRINEWS 12

Ariel School UFO Landing Incident - Ruwa, Zimbabwe Drawings Compilation v2 - Album on Imgur

Arielphenomenon.com

The Ruwa Incident - 62 pupils witness ufo landing

Demystifying Zimbabwean Newspaper and Television Content Available to the Children of Ariel School in September 1994 - Giddierone

Mack’s Harvard Tenure Reportedly Threatened By Faculty Investigation

Rencontre rapprochée à Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994 ?

Ariel Case, Zimbabwe (1994): A neglected Hypothesis or disregarded Assumption... (In French).

The Ariel School UFO: A Dust Devil?

Abduction - John Mack

Passport to the Cosmos - John Mack

Rencontre rapprochée à Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe 1994 ? Quelques Contre-Tons...

The Mysterious Events at Ariel School, Zimbabwe - 16 Sept 1994 - Giddierone

The Mysterious Events at Ariel School, Zimbabwe - 16 Sept 1994 - Part 2 - Giddierone

Salvaging Salyut 7

Risky Mission in Space : Pravda Says Cosmonauts Revived ‘Dead’ Salyut 7

This time, Brandon's computer is in flames, and we talk Soviet era space stations.

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Russian Cosmonauts Saw 30-Meter Tall-Aliens Smiling At Them In Space During 1980 Flight Of Salyut-7 - Journal News

Salyut 7: Space Angels Sighted by Russian Cosmonauts -

Space Angels: Aliens or Sign of the Apocalypse?

Salyut 7 - Wikipedia

The Salyut 7 Incident – Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? - UFO Insight

Angel-Like UFOs seen near the Sun by NASA SOHO » Cryptoworld

The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station | Ars Technica

The Salyut 7 Incident – Space Hallucinations, Or The Watchers? - UFO Insight

Salvaging Salyut 7

Risky Mission in Space : Pravda Says Cosmonauts Revived ‘Dead’ Salyut 7

It's Shark Week on Cryptopedia, as we talk bad "documentaries" and shark penis.

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Megalodon: the truth about the largest shark that ever lived | Natural History Museum

Megalodon - Wikipedia

Megalodon (bivalve) - Wikipedia

Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives | Shows | Discovery+

School bus - Wikipedia

Full article: The size of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), revisited

The extinct shark Otodus megalodon was a transoceanic superpredator: Inferences from 3D modeling | Science Advances

This is What Michael Phelps’ Olympic Diet Was Actually Like

Livyatan - Wikipedia

Sharks’ teeth are falling! Sharks’ teeth are falling!

The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade: Historical Biology

Age of Carcharodon megalodon?

HMS Challenger (1858) - Wikipedia

“Recent” Otodus megalodon teeth – Incertae Sedis

Does Megalodon Still Live?

The Megalodon | M/C Journal

Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia

The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the world's oceans - PMC

Megalodon Bites Back -- How the Discovery Channel Sank Its Credibility | HuffPost Impact

It Came From Basic Cable

Discovery Channel defends Shark Week 'Megalodon' special | CNN

Discovery’s Megalodon Defense? ‘We Don’t Know,’ Or ‘We Don’t Care’

Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline | Natural History Museum

Sharks: Denizens of the Deep | Answers in Genesis

This week we're talking Cadborosaurus and it has surprisingly little talk about Young Earth Creationism.

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The Case of the Cadborosaurus Carcass: a Review — Tetrapod Zoology

Without a specimen, Cadborosaurus remains a myth, scientist says - Victoria Times Colonist

Cadborosaurus

Gulf of Alaska Carcass | It's Something Wiki

Easter and anniversaries foiled our schedule this week, so here's an older episode to fill the feed and as a refresher for White Things. Back when we recorded two episodes in a recording session and had things like time.

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Produced By: Brandon Boyer

Art: Tom Hill

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The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales

White Things: West Virginia's Weird White Monsters

Grafton West Virginia, Wikipedia

Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, Loren Coleman

Mothman wiki entry on the Grafton Monster

Sister Lakes Bigfoot

Mountain Monsters Grafton Monster

We're talking about Skinwalkers at the Pentagon again, but this time with 90% less discussion of how government contracts work!

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Skinwalkers At The Pentagon: An Insiders Account Of The Secret Government UFO Program -  James Lacatski D.Eng, Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., and George Knapp

Will-o'-the-wisp - Wikipedia

What is an Orb? Orbs of Light Explained | Haunted Rooms®

Hashimoto's disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

Unforgettable Uri Geller Appearance | Carson Tonight Show

This week Brandon takes John to Falkville to talk about Charles Entertainment Cheese, tin foil, and jeggings.

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Detailed Report of Jeff Greenhaw's Falkville Incident Alien Encounter Testimonial

Metal Man | Cryptid Wiki

Metal Man of Falkville | New Cryptozoology Wiki

The Metal Man of Falkville Reddit Post

Do you believe in the Metal Man? - The Cullman Tribune

Robert Summerford Obituary (2007) - Falkville, AL - Decatur Daily

John read a terrible book, so it's time for the Cryptopedia book club, this time it's Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. It turns out UAP research is a questionable use of government funds; who would have guessed?

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Skinwalkers At The Pentagon: An Insiders Account Of The Secret Government UFO Program -  James Lacatski D.Eng, Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D., and George Knapp

Harry Reid - Wikipedia

Political positions of Harry Reid - Wikipedia

Mormon cosmology - Wikipedia

Bigelow’s Aerospace and Saucer Emporium - Robert Sheaffer

Robert Bigelow - Wikipedia.

Skinwalker Ranch - Wikipedia

Skeptic » Reading Room » Claims About a Government “UFO Program”: How Much is True?

Anachronism: Wag the UFO

The Hunt for the Skinwalker

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program - The New York Times

Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program

This week Brandon somehow manages to make an episode out of a lean cephalopod cryptid and successfully derails John for at least an hour with an academic paper.

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The Legend of the Oklahoma Octopus (READ THE COMMENTS)

The Oklahoma Octopus

Drowning rate highest in years

Drownings in Oklahoma have more than tripled compared to this time last year

Drowning Data | Drowning Prevention | CDC

Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? - ScienceDirect