About this podcast
Hysteria 51 is your offbeat weekly podcast destination for all things weird and wonderful! We navigate the cosmic highways of UFOs, the alien-infested landscapes, and the enigmatic frontiers of the paranormal. With your hosts, Brent Hand and David Flora, alongside our cantankerous tin man, Conspiracy Bot (with a not-so-subtle desire to rule the world, doubling as our chief inquisitor into the unknown), we delve into unique mysteries, the inexplicable, and the downright unusual.
Each week, we explore a fresh topic, making one thing crystal clear... the truth is out there, but you won’t find it here.
Episodes
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- Creepy Crawlers and Creepy Callers | 538 · 21 min · Season 22 Episode 538This week on Hysteria 51, we're dealing with two things nobody wants unexpectedly crawling into their lives: 3,000 tarantulas and the ghosts of dead people. And somehow, the…
- Bad Dog! The Exorcism of Bill Ramsey- The Southend Werewolf | 537 · 1 h 9 min · Season 22 Episode 537What do you get when you mix a British carpenter, a police station, and Ed and Lorraine Warren? Apparently, a werewolf with a passport.In 1987, Bill Ramsey became known as The…
- Rooted in the Retina, Stabbed in the Stalks | 536 · 19 min · Season 22 Episode 536Just when you thought the world couldn't get any weirder, Mother Nature said, "Hold my fertilizer," and Halloween decided to take things WAY too seriously.First up, we're heading…
- The Brain in the Machine: Biological Computers, Darwinian Will, and the Mystery of Consciousness | 535 · 1 h 16 min · Season 22 Episode 535Scientists have figured out how to grow living human brain cells, hook them up to computers, and make them play video games. Because apparently artificial intelligence wasn't…
- The Truth Is Out There, and So Is the Kleenex | 534 · 22 min · Season 22 Episode 534This week's Hysteria 51 is tackling two of life's greatest mysteries: What the hell is flying around in our skies, and can getting busy actually clear your sinuses?First up, a…
- Contest Winners, Dead Stars, and Other Poor Life Choices | 533 · 38 min · Season 22 Episode 533This week on Hysteria 51, we're handing over the keys to the asylum! We're finally announcing the winners of our Pick a Topic and Host the Show contest! That's right, a few lucky…
- Field of Screams and the Pee-H.D. | 532 · 20 min · Season 22 Episode 532This week on Hysteria 51: The truth is out there... and apparently so is the urine.Minnesota, we need to talk. Seriously. What the hell is going on up there?! This week, the Land…
- Earth’s Weirdest Roommates: The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis | 531 · 1 h 31 min · Season 22 Episode 531What if the aliens aren’t coming from space because they never left Earth?Enter the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis, the strange and surprisingly thoughtful idea that at least some…
- Guinness Dreams and Alien Balloons | 530 · 34 min · Season 22 Episode 530We are digging into the coffers this week for a classic Mad Blurry Hysteria with the crazy doc himself, Chris Cogswell!It's Mad Blurry Hysteria time once again as we dive head…
- Fast Food and Faster Bowels | 529 · 28 min · Season 22 Episode 529Brent is out this week, which means Kevin Crispin of Behind Beautiful Things has been handed the keys to Hysteria 51. This was a terrible administrative decision.First up: a…
- Bloodsuckers and Budget Busters | 528 · 28 min · Season 22 Episode 528This week on Hysteria 51, we’ve got vampires, missing people, Minecraft, and a nine-year-old with the advertising budget of a midsize corporation.First, we sink our teeth into…
- Leave a Message After the Conspiracy | 527 · 44 min · Season 22 Episode 527This week on Hysteria 51, we hand the show over to the most dangerous force in paranormal podcasting: you people.It’s our listener voicemail episode, which means we’re cracking…
- Hot Tubs, Hard Choices, and Rubber Ducks | 526 · 24 min · Season 22 Episode 526This week on Hysteria 51, medical enhancement and poolside romance collide in ways absolutely nobody requested except for Kevin Crispin who joins us for some Beautiful Blurry…
- HANGAR 18-ISH: WHAT THE HECK IS THE WRIGHT-PATTERSON BLUE ROOM? PART TWO: INSIDE THE BLUE ROOM | 525 · 1 h 30 min · Season 21 Episode 525Last week, Hysteria 51 went knocking on one of the most infamous locked doors in UFO history.This week, somebody finally opens the darn thing.We’re heading back to…
- Cyborg Roaches and Superglued Hoses | 524 · 22 min · Season 21 Episode 524Science has finally answered the question nobody was brave enough to ask: what if the cockroach crawling toward you was actually a paramedic? Researchers are developing…
- The Island That Wandered and the Carrot That Shouldn’t Have | 523 · 21 min · Season 21 Episode 523This week on Hysteria 51, Mother Nature is acting strange... and one guy is acting much, much stranger.First, a massive floating island covered in trees suddenly appears in…
- HANGAR 18-ISH: WHAT THE HECK IS THE WRIGHT-PATTERSON BLUE ROOM? PART ONE: THE LEGEND BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR | 522 · 1 h 19 min · Season 21 Episode 522Forget Area 51. It’s time to head to Ohio, where the UFO lore is colder, the security clearances are higher, and allegedly somebody forgot to clean the aliens out of the…
- Skulls, Stallions, and Seriously Bad Decisions | 521 · 21 min · Season 21 Episode 521This week on Hysteria 51, we’re asking the important questions: What exactly can’t you donate to Goodwill, and how convincing does your fake horse semen laboratory need to be…
- Alpine Aliens: The UFO Photos That Won’t Die | 520 · 48 min · Season 21 Episode 520A landed flying saucer. A mysterious humanoid pilot. A frozen Italian glacier. Multiple photographs. And a 1952 UFO encounter that still gets passed around social media today as…
- Old Beer, Mad Beavers, Bad Decisions | 519 · 19 min · Season 21 Episode 519This week on Hysteria 51, we’re cracking open the weirdest six-pack history ever forgot and then running for our lives from nature’s angriest lumberjacks.First, divers recover a…
- Clairvius Narcisse and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Zombie Life | 518 · 1 h 45 min · Season 21 Episode 518What if you died, got pronounced dead by doctors, buried by your family, and then showed up 18 years later with one hell of an excuse for missing Thanksgiving? Enter the bizarre…
- Mad Blurry Hysteria: The Beginning | 517 · 38 min · Season 21 Episode 517We had some life stuff get in the way this week so we are going back to where the Blurry Hysteria / Weird Wednesday episodes started. Back to regular episodes next week!Original…
- The Mad Gasser of Mattoon | 516 · 45 min · Season 21 Episode 516Shut the windows and change your mask filters, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon is prowling the podcast! A WWII-era midwestern mystery, the Mad Gasser of Mattoon held a small town in a…
- Lawn and Order: Psychic Pets Unit | 515 · 28 min · Season 21 Episode 515This week, Hysteria 51 asks two important questions: How far is too far when protecting your lawn, and has your dog secretly been judging you this entire time?First, a Minnesota…
- Reality: Bigger, Stranger, and Probably Watching | 514 · 1 h 10 min · Season 21 Episode 514Reality may be bigger, stranger, and far more crowded than our three-dimensional monkey brains can handle. This week on Hysteria 51, we count down ten horrifying theories about…
- Humanoid Homework and Reptilian Lockdown | 513 · 26 min · Season 21 Episode 513This week, education gets artificial and prison security goes prehistoric.First, the company behind Realbotix is pitching schools on humanoid AI teacher assistants, because…
- All Colors Sam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Weird Picnic | 512 · 1 h 52 min · Season 21 Episode 512We go pond jumping this week and head to the Isle of Wight for one of the strangest paranormal encounters ever reported: All Colours Sam, better known as the Sandown Clown.In…
- The Raccoon, the Cryptid, and the Measuring Tape | 511 · 22 min · Season 21 Episode 511Seattle has a new celebrity, and he’s short, round, furry, and built like a raccoon somebody accidentally compressed into a carry-on bag. World, meet Jimothy, the unusually…
- We Celebrate 200 Episodes of Behind Beautiful Things! | 510 · 1 h 12 min · Season 21 Episode 510Join us this week as we help our resident overthinker and frequent fill in host Kevin Crispin celebrate the 200th episode of his show Behind Beautiful Things!The 411 From Behind…
- Mirror, Mirror in the Sky, Why Are Tiny Men Nearby? | 509 · 24 min · Season 21 Episode 509Good News! Humanity has finally found two exciting new ways to ruin your night: blasting artificial sunlight from space and filling your living room with tiny mushroom…
- The Andreasson Affair: Gray Aliens, Frozen Families, and One Very Weird Bird | 508 · 1 h 45 min · Season 21 Episode 508The Andreasson Affair is what happens when a classic alien abduction story wanders into a church revival, takes a wrong turn through a dream sequence, and gets dive-bombed by a…
- Code Brown in Wales, Jurassic Green in Australia | 507 · 24 min · Season 21 Episode 507This week on Hysteria 51, we’re diving headfirst into the weird-news deep end, and unfortunately, someone already ruined the water. First up, a public swimming pool in Wales…
- Roswell Reopened: New Tricks, Old Aliens | 506 · 1 h 4 min · Season 21 Episode 506Nearly 80 years after something crashed in the New Mexico desert, Roswell is back in the spotlight... again. This time, it's not because someone found a tiny green skeleton in a…
- The Short and the Shasta of It | 505 · 28 min · Season 21 Episode 505We’re diving headfirst into two weird news stories this week that prove the universe has a comedy writer, and that writer has been drinking Bot Booze again.First up, a man…
- Hell Hath No Water Softener: The Haunting of Bill Vaile | 504 · 1 h 55 min · Season 21 Episode 504Former NASA robotics engineer Bill Vaile was a skeptic, a problem-solver, and a guy who probably trusted math more than mysterious bumps in the night. Then he took one very weird…
- Atomic Mysteries & Robotic Beatdowns | 503 · 26 min · Season 21 Episode 503One missing nuclear scientist. One remote forest. One abandoned gun. And somehow that's only HALF of this week's weirdness.First, we head deep into the mystery surrounding a Los…
- Contest Time | 502 · 11 min · Season 21 Episode 502Wanna be on the show? Submit your topic suggestions to the email below and we will pick the winners. Prize pack details to follow!email: [email protected] us your…
- White House ETs and Bulletproof PCs | 501 · 24 min · Season 21 Episode 501What do alleged aliens at the White House and a gaming PC that stopped a bullet have in common? Absolutely nothing... which makes them perfect for Blurry Hysteria.First, the…
- Episode 500! · 1 h 14 min · Season 20 Episode 500Five hundred episodes.That's either an incredible achievement or a cry for professional help.To celebrate this historic milestone, Hysteria 51 is opening a dimensional rift and…
- Digging Deep and Standing Tall: Mole People and Boner Bears | 499 · 37 min · Season 20 Episode 499New York City has always had its share of underground mysteries, but this week we're heading straight into the manholes. Reports of so-called "mole people" living beneath the…
- Return of the Producer: Attack of the Voicemails | 498 · 46 min · Season 20 Episode 498The inmates are running the asylum... and Producer Lisa is back to try and restore order.In this special listener voicemail episode of Hysteria 51, the microphones belong to you…
- Genomes, Greys, and G-Strings | 497 · 32 min · Season 20 Episode 497What do your DNA test results, extraterrestrials, and a Florida man in a G-string have in common? Absolutely nothing... which makes this week's episode perfect.First, we dive…
- Grays Over Gotham: Linda Napa, The United Nations, Bud Hopkins, and an Intergalactic Love Triangle| 496 · 1 h 0 min · Season 20 Episode 496What happens when a woman claims she was abducted by aliens from a 12th-floor Manhattan apartment… in full view of the Brooklyn Bridge… while bodyguards for a high-ranking UN…
- The Human Hunting Scandal & The Unsolicited Medical Makeover | 495 · 20 min · Season 20 Episode 495Somewhere between dystopian nightmare and “wait…WHAT just happened at that hospital?” lies this week’s episode. First, we dive into the deeply unsettling—and wildly bizarre—story…
- Borrowed Time: The Unsettling Case of Zhu Xiuhua | 494 · 55 min · Season 20 Episode 494A woman dies, is placed in a coffin… and then wakes up claiming she’s someone else entirely. Join us as we dig into the bizarre and unsettling case of Zhu Xiuhua, the woman who…
- Moustache Hacks and Questionable Medical Miracles | 493 · 21 min · Season 20 Episode 493Join us as we dive headfirst into a world where the internet’s greatest security weakness isn’t hackers… it’s Sharpies and teenage creativity. Kids have apparently cracked the…
- Bear Suits, Bean Bags, and Bad Decisions | 492 · 28 min · Season 20 Episode 492In this week’s episode of Hysteria 51, we journey deep into the majestic wilderness of modern human stupidity. First up: a group of Californians allegedly dressed in a full-on…
- And Then There Were 12: The UFO Scientist Death Conspiracy | 491 · 58 min · Season 20 Episode 491Why are aerospace engineers, plasma physicists, NASA scientists, anti-gravity researchers, and military space officials suddenly dying or disappearing? We’re talking MIT fusion…
- Naked in the Pond, Haunted in the Head | 490 · 26 min · Season 20 Episode 490When skinny dipping meets ghost busting, you get the kind of episode that makes neighborhood watch meetings feel like rejected X-Files scripts. This week on Hysteria 51 we dive…
- The Ammons Haunting: Inside Indiana’s Infamous Demon House | 489 · 49 min · Season 20 Episode 489A rental house in Gary, Indiana. Black flies in the dead of winter. Children behaving... strangely. A boy allegedly walking backward up a hospital wall. Police reports. Child…
