Into The Portal

In this episode we take a different approach to begin our series on one of the darkest tales of humanity we have ever encountered. Join us for part I of II as we ease into the tale of Sir John Franklin and his final Arctic expedition in quest for the infamous North West Passage. One of the most dangerous voyages in history. His ships Erebus & Terror were last seen entering Baffin Bay, July 26th, 1845..  The exact series of events that would follow are still unknown to this day. We’d like to thank our regular sponsors of the show: Audible.com, BetterHelp.com, and all of our Patreon Supporters as well as our Producer Tim Godbey  Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Free Audio-Book! Sign up for a 30 day Audible trial with no obligations and get a FREE audio-book and support ITP at the same time. Win-win!  Get Your FREE Book Here Want some exclusive bonus episodes of High Strangeness? A little goes a long way. Come

Futuristic cybernetic espionage, spontaneously generated consciousness and so much more. ITP delves into 1995 Anime classic, the original Ghost in the Shell. Discussing cyborg & AI technologies in this post-humanistic Japanese metropolis.   We’d like to thank our regular sponsors of the show: Audible.com, BetterHelp.com, and all of our Patreon Supporters as well as our Producer Tim Godbey  Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Free Audio-Book! Sign up for a 30 day Audible trial with no obligations and get a FREE audio-book and support ITP at the same time. Win-win!  Get Your FREE Book Here Want some exclusive bonus episodes of High Strangeness? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Promo for this week for History of Sex Podcast  One time show donations are greatly appreciated :) You can now help Into The Portal with a Cup of Coffee  Check out the Straight Up Strange Network &

Aquatic cathedrals, vast undersea caverns, blissful azure blue pools that beckon forth to the curious, those willing to venture into risky lures of nature only to find themselves snared in the trappings of cursed waters. We take a different tact this week and explore sites of utmost morbid curiosity, diving into two notorious pools of death with that veer into the realm of the paranormal hauntings of those lost before their time... Watch the Monty Halls Documentary: Monty Halls Dive Mysteries Curse of The Blue Hole  Map of the Blue Hole with Cross Sections of the Arch Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Free Audio-Book! Sign up for a 30 day Audible trial with no obligations and get a FREE audio-book and support ITP at the same time. Win-win!  Get Your FREE Book Here Want some exclusive bonus episodes of High Strangeness? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  One time show donation

This week ITP dives into Underwater (2020) a disaster-horror-scifi film that explores the depths of the Marianna's Trench and what lies beneath... we talk humanoid creatures, hollow earth, massive deep sea monsters and more! **PLOT SPOILERS ABOUND** Lamprey Video Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)      Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out the Straight Up Strange Network & be strange clothing at straightupstrange.com  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any com

For thousands of years mankind's relationship with the water has led to many different spectacular legends and encounters. However for many cultures, none are as common or as strange as entities known as Mermaids... Creatures that have been spotted by great explorers and adventurers alike in modern times. But could such creatures exist in the vast unknown expanses of unexplored waters?  In this episode we are joined by our good friend  Dr. Shea Conger, a specialist in marine mammal behavioural ecology.. To chat sightings, stories, physical descriptions and more, as we search for evidence of Mermaids!  Shea’s Deep Sea News Article, “Fishful Thinking: Five Reasons Why Mermaids Can’t Exist”  Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)      Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) Y

Lurking in the dense forests and swamps of southern Arkansas is a massive creature left unidentified to this day. Made most famous from a now classic 1972 film titled The Legend of Boggy Creek, the Fouke monsters legacy as a menacing and elusive phenomena of cryptozoology continues to this day... ITP covers not only the 1972 classic film by Charles B Piece, we get into the 1985 sequel Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues II, the 2016 Small Town Monster's Documentary Boggy Creek Monster, as well as the history and stories of this frightening beast as it exists in the canon of Arkansas lore. Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)      Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out be strange clothing co. at straightupstrange.com 

ITP tackles a Sasquatch thriller this week on Film Friday! A 2018 film by Justin Lee explores the dark underbelly of Washington's Sasquatch playground, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, and the explosive violence of the mysterious Big Man... Extras: USDA Article "Loss of Space Threatening North American Sasquatch"  Washington Sasquatch Research Team 2013 "Peeker" Footage Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out be strange clothing co. at straightupstrange.com  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check

Venturing deep into the remote fjords and dense forests of Norway, Iceland and other areas of Scandinavia we search for Trolls! The final part in our cross over series on Creatures of Norse Mythology with Zeng This! . Join us for legends and encounters with these strange giant enigmas, creatures thought by some throughout history to be very very real... Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out be strange clothing co. at straightupstrange.com  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out

When it comes to mass extraterrestrial contact it is truly unknown how this situation would unfold... In Tim Burton's 1995 vision we get whats least expected layered amongst expected alien mayhem, with parodic references to the  b-movie sci-fi classics of the 50's and 60's that continue to ignite imaginations everywhere. Join us as we chat classic saucers, Martian canals and all things UFO with Mars Attacks! Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out be strange clothing co. at straightupstrange.com  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook! 

"Once upon a time there was a girl, and the girl had a shadow..." Join ITP for a discussion of Us, the 2019 horror masterpiece dreamed up by Jordan Peele this week on Film Friday! Doubles, Doppelgangers? The Tethered? We get into it all this week on the show!  Need someone to talk to? Check out our Sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Want some exclusive bonus episodes!? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  Coffee is essential to podcast research! Help support ITP with some Caffeine ;) You can now buy us a Cup of Coffee!  Check out be strange clothing co. at straightupstrange.com  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show

Scandinavian myths are full of strange creatures and beings that have evolved over centuries from passed down oral traditions of Norse Mythology. But beyond the legends there is common belief that some creatures of ancient lore are in fact real living entities, whether in our realm.. or another.  From the remote mountain ranges of Norway to the dense forests of Sweden and vast fjords of Iceland, Elves, Dwarves, and Trolls are said to reside, hidden from mankind.  Join us on Into The Portal as we join forces with the Zeng This Podcast, for Part II in our cross over series on Norse Mythology & Monsters. Check out Part I on Zeng This everywhere you get your podcasts! Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :)  Want to support ITP? A little goes a long way. Come and join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness

This week on ITP we examine the incredibly strange tale of what became known to many as the Minnesota Iceman. Peddled by a sideshow exhibitor and stumbled upon by two prominent cryptozoologists the controversy and mystery surrounding the origins of this legendary artifact ultimately continues to this day... Need someone to talk to? Check out our sponsor Better Help and use promo code PORTAL to receive 10% off your first month :) Want to support ITP? A little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

Film Friday, or, Cinema Sunday! is back with The Horror Express, 1972, a Trans-Siberian monster sci-fi cult classic film! Adventurers get way over their heads with a humanoid ice specimen that threatens the livelihoods of all aboard the Trans-Siberian Express... and dabble in otherworldly manifestations far beyond their comprehension! Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

On the evening of October 21st 1978, an event occurred in the Bass Strait of Australia that defies explanation to this day.  A young pilot named Frederick Valentich disappeared into the calm night after departing in his Cessna-182L for a seemingly routine excursion. Join Into The Portal as we examine the enduring mystery of Frederick's disappearance and the possible explanations that some may find out of this world... This episode is dedicated to the memory of Kobe Bryant and his entire family. May a legend rest in peace. Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback

This week on Into The Portal we wrap up our Dogman series and discuss all matters of Dogmen from the ancient past. From Greece to India and further, there exist all kind of accounts of dog-headed men that bleed into the realm of mythology... join us as we attempt to connect the stories of the ancient past to the modern phenomena encountered today in places like Michigan and beyond.  Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

We're back! This time searching amongst the dense forests of Wisconsin, joined by none other than Adam Benedict from The Pine Barrens Institute!  Adam joins us to discuss these bi-pedal canine enigmas and gets into some details on the legendary monster of Wisconsin known as The Beast of Bray Road.  Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Check out The Pine Barrens Institute at pinebarrensinstitute.com  & find his book Monsters In Print  Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

Happy Holidays Everybody! Treat your ears to this classic Christmas Eve poem, The Night Before Christmas, read by our very own crew at the Straight Up Strange Network! Check out our whole line up of awesome shows at https://www.straightupstrange.com/ & stay tuned for some news of high strangeness coming soon. As always, keep it strange this holiday season folks! From your friends Amber & Andrew 

Welcome back for a bonus episode from ITP as we create our own hybrid enigma with this bonus Creature Search/Film Friday review of 2010 Monster Quest Episode - Americas Wolfman! We dive into more Michigan Dogman accounts, police investigations and the topic of hoaxed videos in the world of the paranormal...  This episode is dedicated in loving memory of Janet Crema. We love you Nana, you will be forever in our hearts as we continue to search for the unknown.  Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

The Dogman Part 1 of a new series from ITP explores the origins of the legendary Dogman of Michigan. This mysterious and elusive creature straddles the line between reality and folklore yet has reports dating back to the 1800's and possibly much further... so prepare to jump down the rabbit hole with Amber and Andrew for a journey into the recent past with threads of connectivity that extend much further than we ever anticipated, as we search for the Legendary Dogman Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com 

A new Film Friday takes a look at a 1958 Criterion classic film, Fiend Without A Face! A fascinating story about the pitfalls of 'mad science' and the 'spawning of evil fiends' in the neighbourhood of Winthrop, Manitoba. Get ready for a trope of fearsome mental vampires, dubious professor characters, cold war drama, and a touch of romance - this is truly a must-see film! Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters and to our Producer Jorden U! Please help us out! a little goes a long way :) Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on straightupstrange.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Official Into The Portal Storefront  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com