“It crawls…. It creeps…. It eats you alive! Indescribable… indestructible… insatiable! Bloated with the blood of its victims! Nothing Can Stop It!” These are just a fistful of the gloriously hyperbolic taglines used to market one of the 50s’ most memorable creature features—“The Blob”—but while nearly every movie fan is at least familiar with this amorphous, undulating mega-mass from another world, very few are aware of the fact that the likely genesis for this sinister, flesh-sucking, fiend is an incident that took place in Philadelphia in the fall of 1950.

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These two brief, yet bizarre—and in one case extremely brutal—cases are emblematic of the kind of unexpected encounters that human beings across the globe claim to have had with creatures that lurk beyond the pale of rational explanation. Are we dealing with cryptids, aliens, faerie folk, occult incarnations, inter-dimensional entities or something that, as yet, defies description? Let’s dig in.

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From fetid, stump ridden swamps to murky lakes infested with slippery, tentacle-like strands of seaweed that wrap around your ankles with uncanny strength to backwater bayous and even roadside drainage ditches; life thrives in the dark, wet corners of our world. In this episode we’re exposing some of these strange, semi-aquatic critters to the light.

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In the spring of 1974, an enigmatic orb known as the Betz Sphere came crashing down creating a cyclone of controversy before disappearing just as cryptically. In the decades that followed the mystery has only deepened, leaving lingering questions such as: What was it? Where did it come from? And—most alarmingly considering its destructive potential—who has it now?

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