Daniel Grothe's 'Piledrivers in the Crypt'
by Daniel Grothe
Cryptic Conversations
About this podcast
Daniel Grothe spent years doing live paranormal radio from a kitchen in Germany.
Three hours. Open lines. No edits. No safety net. Nobody asked him to. He did it anyway.
This is what happens next.
Piledrivers in the Crypt is true crime, paranormal, UFOs, cults, cryptids, and the conspiracy culture that existed before you needed an influencer to explain it to you.
Delivered with the seriousness the material deserves and the irritation the audience earns just by existing.
No comfort. No conclusions. No episode where he learns something and grows as a person.
Just the stuff everyone skips — covered by someone who probably shouldn't know this much about it.
You can find it at Daniel's Website. Or wherever you get your podcasts. Or you can keep scrolling. Honestly, your call.
Also wrestling. The Kayfabe Zone. Near Fall Network. Go find it yourself, you're an adult.
"The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 98 episodes
- Cryptic Conversations · 31 minA show made of audio message conversations between Mike J and Daniel Grothe. Crypticconvos on Facebook "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." If you…
- Goodbye - Thank you! · 48 minThe last episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you for all you did. Thank you for being there. "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it." If you want…
- From The Pile... · 1 h 5 minTen letters. Ten people who waited decades to say it. Contractors. Archivists. Analysts. A game warden who stopped running solo checks. A detective who never closed the file on…
- You Are a Candle... · 1 h 14 minThe official scientific explanation for spontaneous human combustion is that you are a candle. Your fat is the wax. Your clothes are the wick. A wrapped pig confirmed it. The…
- DarkMeatDave vs. Gilberto Valle · 1 h 7 minAn NYPD cop with a badge, a gun, a psychology degree, and a username on a fetish website that I will not be repeating in a place where the algorithm can see me. He never touched…
- Things the Alps Are Not Telling You... · 1 h 34 minThis week on Piledrivers in the Crypt — ancient European Wildmen. The Wilder Mann. The Basajaun. A Soviet scientific expedition into the Almas that your history teacher never…
- The Crypt Didn't Miss You Either... · 1 h 12 minPITC is back. No explanation. No apology. Daniel just walked back into the Crypt like he never left — and the Wormhole has been backed up for two months. Somebody's gonna have a…
- Christmas on Planet Stupid · 1 h 0 minIt’s Christmas… but the joy isn’t landing. In this special holiday episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt... demonic Elf on the Shelf incidents, a drunk chain-smoking Santa with a…
- The X-mas Special that did't happen... · 47 min🎄🩸 Merry Christmas… I guess. 🩸🎄 So yeah — the Christmas Special with the Mikes didn’t happen. Shocking, I know.But fear not, my festive little ghouls… predictions were made…
- A show that was probably a mistake... · 2 h 1 minA show that was probably a mistake… I mean, absolutely a mistake. The Mikes are here—yeah, that’s right, for ONE week only. And through some cosmic lapse in judgment I decided to…
- Perchtenlauf - Krampus is coming! · 1 h 11 minDaniel has somehow survived: • Thanksgiving (barely) • Black Friday (he still has bruises from that old lady with the shopping cart) • Survivor Series (don’t even ask) • Cyber…
- Black Turkey Day · 1 h 28 minDaniel survives another Thanksgiving by weaponizing spite, reading your possessed-poultry emails, and dragging us all back to Chernobyl where Mothman apparently moonlights as a…
- Thank the UFOs! (not UAPs..never) · 54 minMike and Mike could not link up yet again.... So yeah I'm here to save us all! Get ready for some out of this world audio! And Cranberry Sauce... Please consider helping Mikey &…
- The Cutting Room Floor · 1 h 14 minHalloween is over. The pumpkins are rotting, your candy hangover has settled into the marrow, and guess what? We’re not done. Not even close. This week on Piledrivers in the…
- Halloween Baby · 1 h 54 minTrick or treat, you sexy witches and you ugly, rotting ghouls… it’s Halloween.And honestly—fuck the last few months. We don’t care. The network doesn’t care.It’s Halloween, and…
- Halloween From The Wormhole - Season Finale! · 1 h 40 minThis week, we go out in style — or at least in sarcasm. The Wormhole is wide open, and somehow the Mikes made it back through — though Mike S looks like he aged three…
- Halloween From The Wormhole - The Sequel! · 1 h 27 minThe Mikes talk about.. Wrestling.. I guess? And... Just when you thought it was safe to defrost Grandma’s leftovers… I drag you screaming into Part Two of the Halloween Story…
- Halloween From The Wormhole... The First Round! · 1 h 0 minI’m kicking off Halloween season the only way I know how — with five brand new horrors from The Wormhole! The Mikes aren’t here (thank God), which means it’s just me, the…
- Bouncing Through the Abyss · 1 h 0 minBetween beer steins and UFOs grounding planes over Munich... October is dark, weird, and it’s heartbreakingly human. Please consider helping Mikey & my little family: >…
- ChangeLovePalooza! · 1 h 36 minLife changes. Body changes. Paranormal rebrands. True crime dead-ends. Basically: one wrong street, one wrong date, one wrong snack at 7-Eleven and—boom—you’re the next cold case…
