Guide to the Unknown

By Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

TV & Film Comedy

What's Guide to the Unknown about?

Iconic monsters and cryptids. Urban legends and creepypastas. A brother and sister obsessed with horror. Guide to the Unknown has all this and more!

Tune in every Friday for another scary, hilarious episode!

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178: Horror Hot Takes Part 3

04.09.2021

We're back with a final (for now?) installment of controversial opinions about our favorite topic! Trailers vs. movies, gore, whether or not vampires are hot...it's ALLLL on the table. Let's spice it up! Support GTTU and get access to monthly ...

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04.09.2021 178: Horror Hot Takes Part 3 We're back with a final (for now?) installment of controversial opinions about our favorite topic! Trailers vs. movies, gore, whether or not vampires are hot...it's ALLLL on the table. Let's spice it up! Support GTTU and get access to monthly ...
04.07.2021 Guide to the At-Home 5: Em Schulz of And That's Why We Drink Kristen talks to people she likes about what entertainment they've liked during the quarantine! It's GUIDE TO THE AT-HOME. Em Schulz is one half of And That's Why We Drink, a true crime and paranormal podcast. Really, Em and Kristen ...
04.02.2021 177: Wyoming Scares Us Oh, Wyoming.... Did you know that this is the state that has listened to Guide to the Unknown the LEAST?! Don't worry, we're not offended. Instead, we're here to celebrate your spookiness and tell some WILD stories about jackalopes, shoes ...
03.31.2021 Guide to the At-Home 4: Sapphire Sandalo of Stories with Sapphire Kristen talks to people she likes about what entertainment they've liked during the quarantine! It's GUIDE TO THE AT-HOME. Sapphire Sandalo of the ridiculously good podcast Stories with Sapphire talks about getting into Hannibal, the royal family, her favorite IRL ...
03.26.2021 176: Listener Questions Part 2 From movie questions to which mythical creature we'd want to be roommates with, we're answering more of your listener Qs! Check out the show to find out what cryptid we would be if we were cryptids. Make sure you check ...
03.23.2021 Guide to the At-Home 3: Kathleen Heaney and Bethany Watson, An Acquired Taste Podcast Kristen talks to people she likes about what entertainment they've liked during the quarantine! It's GUIDE TO THE AT-HOME. Kathleen and Bethany of the excellent podcast An Acquired Taste come on to talk about Bigfoot, Charles Grodin, Trader Joe's finds, ...
03.19.2021 175: Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? and Pontypool Well...we challenged each other two watch some movies we each really like. I don't know...are we both out of our wheelhouse? Kristen's got an artsy, abstract zombie movie, Will's got a Lifetime movie...Or maybe...WE LOVED THEM? Let's find out. Make ...
03.12.2021 174: Horror Hot Takes Part 2 We're back with more controversial opinions about horror! Ready to burn with anger or soar on the wings of angels? Books v movies, the ending of Saw, hollow earth…it’s all on the table. Listen and see where YOU fall on ...
03.11.2021 Guide to the At-Home 2: Chelsey Weber-Smith of American Hysteria and Jim Perry of Euphomet Kristen talks to people she likes about what entertainment they've liked during the quarantine! It's GUIDE TO THE AT-HOME. Chelsey and Jim talk about the television they've consumed along with the stages of quarantine, including Tiger King, Jersey Shore, calming ...
03.05.2021 173: The Bermuda Triangle Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama....we're trapped in a vortex! The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most famous places in the world for boats and planes to vanish without a trace. Let's go there! ALSO make sure you go ...
03.03.2021 Guide to the At-Home 1: Liz Sower of Ghosts in the Burbs Welcome to the first mini-episode where Kristen talks to people she likes about what entertainment they've liked during the quarantine! It's GUIDE TO THE AT-HOME. Let's kick things off with Liz Sower of the podcast and blog Ghosts in the ...
02.26.2021 172: Creepy Listener Questions It's been a LONG time since we last answered questions directly from listeners, so we asked people to send in personal questions, hypothetical scenarios, and anything else you might want us to address! Will our responses surprise you? Ha: now ...
02.19.2021 171: The Visit & The Happening Last week we covered some horror hot takes and went down a real rabbit hole discussing M. Night Shyamalan's oeuvre. So this week we're discussing two of his most talked-about movies and figuring out if they're as good (or bad) ...
02.12.2021 170: Horror Hot Takes We’re discussing and dissecting unusual opinions this week -- ours and yours! We’ve got pop culture and esoteric thoughts aplenty, a perfect encapsulation of the show as a whole. Opinions on The Village! Time warps! Jump scares! Come get some. ...
02.05.2021 169: The Movies* That Made Us This week we discuss the freaky formative entertainment that we liked in childhood because it scared us just a little bit (or a lot). Anyone remember the mannequin that just wants to be real on Today's Special? Or did you ...
01.29.2021 168: Underground Nightmares In Will's final episode before parental leave, we talk about some of the horrors happening beneath our feet: in mines, caves, etc. (Will's going underground...get it?) Kristen digs into the story of the secret crystal city under a California mountain ...
01.22.2021 167: "The Sensitives" and More Listener Stories! Our cup runneth over. We're back to dive into more of YOUR scary stories. Ghosts, UFOs, haunted hair clips…you people have it all! Thank you so much to Ghost Girl Greetings for sponsoring this episode! Make sure to visit them ...
01.15.2021 166: People in the Sky and Other Listener Stories With a newly stocked stash of listener stories, we're digging into possibly paranormal experiences from average everyday folks! Join us for sky people, woods people, haunted mannequins and more! Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and tons of other content ...
01.08.2021 165: Count Dracula He's one of the oldest monsters known to man. And now...his devilish eyes are fixed on US! But who IS Dracula? Where did he come from? Is he really based on Vlad the Impaler? And how many weird-ass versions of ...
01.01.2021 164: Weird 2020 & New Years Rituals Out with the old and in with the new! Kristen is looking back at some of the biggest horror headlines from the worst year ever...could it be the best spooky year ever? Will is dredging up some New Years Eve ...
12.25.2020 163: Holiday Slash Trash HAPPY HOLIDAYS! There's no rest for the wicked, so GTTU is here to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with (possibly) the worst movies of all! Scrooge or Marley's Ghost, Christmas Evil, Hannukah, Black Christmas, and Silent Night ...
12.18.2020 162: Shipwrecks & Seafaring Superstitions This ship is on a collision course with destiny! We discuss tragic shipwrecks that may have resulted in hauntings, as well as some wild sailor superstitions. Keep your bananas off the boat, please. Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and ...
12.11.2020 161: Mount Washington Hotel Rumor has it that the Mount Washington Hotel is part of the inspiration behind Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick's versions of The Shining. And for good reason. Not only is this place supposedly haunted by the ghost of Carolyn Stickney, ...
12.04.2020 160: Arctic Horror Can you sense it? The winds are changing, becoming harsh with cold. Let's learn what's hiding in the snow and hopefully survive this final season of 2020 by talking about Inuit and Norse folklore. They really know how to make ...
11.27.2020 159: The Lost Colony of Roanoke CROATOAN! What does it mean, what does it mean!? Well it means the 1587 colony of Roanoke disappeared and were never seen again. Just what the hell happened?! Well...maybe we know. Maybe we've ALWAYS known. Not only that, but we're ...
11.20.2020 158: Silent Hill Join us for a trip to the scenic, foggy town of Silent Hill. Don't mind the bodies! We'll also make a pit stop in Centralia, PA, the real town that helped inspire the movie -- with a fire that's been ...
11.13.2020 157: Brazilian Folklore Travel may be impossible for many right now, so let us take you there: we're covering some of the wild cryptids and UFO stories from Brazil! #OperationSaucer? You bet. This episode was inspired by Fabricio Martins, who shared INCREDIBLE artwork ...
11.06.2020 156: Found Footage History It's Will's birthday, so let's celebrate the genre that made him the household name he DEFINITELY is. From the podcast Blackwood to the Blair Witch game box, amirite? It's time to discover FOUND FOOTAGE. What is it? What makes it ...
10.30.2020 155: Slash Trash In the finale of SLASHTOBER we're dissecting some of the most notoriously terrible slasher movies ever made! ThanksKilling, Gingerdead Man, Rubber, Ice Cream Man, New Years Evil, Jack Frost, Leprechaun, and Silent Night Deadly Night. Does that list make you ...
10.23.2020 154: Scream Queens and Final Girls The horror genre has been graced by some of the greatest female characters and performances of all time. Whether they're outwitting the killer or murdering their friends, they've all slashed their way into our hearts. Let's celebrate some of the ...
10.16.2020 153: Slashers on TV Not content to live on the silver screen, the slashers have invaded our television sets! What the hell are they up to over on American Horror Story, Dexter, Scream, and Harper's Island? We REVEAL ALL this week (seriously, lots of ...
10.09.2020 152: Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees SLASHTOBER CONTINUES! This week we're slicing and dicing our way through two of the biggest players in the game. Kristen will be covering "The Shape," better known as Michael Myers, while Will is heading to camp to dissect Jason Voorhees! ...
10.02.2020 151: Slasher History To kick off SLASHTOBER we're going back to the origins of the slasher, discussing the movie that kicked off the craze (surprisingly, it's not Psycho) through the late 70s/early 80s boom that brought us some of the big boys: Halloween, ...
09.25.2020 150: Scary Stories from Listeners LIKE YOU Welcome to episode ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY of Guide to the Unknown! Not too shabby. To celebrate this partial milestone, we're reading stories of paranormal encounters submitted to us by listeners...and thanking our lucky stars that these stories didn't happen ...
09.18.2020 149: Spirits of Somerset County Kristen is happily moving into a new house with her husband and mom this weekend! But uh oh...have they made a huge mistake? It turns out her new zip code is riddled with monsters and hauntings. She'll hardly be able ...
09.11.2020 148: Rituals and Games We're talking about rituals and games you can try to transport yourself to other worlds, get cursed, or get the chills! Think the elevator game, light as a feather, stiff as a board, and more that might be new to ...
09.04.2020 147: The SCP Foundation The SCP Foundation website contains a sprawling public database of files from a secret government organization that Secures, Contains and Protects unnatural beings, objects and phenomena. It's also entirely fictional and written by the public, having sprung up and taken ...
08.28.2020 146: Haunted Amusement Parks Sure, we all looove to take a spin on the tilt-a-wheel and dip the teacups or whatever the hell happens at an amusement park. But what do the GHOSTS there like to do? Take a cross-country journey with us to ...
08.21.2020 145: Houska Castle Houska Castle in the Czech Republic is rumored to be built over a pit straight to hell...and to have been built specifically to cover it up. Rather than a castle with protections to keep others out, it's built to keep ...
08.14.2020 144: EVPs and More Techno Ghosts This week, we find out about the earliest EVPs and modern-day EVP game-changers, like Frank's Box and the Estes Method.⁠ ⁠ We also take a tour through movies about ghosts using tech to communicate with us, like White Noise, Unfriended, ...
08.07.2020 143: The Loch Ness Monster Surfaces Kristen talked some major smack about the Loch Ness Monster the last time we touched down on this thing...can Will make it interesting? Turns out, yes! Who knew there were stories of delicious revenge involved? Intrigue over algae, every day. ...
08.03.2020 GTTU REVIVES: The Loch Ness Monster Take a trip underwater with us...swim back... In episode 28 of GTTU (Brownies and Daniel Stern...best episode title ever?), Kristen BRIEFLY covered The Loch Ness Monster. BRIEFLY! Less than 7 minutes of coverage for a cryptozoic TITAN! We're going to ...
07.31.2020 142: Sloss Furnaces We're talking all about the haunted Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, which are host to a confusing cast of ghosts...is their main bad guy even historically real, or just made up for their haunted house attraction? We look at the ...
07.24.2020 141: The Simpsons Predict the Future Click here to WATCH this episode on YouTube! Sure, The Simpsons may have predicted the Donald Trump presidency and other nutty things...but did they predict us doing this episode? D'oh! For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu141 Get access to ...
07.17.2020 140: New Jersey Ghost Hunting Click here to WATCH this episode on YouTube! Way back, in the long forgotten time of October 2019, Guide to the Unknown managed to sell tickets to a live edition of the show! Before a captive audience, Kristen and William ...
07.10.2020 139: The Allagash Incident Come listen to the story of the Allagash Lake Incident, a UFO story from Maine featured on Unsolved Mysteries (the original, not the new!) What is that globe in the sky? Could it be...nothing? One of the four people who ...
07.07.2020 Introducing Ghost Adventures Adventures WHOA! Hold on...A NEW podcast from the Guide to the Unknown siblings? Ghost Adventures Adventures has been in the works for a while now! We're going to watch every episode of Zak Bagans' paranormal investigations, and issuing awards for things ...
07.03.2020 138: Randonautica We're talking about what randonauting/the Randonautica app is and diving into the infamous suitcase story (and Will does some serious investigative reporting!) PLUS we share footage/audio from our own Randonautica outing! For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu138 Get access ...
06.26.2020 137: The Dybbuk Box Opens Nooooo. Come on...Not the dybbuk again! We're re-examining this old case to catch up on what's going on with The Dybbuk Box in the year 2020. More than that, we're cracking this thing open and talking about the creature associated ...
06.22.2020 GTTU REVIVES: The Dybbuk Box You have to learn from the past, lest you be doomed to repeat it. Actually…wait…we’re learning from the past BECAUSE we’re doomed to repeat it! Back in Episode 25 of GTTU, we covered The Dybbuk Box! Two years later, it’s ...

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