Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

In this episode of strange listener stories we recount true ghost stories, demonic encounters, and cryptid humanoids! From horned smoke entities waving from the ceiling, to pale monstrous beings chasing hunters down wooded backroads, join us, on this episode of Belief Hole, as we peer beyond the bookshelves and step off the beaten path, to explore true tales of the secrets things that slink and sc...

Before cities and electric light, we had the true dark and stars for light. And all the monsters of the night. Before the World Wide Web, there was the world tree, connecting the 9 realms, and our ancestors living in the realm of Midgard spoke daily with spirits, bartered with elves, and avoided the trails where trolls where known to tread. Through the rational lens of the present day, we call the...

In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, along the banks of the Javari River, the jungle pulses with a sacred magic. Skillfully crafted by the indigenous Matsés people, potent concoctions are produced - mysterious ceremonial medicines capable of both healing and premonitory visions. Sapo or Kambo- is burned for cleansing, endurance, and to sharpen the senses. NuNu allows the hunter to see through eyes...

It’s 0:300. The base is quiet. You should feel safe here. There’s no active conflict and the barracks are secure. But you’ve seen the shadows, and you’ve heard "it’s" voice. You know there’s something more to fear than any mortal enemy. Something darker. Something already dead. From demonic winged intruders disguised as visiting angels to fierce protective dragons that guard your pathway to the as...

From the misty mountains of Appalachia to dimly lit backstreets of suburbia, a living nightmare is lurking. A frightful bipedal werewolfian beast, reported for centuries under different names, today it is called the Dogman. And some Accounts .. are more horrifying than others. There are particular attributes to these encounters that suggest a sinister intelligence and almost demonic intent, to eli...

🔥🔥🔥 Join us as we recount true tales of the strangest encounters from listeners like you! From disembodied hands and cursed New Year's fogs to Skinwalker Ranch escaped entities, and so much more! It’s New Year's eve, everyone’s having a good time, but you’re distracted. You look out the window and notice a strange but familiar fog has begun to creep down the cul de sac. And in that fog a shadow...

Let's dig into the strange and true accounts recorded in the 18th century by Ji Yun - the imperial librarian of China’s last dynasty. From China's Zombie-like Vampires and Straddling Succubus Monsters to Ancient Trickster Spirits and the scariest TRUE Chinese Ghost Stories, let us dip you into the sweet mysterious river of the bizarre. Join us in exploring the real X-files of the Qing Dynasty! GET...

Standing sentinel on the California Coast is the stunning and mysterious Santa Lucia Mountain Range. But among this wild beauty, there have been reports of phantoms. Dark looming “watchers”, have allegedly been seen since the arrival of the Spanish in the 1700s, and perhaps going back millennia earlier with the native Chumash people. Reported by travelers and locals alike, the accounts remain cons...

It’s late at night and you’re driving down a dark and desolate road. You haven’t seen a soul for miles. As you pull off onto the berm, the sky is clear and the night is quite.. strangely quiet. An unsettling sensation begins to crawl across your skin. Something is wrong. Suddenly the car rocks.. but just a little.. yet the air is still.. Silence. Then all at once, the roof of the car screams to li...

In recent years, an unsettling and controversial subject has been gaining attention. A concerning number of people have inexplicably gone missing, from National Parks and elsewhere- Seemingly vanishing from the face of the earth. Over the past 10 years Former police officer and researcher, David Paulides, has identified unique characteristics in these cases that produce an unusual pattern. But wha...

Go Back to "Sleep"! Is our waking world just a shadow? Simply the surface on the skin of reality? What are these transient lands between wakefulness and the deep dark of sleep? When we put out the light and slip away, are we in reality glimpsing hidden frontiers that actually exist?! .. When sleep paralysis grips the body, we are plunged into the waters of a strange borderland, is this the precipi...

Every street has one. And Every kid knows the legend. There it sits, like a sentinel. Perched on the hill, emanating a darkness and a hunger. Waiting and watching. Crouching back in shadow from the protective glow of the street lamp light. The haunted house at the end of the block. From tree-line demons calling from the shadows to astral battles with evil intruders, On this Halloween episode of Be...

Episode 468: The Oak Ridge Dogman Portals In this episode, we bring Adam into the studio. I've been vocal recently about my belief in a parallel world akin to the 'Upside Down' in Stranger Things. I'm almost convinced that this world exists, and it's more complex and dangerous than depicted in the show. Adam reached out to me after hearing my discussions about CERN, Oak Ridge, and the portals at t...

As the year turns to autumn and the wind groans more menacingly within the creaking of the trees, the lingering spirits shiver restless in the world just beyond. This season, ripe with Halloween lore and ghost stories, awakens all manner of strange and hungry things hastening their approach. When owls wear the shape of men and loom above our children's cribs, and snatching disembodied hands creep...

It finds you when you believe you're secure... it finds you there, in the darkness, immobilized by fear, confronted by its grotesque and empty face. It draws near, inhaling your essence. Tonight, it has chosen you as its prey, arriving to feast! Cloaked in darkness and malevolent intent, the being known as the Hat Man is the ultimate embodiment of nighttime terror. What hidden truths linger in the...

In the last days of summer, when autumn winds whisper darkly among the trees, the unspoken things within the woods are watching ever more closely at the campers huddled around their dimming fires. What dark phantoms and shadowy cryptids wait among the shadows with wide, haunting eyes and gnashing teeth? From grinning ghosts in cabin corners to unsettling encounters with the fairy folk and forest s...

If you listen closely when among the haunted crags and rocky cliffs of the Superstition Mountains, you just might hear the echoes of lost gold and cursed treasure. A dark legend of many men who’ve met their end.  But what stories lie stranger still beneath this alleged stone abode of the Apache thunder god? From rumors of glowing desert portals to encounters with cloaked inhuman wraiths, join us o...

It’s a warm summer night. You’re all alone in the orange grove and decide to take advantage of the solitude by diving into the still waters of a strangely placed swimming pool. All is peaceful.. until you begin to feel that something’s wrong. There’s an ominous brooding in the air.. and you feel as though you’re being watched! You shake it off and tell yourself it’s your imagination. After all, yo...

For the last 50 years, the quaint, coastal village of Montauk has been haunted by a dark legend. Whispers carry through the town of secret military projects, bizarre creatures, portals to other times, and still stranger things. On this episode of Belief Hole, join us as we explore government mind control and psychic experiments, hidden underground facilities and time travel technology, and endeavo...

It’s late at night. You’re driving a lonely stretch of forested road. Up ahead you catch a glimpse of something in your headlights. As you start to slow down you’re thinking to yourself, “It must be a deer.” But there’s something wrong. There’s something about it that’s not quite right. It’s not quite a deer. As you begin to process what you’re seeing, your stomach sinks. As the thing rises up to...

Recent studies indicate that the majority of children are communicating with someone or something that isn’t quite there. We call these invisible companions.. imaginary friends. Logic dictates that on the whole, these are innocuous, invented beings, playmates concocted by the child as a social supplement or as creative expression, but when unexplainable things begin to happen and little Jonny begi...

In your rented home, alone for now, with roommates weeks away, there’s nothing to keep you company in the dead hours of the night, except for that macabre painting you noticed when you arrived -the one at the end of the hall – a grim scene of highway murder… It shares the idle hours with you. And in the silence, things are beginning to stir. Something dead is pulling itself through its painted pri...

In 1990 Bulgaria, a story is whispered in the small village of Tsarichina. A secret buried beneath the earth. But the promise of ancient treasure quickly becomes the quest for an ancient being – a cosmic progenitor of all human life, entombed in a catacomb sought by the Bulgarian Military who are guided by psychics and remote viewers to dig, triggering inexplicable phenomena, witnessed by villager...

It’s late at night. You begin to hear whispers drifting down the hall. In the bedroom, you find your little sister talking to something in the dark.. Something disembodied and scratching at the wall. From unearthly craft above your woodland cabin, to grimoire summonings gone terribly wrong, we present to you, curious listener, tales of the inexplicable and the unknown! Also.. Jon pulls the big bro...

Strange vibrations begin. A warm sensation ripples through your body, gently pulling you from yourself, and out, into an undiscovered plane of existence. You are now an astral traveler.. The out-of-body experience is a globally shared phenomenon that reaches back to the very genesis of human existence.   Today up to 20 percent of the population claims to have experienced these strange adventures....