June 9, 2026

Digging Deep and Standing Tall: Mole People and Boner Bears | 499

Digging Deep and Standing Tall: Mole People and Boner Bears | 499
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New York City has always had its share of underground mysteries, but this week we're heading straight into the manholes. Reports of so-called "mole people" living beneath the streets have resurfaced, raising questions about what really lurks below the Big Apple. Are there hidden communities thriving in forgotten tunnels, or is this another urban legend that's grown legs and wandered into the darkness?

Meanwhile, a very different kind of underground market may have accidentally made its way above ground. A recall has been issued for chocolate gummy bears after they were allegedly found to contain an unexpected ingredient: a prescription-strength erectile dysfunction drug. That's right. Somewhere between snack time and pharmacy time, things got extremely awkward.

From hidden civilizations and urban legends to recalled aphrodisiac gummies and accidental pharmaceutical adventures, this week's Hysteria 51 delivers another dose of weird news that's stranger than fiction and significantly harder to explain to your pharmacist.

The truth is out there, but you won't find it here.

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Lisa, affectionately dubbed “Producer Lisa” or “the other Hand”, lives her happily-ever-after alongside her zombie apocalypse partner Brent. She maintains a poker face of skepticism yet harbors a secret wish for the extraordinary to be true (especially some of the cryptids and alternate universes/realities).

She often finds herself puzzled by "Space and Time," along with the enigma of why Brent constructed C-bot and further allowed him to spawn Kyle. Nonetheless, she indulges Brent's attempts at enlightenment. Occasionally, she even listens.

In her downtime, Lisa is either traveling with Brent or cuddled up with her faithful canine companions immersed in British melodramas, trying (yet typically unsuccessfully) to not cry through the entire show.

A lover of chocolates and strawberry ice cream, she recently fell victim to an unfair allergy, forcing her to resist these indulgences. Deep down, she suspects C-bot's involvement in this bizarre late-life allergy onset. But as they say, the truth is out there...