Hysteria 51

Brent and John are out this week so Cbot takes the helm to bring back Number Stations for another spin...

In late February of 1978, five men were heading home from attending a college basketball game when they stopped for some snacks. This would be the last time the men were seen or heard from again (maybe). Thus begins the strange story of the Yuba County Five...

Did you know that James Bond saved the Allies during WW2 and turned the tide of the war? Well, that’s the clickbait, misleading version – but closer to accurate than you think. Operation Mincemeat was a secret spy plan executed by the MI5, Britain’s counter-intelligence and security agency, during WW2. The audacious plan involved planting fake war plans, tracking a single eyelash, and the success of one agent, Captain (Acting Major) William Martin – who was already dead. We’ll explain that...

Weird things happen in Kentucky…chili buns…distilleries in dry counties…Johnny Depp. But perhaps the strangest was the day it rained meat on a rural farmstead. The event, now known as the Kentucky Meat Shower, is not only 100% real, it’s also yet to be fully explained. What would cause the heavens to open and drop a meaty monsoon on an unsuspecting farmer’s wife? We grab our umbrellas (and grills) and dive in to the Kentucky Meat Shower this week...

It's a special episode of Hysteria 51 this week as Brent welcomes David Flora of Blurry Photos and Derek Hayes of Monsters Among Us Podcast to talk about all the crazy and weird legends that surround the Anza-Borrego State Park in California. It's so crazy that they call it The Borrego Triangle! From the Borrego Sandman to Aliens. Spook Lights to Skinwalkers. UFOs, ghosts and everything in between, Borrego has it all...

This week Brent sits down with Cheryl Costa to talk all thing UFO related and then some! Cheryl is a native and resident of upstate New York who saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she’s a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry. She’s been a speaker at the International UFO Congress and at the MUFON Symposium. Cheryl also wrote the UFO column “New York Skies” for Syracuse New Times. Besides being a journalist, she’s also a published playwright...

“Eduard Albert Meier, commonly nicknamed "Billy" is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien" (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) and alleged contactee whose UFO photographs are claimed to show alien spacecraft.” AND THAT’S JUST THE FIRST SENTENCE OF WIKIPEDIA. Needless to say we have fun with this one...

Nation it's a fun one this week as JP Doyal stops by to discuss his paranormal documentary Mad House. We talk dead merkin dealers, demons named Seven, summoning rituals, mullets, phantom water drops, and oh so much more. That's this week on the podcast that has never filmed a documentary, but has a robot one will inevitable be made about - Hysteria 51

One mysterious night in the early 20th century all pendulum clocks stopped at the exact same moment in Paris, France. At that same moment, 1000's of Parisians experienced dizziness, nausea, and more. The strangest thing about the whole thing? The story didn’t appear in full until a 2019 episode of Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries (Netflix’s Ancient Aliens, but more non-E.T. stuff)...

Agenda 21 - What is it? Some new video game where you’re an assassin who gets double crossed by the very organization you work for? Or, perhaps it’s a coming of age teen comedy, all about a profane, yet lovable group of high schoolers on a quest to score beer for the BIG party...