Into The Portal

Tonight we tackle an intriguing case of a cursed object... A 115-karat Blue Diamond deemed The French Blue, also known as the Hope Diamond in modern times, is believed by some to have been stolen in India and carried to France only to befell its owners throughout four centuries with countless tragedies and impossibly bad luck - amputations, starvation, suicide and more… Join ITP for a look at the intriguing case of the Diamond of Death. SPECIAL thank you to Dillan Crema, an OG supporter of the show who contributed some wicked new sound equipment. Thanks to you our voices are sounding crisper than ever - Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!  Thank you to all of our Patreon Supporters, you guys are the best! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website www.intotheportal.com Find more show like ours in a world of High Strangeness on the Straight Up Strange Network  Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUA

In 2013 a young woman was discovered dead in the water tank of an L.A. hotel. An unsatisfactory police investigation has lead many to find their own conclusions as to the cause of her death. Join us on Into The Portal for our first ever venture into the world of True Crime and the bizarre case of Elisa Lam.  **WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT, LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED! Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? 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 Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Official Into The Portal Storefront  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

ITP gets into the latest in the Alien franchise, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant. This new instalment was a trip! The film takes up the story over a decade after Prometheus and the events that took Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and companion android David to the planet of the Engineers... and follows a new colonizing crew facing unimaginable horrors all framed with some pretty sweet special effects and gore sequences!  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? 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 Visit Coffee Gatorto get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Official Into The PortalStorefront 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

For centuries, stories have been told in the southwest of strange out of place vessels being lost inland... travelling prospectors would recount sightings of mighty ships as big as Spanish Galleons existing deep in the desert laden with treasures, a forgotten remnant left abandoned by ancient mariners. But could such a ship have truly made it into the deserts of California? Join us on Into The Portal as we discuss explorers, sightings and the search for The Lost Ship of the Mojave.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? 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 Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter! https://twitter.com/IntoThePortal1 Check out ITP o

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and i'm all out of bubblegum…" | We're finally back with an all new Film Friday and a look at 1988 Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy cult film … They Live!  Join us as we break down this bizarre classic on Into The Portal  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? 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 Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Official Into The Portal Storefront  Hit ITP up on Twitter! https://twitter.com/IntoThePortal1 Check out ITP on YouTube Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@gmail.com

Strange Sasquatch Encounters. Sightings, footprints, abductions, violent attacks and more. Just when we think we know what this creature might be we are halted by more questions than answers, and the theories keep getting stranger and stranger.  The time has come to attempt to get to the bottom of some of these ideas and just what this phenomena could possibly be. A Relic Human? A Modern Ape? or, something else...? Join us on Into The Portal for our final look at Strange Sasquatch Encounters.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Support the show and get some legendary bonus content! Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our websiteintotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK - CoffeeGator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter! Check out ITP on YouTube Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us

We're back with another Film Friday listener suggested episode! This week we take a look at one of the wildest 80's movies we have ever seen.  Popcorn guns, acid pies, aliens and such more. Join us for a look at 1988 film - Killer Klowns from Outer Space  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Official Into The Portal Storefront 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

Deep within the Great Bear Rainforest dwell creatures who have called this territory home for thousands of years. The indigenous populations of the North Coast live amongst them, the forest giants known as Sasquatch. This week on Into The Portal we take a closer look at the ancient past of this creature, some indigenous tales, historical accounts..and even locals where Sasquatch is said to dwell in modern times, if you dare to venture into its territory.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Official Into The Portal Storefront 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

Bet you guys didn't see this one coming ;) That's right - ITP is covering The Meg (2018), a film that follows a team of deep sea scientists as they discover an unexplored world deep beneath the Mariana Trench, hidden by a thermal layer. What lurks in this unknown world defies all expectation and comes to the surface to threaten the order of the day... Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Special  HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHOUTOUT to host Andrew!!! Want to become part of the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website Visit Coffee Gatorto get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Official Into The Portal Storefront  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

Yup, we're going there. Into The Portal investigates Sasquatch. Join us this week for Part I in our series looking into one of most elusive creatures in all of cryptozoology, starting with some of the most bizarre violent experiences with giant hairy hominids of North America. From Coast to Coast join us on Into The Portal as we discuss sightings & attacks in our introductory look at a stranger side of Sasquatch.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our websiteintotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Official Into The Portal Storefront 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

We're back with another Film Friday of epic proportions! A slight change of plans this week finds ourselves back in the desert for a look at the origins of Indiana Jones Join us for a discussion of all of face melting greatness that is 1981 classic.. Raiders of The Lost Ark!  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront 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

For thousands of years ancient peoples have spoken of a great deluge that wiped out the world.History is filled with tales of such an event, the great flood that destroyed the world can be found across cultures and historical timelines. Join us on Into The Portal for the Finale of our Great Flood Series as we journey around the world to discuss the final resting place of a possible real ark, flood stories from distant cultures, and the geological evidence of a massive flood that swallowed the world.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our websiteintotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter! Check out ITP on YouTube Have any comments, corrections or feedback for th

We left you all hanging in Part I of our Great Flood series, now let's follow up with the conclusion to the heroic tale of Atrahasis and explore the variations in the great flood story all the way up to the biblical Book of Genesis.  The mythologies of the ancient Mesopotamians have had far reaching impact in ways they could never have expected, including modern day grand missions to far away mountains in search of the remnants of an ancient vessel that could possibly be the legendary ark... Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website Visit Coffee Gatorto get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of the Podfix Network OfficialInto The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Have any comments, corrections or feedback for the show? Email us at Intotheportalmailbox@

Join ITP for our BIGGEST interview yet with none other than Steve Elkins, a man whose decades long search for the Lost City of the Monkey God, or Ciudad Blanca, culminated in a game-changing 2015 expedition into the Honduran Rainforest and a recently released documentary detailing the incredible effort.  Click here for the details on the March 16 2019 Lost City of the Monkey God documentary viewing in Washington D.C  Link to Chris Fisher's Website and List of Publications  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront  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

Most people will be familiar with the classic biblical tale of Noah, written in the Hebrew Bible and described as massive floods that washed over the earth swallowing the lands and all earthly beings...with the exception of a great Ark. However this legend is in fact much older than the account described in the Book of Genesis. The Story of Ark tracing back to a far more distant past. Join us on Into The Portal for Part I in our 3 part series, as we search for ancient evidence of the flood the swallowed the World.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of thePodfix Network  Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up onTwitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube  Have any comments, corrections or

This week we thought we would bring you all something a little different. Our series on Goblins has led us down many interesting avenues and into many different aspects of world history and culture, and so the inaugural Strange Story Saturday will explore legendary tales from Japan.  Japanese mythology includes its own versions of goblin lore with many stories of creatures hiding in mountains and caves, stealing children and terrorizing local populations. Join Into The Portal for a reading from Myths and Legend of Japan as compiled by F. Hadland Davis.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube

Deep inside tunnels beneath the earth of Bavaria and Austria there exist Subterranean creatures that have become known over the centuries as.. Goblins.  But there are also creatures of small stature said to dwell in the caves and subterranean passages of North America, sometimes being linked to events and sightings that make the search for such beings all the more strange… Join us this week for Part II in our look into the past in order to understand the Genesis of the Goblin  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website www.intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of thePodfix Network  Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter! Check out ITP on YouTube

A late release this week but highly anticipated Film Friday covers PRIMER, a 2004 indie film written directed and starred in by Shane Carruth. Probably one of the most fascinating (and confusing) portrayals of time  travel ever made. We had a blast trying to unravel the mysteries of Primer. Shout out to Matthew Plumb for suggesting this film. Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show?Join ITP’s Patreon Community!  For more information and resources visit our website Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK  Join Into The Portal on Facebook!  Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront Hit ITP up on Twitter!  Check out ITP on YouTube

For thousands of years stories have existed of tiny humanoid creatures dwelling deep beneath the Earth's surface. From ancient Greece to pagan Europe, creatures known as Goblins have straddled the line between myth and reality - but, do they truly exist? Join us on Into The Portal for Part I of our investigation into the history, lore and possible existence of tiny subterranean creatures we know as... Goblins.  Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website intotheportal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK coffeegator.com  Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Proud members of the Podfix Network Official Into The Portal Storefront  Hit ITP up on Twitter! Check out ITP on YouTube

Come join ITP for a discussion of the Clive Barker film Nightbreed, a fantasy slasher cult classic from 1990.  Aaron Boone finds himself accused of unfathomable crimes, and descends into the dark, monstrous realm of Midian and the Night Breed… Thank you to our Producer, Charlene Ramler, and all of our Patreon Supporters! Want to support the show? Join ITP’s Patreon Community! For more information and resources visit our website IntoThePortal.com Visit Coffee Gator to get 15% off your purchase with Promo Code QUARK CoffeeGator.com Join Into The Portal on Facebook! Check out our shop!  Proud members of the Podfix Network Hit ITP up on Twitter! Check out ITP on YouTube