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Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt"

Daniel Grothe spent years doing live paranormal radio from a kitchen in Germany. Three hours. Open lines. No edits. No safety net. Nobody asked him to. He did it anyway.This is what happens next.Piledrivers in the Crypt is true crime, paranormal, UFOs, cults, cryptids, and the conspiracy culture that existed before you needed an influencer to explain it to you.Delivered with the seriousness the material deserves and the irritation the audience earns just by existing. No comfort. No conclusions. No

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31:22

Cryptic Conversations

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/04/10

A show made of audio message conversations between Mike J and Daniel Grothe.Crypticconvos on Facebook"The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said.Facebook — Daniel is on it. X — is gonna give it to ya!Instagram — photos of dogs, mostly.danielgrothe.us | danielgx.com | artbell.usBecome a supporter of this

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47:46

Goodbye - Thank you!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/04/03

The last episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt. Thank you for all you did. Thank you for being there. "The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said.Facebook — Daniel is on it. X — is gonna give it to ya!Instagram — photos of dogs, mostly."I Am Strange" — written and performed by The Bloodsucking Zombies from

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65:07

From The Pile...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/03/27

Ten letters. Ten people who waited decades to say it. Contractors. Archivists. Analysts. A game warden who stopped running solo checks. A detective who never closed the file on Carol Ann Dempsey. The Wormhole. Nothing else."The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it."If you want to do something real tonight... Help Mikey.Visit the Website or Mikey's GoFundMe or donate with PayPal.The Archive — everything Daniel probably shouldn't have said.Facebook — Daniel is on it. X — is gonna

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74:41

You Are a Candle...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/03/21

The official scientific explanation for spontaneous human combustion is that you are a candle. Your fat is the wax. Your clothes are the wick. A wrapped pig confirmed it. The report was filed. Everyone went home.One problem. Nobody can explain who lit the match.Tonight Daniel goes through the cases the science couldn't close.Also: Gilberto Valle donated eighty-six dollars to a sick dog in Austria at two in the morning. The Wikipedia Legacy Section had no comment."The darkness is your best friend…

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67:47

DarkMeatDave vs. Gilberto Valle

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/03/13

An NYPD cop with a badge, a gun, a psychology degree, and a username on a fetish website that I will not be repeating in a place where the algorithm can see me. He never touched anyone. He just wrote things down. Detailed things. Things with oven temperatures. A jury said guilty. A judge said hobby. He currently works in construction. I have chosen not to ask what he builds. The Cannibal Cop - Gilberto Valle. Also a man named DarkMeatDave427 has been banned from four cooking forums and I have

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94:59

Things the Alps Are Not Telling You...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/03/08

This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt — ancient European Wildmen. The Wilder Mann. The Basajaun. A Soviet scientific expedition into the Almas that your history teacher never mentioned because your history teacher was useless. Also a wild boar showed up and derailed everything because that's the world we live in now.You're welcome.👉 danielgrothe.usPiledrivers in the Crypt. Yes it's a podcast. No I won't explain that again.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website:

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72:31

The Crypt Didn't Miss You Either...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2026/02/22

PITC is back. No explanation. No apology. Daniel just walked back into the Crypt like he never left — and the Wormhole has been backed up for two months. Somebody's gonna have a bad time. New episode. Now.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.us/save-mikey> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @

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60:50

Christmas on Planet Stupid

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/12/18

It’s Christmas… but the joy isn’t landing. In this special holiday episode of Piledrivers in the Crypt... demonic Elf on the Shelf incidents, a drunk chain-smoking Santa with a naked Grey alien “helper”... Then we get serious. From Reagan and E.T. to Close Encounters and Taken, Spielberg’s long UFO history becomes the springboard into something darker: what if disclosure never happens because the invasion already did—through AI, distraction, and the slow dumbing-down of the human race?Please

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46:37

The X-mas Special that did't happen...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/12/12

🎄🩸 Merry Christmas… I guess. 🩸🎄So yeah — the Christmas Special with the Mikes didn’t happen. Shocking, I know.But fear not, my festive little ghouls… predictions were made, holiday feelings were felt (against my will), and the halls are officially decked with bones and existential dread.Listen on all the apps, on my website, and — and I swear on my Art Bell shrine — artbell.us actually works.No irony. No punchline. Reality is weird.🐶 And seriously, before you go back to arguing with your family

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121:21

A show that was probably a mistake...

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/12/06

A show that was probably a mistake… I mean, absolutely a mistake. The Mikes are here—yeah, that’s right, for ONE week only. And through some cosmic lapse in judgment I decided to open the wormhole for Larry the Dog.And look, I know… that was a mistake. I admit it. My bad. I’ll say sorry on behalf of both timelines. But listen anyway! It’s painful, it’s emotional, it’s ridiculous—so basically perfect.Do me a favor and crawl over to DanielGrothe.us, or whatever app you use while pretending podcasts

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71:08

Perchtenlauf - Krampus is coming!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/12/01

Daniel has somehow survived:Thanksgiving (barely)Black Friday (he still has bruises from that old lady with the shopping cart)Survivor Series (don’t even ask)Cyber Monday (his bank account is now a haunted house)Stranger Things (long story…)…and his first Perchtenlauf, where he learned that Austrian demons run faster than American ones.And naturally, he’s back in the Crypt—sarcastic, traumatized, and ready to talk about things that should’ve stayed buried.🎧 Listen to the new episode now.It’ll warm

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88:11

Black Turkey Day

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/11/23

Daniel survives another Thanksgiving by weaponizing spite, reading your possessed-poultry emails, and dragging us all back to Chernobyl where Mothman apparently moonlights as a safety inspector. The Mikes on Mics finally crawl out of whatever cornfield abduction they were enjoying, grace us with their presence for exactly one episode like the prodigal fanboys they are, and spend twenty minutes simping harder for John Cena than a 14-year-old at a 1998 Backstreet Boys concert. Happy Thanksgiving! I

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53:54

Thank the UFOs! (not UAPs..never)

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/11/15

Mike and Mike could not link up yet again.... So yeah I'm here to save us all! Get ready for some out of this world audio! And Cranberry Sauce... Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Send you to Hell

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74:02

The Cutting Room Floor

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/11/09

Halloween is over. The pumpkins are rotting, your candy hangover has settled into the marrow, and guess what? We’re not done. Not even close. This week on Piledrivers in the Crypt, we’re crawling into the vault of cinema — the realhorrors. The reels that were burned, buried, locked away, or politely swept under the studio rug because apparently “society can’t handle that.”Meanwhile, the Mikes from Mikes on Mics are mysteriously absent. Are they sick? Busy? Dead? No. They’re probably under a blanket

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114:14

Halloween Baby

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/10/29

Trick or treat, you sexy witches and you ugly, rotting ghouls… it’s Halloween.And honestly—fuck the last few months. We don’t care. The network doesn’t care.It’s Halloween, and that’s all that matters.So the Mikes and I did the only thing that made sense in this flaming madhouse of a year:We came together to give you the special you actually deserve.Please… have a safe and happy Halloween—because we sure as hell won’t.And for the love of all things unholy…do not let it involve blankets.Over

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100:12

Halloween From The Wormhole - Season Finale!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/10/25

This week, we go out in style — or at least in sarcasm. The Wormhole is wide open, and somehow the Mikes made it back through — though Mike S looks like he aged three centuries...Nothing says “Halloween spirit” like trying to make sense of Vince Russo’s booking logic while surrounded by demons.And if that’s not horrifying enough, we’ve got five brand-new listener horror stories straight from you — the brave souls who keep proving that reality is way sicker than anything we could make up.Please

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87:27

Halloween From The Wormhole - The Sequel!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/10/19

The Mikes talk about.. Wrestling.. I guess? And...Just when you thought it was safe to defrost Grandma’s leftovers… I drag you screaming into Part Two of the Halloween Story Special — five new tales straight from The Wormhole that will ruin your appetite, your sanity, and possibly your relationship with CM Punk.Because here in the Crypt, we don’t just tell ghost stories—we deep fry them and serve them with a side of trauma.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:>

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60:35

Halloween From The Wormhole... The First Round!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/10/15

I’m kicking off Halloween season the only way I know how — with five brand new horrors from The Wormhole!The Mikes aren’t here (thank God), which means it’s just me, the darkness, and whatever’s breathing behind you right now.Happy Halloween, you weirdos.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can

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60:11

Bouncing Through the Abyss

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/10/06

Between beer steins and UFOs grounding planes over Munich... October is dark, weird, and it’s heartbreakingly human.Please consider helping Mikey & my little family:> Website: https://danielgrothe.at/help-mikeys-heart> GoFund.Me: https://gofund.me/46b0b4fb> PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/...“The darkness is your best friend… because you can hide in it.”-> Listen to the Archive here! @ danielgrothe.us /.net /.atLet Daniel ... Send you to Hell! with 15% off...! -> Daniel's

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96:06

ChangeLovePalooza!

Daniel Grothe"s "Piledrivers in the Crypt" ·

2025/09/22

Life changes. Body changes. Paranormal rebrands. True crime dead-ends. Basically: one wrong street, one wrong date, one wrong snack at 7-Eleven and—boom—you’re the next cold case file.Also, the Mikes on Mics give their predictions for Wrestlepalooza. Which is like asking two drunk raccoons to predict the stock market.Listen now 👉 www.danielgrothe.usAnd yeah, Mikey’s fundraiser is on the site too. Help the little guy out or you’re officially worse than CM Punk suing his own dog.Please consider

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