Cryptic Soup Pod

Welcome to Cryptic Soup, join Thena and Kylee for the story of Keith Raniere, Toni Natalie, Nancy Salzman, ESP (Executive Success Programs), the basis of MLM structures, and how NXIVM started. NXIVM was a recent cult that was branded as an MLM Pyramid scheme that had celebrities, sex scandals, and more. This is a multiple-part series to break down the cult, the leaders, and how it all worked.

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee as they discuss the Wicked Witch that isn’t bad… Or maybe she is? Maybe she's not a witch at all...a goddess, or a trickster, or Mother Earth, who knows?! Baba Yaga is a Slavic folklore that has confused people for ages; Today we are trying to decode the stories and figure out who she truly is.

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee to discuss one of the most largely talked about unsolved cases of the past seventy-five-plus years. Elizabeth Short, aka, The Black Dahlia murder from Los Angeles, California 1947. This is the case that brought up the whole ‘is it a mannequin’ theory and maybe inspired the Joker smile that is cut from ear to ear. So, what happened to Elizabeth?

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee to learn about the exorcism of Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel that took place in Germany back in the 1970s. This case inspired films such as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and the nightmares of numerous people. Anneliese was said to be inhabited by six demons that caused her to spiral in an extremely severe way and ended ultimately in her death. Who was at fault for her death in the end though, because the courts would say this is a case of manslaughter. 

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee as they discuss Daniel Perez, Lou Castro, and

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee as they discuss the McCarthy Alaska Massacre that occurred one fateful, sad Tuesday. It was Mail Day and Lou Hastings was a deeply disturbed man with a really "genius" plan that cost the lives of almost half the residents of the community... just so he could keep his "Alaskan wilderness" dream. 

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee to hear about the ill-fated couple from New Orleans of Zack Bowen and Addie Hall. Many people saw this couple featured on the news and in magazines back during Hurricane Katrina, but after that, there was a much much darker event that changed everything about how you saw them.

DISCLAIMER: This episode has got a tad of an echo. We apologize for the inconvenience in quality.

Welcome to Cryptic Soup. Join Thena and Kylee with another special guest… TAYLOR. Yep, the man you used to hear all about… we got him here! We managed to steal Taylor away for a few days, and figured why not throw him headfirst into CSP with an episode! In this episode, we discuss the Uncanny Valley effect, dolls, and what our mind does with processing these things. We talk a little about Déjà vu and Doppelgängers as well… Why is our mind so weird with all these things? Find out in this episode.