Episodes

April 26, 2023

The Tartarian Empire Strikes Back: Mud Floods, Maps, and Forgotten Hi…

This week on Hysteria 51, we're diving headfirst into the murky, muddy waters of the Tartarian Empire. Join David and Brent as they excavate the truth behind the enigmatic mud floods, unearth mysterious maps, and delve deep i...

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April 19, 2023

Tulpa-Mania: Mind-Made Mayhem with Contest Winner Lauren | 331

This week join Brent, David, and Contest Winner Lauren as they dive head-first into the wild world of Tulpas - those mysterious, mind-made entities that seem to have a life of their own. Are they just figments of our imaginat...

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April 12, 2023

Voicemail Madness! | 330

Hold onto your tinfoil hats, ya savages! This week, David and Brent take a break from their usual conspiratorial deep dives to unleash the voices of the Hysteria 51 community. That's right, it's time for listener voicemails! ...

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April 5, 2023

Heaven's Gate Revisited: UFOs & Comets & Castration, Oh My! | 329

Strap on your Nikes, grab your favorite alien snack, and join us as we look back at the time we tried to uncover the truth behind the Heaven's Gate Cult. Did we find the keys to the kingdom or just a one-way ticket to Crazy T...

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April 3, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Raining Megalodon Sized Worms | BONUS

Hold on to your umbrellas and diving gear, ya savages! This week on Blurry Hysteria, we're diving deep into the world of weird news that's sure to leave you questioning reality. Prepare for a whirlwind tour of the bizarre as ...

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March 30, 2023

Waco: The Siege | 328

It’s back into the world of cults this week as we take on Waco part Deux, the return of the Vernon Wayne Howell aka David Koresh,the septuagenarian buggering wannabe rock-star turned sinful messiah. We are focusing on the sie...

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March 29, 2023

Waco: The Cult | 327

How did a septuagenarian buggering wannabe rock-star suffering from dyslexia go from handyman to cult leader, culminating in the death of 80 people? We try to answer that very question this week (and not because Cbot is looki...

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March 27, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Jurassic Insect Echoes | BONUS

Just when you thought Walmart couldn't get any weirder, Arkansas enters the fight! This week we talk Jurassic era insects alive and well at your local Walmart PLUS, what the hell is a time reflection? Could this be responsibl...

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March 22, 2023

Site R: The Raven Rock Mountain Complex | 326

Buckle up, tinfoil hat-wearers, this week we take you on a wild ride deep into the heart of the mysterious Raven Rock Mountain Complex, aka Site R! What's more intriguing than an underground city built to withstand a nuclear ...

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March 15, 2023

Scientific Paradoxes | 325

Science is full of all sorts of paradoxes: We can travel to the depths of space, but can't cure the common cold. We can split the atom, but can't figure out why time flies when you're having fun. We can map the human genome, ...

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March 8, 2023

Creepy Dolls | 324

Cavemen used to fashion dolls out of sticks and rocks. They would play with them for hours, pretending that they were going on epic hunting trips and fighting off saber-toothed tigers. Fast forward a few thousand years, and d...

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Feb. 22, 2023

Ong's Hat: Eggheads, Gov't Shills, & The Internet's First Hoax | 323

Ever start telling a story as a joke and it gets out of hand? People believe it no matter how much you swear you made it up and try to destroy your life? No, just Joseph Matheny? This week we tackle Ong’s Hat, the internets f...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Death Walker w/ Nick Groff | 322

This week the boys are joined by Nick Groff to talk his life in the world of the paranormal and his new show from FilmRise, Death Walker. In the series host Nick Groff theorizes and investigates the origins of some of America...

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Feb. 13, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Icy Cobras | BONUS

Half of ALL the snakebites in the world each year come from India... Half. Let that sink in (pun intended). Well, this week we have a change of fortune as a kid bites back! Also, ice news? All you gotta do is add some balls a...

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Feb. 8, 2023

Stone Tape Theory: Residual Hauntings or Pseudoscience? | 321

We’ve all heard of things that go bump in the night, but what if they are just recording of past events echoing through time? That is the heart of the Stone Tape Theory aka residual hauntings and this week’s topic. Is it an h...

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Feb. 6, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Hairy Dodo Action | BONUS

Everyone knows that one guy (or girl) that seems to be WAY too hairy. Well, now science says we can all enjoy the benefits of all over hair, and I mean ALL OVER. It’s is as simple as unlocking our dormant genes, duh! Plus, th...

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Feb. 1, 2023

THE STAFFORD WILLIAM MORTIMER MURGATROYD SPECTACULAR | 320

What the heck is a Stafford William Mortimer Murgatroyd Spectacular you ask? Well, you see, Stafford Murgatroyd won a contest a while ago and his request for an episode was anything on New Zealand where he is originally from....

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Jan. 30, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Fake Tentacle Rendering | BONUS

From tentacle creatures to the fabric of the universe, this week is a doozy! First up it’s a new tentacle monster to haunt your dreams, and it’s real, so bonus points for that. Or, maybe it is fake because we also look into e...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Mothman Bank Heist | BONUS

Ah, winter in Chicago. Grey skies... Malört in every hand... Mothman taking the time to frighten us all just by taking a break. Flora brings us 2 stories of Mothman in Chicago this week and Brent regales us with a story of wh...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Indrid Cold: The Smiling “Man” | 319

From weirdo kid watcher to alien visitor to creepypasta star, Indrid Cold aka The Smiling Man has had a lot of success staying in the public eye. Whether these are all the acts of one “man” or just slightly similar incidents ...

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Jan. 16, 2023

Blurry Hysteria: Sheep Shenanigans | BONUS

Sheep!! Who know so many people could be mystified by their weird ass behavior, but here we are talking about them on Blurry Hysteria. What the flock is going on? Is it actually weird? Who the hell keeps asking for Producer L...

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Jan. 4, 2023

Mad Man Mike Marcum: Time Traveler or Kook | 318

Man wants to get rich. Man builds time machine. Man gets arrested. Man turns to Art Bell for help. Who doesn't know someone with that story?? No one?? Well now you do as this week we are focusing on Mad Man Mike Marcum and hi...

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Dec. 28, 2022

2022 - RECAP | 317

It's A Crap! err... Wrap. Or Recap. Whatever it is, this week we are looking back at 2022 and all the fortean stories that shaped the world of the Paranormal and Ufology in 2022. What headlines caught our eyes? What events ha...

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Dec. 21, 2022

Weird News with Project Skeptic | 316

David Flora is busy prancing across Europe collecting samples for our cryptid menagerie so we call in Jay from Project Skeptic to help with the heavy lifting this week as we look at weird news from around the world. What does...

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