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Ep. #51 - What If "Stranger Things" Really Happened? Pt. 1 [The Montauk Project] Oct 25, 2017

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Part one of a special two-part series on the myths, legends, and true(?) stories that inspired Stranger Things. We're focusing on The Montauk Project, an alleged secret government program that carried out human experiments in an underground base on Long Island, NY between 1971 and 1983. Get ready for stories of time travel, dimensional portals, psychic spying, and interdimensional bigfoot, and how they all tie into Netflix's hit show.

Hot Topics: Stranger Things, Demogorgon, Montauk, Preston Nichols, Al Bilek, Ed Cameron, Duncan Cameron, Stewart Swerdlow, MK Ultra, Interdimensional Bigfoot, Time Travel, Gray Aliens, Podcast Hypeman, and much more.

Ep. #50 - What If There Are Artificial Moon Structures? Oct 18, 2017

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It's our 50th episode! Today, we're talking structures on the moon, the spaceship moon hypothesis, and weird obelisks on Mars. Ryan runs through some of the better-known moon structures and Spencer describes how the moon is probably a hollow egg full of lizards.

Hot Topics: Moon Structures, Moon Bases, Ancient Aliens, It's Full Of Lizards, That's Not How Science Works, Space Spiders, Tower Cube, Mars Obelisk, Spaceship Moon, Hollow Moon, and much more.

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Ep. #49 - What If You Could Time Travel? Oct 11, 2017

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These days, the concept of time travel is ubiquitous, but it hasn’t always been. The first reference to a time machine wasn’t until 1895 when H.G. Wells published The Time Machine. Spencer runs through a brief history of time travel, Ryan thinks aliens are us from the future, and we try and solve some paradoxes.

Hot Topics: Time Travel, Time’s Arrow, A Poem About My Favorite Taco, An Existential Crisis In Every Box, I WANNA DIE, Time Storms, UFOs are Time Travelers, and much more.

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Ep. #47 - What If You Disappeared? Pt. 3 [The Death Valley Germans] Sep 27, 2017

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We're wrapping up our three-part series on mysterious disappearances and missing people. Adrian Gorder's in the house for a deep dive into the case of the Death Valley Germans. On October 21, 1996 a park ranger in Death Valley National Park found an abandoned mini van, 2.5 miles from the nearest road. The van belonged to a German family vacationing in California who had apparently vanished without a trace. The case went unsolved for over a decade until a rogue badass, Tom Mahood, stepped up to find some answers.

Hot Topics: Death Valley, Bud Ice, Plymouth Voyagers, No One Should Be Named Egbert, Les And Tom Are Badass, Deserts Aren't Mountains, It's Never Too Hot For Bourbon, and much more.

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Ep. #46 - What If You Disappeared? Pt. 2 [David Paulides, Missing 411] Sep 20, 2017

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Y'all couldn't get enough of the disappearance stories brought to light by David Paulides and his Missing 411 work. So friends, today, we dive back into the vast web of strange tales surrounding people who go missing under mysterious circumstances. We tell more previously unheard stories on our podcast, from Paulides' books and his newest movie, and discuss what in the world we (and he) think is happening.

We learn a whole lot today, including the fact that Spencer barely leaves his house, Gorder is 33 feet tall, people in Minnesota go missing sometimes (which terrified us Minnesotans), and a whole lot more.

Hot Topics: Russian P*ss Space Ghost, Shout Out to TJ and Tanzania, Spencer Doesn't Leave His House, Missing 411: The Movie, The Saddest Episode Of Boy Meets World, Dolphins Are Douchebags, "I'm The King Of This Podcast Now"
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Ep. #45 - What If You Had An Invisible Boat? [Philadelphia Experiment, 'Not Alone Podcast' Crossover] Sep 13, 2017

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Today on The What If? Podcast, you'll hear our first ever crossover episode, with the dope dudes from the Not Alone Podcast! Today we're talking about The Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged military exercise in 1943 that made a US Navy Destroyer literally disappear. But not just turn invisible - as the story goes, when it left the line of site, the Destroyer and all it's sailors entered other dimensions and locations.
Is time travel real? What about space travel? Can the military bend time and light as a weapon? Is all of this a bunch of B.S.? Yep, it probably is! But all we know is, we're going to ask some questions and laugh about it, the whole way through, with our new buds Sam Fredrickson and Jason Moitoso of the Not Alone Podcast.
Hot Topics: Morris Jessup Loves Aliens, Carl Allen aka Carlos Allende, The Philadelphia Experiment, Sailor Puns Ahoy, A Bit Discombobulated, Never Had A Bad Year Again, and much, much more.

Ep. #44 - What If You Disappeared From The Flannan Isles Lighthouse? [Eilean Mor, Flannan Islands Lighthouse] Sep 06, 2017

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What's scarier than three men disappearing without a trace, at the same time, in a lighthouse, on an island, in the middle of the North Atlantic Sea? As we discover, this week on The What If? Podcast: not much. In today's episode we delve deep into the mystery of Eilean Mor, an island off the coast of Scotland that houses.... A lighthouse. And in 1900, three men disappeared from that very lighthouse without a trace. Listen along, and find out how and just maybe why they never came back.
Hot Topics: Roasted By Scottish Dudes, The Keepers Of The Light, A Giant Candle Wick, Choo Choo Rides Are Terrible, "There's Supposed To Be Dudes Here!", Young Baby Salmon Man, The Skypeople, Blue Man Group Myth, Laspurdan Pygmies of Scotland, and much more.

Ep. #43 - What If You Bought Skinwalker Ranch? [Part 2] Sep 01, 2017

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In part two of our series on Skinwalker Ranch, we take a look at the National Institute of Discovery Science's investigation and some possible explanations for all the bizarre happenings.

Hot Topics: Robert Bigelow, The Hunt for the Skinwalker, Bulls in a Chinese Trailer, Portal-Hopping Bigfoot, Self-Destructing Sasquatch, Dr. Jim - We Accept, Who Has The Answers?!

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Ep. #42 - What If You Bought Skinwalker Ranch? [Part 1] Aug 30, 2017

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We feel like we tell you guys things are about to get weird every week. Well this week, we're getting weirder than... Maybe we've ever gotten. On this episode of The What If? Podcast, we dive into the strange tale of Skinwalker Ranch. A 500 acre plot of land in southeastern Utah that has been home to sightings of nearly every paranormal phenomenon that's ever existed.

UFOs, orbs, bigfoot, skinwalkers, cattle mutilation, poltergeists, and nearly every other weird element you can think of. It seems beyond the realm of believability, but once you hear the stories, you may question a whole lot more than you think.
Hot Topics: What If You Bought A F*cked Up Ranch?, It's Been A Weird Week, Terry and Gwen Sherman, How Do You Go To Bed?, Bigfoot's Spaceship RV, Exploding Clouds and Knives In The Microwave, "Damn, You Didn't Tell Me You F*cked Around With Portals and Sh*t!", Basquatchball.com, and much more.

Ep. #41 - What If Bigfoot is Real? [Sasquatch, Cryptozoology] Aug 23, 2017

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We take our very first step into the world of cryptozoology on The What If? Podcast, with one of our wildest episodes yet. Yep, that's right folks: Bigfoot. Or if you like, Sasquatch, Yetis, Skunk Apes, Gigantopithecus - whatever folklore term meets your needs. We have another very first on this episode, which is that the homie Dan (aka DJ Name) brought his own soundboards. That's right folks, double the soundboards—double the fun.
Spencer talks about inter-dimensional Bigfoot portals. Ryan recounts the Patterson-Gimlin film, and Dan soundtracks the weirdness.
Hot Topics: What If Bigfoot Was God?, Drinking Moonshine 'Til You See Bigfoot, Dances With Bigfoot, Chuck Tingle Bigfoot Book Titles, Wright Patterson Air Force Base Has A Frozen Bigfoot, The Patterson-Gimlin Film, Bigfoot Poems, Kidnapped By Bigfoot, and so much more.

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