The HEX Files

Weird Weather

05/21/2021

Some days it's too hot, others it's too cold and sometimes meat falls from the sky. Halli talks about some of the strangest weather phenomenon and the superstition surrounding them!

Hellam Township, a small rural area known for its rather gruesome, but exaggerated, history. Nathan tells us of the local lore around the mystery of a devastated asylum, the oddities of a local doctor and the rumor of the Seven Gates of hell.

Ryan Shtuka

05/07/2021

In December of 2017 a young man at the age of 20 set out on his own, as many of us do. Leaving his small town of Beaumont, Alberta he set off to the popular British Columbia Ski hill of Sun Peaks. Here he would make new friends, find enjoyable work, and not 3 months into his new life, go unexplainably missing. ...

Jacob Gray

05/04/2021

In 2020, 543,018 missing people were reported in the US. In recent memory these reports peaked in 1996 with 980,712. Reports have been steadily dropping since the late 1990s. A fair number of these reports made are for young people under age 21. It's estimated that between 89 and 92% of people reported missing are soon found.

On February 24 1978, five young men from Yuba City, California attended a basketball game at California State University:

When we think of cryptids we usually think of creatures that are scary and/or dangerous. Accompanied by dozens of horrifying accounts of encounters, most a brief glimpse or stare-down with the creature and others resulting in the damage of property, pets or persons. Let's be honest cryptids are the things that go bump in the night that we...

All sorts of things fall under the Cryptid banner, even plants, or plant spirits. Nathan talks about Leshy, a sometimes malevolent sometime benevolent spirit who protects the forest, and punishes those who do harm to nature. Depicted differently in different media, we get to discuss the weird stories surrounding this little piece of Slavic...

Bigfoot

04/09/2021

It was a fairly average winter day in mid-January 2020 when two men in Guernsey County, Ohio were out for a walk in the woods. No big deal especially on a decent day in typically bitter January.