KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS! Podcast By Michael Lucht Spencer Lowery Chris Wells Jonas Lucht Jason Lloyd cover art

KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

KOOKS, CRANKS, AND ICONOCLASTS!

By: Michael Lucht Spencer Lowery Chris Wells Jonas Lucht Jason Lloyd
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Greetings & Salutations! We're here to cover various interesting/infamous/inexplicable living enigmas & anomalies from across all of time, space, maybe even beyond, & from history BOTH ANCIENT & RECENT! Basically it's "BIOGRAPHY!" but focused solely on WEIRDOS! Listen then repeat what you hear to sound smart at parties! STOP being MYOPIC! START being ESOTERIC! (Mmm! Yum!) Stay tuned True Believers! Clear The Hump w/us as we provide Weekly Bios on strange/insane/shameful/lost/forgotten Misfits of History! Comedy/Conspiracy/True Crime/High Strangeness!Michael Lucht, Spencer Lowery, Chris Wells, Jonas Lucht, Jason Lloyd
Episodes
  • OCCULT CRIME ATLAS-CHINA! (+ HONG KONG & TAIWAN AT NO EXTRA CHARGE!) - "BIG WORM!'
    Mar 27 2026

    THIS IS IT YOU BEAUTIFUL KOOKS! We wrap up our week in China w/ an addition to the "OCCULT CRIME ATLAS" series! We've got alien abductions, kung fu, ritualistic crime, feng shui wars, Chinese bigfoot, ya mutha, BIG WORM, hauntings, black magic(k?), "telebortions", exorcisms, spirit possession, zombies, vampires, mirror beings, AND SOOOOO MUCH MORE! HOLY SHIT! I AM FUCKING EXHAUSTED! Take THAT! "Professor" Jiang! PLEASE TO ENJOY!


    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2151870/haunting-stories-behind-four-hong-kong-urban


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_in_Chinese_culture


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_folklore


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_(poison)


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeren


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangshi


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro-langs


    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hsbc-building-feng-shui-cannons


    If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, ME TOO! We should hang out! But if you need immediate help, please dial 988.

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    3 hrs and 11 mins
  • CHINESE UFOLOGY 2 - CHENGDU BOOGALOO
    Mar 25 2026

    MORE! MORE! MORE! This one breaks down all the "starseed" stuff, amongst other things. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-explodes-over-alleged-chinese-ufo-crash-retrievals-hair-covered-alien-survivors-1771173


    https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1012934


    https://thechinaproject.com/tag/china-unsolved/


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_sightings_in_China


    https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/09/greatest-mysteries-the-story-of-chinas-most-famous-ufo-sighting/


    https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005516655.pdf


    https://captaincool07.medium.com/chinas-x-files-3be9dd3920ec


    If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, well...yeah, shit it pretty fucked these days. But if you need immediate help, please dial 988.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • CHINESE UFO CULTS (& OTHER ASSORTED HIGH STRANGENESS) - "CCP, YEAH YOU KNOW ME"
    Mar 24 2026

    Sup kooks! This is the first in a short series of what was essentially me being pulled further and further down a Chinese rabbit hole of high strangeness that just kept on spiraling deeper, and deeper...and deeper. (Till I came out on the other side in China. C'mon! You know I had to use that some where!) PLEASE TO ENJOY!


    Email us!: kooksandcranks@gmail.com


    SOURCES:

    https://gaodawei.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/china-anti-cult-association-analyzing-a-rising-flying-saucer-cult/


    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/201901/1136219.shtml


    https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/10/19/on-ufology-with-chinese-characteristics-and-the-fate-of-chinese-socialism/


    https://bitterwinter.org/ufo-beliefs-increasingly-repressed-in-china/


    https://bitterwinter.org/shuiyuexing-another-ufo-religion-repressed-as-a-xie-jiao-in-china/


    If you are suffering from mental health and/or substance abuse issues, you are not alone. We're all fucked TOGETHER! But, should you need immediate help, please dial 988.

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    2 hrs and 16 mins
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