The What If? Podcast

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**The What If? Podcast**

We ask strange, hilarious, paranormal, tough, and mysterious questions — then laugh our way to the best answers we can muster. Join us for the ride.

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Ep. #161 - What If You Got Burned By A UFO? Dec 11, 2019

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In 1967, Stephen Michalak stuck his head inside a UFO while looking for rocks in Manitoba.

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Ep. #160 - What If You Battled Alien Owls? - Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter Dec 04, 2019

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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 community, and in both the local and national press. What followed became one of the wildest documented alien (or maybe owl) encounters in history.

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Ep. #159 - What If You Stole $100 Million? - Antwerp Diamond Heist Nov 27, 2019

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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 of... Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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Ep. #158 - What If We Raised the Dead? Nov 20, 2019

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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!

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Ep. #157 - What If We Found an Anomaly in the Baltic Sea? Nov 13, 2019

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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!

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Ep. #156 - What If We Summoned a Demon? Nov 06, 2019

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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.

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Ep. #155 - What If We Found Geedis? Oct 30, 2019

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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.

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Ep. #154 - What If Aliens are Demons? Oct 23, 2019

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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.

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Ep. #153 - What If You Were Lost in Space? [Lost Cosmonauts] Oct 16, 2019

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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.

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Ep. #152 - What If You Were Attacked By Sonic Weapons? Oct 09, 2019

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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 into a story that delves into international spies, covert technologies, neurotoxins, sonic weapons, geopolitics, and a whole lot of mystery. What happened to these people? Can we prove it? And at the end of the day, just who is responsible for the chaos caused? Listen now. Find out. And laugh a little while you do it, with the Sweary Boys.

The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

China Pledges to Investigate Fears of Sonic Attacks on U.S. Diplomats

Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel With Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba

Neurological Manifestations Among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional Audible and Sensory Phenomena in Havana, Cuba

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