The Cryptid Factor - 21: #021 The Rock Issue

Episode Date: October 31, 2016

We're back at it! Rhys talks spam sushi, David talks scary rope-nessie and Buttons attempts to revive some olds and turn it into the news...

The Cryptid Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar. Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Cryptid Factor. I'm David Fadriar. I'm Buttons. And I'm Rhys Derby, coming to you live from Honolulu. It's an international event this week. Myself and Buttons are in New Zealand. It always is. It always is an international event, because you guys are always off doing fun things. And Rhys you're in Honolulu this time. Yep, yep, living the dream in the Hawaiian islands.

Now, I understand you've been hanging out with someone called The Rock. Is that correct? Yes, yes. Also, he goes by Dwayne Johnson now, but I know I'm even closer than that. I call him DJ. Oh, Jesus. Wow, what have you guys done? How have you guys bonded so well so you've got a nickname for him? Well, no, he's actually a DJ. Oh, I see. Makes a lot more sense, actually.

Have you actually even met him yet? Yep, yep. I've been working with DJ and also JB, who is Jack Black. Ah. And K8. Which one? K what? KH. Kate Hudson. No, no.

Kylie. All right, okay. Some initials don't really work as a nickname, do they? No, some of them fall a little bit flat. But, you know, we got there and it's an exciting thing to imagine. I mean, you hanging out in Hawaii with that lots pretty much seems like a dream come true. Buttons and I have just been sort of slumming it in New Zealand, really. You know, that doesn't stop the world of the weird and the strange, which just continues on, thank God,

and it means we've got a podcast together. Absolutely. And, you know, here in the Hawaiian Islands, where I'm kicking it with the big stars on this movie set for Jumanji, the new Jumanji, which is a follow on from the classic Robin Williams film. So this is sort of the next chapter, if you were. It's extraordinary, you know, being here. I mean, I'm not, you know, me, I'm not one to gloat, but... Really?

But it's hard not to, you know, when life gives you these kinds of, well, whatever the opposite of lemons are. Probably or, I guess, mangoes. Yeah. What are they, coconuts or... Well, there's actually no coconuts in Hawaii. What? Yeah.

They're not grown here. I tell you what is, though, bananas is a big one. Oh. Have you been, have you gone out on the sightseeing tour and have you sort of learned all of the... Pineapples, not bananas. Same thing, really. You've seen one pineapple, you've seen all of bananas. I'm glad we cleared it up.

I mean, that's amazing. That would have been incredibly confusing. Oh, Rhys, that's so exciting. We're very, very proud of you going over and representing us in the cryptozoological world over in Hawaii with such wonderful people. Have you had the chance to tell any of these wonderful people about cryptozoology? Have you converted anybody whilst you've been there? No, I haven't really had the chance.

You know, I've been very busy not doing much work. I'm only in a few scenes and they're really spaced out. So, you know, I'm hoping to get back on set maybe next month. In the meantime, really, really enjoying the beach atmosphere and just getting to grips with myself. I guess, I mean, I don't know if this segues into weekly world weird news, but I guess I'm wondering if there's anything uniquely weird you've encountered in Hawaii. I'll tell you what is weird.

They love spam here. Oh, the little cans of spam. We all know what spam is. You know, are you familiar with it? Well, no, I did for a second there think spam emails. And I suddenly thought, man, that prints from Nicaragua or where he is that has those hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in these transferred must be stoked with Hawaii. Well, that could be the case as well.

But I'm talking about the... I didn't even know what it is, the meat thing. Do you know what it is? I couldn't really tell you what... Is it corned beef? Is it corned beef or something like that? Are you saying spam was fish? No!

It's meat! It's definitely more down the corned beef category, but I think it's kind of like processed luncheon meat or something all congealed into one big lump. I don't know the origins of it. I know that, you know, the Monty Python used to make light of it and, you know, the whole thing and spam emails came from that, came from the Python's terminology of the use of spam, and it is an actual product.

And it's internationally mocked, really, as far as I know. But I tell you what, here in Hawaii, for some weird reason, they eat a lot of it and they have these concoctions, these spam sushi. So they have like rice... Yeah, it's kind of like rice cake, like a cake full of rice, and then they put a slice of spam on the top of it, and then they wrap seaweed around it, and then they're warm. They heat them up and that's what they eat.

They eat these as snacks, and I couldn't believe it. I bought one at the zoo. You went to the zoo and had spam sushi. That is awesome. What a day out. It was weird, and I looked at the Komodo dragons. There's Komodo dragons at the Honolulu Zoo here. Was that your first time with the Komodo dragon? Because they are amazing.

Yeah, yeah, I think it is. I love them. I mean, there's only one, I think it was meant to be more, but he looked quite old and he was sort of in the distance. Could have been a crocodile, to be fair. I mean, but the guy said, no, that's a... What is it, Komodo? That's a Komodo. A toothy Komodo, we call him.

He's a very toothy Komodo. Get too close, he said. I said, why? Because I'll recognise that it's actually a crocodile. No, because they'll have your arm, that guy. That's amazing. I wish I was over there going to zoos and eating spam sushi with you. It's been way better than being stuck here in New Zealand

with David and... I think it's a good time to move on to some weekly World Weird News. Oh, perfect. Buttons. Yeah, good change of subject before I start talking about how boring it's been here. Weekly World Weird News. Crazy, freaky, watch out.

Okay, who's going first? Should we do headlines? I've got a headline for you. Oh, here we go. We're stumped why anyone would arrest this man dressed as a tree. Oh, my God, that is a great headline. Okay, I can't wait for that. My headline here is

Woman with Skull on Stick Leads, California Police to Body. Oh, my God. I really like that a lot. I have a food-related headline, Burger King Dressed Up as Ghost of McDonald's for Halloween. Okay, well, should we do first round?

I've got some other news, but let's go around and do first round, eh? Yeah, done, Bruce. Obviously, there's tree news. Tree news. It's riveting. That's why we're the number one podcast. We've got tree news. Obviously, this caught my eye

because my last movie role, I was dressed as a tree myself, if you can remember, from Hunt for the Wilder People. I do remember it well. It was a tree, and the tree turned around, and it was your bearded face. That's true. So, I turned up on screen as the bush,

the man, the bush man. So, truly, this caught my eye, this article. And I'll just read it out here, basically, what's happened. Police in Portland, Maine, arrested a man on Monday for blocking traffic while dressed as a tree.

Asher Woodworth is his name. Oh. Asher Woodworth. Oh, my God, he's worth it. He's worth it. Was charged with obstructing a public way after he was spotted standing in the middle of an intersection

covered in tree limbs. Yeah, witnesses said the 30-year-old Woodworth slowly crossed the street and blocked traffic before police stopped him. Oh, my God. So, officers warned him to stay out of the intersection,

so they gave him a warning when he did it the first time, while lifting branches off his face to get a better look at the guy. So, he was... I mean, if you have a look at the pictures, he looks like an absolute... almost like a Christmas tree. You cannot see the human underneath it.

It's like a moving tree. Wow. Clearly, you know, a man underneath it because it's walking across the road, but an absolute tree. And so, they gave him a warning. And then he refused to speak, obviously, because he's a tree.

And so, the officers... I'll accept your silence as that you understand, you know, that if you do this again, you know, we're going to have to arrest you. And he didn't say anything. And then, after they left, he wandered back into the traffic and continued.

Oh, my God. That's when they pulled the plug and they arrested him. And then, in the end, when they finally took the branches off him, he just wanted to see how people would react to his performance. Wow. He's a performance artist, essentially.

He's sort of a bit of a wanky artist. Yeah. What's wanky about being a tree? That's not wanky. That's quite creative. Well, I mean, standing in traffic, I mean, it's a danger button, you know. Judging, judge pants, I think that's a great performance. I'd sit and eat a bag of popcorn

and watch that performance. It's on a road. It's on a road button. There's nowhere to sit and eat popcorn. It's not a play. It's not a film. It's a road. It's a drive-in. Sort of thing he should have taken to Edinburgh. Maybe not the streets of Portland. Run over.

But anyway, it's quite an arty town. It's, you know, Portland. And so there he's learned his lesson now, I think. But when, at the end, he was asked, you know, would he do this again? He said, well, I like the idea, but I'm thinking I might branch out. Oh.

Your buttons. You love that one. I like that one. Buttons, if you love anything, you love a pun. I love a pun. Was he pining to be released? He was. They kept grabbing him. He said, leave me alone.

He... Pun, pun, pun, pun, pun. God. Come on, David, you can do it. Do a pun. Do a pun. No, I'm going to move on to my headline, which is Burger King, dressed up as ghost of McDonald's for Halloween.

Now, I mean, by the time we upload this, Halloween will have come and gone. I hope you had a great Halloween, wherever you are. But essentially, a Burger King in New York hung sort of a ghosty sheet over the big burger outside, spray-painted McDonald's,

put a couple of eyes on it, so it was kind of a bit ghosty. And it said, boo, just kidding. We're still flame... We still flame Grillao Burgers. Happy Halloween. And I guess, like, to me, it's funny, but it's also kind of lame.

And I'm just wondering, like, you know, is a Burger King dressing up McDonald's, you know, is that really... I mean, what message is it saying? I mean, is McDonald's really worse than Burger King? I think they're both... pretty terrible. They are both pretty terrible.

I'm so terrible that Reese just left. He was so bored by that story, he just fucked off. Yeah, let's dial him back up again. Let's see what he's going to say, shouldn't we? There he is. He's coming back. Reese!

Now, Reese, that was a bit offensive. I was mid-story and you hung up. Are you there? Yeah, we're here. Look, basically, my story ended and I just wanted to say, I mean, is McDonald's really much worse than Burger King? I mean, aren't they both equally

as offensive as the other? Yeah, I think it's an old rivalry that's been around since dawn of time, you know, those two there. And it's kind of like the blind leading the blind.

It's another version of... It's been the devil, you know, and various other opinions. Exactly. I mean, I just think that, you know, having McDonald's essentially, you know, saying McDonald's is worse than Burger King, I just think it's ridiculous.

Yeah. I just personally think it's just a bad use of weekly WorldWare news time. Look, Buttons, what have you got? What have you got? Oh, is it my turn? I just accidentally win this one because

in California, which is close to where you usually live, Aresi. Yeah. Sacramento, nonetheless. The police in Sacramento say a homeless woman led them to a decomposing body after

she was seen walking down the streets with a human skull on the end of a stick. What? Wow. The woman was spotted on Wednesday on Connie Drive in Sacramento and police saw her

and thought, well, that's a bit odd. Apparently, it just looked a little too real. Even though it was coming up to Halloween, they saw this homeless woman parading around, literally parading around holding the stick with two hands

that had a human skull. I mean, there's some really great visual, what do you call it, prosthetics these days? I mean, if I was a cop, I probably just would have gone, ah, she's picked up something. It's so ridiculous. You just assume it's going to be a joke. A joke one.

But apparently, there was probably just enough flesh and brains hanging out of it that they thought we'd better go and suss that out. Turns out, real skull, real brains, real rotting flesh. Really? Yeah. And so they said, where'd you get this from? And they

led the cops to an abandoned homeless shelter. And there was a decomposing body. She said she came across the body and couldn't resist taking the head and parading it around for everybody to see.

Oh, my Jesus. So, yeah, Sacramento. I mean, what a great, I was thinking that this Halloween, maybe I could have gone as the Sacramento woman and get the skull, but I didn't do that.

Well, Leon, aka Buttons, that was full on. That was full on. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, it's no McDonald's versus Burger King story, but I like to go in light, you know, and you suddenly come in hard with a woman with

like a human severed head on a stick. What's with this? It's news. It's news. It's the spooky Halloween episode, isn't it? You've got it. You've got to try and up the head. And that's why my next story, I think you'll find is

quite a freaky one. It's a, I like to call it a whopper. Oh, I see what you did there. I like that. It's another pun. Ranger dines out after finding giant 10

kilogram mushroom in Fall Kirk. Whoa. Yeah. 10 kilograms. So just to give you a perspective, if you can imagine a very big pumpkin,

that's the size of this mushroom. What? And she's holding it there. There's a picture of her holding it. A giant puffball mushroom with a 1.5 meter circumference and a weight of more than 10 kgs

has been found. And get this, quickly eaten by the person who found it and her colleagues. Sorry, quickly eaten. How do you quickly eat a great raw mushroom?

Well, Fiona Wishart, a ranger with Fall Kirk Council, said the 10.6 kg fungus was so heavy, she had to get help from her colleagues to carry it back to the office. And then after taking photos

they shared it out between 15 people who What? One mushroom? Yep, who took it home to cook. And she says it was really exciting. It's probably the biggest puffball I've ever found in my life. Yeah, no shit love.

And it tasted lovely. When you cut it up, it has a texture like a marshmallow. There you go, marshmallow. See, I was on track. I was always under the impression that the puffball was poisonous

or magic. What was stopping that whole situation being an awesomely wonderful hallucinogenic story and all of them just went off dancing down the road, you know, singing songs. I think after that

thing, if that was had the hallucinogenic spray on it, I think you'd probably wouldn't come back from that trip. You'd be pretty much dead, wouldn't you? Yeah, but what a way to go. I mean, that's a trip. I'd say

that was probably the best segment of Weekly World News even better than The Seventh Head. I've got to say it was probably more weirder and weekly than The Seventh Head. It's a certain book where he goes to that island and there's those giant mushrooms

on it. Do you remember that one? Yeah, on the year, the big old like, they had like big red splotches on them, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was a meteorite from space and it crash-landed and then it just, everything that came from it was

ten times its normal size and there was these giant mushrooms on it and it reminds me of that. Have you got it, is there a photo of it there? They've got photo evidence, obviously. Yeah, yeah, there's some good photos here so we'll put this up on the side of this giant mushroom

and she looks very happy to found it. Okay, here we go, so David I'm just bringing it up here and here's ready to have a look at this 10kg mushroom. It's a live reaction. Live reaction, here we go. Yeah, holy shit, it's big, it looks like a big old pumpkin.

Looks like a massive pumpkin. What is it with the Halloween theme? Like you could actually carve a face in that bad boy and have a mushroom Jack-o-lantern. I know, but it mustn't be too heavy either because you know mushrooms aren't very heavy

and then the next picture down below you can see she's put it on a map and she's got a boiling jug. That's an awesome photo. She's literally got it down on a map with a hot jug

of water in it, so is she going to try and cook it? You just got to have some perspective. She looks proud though and I mean I would be proud as well if I had a mushroom that size. You'd want to put it in a cabinet or something and keep it for a display.

The first thing I would have done wouldn't have been to eat it. I just wouldn't have thought to do that. No, especially I just worry every time I see mushrooms out in the wild and people go, oh mushrooms, let's pick them

up and go cook them. That's like life and death. It's like just catching a strange fish you've never seen before. It could easily be a puffer fish or some weird kind of poisonous thing. Let's cook this and eat it. It could be yummy, but it could be the last meal

of your life. Yeah, is it worth it? Is it worth it? That's why I always travel with a taste tester. Do you? Yeah. He's here, do you want to meet him?

I'd love to meet him. Does he follow you around and taste everything you eat? Hello. Yeah, I eat things before he does. Just a taste it. And how long have you been with me now?

Well, I'm only a week. Right. I've been through a lot of them. But as you can imagine, at my level I'm constantly under threat of getting poisoned.

I haven't told him that. It's nice to know that now. What do you do with the taste tester if he does he or she passes away? Is it part of the deal that you always get rid of the body? What happens?

Can you leave the room? What happens if I die? I'm talking to these guys about what happened to the last one. It's not going to happen to you. No, that was so much worry, isn't it

about what you're eating? Why did you think you had the job? I never thought about it. Yeah, exactly. The entire job is to taste things that kill me so that if they do, you die instead of me.

Ah, I'm not worth much at all. No. Please, just leave the room. OK, he's gone out there now. He's done my M&Ms. They don't need to be tested.

Sorry, he's nibbling away on stuff. There's a list of things he's supposed to eat. Anyway, if the last tester died instantly, and I just stood up and walked away, I just left him there. Left the restaurant?

Yeah, left the restaurant, and the last thing I heard was, is he with you? And I said, who? No. Oh, my God. Well, look, you always, you always, you know, you do have to be careful, Rhys, when you're, you know, you're in Hawaii, you're filming, you got to be careful, you know?

Buttons and I, we don't have those sort of problems. Yeah. I tend to, we don't. You don't have any, no one wants to kill you. You're not important enough. There might be somebody, my wife might, she's got a lot of insurance money out on me.

Price of fame, I've got a taste tester, I've got a guy that tries on outfits before I put them on. Hello. Oh, here he is. Are you going to put the jacket on? No, I'm not going outside, Brian. Try your jacket on.

Don't take my jacket off, Brian. I'm not going outside. No. Put your shoes on. No. Fucks. How many sort of men do you have around you at any given time, Rhys?

Well, I've got these two, and then I've got the guy who tries out the bed, and then also the shower. I'll take the female for the shower. Separate people for the bed and the shower. Yeah.

In case the shower's too hot. Yeah, why a female for the shower? I think they've got a higher threshold of pain of work out, so you know, she can really take it in the shower. Well, I'm just glad you're okay.

That's the main thing, you know? I know, I know, I know, and of course, of course. I think it's time to move on to some cryptid butts. I've got one extra piece of news. Oh, okay, you've always got to one-up everyone, don't you? Well, if we don't get rid of this news now,

then it won't be any good next week. Okay, so last piece of news, we'll make it quick. So, here it goes. Stand by. Leon's destroying my technology. Okay, here we go. The title.

Meet Magnet Boy, Russian superhero of the future. Okay, I'm into this. I thought so. Okay, I am going to struggle with the name. Kolya Kraglyak

Inko Kolya Krakyalenko Oh, good one. KK Just the two? Only two. Only two KK. What comes to K's?

Mr. Two K's, as we'll call him, says that he's just like all other kids in Siberia, except, of course, for his magical magnetic powers. The story says move over magneto, the Marvel

Comics villain whose awesome abilities, including manipulating magnetic fields, has a real-life rival from snowy Siberia. He's a seven-year-old and the local media has dubbed him Russia's very own magnet boy. As Kolya

tells it, his transformation began when he was an ordinary schoolboy back in 2010 and he received a light electric shock from a faulty refrigerator in his apartment in Moscow. About 15,000 miles

from Moscow in Siberia. Close to Moscow. A long way from Moscow. The opposite, really. I'm glad they used Moscow as a reference point for this article

when it's 15,000 miles away. Wow. Is that the closest count? That's how far they've got to go to do their supermarket shopping. Since then, Kolya has apparently been able to stick

metal objects, spoons, coins, soup ladles to his body. He demonstrated his special powers to his classmates during a recent visit by a local TV camera crew. I've got that footage here. Wearing a serious expression, but no shirt.

He placed spoons of varying sizes onto his stomach, back, palms and chest. It all happens even when I don't want it to, Kolya told the news programme. Once I even drew a cup towards me. The most wonderful thing is

his plans for the future he wants to be a superhero. X-Men's got a lot to answer for. Yeah. Let me tell you now, those plans won't stick. I don't like puns. Oh, it's a pun. You've got to love puns.

Come on. I'm just having a bit of fun. We all love fun. Pun fun. So he intends to be able to in the future lift heavy metal objects at disaster scenes.

That's how he wants to be a superhero. That's awesome. But the interesting thing is Russia has actually had a history of magnetic citizens. He's not the first. There was an 8 year old school girl named Svetlana Glenko.

What did old Spigneta want to do with her magnetic powers? I doesn't say. We should do a little follow up with her and see if she is actually somewhere saving lives. She may actually be the villain. She may have gone on to actually try and take over

nuclear power plant or something or stealing warheads. Yeah, let's get those two together and see whether they repel each other when they start walking towards each other. It'd be worth doing. Or those two. You can't separate them.

They're just so close to that couple, aren't they? I haven't been able to hang out with Svetlana for ages. She's bloody that guy. Really latched on. That guy double K. He's clingy. See what I did there?

They must be opposites then. David's loving this. He's actually smiling from everywhere. Look at it, but he's loving this. He's loving the puns. Anyway, so there's a little video here. As we all know, videos work very well

for audio podcasts. And it's an important part of it. Buttons are typing in Magnetic Boy Russia and Google. So this is a kid who's got a whole lot of spoons

stuck to him. He's got his shirt off. I see him now. Look at that. Wow. You gotta say there's a lot of him to stick it to.

He looks a bit like the kid from Darling the Chocolate Factory. We're just thinking the same thing. Augustus Gloop. What do you make of it, Risi? I think it's stupid. By the

look at how he's standing there, he could be just balancing those. On his fat stomach. Yeah, because he's leaning back and he's kind of on an angle. Leon, he's lying down. He's lying down and the spoons are bloody on his belly. He's not lying down.

Leon, you bloody idiot. It's not true. The one on his nose. I think this is a good time. We should get out of weekly weird news. I think we've dwelt too long on this hoax button. And I think it's time to get into some cryptozoology. Which is what this show is all about.

Yeah, sure. Attention, all personnel. It's time for This Week's Cryptid Cryptozoology. Help me. The thing that stood out to me this week was a huge headline that someone emailed to me actually saying, is Nessie

in Alaska? Convincing video to confirm the existence of the Loch Ness Monster thousands of miles away from Scotland. Probably not the Loch Ness Monster. Probably another creature. But it's a mysterious clip of a Nessie

like creature that is not Nessie. So I thought I'd talk a little bit about that. What have you got, Buns? That's great. Well, I've got news. It is new news, but it's about a 20 year old sighting in Australia of

a giant hairy hominid and, more importantly, an attack from what I would say is a yaoi. But this guy has just come forward 20 years later for fear of the last 20 years of being ridiculed. And it sounds legit.

It's kind of, it's new news, but it's about old news. It's new news, which is new because he's never talked about it before, but it happened ages ago. It's new-olds. New-olds. Yeah, alright. What have you got, Rhys? What stuck out at you this week? Well, you know, you've got a sea monster that is possibly

a sea monster or a piece of rope. You know, Buttons has an old story, 20 years old, that he's hamming up as something that a guy's, you know, taken 20 years to get the courage to tell it. Really, it's just

a 20 year old story. And I've got one here of an actual sea monster, a genuine 14 pound lobster which was caught off the Bermuda's shoreline. Wow. That's big. I mean, I don't think you had

to insult all of our stories. But, you know, I appreciate your story and I think it sounds like a good story and I'd like to hear more. I think, I think it's great to go from, you know, I think we should start with the 20 year year old

tale and then move into the modern era and talk about, you know, David's floating rope and then and then I will hit it home with a genuine actual monster

albeit just a lobster. All right. Well, look, I don't appreciate your tone, but I'll go along with your scheme. Buttons, let's hear your, you know, it's not news at all. Let's hear your story from two decades ago. Well, I do want to hear your story from two decades ago.

OK, don't try and cover it up. Let's hear your 20 year old story. This guy has taken a lot. It's taken 20 years to let this news out. It's a big deal for him. All right. We need to treat it. And look, I need to get it out because it's getting older by the minute this story.

If you bloody go on much longer, then we'll never hear it. OK, in breaking news this week, Australia, which is obviously not too far from us here, where there are many, many, many valid sightings of

the Yaoi, which is the Australian hominid skunk cake, if you like. I'm totally enamoured with the Yaoi and would love to go and hunt it with you boys one day soon. So this happened in New South

Wales and where Sydney is. When did it happen? What year? 20 years ago. Cool. This man who's come forward claims a bipedal creature attacked him at a camping site.

Craig R, as he's been called. He has taken 20 years to come forward, but he's still not coming forward with his full name. He's a 47 year old traffic planner and army reservist. There you go. He's got something in common with you, Rhys. Oh, well, he'll be genuine.

So just never lie. That's bollocks, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So he recently revealed that he was near a waterfall in Sydney

when this incident took place. He says he's never told anybody about this for fear of being called an idiot. He said he had hiked along a certain trail called the Pipeline Trail. He's set up camp

and there was about five of them and he was in a small tent and he, in his little tent, went to sleep and he was the one that was closest to the opening and his legs were sticking out at the end of the tent

almost like some kind of comic book strip. You've just read an important part of the story. It took place nearly 30 years ago. It's just aged by 10 years. Sorry, we jumped

years. Sorry, we jumped from 20 to 30. Yeah. I did pre-read this story. I read it and thought 20. Okay, so 30 years. But it's still 20, 30 years. It doesn't matter. He's very courageous to have really come out

with this, really. Well, we really thought about it. This is how it went down. It was in the early morning and he felt he was being pulled out of the tent. It dragged me by the sleeping bag

and when I sort of came half awake and I sort of went back and forwards out of sleep and then he fully woke up due to the cold and realised he was outside the tent. He wondered why on earth he was outside the tent.

I climbed out of my sleeping bag and looked around. That's when he said he realised the big creature was still there looking at him. I watched as something on two legs and quite large stood there looking at me for about a minute. He explains, I remember that

the moon was up. You could clearly see him in the night and he was standing there right in front of him. This story happened 40 years ago. 30 years ago. Come on, he's only 47

but it happened 40 years ago. He's very insufficient in details. A man at the moment a man has dragged another man out of his tent in a sleeping bag. What is the fucking details? This is a yowie. Get to the point. Okay. No, I think I'm done.

That's about it. That's it for me. That's a new low for you. That story was terrible. Come on. Is there anything in that story that's interesting? Is there anything in there

that's interesting at all? Wait, what? All this angst, guys. I'm just trying to tell you a good story. But it's good. Where's the ending? I mean, you got drag. What happened? It's painful with you.

I agree. He's scrolling furiously through pages of article. I don't know what is in the body of this article. Can you please get to the end? Okay. Anyway, then he wrestled the yowie.

Oh, here we go. That didn't happen. I was just going to try and make it sound a bit better. What? No. You wrestled the yowie. No. The beast

took 40 years to tell the story. He's so embarrassed about how he was. No. The beast walked up the hill and into the bush. But he said it was very big and on two legs.

So did all the yowie drag the man out of a tent in a sleeping bag and then walked into the bush? No. Is that what happened? Well, yeah. But it dragged him out of his tent. It was like it was

curious or something. And it was effectively an attack, wasn't it? I don't understand why you drag someone out of their tent and then just walk away unless you were pulling a prank on your mate. It sounds a lot like

a 30-year-old prank. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so. Is Nessie in Alaska? What I've got here is that Craig McCarr

who works for the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska was taking pictures of the Chena River last week when he spotted what appeared to be a 15-foot-long creature making its way through the water. Do you have a look at that photo? Look at that.

You know what that reminds me of? What? The other day I was pulling this rope and I fell in the water. Screw you. Don't be angry because of your terrible story. So basically,

I mean, it's in Alaska. The issue with that is that a lot of people are claiming it is just simply some icebergs floating in a river. And looking at the photos, it does look a lot like a bunch of icebergs floating in a river.

There's a video. There's a video. Yeah, so play that down, Reese, and see what you think of that. Like convincing. You reckon? Yeah, I think so. Okay, we're going to play it down now.

We'll play it together. Ready? Here we go. I'm watching it move now. It doesn't look like icebergs, does it? See that it's moving? It's like it's weaving in and out. Yeah, that's the convincing part. It does weave

left and right like an eel or a surgeon. Sorry, surgeon, not a surgeon. Surgeon? It's moving like a a dexterous surgeon. So yeah, I mean, you know,

we've only got much more on this, but it does look like it could be a creature. And the thing I want to reiterate about this is that it happened this week. I just want to have a quick hoon on this, because if you see here, okay, go back and hit play. What's the one thing you notice about the video

that is just a little bit sus? If you look at what's around the video, what do you see of that screenshot? I see the very accurate sort of, as you would expect, coming through a camcorder. Yeah, so this video...

Which has been recorded on a camcorder, and that's why we're watching. Camcorder, camcorder! Who has used a camcorder in the last 10 years? So this video has got your classic little, I mean, there's actually filters for it now and editing software

to make it look like it was recorded on an old 1980s VCR camera. And it's got the little guides, the little white corners. I mean, when I record something on a camcorder, I like when I play it back to have the battery level there. It's recorded into the burn-in!

The tape, the tape telling me it's got the tape in. I know, and look, that's the best part. On the top corner, it's got the battery and the battery's almost empty. And the other top corner, it's got a little flashing red light with an REC next to it, which says it's recording. But the best part is down

in the bottom right-hand corner, it's got a picture of a VHS cassette. And it was filmed last week! Yeah, I mean, we should note this is on the sun. That stuff's been added. That's been added for the news article.

The TV station have added that to make it to give it a bit more. That's not real. That's an add-on. Yeah, so I mean, you know, that's not from the source buttons. That is what the news organisation has popped on

it. Well, I'm looking at this on the sun, but it's been around a few different places. And I think that, you know, whatever it is, there's something a little bit odd going on there. It's not simply icebergs floating in the water, bits of ice. I think it's something more than that.

Exactly. And also, you know, I should read the caption under it that a biologist called Kloss Wittig says the object is actually just ice on a rope stuck to a bridge pier. So your

idea of rope is actually could be what the biologist thinks it is. See, I told you. So yeah, Reese, what have you got? Save us, Reese. Save us.

Guys, this, I mean, this, you know, I'd love the floating rope to be real. And I still believe it. Yeah, there's a possibility there. But this is the genuine article for sure. A 14 pound lobster caught off the coast of Bermuda.

Which, you know, by the way, Bermuda, you know, so it was within the Bermuda Triangle. And it left a fisherman absolutely breathless, as you can imagine. It was just after a hurricane, Nicole had swept through the area.

So that's obviously brought a lot of crazy stuff to the surface that you wouldn't normally be aware of. And that's what these hurricanes and storms do. You'll find an abundance of bizarre creatures that you

would never normally see because they're hidden away. And of course, the nature has unfilled them. I believe that's a word. I'm all for it. I love it. The lobster got caught on a mooring line, which was

holding a nearby boat in place. Matthew Jones, who helped reel in the creature, said his co-worker Tristan Leuscher didn't realize what he had until he was swimming beside it with a flashlight.

He swam out expecting to find a grey snapper and found a lobster instead. This was caught totally by accident. Hurricane Nicole blew in some sea monsters. 14 pound lobster caught and released.

So there's photos here of them with it. It hit the news quite big, this giant lobster. Have you seen how huge it is? Here we go. I'm just going to have a look. What? Oh my god. Yeah, I mean, it's as big as

a monster. It's almost as big as a man. An actual monster. Now, most lobsters are one to three pounds. And this one is 10 pounds. I mean, that thing, I mean, imagine, you know, encountering

that. I mean, it could really take, it could take a finger off, it could really get you. God, that's like something that's grown up to a nuclear power plant or something and has been supersized by, you know, it's almost comical. Yeah.

The Bermuda lobster, which is a cool name for it, is indeed a beast. But it's far from the largest lobster ever caught. What? Yeah, Fisherman set a world record in 1977 by catching a 44 pound lobster.

It's too big. It's too big Reese. It's out of control. These things can get so huge, but this, this is what I'd like to bring to everyone's attention is that, you know, it's very rare. And so we're used to seeing the size of things as they're all pretty

big, but it has to be known, and this is proven here once again, that there are absolutely gigantic versions of things out there that we're unaware of until something like this happens and then suddenly, oh my God, you know, giants do exist. And so this can happen

in other species as well. So I think it's a pertinent find and a great thing for cryptozoology to have this kind of article. Yeah, in the middle of, you know, stories that are, you know, a little bit questionable, such as the, you know, 55 year old

yowie attack, or you know, the iceberg on a rope, you know, let's be realistic. There are things out there that we haven't seen before, and a massive lobster is one of them. Yeah, it's a real beast. So that's a cool way to

top things off for the cryptid. Just to also, just to finish off on the cryptozoology front here this week, we have mentioned, of course, which is happening right now, Halloween weekend grand opening at the International Cryptozoology Museum,

which I had hoped to have attended. I remember I was invited, Lauren did invite me, but that was before I got the part on Jumanji, and so had to,

I did say, you know, I would love to come, I'd still come, but I need to let you know that, you know, because of my commitments, and then he just said, oh, no, look, I understand, I won't put the, I'll take you off the list because

I don't want to, you know, to be let down at the last minute would be a real shame. So I'm sad to not be able to go to that, but for those that did go and that are there, that have been, because this, by the time this comes out,

you would have gone, just to go through the sketch or quite quickly, monsters in America at the day, and then the unveiling of Kim Parkhurst's life-sized Iran pendic sculpture

and short documentary screening on the Saturday, which would have been amazing. It would have been so good. Yeah, a life-sized sculpture of the Iran Iran pendic, and then on Sunday there was a costume contest, which would be fantastic.

And then on a Monday there's a book signing from Pullman, bring your own books, he'll sign them or purchase ones from the store and yeah, so that's that weekend, and if you go on

the Crypto Mundo site, there's some pictures here of the artwork and showing you some wonderful pictures of the museum and the hallways that are absolutely laden with amazing

cryptozoological art. You should check it out. Yeah, I mean, it's our dream as well. I mean, all three of us want to make it to that museum at some point as well and do a live broadcast from there, which is, I think, a dream for all of us. So we'll make it happen at some point. So if you get a chance to call in,

it's the International Cryptozoological Museum and it's well worth a visit. That's right. So that sort of brings us to a close, really, this week, I think. I've just had my shower testers just come through.

How's that? It's quite warm, Mr Darry. I think it's ready for you, sir. Good. Okay, and she knows the temperature there. What temperature is it? You know, it's 21. That's right. I always have it on 21. I don't know whether that is warm or not,

but it's a birth date. So I often use that number. That's good. I mean, it's good to know you're safe over there, Rhys. I mean, you know, you're a key part of the show and so, you know, your safety is paramount and a few people sort of die

along the way, keeping you alive. Then I'm happy with that. Oh, no, guys. I've just, my buddy, taste testers, dead. I've just seen him. He's lying on the carpet. Oh, God. He's got a mouth full of M&Ms. He's bleeding from now.

Yeah, probably best we leave it here. It's been a good cryptid factor. Good luck with that. Probably best you move on to another hotel. Glad I didn't eat those bloody M&Ms. I wonder who put those out? I've got to go, guys. I've got to shift hotels. It's all on.

Yeah, right. Until next week, goodnight, Rhys. It's been the cryptid factor. I'll be David Ferrier. I'm... Buttons. I'm concerned for my friend, Rhysie. And I'm Norman Bucket. All right. Good.

Bye. I'm Bucket. Where did the fact of that come from? That's awesome. He's using a code name, isn't he? The cryptid factor with Rhys Derby

and David Ferrier.