The What If? Podcast

In 1987, the Tallman family brought home a bunk bed to their Horicon, Wisconsin home. Soon after, they began hearing voices, seeing a three-foot tall witch, and generally being haunted af. 

We bring you one of the most bizarre cases we’ve ever encountered this week, as we head to New York in the late ’80s. The story of Linda Cortile Napolitano is a wild and winding one that originates deeply in […]

In the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, a new recording technique came into vogue – the recording or discovery of audio clips recorded in one direction and laid into a final track in reverse. The result was one of mystery, confusion, […]

In the early 1950’s a man in the woods with nothing but knives and lint in his pockets was discovered along the borders of Poland and Czechoslovakia who would become an international mystery for decades to come. Knowledgable in many […]

In 1998 an Australian Outback pilot flew over a remote portion of South Australia, and looking down, uncovered a shocking sight. What he saw was what came to be known as The Marree Man. An engraving in the arid earth, […]

Over the past two weeks, there have been hundreds of reports of drones in three separate midwestern states. In Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, residents have reported large groups of six-foot wingspan drones with loud engines flying in patterns across their […]

In Fresno, California, in 2007, a man simply known as “José” filmed a strange being essentially… float… across his yard. The seemingly two-legged, flighty, ethereal phenomenon made it to the local news and soon became known as The Fresno Nightcrawler. […]

In 1967, Stephen Michalak stuck his head inside a UFO while looking for rocks in Manitoba. 

In August of 1955, in a rural town in Kentucky, the Sutton family and their friends had a most unworldly experience. A group of adults and children spent a hot summer evening at battle with what they described as “little […]

In 2003 one of the largest and most intricate heists in the history of the world occurred. In Antwerp, Belgium, on a cold Saturday night in February, five men proceeded to defeat layers upon layers of state of the art […]