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Apr 16, 2020•46 min
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Ep. #177 - What If You Built a Robot God?
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Use promo code whatif for 10% off your first month. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Ep. #176 - What If You Took a Picture of an Alien? [Ilkley Moor Alien]
Phillip Spencer took a picture of the alien that abducted him from Ilkley Moor on December 1, 1987. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Apr 08, 2020•56 min
Ep. #175 - What If We All Drew A Cool "S"?
Ryan's back and we're trying to figure out why we all drew that dang cool S in middle school. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Use promo code whatif for 10% off your first month. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Our Strange Skies - The Meltdown V: The Fourth Kind
Spencer joined Rob Kristofferson ( Our Strange Skies ), Brian Hastie ( Double Density ), and Chris Cogswell ( The Mad Scientist ) to roast the 2009 sci-fi thriller The Fourth Kind. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop . Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406...
Mar 26, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Ep. #174 - What If You Solved a 40-Year-Old Mystery? (Mayday Mystery)
Eric Mayson's back to talk about the Mayday Mystery! Every May 1st, since at least 1981, someone has been publishing cryptic messages in the University of Arizona's daily newspaper. No one has figured out why or who's behind it all. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Use promo code whatif for 10% off your first month. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes.
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Uncle Rob's Alien Story Time - Pt. 1
Have a lil bonus episode! Rob Kristofferson of Our Strange Skies tells a tale of alien carjacking.
Mar 20, 2020•6 min
Ep. #173 - What If A UFO Stole Your Pants?
Robert Taylor saw a UFO. It tried to take his pants. A guy named Malcolm now owns those pants. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp . Use promo code whatif for 10% off your first month. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop . Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406...
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Ep. #172 - What If You Stole the Moon?
The moon is in a garbage dump. The moon is in a safe in Miami. The moon is at Thad's house and he's bangin' on it. The moon is worth millions of dollars per gram. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop . Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Ep. #171 - What If You Heard a Boom?
Shit's blowing up in South Minneapolis! We're talking about weird booms right here in our own neighborhood. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Mar 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Ep. #170 - What If We Joined a Paranormal Dating Site?
Spencer is pursuing alien contact in Palm Springs this week, so enjoy one of our favorite recent Patreon episodes. We'll be back to our regular schedule next week! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Use promo code whatif for 10% off your first month. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Ep. #169 - What If You Heard A Weird Sound?
In February 2016, Forest Grove Oregon residents started hearing an odd whistling sound late at night. There were dozens of reports, an official investigation, and national news coverage, but the source of the sound was never found. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop . Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Ep. #168 - What If Your Bunk Beds Were Haunted?
In 1987, the Tallman family brought home a bunk bed to their Horicon, Wisconsin home. Soon after, they began hearing voices, seeing a three-foot tall witch, and generally being haunted af. Buy yourself or a loved one a gift in our shop. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. Send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Ep. #167 - What If You Were Abducted Out Your Window? - Manhattan Transit Alien Abduction
We bring you one of the most bizarre cases we've ever encountered this week, as we head to New York in the late '80s. The story of Linda Cortile Napolitano is a wild and winding one that originates deeply in her relationship with the one and only Budd Hopkins. CIA agents, kidnappings, cars stalling on the Brooklyn bridge, alien abductions out of apartment windows, and so much more we can barely cover it. Dive in and get weird with us this week, as we laugh our way through one of the weirdest top...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Ep. #166 - What If Weird Al Made You a Satanist? - (Backmasking)
In the 60's, 70's, and 80's, a new recording technique came into vogue - the recording or discovery of audio clips recorded in one direction and laid into a final track in reverse. The result was one of mystery, confusion, and well - satan? Backmasking and phonetic reversal took the world by storm and caused listeners to hear music in a whole new way looking for secrets, clues, hidden messages, and well - satan... Dive in with The Sweary Boys, this week on: The What If? Podcast. Buy yourself or ...
Jan 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Ep. #165 - What If You Never Existed? - (Karel Novak)
In the early 1950's a man in the woods with nothing but knives and lint in his pockets was discovered along the borders of Poland and Czechoslovakia who would become an international mystery for decades to come. Knowledgable in many languages, with a variety of origin stories, no true knowledge of where he came from, and a deep well of strangeness, Karel Novak became one of the most strangely unknown humans of all time. Who was he? Why did he tell different stories of who he was? Pretend he was ...
Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Ep. #164 - What If You Made The Largest Piece Of Art On Earth? - (The Marree Man)
In 1998 an Australian Outback pilot flew over a remote portion of South Australia, and looking down, uncovered a shocking sight. What he saw was what came to be known as The Marree Man. An engraving in the arid earth, some 17 massive miles in perimeter. Who made it? How? And when and why? The Sweary Boys are on the case, this week, on The What If? Podcast. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. You can now send us stuff! The What If? P...
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Ep. #163 - What If Drones Flew Over Your Home? - Midwest Drone Reports
Over the past two weeks, there have been hundreds of reports of drones in three separate midwestern states. In Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, residents have reported large groups of six-foot wingspan drones with loud engines flying in patterns across their counties. More residents are taking notice and so are the authorities. The FAA, the FBI, and F-word boys (that's us) are all on the case. Buy yourself or a loved one a holiday gift in our shop . Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode ev...
Jan 08, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Ep. #162 - What If Your Pants Were Haunted? (Fresno Nightcrawlers)
In Fresno, California, in 2007, a man simply known as "José" filmed a strange being essentially... float... across his yard. The seemingly two-legged, flighty, ethereal phenomenon made it to the local news and soon became known as The Fresno Nightcrawler. Four years later, a follow up video filmed in Yosemite displayed a similar pair of pant-like beings. So what is getting caught on film here in California? Is it haunted pants? Spooky trolling? CGI? Alien ghost cryptids? Find out in our last epi...
Dec 18, 2019•53 min
Ep. #161 - What If You Got Burned By A UFO?
In 1967, Stephen Michalak stuck his head inside a UFO while looking for rocks in Manitoba. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. We've got new merch in the shop, so head to shop.whatifpodcast.com to cop a dad hat! You can now send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406
Dec 11, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Ep. #160 - What If You Battled Alien Owls? - Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
In August of 1955, in a rural town in Kentucky, the Sutton family and their friends had a most unworldly experience. A group of adults and children spent a hot summer evening at battle with what they described as "little grey men." Spindly legs, long arms, impervious to bullets (because of course, they tried to shoot them) and gliding towards them, these beings terrorized their rural farmhouse for hours that evening. When they reported their experience to the authorities, it took hold in their c...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Ep. #159 - What If You Stole $100 Million? - Antwerp Diamond Heist
In 2003 one of the largest and most intricate heists in the history of the world occurred. In Antwerp, Belgium, on a cold Saturday night in February, five men proceeded to defeat layers upon layers of state of the art security to enter into a vault containing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of diamonds and valuables. How did they get in? How did they pass such a rigorous test of physical and mental agility? How did they eventually get caught? And who, and what, was this all done in service...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 23 min
Ep. #158 - What If We Raised the Dead?
What if dogs had two heads? What if they only had heads? What If Frankenstein was real? What if you punched a sheep back to life? We got all kinds of crazy stories about the undead this week! Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes.
Nov 20, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Ep. #157 - What If We Found an Anomaly in the Baltic Sea?
In 2011, Swedish treasure hunters found a very strange object on the floor of the Baltic Sea. Is it an alien spacecraft? A meteor? A rock formation dragged by glacial forces? Who knows?! Definitely not us! Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes.
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Ep. #156 - What If We Summoned a Demon?
Live from Los Angeles, it's the What If? Podcast! We're talking about ways to summon things, if werewolves might be real, and how zombies got their names. Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes.
Nov 06, 2019•55 min
Ep. #155 - What If We Found Geedis?
In 2017, an internet mystery was born when comedian Nate Fernald tweeted a photo and the caption “ WHAT THE FUCK IS GEEDIS? I found this old pin. Google has no answers. Please help. I'm losing my mind. ” In 2019, reporters from WBUR Boston found out who created Geedis, but also raised a bunch of other questions that have yet to be answered. We’ve teamed up with the brand new Space and Beyond Box from Astronomy magazine to give away a one-year subscription to the Space & Beyond Box and five f...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 17 min
Ep. #154 - What If Aliens are Demons?
This week, we're discussing Nick Redfern's book Final Events, in which he proposes that Jack Parsons opened a demonic portal in the 1950s. Since then, demons have been pouring into our reality masquerading as aliens from other planets. We also play an accidental round of sweary boys bingo. We’ve teamed up with the brand new Space and Beyond Box from Astronomy magazine to give away a one-year subscription to the Space & Beyond Box and five first boxes! Visit www.spaceandbeyondbox.com/giveaway...
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Ep. #153 - What If You Were Lost in Space? [Lost Cosmonauts]
We're taking a look at the lost cosmonaut theory this week. Yuri Gagarin was the first person to enter space on April 12, 1961 - but what if he wasn't? What if he was just the first one to make it back? We examine the idea that maybe there were other cosmonauts before Yuri whose journeys weren't so successful. We’ve teamed up with the brand new Space and Beyond Box from Astronomy magazine to give away one one-year subscription to the Space & Beyond Box and five first boxes! Visit www.spacean...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Ep. #152 - What If You Were Attacked By Sonic Weapons?
Over the past three years, American diplomats have reported strange physical symptoms after stays in both Cuba and China. And after examinations, individuals exhibited evidence of potential brain injury, without direct cause. Dizziness, nausea, memory loss, difficulty sleeping, headaches, and more, contributed to an investigation by the US trying to determine just what in the world was happening to their diplomats in these contentious foreign countries. This week on The What If? Podcast, we dive...
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Ep. #151 - What If We Entered The Tingleverse? [Part 2]
The conclusion of Scaly the Blue and Young Baby Sir Plinkington's adventure through the Tingleverse. See The What If? Podcast live in LA: Get your tickets now! Join us on Patreon and get an extra episode every week, plus a back catalog of nearly 100 episodes. We've got new merch in the shop, so head to shop.whatifpodcast.com to cop a dad hat! You can now send us stuff! The What If? Podcast | PO box 6554 | Minneapolis, MN | 55406...
Oct 02, 2019•50 min
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