Episode 004: The Mike Gringle Issue

**"('Radio station days' archive)** This week we chat Panda bat, Anti Incest app, a one-way ticket to Mars, Eyeball Tattoos, Mike Gringle of Suffolk and Giant Florida snails and mosquitos. Also, a Man with no friends sees Bigfoot, the best eyewitness account ever and Rhys has a cryptid theory!" - Official episode description

## Weekly World Weird News

### Applicants Wanted For a One-Way Ticket to Mars - Rhys

A Dutch organization called Mars One is looking for applicants to go to Mars to film a reality TV show. Mars One went bankrupt in 2019.

### New iPhone App Prevents Icelanders From Sleeping With Their Relatives - David

The Iceland government has created an app where you bump your phone with another phone and it tells you how closely related you are. The app has become the #1 app in Iceland.

### Panda Bat Found - Buttons

A new bat that looks like a Panda bear has been discovered in South Sudan, and is believed to be an entirely new genus.

### Man With 70% of Body Tatooed Has Tattooed His Eyeballs - Rhys

Rodrigo Fernando dos Santos has tattoed his eyeballs to turn the whites of his eyes into "dark pools."

### At One Point, Chewbacca Was Going To Wear Pants - David

David closed Rhys' tab on his phone about the previous story, so while Rhys re-found it David did some padding with a Chewbacca story. This is the first official mention of "padding" - a skill later perfected by Buttons.

Studio execs thought that having a naked humanoid may be offensive, so concept art was produced with Chewbacca wearing shorts, pants, or underwear.

## Cryptid Buzz

### Florida Hit By Outbreak Of Giant Land Snails - Rhys

Giant land snails, the size of a "medium sized ladies foot," are spreading illness and threatening to damage buildings in Florida. Rhys recommends using the giant snails for racing, possibly in the Colosseum, or a stadium like Mt. Smart with very thin race track lines, or even a greyhound race track.

The giant snails have recently returned and become a problem again, being reported on in July of 2022.

### Giant Mosquitoes Are Attacking Florida - Buttons

Giant mosquitoes threatening to invade Florida over summer are said to have a bite that can go through multiple layers of clothing and feel like a "mean punch." Buttons claims that they will be about twenty times the size of a normal Florida mosquito, up to the size of your fist, though actual reports claim they will be between about an American dime or quarter. Rhys is extremely skeptical of mosquitoes reaching fist size and challenges anyone to produce a photo, to which Buttons attempts to come up with one and fails.

### "There's a guy in Pennsylvania - he's seen bigfoot." - David

A man has hit a bigfoot with his RV, claims to have evidence, has taken a cast of a footprint and it is being sent to be analyzed. There is not much information given on this piece of news, but both Rhys and David believe it to be more credible than Buttons fist sized mosquitoes.

## Eye Witness Account

There is a replaying of the 9-1-1 call from a previous episode, and Rhys reads an eye witness account from the Fortean Times in which someone recalls seeing the iceman.

## We're All A Bunch of Theories

Rhys recaps last weeks theory from Buttons that aliens are time traveling humans from the future. Rhys calls this theory "fantastic."

Rhys reveals a long-time theory of his that there are two dimensions, the one we live in and another dimension where cryptids live. Rhys theorizes that there are holes between the dimensions that can crossed through, either on purpose or by accident, and this is how people come to see cryptids. He elaborates by stating that bigfoot might cross over to our dimension to hunt, eat, make nests, or even just bring the family over for a picnic, but then they smell humans coming and disappear back into their own dimension. He thinks these cracks between dimensions can also account for some human disappearances as well, and points to the Bermuda Triangle being one spot where there could be such an inter-dimensional crack. He thinks while cryptids can jump from one dimension to the other, for humans going into the cryptid world this is a "one way ticket."

Rhys wants to make it his mission to reach this other dimension, and Buttons volunteers to be his right hand man, but David seems non-committal. Rhys proposes a Journey to the Centre of the Earth situation and would tie a rope around a tree before crossing dimensions so that they could return.

## UFO News

### Mummified remains of a tiny space alien - Rhys

Steven Greer is making a documentary called *Sirius* about a six inch tall alien discovered in Chile in 2003. Rhys and David agree that this could be one of the most amazing documentaries ever made, but unfortunately reviews of the documentary were general negative.

### Huffington Post has put out a request looking to hear from people who have had sex with aliens - Buttons

At the time of recording, fifteen people have responded claiming to have had sex with aliens.

### There's a guy in Wisconsin whos seen a UFO - David

Man in Wisconsin claims to have seen and taken photos of a UFO. He says he been visited by aliens two nights in a row and captured it on photos and videos the second night, but he has not handed the proof over to the newspaper.

## Other / Misc

Rhys gives a shout out to Dante's Pizza, who has delivered pizza to The Cryptid Factor two weeks in a row. Rhys claims it is the best pizza he has ever had.

1. ↑ Applicants Wanted For a One-Way Ticket to Mars
2. ↑ https://www.upi.com/blog/2013/04/17/New-app-prevents-Icelanders-from-sleeping-with-their-cousins/6811366231087/
3. ↑ https://www.adn.com/nation-world/article/new-black-and-white-panda-bat-found-south-sudan/2013/04/10/
4. ↑ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rodrigo-fernando-dos-sant\_n\_3095807
5. ↑ https://movieweb.com/chewbacca-pants-star-wars-a-new-hope/
6. ↑ https://news.sky.com/story/florida-hit-by-outbreak-of-giant-land-snails-10448770
7. ↑ https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/invasion-of-giant-african-land-snails-puts-florida-on-offensive-1.5984059
8. ↑ https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mosquitoes-size-quarters-heading-florida-article-1.1285096
9. ↑ https://www.inquisitr.com/370775/bigfoot-may-have-vandalized-pennsylvania-mans-rv/
10. ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/sirius-film-review-559394/
11. ↑ https://www.diogenesmiddlefinger.com/2013/03/huffington-post-seeks-people-who-have.html