The Grinning Man

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the Grinning Man. We’ll walk through reports of a tall figure with a fixed smile, and keep it separate from Indrid Cold or the Men in Black. We’ll lay out the timeline, the witnesses, and the leading theories: misidentification, hoax, folklore, or something unknown. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're exploring one of the eeriest figures in paranormal lore, the grinning man.
0:10.8	For decades, people have reported tall, unsettling figures with fixed, unnatural smiles,
0:17.4	from the black flash of 1930s Province Town to Scotland's Gurning Man of the 1970s.
0:24.6	These encounters range from silent prowlers on dark streets to intruders appearing inside locked homes.
0:31.6	Researcher John Keel believed they were ultra terrestrials,
0:36.6	entities that slip in and out of our reality to confuse
0:39.8	and terrify. Whether prank, legend, or something stranger, the grinning man endures
0:46.2	is one of folklore's most disturbing mysteries. I'm Mike. I'm Ian. And I'm Dave. If you thought
0:52.6	the grinning man was the last thing you saw from the cuck chair before Mike made sure your wife couldn't walk straight for a week, stick around.
1:00.6	As they say, more than one thing can be true at the same time.
1:04.5	This is Necronomopod. I'm. The All right. So before we get started tonight, I would just like to get this out of the way on a recent Patreon Zoom live show we did.
1:50.0	Patreon.com slash Necronomapod, the art belt here.
1:52.9	That is the address, yes.
1:54.7	I made a bet with Ian after doing some day drinking for $100 and I was soundly defeated in this bet. So I would just like to take
2:03.2	this opportunity to pay $100 to Ian. I never welshed my bets. Ian just became $100 richer.
2:11.7	I'm not taking your $100. Oh, sir. I have never reneged on a bet in my entire life, and I will not stop today.
2:19.0	Dave was very confident.
2:21.0	I will not start today, sorry.
2:23.1	And he was wrong.
2:25.8	Yeah, I was.
2:27.3	I've just made some fucking offhanded comment about Dr.
2:31.8	Diakope being so expensive.
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