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. 

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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 her relationship with the one and only Budd Hopkins. CIA agents, kidnappings, cars stalling on the Brooklyn bridge, alien abductions out of apartment windows, and so much more we can barely cover it. Dive in and get weird with us this week, as we laugh our way through one of the weirdest topics us weirdos have ever weirded out over, on The What If? Podcast.

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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, and well – satan? Backmasking and phonetic reversal took the world by storm and caused listeners to hear music in a whole new way looking for secrets, clues, hidden messages, and well – satan… Dive in with The Sweary Boys, this week on: The What If? Podcast.

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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 languages, with a variety of origin stories, no true knowledge of where he came from, and a deep well of strangeness, Karel Novak became one of the most strangely unknown humans of all time. Who was he? Why did he tell different stories of who he was? Pretend he was deaf and mute? Run from the police? We investigate this week on The What If? Podcast.

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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, some 17 massive miles in perimeter. Who made it? How? And when and why? The Sweary Boys are on the case, this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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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 counties. More residents are taking notice and so are the authorities. The FAA, the FBI, and F-word boys (that’s us) are all on the case.

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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. Four years later, a follow up video filmed in Yosemite displayed a similar pair of pant-like beings. So what is getting caught on film here in California? Is it haunted pants? Spooky trolling? CGI? Alien ghost cryptids? Find out in our last episode of 2019, this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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

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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 grey men.” Spindly legs, long arms, impervious to bullets (because of course, they tried to shoot them) and gliding towards them, these beings terrorized their rural farmhouse for hours that evening.

When they reported their experience to the authorities, it took hold in their community, and in both the local and national press. What followed became one of the wildest documented alien (or maybe owl) encounters in history. 

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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 security to enter into a vault containing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diamonds and valuables. How did they get in? How did they pass such a rigorous test of physical and mental agility? How did they eventually get caught? And who, and what, was this all done in service of… Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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