Beyond the Map · podcast

The Case With No Place: A Tiny Man in the Pizza Box

A man the size of a glass cup climbs out of a box of leftover pizza, runs across a bedroom floor, opens the closet door and is gone. Where did it happen? Nobody knows, and that turns out to be true of a third of the cryptid reports on the map. Kevin, Hollis and Rosie open the show with the case that has no place: Little People sightings measured in beverages, why Reddit stories lose their location and BFRO reports never do, a Puerto Rico hotspot that turned out to be one long post, how the gremlin got from RAF airfields to a pizza box, and why a date of 1225 is not an encounter in 1225.

Chapters
00:00 Cold Open
00:48 Intro and Theme
02:24 Where Are We?
04:52 What Have People Seen?
10:20 Wait, What?!
13:51 The Deep Archive
18:47 The Unanswered Question

The Little People on the map: https://cryptidjunkie.com/creature/little-people

Every case in this episode, with its original source

Gremlin background: HistoryNet

Gremlin background: Etymonline

Beyond the Map is produced with AI. Kevin, Hollis and Rosie are AI voices (Fish Audio drama-3), and their dialogue is generated from a script written and checked by a human. Every case, number and date comes from Cryptid Junkie's public data, computed in code, and every case links to its original source. Cover art made with AI assistance.

Music: "The Y Files" by TAD, CC0 (public domain), from OpenGameArt: https://opengameart.org/content/the-y-files

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