4Ever Paranormal

What would you do if your phone rang and the person on the other end had been dead for months? This week, we look at some very strange reports of telephone calls from the dead. These aren’t stories about hearing a voice buried in static or trying to contact someone on the other side. In these accounts, people answered the phone and recognized the person calling them. Some even had entire conversat...

We've all seen the pictures and probably heard some version of the story. A strange man with a smile that is just a little too big. But where did the Smiling Man actually come from? Turns out, that isn't as easy to answer as I thought it would be. The story takes us back to John Keel, a strange encounter in New Jersey in 1966, a few things that sound more like hauntings to me, and yes, Indrid Cold...

This week we’re talking about the Black-Eyed Children. A subject we first explored in Episode 14. But this time, we're concentrating on the encounters rather than the theories surrounding these mysterious children. Brian Bethel's 1996 encounter in Abilene, Texas, helped bring the phenomenon into public awareness. Two boys approached his car asking for a ride, but their behavior and completely blac...

In the months after the devastating 2011 Japanese tsunami, people began reporting encounters with those who had died. Some saw figures wandering through neighborhoods that no longer existed. Others believed the dead had returned to visit the living. Then there were the taxi drivers. Seven drivers in Ishinomaki told a university researcher about mysterious passengers, including a young woman who as...

Sometime in the fifteenth century, a nun in a German convent reportedly began biting the other sisters. Then, according to later accounts, the women she bit began biting others. Before long, similar stories were appearing in convents across Germany, Holland, and even Rome. This episode, Deb and I dig into the strange story of the Biting Nuns. Was it imitation, a centuries-old story growing with ev...

What happens when Death comes for you? The Grim Reaper may be one of the most recognizable figures in the world, but where did he come from, and why do people still claim to see figures remarkably like him around hospitals, nursing homes, and the dying? This week on 4 Ever Paranormal, Bill and Deb begin with three very real encounters that looked like Death himself, including a black-robed figure...

In 1986, Charlie Sigmin claimed he discovered his wife Ann performing a strange ritual surrounded by candles. A few months later, Charlie was shot seven times, Ann disappeared with another man, and the story of a secret Satanist was born. But this was also the height of the Satanic Panic, when witchcraft, ritual magic, rock music, and just about anything occult could quickly become Satanism. So wh...

What happens when you build a subdivision over a forgotten cemetery? In Crosby, Texas, families in the Newport subdivision discovered that the answer might be more complicated than anyone expected. Human remains were found beneath the property, homeowners reported strange activity, and what began with plans for a backyard swimming pool eventually ended up before the Texas Supreme Court. This week...

This week we got into psychic detectives and the strange relationship they've had with law enforcement over the years. The case that started the whole conversation was Etta Louise Smith, who told police she had seen the location of a missing woman in a vision, went looking for her, and actually found the body. The police promptly arrested Etta. That led us into the bigger question. If psychics som...

The Spottsville Monster isn't one of the famous cryptid stories most people know, but maybe it should be. In 1975, the Nunnelly family moved onto a quiet farm outside Spottsville, Kentucky, expecting nothing more than a peaceful life in the Green River bottoms. Instead, they found themselves at the center of nearly a year of strange encounters that would attract police, newspaper reporters, televi...

Last week, Deb brought up a story about artificial intelligence systems doing something unexpected, and she asked me what I thought about it. I gave her an answer, but the more I thought about the question afterward, the more I realized there was a much bigger conversation hiding underneath it. AI has quickly become one of the most powerful tools we have ever created. I use it almost every day as...

On November 11, 1975, two Colorado Air National Guard A-7 Corsair II aircraft collided during what should have been a routine night training mission. The official investigation concluded the accident resulted from a tragic sequence of misidentification and confusion in the darkness. But one detail in the Air Force report has continued to raise questions for researcher Katie Paige. The report descr...

Some stories stay with you because they're scary. Others stay with you because nobody can agree on what actually happened. The Rosenheim Poltergeist is one of those cases. A law office in Germany became the center of an investigation involving electricians, utility engineers, telephone technicians, physicists, and paranormal researchers, all trying to explain the same bizarre events. We walk throu...

This week we look at the strange history of Hales Bar Dam in Tennessee. Long before the dam was built, river travelers feared a dangerous stretch of water known as The Suck. Over time, stories of sacred waters, warnings attributed to Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe, construction problems, and eventual failure all became part of the dam's legend. We also examine reports of flooded cemeteries, gra...

Four friends went into the Maine wilderness for a camping and canoe trip in 1976. What happened on Eagle Lake that night would eventually become one of the most famous UFO abduction stories in America. But this episode isn't just about UFOs. It's about memory. We follow the events of the Allagash case from the original sighting through the missing time claims, the disturbing dreams that surfaced y...

Most people already have a picture in their mind when they hear the word witch . Pointed hats, black cats, broomsticks, pentagrams, and Satan worship. But how much of that comes from history, and how much came from movies? This week we explore some of the most common misconceptions about witchcraft and examine where those ideas came from. Join us as we discuss Satan, Wicca, the Bible, pentagrams,...

Most people think they know exactly what Baphomet is. A goat's head. Horns. Satan. But what if that image isn't nearly as old as most people believe? In this episode, Bill and Deb follow the strange history of Baphomet from the Knights Templar and accusations of heresy to nineteenth-century occult symbolism and the rise of modern Satanism. Along the way they explore the mysterious origins of the n...

Roswell may be the most famous UFO crash story in the world, but it is far from the only one. In this episode, Bill and Deb examine three lesser-known UFO crash incidents from around the globe. A mysterious impact in the Soviet Union reportedly left behind unusual metallic material. An alleged crash in the English countryside triggered a large search effort that found nothing. A dramatic event in...

Two boys digging in a garden in Hexham, England, uncovered two small stone heads in 1971. What began as an unusual discovery soon became associated with reports of strange disturbances, unsettling sightings, and one of the most unusual witness accounts in paranormal history. When respected archaeologist and Celtic scholar Anne Ross took possession of the heads, she expected to examine an interesti...

What if someone actually built a machine capable of seeing the past? The Chronovisor is an unexplained object that has been discussed for many years by many people. It was described by an Italian monk named Pellegrino Ernetti to be a way of viewing past events, recovering voices of long gone individuals and even witnessing things thought to have disappeared from memory. Most discussions focus on w...

In the early-to-mid 2000s, a family near Palmyra, Maine claimed they experienced escalating encounters with multiple large wolf-like creatures around their rural farmhouse. What reportedly began with strange silence in the woods, unexplained lights, and massive tracks allegedly grew into something far more terrifying. The Martin family claimed the creatures circled their property at night, watched...

The Hurricane Katrina disaster continues to be one of the deadliest and most disorganized disasters that have occurred in the United States in the last hundred years. Following the flooding, long after the water receded, there were many strange stories that were told by survivors. These people believed that other creatures were with them that had nothing to do with the hurricane as they moved thro...

A priest assigned by the Catholic Church to confront something most people no longer believe in. Gabriele Amorth, often referred to as the Chief Exorcist of Rome, claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms and warned that cases were increasing. Not as symbolism. Not as metaphor. As something real, external, and active. This episode looks at what that means when it comes from inside o...

This episode goes into a stretch of restricted airspace off the Virginia coast where something kept showing up that Navy pilots couldn’t explain. Around 2014, pilots flying out of Naval Air Station Oceana started running into objects that didn’t behave the way anything in that environment should. Some would just sit there at altitude, holding position in winds that should have pushed them. Others...

People talk about the Anunnaki like they were something that came here. But when you go back to the earliest records tied to Sumer, that’s not what you find. You find a system. In Sumerian mythology, the Anunnaki aren’t distant. They’re part of how the world was understood. And in some of those accounts, humanity isn’t at the center of anything. It’s placed into a role that already existed. That p...