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KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

By: Michael Lucht Spencer Lowery Chris Wells Jonas Lucht Jason Lloyd
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Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness!Michael Lucht, Spencer Lowery, Chris Wells, Jonas Lucht, Jason Lloyd
Episodes
  • CHINESE UFOLOGY 2 - CHENGDU BOOGALOO
    Mar 25 2026

    MORE! MORE! MORE! This one breaks down all the "starseed" stuff, amongst other things. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-explodes-over-alleged-chinese-ufo-crash-retrievals-hair-covered-alien-survivors-1771173


    https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1012934


    https://thechinaproject.com/tag/china-unsolved/


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_China


    https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/09/greatest-mysteries-the-story-of-chinas-most-famous-ufo-sighting/


    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005516655.pdf


    https://captaincool07.medium.com/chinas-x-files-3be9dd3920ec


    If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, well...yeah, shit it pretty fucked these days. But if you need immediate help, please dial 988.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • CHINESE UFO CULTS (& OTHER ASSORTED HIGH STRANGENESS) - "CCP, YEAH YOU KNOW ME"
    Mar 24 2026

    Sup kooks! This is the first in a short series of what was essentially me being pulled further and further down a Chinese rabbit hole of high strangeness that just kept on spiraling deeper, and deeper...and deeper. (Till I came out on the other side in China. C'mon! You know I had to use that some where!) PLEASE TO ENJOY!


    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    https://gaodawei.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/china-anti-cult-association-analyzing-a-rising-flying-saucer-cult/


    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/201901/1136219.shtml


    https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/10/19/on-ufology-with-chinese-characteristics-and-the-fate-of-chinese-socialism/


    https://bitterwinter.org/ufo-beliefs-increasingly-repressed-in-china/


    https://bitterwinter.org/shuiyuexing-another-ufo-religion-repressed-as-a-xie-jiao-in-china/


    If you are suffering from mental health and/or substance abuse issues, you are not alone. We're all fucked TOGETHER! But, should you need immediate help, please dial 988.

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • LOS PELACARAS! a.k.a. "THE FACE PEELERS!" - "PROJECT: BLUE BLEEP" & "LARD LORD LORE"
    Mar 13 2026

    Sup all you beautiful kooks! Here's another piping hot podcast, fresh out of the fat rendering...device? Sure, why not. So in this one we've got South American folklore, flying humanoids, alien imposters, miners with jet packs (or so THEY would have you believe!), stargates, psyops, organ theft/fat extraction, BOSCO!, "The Boys from Brazil", megalithic sites & ritual landscapes, alleged "alien mummies", dangerous and/or even deadly South American UFO/humanoid encounters, AND SO MUCH MORE! All this and the ongoing drama of one man's voice...hanging by a thread! Can he? Will he? Be able to correctly pronounce all of the exotic foreign words without sounding like an asshole? Listen for ALL the answers! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

    Email us: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    *The Fort Itaipu Incident (1957): Primary documentation can be found in the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) declassified archives via the ARQUIVO NACIONAL (specifically the SIOANI reports). Secondary analysis is featured in Dr. Olavo Fontes' medical reports for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).

    *The Arcesio Bermúdez Case (1969): Extensively documented by Dr. Jacques Vallée in his book Passport to Magonia and Confrontations. Additional clinical details are sourced from the archives of the El Tiempo newspaper (Bogotá, 1969).

    *The Atacama "Mummification" (1997): Reports from the Carabineros de Chile (Calama District) and the research of Rodrigo Fuenzalida (AION Chile).

    *The Nedelcovic Legend: Information on Nedelcovic is largely derived from "Grey Literature" and investigative podcasts focusing on deep-state operations, such as the Getting Spooked series (specifically the "Alien Psyops" episodes featuring Tanner Boyle).

    *Pelacaras & Extraction Theory: Investigative reports from Timothy Alberino (Birthright) and Reuters/Associated Press coverage of the 2023 Ikitu attacks, which provide the "illegal miner" counter-narrative.

    *Peruvian Megaliths & "Stargates": Jean-Pierre Protzen’s Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo (Oxford University Press) and Vince Lee’s Forgotten Vilcabamba.

    *Stargate & Telluric Theory: Christopher Dunn’s The Giza Power Plant (for acoustic/piezoelectric theories applied to Peru) and the ethnohistorical records of Amaru Muru curated by the Puno Archaeological District.

    *The Nazca "Alien" Mummies: The World Congress on Mummy Studies (2017) white paper on the Nazca "forgeries."

    *Proponent Research: The Gaia.com documentary series "Unearthing Nazca" and the University of Ica (UNICA) preliminary CT/DNA reports presented by Dr. Edson Salazar and Jaime Maussan to the Mexican Congress (2024).

    *Sebastian Woodruffe: Coverage from CBC News, The Guardian, and the Ucayali Regional Police forensic reports regarding the death of Olivia Arévalo.

    *Humanitarian Organizations: Official mission statements and project maps from AIDESEP (Peru), Amazon Watch, and Amazon Promise.


    If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, don't worry. Because we're all fucked, TOGETHER! But if you need help now, please dial 988.

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    2 hrs and 46 mins
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