In the mid ’90s reports of a strange creature killing livestock and sucking their blood travelled across Puerto Rico. Animals would be found dead in the morning, with three puncture wounds in their chest, and no blood in their bodies. Then came the sightings of beast unlike no other. Reports of how it look vary, but the death it leaves behind does not.

What is happening here? Are aliens testing farm animals? Are there secret US government experiments run amok in Puerto Rico? Are there mangy rabid dogs just killing things for fun? Does Spencer think it’s all a bunch of BS? Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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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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Guys, Ryan continues to have the worst dang luck. For the latest entry in the series of unfortunate events that has become his life story, he’s sick and has no voice, so we can’t record the sweet new episode we had planned for this week. 

We’ll be back with a new one next week, but in the meantime, check out this Patreon episode from a couple weeks ago.

What is glitter? How is it made? Which mystery industry is the largest purchaser of glitter? 

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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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The Vatican Secret Archives, located in Vatican City, contain a wide variety of catholic documents dating back to the 8th century. Because access to the archives is highly regulated, people have speculated they contain all sorts of mysterious items and documents, including proof of alien life, predictions of the coming apocalypse, and a time machine. This week we ponder whether or not they actually do contain these oddities, and if not – why the veil of secrecy over the archive itself? Join us this week, on The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: HEY KIDS LOOK AT HELL, The Chronovisor, It’s The Devil’s Work, Unsealed: Alien Files aka Bootleg Ancient Aliens, and much more. 

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We travel deep into Siberia this week, for our final installment in our three-part series on isolation. Under religious persecution, from the Communist Party in Russia, the Lykov family, from a sect of what was called the Old Believers, decided to renounce traditional society. They fled threats of death and destruction, deep, deep into the remote Siberian wilderness – the taiga – where they lived as a family of six, unseen or interrupted by the outside world, for 42 years.

In 1978 they were discovered by geologists, prospecting the Siberian wilderness, and were told of all the things they’d missed since they’d been gone. The Lykov family later came to be known as “the hermits who missed World War II” having been so removed from the world, they had no idea it had happened. Not the space race. Not television. Nothing.

Hot Topics: Eating Your Shoes, P*ssed Off Pizza From Wisconsin, No Thanks, Forcibly Shaved, and a whole lot more.

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Well gang. Sometimes one person goes missing. But apparently, sometimes a lot of people go missing at the same time too. It’s a weird one this week (ain’t it always?), as we explore the truth (or maybe the lack thereof) of when a whole buncha stuff goes missing all at once. Is it UFOs? Is it holograms? Is it just one big bucket of malarkey?

This week we explore a Chinese city in the mountains that went vacant overnight, an Inuit village reported creepily and quickly empty by a Canadian trapper, and an Iowan city that had to defend the fact that it truly existed. It might be BS, but it’s gonna be fun no matter what. Find out more this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Look, we’d stop doin’ episodes about this if y’all stopped goin’ missin’. But here we are. On part six, and people of this ding-dang universe keep bein’ hard to find. This week we dive deep into the disappearance phenomenon, as it relates specifically to the folks who go bye-bye in National Parks of the United States.

We talk through David Paulides’s take on why people go missing in the US parks system, why we disagree with him, and the curious case of Stacey Ann Arras, a 14 year old girl who went missing in Yosemite in the 80’s. We’ll get to the bottom of it, on this week’s episode of The What If? Podcast.

Hot Topics: The Internet In Your Ears, Cop Face, Just For Men, Animal Attacks, Ryan’s Never Going Camping Again, and much, much more.

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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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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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