Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

The Haunted Porcelain Doll | Paranormal Podcast In this episode, we've got two listener submissions that both somehow involve grandmothers handing their family members something terrifying and then acting totally unbothered about it. The first, 16-year-old Lindsay staying alone with her grieving great-grandma, grabbing a fireplace poker after hearing phantom footsteps from a kitchen that should ha...

Terrified Together with Scaroline | Paranormal Podcast We teamed up with Scaroline for this Terrified Together — she streams from the Underworld, keeps a collection of genuinely haunted dolls including one named Coco that she communicates with through a custom doll phone, and she fit in immediately. So naturally, we got into three listener submissions ranging from a 12-year-old and his dad spottin...

The Pale Yellow Man | Paranormal Podcast We've got three listener submissions this episode, starting with a 13-year-old cleaning a warehouse where Bay 4 carried a heavy, wrong feeling from day one — complete with disembodied clicking sounds that circled the room like a predator, shadow legs with no body, and one final crash in the dark that sent them sprinting out and never coming back. Then we he...

Throwback Files: Missing 411 | Paranormal Podcast This month, we revisit the very popular Missing 411! About Missing 411 Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America. From very true crime-ish reasons to potentially paranormal explanations, we examine some of the top disappearances and give our new thoughts. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

The Rules of Appalachia | Paranormal Podcast In this episode, we went deep into the unwritten survival guide of one of the most ancient and genuinely unsettling stretches of wilderness in North America — the Rules of Appalachia — breaking down 14 laws that locals, hunters, and hikers swear by if you want to make it back out of those mountains in one piece. From never whistling after dark, to what...

Chillingham Castle | Paranormal Podcast We packed our bags and headed back to England for this one — Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, which might just be the most blood-soaked, ghost-saturated piece of real estate in the entire UK, and we went deep on every brutal layer of it. Waaaay more exciting than Leap Castle (looking at you, Producer Ben)From King Edward I using it as his war headquarte...

Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted, where we dig up three more Reddit confessions and hand out our completely unqualified verdicts — haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted. This episode we've got a toddler who started refusing to go to grandma's house alone because apparently grandma has a stand-in when she's out of town, someone who keeps catc...

The Creature in the Vanity | Paranormal Podcast We've got three listener submissions this week that each hit differently — starting with a birthday trip to the Stanley Hotel where flickering lights, a disembodied little girl's giggle, and a mysterious cigar smell in the elevator made for a haunting you'd actually want to have. Then we dove into Kevin's story out of Santa Fe, where an ornate family...

Bizarre News April 2026 | Paranormal Podcast April's Bizarre News had us covering everything from the unexpected wildlife sanctuary blooming inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone, to a deeply unsettling federal investigation into 11 scientists with security clearances tied to aerospace, nuclear, and defense programs who've died or vanished under mysterious circumstances since 2022. We also got into a...

Terrified Together with Sinistergood | Paranormal Podcast We had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Christie and Heather from the Sinisterhood podcast for this month's Terrified Together, and honestly, the four of us could have talked haunted locations, crystals, and fae pacts for about six more hours. We covered two listener-submitted stories — one from a front desk worker in Tennessee who kept s...

Am I the Haunted? | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another Am I the Haunted, where we dig through Reddit's most unsettling paranormal confessions and hand out our completely unqualified verdicts — haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted. This episode, we've got a sister who's watched a nun appear in a wardrobe while a toddler asks questions that nobody in the house can explain, a teenager who's...

Owlman of Mawnan | Paranormal Podcast #owlmanofmawnan This week, we took a deep dive into one of Britain's most compelling cryptid mysteries this episode: the Owlman of Mawnan, a gray-feathered, red-eyed, man-sized winged humanoid that's been terrorizing the woods near a 13th century Cornish church since the 1970s, and somehow keeps showing up specifically in front of young women. We walked throug...

Throwback to Aokigahara Forest (Suicide Forest) | Paranormal Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Throwback Files, where we revisit old BTB episodes. This month, we head to Japan (and 2021) to episode 41 where we covered the haunting suicide forest. Just like last time, trigger warning regarding suicide and those kind of negative thoughts. We return to Aokigahara Forest and discuss it's histo...

Feral People | Paranormal Podcast We dove deep into one of the more unsettling corners of the paranormal world this episode — feral humans — the idea that there are people living so far removed from society in places like the Appalachian Mountains and national forests that they've essentially become something else entirely. We walked through the history, the science, and the psychology behind how...

Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted, where we dig up three more stories from the internet's paranormal confessionals and put them through our very scientific haunted, probs haunted, or not haunted scale. This episode we've got a new mom whose brother-in-law heard a very familiar voice saying something he definitely shouldn't have, a teenager on a...

Terrified Together with BonusPac | Paranormal Podcast We brought on BonusPac for our Terrified Together, and honestly, it might be one of the funniest episodes we've ever done — but don't let the laughs fool you, because the stories we covered were genuinely unsettling. We walked them through a Colorado family's haunting that started with a mother's deeply creepy dreams and escalated into somethin...

Bizarre News: March 2026 | Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News had us kicking things off close to home — literally — with a wild Bigfoot flap happening right in our backyard in Northeast Ohio, plus a meteorite that was loud enough to rattle windows across multiple states and had one of us genuinely wondering if the neighbor's house exploded. From there we covered dozens of sheep vanishing...

Skinwalker in the Woods | Paranormal Podcast This week we've got three listener submissions that genuinely had us questioning reality, starting with an 8-year-old sneaking into the chained-off section of a notoriously haunted abandoned elementary school and coming face to face with something that had absolutely no business being on all fours in that hallway. Then we heard from Nicole, a military w...

Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another round of Am I the Haunted — our favorite excuse to dig through Reddit's most unsettling paranormal confessions and decide whether these people are dealing with something genuinely spooky or just need a better night's sleep. This time around we had a guy who reconnected with his faith and started experiencing things in the dark that made...

Haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse | Paranormal Podcast For our 300th episode, we took a deep dive into one of America's most storied haunted locations — the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, a 165-foot spiral-striped beacon that's been racking up ghost sightings, mysterious deaths, and paranormal encounters since the 1500s. We walked through centuries of wild history, from Spanish colonists and...

Throwback Files: The Not Deer | Paranormal Podcast Welcome to another episode of the Throwback Files, where we revisit old BTB episodes. This month, we are going back to 2021 and hanging out with our favorite strange, Appalachian cryptid. Charlie even brings some new encounters into the mix! Find out if our old Believability Scale Ranking stays the same or if we now find the Not Deer more or less...

Cursed Games: Vol 6 | Paranormal Podcast We're back with Cursed Games Volume 6, and honestly, we can't believe we're already six deep into a series that somehow keeps getting creepier — this time covering four games you almost certainly should not play. We kicked things off with Red Door Yellow Door, a hypnotic trance ritual that takes you wandering through a hallway of doors in your own mind, the...

Am I the Haunted | Paranormal Podcast We're back with another installment of Am I the Haunted — our paranormal spin on the beloved Reddit format where we dig through the internet's strangest and most unsettling encounters and put them to the test. This episode had us examining three compelling submissions: a grieving family who may have captured something extraordinary in a photograph, a man whose...

Extraterrestrial Encounters: Vol 4 | Paranormal Podcast We're back with Extraterrestrial Encounters Volume 4, diving into three awesome listener-submitted UFO stories. From a group of teenagers canoeing on a pond in rural Ohio who witnessed a single light transform into something far more extraordinary, to a Southern California resident who had not one but two separate close encounters with uniden...

Bizarre News - February 2026 | Paranormal Podcast From a chilling ghostly photograph captured inside a 140-year-old UK theater undergoing renovation to a haunted hospice center in Norfolk that had staff so rattled they called in a priest, we covered a lot. We also dove into a viral dashcam video from a late-night driver in North England who encountered a towering, unsettling figure on the road tha...