This Week we Focus in on a Frozen Volcano to find a Bigfoot, not any kinda of Bigfoot but a massive flying Sasquatch that might be able to psychic control engines of machines! In the Wake of Americas last Mainland Volcanic Eruption, a terrifying Cryptid has arisen from its ashes. The colorful Batsquatch emerges on this week of Fringe History!

We’ll talk about Super Volcanoes, Americas last devastating Volcanic Eruption & Washington’s renown Bigfoot accounts that have popped up all over the PNW. Sightings of Skookums that lurk in Ape Canyon to Oregons Skookum lake mysteriously die off after Mt St Helen exploded, is this linked to the rise of the Batsquatch? Checkout this weeks episode to hear all about it!

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Let’s look into the Century+ mystery of the 1896 Airship that cruised over Sacramento & then San Francisco, eventually within 6 months it had soared all the way to Michigan!

Was this Americas first Ufo/UAP & did it spark the modern light in the sky craze?

Do you live in one of the dozens of towns that spotted this phenomenon??

Thousands of folk across America reported this Airship & hundreds of newspapers published its appearances but there are many descriptions from Giant metal bird to a 150ft cigar shaped craft that had 3 spotlights so what exactly was it? & why did William Randolph Hearst accuse this Airship flap as a product of Yellow Journalism & Journalistic hoaxes? But it was him caught masterminding events to come!

Learn about the Airship craze, explore & speculate on the answer to the classic American mystery & discover if your live near one of its many landings / sightings today on Fringe History!

Let’s Talk about all Sorta Cryptids! Newcomers welcome & Veteran Cryptid Lorekeepers may even find a new tale or Category for a group of cryptids they hadn’t considered! Cryptozoology is May favorite part of Weird Culture & I wanna tell you guys how I’ve begun categorizing them with years of experience! I’ll share More “Real”Cryptids like De loys Ape & even some critters who were have thought to gone extinct only to be rediscovered modern day! Plus folklore Cryptids, Urban Legends, Cryptid/Alien Crossovers & strange sightings that have never been confirmed like the Grafton Beast or The Loveland Frogfolk! Tons of Big Feet, lake monsters & _____ Men (dogman, Mantis Man, Bunny man, Goat Man). Let’s have some fun with Cryptid Culture today on Fringe History! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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Explore what scientists call “The Living Fossil” & a successful case of Cryptozoology! There was a rumored Fish Monster living off the coast of South Africa that hunted at night, 6 feet big & would snap an octopus in half. This creature was said to have gone extinct with the Dinosaurs 66 Million Years ago in the last Extinction Event. Yet here a museum Curator was seeing it in a marketplace being sold amongst oil fish!

Learn About the Coelacanths story from ruling the Oceans 410 Million years ago with 90 vastly different specie from the North American Swamp Lurking leviathan the Mawsonia to the Rapid moving Rebellatrix that hunted in the open oceans. How did 2 of these specie survive the extinction event known as the KT EE. What is an extinction event, let alone the Big 5 that earth has suffered like the Great Dying! Plus learn the Cryptid Mystery’s behind many “Real” Cryptids like the African Forest Unicorn, the Buru that inspired King Kong, Hoop Snakes & the legendary Chupacabra on this weeks Fringe History! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

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A Bonus Case featuring Folk Heroes, Ghost Towns, Graffiti Havens, psychedelic public art, UFOs & A wonderful Cryptid festival that I promised I’d make it out to! I’ll bring you along on my bday road-trip through many fringe locations like Cement City, Randyville, Kecksburg & the awesomeness that is a Primanti Bros in Pittsburgh! But more importantly hear about the amazing artists who dedicated their time to make SQUONKAPOOLZA what it is! Wood Craved Cryptid Maps, Mothman Plushies & being challenged by the creator of a Cryptid CCG by its own creator??? Hear about it all & how you can get to all these places yourself! Plus Case Updates on the Fresno Nightcrawler as I found an article that explains Jose’s Silence & a short conversation I had with a good friend of the screenwriter for the Mothman Prophecy movie & confirm John Keels level of involvement! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

To reach out with Cryptid sightings, supernatural encounters or anything else email me at [email protected]

IM BACK & I’ve got a beloved case of mine to share, about things falling out of the sky. In particular I’m talking greasy chunks of flesh & organs raining down onto a Kentucky grandmas farm. Was it Blood Rain? Was it an omen? Maybe the results of a horrendous Knife Tornado?! Or maybe it was what many Scientist speculated was a sorta Vulture Vomit! But 32 lbs within a relative small area??

Let’s dive into the 1876 Kentucky Meat shower & see just how this legend came to be. & how I was able to locate & talk to the owner of the last known speciemen of the Kentucky Meat shower & how Frank Reiser helped bring this story to life! Plus other Rains from Blood to Frogs, Money & Mud, even a shark that survived a couple hundred foot fall from the clouds & safely wound up back in the Pacific Ocean 5 miles away. Hear about all that & how to get to the very location of the Kentucky Meat Shower inside Kentuckys largest park, Daniel Boone National Forest. Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

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We Head To West Virginia, MOUNTAIN MAMAS… for our next Cryptid Case. & this Creatures birthplace is actually an American EPA Clean up site! A marsh contaminated from abandoned WW2 Explosive bunker! Because it’s time for us to explore one of the most famous Cryptids (sorry Bigfoot & Nessie) MOTHMAN!

We’ll explore his origin story & figure out how a simple legend that lead to a dangerous monster hunt became a metaphysical being that tied together supernatural events across America I mean what’s the men in black doing in point pleasant? It’s more then likely the doing of a renown Fortean Writer John Keel (Creator of Eighth Tower, a strange ultradimensional look at folklore), so let’s look into the strange culture of Fortean Writing & how it’s creator would hate me even saying that.

& as always we’ll talk about how to get to Point Pleasant, a peaceful lil river town with charming cobblestone streets & a statue / Musuem to commemorate the Mothman Legend. Plus an annual festival & maybe even learn what a Mothman Burger is?! Plus how this Cryptid reached international fame making millions of dollars in less than 60 years of its existence. Mothman the musical?! Mothman in adult swim? Mothman comics involving smoking moths as a drug?! Listen into this weeks case as your bound to find at least 1 new thing about this legendary Cryptid on FRINGE HISTORY

Drone Footage of TNT AREA @Mothman46 on YouTube “DJI Mavic Birthplace of the Mothman”.

Mothman Musical @ YouTube via BRS Music.

Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

To reach out with Cryptid sightings, supernatural encounters or anything else email me at [email protected]

A Sea in California? A toxic one at that! Formed via an engineering accident that resulted in a flooded train & 110 miles of water collected in the Salton Basin. Today it is a Toxic wasteland that spur dust storms that waft these chemicals into the air.

The Salton sea was once a thriving Summer hotspot labeled the Next Palm Springs. But as salt levels rose, the water levels shrank & the chemicals from the agricultural run off that kept the sea alive began to make everyone near it sick. Explore the Abondoned communities & Yatch clubs that once hosted Frank Sinatra & The Beach Boys! Or hear about my trip to Slab City that was cut short by a flash flood & dust storm combo! Plus how lithium mining here can power almost half the world?!? Check it out today on Fringe History!! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

To reach out with Cryptid sightings, supernatural encounters or anything else email me at [email protected]

South Dakota, the Land of Crystalline Caves, The massive protector of the Plains The Bison & one of the most breathtaking National Parks in All of America! No not Mt Rushmore…. But the Badlands!! Some may imagine a desolate salt flat, but really Badlands is an expansion of wild Lava rock formations, a wide range of rare American animals & even a Banshee?? Explore the History of this National Parks Legendary Banshee who’s Haunted watchdog Butte since the 1800s! & make sure to keep an ear out for her companion, a fiddle playing desert skeleton that can drive bandits & cowboys mad with aggressive tune, even leading them to their demise! Explore this Myth, it’s creator who is a progressive Artist in the New England Transcendentalist movement & how to visit SD and explore its 3 national parks! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

To reach out with Cryptid sightings, supernatural encounters or anything else email me at [email protected]

PA FAKELORE LEGEND! Joe is a simple man, he works 24hrs, puts his everything into the steel mill & saves his Coworkers from many disasters! Oh & he’s made of steel, has incredible strength & can Teleport via furnaces?

That’s right today we look into the Folk Hero during the 1930s, created by a failed Hollywood screenplay writer! He jotted down the legends of Magarac from his Eastern European coworkers, but were they just riffing on him & pulling his leg? Discover the Myth, Origin, Reality & legacy of folkhero Joe Magarac! Oh & how to visit the Statue of him standing tall in a small PA hill mining town right outside of Pittsburg on this weeks case of Fringe History! Fringe History is Created, Produced & hosted by Basti B.

For podcast updates + Daily Cryptid drops & case photos follow the Instagram @FringeHistorypod

To reach out with Cryptid sightings, supernatural encounters or anything else email me at [email protected]