Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we discuss the truly bizarre experience of Karl Higdon, an oil production worker who claims to have met a humanoid extraterrestrial going by the name "Ausso One." Did this hapless human stumble onto an alien during a typical hunting trip? Did that alien take Karl and five elk all the way to a distant planet full of dazzling lights and monolithic towers? Or was it all just a bizarre drug trip in the middle of the woods? All this and more!

Episode 347 - The Shape Of Most Planets (Ausso One)

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Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Nile brings to the table three fascinating stories of aliens with a running theme: silver. All three stories - the Falkville Metal Man, the Risley Silver Humanoid, and the aluminum-clad extraterrestrial abductors of José Antonio da Silva! The stories run from hoax-y to eerie, but all are decidedly very interesting. We discuss all this and much more!

Episode 406 - Bad Knees (Silver Aliens)

Hey there friends and weirdos! In this one, we conclude the story of the OG ufologist, Major Donald Keyhoe! We get to the bottom of the "big question" - was Keyhoe silenced for speaking UFO truths, or is there something else fishy going on? We talk UFO lecture circuits, book deals, movie consultations, television appearances, and so much more!

Episode 405 - DOSBox Waifu (Donald Keyhoe, Part 2)

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week Kyle talks with Nile about some of the earliest days of ufology with the story of the prototypical ufologist, Donald Keyhoe. How did Charles Lindbergh's aide in the world's first cross-Atlantic solo flight become the world's most famous ufologist of the 1950s? What UFO theories does Keyhoe develop with early ufology? How did he become the director of NICAP? We discuss all this and much more!

Episode 404 - Pressure Off (Donald Keyhoe, Part 1)

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week friend of the show Jules joins the Weird Boys to discuss the paranormal phenomenon known as "ghost trains." When Lincoln died and all his fans around the US gathered to mourn him as his corpse rode around on a train, did the collective anguish create a ghostly spirit train? What about the train disasters around Britain? How can Jules bring Harold Ramis into the conversation as often as possible? We discuss all this and more!

Episode 403 - Turner & Cruise (Ghost Trains)

Hey there friends and weirdos! This week we travel down south to the Florida / Alabama border to talk about the monstrous and possibly indestructible Two-Toed Tom! Does a red-eyed, gargantuan, evil gator stalk the swamps of the Panhandle looking for human prey? Is he 14 feet long or 24 feet long? Does this beast of a lizard have a gator harem, on top of all that other stuff?! We discuss all this and much more!

Episode 347 - The Shape Of Most Planets (Ausso One)

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