Conspiracies, inventions, futuristic visions, alien communication – it’s as if legendary inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla was designed in a lab to be a topic on The What If? Podcast. This week we dive into the life and times of Tesla, and tell the story of his fabled, strange, cryptic and fascinating career.

His time in Serbia, traveling to the United States to war with competitor and inventor Thomas Edison, death rays, picking up alien chatter on a Tesla coil, wireless data transfer, and FBI confiscation of his life’s work. It’s all there, and more, this week on The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Mr. Freeze the Mayor of Minneapolis, Stinky Tesla, Make Money Spend Money, Bucket Crunderdunder, ACDC the Power Not The Band, I HAVE DONE A RESEARCH, and much more.

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When we asked for listener feedback on the creepy things their kids have said or done, we didn’t imagine we’d get the strong response we did. And when we checked the internet, we didn’t know just how common this phenomenon is. This week, we’re talking about the age at which children seem to be able to see ghosts, communicate with the dead, invent people in the room, remember details from their past lives, and a whole lot more.

We’ll dive into lots of listener submitted voicemails and emails about their own experiences, along with stories from across the world wide web. Join us for your weekly dose of weird, this week on The What If? Podcast.

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In 1998, Brian Bethel put forth unto the internet a story of the utmost strange. A visit to his vehicle in a parking lot late one night that included strange, awkward children that possessed all black eyes, demanding entrance to his car. This set off an internet firestorm of stories from all over the world, regarding encounters of similar sorts. Pale children, visiting people, and demanding entrance to their homes and cars, creating an impending sense of fear or doom, and disturbing the victims.

Who are they? What are they? Are they real? Are they human alien hybrids? Are they a made up manifestation of Brian’s mind? Find out on our first week back in 2019, on this episode of The What If? Podcast.

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Happy Halloween, you beautiful weirdos! It’s a spooky night for spooky frights, so we’re diving deep into more topics of the season. And that means ghost, poltergeists, levitations, hauntings, and enough tricks and treats to take you right through pumpkin carving, and straight into mulled wine and candy giving (and/or eating).

This week, we’re talking UK ghost stores specifically, going to England to talk about the Roman ghost squads walking through walls in the York Treasurer’s house, and levitating children, volleyed Legos and marbles, and a bunch more. We promise, Ryan only takes on a British accent once, and it’s mostly kind of Australian. So don’t be too scared.

Hot Topics: The G****** Seasons, S*** Went Bad Real Quick, Is It Trash: Halloween Candy Edition, Spooked As Heck, The Enfield Poltergeist, Historically Accurate Ghosts, and a whole lot more.

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Y’all, Halloween is right around the corner. And that means we’re diving deep into a seasonal classic – Vampires. Where in the heck are they from? How in the heck do you kill one? What in the heck are modern day vampires doin’ tryin’ ta eat each others’ essence!?!? Find out right now on this week’s episode of The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: Spooktober is Upon Us, It’s a Tricycle, Godd*mmit, Show Me All Your Vampires, Say Y’all Didn’t Happen to Do A Buncha Drugs Did Ya?, Yes Daddy

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We’re taking a much needed week off after 100 straight episodes, but in the meantime, we’ve decided to share our all-time favorite Patreon episode with y’all.

We called Bear, he answered, and he had some WILD stories to tell.

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Spencer dives into the Nazca Lines, and we discuss the massive crop-circle-style land carvings of 2,000 years ago, drawn into rock and illustrating monkeys, spiders, spider monkeys, monkey spiders, and maybe – just maybe, constellations.

Then, Ryan tells us about the Antikythera Mechanism – the oldest computer known to man, mapping stars in the sky to gears in a box on the ground. Found in a shipwreck in the early 1900’s, the secrets of this artifact were only uncovered in the last 10 to 15 years.

Hot Topics: Barry Manilow the Alien, How to Get Abducted in 5 Features, Babies Digging Trenches, The Old Greek Dudes, and much more.

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Look guys, cults are bad. HECK. We can all agree. But sometimes they do stuff that’s just crazy for us to tell the story of anyway. In 1993, a Japanese cult that had spread throughout the world, may have just done something as crazy as nuking the Australian desert in an effort to bring about a new armageddon. Sound wild enough for y’all? It’s wild enough for us – so strap into your seats, and hold onto your butts – it’s another episode of The What If? Podcast.

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Dogmen, pup people, canine compadres, labrador lads, mutt mates…

On today’s episode, we’re talking about the legend of the Dogman, a tall, mysterious creature said to have features of a dog, wolf, man, or bear. We share some stories of the Michigan Dogman, the Beast of Bray Road, and human/animal hybrids throughout history.

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