Best Ann Sacks Podcasts (2024)

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#349: Phantom Felines & Crazy Cat Critters 1:17:19

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Whether worshiped as an embodiment of the divine or reviled as agents of the diabolical, since a time immemorial cats have been associated with paranormal lore. In modern times, the domesticated cat has become a staple in millions of households worldwide but —be they fiend, family or familiar—frightening encounters with truly freaky felines are bei…

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#348: E.S.M.B Listener Stories Part 31: The Restless Dead / Aliens Attack Family 1:10:25

3h ago1:10:25

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Growing up is hard. Between the constant confusion, biological flux, peer and parental pressure, and all of the other multifarious hardships of youth, it’s a miracle anyone reaches adulthood intact. But, as difficult as the process may be for everyone involved, for two young boys their youthful encounters with the unknown—ghosts and aliens, respect…

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#347: Granny X And The Demon Teddy Bear 1:21:33

1h ago1:21:33

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With a whimsical imagination evidently amplified by paranormal powers, a young British girl was able to conjure, seemingly from the ether, fantastical playmates for her enjoyment. Her mythical menagerie was a source of endless delight until the day she accidentally called forth something much more sinister from the etheric realms… The Cryptonaut Po…

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#346: The Wild, Weird World Of Werecats 1:21:55

22d ago1:21:55

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Though nowhere near as celebrated as their carnage crazy canine cousins—the notoriously vicious Werewolves—for centuries eyewitnesses claim to have encountered bizarre, bipedal, felid-humanoids known collectively as Werecats. But unlike their clearly crytozoological contemporaries, many reported run-ins with these anthropomorphic animals give the i…

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#345: Bizarre Beasts Of Britain Vol 1: England’s Eerie Cryptids 1:18:18

13d ago1:18:18

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From its craggy peaks and lonely lakes to its misty moors and fetid, peat-filled bogs, Great Britain boasts an alarming array of anomalous animals. England specifically sports more than its fair share of crazy cryptids and there’s a growing body of evidence concerning modern encounters with what appear to be genuine, flesh-and-blood animals. The Cr…

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#344: An Alien Detour: Soviets Vs. Shadow Sacks 1:33:23

1M ago1:33:23

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On an icy eve in the waning days of the 1980s, a pair of Soviet truckers were forced to take a detour down a lonely dirt road. Tired and shivering, the men never once suspected that this rocky bypass would rip them from their workaday world and send them careening headlong into one of the most bizarre confrontations in UFO lore. The Cryptonaut Podc…

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#343: Sheepsquatch: Birth Of A Legend 1:36:54

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This bizarre, multi-horned, razor-toothed, wooly, white beast is said to stalk the forested areas of the American south and remains one of the most enigmatic—and potentially dangerous—as yet unidentified large mammals said to dwell in the untamed wilds of the U.S. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast The Cryptona…

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#342: F The Woods Vol. 2: The Deep Creek Soul Stealer 1:04:06

2M ago1:04:06

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The world’s woods are filled with innumerable dangers: from ravenous carnivores and rabid animals to snake bites, ticks, falling rocks, hidden cliffs or plain old getting lost and dying of thirst… the list goes on and on. But for all of the familiar ways the forest and its denizens can do us harm, it seems there are ominous unknown things that dwel…

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#341: E.S.M.B Listener Stories Part 30: Blue Girl, Bat Blob And An Alien Warning 1:21:07

2M ago1:21:07

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In a pair of truly weird run-ins, we first have a brief yet bizarre encounter between a family and an inexplicable stick figure; we follow up the strange saga of a woman whose increasingly odd odyssey brings her into to contact with a spectral, blue-hued girl, an amorphous bat-like beast and, finally, a curiously kind Grey that seemed to be prepari…

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#340: Ann Jefferies And The Lusty Faeries 1:25:47

2M ago1:25:47

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At the time of its occurrence in 1645, the strange saga of a young woman named Ann Jefferies—who claimed to have been seduced then literally swept off her feet by a gang of salacious sprites—was scandalous bordering on the obscene, but it would be her subsequent journey into their magical realm and the occult powers she received while there that tr…

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#339: The Devil On Your Shoulder: Satanic Stowaways 1:10:16

2M ago1:10:16

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One can imagine few things more disturbing than for a person to have their normal everyday life rocked by the revelation that they share their world with malicious, inhuman entities that they once believed were little more than childish fiction. Are we being accosted by tiny, invisible, mal-influencers who corrupt our thoughts and fill our all-too …

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#338: Revenge Of The Inexplicables 1:14:18

2M ago1:14:18

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The wild, woolly and always weird worlds of paranormal lore can be broken down into three primary categories: cryptozoology, ufology and parapsychology. If one were to chart these cryptic spheres on a Venn diagram, then—lurking within the shadowy confines of these overlapping spaces—would be the bevy of bizarre beasts that we’ve dubbed “The Inexpli…

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#337: The Rixicron Experience 1:22:50

3M ago1:22:50

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In the early ‘70s an Australian geology student hopped on his motorcycle and sped off to visit some intriguing rock formations; never once suspecting that his morning jaunt would send him careening headlong into the most mind-blowing odyssey of his young life—and one of the most incredible alien abductions on the books. Research By Cole Herrold:htt…

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#336: Creepy Kid Tales Vol. 1 1:07:20

3M ago1:07:20

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Though our culture brands most children as happy-go-lucky, wide-eyed avatars of carefree joy, those who’ve spent any real time with youngsters know that kids can also can be complex, confused and creepy AF. Here we have an array of anomalous accounts involving children (both living, dead and likely interdimensional) who definitely dwell on the dark…

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#335: Bustin’ In With Bigfoot 1:23:27

3M ago1:23:27

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As terrifying as accounts of hunters and hikers running headlong into huge, hairy humanoids in the wild may be, they pale before the rare reports of these bellicose beasts breaking into the sanctuary we call home. So lock your doors and windows, put your back against your sturdiest wall and hunker down as we explore some curious cases of Bigfoot ho…

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#334: Invisible Boy: The Peter Pan Possession Part 2 1:21:25

3M ago1:21:25

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First love is among the most beautiful and, more often than not, heartbreaking episodes anyone can experience. But for one young teen, his first crush became a disturbing supernatural odyssey that brought him to the brink of death and, some say, eternal damnation. All resulting in this curious case becoming one of the most intensely chronicled even…

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#333: Invisible Boy: The Peter Pan Possession Part 1 1:02:46

4M ago1:02:46

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In the early 1950s, a Filipino teen met an ethereal, blonde beauty who literally swept him off his feet and sent him spiraling down a rabbit hole of invisibility, anti-gravity and, ultimately, possession. Did this unsuspecting kid encounter an alien, time traveler or errant fae? Or was he, as some insist, being manipulated by a demon from the depth…

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#332: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 29: Portal Pandemonium And Cut-Cut’s Death Curse 1:07:36

4M ago1:07:36

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This week we have a truly terrifying pair of Listener Stories. In our first case a trio of teenage girls are confronted by spontaneous portal, chain wielding shadow men and a malignant metaphysical force. Our second involves a group of hard partying college roommates whose Ouija board experiments inadvertently conjure a massive, inhuman entity with…

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#331: Suburban Horror: The Bluefield Frogoyle 1:05:58

4M ago1:05:58

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The odysseys of youth are fraught with perils both real and imagined but for one curious young boy, his obsession with a pair of eccentric neighbors and their odd property would spiral him into a surreal vortex of dark history, crazy cryptids and what he believed were occult rituals. Research By Cole Herrold:https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspo…

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#330: Fear And Loathing In Mississippi: Reptoid Terror and Fungoid Horror 1:25:38

4M ago1:25:38

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During the 2010s, a Mississippi teen in an after school program accidentally caught sight of a reptilian entity’s human skin “wardrobe malfunction”. This brief brush with the unknown sent her spiraling into an abysmal vortex of terrifying and insidiously invasive encounters with members of this scaly species… as well as a bizarre, primordial creatu…

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#329: Batsh*t Crazy Cryptids Vol. 2: Wood Chicken And Knuckle Dragger. Vs. Thunder Bay Sluggo 1:09:23

5M ago1:09:23

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Dwelling within the eldritch realms of cryptozoology, ufology and the occult are an array of eccentric entities, but—lurking on the nebulous fringes of these already weird worlds—are an even more anomalous array of anarchic organisms. In this episode we’ll be taking another deep dive into the unfathomably weird waters of Batsh*t crazy Cryptids. The…

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#328: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 28: The Others: Strangers In Our Midst 1:08:28

5M ago1:08:28

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As incredibly unique as the vast swathe of humanity seems to be, the fact is that the amount of genetic variation between any two people is staggeringly small. According to Phase 1 of the Human Genome Project, all of the human beings currently populating the earth are 99.9% identical at the DNA level. This serves as a refreshing reminder that despi…

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#327: Shadows In The Desert: The Derek Hayes & David Flora Interview 1:50:26

5M ago1:50:26

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Nestled near the southern most point of California, less than 100-miles east of San Diego, is the stark, stunning and utterly inhospitable environ known as the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Dangerous for all the myriad reasons deserts are usually avoided—blistering heat, treacherous landscapes, the constant threat of dehydration and, of course, a…

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#326: Alien Invasion, Italian Style Part 2: The Reckoning 1:11:11

5M ago1:11:11

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Although 1978 was a banner year for Italian ufology, the tail end of this mega-wave would prove to be one of the most intense in history. While the bewildered citizens of Italy had already been plagued by a basket full of bizarre beings, even for them the weirdest—was yet to come. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpod…

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#325: Alien Invasion, Italian Style Part 1: The Visitors 1:12:50

6M ago1:12:50

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For approximately two months in the winter of 1978, the nation of Italy was besieged by a bevy of bizarre beings who seemed hellbent on making their presence known to as many eyewitnesses as possible, forcing one to wonder why it was that Italy was chosen to be the epicenter of this curious cosmic convention. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://…

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#349: Phantom Felines & Crazy Cat Critters 1:17:19

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#348: E.S.M.B Listener Stories Part 31: The Restless Dead / Aliens Attack Family 1:10:25

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#347: Granny X And The Demon Teddy Bear 1:21:33

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#346: The Wild, Weird World Of Werecats 1:21:55

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#345: Bizarre Beasts Of Britain Vol 1: England’s Eerie Cryptids 1:18:18

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#344: An Alien Detour: Soviets Vs. Shadow Sacks 1:33:23

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#343: Sheepsquatch: Birth Of A Legend 1:36:54

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#342: F The Woods Vol. 2: The Deep Creek Soul Stealer 1:04:06

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#341: E.S.M.B Listener Stories Part 30: Blue Girl, Bat Blob And An Alien Warning 1:21:07

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#340: Ann Jefferies And The Lusty Faeries 1:25:47

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#339: The Devil On Your Shoulder: Satanic Stowaways 1:10:16

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#338: Revenge Of The Inexplicables 1:14:18

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#337: The Rixicron Experience 1:22:50

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#336: Creepy Kid Tales Vol. 1 1:07:20

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#335: Bustin’ In With Bigfoot 1:23:27

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#334: Invisible Boy: The Peter Pan Possession Part 2 1:21:25

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#333: Invisible Boy: The Peter Pan Possession Part 1 1:02:46

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#332: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 29: Portal Pandemonium And Cut-Cut’s Death Curse 1:07:36

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#331: Suburban Horror: The Bluefield Frogoyle 1:05:58

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#330: Fear And Loathing In Mississippi: Reptoid Terror and Fungoid Horror 1:25:38

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#329: Batsh*t Crazy Cryptids Vol. 2: Wood Chicken And Knuckle Dragger. Vs. Thunder Bay Sluggo 1:09:23

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#328: E.S.M.B. Listener Stories Part 28: The Others: Strangers In Our Midst 1:08:28

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#327: Shadows In The Desert: The Derek Hayes & David Flora Interview 1:50:26

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#326: Alien Invasion, Italian Style Part 2: The Reckoning 1:11:11

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#325: Alien Invasion, Italian Style Part 1: The Visitors 1:12:50

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